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Edition of five large paper, royal 4° copies printed on Whatman drawing paper; extra-illustrated. Binding by William Matthews in full blue morocco gilt extra. Provenance: Francis Kettaneh, with his leather book label. In Bibliomania (1809), Thomas…

I find tiny fragments of medieval manuscripts irresistible, often the smaller the better, and I have well over 600 of them, covering a huge range of texts. This is part of a small group of ancient parchment scraps that I bought in London in 2001. The…

Designed by Dali, etched by Stanley William Hayter, plate: 17⅝ x 11¼ in.; sheet: 22⅝ x 15¼ in. Engraved on Whatman wove paper and signed by Dali. Edition of 260.

Depictions and accounts of the myth of St. George and the Dragon have appeared in…

Lithograph colored à la poupée and finished by hand, 13¾ x 10 in.

This lithograph is one of 482 plates (of which 345 are colored) found in Illustrations conchyliologiques, one of the rarest (and certainly one of the most beautiful) of all…

Chromolithograph, 20½ x 28 in.

Provenance: George Frost, prominent Riverside orange grower and one of the promoters of this fair, with his annotations.

Los Angeles, in the late nineteenth century, was a city unlike any other. Garlanded with…

This important “little magazine” of poetry and art was published during a time when little magazines were frequently the voice of the counterculture. A special “Vietnam Assemblage” issue, it features a cover by Andy Warhol and is described as “an…

Inscribed, signed and dated by the author.

I’ve been collecting modern first editions for a few decades. One of my absolute favorite authors is Kurt Vonnegut, and for several reasons. Vonnegut was a marvelously inventive and creative writer, and…

Philip Gatch (1751–1834), my great-great-great grandfather, was one of the first American-born Methodist circuit riders. Converted in 1772, he preached in Maryland and, during the Revolution, in Virginia. An abolitionist, he freed his slaves and…

Pencil, ink and watercolor.

Provenance: Signed inscription to Maurice Craig.

One of Dublin bookseller Eamonn DeBúrca’s clients had a story to tell and an expensive book to sell. The more I heard, the more I knew I wanted it.

In 1905, the…

In the Renaissance, these two volumes were thought to be two separate books, but it has since been established that together they form a single work, a doxography, originally written in the fourth century CE. The Eclogues is the first edition of the…