The etching was printed as an illustration in: Philippe François Taisne. Het leven, apostolycke deughden, gheduerighe mirakelen ende glorie vanden H. Franciscvs Xaverivs vande Societeyt Jesu, grooten apostel van Indien ende Iaponien, seer wonderbaer in syn leven, ende naer syne doodt : naementlyck, in het verwecken van twee-en-vyftigh dooden [The..... More

Various places and publishers, between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Folios (34.5 × 22.5 cm). Two contemporary leather bindings with gold and blind embossing; approximately 700 prints in various printing techniques and sizes ranging from 4 × 3 to 33 × 20 cm, most of which are mounted on sturdy..... More

Viterbo: Nella Stamperia di Giuseppe Poggiarelli, 1773.  Small octavo (15 × 9.8 cm). Contemporary full vellum over boards; manuscript title to head of spine; [4], 258 pp. Engraved frontis portrait of the saint; numerous vignettes throughout, including one depicting the Mother of God on p. 26. Trace of paper label..... More

V Mletkakh (Venice): Pismeny Greko-Slavenskiia Pechatni Pany Feodosiia, 1812. Octavo (21.2 × 13.8 cm). Recent full calf binding in the style of the period; preserving old rear interim wrapper; 142 pp. With four folded copper engravings bound on facing pages. Old owner annotation to front free end paper; small signature..... More

Québec: Les Éditions Intervention, 1987. Cassette tape with printed label and pictorial J-Card. Not played by us; very good. An extensive 90-minute audio tape with over 40 distinct contributions, including those by the Danish Fluxus artist Eric Andersen, the French sound poet Bernard Heidsieck, the noise and punk artist G.X...... More

Leipzig: J.G. Schelter & Giesecke, [1902 or 1903]. Quarto (28.3 × 22.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers on tan card stock, printed in blue and red; pp. 655–674, 653–654, 667–672 (new series), 651-652 [i.e. 30 pp.] of specimens on heavy stock of light orange, green, and blue color. Very light fading..... More

Moscow: OGIZ Molodaia Gvardiia, 1932. Quarto (29 × 22 cm). Original staple-stitched chromolithograph wrappers; [16] pp. Chromolithograph illustrations throughout. Name of owner inscribed in blue ink to front wrapper. Professional restoration to wrappers and first pages; soiling and moisture stains to wrappers; slight discoloration throughout due to stock; overall good..... More

Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1929. Octavo (22.5 × 19.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial self-wrappers; [12] pp. Chromolithograph illustrations throughout. Name of the owner inscribed in blue ink to front wrapper. Light soil to wrappers; spine somewhat rubbed; else about very good. An illustrated history of sailing vessels for children, with drawings..... More

Russia: 1915-1918. Original printed announcements; various sizes, max. 45 × 16 cm. Rather good, with occasional nicks to margins only. Seven announcements for concerts held during WWI in three famous resort cities of the North Caucasus, WWI: Piatigorsk, Essentuki, and Kislovodsk. These cities, made famous in the Romantic era of..... More

Tokyo: Zokeisha, 1967. Oblong octavo (13 × 19 cm). Original spiral-bound pictorial wrappers on coated stock, under transparent plastic boards; 158 pp. With colophon tipped in to rear wrapper. Illustrated throughout with numerous charts and diagrams, including a total of thirty-six leaves with tipped-in hand-painted monochromatic and multi-color swatches, primarily..... More

Saratov: Tip. prof.-tekhn. kursov Gubpoligrafotd, 1921. Octavo (17.1 × 12.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by M. Zenkevich; 29, [3] pp. Very minimal wear to lower spine extremity; wrappers somewhat toned; else about very good. First and only edition of this rare volume of poems in support of the Russian Revolution..... More

Turin: F[ilippo] A[ntonio] Ferrero, printed by the Holy Office at the Shrine of St. Augustine, 1755. 12mo (14.6 × 8.5 cm). Contemporary blind stiff card wrappers in brocade paper; 20, 144 pp. including the woodcut frontispiece. Boards somewhat worn and rubbed; small hole to blank first leaf; somewhat toned and..... More

[Mallorca]: Imprenta de la Viuda Cerdà, 1783. Small octavo (14.6 × 10 cm). Contemporary full vellum; [20], 225, [1] pp. with woodcut frontispiece image of Our Lady of Lluch. Old shelf-label to front pastedown; leaves and binding appear to have been cleaned; the spine bears a faint shadow of a...... More