Collection of Fifty Prints from Antique Gems by John Spilsbury - [1785]

25 fabric designs with fabric description on back. Blue cloth binding; gilt particulars to spine and front. Blue and yellow hanger cord. Protective plastic cover. 12.5 x 17.5 in.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. Gorey. Oblong 12mo. [6.75" X 7.25"] Illustrated paper covered boards, with black and gray spine and cover lettering. [unpaginated] Limited/signed numbered: 120/250. In publisher's black slipcase. Toledano A67b. Faint darkening to gutters. Illustrated dust-jacket spine is slightly (and evenly) sun darkened. SIGNED by Edward Gorey on the limitation page.

New York: Looking Glass Library, 1959. Stated First edition. Paperback. Very good +. Gorey. 24mo. [5.5" X 4"] Illustrated stapled wrappers. [unpaginated] Toledano A5a. Slight tanning along spine. Prior owner's name at bottom of title page. No other marks. First edition of 600 copies.

Some wear and tear in spine Some pencil markings 1920. Rittenhouse publishing. Blue on boards with gold design.

Amsterdam: George Mulder, 1985. First printing. Paperback. Very good +. Warhol. With an introductory essay by Lambert Tegenbosch. Oblong Sm 4to. Stiff white card wrappers, with wide French flaps and embossed royal crests on front cover. Sixteen full page color reproductions of Warhol's silkscreens of four then reigning queens. Limited/Numbered: 3906/5000. Small stain at flap edge of rear cover. No names or marks.

Norway 1999. Presenting the second volume in Bergendahl’s massive compendium on Norway’s primary contribution to medieval art, its stave churches. This volume includes exhaustive information regarding the origin, production, and interpretation of the ornate woodwork on the stave churches. The second section presents nearly 560 plates depicting examples of this unique and intriguing art form., English, Year1999, Illust. B/W279, Illust. Color, ISBN 8200127443, Code 3954. Hardbound w/ jacket, Most in Pristine Condition. Some of the jackets are slightly damaged., Bibl. Index. Pages 335, Size 12”x 8 1/2”

London: Printed by P. Rose and Son, Broadmed, Bristol, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. 44pp. Contemporary cloth backed boards, portrait frontispiece. With the bookplate of Sir George Chetwynd, 2nd Baronet, on the front board and the front pastedown endpaper and the small, gilt bookplate of Alexander McGrigor on the front free endpaper. Also with the small blind stamp of Crendon Hall on the title page and first page. In his book "On Poisons, in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine" (Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1848), Doctor Alfred Swaine Taylor states: "The great value of chemical evidence in otherwise doubtful cases of poisoning, was never more strongly shown than at the trial of Mary Ann Burdock at Bristol, in 1835... The body of the deceased had been buried fourteen months: it was exhumed, and the poison discovered in the stomach and viscera." This advance in forensic science led to a substantial increase in poisoning trials. Chipping to spine, some soiling to boards. Internally clean… Read More

London: Printed for J. Newbery and W. Nicoll, 1765. Hardcover. Second edition in English after the one printed in 1764. 213pp + 1p of advertisements. Recent mottled half calf over marbled boards, raised bands and gold decorations and lettering on the spine, all edges marbled. Light toning to text block, some mild scattered foxing, minor annotations in pencil, name on title. A clean, near fine copy. ; 12mo.

Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. In three volumes. 448, 12pp; 431, 17pp; 303pp + foldout tables. Contemporary quarter calf over cloth, spines elaborately decorated in gold, marbled endpapers. Each volume is signed by the author. An in-depth history of engraving in Europe from the early 1400s to the late 1700s. Includes biographical notes on the artists and tables with the engravers' monograms. Wear to extremities, two tears to cloth (to lower edge of volume two and three), some annotations in pencil on the margins, small note affixed to the front pastedown endpaper of volume one (with an explanation in Italian on how to clean old prints). ; Octavo.

Philadelphia: Printed by Budd and Bartram for Thomas Dobson, 1801. Second Edition. Hardcover. Revised and enlarged. viii, 536, 8, [21]pp. Contemporary full tree calf, red leather label lettered in gold on the spine. Marbled endpapers. According to the author, almost eighty pages of additions and two extra copper plates were included in this edition. With three engraved plates (one foldout), and tables. Includes chapters on grain rotations, beans, maize and wheat culture, farm-yard manure, barns, cattle stalls, cattle pastured and soiled, observations on cattle, sheep, and hogs, fences, butter, rice, potato spirit and beer, thoughts on hired labourers, and more. Also includes an interesting recipe for Parmesan (Parmigiano) or Lodian cheese. Wear to extremities, several wormholes throughout (usually minor), plates I and II were excised, tear to plate V, some scattered soiling, owner's inscription on title. A fair copy. Uncommon. Sabin 6414.; Octavo.