ATLAS GEOGRAPHICUS PORTATILIS
[circa 1750]
Exquisite fully engraved portable atlas, featuring 29 hand-colored maps and 3 additional engraved spreads, in a blind-stamped contemporary German binding.
Type Punch Matrix
"H. L. OPERATION" [Rear Cover Title]
[ca. 1960s]
Stirring series of photographs captured by a skilled photographer documenting the many diverse aspects of an operation involving a probable heart-lung ("H.L.") bypass.
Original Flyer Announcing a Protest Against the Film CRUISING
[1979]
"IT'S NOT OVER! 'Cruising' will be filmed tonight at 14th and 9th Ave., just below our NYC MCC! DEMONSTRATE 7:30 p.m., Sheridan Sq."
Original Photograph Album of Children with Polio
[ca. 1930-1959]
Original photograph album of family of Chicago, focusing on their daughter (b. 1936) who had polio, and covering primarily the 1940s, in the years just before the vaccine.
THE DIALECT OF CRAVEN, IN THE WEST-RIDING OF THE COUNTY OF YORK, WITH A COPIOUS GLOSSARY
1828
Second enlarged edition of this dialect and glossary of the Deanery of Craven, by a native of that region and champion of its linguistic features.
JONATHAN TROY
(1954)
First printing – and only edition – of Abbey's hated first book.
SCRIPTORES RERUM GERMANICUM SEPTENTRIONALIUM
1706, 1679, 1694, 1676
First collected edition, featuring Adam of Bremen's chronicle of peoples from the Old North and the earliest known mention of the Vikings' discovery of North America, one of three key works in the history of Hamburg within a larger sammelband of six works total.
THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
(1980)
Signed first American edition of the sequel to THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.
CALIFORNIA LA BELLA
(1926)
Rare signed true first edition of this novel of Mexican immigration to the United States from one of Bolivia's most celebrated writers.
SONNETS AND CANZONETS
1882
First edition of the last book by the noted Transcendentalist thinker (and father of Louisa May Alcott).
THE DOCUMENTARY RECORD OF AN INFRINGEMENT: Environmental Art of a Pseudovandalist Nature
1978
Humorous artist's book documenting Joshua Alper's alteration of a billboard.
MEG
(1997)
Inscribed first printing of the science-fiction horror novel about Megalodons – giant prehistoric sharks.
COLONEL BOGEY'S SKETCH BOOK
1897
First edition of this tongue-in-cheek history of golf, beginning with the prehistoric Golfosaurian, moving onto the missing "link" Golfolinkius Anthropomorphus, and so on.
COUNCIL OF DOGS
1808
First edition of this illustrated verse polemic against the wicked Dog Tax of 1796 and its introducer, John "Dog" Dent.
Pre-war manuscript of commercial drawings with Western and Japanese fashions
[circa 1920s]
Skillfully executed series of vignettes featuring Japanese moga ("modern girls") in Western dress next to men and women in traditional Japanese dress – likely a sketchbook or lookbook of designs by a professional to pitch their work in the heavily illustrated magazine culture of the pre-war era.
TRUNK PIECES
(1978)
Feminist artist's book that ponders the stories carried by women via found photography.
ON THE STREET 1980-1990
(2006)
First printing of this retrospective compilation of Arbus's early work photographing the vibrant street fashion of '80s New York.
ECCENTRICO
(2013)
Uncommon exhibition catalogue featuring retrospective works from the legendary designer from 1985 through 2012.
Fall-Winter '02-'03 Boxed Lookbook Set
(2002)
Boxed set of original lookbooks from Armani's sumptuous Fall-Winter collections of 2002-3.
TAMBOURS ET TROMPETTES
[1918]
Stunning limited first edition portfolio of large plates hand-colored in pochoir, one of only 500 numbered copies, issued triumphantly at the end of World War I.
THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR
(1980)
Inscribed first printing of the intensively researched, massive bestseller about a young woman growing up in prehistoric times.
MANSFIELD PARK
1833
First illustrated edition, and first single-volume edition, of Austen's third published novel, centering on the comedic neighborhood drama caused by the amateur production of a play, with the inferred specter of the slave trade hovering beneath the plot.
LETTRES SUR L'ORIGINE DES SCIENCES, ET SUR CELLE DES PEUPLES DE L'ASIE
1777
First state of this provocative thesis written by a French astronomer in response to Voltaire, arguing that modern civilization owes its scientific roots to Asia rather than Europe.
A L'OMBRE DES ARBRES
2006
Photographs taken in Greenwich Park in London and in the Bois de Cambre in Brussels by the Belgian architect and photographer.
LA CRAVATE NE VAUT PAS UN MEDAILLE
(1972)
Beautiful and complex livre d'artiste by the avant-garde Italian anarchist, pataphysician, and founder of the movimento d'arte nucleare.
