India: Ministry of Education, Gov. of India, 1953. First Edition. Original Wraps. "A verbatim report of the proceedings of the Seminar on the contribution of Gandhian outlook and techniques to the solution of tensions between and within nations held at New Delhi from the 5th to the 17th January, 1953.".....
Price: $65.00
Edinburgh: Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, 1834. First Printing. Sheets. An early article about Babbage and his work...the first appears circa 1822. Article details the Difference Engine, exploring the difficulty of printing the resulting output accurately, and criticizing the failure to continue work on “this wonderful machine of Mr. Babbage.” [not in.....
Price: $100.00
London: University of London Press, 1918. First Edition. Boards. Formerly owned by Oliver Sacks. Posthumously designed book plate by a friend of Oliver’s, incorporating his longstanding love of cephalopods. Extremely scarce. Formerly owned by Jelliffe. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was.....
Price: $1,500.00
![Item #11135 [Cartoneras] Herbolaria Mexicana : 50 Plantas Mexicanas. Rocato Bablot](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11135.jpeg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701142984)
Cuernavaca, México: Cascaron Artesanal, 2021. First Edition. Original Wraps. Made from recycled cardboard this book is a compendium of 50 medicinal plants from Mexico, with descriptions and attributes. Limited edition of 69 copies. Each copy bears a different layout on the front cover and is bound with unique cardboard. Cartoneras.....
Price: $85.00
![Item #11134 [Cartoneras] Los Hongos de María. Rocato Bablot](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11134.jpeg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701142983)
Cuernavaca, México: Cascaron Artesanal, 2019. First Edition. Original Wraps. Made from recycled cardboard, this work celebrates the life of Maria Sabina, who has been credited as introducing modern day psychedelic mushrooms (psilocybin) to westerners. Limited edition of 99. Cartoneras refers to publishing houses that have grown out of this recycling.....
Price: $75.00
Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995. First Wraps Edition. Original Wraps. Issued simultaneously with hardcover edition. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed wrappers with French flaps. 4to. 406pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Index.
Price: $95.00
London: Printed for R. Dutton.... 1803. First Edition. Full Calf. Signed by Oliver Sacks. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific.....
Price: $125.00
San Francisco, CA: The Bancroft Library, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Richly illustrated with maps, plates from photographs, and two blueprints of ship plans. A rather unususal Alaska book, a journey from Seattle to Vancouver Island and then inland. Touches on climbing glaciers, natural resources, wildlife and Native Americans (material culture.....
Price: $325.00
New York: Columbia University Press, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. This copy with ownership signature of C.C. Hurd on ffep. Hurd was an important IBM executive in the late 1930s and thereafter. [See, A History of Computing in the 20th Century] Hard to find in nice condition, this with an interesting.....
Price: $325.00
Lake City, CO: Ravenpress, 2002. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Alicia Bailey. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Hand-painted and gilt boards, coptic binding, hand-made and painted endpapers, aeg, pages are boards. 75x74mm. 18pp. Illus. (hand colored). Numbered limited edition, this being 2 of 9.
Price: $125.00
Lake City, CO: Raven Press, 1974. Original Wraps. Signed by Artist. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed paper covers, fold out cube structure, green medallions attached to top. 78x79x80mm. np. Numbered open edition, this being 17.
Price: $75.00
Lake City, CO: Raven Press. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Based on the traditional instructional pillow books given couples on their wedding night. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Marbled paper boards, all pages are boards, accordion fold, no spine, wooden box with metal ends and decorative elements. 50x25mm. 12pp. Illus. (hand-colored). Numbered limited.....
Price: $125.00
New York: Crown Publishers, 2014. First Edition [Uncorrected proofs]. Wraps. Posthumously designed book plate by a friend of Oliver’s, incorporating his longstanding love of cephalopods. With compliments letter from author laid in. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life.....
Price: $65.00
Hallowell, ME: Hallowell Register Press, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Interestingly, while on the title page, the author is "H.K. Baker", on the front board it is "G.K. Baker". Overall, a handsome copy of this rather scarce work. Light shelf/edge wear, tips gently bumped, boards very lightly toned, else tight, bright.....
Price: $75.00
Cincinnati, OH: MBS, 2002. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Keepsake for Conclave XX. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed cloth boards, title on cover and spine, black endpapers, fold outs. 73x64mm. 68pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
Price: $25.00
Bisbee, AZ: Pequeno Press, 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed fabric boards, no spine, accordion fold, red foil bag with red foil handles, red paper folder pockets, 10 removable recipes each with a scratch and sniff picture, pop-up fruit bowl on title page. 70x 60mm. 27pp. Illus.....
Price: $75.00
China: Pequeno Press, 2005. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Text in Chinese and English. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Gold cloth boards, paper labels on front and back covers, reads both ways, yellow endpapers, frontispiece. 59x73mm. 106pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 12 of 50.
Price: $150.00
Portland, ME: Bailey & Noyes, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Though reprinted relatively recently, the original editions are quite uncommon...scarce with the maps remaining. Noted flaws not withstanding, a very presentable copy. Light shelf/edge wear, fraying at head/heel, minor soiling to boards, through at tips, gentle bump at fore-edge, else tight.....
Price: $145.00
Paris: Maxime Cottet-Dumoulin, 1949. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Paul Jouve with 13 colored etchings, 3 of which are double-page and a separate suite of the etchings in black and white. Text printed within red borders, each page with Egyptian-themed headpiece heightened in brownish gold. A few tissueguards creased, pale.....
Price: $6,250.00
Las Vegas, NV: Rainmaker Editions, 2002. Limited Edition. Hardcover. A short story by Banks illustrated with three engravings by Barry Moser. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Slipcase bright and clean. Beige cloth boards, spine label, matching slipcase. Small 8vo. 53pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being __ of 399.....
Price: $675.00
London: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph by Oliver Sacks on tp. Includes notation by Oliver Sacks: "(From Eric (Korn) in Prague, Oct. '03)." From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the.....
Price: $350.00
Kalamazoo, MI: Cisterian Publications, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Posthumously designed book plate by a friend of Oliver’s, incorporating his longstanding love of cephalopods. Inscription on ffep. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the.....
Price: $50.00
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, rebacked (original spine repaired and laid down), owner plate at front pastedown, signed by author, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Red leather boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, frontispiece [lacking publisher's box and glassine dj]. 12mo. 108pp. Illus.....
Price: $145.00
![Item #9934 2002-2003: Miquel Barceló [Barcinonis]. Miquel Barceló](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9934.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1628027125)
Barcelona, Spain: Carnets de Peintre, 2003. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 2002-2003. Miquel Barceló The artist’s handwritten pages have been transcribed under the supervision of José Díaz for printing at the Atelier du Livre d’Art et de l’Estampe at the Imprimerie Nationale. The manual typesetting consists of placing the letters one by.....
Price: $6,050.00
Barcelona: Carnets de Peintre, 2007. Limited Edition. Stiff Boards. Art Director Gonzalo García Barcha. Silkscreen printed by Taller Vallirana. Handmade paper by Museu Moli. Paperer de Capellades. Comissioned by art director Gonzalo García to design and produce this artist book from the artist notebook made on the Thopaga Boat around.....
Price: $6,850.00