education
To Enlarge or Diminish by Means of a Square (original drawing)
No place (probably England): no publisher, early nineteenth century. Original ink and watercolor drawing, measuring 12.25 x 8.25 inches, displayed against an ivory mat in a wooden frame, the whole measuring 16.5 x 12.25 inches. Left edge of drawing slightly uneven, presumably where it was removed from a sketchbook. Wooden.....
Price: $850.00
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner / La Vie et Très Surprenantes Aventures de Robinson Crusoe d’York Marin
Dampierre: Par G.E.J. M.A.L., 1797. Two octavo volumes, measuring 9.25 x 6 inches: [2], vi, 495, [1]; [4], 361, [3]. Contemporary tree calf, boards ruled in gilt, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, spines ruled and compartments gilt-tooled, marbled endpapers, silk ribbon markers. Complete with final blank in Volume.....
Price: $22,000.00
Premiers Paysages. Les Leçons de Choses du Petit Coloriste
Paris: Henri Laurens, Editeur, [1912]. Side-stapled volume, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches: [16]. Original color pictorial paper boards. Seven color plates and seven matching uncolored plates, with two additional uncolored plates reproducing the color images printed on the boards. Lightest general foxing and toning.
Price: $2,500.00
Soviet-era classroom poster of Rene Descartes
U.S.S.R. circa 1960. Color-printed educational poster, measuring 18.75 x 14.75 inches, mounted to stiff cardboard backing, with two punched holes and cord for hanging. Numeral “2” stamped to verso, with ink notation. A few faint splashmarks.
Price: $125.00
Travel Paint Book
Springfield, Massachusetts: McLoughlin Brothers, circa 1930. Single volume, measuring 7 x 10 inches: [124]. Original blue cloth spine, stiff paper boards, upper board color-printed to resemble a three-dimensional traveling trunk, book trimmed in that shape. Text printed on one side only, with thirty uncolored scenes facing their colored counterparts. Light.....
Price: $50.00
Picture Posters to Color: Community Workers
Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Company, 1951. Complete set of twelve black and white posters, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Housed in publisher’s pictorial envelope printed in black and red. Light edgewear to envelope, posters fine.
Price: $95.00
Picture Posters to Color: Fruits and Vegetables
Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Company, 1951. Complete set of twelve black and white posters, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Housed in publisher’s pictorial envelope printed in black and red. Light wear and smudging to envelope, posters fine.
Price: $95.00
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(London): Hodder & Stoughton, (1934). Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5.5 inches: 127, [1]. Original royal blue cloth lettered in gilt, endpapers printed in blue with Latin quotations, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in blue and black. Title page printed in blue and black; black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Traces.....
Price: $1,800.00
Sketch...Book. Le Non-Obéissant: The Disobedient: Der Ungehorsame
Basel: Basilius Presse, 1968. Single volume, measuring 8 x 9 inches: [88, double leaves]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, text block printed in black and orange. Inscribed by Warja Lavater in the year of publication. Slight bowing to boards.
Price: $1,250.00
Red White and Blue. Stick’Em Cut Outs
[New York]: Platt & Munk, 1941. Set of six side-stapled activity books, measuring 8.5 x 7.5 inches, each containing six full-page line drawings and corresponding sheets of red and blue shapes on gummed paper. Original color pictorial wrappers. Housed in original publisher’s color pictorial box. Light shelfwear to box.
Price: $300.00
Sentences, Divine, Moral, and Historical; in Prose and Verse; with Copies for the Alphabet. Designed for the Conduct of Human Life, and particularly for the Improvement of Youth . . . being the Beauties of Addison, Johnson, Rollin, Wesley, and Other Eminent Authors; Accurately extracted from their Works, and arranged in Alphabetical Order. For the Use of Schools
Salisbury: E. Easton, 1786. Octavo, measuring 8 x 5 inches: vi, 360. Early nineteenth-century three-quarter red sheep, marbled boards, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, all edges speckled, blue endpapers. Typographic ornaments throughout text; errata at rear. Ink ownership signature to preliminiary flyleaf, with note: “This book bound by him.....
Price: $1,250.00
Circus Book. In Colour Photography
London: Collins, (1955). Single volume, measuring 6.75 x 7 inches: [52]. Original pale gold wrappers printed in red. Title page printed in color, illustrated with line drawings and color photographs throughout text.
Price: $150.00
Guide to Chirography, in a Series of Writing Books. Book Second (American schoolboy’s copybook)
Salem: John W. Archer, 1832. Side-stitched copybook, measuring 6.5 x 8.25 inches: [32]. Original tan pictorial wrappers, featuring a wood engraving of two hands holding quill pens. Ownership signature of Alexander Clapp to top righthand corner of front wrapper; date “Dec. 14, 1834” to top lefthand corner. Every page covered.....
Price: $275.00
La Favola delle Favole
Mantua: Marzia Corraini, (1994). Single volume, measuring 12 x 12 inches: [118]. Original color pictorial photographic wrappers, bound with binder clips, as issued. 59 unnumbered leaves on various paper stocks: some colored, some transparent, some with cut-outs, some with drawings. Bound into the volume is a heavy piece of cardboard.....
Price: $550.00
Observations on Hamlet; and on the Motives which Most Probably Induced Shakspeare to Fix upon the Story of Amleth, from the Danish Chronicle of Saxo Grammaticus, for the Plot of that Tragedy; Being an Attempt to Prove that He Designed It as an Indirect Censure on Mary Queen of Scots. Bound with: An Appendix to Observations on Hamlet
Cambridge: J. Burges, Printer to the University, 1796-1797. Two octavo volumes bound in one, measuring 8 x 5 inches: [6], 44; [2], 85, [1]. Recent full polished calf, boards tooled in blind with a floral border, spine decoratively tooled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Bound without.....
Price: $2,800.00
Philipok
New York: Philomel Books, 2000. Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 8 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial laminated boards, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Gennady Spirin in gold ink on half-title.
Price: $150.00
Il Disegno alla Lavagna. Corso di Disegno per gli Istituti Magistrali. Volume III
Firenze: Sansoni, (1956). Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 13 inches: [8], 60 numbered plates printed recto only. Original pictorial wrappers printed in black, brown, and white. Embossed stamp of the Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori to title, marginal note in pencil to plate 44. Shelfworn wrappers creased and clipped.....
Price: $350.00