Member Catalogues
87 books in various fields, including the history of medicine, philosophy, classics, history of science, spiritualism, ghosts, eugenics, John Reed, Angling Sports (1773), The Battle of Bunker Hill (1841), Manual of Classical Erotology with erotic fore-edge painting, Persecution of the Christians in Madagascar (1840), Anna Hartshorne on Japan, Justus von Liebig, and more.
We are pleased to present our October 2021 eCatalogue - Autumn Miscellany.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> To order or for more details contact: bookpress@bookpress.com or (757) 229-1260.
E-list 30 Items
30 items, fully illustrated.
E-List 30 Items
From James Joyce to Paula Sluiter: Letters, Photographs, and Artwork + Sale Section
Medieval manuscripts don’t have title pages neatly listing when and where they were written. But descriptions of these manuscripts always begin with this information. Have you ever wondered how that is possible? The short answer to that question is dated manuscripts. Just as some scribes signed their names (see our e-catalogue, “The ‘I’ in Manuscript”), some recorded when, and sometimes also where, they copied their manuscript (commonly the date when they finished their task).
New Acquisitions: Artists' Books, Bindings, Calligraphy, & Typography
We want to make room for some new stock, so we've placed 160 items on sale for the month of December with discounts up to 70%.
53 items, with full-color illustrations
I am pleased to offer for sale a selection of recently acquired books, photographs and related ephemera. These include: Laure Albin-Guillot's, CIELS, a portfolio of 16 signed Fresson prints, which accompany the text by Marcelle Maurette; a group of 6 illustrated photographic paper samples from the German firm of Ferdinand Beyrich, c. 1861-1865; Gay-Lussac's account of Daguerre's discovery, likely the first published; G. Christopher Davies' 48 photogravure plate portfolios of the Broads and Rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk; a perfect copy of Hosoe's first book, Man and Woman, signed; 2 gelatin silver prints by Joseph Jachna, signed; a unique presentation album of platinum and other photographs produced by the Old Cambridge Photographic Club, 1895; and a 2 page announcement by M.A. Root, c.1846-1847, stating his acquisition of the stock of the Mayall Gallery, Philadelphia, as well as the prices for his varied photographic services.