A rare survival of such an ephemeral piece (unrecorded on ICCU): a large broadside issued during the nine-month occupation of Rome following the fall of the Roman Republic, and proclaiming a complete revision of the running of the city’s public market to prevent “hoarders and scalpers” from inflating food prices..... More

A fine late-18th-century printed écran à main, or hand-held fire screen, charmingly decorated with a Neoclassical color stipple engraving of “The Childhood of Socrates,” a sepia stipple engraving of a putto, and elaborate engraved borders on color paper printed expressly to conform to the idiosyncratic polygonal shape of this item..... More

Rare first edition of this illustrated treatise on the art of sculpture by Carradori, a neoclassical sculptor and professor at the Florentine Academy. The work considers basic tools and materials of the craft: clay, wax, stucco, stone and marble as well as the straw, wire, cloth and glue for ephemeral..... More

Very rare edition of Gedike’s instructional book for students of Latin in the Kingdom of Hungary. The work is divided into two parts: a selection of example passages with occasional explanatory notes, and a Latin-German-Hungarian-Czech dictionary. The present copy is the enlarged second edition, of which we have only been..... More

Rare hand-colored print depicting an elaborate celebration in Paris in honor of Napoleon’s marriage to Marie-Louise of Austria in the spring of 1810 (following his divorce from Josephine in January of that year). An extended period of revelry took place in Paris upon the arrival of the newlyweds from Vienna..... More

First edition. Published during the War of 1812, an early American pamphlet describing two methods for supplying a diver with air. The author envisions a naval force of three to four hundred men duly supplied with air, at depths of 3-7 soundings, capable of making a formidable surprise attack in..... More

An attractive early 19th-century manuscript of anatomical drawings of the human (male) body, many with muscles keyed and labeled in a minute German script. The notebook is attributed by a German pencil annotation inside its upper cover to the Austrian painter Adam Brenner (1800-1891), who studied principally with Leopold Kupelwieser..... More

Rare, first and sole American edition of this comprehensive guide by a Liverpool wine and spirit merchant to making and maintaining liquors, wines, beers and a wide assortment of alcoholic beverages (first edition 1805). In addition to the grape based wines, the work treats more than three dozen wines produced..... More

Second edition, appearing the same year as the first, of this eye-witness account of missionary work in the American south. In 1793, Stephen Theodore Badin, a native of Orleans, became the first priest ordained in the United States by the Catholic church. A short while later he was appointed a...... More

Unusual royal souvenir printed on silk and commemorating the death of the infant Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (1820-1), daughter of Prince William (the future William IV) and Adelaine of Saxe-Meiningen, who at the date of her passing was ahead of the future Queen Victoria (1819-1901), her cousin, in the line..... More

First edition of an historically important volume describing the Dendera Affair, the Egyptian archaeological expedition of 1820 led by Saulnier, an antiquarian and treasure-hunter, and J.-B. Lelorrain, the master mason he hired to remove the bas-relief zodiac from Egypt’s Temple of Dendera and smuggle it to Paris. Until it was..... More