(Berkeley, California): (The Center for Environmental Structure, 2002-2005), 2002. Hardcover. Quarto size, 2228 pp. Complete four-volume set of the philosophy of architecture; as the dust jacket so aptly phrases it: "Neither scientists, nor mystics, nor architects, nor politicians have so far found a single view of the world in which... More

Tel Aviv: Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Ministry of Defence Publishing House, 1990. Hardcover. Quarto size, 222 pp. Nazi Germany was a time of brutality and oppression to many, for the Jews of Czechoslovakia it was particularly horrific. The Jewish population there was almost annihilated... More

Oxford: The University Press, 1866. Leather bound. Sixmo size, with working clasp. A lovely, leather-bound 1866 copy of the English Book of Common Prayer, with a working clasp engraved "M.L. / to S.G. (?) M.L. / Easter / 1869" in an elegant script.___DESCRIPTION: Full brown leather, both boards with embossed... More

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, (1924). Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 190 copies, folio size, [5] leaves, illustrated. The Sermon is among the most widely quoted texts of the Canonical Gospels, most notably the Beatitudes, which exemplify the quintessential elements of mercy and compassion as taught by Jesus Christ. The Sermon... More

[Harrow Weald, Middlesex]: The Raven Press, Printed by Robert Ashwin Maynard and Horace Walter Bray, 1931. Bray, Horace Walter. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 20 of 275, octavo size, 35 pp. The Book of Tobit is part of the Apocrypha, generally included in Catholic and Orthodox biblical canons, but not those... More

Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press, (2010). d'Arbeloff, Natalie. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 12 of 60 copies, folio size, [56] pp., signed by the artist. From the web site of The Old Stile Press: "These drawings were published almost half a century before the idea of publishing them in a book... More

Greenbrae, California: The Allen Press, 1984. Forgeois, Michèle. Limited Edition. Softcover. One of 140 copies, quarto size, 49 pp., with prospectus. The stories of Jonah, Judith, and Ruth have inspired numerous works of art and literature, and have been rendered in lovely editions such as this work from the Allen... More

London: The Haymarket Press, 1928. Flint, W. Russell. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 79 of 100, quarto size, 66 pp., signed by W. Russell Flint. The famous story of the headhunting heroine whose bold act has inspired painters, poets, sculptors and writers for centuries. This version was finely printed by The... More

[Waltham Saint Lawrence]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Rooke, Noel. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 259 of 370 copies, octavo size, 44 pp. This volume comprises a portion of text from the Book of Saint Luke, telling of the birth of Jesus Christ; printed by The Golden Cockerel Press, this publication... More

Torino: Zecchi e Bona, 1850. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 176 pp., text in Italian. Text in Italian, with some Latin quotes scattered throughout.___DESCRIPTION: Quarter tan leather with marbled paper boards, gilt lettering and decorations direct to spine, text block edges appear to have been stained at some point, now faded, plain... More

London: Luzac & Co., 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 216 pp. The turn of the last century was a time of a great number of missionaries, most with only the best of intentions, visiting the far corners of the world to assist in education. Bess Allen Donaldson (1879-1974) and... More

San Francisco: Printed for The Book Club of California by John Henry Nash, 1921. Nash, John Henry. Limited Edition. No binding. Single leaf folded once to make [4] pp. A lovely broadside printed by the San Francisco printer extraodinaire, John Henry Nash (1871-1947) with his characteristic mitred ruled border, this... More

Dublin: Robert Jackson, 1790. Leather. Four volumes, octavo size, [2,246] pp. The initial volumes first published in 1789, with Volume IV being first published in 1790, a year before the author's death. The last book by English religious writer and schoolmaster John Gough (1721-1791), who was himself from a family... More