Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. Hardcover. Contains 141 high-quality reproductions, of which 15 are in full color. Each map is accompanied by a short text describing its origin, historical significance, and outstanding cartographic features. "A landmark work, of enormous and lasting importance," Richard W. Stephenson, Catholic University of America. Oblong oversize quarto, bound in a quarter black cloth with cream cloth boards. Very good condition. Bright gilt title to cover, blindstamping to front board, and minor wear to edges of boards. In a very good black illustrated dust jacket with white title to spine and front panels. Closed tear to top edge of jacket on rear panel and minor rubbing to jacket. Interior is clean and unmarked. Binding is nice and tight. Bookplate from previous owner to front endpaper. Relevant articles and brochure from Hammond-Harwood House laid in. Notes, index, 128 pages. Maryland History. MD/072519. Very Good / Very Good. More

San Francisco: Bettina Pauly, 2019. Hardcover. Edition number 12. Signed and numbered by the book artist Bettina Pauly. Pauly started an edition of miniature animal pop-ups in January 2019, The featured animal of each of these charming small books is first done as an original pen and ink drawing that is made into dry point and then printed on a pasta machine. The artist uses pen and ink to work further on the pulled image. The image is incorporated into a pop-up design, each of which is original with no two alike. Each is cut out by hand with an x-acto knife. The pop-up book is bound in lustrous reddish brown cloth with a paper title label on front that includes the animal's name in German. The book has a belly band that provides information about the opossum. The book is housed along with the colophon in a clamshell case covered with black cloth and lined with gold foil paper. In fine condition. Book measures 3 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches. ARTISTB/072419. Fine. More

Princeton, NJ: The University Library, 1900. Hardcover. First Edition. Uncommon. Fithian (1747 - 1776) was a travelling American tutor, known best for journal entries about tutoring at Nomini Hall, a Virginia plantation, between 1773 and 1774. He made many useful observations about the treatment of slaves, plantation life in Virginia, education, entertainment, and religion while he was there. He was highly critical of the treatment of slaves that he witnessed. This book includes eight photographic illustrations with captioned tissue guardsVery good in grey cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Minor wear to spine ends, corners, edges of boards, and hinges. Internal rear hinge is cracked. Light foxing to margins of some pages, else clean and bright. 320 pages. EDU/071819. Very Good. More

Bronx, NY: Plotzing Press, 2003. Hardcover. Number 21 of 35 copies. A graduate from SUNY College, Tammy Wofsey now lives and works in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx, New York. She studied with Antonio Frasoni and printed at Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking workshop before establishing her own studio. Her work has been exhibited around the world and is held in several institutional collections including Yale University, the Library of Congress, and Duke University. She has won several awards including the BRIO Award from the Bronx Council on the Arts. Her beautifully constructed books often address such societal issues as war, climate change, and with this book, the food we eat. She writes: "Mankind is now at the helm of deciding what the future will be with the food we eat. The animals eating junk food represent the global problems created by genetic engineering and monoculture farming. The wild animals in this book are smart enough not to consume our creations. Once set in motion there will be no way to revert the changes corporations are making to our food chain. The animals leave the colorful junk food for the natural world leaving behind the question only the future will tell, what will be the color of regret?" The book is an accordion-fold with the pages unfolding to reveal Tammy's etched and watercolor images of animals and plants. They are printed on Coventry Medium paper with the text in Times New Roman. The cream color boards are covered with a cream dust jacket with delicate dry point illustrations of plants on the front and back flaps. The book is housed in a bright hand painted Japanese Paper Box with hand made paper, by Dieu Donne. The book measures 6 x 6 inches. The box measures 6.25 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches. In fine condition. Unpaginated [56 pages]. Fine. More

England: n.p., 1918-1945. Hardcover. A charming and unique sketchbook with 35 pen and ink drawings by Dorothy De Bock Porter (1873-1956). Nineteen of the drawings are accompanied by original autograph poems by her husband, Hugh De Bock Porter (1870-1940). The Porters composed hymns together, with him writing the words and she the music. They notably wrote a hymn for the coronation of King George V in 1911. The poems and their drawings were done 1918-1920. The accomplished drawings for the poems are sweet and sometimes poignant as are the poems themselves. They are mainly about birds, cats, and rabbits, although there is a surprising poem about two black women written in dialect. Dorothy completed the sketchbook in 1945-46 with sixteen simpler humorous line drawings of cats and pigs. Laid in are two small line drawings. The 5.25 x 7 inch sketchbook is bound in blue cloth with the word "Sketches" in gilt on the front cover. The words H & D Verses Illustrated CATS &c. are handwritten in ink on the cover. Dorothy's signature and a date of 1918 are on the front pastedown along with "Verses by Hugh De Bock Porter" and "Illustrations by Dorothy De Bock Porter." A blue ribbon is attached to the back cover. A wonderful collection in near fine condition. Housed in a modern cream cloth covered clamshell box with paper title label to spine and hand-marbled paper interior. Unpaginated [about 55 pages.] HAND062719. Near Fine. More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Fading to spine. Light browning to end papers and paste downs. Else is clean and bright with illustrations throughout. Index, 380 pages. MAR/081319. Very Good. More

Santa Cruz: n.d. This is an undated original photograph taken by Bill Richards, a Santa Cruz fisherman and photographer. The mounted photograph captures a blue whale breaching almost its entire length amidst sea birds swimming and fluttering over the water. On the back of the photo is a mimeographed sheet of paper recounting how Richards captured the picture after trying for over fifty years to "jump" his own whale out in the ocean and photograph him. Finally the day came. While out fishing off the coast of Santa Cruz, Richards spied a sooty cloud of "whale birds" through his binoculars and knew they must be following a whale. And so they were - a big "Sulphur Bottom Bull - a blue whale - all of seventy feet long and easily weighing seventy-five tons. Richards was able to get within 200 feet and watch him feed on thousands of sardines. But then a life or death drama ensued. A pair of killer whales, orcas, went by the boat toward the blue whale. Orcas are fast and ferocious and travel in small pods. Although much smaller, a few of them are capable of killing the largest of whales. They attacked this whale, causing him to rise out of the ocean in a mighty effort to escape. It was during this battle that Richards was able to get his prized photograph. The combat was continuing as the boat returned to shore. Richards writes that this was "probably the only photograph ever secured of the largest living creature know, taken in his native element, in a battle for existence." Given the mimeographed text and reference to Plastigmant camera lenses, the photograph probably dates from the 1950s. The photo is mounted on a bedraggled piece of grey cardboard, with the inscription "To my friend Charlie Bosworth from Bill Richards" written in white ink under the photo. The photo is in very good condition save for three marks that might have occurred during processing. They do not affect the image of the whale. It measures 8.5 x 10.5 inches. A unique item in very good condition. PHOTO/062719. Very Good. More

Annapolis: Record Printing Office, 1887. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Minor soiling and edgewear to exterior. Previous owner's signature dated 1910 to front paste down. Else is clean and bright. Index, 395 pages. MD/011316. Very Good. More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1974). Hardcover. 8vo. Very good in blue cloth covered boards with silver title to spine. Spine faded to beige. Pristine interior with illustrations throughout. Index, 424 pages. MAR/071319. Very Good. More

Dania Beach, FL: Claire Jeanine Satin, 1987-1997. A unique artists' book from Claire Jeanine Satin, a well known book artist, sculptor and designer of public art installations. Satin's work has been extensively exhibited and collected in the United States and in Europe, including at The Library of Congress, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Getty (CA), MOMA, and The Victoria and Albert Museum..She is known especially for her conceptual works in uenced by the ideas of her friend and mentor the composer/visual artist John Cage, and the conversion of ordinary industrial materials into environmental constructions and book works of layered transparent mass. She states that the title of the book comes from the fact that the Dallas Library owns one of her books. Materials and techniques used to create this intriguing book include: laser printing on paper, metallic overprinting, ink/handwritten script, hand printed acetate cover, and cotton string with beads The book is housed in a hand sewn black mesh polyester bag. The printing on the cover is as a result of 5 layers of handwritten reassembled text from John Cage’s Book “M” then printed in reverse. The end image is the chance markings of the spaces left in between the letters  The pages of the book have black, white and silver strips of images resembling film reels with cryptic handwritten notes along their bottom edges. Signed and dated on the last two pages. In fine condition. Measures 5.5 x 7 inches. Unpaginated. ARTISTSB/072419. More

Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1953. Hard Cover. 8vo. Very good in green cloth boards with gilt title to spine and front board. Light bumping to spine ends and corners. Minor browning to end pages. Else is clean with bright text. Includes several illustrations. Index, 208 pages. BALT/071219. Very Good. More

Moscow: Emil Goozairow, 2017. Hardcover. Signed by the book artist. Emil Goozairow is a Russian artist who paints and draws, produces movies, and creates exceptional handmade books that are printed on rare types of paper and published in limited editions. His techniques create unique designs that often are made with natural materials alone or in combination with relief decorations made from metal or poymeric clay. He creates books that he describes as "pop up," “kinetic carousel," “liporello” or “3D origami.” He also writes fairy tales, stories and mystical scenes. This charming miniature book is illustrated with the book artist's representations of Hamlet's famous soliloquy. Each double-spread illustration has a triangular fold on the right hand page that opens to reveal part of the text. Bound in dark green felt with lighter green cloth spine, with a small bronze colored relief ornament on the front cover. In near fine condition. Measures 2.25 x 1.75 inches. Unpaginated [16 pages]. MINIATURE/082119. Near Fine. More