ILLUSTRATED
BOOKS \ CUTS & ENGRAVINGS
ILLUSTRATED
BOOKS \ CUTS & ENGRAVINGS
Delicate & Delightful
Unger, Mary E. The favorite flowers of Japan. Tokyo: Hasegawa, [1911]. 8vo (24.5 cm; 9.5"). [4] ff., 59, [4] pp. 
A wonderful example of early 20th-century Japanese book printing.
• Publisher’s paper over light boards; paper of spine flaked off with covers dusty and little discolored. A delicate book, priced according to its faults and still a nice object.
Rocky
Mountain Locust — Presentation
CopyUnited States Entomological Commission. First annual report ... for the year 1877 relating to the Rocky Mountain Locust and the best methods of preventing its injuries and of guarding against its invasions, in pursuance of an appropriation made by Congress for this purpose .... Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.2"). xvi, 477, [1], 294, [6] pp.; 2 fold. maps, 5 plts.
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In addition to the
five plates (three lithographed by A. Hoen & Co. after drawings by J.H. Emerton, one by A. Gast & Co. after a drawing by Riley, and one by Sinclair & Son after a drawing by C.S. Minot), the report is illustrated with a number of 
in-text woodcuts of locusts and other insects, their anatomy, and their eggs and egg-masses, as well as machines and devices designed to eradicate them. Appendices include a detailed comparison of insectivorous birds and their potential benefits.
Provenance: With affixed note on Entomological Commission letterhead, addressed to the Rev. E.H. Dalrymple of Baltimore, MD, and signed by C.V. Riley; front free endpaper bearing the mailing label to Dalrymple.
• Publisher’s quarter cloth and printed paper wrappers; wrappers darkened, with small edge nicks, cloth starting to split from top of front joint. Front wrapper and front inside cover institutionally rubber-stamped, front free endpaper with label as above. First map and title-page partially torn along inner margin; plates 2 through 5 with small nick in upper edge, not approaching image. Pages clean.
Art/Architecture — Folio Extra — Imposing! Valentini, Agostino. La patriarcale basilica Liberiana. Roma: a spese di Agostino Valentini, 1839. Folio extra (47.5 cm; 18.75"). [4] ff., 118 pp.; 1 fold. plt., 102 plts.
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A handsomely produced, still very impressive volume.
Mexican Colonial Imprint — Its Excellent Engraving of a
PRESENT Velasco, Alfonso Alberto de. Exaltacion de la Divina Misericordia en la milagrosa renovacion de la soberana imagen de Christo Sr. Nro. crucificado. México: Imprenta del Lic. D. Joseph de Jauregui, 1776. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8"). [7] ff., 112 pp., [1] f.; 1 plt.
Click the interior images for enlargements. This popular work was first published in 1688 (or possibly 1685).
• Palau 357046; Medina, Mexico, 10530. 20th-century Mexican black mottled binding, gilt extra on covers, with gilt inner dentelles; marbled endpapers. Old private ownership stamp on title-page. Occasional spotting. (23965)
Real Horror. Great Love. Vorse, Mary Heaton. The ninth man. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1936. 8vo. [4], 79, [1] pp.; illus.
Click the interior images for enlargements. • Publisher's canvas over boards, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped leather labels. A fine copy. (18007)
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