Recent Arrivals from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Venice: per Francesco Franceschi Sanese, 1589. Very occasional light marginal spotting, a very good, well-margined copy, crisp and clean. 4to (in eights). 145 leaves, and two folding plates. Italic letter, some Roman. Title within splendid woodcut architectural border with figures and the arms and devices of Cosimo de Medici (the dedicatee) medallion portrait of Bartoli in woodcut frame… Read more about this item

Paris: A. Turnebus, 1554. Small 4to (227 x 168 mm). Numerous woodcut illustrations, some full-page (Light worming at end.) Modern vellum; cloth folding case. Edward Tufte copy, with book label. FIRST EDITION. A collection of ancient texts on surveying by Frontinus, Hygenus, Siculus Flaccus and others, edited from a manuscript at Saint-Omer. Thirteen full pages of woodcuts of land… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1790. Spine of vol. 2 separated, bindings a bit rubbed. Six volumes only, 8vo (190 x 118mm; 7 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches). Three hand-colored engraved titles and 288 fine hand-colored plates, some heightened with gold, some printed on blue paper, including three frontispieces, with tissue guards. Bound from the original fascicules in contemporary French… Read more about this item

London: T. Bensley for J. Taylor, 1803. 4to (356 x 290 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait after S. Shelley, and 27 plates, aquatints and line-engravings, 12 with overslips, one folding, many hand-colored or tinted, a further 11 aquatint and engraved plates in the text, 2 with overslips, vignette on p. 8, woodcut diagrams, one hand-colored on p. 219. (Some occasional… Read more about this item

Paris: Felix Alcan, 1886. Foxing. 8vo. 331 pages. Numerous illustrations in text. Original cloth (rebacked, old spine laid down); leather backed folding case. Provenance: Edward Tufte (booklabel). Fourth edition, "revue et augmentee de plusieurs chapitres nouveaux." "Marey's interest in the biomechanics of locomotion was codified and measured through the use of his ingenious mechanisms, both mechanical and photographic,… Read more about this item

Bologna: Gioseffo Longhi, 1683. 3 parts in one volume, folio (287 x 202 mm). General title and title to the third part (all called for) each with woodcut devices, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. 58 full-page woodcut diagrams, most within four-part floral borders, some smaller diagrams in text. (Some light soiling to first few leaves, title with small repair… Read more about this item

The Hague: Adrian Moetjens, 1699. 4to (200 x 161 mm). Title-page vignette and 5 (i.e. 6) folding engraved plates (plate 4 repeated). (Plates loose, marginal ink stains on N4r.) Modern quarter calf. Edward Tufte copy, with book label. Second edition, following the first edition of 1698. One of Huygens' most popular titles, it contains the argument in favor of… Read more about this item

Paris, 1740. Folio (553 x 439 mm). Folding index map and very large perspective plan on 20 sheets by Claude Lucas after Louis Bretez, sheets 18 and 19 joined, decorative engraved border with fleur-de-lys cornerpieces, title in elaborate figural cartouche. (Index with short tear to fold, a few maps with repaired tears.) Contemporary French calf gilt, the sides with… Read more about this item

London: T. Bensley for J.C. Stadler, to be sold by Boydell and Co. and others, 1808. Folio (518 x 351 mm). 20 plates and illustrations, including an engraved hand-colored plan; 19 aquatints, 9 hand-colored (6 of these with overslips, one with overpage, one double-page, one folding), 2 with sepia wash, all by Stadler after Repton (last plate with tear… Read more about this item

Augsburg: Christoph Mang, 1603. Folio (344 x 243 mm). Engraved title, 3 leaves preliminary text, 51 double-page engraved star maps by Alexander Mair, on guards throughout, letterpress descriptive text printed on rectos/versos of the maps, printer's woodcut device on colophon page, woodcut headpieces, initials and tailpiece. (Engraved title darkened and backed in heavy paper repairing long tear, dedication leaf… Read more about this item

New York: Silver Arrow Books; William Morrow, 1990. First edition, signed by Borman on the front free endpaper. A near fine copy, jacket price-clipped. 95 x 6.5 inches. 448 pages. Original white cloth; pictorial dust jacket. "From the time he was sworn in as a cadet at West Point in 1946 to the day he resigned from the… Read more about this item

California: Jan Shreem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, 2019. First edition. A near fine copy; with one small marking on the front cover. 9.75 x 9.25 inches. 160 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original yellow cloth; with a mounted plate on the front cover. "Encompassing 60 sculptures and 20 drawings from throughout Butterly's career, all of… Read more about this item

Indiana: Sport Media Publishing, 2005. First edition. A near fine copy. 9.25 x 6.5 inches. 398 pages. Original black boards; pictorial dust jacket. "In this beautifully written book, pioneering race car driver Guthrie tells her story from the beginning. Nearly two decades in the making, the book conveys all that she encountered along the way as a woman… Read more about this item

New York; Chicago: San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1974. First edition, warmly inscribed by Heyman on the half-title. A near fine copy with some light rubbing to wrappers. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. 120 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original printed wrappers.

Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 2013. First edition. A near fine copy with some very minor edgewear to boards. 8.25 x 6.5 inches. 128 pages. Profusely illustrated in color; pictorial boards. "Neglected in her lifetime, Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is now regarded as one of the most important furniture designers and architects of the early twentieth century. She first worked as… Read more about this item

New York: Kohn Pederson Fox, 2022. First edition. A fine copy. 9.25 x 7.25 inches. 223 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original grey cloth, with photogrpah mounted on the fron cover.

2011: Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign; London. First edition. A near fine copy and surprisingly scarce. 8 x 5.5 inches. 293 pages. Original printed wrappers. "Best known for his complex and beautiful novels--regularly compared to those of Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo--Joseph McElroy is equally at home in the short story, having written numerous pieces over the… Read more about this item

New York: Clarkson Potter, 2019. First edition. A fine copy. 11.5 x 10 inches. 380 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. original blue cloth. 'This official book of photographs houses the 50-year collection of the most iconic and beloved photographs taken by prolific fashion photographer Cunningham, the King of Street Style, known for wearing a blue work jacket and… Read more about this item

Tusten, New York: The Lake Press, 2005. A fine copy. 8vo. 13, [3]pp. Sewn in original printed wrappers. 2005 second printing of 1000 copies (the first printing of 2003 was also 1000 copies). Conge's talk was given in Santiago, Chile on 6 August 1966.

New York: Hearst Corporation, 2007. First edition. A fine copy with the slightest of edgewear to wrappers. 10 x 8 inches. 82 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers.