Recent arrivals and highlights

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Listed below are some of our recent arrivals and featured books. Check back regularly for updates.

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71 Hand-drawn and etched plates by Didier Mutel

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A seminal psychoanalytical literary study: Marie Bonaparte’s essential work on Edgar Allan Poe. One of the large paper nominative copies on Arches, inscribed by the author

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The pieces range from poetry to comic drama and translated verse from Latin, in short, a representative sampling of mid-eighteenth-century French literature, brought together by a contemporary reader.

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A Banned Book and its scarce follow-up: incontestable evidence that woman can conceive sans homme

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Trade Catalog as Work of Art: Paul Haviland’s photographs promoting a master craftsman: The Art Deco glasswork of René Lalique

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A Female student’s arithmetic primer: learning to calculate commercial business transactions

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Melencholia II, III, IV (2021)

Authors:

Didier Mutel Nicolas Bardey

Book Artist:

Atelier Mutel

Melencholia II, III, IV (2021) by Didier Mutel and Nicolas Bardey, is a collaborative response to Melencholia I (1514), a copperplate engraving by the German artist Albrecht Dürer, which they present here in a series that combines engraving and serigraphy.

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In Search of the key to the Tower of Babel: who speaks the blue language?

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Le Feste d'Imeneo : the wedding festival of Joseph, Archduke of Austria & Isabella Maria, Princess of Parma Parma, 1760

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4 works in 1 volume, contemporary full marbled calfskin