Recent arrivals and highlights

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

If you do not see what you are looking for, please inquire: gerald@gwcbooks.com

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A volume of eight quarto poems carefully bound together.

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The valuable ensemble offered here documents the breadth of Futurist ideology across the arts: literature, painting, sculpture, music, etc.

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7 SEAS OF CAPT ACID

Author:

Didier Mutel

Book Artist:

Atelier Didier Mutel

This atlas comprises 48 plates, representing globe gores intended to form a terrestrial globe.

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An annotated copy of the first textbook on differential calculus, with a dozen pages of annotations and corrections by a skilled mathematician, written in a neat legible hand.

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Two works, bound together, both inscribed by their author, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.

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The first edition of Parent-Duchâtelet’s ground-breaking and influential study: Prostitution in early 19th century Paris: read by Balzac, Dumas, and Sue.

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Edition of 13 signed & numbered copies. 28 x 37 cm (slipcase); 25 x 36 cm (book). 26 leaves. Begun in Rome (Italy), 2018; Helsinki (Finland); and Weimar (Germany), completed November 2020.

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184 entries of celebrated figures, a description of Giovio’s famous Museo with 60 woodcut portraits

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Philippe Grandjean’s Romain du Roi typeface, from the original plates