[LEAF BOOKS]. A group of 16 leaf books, including:

The Fables of Jean de la Fontaine. Los Angeles: Dawson's Bookshop, 1964. With an original leaf from the 1755-59 edition of Fables Choisies printed in Paris by Charles-Antoine Jombert representing an illustration by Jean-Baptiste Oudry. LIMITED EDITION, one of 125 copies. -- The Brescia Dante with a Leaf from the Illustrated Edition of 1487. Salt Lake City: Brigham Young University, 1975. With an original leaf from the 1487 Brescia edition of Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia representing a portion of Canto XVIII from Purgatorio. LIMITED EDITION, number 193 of 250 copies. -- Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany 1817-1821. Boston: Boston Medical Library, 1979. With two original leaves representing a black and white and hand-colored engravings of geranium maculatum (Plate VIII). LIMITED EDITION, number 141 of 300 copies. -- An Original Leaf from the Kleine Print Bybel c. 1750. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1991. With an original "thumb-sized" leaf from the 1780 edition. LIMITED EDITION, one of 60 copies. -- Illustrium Imagines Incorporating an English Translation of Nota... Crestline, CA: George Frederick Kolbe, 2001. With an original leaf from the 1517 first edition of the first illustrated book on numismatics. LIMITED EDITION, number 84 of 150 copies.

And 11 others. Together, 16 works in 17 volumes, in various 36mo, 8vo, 4to, and folio sizes, all in original bindings, condition generally very fine. Complete list available upon request.