Price: $2,500

Paris: [Firmin Didot for] Bossange … Rey et Garvier … Aillaud, 1822-1823. First Chompré translation, first Paris edition. A beautiful set of the first Paris edition of Blackstone's Commentaries of the Laws of England, translated by Chompré from the London edition of 1809. The first edition in French, translated from.....  Read More Item Details for Commentaires sur les Lois Anglaises … Add to Wish List

Item #265140

Price: $12,500

Churchtown & Dublin: Dun Emer and Cuala Press, 1908-1915. One of 300 copies. The beautiful periodical of verse and images produced by the Cuala Press, each number with three illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, who also contributed many of the poems under pseudonyms R.E. McGowan and W.T. MacGowan. The present.....  Read More Item Details for A Broadside. Published Monthly … [Cuala Press Broadsides. First Series] Add to Wish List

Item #265275

Price: $2,500

New York: The Brownstone Press, 1965. First edition, copy 99 of 100 copies printed. Diane Di Prima's first book of poetry (This Kind of Bird Flies Backward) was published by Totem Press in 1958 and she has published nearly four dozen books since then. She is considered a bridge figure.....  Read More Item Details for Combination Theatre Poem & Birthday Poem for Ten People Add to Wish List

Item #264890

Price: $3,500

Venice: Nella stamperia di Modesto Fenzo, 1776. First edition. Tommaso Farsetti’s fine collection of books and manuscripts was extremely rich in Italian literature and history. A series of specialised catalogues was published between 1771 and 1778, prepared by the distinguished Venetian librarian Jacopo Morelli (1745-1819), with the collector’s assistance—all of.....  Read More Item Details for Catalogo di Commedie Italiane Add to Wish List

Item #265522

Price: $2,500

Paris: de La Chevardière, [1765]. First edition thus (of the separately printed “Ariettes”). Songs of Philidor, et. al; 7 Engraved Works Bound in One. François-André Philidor (1726-1795) was not only the most powerful chess player of his day and, for a time and its unofficial world champion, he was also.....  Read More Item Details for Ariettes détachées du Sorcier, comedie en deux actes melées de chants mis en musique par A. D. Philidor. Les paroles de Mr. [Antoine-Alexandre-Henri] Poinsinet le jeune. Représentée par les Comédiens italiens ordinaires du roi ce 2 janvier 1764. Premier [-deuxieme] acte …Gravées par Gerardin Add to Wish List

Item #264676

Price: $3,500

New York: Ca. 1880. Superb Ca. 1880 Railroad Engineering Drawing. A beautiful cut-away engineering drawing consisting of four studies; front, head-on view; back view; and two side views of a steam locomotive, with cow-catcher, top bell, and ornamented headlight, done with meticulous skill. Possibly used in a patent application, for.....  Read More Item Details for “W. Freeborn's system of Articulated Locomotives”: detailed engineering drawing, pen and ink on thin prepared translucent cloth, signed “J.H. Müller Eng. 25 Chambers Str. del” Add to Wish List

Item #25349

Price: $1,500

New York: Harper and Row, 1952. Maurice Sendak. Later printing. Inscribed, with a Drawing. Signed by Sendak on the front endpaper with an original drawing in black ink and dated “Feb. '69 / for Bob Wilson”. Read More Item Details for A Hole is to Dig, a First Book of Definitions Add to Wish List

Item #264806

Price: $2,250

Medan: 22 August 1888. Zola in 1888. Excellent autograph letter, signed, from the great French novelist Emile Zola (1840-1902) to an unnamed recipient, sending a cheque (not present) for 400 francs “en paiement du buste en bronze que vous avez fondu pour moi et je vous prie de vouloir bien.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (“Emile Zola”), Medan 22 aout 88, sending payment for the casting of a bronze bust Add to Wish List

Item #265761