London: Rudolf Ackermann, 1814. First edition. Fine Early Copy of Ackermann's Oxford. An early copy. The list of plates in vol. I is the first state (it does not list the portraits of Founders; this copy does not include the Founders). Plate 1, vol.1, is mislabeled “History of Cambridge” and..... Read More about A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings

China: Ca. first half of 19th century. Album of 34 Original Chinese Watercolors. A very interesting and engaging collection of genre scenes. The trees, rocks, and landscapes are particularly well rendered, and the figures are full of life. The pictures in many such albums often follow a sequence of events..... Read More about Album of 34 Chinese watercolor paintings on paper

London: George Bell & Sons, York St., Covent Garden. New York: 112, Fourth Street, 1891-1901. The poets (and number of volumes) are: Akenside (1), Beattie (1), William Blake (1), Burns (3), Butler (2), Chatterton (2), Chaucer (6), Churchill (3), Coleridge (2), Collins (1), Cowper (3), Dryden (5), Falconer (1), Goldsmith..... Read More about The Aldine Edition of British Poets

New York: [May 12, 1951]. Read More about Portrait photograph of Judith Anderson as Medea

[London, New York]: 1950-1984. These guestbooks from the London and New York showrooms of Hanns Weinberg's Antique Porcelain Company form a virtual who’s-who of mid- to late-20th century European royalty, high society, and art world luminaries. Weinberg was the favored dealer to the Rockefeller, Mellon, and Phipps families, and his..... Read More about Collection of seven “Visitors” books from The Antique Porcelain Co. Ltd

Amsterdam: Gedrukt [by Hendrik Harmensz] voor d'Autheur, waar by dit werk ook te bekomen is, op de Bloemgraft, omtrent de drukkery van d'Heer Blaauw : en by Timotheus ten Hoorn, Boekverkooper in de Nes, naast de Brakke-Gront, 1685. First edition. Prophets, Oracles, and Sacrifices. Four-part work on religion in the..... Read More about Spiegel der Sibyllen, van Vierderley Vertooningen ... Seer rykelijk verçiert met allerhande...

New York: [The Derrydale Press], 1928. Fine 1928 Original Duck Decoy Watercolor by Joel Barber. A fine, large rendering, very much reduced in the Derrydale Press and Windward House editions of Barber's classic book. It shows "a Stevens Widgeon … In this decoy the painting is original and still shows the..... Read More about Male Widgeon Decoy: watercolor of a Stevens Factory decoy

London: Printed for Henry Colburn, Public Library, Conduit-Street, Hanover-Square; and sold by George Goldie, Edinburgh, and John, 1813. First edition. A "Delightful Burlesque" Gothic Triple-Decker. A Gothic parody much appreciated by the author of NORTHANGER ABBEY (1818), who wrote in a letter of March 2, 1814: "I finished The Heroine..... Read More about The Heroine, or Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader

[Paris: 1926]. No. 2 of 35 copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED by the artist in pencil; with his stamp lower left. Rouault's Baudelaire. Superb image of the brooding genius so greatly admired by Rouault, who included it in the second edition of his collection, SOUVENIRS INTIMES (Paris: E. Frapier, 1927), with..... Read More about Portrait of Charles Baudelaire

London: Printed for C. Stalker, 1787. First edition, with half-title. Begins with a chapter on the natural history of fish, goes on to the best manner of making and choosing rods, lines, hooks, etc. Chapter IV provides a description of flies. "Best was Keeper of His Majesty's Drawing-room in the..... Read More about A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling. Confirmed by actual Experience, and Minute...

Oxford: D. Prince et J. Cooke, 1781. Fine neo-classical binding in the style, and contemporary with, the Edwards of Halifax, with a charming fore-edge fishing scene. Read More about Miscellanea Critica. Iterum Edita. Curavit, et Appendicem Adnotationis Addidit Thomas Burgess

Wilmington, Delaware: (Privately Printed. Printed by the Anthoensen Press Portland, Me), 1965. First edition. Probably 50 or 100 copies. Mostly reminiscences of the Tuscarora Club, near Margaretville in the Catskills, but also with a trip to the Beaverkill one rainy April day.Portraits of Ogden Pleissner, Carl Martin, Jr., etc. Inscribed..... Read More about Tuscarora Recollections, [Preface by David J. Reinhardt, Jr

New York: E. Weyhe, 1929. First American edition. A seminal 20th century photobook. The first American edition of Blossfeld't masterpiece in the scarce photographically illustrated dust jacket. A remarkable book that traces a curious path from Art Nouveau to Modernism and forshadows Conceptual Art. Read More about Art Forms in Nature. Examples from the Plant World Photographed Direct from Nature