A choice selection of books, manuscript material and original art from all fields.
n.p. Edwin A. Abbey Sketchbook. Extracts from an early Edwin Abbey sketchbook, containing 19 pencil sketches signed by Abbey. Some are rudimentary sketches of trees and shrubs, others detailed, complete drawings of landscapes and houses This album was given to Abbey Thom Kissel from his grand-uncle Alden Freeman, in appreciation... Read More about Sketchbook of drawings
Price: $9,000
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
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[Ca. June 2, 1980]. Read More about "'Il Penseroso,' by John Milton”
Price: $7,500
![The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. [Bound with:] The Gentleman's Calling [And:] Private...](/pictures/thumb/226745.jpg?v=1534805259)
London: R. Norton for T. Garthwait, 1667. First edition. Read More about The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. [Bound with:] The Gentleman's Calling [And:] Private...
Price: $2,500
New York: [May 5, 1939]. Inscribed by Dame Judith Anderson to Mauriber on the image. Read More about Portrait photograph of Judith Anderson as Mother Mary in "Family Portrait"
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Bronxville, NY: n.d., ca. 1966. Angelo, Valenti. All of Angelo's original illustration used in the 1966 Limited Editions Club publication of Hawthorne's TWICE TOLD TALES, including title-page, introduction, and colophon, and one illustration for each of the 24 tales. Read More about 27 original gouache illustrations for the Limited Editions Club publication of Hawthorne's TWICE...
Price: $2,750
Copenhagen: Chez Nicolas Möller, 1773. First edition in French, with half-title. With the large fold-out map of Yemen hand-colored in outline. Account of the ill-starred Royal Danish expedition (1761-1767) to the Arabian Peninsula, the first scientific expedition, from which Niebuhr returned as the only survivor. Niebuhr only covered a small..... Read More about Description de l'Arabie, d'après les observations et recherches faites dans le pays même
Price: $4,000
London: Grant Richards, 1899. First edition. First edition of one of the most celebrated titles in children’s literature, a work whose small illustrated format heralded a change in children's publishing, and a book that has achieved classic status while remaining explosively controversial. Read More about The Story of Little Black Sambo
Price: $6,000
London … Bristol: Willis and Sotheran ... Lasbury, 1863. PRINTED ON VELLUM, one of a few copies. A facsimile on vellum of an extremely rare book (one copy known), from the earliest days of the English reformation. A dramatic dialogue in verse complaining of the oppression of the laity by... Read More about A proper dyalogue betwene a gentillman and a husband man eche complaynynge to other their...
Price: $3,500
[Rapallo?]: 1914. Lord Northcliffe Trains a One Penny Elephant. Lord Northcliffe as Ringmaster training an elephant with '1d' on its head; Northcliffe reduced the price of the Times to one penny in 1914. Read More about Lord Northcliffe (“The Times”
Price: $11,000
1913. The caption is from Scott’s Lady of Lake. “H.H.A, imperturbably smoking a cigar with a copy of ‘Payne on Statics’ at his feet, is ringed by a shackled peer, a German soldier, a militant worker, a suffragette and Sir Edward Carson” (Hart-Davis). Read More about Mr. Asquith in Office (“Come one, come all, this rock shall fly / From its firm base as soon as...
Price: $16,000
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"The Old Selves contemplate the Siamese-twin figure of the Young Selves, each holding a stick, labelled BEGGAR-STAFF. The two had won fame as poster-artists called the Berggarsatff Brothers." Hart-Davis. Reproduced in Observations, 1925. Read More about The Old and the Young Self, inscribed [William Nicholson:] 'Who were that?' [James Pryde:] 'Who...
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Originally published in Small Beer, one of Bemelmans’ early books, based on his experiences in Hollywood. Read More about “His hands danced the flight of the giant whistling butterflies”
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Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962) was born in a part of Austria-Hungary that is now Italy. His first language was French, and his second German, and he emigrated to the United States before WWI, where he joined the Army, then worked in hotels. His early attempts at a career as a professional... Read More about Portrait of Madeline
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London: Printed for T. Davies...and T. Cadell, 1771. First edition. This work, by the "Gentleman of the Horse to His Majesty", is a compound of Xenophon's Treatise on Horsemanship and Bourgelats' Elements (1750-53); it contains a dissertation on the Ancient Chariot by T. Pownall; physically a very attractive book. Read More about The History and Art of Horsemanship
Price: $2,500
Leipzig, Berlin: Insel-Verlag, etc, 1928-1936. First editions of the first four titles, later editions of the last two titles. He Created the Myth of Nietzsche. Ernst Bertram (1884-1957), Germanist and poet, was appointed professor of German literature and philology at the University of Cologne in 1921. His friends included Stefan... Read More about Collection of six books inscribed to the author's brother Hans Georg, including: Deutsche...
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. First book edition of Harper Bible (first issued in 54 parts). Harper Bible in Deluxe American binding. A copy in deluxe binding of the first complete book edition of the Harper Bible. "...this Harper publication was a remarkable production for its time and place... Read More about The Illuminated Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated Out of the Original...
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Dublin: Printed for George Mullens, Temple-Bar, 1815. Large Paper Copy. "The present very limited impression of Lord Castlehaven's Memoirs-is taken from the edition of 1684." Large Paper in Signed Mullen Binding. Read More about The Earl of Castlehaven's Review; Or, His Memoirs of His Engagement and Carriage in the Irish...
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Wilmington, Delaware: [Printed at the Anthoesen Press Portland, Maine], 1966. Pleissner, Ogden. First edition, probably one of 100 copies. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "To Bill Wigton Merry Christmas from the Author and hoping this book will bring back some pleasant memories-1967 A.E.B." Read More about In Pursuit of Salar
Price: $2,500
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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
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London: Blacker of 54, Dean St. Soho, 1855. Third edition, "Rewritten & revised by the author", later issue with three inserted pages of reviews. Best edition. An important and much sought-after volume, an expanded version of two smaller editions, the first published in 1842; the plates are remarkable, and of... Read More about Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c...with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies
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London: Printed by John Baskett. Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, and by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, Deceased, 1714. Read More about The Book of Common Prayer
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[New York: March 24, 1938]. Van Vechten, Carl. Reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAITS (1978). Read More about Portrait photograph of Margaret Bourke-White
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[New York?]: 1937. Done for Grand, Gordon, The Silver Horn. Published in the first Windward House edition. The Original Drawings. ALSO INCLUDED ARE 2 DRAWINGS NOT USED: a 7 x 1 1/2 inch pen drawing of a hunting horn, unsigned, and a beautifully executed 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 inch... Read More about THE COMPLETE SET OF 4 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS FOR THE FIRST TRADE EDITION OF THE SILVER HORN
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