A choice selection of books, manuscript material and original art from all fields.
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
Price: $6,000
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
Price: $7,500
Boston: Loring, Publisher Corner Bromfield and Washington Streets. Printers Rockwell & Churchill, [1875]. First edition of the author’s first book of verse. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by the author on flyleaf, "Mrs. Maria Brown/ from the author/ Dec. 25, 1875" Read More
Price: $2,500
[N.p: Privately Printed, 1845]. First edition, one of 25 large paper copies printed. One of 25 Copies, Inscribed to His Wife. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on half-title “To the most beloved from John L. Anderdon, 7th Nov. 1845”, of this colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and... Read More
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New York: [May 5, 1939]. Inscribed by Dame Judith Anderson to Mauriber on the image. Read More
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New York: January 14, 1940. Superb, large portrait of the singer, taken a year after the famous incident in 1939 when she was banned by the Daughters of the American Revolution from singing at concert in Constitution Hall (prompting Eleanor Roosevelt's resignation from the DAR). Her popularity soared all the... Read More
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[published New York: Limited Editions Club, printed by Edmund Thompson at Hawthorn House in Windham, Conn, 1935]. The complete set of Angelo's fine, oval miniature drawings for the fine LEC edition Hawthorne's classic, comprising his original illustrations for the cover, the title page, and the 21 chapter headpieces. Quite as... Read More
Price: $2,750
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
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London: printed by S[amuel] R[oycroft] and are to be sold by Edward Gough at Cow-Cross, 1682. First edition. The Glory of the English Bow. One of the more important archery books of the period after Ascham’s TOXOPHILUS (1545), written by Wood who was "Marshall to the Regiment of Archers." It..... Read More
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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
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Providence: Published by Geo. P.Daniels, 1839. Early "Base, or Goal Ball", 1839. Rare and early description (pp. 19-20) of the nascent game which ultimately became the national pastime. OCLC notes editions of 1835 and 1836 which are equally rare, but whether or not either contains a section on baseball is not clear. Read More
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[Brooklyn: 1860's]. Very interesting album of a talented amateur draughtsman drawings, including one of 'sambo" playing the banjo, several baseball drawings, e.g., a Baseball player 'seeing Stars" dated January 15, 1867, p. 15, s baseball Diamond, Lacrosse Player, a Firemen "running to a Fire", p. 25 (with coloring), etc. Read More
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[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
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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
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1932. Excellent portrait in Beerbohms's characteristic style of Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (1878-1949), Conservative politician, sometime Minister of the Air and second cousin to Winston Churchill. Read More
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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
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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
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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
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Paris: Jules Bonaventure for the author, 1869-73. Binder's Copy. Read More
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![Together, three documents signed by Daniel Boone's sons: Manuscript Document, signed by Daniel M. Boone with two lines in his hand, 2 pp., 8vo, dated November 14, 1817 and July 5, 1819, being a document filed with the County of St. Charles listing a tally of debts for items purchased from Boone (his name appears as "Boon" within the document) accrued by Francis McDermed between June 1814 and March 1815, sworn to by Boone's clerk, John Lindsey, before Joseph Cotts, a lawyer. On the latter date, Boone acknowledges receipt of the payment in full from Hugh McDermed and signs the receipt; [and] Autograph Document, signed by Nathan Boone, 1 1/2 pages, written on a large scrap of paper, dated September 8, 1827, being a document filed with the St. Charles County probate court requesting the Mrs. Antoine Laclane and Frances Laclane, administrators of the estate of Antoine Laclane, pay an unspecified amount to Robert W. Wells as agent for Nathan Boone (his name appears as "Boon" at the top of the document); on verso, opposite Boone's calculations and filing information is a half-page of writing in the hand of W. L. Mill, agent for Robert W. Wells, acknowledging receipt of the sum of forty-two dollars and ninety-two and one half cents which settles the judgement filed with the court on March 14, 1826; [and] Manuscript Document, signed by Daniel M. Boone, 1 1/4 pages, folio, dated October 30, 1876, being a Guardian Bond, an obligation between Boone, Thomas D. Stephenson, and Seth Millington that they are bound to perform the duties of guardians for the $800 estate of Mattilda Patton, an orphan for whom Stephenson is legal guardian. Daniel Boone, Daniel Morgan Boone.](/pictures/thumb/13488.jpg?v=1534803732)
St. Charles County, Missouri Territory: July 5, 1819, September 8, 1827 and October 30, 1876. Signed by Daniel Boone's Sons, Daniel M. and Nathan. Daniel Boone (1734-1820), born near Reading, Pennsylvania, is known as a great pioneer and Indian fighter. His family left for North Carolina in 1750 and settled... Read More
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[New York: March 24, 1938]. Van Vechten, Carl. Reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAITS (1978). Read More
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New York: Decmber 27, 1948. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Van Vechten's Stanley Kowalski as immortalized by Brando, portrayed here in his slacks and sweater. Read More
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Ca. 1923. Worth Brehm. Published by Harper & Brothers in their edition of 1923. Original Huckleberry Finn Illustration by Worth Brehm. A fine dramatic depiction of the moment when, with Huck holding the candle, the King and the Duke examine the sack of gold coins they plan to swindle from... Read More
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