A choice selection of books, manuscript material and original art from all fields.
London: William and John Innys, 1720-24. With preliminaries and titles of both first and second editions. Read More about A Natural History of English Insects Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven...
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![Item #226745 The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. [Bound with:] The Gentleman's Calling...](/pictures/thumb/226745.jpg?v=1669650671)
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]. Dame Judith Anderson as Mother Mary. Read More about Portrait photograph of Judith Anderson as Mary in "Family Portrait"
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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
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New York: May 17, 1960. Read More about Portrait photograph of Harold Arlen
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[Paris: P. Didot l'ainé, 1808]. Read More about Atlas Historique Généalogique, Chronologique, et Géographique
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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
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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 about A proper dyalogue betwene a gentillman and a husband man eche complaynynge to other their...
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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 about Lord Northcliffe (“The Times”
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n.p: 1907. The Playwright Henry Arthur Jones, by Max Beerbohm. Henry Arthur Jones was an English playwright who, without reaching the heights of Wilde or Shaw, enjoyed three decades of almost unbroken successes, beginning in 1882 with “The Silver King,” the most celebrated melodrama of its day. He was brilliant..... Read More about Mr. Henry Arthur Jones
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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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London: Printed for C. Stalker ... H. Turpin, 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..... Read More about A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling. Confirmed by actual Experience, and Minute Observations...
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London: John C. Nimmo, 1888. # 203 of 300 printed on fine deckle-edge Royal 8vo paper, with two states of the plates. Read More about "The Majesties' Servants" Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund...
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Wilmington, Delaware: (Privately Printed), 1972. First edition, one of 50 copies. Inscribed to His Brother. Privately printed and second in the series of books on Salmon fishing done by Sportsman Alfred Bissell in a very limited edition This copy is inscribed on the half-title "For my brother John who may..... Read More about Further Notes on the Pursuit of Salar
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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
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New York: Privately printed, 1913. First edition, #96 of 200 copies, initialed and numbered on the half-title. Inscribed on flyleaf, "Mr. & Mrs. A.B. Payne [names partly effaced] with sincere regards of Mr. & Mrs. W.K. Bixby, St. L. 5/18/14" "Includes 12 pages of text on fishing for smallmouth bass..... Read More about Mohican Point on Lake George. The Summer Home of Mr. and Mrs. W.K. Bixby of St. Louis, Mo
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Worcester: Printed by M. Olivers, [ca. 1747]. First edition. The Rare First, Taverner's Copy. Westwood & Satchell note that although only Richard Bowlker's name appears in the first edition, in the second, his son Charles seems to lay claim to the work. At his death in 1779, Charles "was considered..... Read More about The Art of Angling Improved, in all its parts, Especially Fly-Fishing: Containing A particular...
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London: W. Sams, Book & Printseller, to the Royal family opposite St James's Palace, 1825. Third state, the first being produced in 1818. A large and important depiction of an exhibition sparring match held in Fives Court, in London's Little St. Martin's Street, a tennis and fives court hired for..... Read More about The Interior of the Fives Court, with Randall and Turner Sparring. Engraved by C[harles] Turner...
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New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. First (and only) edition, limited to 250 proofs only. An extremely handsome and decorative set of American sporting notables. The six portraits, each set in an appropriate background, are of: SAMUEL MORRIS, ESQ., Foxhunter, first president of the Gloucester Foxhunting Club, America's oldest; COL..... Read More about "FATHERS OF AMERICAN SPORT" The complete set of six hand-colored aquatint portraits,...
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New York: 1910. Worth Brehm. Original Tom Sawyer Illustration by Worth Brehm. A moment of high drama, as, observed by Tom and Huck above, the mysterious Spaniard and Injun Joe unearth the box of treasure in the cellar of the haunted house. Read More about “‘Pard, There’s Thousands of Dollars Here’ said Injun Joe”
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Birmingham, England: 1904. Brockhurst, Gerald Leslie. Painted by Gerald L. Brockhurst at Age 14. This remarkable watercolor was done by Brockhurst while studying at the Birmingham Municipal School of Art. Notes Wildman: “At the turn of the century, the so-called Birmingham Group, mostly staff and students of the School, had..... Read More about Joan of Arc after Sir Frederic Leighton , "A Condottiere."
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London: Turner & Hadley for Thomas McLean, 1819. Second edition. Pirages: Brookshaw (ca. 1751-1823) was a successful London cabinet-maker whose painted Neoclassical furniture attracted such titled enthusiasts as the Duke of Devonshire and the Prince of Wales, but he suddenly abandoned this livelihood in the 1790s. Art historian Lucy Wood..... Read More about Groups of Flowers (Groups of Fruit, Six Birds) drawn and accurately coloured after nature, with...
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New York: ca. 1955. Brown, Paul. Paul Brown Drawings. Interesting collection of drawings by the famed American illustrator Paul Brown, chiefly connected to the Calvary Squadron A of New York City, based at the armory on Madison Avenue and 94th/95th streets. "Sway-Backs Reunion" is a humorous sketch of an elderly..... Read More about Squadron A Collection: "Sway-backs Reunion", ink drawing of a cavalry soldier in...
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Firenze: Felice le Monnier, 1845. Inscribed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Edith Story. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Edith Marion Story, from her affectionate friend, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Rome - Dec 26 - 59.” Edith Story (1844-1907) was the daughter and youngest child of the expatriate American sculptor, lawyer..... Read More about Margherita Pusterla, racconto di
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London: ca. 1810]. "Buck, Adam, 1758-1833, portrait painter, elder son of Jonathan Buck, a silversmith of Castle Street, Cork, was born there in 1759. With a younger brother, Frederick, he studied art from an early age, and acquired some repute in youth in his native city as a painter of..... Read More about Two Portraits: Boy with Hoop and Young Girl in a Landscape
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