A choice selection of books, manuscript material and original art from all fields.
London: R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, 1820. First edition, early issue, with the plates unnumbered. Along the Rhine with Ackermann. One of Ackermann’s most breathtaking color plate books — these exquisite views of the Rhine are justly prized for their matchless beauty. Read More
Price: $4,500
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
Price: $6,000
n.p: 1901. Fine Coaching Inn Scene by Cecil Aldin. Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) remains one of the most talented and popular depictors of English life; his prints and paintings of sporting scenes, dogs, and old buildings, and his regular appearance in books and magazines brought him worldwide fame, and his work... Read More
Price: $12,500
New York: [May 5, 1939]. Inscribed by Dame Judith Anderson to Mauriber on the image. Read More
Price: $3,500
[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
Price: $5,000
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
Price: $3,000
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
Price: $3,500
London: George Virtue, 1840. First edition, state A of volume II with Contents list numbered. Originally published in 30 parts without text, and appearing here for the first time in expanded book form, this is a beautiful series of views, showing principal cities and scenic views, engraved from drawings Bartlett... Read More
Price: $3,500
n.p. Original Bemelmans Watercolor Studies. Ludwig Bemelmans (1892-1962), Austrian-born American painter and writer, drew on his hotel and restaurant experiences for many of his stories and novels, which he often illustrated with his own sophisticated drawings and watercolors. Although he also wrote for adults, he is perhaps best known for... Read More
Price: $5,000
![Collection of six books inscribed to the author's brother Hans Georg, including: Deutsche Gestalten. Fest- und Gedenkreden, 1934. The Dedication Copy. [With:] Wartburg. Spruchgedichte, 1933. "Exemplar Nr. 2', additionally inscribed, "Ohne Gefahr keine Rettung". [And] Griecheneiland, 1934. [And] Das weiße Pferd. No. 8 of 120 copies, [1936]. [And] Straßburg. Ein Gedichtkreis, 1928. [And] Nietzsche. Versuch eine Mythologie, 1929. Ernst Bertram.](/pictures/thumb/43917.jpg?v=1438724498)
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
Price: $3,000
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
Price: $8,000
Paris: Edme Couterot, rue saint Jaqcues, au bon Pasteur, 1691. Distinctive 17th Century French Binding, Wilmerding Copy. Read More
Price: $2,500
Leipzig: Adolf Titze, [ca. 1889]. Retrospective Binding by Joseph William Zaehnsdorf. Re-issue of Stockbauer’s pioneering work on modern German bookbinding, still notable for its plates and its useful record of fine bindings in Saxon libraries. Joseph Zaehnsdorf the younger (1853-1930) succeeded his father as head of London's busiest atelier in... Read More
Price: $5,000
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 discover... Read More
Price: $2,500
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, lake... Read More
Price: $3,000
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
Price: $8,000
Worcester: Printed by M. Olivers, [ca. 1747]. First edition. The Rare First. 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 the most... Read More
Price: $7,500
[New York?]: Done for Grand, Gordon, The Silver Horn, Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co, 1937. 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... Read More
Price: $3,000
London: by W. Wilson for Henry Herringman, 1665. First edition. Boyle the Fisherman: the Honeyman Copy. Boyle's most amusing and most frequently reprinted work in modern times, written for the most part while he was a young squire at Stalbridge and much given to riding, walking and angling -- as... Read More
Price: $2,750
[New York]: 1923. Original Huck Finn Illustration by Worth Brehm. A poignant and surperbly drawn depiction of the scene when Huck, out hunting on Jackson's Island, meets the runaway slave, Jim. Read More
Price: $7,500
New York: 1910. Brehm, Worth. Published by Harper & Brothers in their edition of 1910. Original Tom Sawyer Illustration by Worth Brehm. A beautifully drawn depiction of the schoolroom scene where Tom, made to sit with the girls, shields the picture he is drawing from Becky Thatcher's inquisitive stare as... Read More
Price: $6,000
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
Price: $3,000
London: Printed for J. Almon, Opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, 1780. Second edition. Burgoyne's well-written account of the disastrous military expedition from Canada in 1777, in which he proves that his army was ill-equipped and outnumbered. "One of the best sources on the campaign" - Streeter catalogue. This copy bears interesting traces of... Read More
Price: $3,500
![[Caption title:] Three Months at Abbazia. Sir Richard F. Burton, Isabel.](/pictures/thumb/211059.jpg?v=1457129144)
August 4, 1888. Reprinted from the "Vienna Weekly News." VERY RARE. Separate printing of this account of the Austrian Riviera town on the gulf of Fiume (now Opatija). From the comfort of a well appointed hotel in Varese, Burton recounts with some asperity the inconveniences endured as they stayed in... Read More
Price: $5,000
![Old Creole Days. [First Series]. George Washington Cable.](/pictures/thumb/58070.jpg?v=1438724554)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. Later printing. Inscribed to Livy Clemens. A remarkable Twain association, inscribed by Cable on the half-title: "To Mrs. Samuel L. Clemens / from G.W. Cable / Hartford, Nov 20, 1883." This is a tremendous association copy, as Clemens and Cable were fast friends and mutual... Read More
Price: $3,000