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

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

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"

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

[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

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...

Paris: Edme Couterot, rue saint Jaqcues, au bon Pasteur, 1691. Distinctive 17th Century French Binding, Wilmerding Copy. Read More about Pensées sur le Royaume de Dieu, et sa Justice …

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”

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

n.p. Ca. 1884. STUDY FOR A BURNE-JONES MASTERPIECE. Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898), was "The most important artist in the later phase of the Pre-Raphelite movement and a figure of enormous influence at home and abroad" (Christian). He was born in Birmingham, the son of a frame-maker; originally planning for a...... Read More about Study of King's arms for his painting “King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid”

Cosmopoli [i.e., London]: Printed by the Translators, 1890. First edition, second issue, number 432 of 500 copies. Read More about Priapeia or the Sportive Epigrams of divers Poets on Priapus. The Latin Text now for the first...

London: Chapman & Hall, 1893. First edition. Presentation from Lady Burton to Mrs. Chapman. Highly desirable presentation set of Lady Burton's biography of her husband, the famed explorer and linguist. The inscription reads "To Mrs. Frederic Chapman, With Isabel Burton's best regards. 1893" Read More about The Life of Captain Richard F. Burton ... With numerous portraits, illustrations, and maps. In...

Published New York: Harper's, 1920; ms dated at end of "New York, June 18, 1920." Donn Byrne Manuscript. Second novel by the Irish-American Byrne, who died tragically in 1928. Byrne, although born in Brooklyn of Irish parents, grew up in Ireland and identified himself strongly with his mother country, even..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Donn Byrne") of his second novel, THE FOOLISH MATRONS