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

[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 about The River Dove; With Some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling, near to the Seat of...

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

[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 about Collection of seven “Visitors” books from The Antique Porcelain Co. Ltd

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

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...

London: Witherby for the New York Zoological Society, 1918-1927. First Edition, no. 67 of 600 numbered copies. Beebe's text was been called "perhaps the greatest ornithological work of the present century, notable not only for its beauty and the wealth of information it contains, but also for the unusual grace... Read More about A Monograph of the Pheasants

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...

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

London: Printed for C. Stalker, 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 Drawing-room in the... Read More about A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling. Confirmed by actual Experience, and Minute...

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...

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,...

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 about “King and Duke Find the Money,” from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn