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Autograph Letter, signed, to the son of Noah Webster, concerning his support of the Federal purchase of his father's synopsis of the Dictionary for the Library of Congress. John Quincy Adams.

John Quincy Adams Supports U.S. Purchase of Noah Webster's Synopsis

Autograph Letter, signed, to the son of Noah Webster, concerning his support of the Federal purchase of his father's synopsis...

Quincy [MA]: 11 September 1843. John Quincy Adams Supports U.S. Purchase of Noah Webster's Synopsis. In this letter to Noah Webster's son William G. Webster, the former President endorses the suggestion of “purchasing the synopsis of [your father's] great work and causing it to be deposited in [the Library of... Read More

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The Aldine Edition of British Poets. Aldine Poets.

The Aldine Edition of British Poets.

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

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The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Emperor. Translated by George Long. Marcus Aurelius.

Inscribed by Ramon Novarro to Ronald Colman

The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Emperor. Translated by George Long.

London: Chapman & Hall, nd. Inscribed by Ramon Novarro to Ronald Colman. Inscribed on front end paper: “To Ronald Colman on his birthday. The meditation of ‘a Christian without knowing it.’ Ramon Novarro” Colman (1891-1958) and Novarro (1899-1968) were friends, and their film careers ran along similar lines. Both had come to... Read More

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Watercolor studies of two children and the head of a young woman. Ludwig Bemelmans.

Original Bemelmans Watercolor Studies

Watercolor studies of two children and the head of a young woman.

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

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The Illuminated Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated Out of the Original Tongues ... Embellished with Sixteen Hundred Engravings by J.A. Adams, More Than fourteen Hundred of which are From Original Designs by J.G. Chapman. English bible.

Harper Bible in Deluxe American binding

The Illuminated Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated Out of the Original Tongues ... Embellished with Sixteen Hundred...

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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"FATHERS OF AMERICAN SPORT" The complete set of six hand-colored aquatint portraits, with engraved titles, each signed in pencil "R.L. Boyer", lower left. Ralph L. Boyer.

"FATHERS OF AMERICAN SPORT" The complete set of six hand-colored aquatint portraits, with engraved titles, each signed in pencil "R.L....

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

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FINE ORIGINAL CHARCOAL DRAWING, “THE STRAIN UPON PENT EMOTION REACHED ITS CLIMAX”, FROM THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, signed at upper left. Worth Brehm.

Original Tom Sawyer Illustration by Worth Brehm

FINE ORIGINAL CHARCOAL DRAWING, “THE STRAIN UPON PENT EMOTION REACHED ITS CLIMAX”, FROM THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, signed at...

Ca. 1910. Brehm, Worth. Published by Harper & Brothers in their edition of 1910. Original Tom Sawyer Illustration by Worth Brehm. A moment of high drama, as Tom, in the courtroom witness chair, testifies against Injun Joe. During his testimony he is asked, “What did you take [with you to... Read More

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Joan of Arc after Sir Frederic Leighton , "A Condottiere." Gerald Leslie Brockhurst.

Painted by Gerald L. Brockhurst at Age 14

Joan of Arc after Sir Frederic Leighton , "A Condottiere."

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

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A State of the Expedition from Canada, as laid before the House of Commons, by Lieutenant-General Burgoyne, and Verified by Evidence; with a Collection of Authentic Documents and an Addition of many Circumstances which were prevented from appearing before the House by the Prorogation of Parliament. Written and Collected by Himself, and dedicated to the Officers of the Army he commanded. John Burgoyne.

A State of the Expedition from Canada, as laid before the House of Commons, by Lieutenant-General Burgoyne, and Verified by...

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

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Color Patterns for Decoys [Mallards, Pintails, Blackduck, Green-Winged Teal; Canada Goose, Brant, Widgeons, Surf Scooters, American Scooters; Broadbills, Redheads, Canvasbacks, Goldeneyes]. Edgar Burke.

Burke's Decoy Paintings for Connett's Duck Shooting

Color Patterns for Decoys [Mallards, Pintails, Blackduck, Green-Winged Teal; Canada Goose, Brant, Widgeons, Surf Scooters, American Scooters; Broadbills, Redheads, Canvasbacks...

N.p: n.d. [ca. late 1940s]. Published in Duck Shooting along the Atlantic Tidewater (1947) as plates at pp. 256, 262, 266; and again in Duck Decoys (1953), as frontispiece and plates at pp. 38, 86. Burke's Decoy Paintings for Connett's Duck Shooting. Edgar Burke, MD (1889-1950) successfully combined the vocation... Read More

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Editor's Holograph Manuscript of THE DIARIES OF LEWIS CARROLL, NOW FIRST EDITED AND SUPPLEMENTED by ROGER LANCELYN GREEN. Vol. I: 1855-67 Vol. II: 1867-98. Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Roger Lancelyn GREEN.

First Publication of the Diaries of Lewis Carroll: the Editor's Manuscript

Editor's Holograph Manuscript of THE DIARIES OF LEWIS CARROLL, NOW FIRST EDITED AND SUPPLEMENTED by ROGER LANCELYN GREEN. Vol. I....

Poulton-Lancelyn, Bebington, Wirral: 1951-1952; published by Cassel, 1953. First Publication of the Diaries of Lewis Carroll: the Editor's Manuscript. Before the publication of this work, the Diaries of Lewis Carroll had been largely unavailable after their temporary disappearance following the publication of Collingwood's THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LEWIS CARROLL... Read More

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