A choice selection of books, manuscript material and original art from all fields.
Paris: Chez Durand, 1758. First edition, second issue. Banned and Burned: the Rare First edition. First edition of the last major work of the French philosopher and encyclopédiste Helvetius, De l'esprit (On the Mind) was condemned by the Church and the Sorbonne for its uncompromising atheism, regarded as dangerously revolutionary..... Read More about De l'esprit
Price: $4,000
London: Jonathan Cape Thirty Bedford Square, [1958]. Reprint. Inscribed on flyleaf: "To Solange Doernie/ With all best wishes/ Ernest Hemingway" Read More about The Old Man and the Sea
Price: $6,000
1976. Original Drawings. A beautiful album of the original drawings for Angling for Atlantic Salmon by Shirley E. Woods (Angler’s & Shooter’s Press, 1976). Read More about Original Pencil Drawings for ‘Angling for for Atlantic Salmon’ by Shirley E. Woods 1976
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Orléans: G. Jacob for H. Herluison, 1868. PRINTED ON VELLUM, one of perhaps no more than three copies. FIRST EDITION. Herluison limited his edition to 78 copies, a very few of which were printed on vellum. The present vellum copy is numbered 3 and initialled by the author/publisher. This book..... Read More about Recherches sur les imprimeurs & libraires d'Orléans
Price: $3,500
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882. Abbey, Edwin A. First edition thus. William Merritt Chase to His Wife. Inscribed from William Merritt Chase to his wife-to-be Alice "Pansy" Gerson on Christmas 1884. The two were family friends and eventually were married in 1886 after an extended courtship of seven years..... Read More about Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick
Price: $3,250
[Long Beach, Ca: ca. 1952-3]. Hilton's last novel, TIME AND TIME AGAIN, was published in the UK and the US in 1953, the year prior to his premature death while resident in California. The archive includes the following: a) a lot of working typescript drafts on various stocks, very heavily..... Read More about Manuscript archive for his final novel, TIME AND TIME AGAIN
Price: $4,500
[Published New York: J.N. Hallock, 1866]. Howell's (1833-1899) working manuscript of THE FIRST HISTORY OF NEW YORK'S FIRST ENGLISH SETTLEMENT, with additional genealogical data and tables not included in the 1866 first edition, and a variant set of appendices. A groundbreaking history by this native son, who later became head..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript, signed ("Geo Rogers Howell") of his THE EARLY HISTORY OF...
Price: $3,500
n.p. Ca. mid 1930s. Fine Duck Drawing by Lynn Bogue Hunt. As Siegel notes, Hunt (1878-1960) was The Derrydale Press's most widely known illustrator; he also illustrated numerous books for other publishers. A leading sporting artist of the day, he was also a contributor to various periodicals, including Field and..... Read More about Flight of mallards descending into marshland, two hunters in the distance
Price: $10,000
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1925. Limited to 190 numbered copies, signed by the author, this being copy no. 177. William Joseph "Dard" Hunter was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking -- he was particularly focused on hand-made paper and traditional Western and non-Western papermaking. He learned extensively about..... Read More about The Literature of Papermaking, 1390-1800
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Paris: Tresse & Stock, 1891. First edition. A Classic of French Decadence. Huysmans' second major work, following A rebours (1884). "For the credulous reader in 1890s Paris, swept by occult fevers (Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, Luciferism, Vintrasism, Satanism), the novel acquired authoritative, documentary status" (Oxford Companion to Literature in French). Read More about Là-bas
Price: $2,500
London: for Thomas Glass, 1731. Later edition. A generously illustrated manual for the 17th- and18th-century print and map seller, with detailed instructions for the making, printing, and presentation of prints. Originally published in 1652 under the title, A BOOK OF DRAWING, LIMNING, WASHING OR COLORING OF MAPS AND PRINTS, and..... Read More about Albert Durer Revived: or, a Book of Drawing, Limning, Washing, or Coloring of Maps and Prints:...
Price: $3,750
[New York]: Privately printed, 1928. Very limited edition [no limitation specified]. Ken Callahan, in his bibliography, comments that this book "Gives a very good account of the excitement of tarpon fishing. Certainly the most attractive tarpon book, both in typography, design and particularly fine binding by The French Binders, formerly..... Read More about Tarpomania & Buck Fever
Price: $2,750
London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1775. Second edition, printed within a few days of the first impression. In answer to the colonists’ rallying cry of “No taxation without representation,” Johnson invokes the notion of virtual representation, and argues that the colonists “are represented … by the same..... Read More about Taxation No Tyranny; an Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress
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[London?]: 1921. Kelly, Richard Barrett Talbot (1896-1971). Read More about The Hideous Hermit—Forest of Wild Thyme—Noyes
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1851. First edition. Account of Englishman William Kelly's (1791-1855) visit to California in 1849-50, with vol. I concerning his voyage from England and overland to the American West, and vol. II describing gold mining operations and camp life near the Sacramento River. Kelly is generally disapproving..... Read More about An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada, With a...
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Philadelphia: O. Halsted, 1826-27. First Edition. New Jersey Provenance. A landmark in American and International legal commentary, the first edition of Kent's classic — issued in four volumes from 1826 to 1830 — has become extremely rare, no copy appearing at auction for at least the last thirty years. The..... Read More about Commentaries on American Law. Volumes I and II (of four
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London: Macmillan, 1894 & 1895. First (English) editions (first impression). Fine copies of both volumes of Kipling’s The Jungle Book, the second volume in the rare dust jacket. Read More about The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book
Price: $7,500
Leipzig: Mainzer Presse, 1929-30. Kredel, Fritz. First trade edition. Koch and Kredel's Botanical Masterpiece. A superb collection of wildflower woodcuts by the noted artist and engraver Fritz Kredel, whose graver has caught perfectly the delicate beauty of Koch's original depictions. This is the first trade edition, preceded by a special..... Read More about Das Blumenbuch
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[Clèves, Prussia?]: Ca. 1845. An attractive drawing of a reposeful man in rural dress, probably a study for one of the artist's paintings of country life. Notes Bénézit, “[He] occupies an interesting place in the Dutch school of the 19th century”: the son of an Amsterdam Acedemician, and married to..... Read More about Recumbent peasant: pencil on paper, signature at lower left “B C Koek Koek” in another hand
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[Cleves, Prussia?]: Ca. 1845. An attractive drawing of a reposeful man in rural dress, probably a study for one of the artist's paintings of country life. Notes Bénézit, “[He] occupies an interesting place in the Dutch school of the 19th century”: the son of an Amsterdam Acedemician, and married to..... Read More about Seated Peasant: pencil on paper, signature at lower left, “B C Koek Koek in another hand
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London: Thomas Hodgkins, 1807. First edition, first issue, with the T. Davison imprint on the verso of p. 235 of Volume 1, and the earlier address of Hanway Street on the ads in Volume 2. " ... made Shakespeare a familiar and popular author ... " Beautiful set of the..... Read More about Tales from Shakespear. Designed for the Use of Young Persons
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[London]: n.d. Leech, John (1817-1864). Works included are: 1. Title page for "Jolly Fellers", Comic Song Book, in pencil and watercolor, initalled 2. Woman winding a clock, watercolor, signed "John Leech" 3. "A Tramp", watercolor, signed "J. Leech" 4. Gamblers at roulette table, watercolor, signed "J. Leech" 5. "Man throwing..... Read More about An album of 10 watercolors and pencil drawings
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New York: January 5, 1938. Published in Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Read More about Portrait photograph of Sinclair Lewis
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London: John Murray, 1820. First edition. First edition of this important classic of economic theory. "There can be no doubt that [Malthus'] importance for economists today rests mainly on his Principles of Political Economy. It was because of this latter work that J. M. Keynes (1933) reinstated Malthus as a...... Read More about Principles of Political Economy, Considered with a View to their Practical Application
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