A choice selection of books, manuscript material and original art from all fields.
Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1542. First edition. A Milestone of Botanical Science. One of the most justly celebrated and highly prized of the early herbals. Leonhart Fuchs was an eminent practicing physician and Professor of Medicine at the Protestant University of Tübingen. Fuchs aimed his work at an audience of professionals..... Read More about De historia stirpium commentarii insignes
Price: $65,000
London: Robert Sayer Map & Printseller, [1763]. First and second edition. Chippendale-inspired furniture designs. Read More about Household Furniture in Genteel Taste for the Year 1763, by a Society of Upholsterers,...
Price: $3,500
![6 Autograph Letters, signed, to Austin M. Purves Jr, plus one addressed to [E.H.] Blashfield...](/pictures/thumb/41825.jpg?v=1534804406)
v.p: 1920-1922. American Impressionist Garber Encourages A Young Artist. An interesting and rather heartening correspondence between an established artist, the American impressionist Daniel Garber, and his pupil and protégé, Austin Purves. It includes a letter from Garber to the even more established artist Edward Howland Blashfield, decorator of the Great..... Read More about 6 Autograph Letters, signed, to Austin M. Purves Jr, plus one addressed to [E.H.] Blashfield...
Price: $2,500
New York: H.D. McIntyre & Co., 201 William Street, 1869. First edition. Fishing in Minnesota, 1869. A series of letters on the glories of Minnesota fishing from this former Civil War officer to Gen. Francis E. Spinner (1802-1890), who served as Treasurer of the United States under Presidents Lincoln, Johnson... Read More about Lake Pepin Fish-Chowder, in Letters to General Spinner
Price: $2,500
[ca. 1950 - 1993]. A rich collection of photographs, autographs, personal records, LPs and ephemera from the personal collection of bebop pioneer Dizzy Gillespie, which amply records the trumpter's outsized personality and his importance as a global jazz ambassador. Includes Dizzy's own collection of mostly larger format photographs of other... Read More about Archive of photographs, ephemera, memorabilia, etc., relating to the life and career of Dizzy...
Price: $75,000
New York: J.F. Taylor, 1903. Autograph edition, no. 24 of 50 copies. One of 50 copies, Superbly Bound. An imposing compilation of sporting personalities and statistics, illustrated with drawings and numerous photographic portraits taken especially for this book. THE TWO CHAPTER, 80-PAGE SECTION ON AMERICAN GOLF IS PARTICULARLY INTERESTING, being... Read More about The Book of Sport
Price: $2,500
London: Printed for S. Bladon, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1765. First edition in English. Novel satirizing European society by depicting it from the viewpoint of visiting Chinese. Read More about The Chinese Spy; or, Emissary from the Court of Pekin commissioned to examine into the Present...
Price: $2,500
London: 1 March 1876, 23 November 1876. Grant on His Friend Gordon's First Tour of Duty. COL. GRANT ON GORDON'S FIRST TOUR OF DUTY IN AFRICA: In the March 1876 letter, Grant notes The Times's report on Gordon's contemplation of retirement. "It is reported ... that my excellent friend Colonel... Read More about Two Autograph Letters signed to Carl Christian Giegler, Chief of Sudan Telegraph, in Khartoum
Price: $3,500
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. First edition. Inscribed to His Dad, Zane Grey. Romer Grey's account of big game fishing in the South Pacific, with a full page inscription to his father on the front flyleaf: "To my Dad, Zane Grey, whose literary achievement has always aroused the greatest of... Read More about The "Fisherman" Under The Southern Cross: A Story of Adventure in New Zealand
Price: $7,500
![78 rpm album]: Songs To Grow On: Nursery Days [With original booklet inscribed:] Songs To Grow...](/pictures/thumb/100288.jpg?v=1557413040)
New York: DISC Company, [1947]. “THE BOUNCY, OPEN RHYMINESS OF BEING A KID”: ORIGINAL DISC COMPANY ALBUM OF GUTHRIE’S SONGS TO GROW ON, WITH ORIGINAL DISC BOOKLET INSCRIBED BY GUTHRIE. Original album of three 78 rpm discs containing the first recordings of six beloved children’s songs by Guthrie, composed with..... Read More about 78 rpm album]: Songs To Grow On: Nursery Days [With original booklet inscribed:] Songs To Grow...
Price: $8,500
Scott Field, Illinois: October 29, 1945. “YOUR LETTER ABOUT MY BOOK (BOUND FOR GLORY) GOT DOWN HERE TODAY… YOU HAVE TAKEN ME BACK OVER MY OLD TRACKS”: IMPORTANT 1945 AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY GUTHRIE, THE FIRST IN HIS LONG AND OFTEN INTIMATE CORRESPONDENCE WITH CHARLOTTE STRAUSS, DISCUSSING BOUND FOR GLORY... Read More about Autograph letter signed
Price: $11,800
[Las Vegas, Nevada]: December 8, 1945. “POETRY IS NOT ONLY THE SONG LOST IN YOUR SOUL, BUT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CANYON THAT HEARS AND KNOWS”: SPLENDID ORIGINAL EIGHT-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER WRITTEN ALMOST ENTIRELY IN LYRIC VERSE, A VIBRANT AND MOVING LOVE LETTER. Original signed autograph letter, this ten-page... Read More about Autograph letter signed
Price: $12,000
[Stroudsburg], Pennsylvania: October 8, 1946. “THE TRUTH OF THIS WHOLE PAGE STANDS JUST AS TRUE AS ANY HOLLER IN ANY LAND ON EARTH”: EXTRAORDINARY 1946 AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY WOODY GUTHRIE, FEATURING A LENGTHY LYRIC POEM AND EIGHT ORIGINAL SKETCHES. Original signed autograph letter, this eight-page letter written entirely in... Read More about Autograph letter signed
Price: $16,000
London: Vinton & Co, 1897. Edition De Luxe, no. 60 of 100 copies, numbered and signed by the author on the title page of each volume. One of 100 Signed Copies, With an Added Fly Tied by Halford. Frederic M. Halford (1844-1914), author and angler of the late Victorian and... Read More about Dry Fly Entomology: a brief description of leading types of natural insects … with the 100 best...
Price: $12,500
![Halford’s Dry Fly Series, complete, comprising:] Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice [with:]...](/pictures/thumb/223877.jpg?v=1534805147)
London: Vinton, 1902-1903. Halford’s Dry Fly Series. A complete set of Halford's “Dry Fly Series”, in uniform publisher’s cloth. The first title is inscribed to W.H. Pope, acknowledged by Halford in the preface as one of the “best dry-fly fishermen of the day.” With Nathaniel Lloyd, Pope “undertook the arduous..... Read More about Halford’s Dry Fly Series, complete, comprising:] Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice [with:]...
Price: $3,750
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New Orleans: Propagateur Catholique, 1879. First edition. 'Une Idylle Louisianaise' (pp. 129-133) was the first piece by Hearn to be printed in a book. Read More about “Une Idylle Louisianaise” [in] La Nouvelle Atala ou La Fille de l'Esprit. Légende Indienne...
Price: $2,500
New York: Putnam, [1961]. First edition. ‘it’s the source, I grok in fullness, of all that makes this planet so rich’. Heinlein’s profoundly influential novel, winner of the 1962 Hugo Award for best novel, and a classic of the countercuture. Read More about Stranger in a Strange Land
Price: $3,750
Finca Vigia San Francisco de Paula Cuba: August 7, 1941. The Hemingways on a Diet. George Brown owned a gym in New York City where Hemingway worked out when he was in the town, and he and George Brown became fast friends, Brown serving as his trainer and boxing coach... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (“Ernie”), to George Brown, his boxing coach and trainer
Price: $7,500
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
Price: $5,000
1976. Complete set of the original drawings for the 16 illustrations in Gunning for Upland Birds and Wildfowl by Shirley E. Woods (Winchester Press, 1976), with one additional drawing of a red-winged blackbird not used in the book. Read More about Original Sketches by Tom Hennessey for ‘Gunning for Upland Birds and Wildfowl’ by Shirley E....
Price: $3,500
Dated June 17, 1932. Management Contract between Hepburn and Leland Hayward. Leland Hayward discovered Katharine Hepburn while she was playing the part of an Amazon queen in "The Warrior's Husband" at the Morosco Theater in New York City. Hayward felt Miss Hepburn had a star quality and after much pursuing... Read More about Typescript document, management contract between Katharine Hepburn, the American Play Company,...
Price: $12,500
New York: Privately Printed for The Jockey Club, 1922-1980. First editions. A cornerstone of any racing library, including the now very difficult to find Vosburgh volume, and the final volume in the series by William H. Rudy. Read More about Racing in America 1665-1979
Price: $2,750
New York: 23 March 1949. Superb portrait "Lady Day" taken in the Van Vechten studio. Arguably the finest and most haunting of the 7 portraits taken by Van Vechten from that session. With no frills, no poses, the great jazz singer stares straight out at the eye of the camera. Read More about Portrait photograph of Billie Holiday
Price: $3,000
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1859. First edition, Large Paper printing. Signed by Holmes, Jr. Signed in blue ink and dated May 23, 1930, by then Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Read More about The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Every Man His Own Boswell
Price: $3,500
