Milan: Tipografia di Fr. Sambrunico-Vismara, 1843. First edition. Contains a biographical dictionary of engravers and method of distinguishing states and identifying copies or forgeries. Read More about Manuale del Raccoglitore e del Negoziante di Stampe Contenente le Stampe Autiche e Moderne più...

1914. A choice Beerbohm manuscript, a deft sonnet in honor of painter Walter Sickert (1860-1942), invoking Whistler and other figures of Max’s youth, and the music halls — “The Hoxton Palace of Varieties” — and reflecting upon the passage of time and enduring presence of Sickert, who was in 1914..... Read More about Autograph manuscript draft, signed (“Max”), Sonnet to W.S. June 1914

London [i.e. Dublin]: Christopher Wren [i.e. James Williams], 1766. "Eleventh Edition," the first Dublin piracy. The first Dublin piracy of this builder's manual first published in 1741, with the humorous false imprint of Christopher Wren. The RIBA catalogue record gives an interesting note on the book's format (sexto) with sheets..... Read More about The Builder's Jewel: or, the Youth's Instructor, and Workman's Remembrancer. Explaining Short and...

Piittsburgh: Wm. G. Johnson & Co., Printers & Stationers, 1885. RARE. Mellon's memoirs covers his life in Western Pennsylvania from 1818; experiences at the bar and on the bench, and incidentally the laying of the foundations of the Mellon fortunes. An interesting chapter on Socialism, including his observations of ECONOMY..... Read More about Thomas Mellon and His Times. Part I. Family History. Part II. Autobiography. Printed for his...

[Copacabana Palace Hotel, Rio de Janeiro: October 1997 - December 2014]. ‘en este maravilloso Cipriani’. Fine diverse autograph album of noted guests at the Cipriani restaurant in the Copacabana Palace Hotel, in Rio de Janeiro, often with sentiments inscribed to the manager, Hervé Jean Yves Schmidt, including Harald, king of..... Read More about Autograph album of the manager of the Cipriani Restaurant at the Copacabana Palace Hotel, Rio de...

[n.d., 1580s?]. The two maps are: 1. Insulae et arcis Mocambique descriptio ad Fines Melinde sitae … from Linschoten, Itinerario, [Amsterdam, 1596]2. [Southern South America and Straits of Magellan] In Chica Regione … from Hulsius, Vierte Schiffahrt, Nuremberg, 1599Calvinist Johannes Thomas Freig (1543-1583), German philosopher and jurist, was a pupil..... Read More about Manuscript] Joh. Tho: Fregius. An nov. Impres. de Orbis novus cognitus veteribus. Manuscript on...

[Lausanne: Spengler & Cie, 1833]. Sole. An impressively large panorama running over 14 meters in total. The fête of 1833 was held over two days in August, involving nearly 800 participants pulling numerous floats, and was organized by David Constantin and Steinlen. In the present day the Swiss fête is..... Read More about La Fête des Vignerons at Vevey

London: Longmans, Green, 1866. First edition. Skiff Copy. "The outstanding merit of this rare and fascinating book is the author's meticulous attention to detail, based upon his wide range of activity and his particular flare for recording realistically and vividly his pursuit of the fauna of the American South" -..... Read More about A Hunter's Experiences in the Southern States of America; being, An Account of the Natural...

London: William Heinemann Ltd, (1937). First edition in English, later printing. Maillart had been in Mosow, gone east and climbed on foot a 17000 foot mountain, arrived in Manchukuo where her Russian was very helpful reporting for a great Parisian daily, travelled to Harbin, then on to Peking. She wanted..... Read More about Forbidden Journey from Peking to Kashmir. Translated from the French by Thomas McGreevy

Cincinnati, O: Sportsman’s Review Publishing Co, 1918. First Edition. Read More about Trapshooting. The Patriotic Sport. A Book of Ready Reference, Giving a Brief History of the...

[Silver City, New Mexico: Southwest Offset, n.d., ca. 1980]. Account of a dozen hunts after bear and mountain lion (including hunts for turkey and coyote) by Frank Dines, born in 1912, who had a ranch southwest of Winston, New Mexico, for some thirty-five years.Uncommon. Read More about Hunting Lion & Bear. Black Range Mountains of New Mexico

London: Hurst and Blackett, Limited. 15, Great Marlborough Street, 1902. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Read More about Modern Polo … edited by M.H. Hayes

New York: E. C. Boughton, Publisher, 44 Bond Street, 1875. First edition, variant issue. Previously published under the title: The Art of Hunting, Trapping, and Fishing. This edition, with the imprint of Boughton, bears a copyright notice in the name of Thomas Hurst at foot of title page. The back..... Read More about The Hunter's & Trapper's Complete Guide. A manual of instruction in the art of Hunting,...