[N.p., North Africa: early to mid-18th century C.E.]. The well-known handbook of rituals and prayers associated with the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. This devotional work by Al-Jazuli (d. 1465) was intended to remind the reader of the importance of prayer and its benefits, and also to render such..... Read More about Kitab Dala’il al-Khairat wa Shawariq al-Anwar fi Dhikr al-Salah ‘ala al-Nabi al-Mukhtar...

[Brooklyn]: 'Zagar Press', [1960]. One of 4 copies, signed and dated “I. Zagar 1960” on last leaf. Early Work by Zagar. Exceedingly rare early work by Isaiah Zagar (b. 1939), visionary vernacular artist, who is most widely known for his mosaic installation, the Magic Gardens site on South Street in..... Read More about Hey! Diddle Diddle

c. 1900. Draft Outline of Riis’ Autobiography. The autograph outline of the first seven chapters of Riis’s autobigraphy, The Making of an American (1902), as well as outlines for parts of chapters twelve through fifteen. The opening chapters recount stories from Riis’s boyhood in Denmark, meeting his future wife Elizabeth..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Draft Outline of The Making of an American

Boston: February 12, 1864. A Manuscript for Tales of a Wayside Inn. First published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1864 and incorporated into Tales of a Wayside Inn as "The Spanish Jew's Tale. / Kambalu. Begun January 26, 1864 - Finished February 12, 1864. " His source for the "Kambalu"..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript, signed and dated, of his poem of “The Kalif of Baldacca”

Paris: E. Dentu, 1859-75. First edition. Presentation Copy, Extra-Illustrated With 2 Autograph Letters. PRESENTATION COPY of the first edition of the Goncourt brothers’ pioneering survey of 18th-century French art, inscribed to fellow collector, art critic, and salonist, Comte Louis Clément de Ris, and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 159 engravings and 2 autograph..... Read More about L’Art du Dix-Huitième Siècle

np: c 1700. WITH 23 WATERCOLOR PORTRAITS. The engravers represented are : Peter van Gunst (8); Cornelius Vermeulen (5); B. Audran (2); Charles Simonneau (3); Gerard Valck (5). With a fascinating note "This book was brought to this country by J.W. Bouton of New York some thirty years ago was..... Read More about Portraits of Illustrious Personages

London: Printed for John Booth, Duke Street, Portland Square by B.R. Howlett, 49, Brewer Street, Golden Square, 1812. Bradford, William. Sometime before 1816, John Richardson Latimer went to Philadelphia to receive training in a counting house, probably that of his uncle, George. George arranged for John and his son, James..... Read More about Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, made during the campaign,...

Paris: chez Auber, An 6-10 (1801). INCLUDING: Portraits of a young Napoleon, Marie Antoinette, Danton, Mirabeau, Marat, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Robespierre, Néker, Gilbert Mottier Lafayette, etc. Read More about Collection of 66 aquatints many of the portraits by Charles François Gabriel Levachex

N.p: Printed on board the U.S.S. Houston, 1938. FDR’s visit to the Galapagos, with Sailfishing at Cocos Island. The very scarce printed memorial, printed on board the ship, of FDR’s Third Presidential Cruise on the USS Houston, from the July 14 to August 9, 1938, on his way to the..... Read More about Third Presidential Cruise of the U.S.S. Houston, 1938

New York: Privately Printed [by The Derrydale Press] for Ernest R. Gee, 1927. First edition thus (the original was published in 1830); No. 114 of 375 copies. UNRECORDED DELUXE BINDING. A reprint of a rare work, with a foreword by the sporting bookseller and authority on early American sport, Ernest..... Read More about Memoirs of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club near Philadelphia

N.p. [Paris]: 13 April, 1814. “… dans une circomstance … mémorable”. An extraordinary letter of historic significance, written a mere two days after the Treaty of Fontainebleau of April 11, 1814, which set the terms of Napoleon’s abdication, and ended an era. Dupont had been one of Napoleon’s most distinguished..... Read More about Letter, signed (“Le Gnl. Cmt. Dupont”) as Minister of War under the provisional government,...

Philadelphia: J. & T. Doughty, 1830-1833. First edition. COMPLETE SET - THE PHILLIPS COPY. "A mine of information on contemporary sport and natural history" (Phillips). A landmark of American sporting publication, issued in parts by the brothers Thomas and John Doughty. Subscriptions dwindled after Thomas departed for Boston, and the..... Read More about The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports

Written by Robert Herrick, The Cavalier Poet. His Cavalier Give me that man, that dares bestride The active sea-horse & with pride, Through that huge field of waters ride: Who, with his looks too, can appease The ruffling winds and raging seas, In the midst of all their outrages. This..... Read More about Ink and Wash "Give me that man, that dares bestride" from Selections from The...