Fine illustrated books including first editions of well known children's books both American and British, color plates books and photobooks.
London: Ca. 1820. A Superb Social Satire by Robert Cruikshank, Ca. 1820. Isaac Robert Cruikshank, son of Isaac... Read More about "Café Burns Characters". Original ink and watercolor drawing on paper, signed "Robert...
Price: $2,250
![Item #322102 [Coaching scene, an original watercolor drawing by Alken]. Henry Alken](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/322102_2.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669655208)
A Choice Alken Watercolor. From the collection of John P. Kane, whose library and artwork were sold by American Art/Anderson Galleries on February 26-27, 1931. Read More about Coaching scene, an original watercolor drawing by Alken
Price: $6,000
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1822. First edition. A RARE EXAMPLE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, with title on upper cover and advertisment for 6 works published by McLean on lower cover. Five copies listed in ABPC since 1977, 2 in wrappers. The work tells the amusing tale of the new wealthy Londoner on..... Read More about A Cockney's Shooting Season in Suffolk
Price: $8,500
![Item #315454 Comparative Field Sports, Shooting, in Middlesex and elsewhere [Cover title]. Henry...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png)
London: J. Dickinson, 114, New Bond Street, March, 1826. First edition. Scarce Alken variant. Scarce Alken title, a variant collection of plates similar to those contained in Alken’s Characteristic Sketches, published by Dickinson in January 1826. The title and subtitle vary slightly in each of the copies described in Schwerdt..... Read More about Comparative Field Sports, Shooting, in Middlesex and elsewhere [Cover title
Price: $1,500
London: Thomas M'Lean, Repository of Wit & Humour, 26 Haymarket, 1825. Alken, Henry. First Edition, First Issue. Read More about Illustrations to Popular Songs
Price: $2,000
London: Published by Thomas McLean, 1823 [but later, plates watermarked 1822-1824]. Alken, Henry. First edition. A fine copy of "Alken's most important work... It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection" (Tooley) The plates and text between them offer a thorough survey of the sports practiced in Great..... Read More about The National Sports of Great Britain, with Descriptions in English and French ... Chasse et...
Price: $30,000
London: Thomas McClean, 1823 [watermarked 1821?]. Fiirst Edition. Read More about Shooting, or One Day's Sport of Three Real Good Ones
Price: $6,500
London: Thomas McLean, Repository of Wit & Humour, Haynmarjket, 1822. First edition. Read More about Symptoms of Being Amused. Volume 1 (all published
Price: $2,000
London: Fuller, [1816]. First edition. 'First issue of a well drawn and finely coloured set of plates representing shooting accidents, not easily met with in perfect state' (Schwerdt). The plates each bear the publisher's name and date Feb. 1, 1816. Read More about Sporting Discoveries or The Miseries of Shooting in a series of seven plates, being hints to...
Price: $6,000
Kentfield, California: The L-D Allen Press, 1954. Dean, Malette. One of 175 copies. The typeface is Romanée, set by hand: the paper is Crown & Sceptre, hand-made in England. Printed on an Acorn Press. Read More about The Private Journals of Stendahl, 1811-1817. Selected & Newly Translated by Francis Carmody
Price: $350
London and Paris: Limited Edition Printed for Subscribers, 1903. Now for the First Time translated and adapted. Read More about Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs from the "De Ss. Martyrum Cruciatibus"...
Price: $250
Nuremberg: Abr. Wagenman, 1617. First edition thus. Hoe copy. Described as "Editio II," this is actually an enlarged edition of a work original published in 1597, documenting prize medals made for students of the Altdorf academy in Nuremberg. "The most remarkable example of [emblems and numismatics coming together] is the..... Read More about Emblemata anniversaria Academiae Noribergensis, quae est Altorffii ... opus philologicum
Price: $1,750
Barnstable County, Mass: [1864]. Barnstable County, MA. Read More about An ambrotype of a young man, seated with a lap robe at a table with a bottle of wine
Price: $450
n.p: September 15, 1852. Rare Signed and Dated Occupational Ambrotype of Two House Painters. Read More about Occupational ambrotype of two house painters, with brushes in hand
Price: $750
Hildburghausen & New York: Bibliographischen Institut, 1854. with 48 finely engraved steel plates, most depicting American scenes: the White House; Philadelphia; Illinois; Westpoint; Fort Snelling, Minnesota; Niagra Falls; the Stone Walls, upper Missouri; New Orleans; Colorado River, etc. Read More about Meyer's Universum, oder Abbildun und Beschreibung des Sehenswertheften und Merkwürdigsten der...
Price: $750
[841 Broadway New York: Pach Photographer, 1882]. Photographic yearbook album for the Amherst Class of 1882, photographed by the legendary Pach Brothers New York photography firm. This copy belonging to Charles Wilson Loomis. In the 1870s Pach begain operating mobile photography studios in the Northeast, photographing the graduating classes at..... Read More about Amherst Class of 1882 Photographic Yearbook
Price: $750
[Amherest , Mass: 1874]. Melvil Dewey was the Class of 1874. Read More about Amherst College. Class of 1874
Price: $2,250
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1845. First Edition in English. Read More about The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy, from the Danish...translated by Mary Howitt
Price: $300
Herning, Denmark: Poul Kristensen, 1986. One of 325 copies, numbered out of series, signed by the publisher, binder, and illustrator. Read More about The Snow Queen. A Tale in Seven Stories. Translated by Patricia L. Conroy and Sven H. Rossel....
Price: $250
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912]. Dulac, Edmund (1882-1953). Second Edition. Read More about Stories from Hans Andersen
Price: $400
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1866. Bayes, A.W. First edition with these illustrations. Read More about What the Moon Saw, and Other Tales … Translated by H.W. Dulcken
Price: $175
Copenhagen: Andreasen & Lachmann, 1940. Number 668 of 800 copies, signed by Grosserer Marius Maurinen on colophon, and by Andreasen on preface. With 12 wonderful illustrations, by Anton Hansen, Thor Bógelünd, Erik Stockmarr, Magnüs Bengtsson, Sikker Hansen, V. Steoft, Carl Jensen, Ebbe Sadolin, Albert Naür, Harald Hansen, Arne Ungermann, Herlief..... Read More about Tolv med Posten
Price: $250
New York: Harry Abrahams, 1981. First Edition. Alex Kayser (b.1949 - d.2015) was a Swiss born photographer whose downtown New York City loft on West Broadway became a hub for the art scene where luminaries such as Sam Wagstaff, Andy Warhol, George Maciunas or Christo and Jeanne-Claude lounged at his..... Read More about Artists' Portraits: Interview by Andy Warhol
Price: $75
