London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme by W. Savage, 1809. First edition. Fine Copy in Booklover's... Read More about The Bibliomania; or, Book-Madness; containing some account of the History, Symptoms, and Cure of...
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Paris: Georges Blaizot & Claude Guerin, Juin, 6,1972-18 Juin 1974. One of the greatest sales of the century. Read More about Bibliotheque Raphael Esmerian...in 5 Parts...Avant-propos de M. Jacques Guignard for Part I;Part...
Price: $750
New York: American Bible Society, 1855. Sophia Augusta Brown's Bible, Wife of John Carter Brown. The bible of Sophia Augusta Brown (1825-1909), wife of John Carter Brown, herself an active bibliophile who helped her husband build his library and oversaw its stewardship after his death. Sophia Augusta was 34 and..... Read More about The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments
Price: $7,500
Ghent: J. Poelman, 1836. The first five volumes describe the books, more than 31,000 entries, which were bought en bloc and form the nucleus of the Royal Library; a sixth volume describing manuscripts was issued in 1837, and a further catalogue of prints in 1846 (neither of these two are..... Read More about Bibliotheca Hulthemiana ou catalogue méthodique de la riche et précieuse collection de livres...
Price: $900
London: Constable and Company Limited, 1920. First edition, number 64 of 100 signed copies. Read More about Frederick Locker-Lampson: A Character Sketch - with a small selection from letters addressed to...
Price: $350
New York: Privately printed, 1913. First edition, #96 of 200 copies, initialed and numbered on the half-title. Inscribed on flyleaf, "Mr. & Mrs. A.B. Payne [names partly effaced] with sincere regards of Mr. & Mrs. W.K. Bixby, St. L. 5/18/14" "Includes 12 pages of text on fishing for smallmouth bass, lake..... Read More about Mohican Point on Lake George. The Summer Home of Mr. and Mrs. W.K. Bixby of St. Louis, Mo
Price: $3,000
Paris: Édouard Rouveyre, Éditeur, 1891. No. 637 of 650 copies on Vélin teinté (of 750 total copies). A work on French tastes in book collecting. Read More about Des Livres Modernes qu’il convient d’acquérir
Price: $400
New York: James Osborne Wright, 1886. First Edition, one of 100 copies. Second chapter is entitled "Bibliomania" Read More about Iconoclasm and Whitewash and other Papers
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Paris: Librairie L.(eopold) Cartaret 5, Rue Drout. 1946-1948. Read More about Le Trésor du Bibliophile. Livres Illustrés modernes 1875 à 1945 et Souvenirs d'un demi-siècle...
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Bruxelles, [Mons]: Librairie Scientifique et Littéraire, 1849. No. 10 of 27 on papier de Hollande reserved for members of La Société des Bibliophiles Belges, this copy for Dr. Victor Francois of Louvain, signed on the limitation page by President Renier Chalon and Secretary Camille Wins. Read More about Album et Oeuvres Poétiques de Marguerite d'Autriche, Gouvernante des Pays-Bas, Publiés en...
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Bruxelles: 6 Juin 1868. "J'étais souscripteur à votre excellent Bibliophile illustré qui, malheureusement, ne parait plus …" Reknowned bibliophilic prankster and perpetrator of the Fortsas Sale hoax, Renier Chalon writes to an editor of Bibliophile Illustré, asking for a missing number needed to complete his run of the periodical. "Vous..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("R Chalon"), to an editor of Bibliophile Illustré...
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Paris: Chez P. Rouquette, Libraire, Passage Choiseul,85-87, 1873. Seconde édition, one of 50 on Whatman, Copy Number 1. COPY NUMBER ONE OF 50 ON WHATMAN. Read More about Guide de l'Amateur de Livres a Gravures du XVIIIe Siècle. Revue, Corrigée et enrichie ... et...
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Scarborough: printed and published by John Cole and by Longman, Hurst, et al, 1824. First edition. Limited to 158 copies, of which 100 were printed on small paper, 50 copies on large paper, and 8 on coloured paper (Lowndes p.491). This is a Large Paper Copy. The large paper copies..... Read More about A Bibliographical and Descriptive Tour from Scarborough to the Library of a Philobiblist in its...
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Paris: D. Morgand & C. Fatout, 1878. First edition, one of 10 copies on Whatman paper, "avec tirages successifs d'un chromo", in a total edition of 620 copies. Read More about Voyage dans un grenier: bouquins, faïences, autographes & bibelots
Price: $500
[London: Chiswick Press], 1878. First edition, ONE OF 25 COPIES ARE PRINTED BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM, of the Chiswick Press, London. COLLECTOR'S COPY. Collector's own copy with his shelf locations marked opposite entries and interleaved. Read More about Catalogue of the Library at Brook House Park Lane belonging to Sir Dudley Coutts Majoribanks,...
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Original artwork for the bookplate of collector and bookseller Henry Siegel. Read More about Original ink drawing of a leaping salmon within a border of waves, for the bookplate of...
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Paris: Éditions du la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne Édouard Rouveyre, 1879. Large paper, Number 71 of an edition of 100, of which this one of 50 porinted in color (green). Read More about Le Luxe des Livres
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London: Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, Finsbury-Square and J. Major, Fleet Street, 1824. Large paper copy of the first edition. LARGE PAPER COPY. Pagination not as called for in Pippin and Windle, who call for continuous pagination. Read More about The Library Companion; or, The Young Man's Guide, and the Old Man's Comfort, in the Choice of a...
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London: Printed for the Author, by William Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, 1821. First edition, one of 100 large paper copies. First edition, large paper copy, of Dibdin's "amusing account pf his travels, with descriptions of of the contents of several of the chief libraries of Europe” (DNB), profusely..... Read More about A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France
Price: $2,800
London: Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, 1821. First edition, Large paper copy. With 2 Original Drawings by George Lewis. First edition, large paper copy, of Dibdin's "amusing account of his travels, with descriptions of of the contents of several of the chief libraries..... Read More about A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany
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London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press, 1817. First edition. Read More about The Bibliographical Decameron; Or Ten Days' Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts and...
Price: $2,250
June 11. Reading in part: "...as I shall want £40 tomorrow at my banker's I am in full peparation for my farewell address on Friday..." Read More about ALS. To Collector William Upcott. About money, etc
Price: $600
Kensington: Feb 14, 1820. Reading in part: "You will be pleased to make the subject itself only 3 inches in height; or 3 inches 1/4 at most. The breadth with the necessarily proportionate. For the sum of £10.10, I trust you will execute it in a brilliant and spirited manner..." Read More about ALS. To Mr. Alfred Robert Freebairn (1794-1846) about an engraving or painting to be produced...
Price: $850
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington; T. Payne; Wilkie and Robinson, etc, 1811. Now First Reprinted, and Systematically Arranged, one of 500 (according to Lowndes. Read More about The Pastime of People, or, The Chronicles of Divers Realms; Most Especially of the Realm of...
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[Edinburgh]: 1838. First and only edition. One of approximately 10 copies printed. Very rare. Jackson thought that "only six copies of this vicious and trivial attack on Dibdin were struck off," but Windle & Pippin correct that to an estimated ten copies. Read More about Notes, Chiefly Correctory, on Dr Dibdin's Tour through Scotland
Price: $3,000
