With the symbolic bookplate of Afrikaans poet and pioneering ethologist Eugène Marais. The bookplate measures 4-3/4 x 6-1/4 inches, and was designed by James J. Guthrie (his monogram at lower left); printed: London, 1897. The motto, Dit of Dood, translates as “This or Death” ; in The Dark Stream. The..... Read More about Tractatus de prescriptionibus.] [Running title:] Tractatus prescriptionum. 35 leaf fragment

1. Autograph Letter Signed ("Elgin"), 2 1/4 pp recto and verso, 8vo (conjoined leaves), Broom Hall [Dunfermline], January 17, 1831, to the antiquary James Skene, about pictures he was lending for an exhibition.2. Report from the select committee of the House of Commons on the earl of Elgin's collection of..... Read More about Collection

Nismes: Typographie Ballivet et Fabre; Imprimerie Clavel-Ballivet, 1836, 1861. The catalogue of the holdings at the library in Nimes, with a list of the rules for use at the front of the first volume. The first two volumes contained 13903 items including the basic catalogue, the first supplement and the..... Read More about Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de Nismes [and the ]Second Supplément, contenant les...

Paris: Imprimerie de E. Duverger, 1836. Nouvelle edition “augmentée de la Manière de considérer ce traité et de s'en servir”. Signed. With a leaf at the front captioned “Pétition” signed by Monteil the 9th March 1836. Among the areas his collection covered are roads, canals, history of finance and financiers..... Read More about Traite de matériaux manuscripts de divers genres d'histoire

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company. The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1937. First edition, Number 181 of 310 copies, signed by the author. Read More about Yankee Bookseller Being Some Reminiscences of

Paris: Léon Gruel Relieur d'Art 418, Rue Saint Honoré, 1933. First Edition. #315 of 350 copies sur papier velin d'Arches. Grace Whitney Hoff was born on October 22, 1862, in Detroit, Michigan. She married John Jacob Hoff on April 3rd, 1900, and together they left the United States for France..... Read More about Bibliothèque de Madame G. Whitney Hoff. Catalogue Des Manuscrits, Incunables, Editions Rares,...

She was an English novelist and letter-writer. She had a collection of over 2000 letters that she collected over her lifetime when she died. Read More about List with Letter Signed. To Thomas Thompson of Liverpool

Somerville, New Jersey: [Privately printed at the Thistle Press], 1967. First edition, limited to 1000 [1250] copies. Lavishly produced set of volumes designed by P.J. Conkright documenting the residence of Donald and Mary Hyde, and the library, including the Johnson collection (now at Harvard). Herbert Cahoon, long-time curator of manuscripts..... Read More about Four Oaks Library [and] Four Oaks Farm

Boston: The Atlantic Montly Press, 1923. First Trade edition. Read More about Doctor Johnson, A Play

Chicago: Caxton Club, 1927. First edition. Printed by Bruce Rogers at the press of William Henry Rudge in Mount Vernon, New York. Limited to 350 copies. Read More about Ancient Books and Modern Discoveries

London: Macmillan & Co. and New York, 1892. Second edition. Number 37 of 300 large paper copies. Large Paper Second Edition. Read More about The Library. With a Chapter on Modern English Illustrated Books by Austin Dobson

Paris: Jouvert, Libraire, Aout 1848. Administrative Law. Rare. Read More about Bibliographie Administrative ou Nomenclature méthodique et Raisonnée des Recueil de louis et...

New York, London, etc: [1873-1884]. A group of children’s books in superior condition from the childhood library of bibliophile-to-be Junius Spencer Morgan (1867-1932), nephew of financier and collector J.P. Morgan. Junius was closely affiliated with the Princeton University library, was an early member of the Grolier Club, and also served..... Read More about Collection of 18 works of Juvenile Literature given to Junius Spencer Morgan, nephew of financier...