Paris: Édouard Rouveyre, Éditeur, 1899. Fifth and best edition. One of 50 numbered sets on Papier du Japon... Read More about Connaissances Nécessaires à un Bibliophile accompagné de Notes et de...
Price: $2,500
![Item #306281 [Tractatus de prescriptionibus.] [Running title:] Tractatus prescriptionum. 35 leaf...](/pictures/thumb/306281.jpg?v=1656542199)
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
Price: $500
London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1921. First edition. Read More about Catalogue of the Selous Collection of Big Game in the British Museum (Natural History
Price: $250
Philadelphia: 1849. A New American from the Last and Improved London Edition. Read More about The Principles and Practice of Modern Surgery...Edited by F.W. Sargent, M.D
Price: $150
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..... Read More about Collection
Price: $1,500
![Item #28726 Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de Nismes [and the ]Second Supplément,...](/pictures/thumb/28726.jpg?v=1656539107)
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...
Price: $350
Paris: Imprimerie de E. Duverger, 1835. First edition. Among the areas his collection covered are roads, canals, history of finance and financiers, history of commerce, engineering, agriculture, customs, schools, hospitals, laws, medicine, mines, prisons, science and government. Read More about Traite de matériaux manuscripts de divers genres d'histoire
Price: $300
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
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Paris: Veuve Adolphe Labitte: Maison Silvestre, 1883. Sales catalogue for the auction at Maison Silvestre the 18 Mai - 1st of June 1883 containing 2461 lots. The collector was the grandson of Antoine Dubois, Napoleon's celebrated surgeon. Read More about Catalogue des Livres Rares et Curieux Principalement sur l'Histoire de France composant la...
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London: Messrs Puttick and Simpson, 1884. The library of the Third Earl of Gosford (1806-1864) was sold by private contact to James Toovey, the London Bookseller, who sold the French books in Paris in 1882 at auction, the Aldines by a special catalogue produced by Toovey and the remainder of..... Read More about Catalogue of the Fine, Extensive and Valuable Library of the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Gosford, K. P....
Price: $375
New York: Privately Printed, 1909. One of 100 on Imperial Japan paper, printed at the University Press, Cambridge. The 16th and last catalogue of the Robert Hoe library. Read More about A Catalogue of Manuscripts comprising a portion of the Library of Robert Hoe
Price: $200
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,...
Price: $750
[New York? ca. 1896]. Photographs of the private library of sportsman, conservationist and naturalist William Temple Hornaday, ca. 1896, when he had just assumed the post of director of the New York Zoolological Park. Hornaday was one of the great sportsman naturalists of late nineteenth-century America who raised his voice..... Read More about Three Photographs of the Sporting Library of William T. Hornaday, director of the New York...
Price: $950
London: 1968-1973. Nos. 1-60 (all published). A complete run of this engagingly written and informative British book trade periodical. Contains numerous bibliographical articles and studies. Indexed. Read More about Book Collecting & Library Monthly
Price: $250
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
Price: $650
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1909. Reprint. Read More about Talks in A Library with Laurence Hutton. Recorded by Isabel Moore
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New York: George P. Philes & Co., No 51 Nassau Street, December 1861-Dec. 1863`. This ambitious project was conceived in the first year of the Civil War, and as the Publisher notes, "considering the extremely unpropitious times", it was lucky to last two years. 12 issues per year, 24 in..... Read More about The Philobibiion. A Monthly Bibliographical Journal
Price: $500
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
Price: $150
![Item #245365 Four Oaks Library [and] Four Oaks Farm. Samuel Johnson, Gabriel Austin](/pictures/thumb/245365.jpg?v=1656540907)
Somerville, New Jersey: [Privately printed at the Thistle Press], 1967. First edition, one of 1000 of the first volume and 1250 of the second. 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..... Read More about Four Oaks Library [and] Four Oaks Farm
Price: $250
Boston: The Atlantic Montly Press, 1923. First Trade edition. Read More about Doctor Johnson, A Play
Price: $100
Boston: The Atlantic Montly Press, 1923. First trade edition. Read More about Doctor Johnson, A Play
Price: $100
Joline was the pre-eminent collector and writer on autograph collecting at the turn of the century. HIS MANUSCRIPTS ARE RARE. Read More about The Autograph Manuscript of Chapter 5, "Concerning Autographs"
Price: $1,250
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
Price: $650
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
Price: $650
London: Longmans, Green and Co. And New York, 1889. Number 90 of 113 copies of the Large Paper edition of the first edition. Large Paper Copy. Some of the topics covered in these essays are Modern English Poetry, Fielding, Longfellow, Plotinus, LucretiusRochefoucauld and Virgil. Read More about Letters on Literature
Price: $250
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
Price: $200