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

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

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...

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....

London: 1780. First edition. Miss Currer's Copy. RARE, PRIVATELY PRINTED MEMOIR OF "REPUBLICAN" HOLLIS, a noted book collector and Harvard College and Library benefactor. The plates include portraits of Locke, Milton and Newton, whose works he collected, also Britannia, Hollis himself. "It is probable that copies were to be purchased..... Read More about Memoirs of Thomas Hollis Esq. F.R. and A.S.S

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...

Bourdeaux: par les Continauteurs de Simon Millanges, 1921. The private catalogue of the collection of books of Monsieur Moura with 931 entires. Read More about Beaux Livres Anciens Rares et Curieux