London: Printed by William Savage … for William Miller …; John Murray; Longman, et al, 1810-1819. First Dibdin... Read More about Typographical Antiquities: Or the History of Printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland:...
Price: $3,750
London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1893. No. 103 of 350 copies. Facsimile of the Information for Pilgrims, printed in 1498 by Wynkyn de Worde. With an inscription on the front flyleaf from Kermit Roosevelt (1889-1943) to cosmopolitan Lebanese-American businessman and bibliophile Francis Kettaneh, who was a close friend of the Roosevelt..... Read More about Information for Pilgrims unto the Holy Land
Price: $250
Paris: Édouard Rouveyre, Éditeur, 1899. Fifth and best edition. One of 50 numbered sets on Papier du Japon. Includes volumes devoted to history of printing, collecting, binding, papermaking, book illustration, bibliography, etc. A lovely set. Read More about Connaissances Nécessaires à un Bibliophile accompagné de Notes et de Documents bibliographiques
Price: $2,500
Printed for the Roxburghe Club, 2002. Limited edition of an unspecified number. A facsimile of the letters of advice written by the Wizard Earl, Henry, Ninth Earl of Northumberland, to his son Algernon, while imprisoned in the Tower for alleged involvement in the Gunpowder Plot. Read More about The Wizard Earl's Advice to his Son: A Facsimile and Transcript from the Manuscripts of ......
Price: $450
Edinburgh: Printed for Private Circulation, 1837. First Edition, one of 50 copies. The "Roxburghe Revels" of the title refers to a manuscript detailing the extra-bibliophilic activities (i.e. eating and drinking) and literary pretensions of the Roxburghe Club. The Revels were compiled by member Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833) and were purchased for..... Read More about Roxburghe Revels and other Relative Papers; Including Answers to the Attack on the Memory of the...
Price: $2,500
Washington, D.C: May 1858. Sherman was arguably the greatest American autograph collector of the 19th Century. Tazewell (1774- 1860) was a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator from and the 26th Governor of Virginia. Read More about Autograph Letter, signed, to Hon. Littleton W. Tazewell asking for autograph and sending him...
Price: $75
Washington, D.C: Dec 24 1859. Sherman was arguably the greatest American autograph collector of the 19th Century. Tazewell (December 17, 1774- May 6, 1860) was a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator from and the 26th Governor of Virginia. Read More about Autograph Letter, Signed. To Hon. Littleton W. Tazewell asking for autograph and sending him...
Price: $50
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1907. New edition, with additions. Read More about Hours in the Library
Price: $150
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Privately Printed, 1921. First Edition, First Issue. Presentation Copy, Inscribed by Winship. Printed by Harvard Librarian George Winship at his Private Press. Read More about Confessions of a Unionist. An Unpublished ‘Talk on Things Current’ … Written in the Year...
Price: $100
Cambridge in Massacusetts: Stone & Kimball, 1893. First Edition. The first book by Stone & Kimball, written by one of the co-publishers. They started this highly influential firm while they were still students at Harvard. Read More about First Editions of American Authors. A Manual for Book-Lovers…with an Introduction by Eugene Field
Price: $150
leeds: Printed for Private Circulation, 1931. First edition. Inscribed to Arthur Swann 31/3/31. Read More about The Brotherton Library. A Catalogue of ancient Manuscripts and early printed books, collected by...
Price: $250
London: Richard Gilbert St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, [1823]. Carlyle was a distinguished Arabic scholar, who in his capacity as chaplain to Lord Elgin made an extensive tour of the Near East; in the course of this tour he collected many Greek and Syrian MSS. Read More about An Account of Greek Manuscripts: Chiefly Biblical, which had been in the Possession of the Late...
Price: $500
August 30th, 1858. DESPERATE AUTOGRAPH SEEKER. A desperate entreaty to the retired congressman, senator, and 26th Governor of Virginia from an autograph seeker best known for his translations of Jules Verne’s works. Reading in part: "I have taken the liberty, Sir of addressing you this note, for the purpose of..... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("Geo. M. Towle") to Hon. Littleton W. Tazewell ("Dear...
Price: $75
Oxford: Blackwell, 1928. First Edition. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on front pastedown to Ashley Montagu by W.H. Quarrell, wityh ALS and ANS laid in. Uffenbach was famous book collector. Read More about Oxford in 1710 from the Travels of...Edited by W.H. Quarrell, M.A. and W.J.C. Quarrell, M.A
Price: $125
102 Upper Street, Islington: Feb. 14, 1838. From one collector to another. Read More about ALS. To Josiah French
Price: $300
Moorsfield: London Institution, Dec. 17, 1823 (?). Note says this was the portrait used in the "Diary." Charles Robert Cockerell was born in London on 27 April 1788,[1] the third of eleven children of Samuel Pepys Cockerell. Read More about ALS. To William Sharp. About engraving of portrait of Pepys owned by Mr Cockerell
Price: $300
24 March 1813-19, March 1826. William Upcott was the collector par excellence of all manner of items, every inch of the walls of his rooms and every drawer being crammed with his collections. He was the assistant librarian at the London Instiution (1806-1834). Booksellers know him principally as the author..... Read More about Archive of 9 Autograph Letters to Elizabeth Adkins (My dear E., my little Favorite, etc.) and 3...
Price: $5,000
Hamburg: Christiani Heroldi, 1753. Fourth Edition. "A second variety of bibliographical compilation based largely on catalogues of private libraries serves both scholars and dealers. It consists in excerpting the titles of books believed to be rare and presenting them in a list...Perhaps the best known and successful compilation of this..... Read More about Catalogus historico-criticus liborum rariorum jam curis quartis recognitus et copiosa accessione...
Price: $400
San Buenaventura, California: Junipero Serra Press, 1976. One of 350 copies printed. Msgr. Francis J. Weber (b.1933) is an American Roman Catholic priest, author and archivist. He is a noted Catholic scholar, an Honorary Chaplain to His Holiness, and archivist for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles since 1962. He has..... Read More about California: A Bibliography of its Miniature Books
Price: $50
Newman Street [London]: March 6, 1803. Regarding Fuseli's lectures. In part: "I am sorry you should not have been present at Mr. Fuseli's two preceeding lectures in the Royal Academy; he will give one tomorrow night ... and the inclosed card [not present] will admit you ... Your station in..... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("Benjn. West"), to Charles Burney, Jr, regarding Fuseli's...
Price: $2,000
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1981. William M. Cheney (b.1907 - d.2002) had an illustrious printing career in Los Angeles. From 1929 to 1932 he worked as a shipping clerk for Dawson's Bookshop before going to work for Thomas Perry Stricker, under whose tutelage he learned to print..... Read More about The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Announces: A Retrospective Showing of Printing by...
Price: $150
G.E. Chairman and Public Servant Owen D. Young to Alfred Eisenstaedt. Owen D. Young (1874-1962), trained as a lawyer, was a man of many parts. He was an industrialist, chairman of General Electric and founder of RCA; a public servant, serving as member of various international conferences and later on..... Read More about Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt, Van Homesville, NY, October 1949
Price: $350
