Chicago: privately printed, 1916. From an edition limited to 300 copies, this copy stamped "249" With Extraordinary Photogravures of New Mexico by Vroman and Lummis. This important work, edited by Mrs. Edward Ayer, translates the memorial of Franciscan Alonso Benavides, the best account of early 17th-century New Mexico. Extensive notes..... Read More about The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides 1630

[Bermuda: Published by the Bermuda Trade Development Board], 1936. First edition, no. 1391 of 2000 numbered copies. Designed and produced by James Albert Wales and Lorraine Follett. Printed in the U.S.A. by Edward Stern & Company, Inc. Philadelphia. “Our remoteness from the rest of the world is a wholesome and..... Read More about Residence in Bermuda. [Preface by Hervey Allen

New York: Graphis, 1999. First edition. Signed on title page; includes original tintype [edition 37 of 100] The original tintype is mounted on paper attached to the inside of the box; the paper is signed and numbered by Bidaut. Read More about Jayne Hinds Bidaut: Tintypes

London: Macmillan, 1880. Second Edition. A New and Enlarged Edition Illustrated from Blake's Own Works, with additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author. THE H. BUXTON FORMAN COPY. The original prints - three from the woodblocks for Virgil's Pastoral (in this second edition printed on India paper and thus..... Read More about Life of William Blake, with selections from his poems and other writings

Jersey City, N.J: H.C. Perleberg Publisher 314 Palisades, nd. Read More about Blossom Fruit and Foliage. Fifty Photographs

New York: January 4, 1947. A rare image of dancer/choreographer Todd Bolender (b. 1914), one of the icons of American dance history. There are no images at all of Bolender in the Library of Congress. Inscribed to Mauriber. Read More about Portrait photograph of Todd Bolender in Balanchine's THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS

[Paris: Bison Ainé with stamp of Mon. Alph. Giroux below, n.d. ca. 1867]. [Marie] Rosa[lie] Bonheur (1822-99) known best for her pictures of animals. Read More about Carte de visite showing Bonheur leaning on a chair with hand on hip

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. First edition. Inscribed to Edward Steichen. Inscribed on the half-title: "For Edward Steichen/ I couldn't do a book/ without sending it to you./ Maggy" Read More about Halfway to Freedom. A Report on the New India in the Words and Photographs of …

[Lahore: ca. 1865]. Bourne cat. # 2126. British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region from 1863-1870. "[R]ecognized as an important landscape photographer, Bourne entered a partnership with Charles Shepherd" and "became a leading supplier of Indian views" (Pare, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE, p...... Read More about Sir Robert Montgomery's Camel Carriage in Government House, Lahore [pencil caption

[India: ca. 1865]. Bourne cat. #2065. British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region from 1863-1870. "[R]ecognized as an important landscape photographer, Bourne entered a partnership with Charles Shepherd" and "became a leading supplier of Indian views" (Pare, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE, p. 251)..... Read More about Mundapum, with facade of carved horses

Zurich: Memory/Cage Editions, 1995. Number 18 of 40 copies, signed by both artist and author, with an original gelatin silver print photograph, signed and numbered by the photographer. ONE OF 40, SIGNED. Read More about The Time of Friendship. A Story. With Ten Photographs by Vittorio Santos and a Preface by the Author

New York: M.B.Brady, F.d’Avignon, C. Edwards Lester, 1850. Rare Portraits of Fremont and Audubon. Two original parts from the only edition of this famous and rare book, a series of remarkable and compelling lithographic portraits after daguerreotypes. Although advertised as being complete in twenty-four lithographed portraits after Brady’s daguerreotypes, only..... Read More about The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, containing the portraits and biographical sketches of...

Washington, D.C: 26 October 1956. Short note following a photo session in early October for Life Magazine. Brennan, appointed to the Supreme Court by Eisenhower, was famed for his dissent from many of the majority decisions of the court. Reading in part “I certainly did not idly record ‘great artist’..... Read More about Typed Letter, Signed, to LIFE photographer ALFRED EISENSTAEDT