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Life of William T. Porter. Francis Brinley

Pioneer of Sporting Journalism

Life of William T. Porter.

New York: D. Appleton, 1860. First edition. Pioneer of Sporting Journalism. The biography of Porter, who in 1831 founded the American sporting periodical 'spirit of the Times," and served as its editor from 1835 to 1850. He also edited the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine from 1840-1844, and the..... Read More about Life of William T. Porter

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Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Printed Books Collected by Thomas Brooke F. S. A. and Preserved...

Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Printed Books Collected by Thomas Brooke F. S. A. and Preserved At Armitage Bridge House...

London: Ellis and Elvey, 1891. First edition, one of 100 copies, with six copies of large paper. An important library containing 170 volumes with fore-edge painting by Vecellio, from the famous Pillone library which are listed at pp.662-680 of Volume II, "Collected at the close of the sixteenth century by..... Read More about Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Printed Books Collected by Thomas Brooke F. S. A. and Preserved...

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Sonnets. By E.B.B. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets. By E.B.B.

Reading: not for Publication, 1847 [but actually London ca. 1893]. Wise forgery. The most infamous Wise forgery, purporting to be the first edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese. John Carter and Graham Pollard's exhaustive investigation, presented in their Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets..... Read More about Sonnets. By E.B.B

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A Catalogue of New, Curious & Rare Books, most of which are recently imported... offered for sale...

A Catalogue of New, Curious & Rare Books, most of which are recently imported... offered for sale at Moderate Prices...

New York: W. A. Colman, No. 205 Broadway, December 1837. A 48-page alphabetical listing of books available from his store, without prices. The collection includes agriculture, classical, drawing, sciences and history and some general literature, also some color plate books. Accompanied by a "Confidential Circular Letter" from J. W. Hamilton..... Read More about A Catalogue of New, Curious & Rare Books, most of which are recently imported... offered for...

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Catéchisme abrégé en la langue de Madagascar, pour instruire sommairement ces peuples, les...

Rare Milestone of Malagasy

Catéchisme abrégé en la langue de Madagascar, pour instruire sommairement ces peuples, les inviter et les disposer au Baptême.

[Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Propag. Fide, 1785]. First edition. Rare Milestone of Malagasy. Early and important text in tracing the evolution of the Malagasy language, which is the westernmost branch of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family: in other words, it is related to Tagalog, Malay, Maori, and..... Read More about Catéchisme abrégé en la langue de Madagascar, pour instruire sommairement ces peuples, les...

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Album et Oeuvres Poétiques de Marguerite d'Autriche, Gouvernante des Pays-Bas, Publiés en...

Album et Oeuvres Poétiques de Marguerite d'Autriche, Gouvernante des Pays-Bas, Publiés en Entier pour la Première Fois d'Après les Manuscrits...

Bruxelles, [Mons]: Librairie Scientifique et Littéraire, 1849. No. 10 of 27 on papier de Hollande reserved for members of La Société des Bibliophiles Belges, this copy for Dr. Victor Francois of Louvain, signed on the limitation page by President Renier Chalon and Secretary Camille Wins. Read More about Album et Oeuvres Poétiques de Marguerite d'Autriche, Gouvernante des Pays-Bas, Publiés en...

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Autograph Letter Signed ("R Chalon"), to an editor of Bibliophile Illustré ("Monsieur"). Renier...

Autograph Letter Signed ("R Chalon"), to an editor of Bibliophile Illustré ("Monsieur").

Bruxelles: 6 Juin 1868. "J'étais souscripteur à votre excellent Bibliophile illustré qui, malheureusement, ne parait plus …" Reknowned bibliophilic prankster and perpetrator of the Fortsas Sale hoax, Renier Chalon writes to an editor of Bibliophile Illustré, asking for a missing number needed to complete his run of the periodical. "Vous..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("R Chalon"), to an editor of Bibliophile Illustré...

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A Catalogue of Some of the Rarer Books, also Manuscripts, in the Collection of C.E.S. Chambers,...

A Catalogue of Some of the Rarer Books, also Manuscripts, in the Collection of C.E.S. Chambers, Edinburgh. With a Bibliogrpahy...

Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1898. First edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, “Thomas Hutchinson Esqr, with all good wishes from C.E. Chambers, Edinburgh. January, 1899." With an ALS laid-in from Chambers to Hutchinson. Chambers’ collection consited mostly of Romantic and Victorian literature, including a large run of Dickens first editions..... Read More about A Catalogue of Some of the Rarer Books, also Manuscripts, in the Collection of C.E.S. Chambers,...

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Cancels. R. W. Chapman

Cancels.

London: Constable & Co, 1930. First Edition, limited to 500 copies. Third volume in the influential series, Bibliographia Studies in Book History and Book Structure 1750-1900, edited by Michael Sadleir. Read More about Cancels

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3 Autograph Letters, signed (“Sydney Cockerell”), to Stella and Paul Standard. Sir Sydney...

Cockerell to Paul Standard

3 Autograph Letters, signed (“Sydney Cockerell”), to Stella and Paul Standard.

Kew Richmond Surrey: 22 April, 1954; 20 October, 1954; 30 January, 1955. Cockerell to Paul Standard. Charming letters from the aging museum director, collector, and calligrapher, to his American counterpart Paul Standard, founding member of the Typophiles and champion of calligraphy. In the first, Cockerell expresses his delight on receiving the..... Read More about 3 Autograph Letters, signed (“Sydney Cockerell”), to Stella and Paul Standard

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Class of 1912 Princeton University Ten Year Record. Eugene V. III Connett, Richard A. Medina

Eugene Connett, Factory Manager

Class of 1912 Princeton University Ten Year Record.

n.p: published by the Class of 1912, 1922. First Edition. Eugene Connett, Factory Manager. Eugene V. Connett, III, (1891-1969) established and ran The Derrydale Press throughout its fifteen year existance 1926-1941, producing about 170 of the finest sporting books ever published in America, plus a series of superb sporting prints..... Read More about Class of 1912 Princeton University Ten Year Record

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Joseph Conrad: The Man [and] A Burial in Kent by John Sheridan Zelie. Together with some...

Joseph Conrad: The Man [and] A Burial in Kent by John Sheridan Zelie. Together with some Bibliographical Notes.

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1925. First Edition, One of 485 copies (of which 450 are for sale). Designed by Bruce Rogers. Inscribed on ther front free-endpaper "To my friend/ Col. Marston E. Drake-/ with the regards of one of the/ authors of this biik./ Eldridge L. Adams. July 1928"..... Read More about Joseph Conrad: The Man [and] A Burial in Kent by John Sheridan Zelie. Together with some...

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