New York, etc: 1949-1956. In early 1945, Alfred A. Knopf wrote to Prof. Roger Shugg (Princeton class of... Read More about Correspondence relating to hiring Roger Shugg for a senior editorial position at Alfred A. Knopf...
Price: $1,250
New York: New York Public Library, 1940. One of only 400 numbered copies. A fabulous study of 8 English illuminated manuscripts of the early 14th century. The importance of these manuscripts rests in the evidence they provide of the "transition from the theocracy of the Gothic Middle Ages toward the..... Read More about The Tickhill Psalter and Related Manuscripts. A School of Manuscript Illumination in England...
Price: $475
Iowa City, Iowa: Published for the Univ. of Iowa Libraries by the University of Iowa Press, 1990. Third Edition. Read More about Heirs of Hippocrates
Price: $400
![Item #244187 Morias enkomion [Greek] Stultitiae laus ... cum commentariis Ger. Listrii, & figuris...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/244187.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669651200)
Basle: Genathianis, 1676. First edition with Holbein's illustrations. Holbein's Illustrations to Praise of Folly. A series of illustrated satirical treates on Catholic dogma, this book was released in English as "In Praise of Folly" and enjoyed a long life during the Protestant Reformation in several languages. Read More about Morias enkomion [Greek] Stultitiae laus ... cum commentariis Ger. Listrii, & figuris...
Price: $3,000
New York: George A. Leavitt & Co., Auctioneer, June, 1884. With 8 page Supplement of Prices realized laid in. Read More about Catalogue of the Library of the Late Alexander Farnum, Esq., of Providence, Rhode Island
Price: $75
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. Read More about 2 TLS. To E. F. Edgett literary editor of the Boston Evening Transcript
Price: $50
London: Ackermann, 1841. First edition. Comprehensive review of illustration techniques, including an early chapter on “photogenic drawing” covering the three pioneering methods of photography. Read More about The Art of Engraving with the Various Modes of Operation
Price: $500
New York: Privately Printed. Edwin C. Hill, 1903. One of 206 copies. Errata slip at front. Read More about Catalogue of the Library of Caroline C. Furbush. [Foreword by Lee Fairchild], with Addenda
Price: $200
London: Published For John Reeves Esq, 1809. With a Double Fore-Edge Painting. With a double fore-edge paintings, identified by an earlier owner as Durham and Cromer Beach. Read More about The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments
Price: $1,500
Edinburgh: Printed by Sir J.H. Blair and J. Bruce, 1800. Fore Edge Painting on Early Cloth Binding. An early cloth binding with the unusual addition of gilt tooling on the endleaves and title page. Read More about The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies...
Price: $2,500
n.p. [London: ca. 1820s]. A blank album, finely bound with a fore-edge scene of Hyde Park Corner. Read More about Fore-edge painting on a blank book
Price: $1,250
Philadelphia: John E. Porter, nd. With Fore-edge painting of Christ on the cross. Read More about The Illustrated Explanatory Family Bible. The Holy Bible
Price: $400
Edinburgh: Arch. Constable, 1821. Fore-Edge Views of Scotland. Each volume with a fine early fore-edge painting of a Scottish scene identified in an old hand in block letters on the ffep. Volume I : Berwick-on-Tweed Volume II : Falkland Palace Volume III : Edinburgh Castle Volume IV : Barnborough Castle..... Read More about The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet
Price: $7,500
London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1849. First edition. Publisher’s Binding with American Trout Fishing Fore-edge. With a later fore-edge painting of trout fishing on the Chateaugay Lake, Franklin County, New York. Read More about Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America
Price: $1,250
London: Printed [by A. & R. Spottiswoode] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820. Tenth edition. With a fore-edge painting of the Port of Constaninople. Read More about Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance
Price: $900
London: W.H. Allen, [1888]. Fore-edge of Hampton Court Palace. Read More about The Royal Kalender and Court and City Register for England, Scotland and the Colonies...for the...
Price: $1,250
London: Thomas Tegg, 1824. With a foreedge painting of City Hall by Miss Currie, with a calligraphic notation signed by Currie on the front blank: "This is No. 33 of the Books with Foreedge Paintings by Miss Currie. The Painting under the gold is a view of CIty Hall New..... Read More about A History of New York, from the Beginning the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty ... by...
Price: $4,500
Boston: C.F. Libbie & Co, 1904. "Comprising best editions of American authors, Napoleonana, rare Americana, standard sets finely bound, American political history and biography, first editions of English and American authors, beautiful art publications, limited editions and club books, many in beautiful bindings by Riviere, rare portraits and views, neatly..... Read More about Catalogue of the magnificent private library of the late Col. Jonas H. French of Boston, Mass.,...
Price: $100
Long Beach, California: The Seahorse Press, 1963. First edition, first printing; limited to 300 copies. Captain Jack worked for a number of the well-known book dealers in Los Angeles, including Dawsons and Jake Zeitlin, and had bookselling experiences in New York and Germany. Read More about Captain Jack: Being the Reminiscences of a Sea-Going Bookseller
Price: $100
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. Read More about The Illustrations of the Liturgical Homilies of Gregory Nazianzenus
Price: $150
Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1891. First edition, later issue. Author's second book of stories . With the signature of famous collector Dewitt Miller, Cross River, Westchester Co. N.Y. signed at back (as usual). Read More about Main-Travelled Roads. Six Mississippi Valley Stories
Price: $150
London: Thomas Thorpe, 1832. First edition. Read More about The Life of Mr. Thomas Gent, Printer, of York; written by Himself
Price: $400
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Munich: ca. 1810s. Voltz, Johann Michael. One of Volt's most iconic prints from the collection of German stage actor Erwin Faber. Johann Michael Voltz (b. 1784 - d.1858) was an engraver in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany whose political cartoons were syndicated and thoroughly reproduced, especially this particular image of Napoleon. This..... Read More about Johann Michael Voltz portrait of Napoleon [plate], formerly owned by Erwin Faber
Price: $300
[New York]: March 21, 1906. A scathing letter by Richard Gilder (1844-1909), poet and editor of the Century Magazine, denouncing William Randolph Hearst, who was at the time running for Governor of New York. Gilder fears that if Hearst is successful he will run next for President: “A man of..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“R.W. Gilder”), to “Dr. Dane”
Price: $500
New York: John Anderson, Jr, Auctioeer of Literary Property, 1903. Read More about Catalogue of the collection of the late Peter Gilsey. part I : art, literature, history, and the...
Price: $200
