Price: $1,750

Nuremberg: Abr. Wagenman, 1617. First edition thus. Hoe copy. Described as "Editio II," this is actually an enlarged edition of a work original published in 1597, documenting prize medals made for students of the Altdorf academy in Nuremberg. "The most remarkable example of [emblems and numismatics coming together] is the.....  Read More Item Details for Emblemata anniversaria Academiae Noribergensis, quae est Altorffii ... opus philologicum Add to Wish List

Item #310040

Price: $2,000

Copenhagen: 1928. Inscribed "Josephine Baker, Copenhagen 1928" in pencil. Baker's (1906-1975) first performed in Copenhagen in June 1928 in the show "Wien, Wien – Oh Josephine" at the Dagmar Theatre. Her performance, which included her famous banana skirt dance, caused a sensation. The Danish avant-garde embraced her, while the conservative.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph: "Josephine Baker, Copenhagen 1928" Add to Wish List

Item #310808

Price: $5,000

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, (1964). First edition. Inscribed. First edition, presentation copy, with a lengthy, pre-publication inscription on the front free endpaper, "To Anne, and to Chris — if, as Kate & I hope without knowing anything about it, you have got together again. We were bitterly sorry.....  Read More Item Details for 77 Dream Songs Add to Wish List

Item #310091

Price: $2,000

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. First book edition, first issued in parts. Harper Illuminated Bible. “[T]his Harper publication was a remarkable production for its time and place, and retains its importance in the annals of American book-making. W.J. Linton, noted wood-engraver and author, knew ‘no other book like this.....  Read More Item Details for The Illuminated Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated Out of the Original Tongues ... Embellished with Sixteen Hundred Engravings by J.A. Adams, More Than fourteen Hundred of which are From Original Designs by J.G. Chapman Add to Wish List

Item #310453

Price: $1,250

Oxford; and London: Printed at the Clarendon Press, By W. Jackson and A. Hamilton, 1791. [bound with:] The Whole Book Psalms, Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Others … Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, by Dawson, Bensley, and Cooke, 1801. A beautiful copy in a......  Read More Item Details for The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments … According to the Use of the Church of England; together with The Psalter, or Psalms of David … Add to Wish List

Item #311008

Price: $7,500

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904-1922. Autograph edition, no. 266 of 750 copies, signed by the author and publisher, with EACH VOLUME SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. THE ULTIMATE SET. WITH MANUSCRIPT. Complete in 23 volumes with an extra volume 19 with inlaid manuscripts for "The Hungry Sheep," c. 24 pages in pencil.....  Read More Item Details for The Writings of … Add to Wish List

Item #310634

Price: $2,250

London: Printed for G. Nicol and G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1788. First edition. FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF COOK. The first edition of this highly influential first English biography of Cook by the Anglican clergyman Kippis, one of the leading biographers of his day. In addition to describing the three.....  Read More Item Details for The Life of Captain James Cook Add to Wish List

Item #310845

Price: $1,750

"Porteous's Lodgings, 18 Duncan Street" [Edinburgh]: Sat. December 29, [1830]. A short, poignant note from the great essayist, memoirist, and biographer of the Lake Poets, begging to be excused from an engagement as his wife and daughter are sick. The small scrap of paper, without wax seal, suggest the author's.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("Thos. De Quincey"), to "My Dear Sir" Add to Wish List

Item #311132

Price: $8,000

New York: Randon House, 1932. First Edition. One of 300 copies signed by Gershwin and Alajalov. SIGNED BY GERSHWIN AND ALAJALOV. Containing the words and music to some of the best known American music ever written: "Lady be Good," "I Got Rhythm," "Swanee." The list goes on and on. The.....  Read More Item Details for George Gershwin's Song-book Add to Wish List

Item #310443

Price: $950

Bristol: March 1786. A nice example of an embroidered map sampler, which were an important component of girls' education in Britain and America from 1770-1840. This one meticulously labels all of the English counties, the seas and channels, and includes part of Scotland to the north, and the east coast.....  Read More Item Details for Needlework Map of England Add to Wish List

Item #310835

Price: $3,500

[San Francisco]: Book Club of California, 1930. Links, Julian A. No 10 of 300 copies printed at the Windsor Press. With TLS of Rockwell Kent, charging plagarism. With a typed letter signed of Rockwell Kent to Oscar Lewis, secretary of the Book Club of California, voicing his strong displeasure with.....  Read More Item Details for The Book of Thel Add to Wish List

Item #310071

Price: $850

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1926-1929. First American copyright editions, privately published in editions of 75 copies. Small collection of Kipling first American copyright editions from the collection of Frederick S. Peck (1868-1947), Rhode Island state politician and collector of manuscripts related to his state. "[The].....  Read More Item Details for [Collection of 6 first American copyright editions, comprising:] A Rector's Memory, The Nerve that Conquers, Healing by the Stars, The Church That was at Antioch, Address at Milner Court, The Tender Achilles Add to Wish List

Item #310972

Price: $3,250

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. First English edition. With map. First English edition of the Lewis and Clark "apocrypha." Denounced by Elliot Coues as a "wretched meretricious compilation," this anthology of previously printed works was nonetheless one of the earliest accounts of the celebrated Lewis and Clark expedition.....  Read More Item Details for The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke [sic], from St. Louis, by way of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, to the Pacific Ocean Performed in the Years 1804, 1805, & 1806...Containing Delineations of the Manners, Customs, Religion, &c. of the Indians… Add to Wish List

Item #310859