London: Published by Thomas McLean, 1823 [but later, plates watermarked 1822-1824]. Alken, Henry. First edition. A fine copy of "Alken's most important work... It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection" (Tooley) The plates and text between them offer a thorough survey of the sports practiced in Great..... Read More about The National Sports of Great Britain, with Descriptions in English and French ... Chasse et...

Birmingham: John Baskerville, Printer to the University, 1763. The third variant of the Subscriber's list, with the most names, ending with that of the Hon. Charles York, Esq, Attorney General. Baskerville's Masterpiece. The 1763 edition of Baskerville's Bible has always been recognized as his masterpiece and is one of the..... Read More about The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Translated out of the Original Tongues...

[N.p: written ca. May-June 1889]. Dacoits, Meteorites, New of the Mutiny, & the ‘Buffalo Prince’: a Career in Burma. A detailed and digressive retrospective account of the early years of the long service of Col. Alexander Gordon Duff (1828-1904) in Burma, composed in his retirement in the spring of 1889..... Read More about Manuscript account of service to the Burma Commission in Burma, 1857-1860

Paris: M. Royol, L. Bathlot, 37 B. de l'Echiquier, [1870]. No. 2 pour Baryton (on lower right of cover). Earliest printing of the celebrated French march, Le Régiment de Sambre et Meuse, composed during the Franco-Prussian war, revived and widely reprinted during the belle époque. Enrico Caruso recorded the song..... Read More about Le Régiment de Sambre et Meuse. Chanson, chantée par Vialla à l'Eldorado. Paroles de Paul...

London: Longman, Hurst [&c.], 1810. First edition. Thomas Daniell, accompanied by his nephew William, left England on the China-bound Indiaman in 1785, returning to England by way of India in 1794. The journey, financed in part by the sale of oil paintings of their travels, was documented in William’s journal..... Read More about A Picturesque Voyage to India, by the Way of China

September 11, 1894. Edison and the Birth of Film. A letter dating from the birth year of motion picture exhibition, from the inventor of the medium, Edison, to one of the first motion picture distributors and producers, Norman C. Raff, mentioning a third important figure in the history of film..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("Edison"), to Norman C. Raff, relating to the early efforts in...

Basel: Johann Froben, January; March; and March, 1520. First collected editions. First collected editions of these “Paraphrases” of the letters of Paul, which were undertaken shortly after Erasmus’s revolutionary edition of the Greek New Testament of 1516. As part of that monumental reconstruction of the New Testament, Erasmus’ intention was..... Read More about Paraphrases Des. Erasmi Roterodami in epistolas Pauli ad Rhomanos, Corinthios & Galatas …...

[Munchen; Berlin: Marees-Gesellschaft. Verlag R. Piper & Co. Hersteller: Ganymed, 1926]. Number LVI of LXXX copies specially bound (limitation notice on front pastedown). Deluxe issue. The deluxe issue of this beautifully produced facsimile in color of Gauguin's original manuscript of his collaboration with the Symbolist poet Charles Morice. A version..... Read More about Noa Noa, Voyage de Tahiti]. [Edited by Julius Meier-Graeffe

London: Vinton & Co, 1897. Edition De Luxe, no. 60 of 100 copies, numbered and signed by the author on the title page of each volume. One of 100 Signed Copies, With an Added Fly Tied by Halford. Frederic M. Halford (1844-1914), author and angler of the late Victorian and..... Read More about Dry Fly Entomology: a brief description of leading types of natural insects … with the 100 best...

Liverpool: 19 January 1857. Consul document signed by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his capacity as Consul of the United States at Liverpool, attesting that Hezekial Galacar of the condemned American ship the Sea Lion has deposited with the consulate the ship's register and certified crew list. With mansucript note in a...... Read More about Document Signed ("Nath' Hawthorne"), in his role as Consul of the United States at...

Boston: American Stationers Co., John B. Russell, 1837. First edition. His Second Book, Doheny Copy. Hawthorne’s second book, and although it was not the dismal failure that Fanshawe had been, it attracted hardly any notice when it was issued thus in 1837. Now, of course, it is one of the..... Read More about Twice-Told Tales

Netherlands East Indies: 1914-1925. Transportation in the Cloudlands of Java, 1914-1925. Compendious visual archive of photographs of aerial (cable) tramways for transportation of tea, coffee, gutta percha, firewood, and building materials — as well as the occasional group of workers — on mountainous plantations in the cloudlands of Java, Netherlands..... Read More about Three Photographic Albums of Aerial Tramways on Coffee, Tea, and Rubber Plantations in the...

vp [Washington, D.C.; Dublin]: vd [1792-1811]. Early 19th century American and Irish political library of Maryland Congressman Alexander McKim. Alexander McKim (1748-1832) fought in the Continental Army, serving under Lafayette. He was elected to the Maryland Senate and the United States Congress as a Democratic-Republican in the 11th through 13th..... Read More about Collection of 51 American and Irish Political pamphlets, from the library of Maryland...