1893. Archduke Franz-Ferdinand - Big Game Hunting in India 1893. Group of 193 original albumen print photographs documenting the Indian portion of the world tour of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914). This official voyage of the Archduke, lasting from December 1892 to October 1893, had explicit diplomatic, ethnographic, and scientific..... Read More about Photographs of the Indian Tour of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, January to March 1893

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...

[Cleveland, Ohio: Alastair Johnston, 1993]. First edition, Number 96 of 900 copies, signed by the authors. Colossal and compendious, finely illustrated, chronological survey of the early history of golf, which is in part a history of Scotland and Scottish literature during the same period. Read More about The Chronicles of Golf: 1457 to 1857

Adams, Mass: for the Author, by A. Oakey, 1829. First edition. Early work on behaviorism, by an American utopian. First and only edition of this utopian mediation on materialism which explores the physiological, social, psychological, and spiritual effects of environmental conditions and the laws of physics on individual behavior–– an..... Read More about Elements of Materialism: Inculcating the idea of a future state, in which all will be more happy,...

Shrewsbury: 2nd December, 1756. Unrecorded: poor relief during an outbreak of food riots. An apparently unrecorded broadside proposing a scheme for the relief of the poor of Shrewsbury, in Shropshire, by which quantities of wheat, rye, and corn would be purchased by gentleman subscribers, "To be Sold out in such..... Read More about A laudable Scheme... for the relief of the poor...for the purchase of Wheat and Rye in large...

New York: April 24, 1966. Signed by Harper Lee, Slovene rights to Mockingbird. A signed copy of the contract granting Slovene language publishing rights for To Kill a Mockingbird to a Yugoslav publisher, six years after the novel's original publication in English. Though Lee began signing copies of To Kill..... Read More about Contract signed ("Harper Lee"), granting Slovene publishing rights for To Kill a...

Hartford, Connecticut; Paris; New York: James Thrall Soby; Cahiers d’Art; Random House, [1934]. First edition, second issue with cancel title with fictitious "Deuxième édition" designation. Man Ray Photographs Signed by the Artist. Inscribed first edition of the definitive contemporary collection of Man Ray’s photographs, with 101 gravure reproductions of photographs..... Read More about Man Ray Photographies 1920-1934 Paris / Man Ray Photographs 1920-1934 Paris. With a Portrait by...

London: John Murray, 1824. First edition. Presentation Copy, Inscribed by Parry to one of his Officers. Inscribed by Parry to one of his officers, "Lieut. J. Bushnan RN with the author's best regards." John Bushnan was the assistant surveyor on board the Fury. Bushnan was to have joined the Franklin..... Read More about Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the...

London: A.W. Webster, 156, Regent Street, 1835. First Edition. “In 1829, frustrated by the lack of progress [in search of a northwest passage], a philanthropic gin distiller, Felix Booth, sponsored John Ross’s second expedition. With his nephew James Clark Ross as second-in-command, Ross sailed down Prince Regent Sound in search..... Read More about Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage and of a Residence in the Arctic...

New York: D. Appleton, 1894. First Appleton edition. Mint in Original Plain Dust Jacket. One of the earliest and most important books on the game by the "grand old man" of American Football, athletic pioneer and legendary coach, Amos Alonzo Stagg. This Appleton edition of 1894 is revised from the..... Read More about A Scientific and Practical Treatise on American Football for Schools and Colleges ... Revised to...

London: Rowland Ward, 1904. Siberian Sport & Travel in 1903. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Captain H. W. Seton-Karr, who accompanied Swayne on this trip, and who has inserted 25 larger photographs, approx. 3 x 5 inches (often inserted on the blank verso of the printed plates, including..... Read More about Through the Highlands of Siberia

[Yeadon, W. Yorks]: Ken Smith, 2008. Copy ii of 10 for presentation (from an edition of 65 copies), signed by all contributors in volume I and in volume II by the author and Tim Thorpe. One of Ten Copies. A superbly illustrated history of regional angling traditions, here in a...... Read More about Angling with the Fly. Flies & Anglers of Derbyshire and Staffordshire

Philadelphia: Bradford & Inskeep, 1808-14. First edition. The Classic American Ornithology Before Audubon, and One of the First American Color Plate Books. Wilson's work was the most important work on American ornithology before Audubon and the most elaborate color plate book published in America up to its time. Wilson, a...... Read More about American Ornithology, Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States: Illustrated with...