Paris: Nicolas Langlois, ruë Saint Jacques, 1696. Second edition. Of the first edition (1691), Fowler wrote, "from the point of view of the practical architect this Cours d'architecture was the best work of its kind yet issued" Read More about Cours d’Architecture qui comprend les ordres de Vignole, Avec des Commentaires, les Fgures...

Buenos Aires: Francisco A. Colombo, 1933. First edition. Read More about Las Kenningar

London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855-56. First edition. "In 1852 Burton proposed to the Royal Geographical Society that he make the hajj, or pilgrimage, to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. Forbidden to non-Muslims, less than half a dozen Europeans were known to have visited them and..... Read More about Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah

London: For the Author, T. Spilsbury and Son, 1793. First edition. Dalzel was Governor at Cape Coast Castle, the notorious slave trading hub on the coast of present day Ghana. Read More about The History of Dahomy, an Inland Kingdom of Africa; Compiled from Authentic Memoirs

Santa Ana, California: 10 January 1981. ‘I am one of the secret Christians battling the Black Iron Prison’. An outstanding letter from Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), the “Shakespeare of Science Fiction”, writes (in part): “And in March 1974 I saw a prison; we are in it; I call it (as..... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (“Love, Phil”), to “Pat” [Patricia Warrick], 10 January 1981, on...

[Early 1800s]. NORDMANN COPY. A collection of French erotic lithographs in an ornate romantic binding. Includes a series of 17 lithographs ("Le départ de la garnison," "L'Antichambre en goguette," "Ah! Le bon bouillon que j'aurai" etc.). Read More about Album of erotic plates

Ottawa, Illinois: Jameson Books, Inc, [1997]. Copy #3 of 250 copies of the Special Limited Edition, inscribed to Dick (Scaife) and signed by Edwin Feulner by the President of the Heritage Foundation. DICK SCAIFE'S COPY. Dick Scaife was one of the founding members of the Heritage Foundation. He joined Heritage’s..... Read More about The Power of Ideas. The Heritage Foundation at 25 Years

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1887. A Major Landmark in photography. The first edition of this rare and important photographic work is a landmark in the evolution of the medium, and in the role of mechanical reproduction on the fine arts.  Although the complete set of images for Animal Locomotion totaled..... Read More about Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements

[Copacabana Palace Hotel, Rio de Janeiro: October 1997 - December 2014]. ‘em este maravilhoso Cipriani’. Fine diverse autograph album of noted guests at the Cipriani restaurant in the Copacabana Palace Hotel, in Rio de Janeiro, often with sentiments inscribed to the manager, Hervé Jean Yves Schmidt, including Harald, king of..... Read More about Autograph album of the manager of the Cipriani Restaurant at the Copacabana Palace Hotel, Rio de...

London: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1814. First edition. A fine copy of this important work by Salt on his two years journey to Abyssinia. "On 2 March 1809 Salt sailed on a mission from the British government to Abyssinia, to carry presents to the king and report on the state..... Read More about A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels into the Interior of that Country, Executed in the Years 1809...

Np: Property of Selmur Productions [Alert 8014 W. 3rd St.], 30 June [to 21 September], 1967. A Work in Progress. “Charly is unable to answer — but it is obvious that somewhere in his simple heart the answer is locked.” A superb association copy of this unspecified, but quite early..... Read More about Charly A Screenplay

Various places: Delhi, Baghdad, Asolo, Aden, Cairo, London, Cyrenaica, etc: 1935 to 1979. A substantial archive of unpublished letters of Freya Stark (1893-1993), author and intrepid traveller in the greater Middle East who moved in military and intelligence circles during the war years. Stark wrote a multi-volume autobiography and an..... Read More about Archive of 88 Autograph letters, signed, from Freya Stark, to Lucy Beach, Minnie Gray Granville,...