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Item 319397Fragments Now First Collected some being hitherto unpublished.

Brooke, Rupert.

Price: $400

Hartford: [Printed by Finlay Brothers and sold by Dunster House, Cambridge, Mass.], 1925. Unauthorized edition, one of 99 copies , nos. 1-5 on vellum, 6-99 on thick paper. This is a paper copy, no. 34. VERY RARE. Read More Item Details for Fragments Now First Collected some being hitherto unpublished Add to Wish List

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Item 315277Manuscript retained letterbook of the Boston merchant firm William Foster & Company, comprising their correspondence with Dutch firm Geyer, De...

Foster and Company, William.

Price: $3,000

Boston: February 27, 1783 - November 17, 1785. "On 30 Aug. 1783, with Anglo-American hostilities having ceased and eager to profit from the commercial opportunities offered by the Dutch-American Treaty, De la Lande & Fynje signed a five-year contract with Boston merchant and loyalist Frederick William Geyer (d. 1803). The..... Read More Item Details for Manuscript retained letterbook of the Boston merchant firm William Foster & Company, comprising their correspondence with Dutch firm Geyer, De la Lande & Fynje Add to Wish List

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Item 319203Plain Directions for Obtaining Photographic Pictures upon Albumenized Paper and Glass, by Collodion and Albumen, etc., etc., including a second...

Le Gray, Gustave.

Price: $2,000

London: T & R. Willats, [1851]. First edition. Read More Item Details for Plain Directions for Obtaining Photographic Pictures upon Albumenized Paper and Glass, by Collodion and Albumen, etc., etc., including a second edition of A Practical Treatise on Photography … Part II Add to Wish List

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Item 318657Autograph fair copy, signed of "A Mystical Ballad." 10 stanzas.

Lowell, James Russell.

Price: $2,250

Cambridge, Massachusetts: March 9, 1844. Read More Item Details for Autograph fair copy, signed of "A Mystical Ballad." 10 stanzas Add to Wish List

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Item 318980Death blow to corrupt doctrines. A plain statement of facts. Published by Gentry and People. Translated from the Chinese...

[Mateer, C.[alvin] W.[ilson], translator] (1836-1908).

Price: $3,000

Shanghai: 1870. First edition "This singular pamphlet, of which 500 copies were originally printed, but of which no more perhaps than 100 now exist, the remainder...having been destroyed..." The book was published in a small edition (Ashbee says 500 copies), and is a verbatim translation of a series of scurrilous..... Read More Item Details for Death blow to corrupt doctrines. A plain statement of facts. Published by Gentry and People. Translated from the Chinese Add to Wish List

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Item 319579Archive of photographs depicting the construction of the sewer system on the grounds of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair...

(New York World's Fair, 1939-40).

Price: $3,500

New York: 1937-1938. This photographic archive documents the construction of a massive double-barrel sewer line running from the World's Fair grounds, largely in the vicinity of Grand Central Parkway and Roosevelt Avenue. Many of the images are dated in the negative depicting the surveying of the region in June 1937..... Read More Item Details for Archive of photographs depicting the construction of the sewer system on the grounds of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair Add to Wish List

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Item 31961310 Poems...Newly Translated by Michael Feingold.

Rimbaud, Arthur.

Price: $1,250

New York: Vincent Fitz Gerald, 1982. One of 125 copies all on Somerset handmade paper, watermark: "Somerset" / "England"), the first 25 of which were signed by the artist and the translator in pencil. This is number 15 of the 25 deluxe issue. ONE OF 25. The Second Book of..... Read More Item Details for 10 Poems...Newly Translated by Michael Feingold Add to Wish List

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Item 318234Letters from a Lady, who resided some years in Russia to Her Friend in England. With Historical Notes.

(Russia) [Vigor, Jane].

Price: $1,750

London: J. Dodsley, 1775. First edition. A first edition by an Englishwoman extraordinary in her time. Jane Vigor (née Goodwin, b. 1699, d. 1783), was born to a clergyman in Yorkshire. Her first husband was Thomas Ward, Esq Consul General to Russia, and it was through that marriage that she..... Read More Item Details for Letters from a Lady, who resided some years in Russia to Her Friend in England. With Historical Notes Add to Wish List

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Item 212577Monody on Major Andrè. By Miss Seward. (Author of the Elegy on Capt. Cook.) To Which Are Added Letters Addressed...

Seward, [Anna].

Price: $1,500

Lichfield: Printed and Sold by J. Jackson, for the Author, 1781. Second edition (same year as the first). Signed by the "Swan of Lichfield" In the Fall of 1780 the young and dashing British officer, John Andrè, was arrested in civilian clothes, with a false passport, bearing reports from Benedict..... Read More Item Details for Monody on Major Andrè. By Miss Seward. (Author of the Elegy on Capt. Cook.) To Which Are Added Letters Addressed to Her by Major Andrè, in the Year 1769 Add to Wish List

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Item 318106Notes on Artillery.

St. Clair, W. A. E.

Price: $2,500

Woolwich: Boddy and Co., Printers, Artillery Place, 1872. Extra-illustrated manuscript and print compiled book on 19th-century artillery. Compiled by W. A. E. St. Clair in 1872, this fascinating student manuscript provides a glimpse into 19th-century British artillery manufacture with detailed descriptions of the entire process of making gunpowder. The book..... Read More Item Details for Notes on Artillery Add to Wish List

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Item 319605The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation.

Walton, Izaac.

Price: $75,000

London: Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot, 1653. First edition. A Fine First of Walton’s ‘Angler’. A choice copy of the first edition of Walton’s Compleat Angler, a landmark of mid-seventeenth century English letters and one of the foundation stones of angling literature, with distinguished nineteenth century provenance. James..... Read More Item Details for The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation Add to Wish List

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