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Item 218778Album of 34 Chinese watercolor paintings on paper.

(China).

Price: $6,000

China: Ca. first half of 19th century. Album of 34 Original Chinese Watercolors. A very interesting and engaging collection of genre scenes. The trees, rocks, and landscapes are particularly well rendered, and the figures are full of life. The pictures in many such albums often follow a sequence of events..... Read More Item Details for Album of 34 Chinese watercolor paintings on paper Add to Wish List

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Item 321096Ein Kamtschadale.

(Cook, James; Captain) Buchler, Henri.

Price: $850

Germany: Early 19th century. Read More Item Details for Ein Kamtschadale Add to Wish List

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Item 315466Autograph letter signed ("Ch. Darwin"), to Charles Layton, Appleton's London agent, about a second American edition of On the Origin...

Darwin, Charles.

Price: $50,000

Down, Beckenham, Kent: November 26, [1869]. Regarding a new American edition of Origin. Unpublished. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) writes to Charles Layton, London agent for Appleton, about bringing out a revised and expanded second American edition of On the Origin of Species. The letter is a reply to Layton's of the..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed ("Ch. Darwin"), to Charles Layton, Appleton's London agent, about a second American edition of On the Origin of Species Add to Wish List

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Item 320935Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe.

Eliot, George.

Price: $2,750

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First edition, binding state A. Read More Item Details for Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe Add to Wish List

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Item 225931Portrait photograph of Sara Bard Field.

(Field, Sara Bard) Hagemeyer, Johan.

Price: $2,500

[Carmel, Calif: 1927]. Hagemeyer Portrait of Suffragist Sara Bard Field. Magnificent portrait of the great suffragist, reformer, activist, free-thinker, and poet, Sara Bard Field (1882-1974). Field was also the passionate lover of the anarchist C.E.S. Wood, and the couple lived together in a celebrated "free union" first in San Francisco..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Sara Bard Field Add to Wish List

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Item 320403[Archive of personal correspondence to his close friends Charles and Torre Seiniger, and his godson Tony Seiniger].

Goldwater, Barry.

Price: $2,500

Vp [but mostly Washington D.C.]: 1939-1977. The close relationship evident in these letters began in the 1930s, when Torre Seiniger was a sportswear buyer for Bullock's and Barry Goldwater ran his family's department store in Phoenix. The correspondence begins with letters written during World War II, beginning with a touching..... Read More Item Details for [Archive of personal correspondence to his close friends Charles and Torre Seiniger, and his godson Tony Seiniger] Add to Wish List

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Item 225928Portrait photograph of Charles Erskine Scott Wood.

Hagemeyer, Johan.

Price: $1,500

[Carmel, Calif: ca. 1930]. Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944) was a writer, poet, soldier, corporate lawyer, associate of Clarence Darrow, and a lover of books. He was a founder of Portland's Public Library and the Portland Art Museum, self-proclaimed anarchist, atheist, regular contributor to radical journals of the day, and..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Charles Erskine Scott Wood Add to Wish List

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Item 320572[Sammelband of 54 pamphlets or circulars, largely relating to government affairs, constitutional meetings, elections, revolts, etc., plus a few related...

(Mexico).

Price: $4,500

Mexico [mostly Mexico City or San Luis Potosi]: 1805-1872. 1) Discurso Pronunciado por el Director del Colegio de San Anastasio la Noche de su Inauguracion. 10pp. Publisher's wrappers. San Luis Potosi: Imprenta del Gobierno, 1855. 2) Informe Pronunciado por el Licenciado Jose Castillo. 21pp. Publisher's wrappers. San Luis Potosi: Imp..... Read More Item Details for [Sammelband of 54 pamphlets or circulars, largely relating to government affairs, constitutional meetings, elections, revolts, etc., plus a few related to smallpox or other health concerns] Add to Wish List

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Item 12958“Elias Ashmole, Esq, Founder of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford”.

(Oxford) Harding, George P.

Price: $2,500

[ca. 1813]. Harding, George P. The Original Ashmole Watercolor for Ackermann's Oxford. A fine watercolor rendering, based on Ashmole's Foundation Portrait by John Riley at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, and used as a plate in Ackermann's The History of the University of Oxford, 1814. The watercolor follows Riley very closely, but..... Read More Item Details for “Elias Ashmole, Esq, Founder of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford” Add to Wish List

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Item 321055Leçon de Flore. Cours Complet de Botanique ... suivi d'une Iconographie Vegetale ... Ouvrage entierement neuf.

Poiret, Jean Louis Marie; and Pierre Jean Francois Turpin.

Price: $4,500

Paris: C. L. F. Pancoucke, 1819-1820. One of 25 large paper copies in quarto. "Beautifully engraved plates illustrating the science of botany" (Dunthorne) Published as the last volume of P.P. Chaumeton's Flore Medicale, the work was issued separately in three different formats: a regular issue in octavo, 25 large-paper copies..... Read More Item Details for Leçon de Flore. Cours Complet de Botanique ... suivi d'une Iconographie Vegetale ... Ouvrage entierement neuf 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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