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London: Methuen & Co, [1927]. Shepard, E.H. Large Paper edition, no. 107 of 200 numbered copies, signed by Milne and Shepard. Printed on hand made paper by Jarrold & Sons Ltd., Norwich. Signed by Milne & Shepard. Read More about Now We Are Six
Price: $4,000
Philadelphia: Judah Dobson, 1830. First edition, first issue, without the Morris portrait, and before explanatory text was added at p. viii. Schwerdt Copy, with note from Westwood. Milnor served for a number of years as secretary of the Schuylkill Fishing Company, America's oldest angling group, founded in 1732 - indeed..... Read More about An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State of Schuylkill. From...
Price: $1,000
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London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1714. First collected edition of Molière in English. First Collected Molière in English. The first collected edition in English of the plays of Molìere, with all but two of the translations by John Ozell (d. 1743), one of the most important translators of the first..... Read More about The Works of Monsieur de Moliere [Translated by John Ozell
Price: $4,000
New York: Edwin C. Hill, 1910. The Emerson Edition, #97 of 250 sets. VERY FINE SET. Read More about The Works of…with an Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Price: $2,500
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First edition, first printing. Read More about A Marianne Moore Reader
Price: $400
New York: April 3, 1934. Read More about Portrait photograph of Ramón Novarro
Price: $800
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First edition, no. 87 of 775 copies signed by the author. Read More about Strange Interlude
Price: $300
[New York]: Pach Brothers, n.d. [c. 1978?]. Rare and Early Oates Portrait. A fine, early, portrait of the young author -- one of America's most gifted writers of the latter half of the 20th century -- by the historic commercial New York photography studio, the Pach Brothers. Oates won the..... Read More about Bust Portrait of Joyce Carol Oates, signed ("Joyce Carol Oates"
Price: $1,000
Cheltenham [England]: John T. Norman, 1879. First edition, with errata. Practical advice, not only on fly-tying, but on rods, reels, lines, nets, and other equipment, some of it invented by the author. Besides the two albumen plates noted above, there are two wood-engravings of equipment and two lithographs of angling-associated..... Read More about Ogden on Fly-Tying, Etc
Price: $500
London: T. Hookham, 1831. First edition. Page 154 numbered 54. Read More about Crotchet Castle. By the author of Headlong Hall
Price: $1,000
London: For T. Hookham Jun. and Co. Old Bond Street; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row, 1817. First edition. Rare Peacock Satire in Early Cloth Binding. “ANTHELIA MELINCOURT, at the age of twenty-one, was mistress of herself and of ten thousand a year, and of a very ancient and..... Read More about Melincourt. By the author of Headlong Hall … In Three Volumes
Price: $12,500
Ithaca, N.Y: Published by the Cornell University Press for the Middle Eastern Institute, [1952]. First edition (not published in England). Without errata slip. This book chronicles Philby's two trips to the southwest corner of Saudi Arabia in 1932 and in 1936-1937 which were at the time almost unknown and uncharted..... Read More about Arabian Highlands
Price: $550
Amsterdam: J.-F. Bernard, 1723-1743. Picart, Bernard. First edition. 147 Fine Plates by Picart. This magnificent set, issued by the publisher Bernard over a period of 20 years, and rarely found complete, represents some of Picart’s finest work. The encyclopedic text represents a compilation of extracts from the writings of several..... Read More about Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde repésentées par des figures...
Price: $4,000
London: William Pickering, 1853. Reprint of Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book of 1569. Mary Byfield's Best Work. Mary Byfield (1795-1871) worked for the Chiswick Press nearly her entire life, and her contributions played a large part in the looks of many of the smaller Pickering editions. For this volume she cut..... Read More about The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of...
Price: $1,250
Venice: Carlo Palese, sold by Lorenzo Baseggio, 1787. First edition. Pinelli Library Catalogue with Prices Realized. A beautiful, large-margined copy of the catalogue of the great Pinelli library in Venice, written by Abbé Morelli, of the Biblioteca Marciana, for the purposes of dispersal. The library was assembled over the course..... Read More about Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti Magno Jam Studio Collecta, a Jacopo Morellio Bibliothecæ...
Price: $3,750
London: Elkin Mathews, 1909. First edition (one of 1,000 copies printed, 500 of which were used for the combined edition with EXULTATIONS). Read More about Personae
Price: $1,250
Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie., Imprimeur de L'Institut, 56, Rue Jacob, 56, 1888. Read More about Le Costume Historique. Types principaux du vêtement et de la parure rapprochés de ceux de...
Price: $3,500
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition. Read More about The Yearling
Price: $600
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1734. "Réaumur’s greatest work in natural history ... He seemed fascinated about all with insect behavior, obviously admiring the industry, dilligence, ingenuity, organization, and skill of those small creatures ... Réaumur, in short, was a pioneer in applied entomological research ... His descriptions were minute and exacting..... Read More about Memoires pour servir a l'Historie des Insectes
Price: $4,000
New York: A.S. Barnes, 1973. Reeves, Richard Stone. No. 32 of 60 deluxe copies, signed by the author with a portfolio of four signed collotype reproductions. A splendid collection of thoroughbred portraits by America's foremost painter of horses. Read More about Thoroughbreds I Have Known. With foreword by Whitney Tower and commentary by Juno Cole Weyer
Price: $2,500
Hilversum: De Heuvelpers, 1929. Colophon reads: "Printed in the spring of 1929 by S.H. de Roos at DE HEUVELPERS, HILVERSUM, HOLLAND from: the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, edited by William Rossetti, London, 1911. The third publication of the press is printed in 125 copies of which 110 for sale..... Read More about Hand and Soul
Price: $500
London: R. Ackermann, 1809-11. First edition. DR. SYNTAX BEGINS HERE. "Quite the most original and prosperous of poetry journals at the beginning of the 19th century" (Graham), The Poetical magazine is an important color plate work notable for the first appearance of the famous Doctor Syntax: The Schoolmaster's Tour ran..... Read More about The Poetical Magazine. Volumes One through Four
Price: $2,500
London and New York: George Allen and Longmans, Green, and Co, 1903-1909. Library edition, one of 2062 copies printed. With Ruskin A.L.s. Profusely illustrated (including many previously unpublished drawings) and scrupulously annotated, the Library Edition remains the definitive collection of Ruskin's work; two thousand and sixty-two copies were printed, of..... Read More about The Works of John Ruskin. Edited by E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn
Price: $12,500
New York: The Scribner Press, 1908. First edition, Copy No. 3 of only 20 printed. One of 20 Copies, Inscribed to J.P. Morgan by the Author. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "To JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN, Esq. / With sincerest regards / & compliments of the Author / John Barry Ryan /..... Read More about The Secret of the Serdab. An Incident of the Mutiny of the Egyptian Army against the Khedive
Price: $1,250
