London: T.C, Newby, 1845. First edition. Sporting Triple-Decker. "The aim has been simply to depicture ... those invigorating scenes connected with our national sports ... " - Preface "Like his contemporaries, 'Nimrod' (C.J. Apperley) and 'Yorkshireman' (Surtees), Mills deserves the foremost recognition amongst the ranks of those versatile scribes, pertaining..... Read More about The Old Hall; or, Our Hearth and Homestead ... In Three Volumes

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...

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

[New York: Privately Printed, 1880; 1881]. One of a few copies printed. A Shakespeare New York Calendar: "...one of a few copies printed..." Rare and charming little calendars compiled by this New York antiquarian, member of the New York Historical Society, and co-founder of the Bradford Club, which was a...... Read More about Events in the History of New York City with Illustrations from Shakespeare by a New Yorker

[New Zealand: ca. 1890]. The 2nd King of the Maoris: a Rare Carte-de-Visite. A rare care-de-visite portrait of Tawhiao (c. 1822-1894), the 2nd Maori King, who “…left a legacy of religious principles from which his people would draw a future dream for Tainui: the rebirth of a self-sufficient economic base..... Read More about Carte de visite portrait of Tawhiao, 2nd Maori King, captioned “Tawahio [sic] the Maori King”

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First edition, no. 87 of 775 copies signed by the author. Read More about Strange Interlude

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

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

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...

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...

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. First edition. No. 44 of 50 copies only on Japan vellum stock the first printing from new plates, signed by Merle Johnson on the limitation page. Read More about Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Compiled by Merle Johnson

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...

London: W. Clowes for Trübner & Co, 1861. First edition. Sadleir's Copy. MICHAEL SADLEIR'S COPY of the scarce first edition of one the great historical novels. Set in of the latter part of the 15-century, and against a background of the Reformation, the invention of printing, and a wealth of..... Read More about The Cloister and the Hearth. A Tale of the Middle Ages