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

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

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

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

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

New Haven: Printed by B.L. Hamlen, 1843. Printed for Private Circulation. Presentation from America’s ‘First Arabist of Note’. Inscribed on front cover "Rev. Dr. Bacon with the respects of the author." Edward Elbridge Salisbury (1814-1901), “America’s first Arabist of note”, studied theology and Hebrew, and graduated from Yale in the..... Read More about An Inaugural Discourse on Arabic and Sanskrit Literature, delivered in New Haven, Wednesday,...

Millis, Mass: The Complete Sportsman, 1994 & 1997. Limited edition Number 133 of 250 copies printed on 157 gsm Glossy Art paper and hand bound, signed by Paul Schmookler and Ingrid V. Sils. Read More about Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A Natural History treating both standard and rare...

London: Printed [by William Strahan] for J. and R. Tonson … T. Longman [et al], 1765. Second Johnson edition. Johnson's Shakespeare: A Landmark of Literary Scholarship. A handsome copy of Johnson's famous edition of Shakespeare; the second edition, issued November 1765, a month after the first edition, and distinguished only..... Read More about The Plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of...

London: T. and A. Constable, 1901-1904. The Edinburgh Edition of the Henley Shakespeare, Number 44 of 150 copies. ONE OF 150 COPIES. Read More about The Works … The Edinburgh Edition. Edited by W. E. Henley

Toronto: Printed by T. & A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press for the Publisher's Association of Canada Limited, 1913-1917. Author' Edition. First edition, Number 848 of 875 Impressions on All-Rag Watermarked Paper, signed by the Publisher. Read More about Canada and Its Provinces. A History of the Canadian People and Their Institutions by One Hundred...