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Boston: W. J. Reynolds, 1853-55. First Editions. Rollo in Europe--First Editions. Jacob Abbott (1803-79), an American congregational minister and educator, wrote the famous Rollo series of books (Rollo at Work, Rollo at Play, etc.) to teach his young readers specific moral values and concepts. In these travel books, following the.....  Read More Item Details for Rollo's Tour in Europe: Rollo on the Atlantic (1853); Rollo in Paris (1854); Rollo in Switzerland (1854); Rollo on the Rhine (1855); Rollo in London (1855) Add to Wish List

Item #18295

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London: George Bell & Sons, York St., Covent Garden. New York: 112, Fourth Street, 1891-1901. The poets (and number of volumes) are: Akenside (1), Beattie (1), William Blake (1), Burns (3), Butler (2), Chatterton (2), Chaucer (6), Churchill (3), Coleridge (2), Collins (1), Cowper (3), Dryden (5), Falconer (1), Goldsmith.....  Read More Item Details for The Aldine Edition of British Poets Add to Wish List

Item #218165

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[probably German]: [c. 1880?]. Read More Item Details for Young boy, barefoot, with stick on stair. Full Figure Add to Wish List

Item #13873

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Hartford, Connecticut: June 14, 1787. Barlow to Hayley, Student to Mentor. An important letter on the state of art and literature in early America. Hayley was a major influence on Barlow. Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed. To William Hayley Esq. "The character you sustain in the literary world induces me to request your acceptance of the Poem [not present] herewith forwarded to the care of Doct. Price. The cultivation of the arts on this side of the Atlantic has hitherto been attended with very little ... , whether it be most owing to a defect in native genius, or the want of libraries & a Metropolis favourable to the institution ... " Add to Wish List

Item #232874

Price: $4,500

London: Witherby for the New York Zoological Society, 1918-1927. First edition, no. 67 of 600 numbered copies. Beebe's text was been called "perhaps the greatest ornithological work of the present century, notable not only for its beauty and the wealth of information it contains, but also for the unusual grace.....  Read More Item Details for A Monograph of the Pheasants Add to Wish List

Item #243916

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ca. 1803-1814. A fine binding from the shop of the French-born Auguste Marie, Comte de Caumont, dating from his period at 1 Frith Street, which he occupied from 1803-1814. It is generally accepted that de Caumont was not himself a binder, but rather managed the shop, tended to customers and.....  Read More Item Details for Commonplace book of original drawings, engravings and transcribed poetry Add to Wish List

Item #257746

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Dublin: Printed for George Mullens, Temple-Bar, 1815. Large Paper Copy. "The present very limited impression of Lord Castlehaven's Memoirs-is taken from the edition of 1684." Large Paper in Signed Mullen Binding. Read More Item Details for The Earl of Castlehaven's Review; Or, His Memoirs of His Engagement and Carriage in the Irish Wars. with Lord Anglesey's Letter Containing Observations and Reflexions Thereon Or His Memoirs of His Engagement and Carriage in the Irish Wars : with Lord Anglesey's Letter, Containing Observations Add to Wish List

Item #242295

Price: $550

Boston: Issued exclusively for the Members of The Bibliophile Society, 1907. First edition, one of 470 copies only. Bixby's Own Copy, Printed on Vellum. PRINTED ON VELLUM, on one side of the leaf only. W. K. BIXBY'S COPY with his bookplate. Engraved decorated title and plate by M. & W......  Read More Item Details for Unpublished Poems by Bryant and Thoreau. “Musings” by Wiliam Cullen Bryant [Introduction by Curtis Hidden Page] and “Godfrey of Boulogne” by Henry D.Thoreau [Introduction by F. B. Sanborn] Add to Wish List

Item #19736

Price: $2,600

Ca. 1930. Blackmore, Katie. Original Watercolor by Katie Blackmore. An exquisite and highly decorative sudy of a kimono-clad woman against a black india ink background. Katie Blackmore, R.B.A., (fl. 1920-1950) was noted for the delicacy of her detail as well as her keen sense of design, and both are amply.....  Read More Item Details for Japanese Street Vendor Carrying Her Child Add to Wish List

Item #13779

Price: $4,500

St. Charles County, Missouri Territory: July 5, 1819, September 8, 1827 and October 30, 1876. Signed by Daniel Boone's Sons, Daniel M. and Nathan. Daniel Boone (1734-1820), born near Reading, Pennsylvania, is known as a great pioneer and Indian fighter. His family left for North Carolina in 1750 and settled.....  Read More Item Details for Together, three documents signed by Daniel Boone's sons: Manuscript Document, signed by Daniel M. Boone with two lines in his hand, 2 pp., 8vo, dated November 14, 1817 and July 5, 1819, being a document filed with the County of St. Charles listing a tally of debts for items purchased from Boone (his name appears as "Boon" within the document) accrued by Francis McDermed between June 1814 and March 1815, sworn to by Boone's clerk, John Lindsey, before Joseph Cotts, a lawyer. On the latter date, Boone acknowledges receipt of the payment in full from Hugh McDermed and signs the receipt; [and] Autograph Document, signed by Nathan Boone, 1 1/2 pages, written on a large scrap of paper, dated September 8, 1827, being a document filed with the St. Charles County probate court requesting the Mrs. Antoine Laclane and Frances Laclane, administrators of the estate of Antoine Laclane, pay an unspecified amount to Robert W. Wells as agent for Nathan Boone (his name appears as "Boon" at the top of the document); on verso, opposite Boone's calculations and filing information is a half-page of writing in the hand of W. L. Mill, agent for Robert W. Wells, acknowledging receipt of the sum of forty-two dollars and ninety-two and one half cents which settles the judgement filed with the court on March 14, 1826; [and] Manuscript Document, signed by Daniel M. Boone, 1 1/4 pages, folio, dated October 30, 1876, being a Guardian Bond, an obligation between Boone, Thomas D. Stephenson, and Seth Millington that they are bound to perform the duties of guardians for the $800 estate of Mattilda Patton, an orphan for whom Stephenson is legal guardian Add to Wish List

Item #13488

Price: $7,500

v.p: v.d. Collection of 31 Books Inscribed by Paul Bowles to Composer Phillip Ramey. Phillip Ramey is an American composer and writer and was one of Paul Bowles’ closest friends towards the end of the author‘s life. Ramey was for many years the annotator and program editor at the New.....  Read More Item Details for Collection of 31 books inscribed by Paul Bowles to his friend, composer Phillip Ramey Add to Wish List

Item #251333

Price: $7,500

[New York]: 1923. Original Huck Finn Illustration by Worth Brehm. A poignant and surperbly drawn depiction of the scene when Huck, out hunting on Jackson's Island, meets the runaway slave, Jim. Huck stands at the left of the drawing, while Jim, at the foot of a large tree, kneels in.....  Read More Item Details for Illustration for Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Add to Wish List

Item #12462

Price: $6,000

New York: Ca. 1910. Brehm, Worth. Original Tom Sawyer Illustration by Worth Brehm. A delightful scene, showning Tom and his cronies suffering from the effects of their experiments with tobacco and manfully trying to disguise the fact. Read More Item Details for “I've lost my knife. I reckon I better go and find it” Add to Wish List

Item #12481

Price: $4,000

New York: 1910. Worth Brehm. Original Tom Sawyer Preliminary Drawing by Worth Brehm. A very interesting drawing indeed, showing Tom, in profile, seated on a barrel with other boys standing by, directing one of a series of his chums who, for a consideration, he has allowed to whitewash the fence.....  Read More Item Details for Preliminary drawing for illustration to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Add to Wish List

Item #12736

Price: $1,100

Oxford: Published by Simon Nowell Smith, February, 1930 - June 1931. Includes two early poems by Evelyn Waugh, three by Cecil Day Lewis, contributions by A.J.A. Symons, John Sparrow, and Lord David Cecil. A Rex Whistler headpiece appears in volume V, p. 99. Read More Item Details for Farrago Add to Wish List

Item #16644

Price: $400

New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1906. Crawford, Will. Second (?) edition. His First Book, Inscribed. A classic of American humor, inscribed on the flyleaf: "I like to think about the air It is so very queer; It is around us everywhere All through the atmosphere. Ellis Parker Butler 1921.....  Read More Item Details for "Pigs is Pigs" Add to Wish List

Item #18057

Price: $600

London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1841. Third edition. Read More Item Details for Christmas Improvement; or, Hunting Mrs. P. A Tale Founded on Facts. Intended as a Christmas Box for those who wish to begin the New Year without her Add to Wish List

Item #233273

Price: $1,500

[Geneva: Les Frères Cramer, 1765]. Second edition with these illustrations. With Voltaire’s Notes and 34 Engraved Plates after Gravelot. An edition famous not only for its illustrations, but also for the fact that its was Voltaire was persuaded the Cramers to publish it for the benefit of a descendant of.....  Read More Item Details for Théatre…avec des Commentaires et autres Morceaux Intéressans Add to Wish List

Item #10851

Price: $400

New York: Pagan Publishing Co, n.d. [1918; 1919]. His First Book Appearance. Contains two poems by Hart Crane ("October-November," and "Fear") - both of which had previously appeared in The Pagan Magazine - here collected for the first time in his first book appearance. His first book of poems, White.....  Read More Item Details for A Pagan Anthology. Composed of Poems by Contributors to the Pagan Magazine. [with:] A Second Pagan Anthology .. Add to Wish List

Item #17005

Price: $1,000

London: David Bogue, [1854]. Cruikshank, George. First edition, later issue. “George Cruikshank’s Fairy Library”. Wih the Plates Colored by Hand. Read More Item Details for The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk Add to Wish List

Item #233103

Price: $850

“Claymont” [Delaware]: Dec 9, 1879. Fine little pencil sketch by the great illustrator of a Victorian couple sitting at a table near the kitchen window - very possibly a scene from Dickens. Read More Item Details for Drawing, signed. with an Autograph Note signed presenting it to Mr. Edward Denham of New Bedford, Mass Add to Wish List

Item #233429

Price: $2,000

Paris: Paul Brame et C. M. De Hauke aux Arts et Metiers Graphiques, [1946-1949]. First edition, Number 879 of 980 numbered copies (from a total edition of 1,030). Read More Item Details for Degas et Son Œuvre Add to Wish List

Item #323748

Price: $1,500

1871. These three drawings were done for the Household Edition of Dickens's Little Dorrit,1871 (Book II,Chapter X; Book I, Chapter III, Book I, Chapter XIX). Mahoney (1816- 1876) was a talented British magazine and book illustrator who also illustrated Dickens's Oliver Twist and Our Mutual Friend. A master of the.....  Read More Item Details for Three Illustrations to Dickens's Little Dorrit Add to Wish List

Item #16568

Price: $750

Delft: Waltman, 1917. First edition. A seminal study of the schools of modern art by this Dutch artist and founder of "De Stijl", which was first issued in this same year. Normally, the book appears in wrappers. It is very scarce indeed in the publisher's boards. Read More Item Details for De nieuwe beweging in de schilderkunst Add to Wish List

Item #232074

Price: $10,000

Philadelphia: J. & T. Doughty, 1830-1833. First edition. COMPLETE SET - THE WEBB COPY. "A mine of information on contemporary sport and natural history" (Phillips). A landmark of American sporting publication, issued in parts by the brothers Thomas and John Doughty. Subscriptions dwindled after Thomas departed for Boston, and the.....  Read More Item Details for The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports Add to Wish List

Item #244974

Price: $1,250

London: Printed for Jones & Co, 1821-2. First edition, third issue. With the Two Extra Plates. An imitation of Pierce Egan's famous Life in London, with some merit of its own and a foil to its contemporary, and as a guide to the social history of early nineteenth century London..... Read More Item Details for Real Life in London; or, The Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His Cousin, The Hon. Tom. Dashall, through the Metropolis; Exhibiting a Living Pictures of Fashionable Characters, Manners, and Amusements in High and Low Life. By An Amateur Add to Wish List

Item #18215

Price: $2,500

Boston: Houghton MIfflin, 1917. First Edition. With a Fine Collection of Original Photographs. Engraving by Bartolozzi with his signature, engraving of Henry Arthur Jones and his signature. Read More Item Details for Passages from the Journals of Thomas Russell Sullivan 1891-1903 Add to Wish List

Item #18138

Price: $3,000

N.d. [Ca. 1926]. Norman, Thomas. Read More Item Details for An Album of 39 fine pen and ink drawings, most signed, which are illustrations to Faust and other tales Add to Wish List

Item #13550

Price: $4,000

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited and New York: George E. Croscup, 1889. Extra Illustrated Edition, Limited to twenty numbered and registered copies. This is Copy No. 1. Extra-Illustrated with Water Color and rare prints. COPY NUMBER ONE WITH WATER COLORED PRINTS. Read More Item Details for The Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Fitzgerald. Edited by William Aldis Wright Add to Wish List

Item #254084

Price: $12,500

[Leipzig]: Moriss Georg Weidmann, 1690. First edition. First edition of the most important late seventeenth century German work on gardening, by Heinrich Hesse, overseer of the Electoral Gardens in Mainz, who specifically adapted French notions of garden design to German conditions, and whose work remained influential through the mid-eighteenth century.....  Read More Item Details for Neue Garten-Lust: das ist Gründliche Vorstellung wie ein Lust-Küchen und Baum Garten unter unserem Teutschen Climate füglich anzurichten Add to Wish List

Item #247685

Price: $750

New York: George Dearborn, 1836. Narrative describing a trip to Ohio and Michigan and return via Chicago. Read More Item Details for Life on the Lakes: Being Tales and Sketches Collected Duing a Trip to the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior Add to Wish List

Item #314455

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London: Done for the George G. Harrap Co. limited edition of 125 copies, 1940. Stephen Gooden (1892-1955) was the most accomplished line engraver of his time. He illustrated a number of books, among them the Nonesuch Press Bible, the Rubaiyat, the Fables of La Fontaine, George Moore's The Brook Kerith.....  Read More Item Details for Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Add to Wish List

Item #237159

Price: $4,000

New York: Printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn for Random House, 1928. Angelo, Valenti. No. 56 of 150 copies, SIGNED by Angelo. A superb example of the Grabhorn expertise, one of the Fifty Books of the Year; Rudolph Koch's Gothic type (Bibel Gotisch) is used here for the first time.....  Read More Item Details for The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. Which treateth of the Weye to Hierusalem and of the Marvayles of Inde, with Other Ilands and Countryes Add to Wish List

Item #236765

Price: $1,750

London: Martin Secker, 1919. Signed by Beerbohm, Graves, et. al. The first of only three numbers of this rare little magazine edited by Graves, with the signatures of the contributors, including Graves himself, Max Beerbohm, John Galsworthy, Siegried Sasson, John Masefield, Robert Nichols, W.H. Davies, and others. The first two.....  Read More Item Details for The Owl. No. 1 May 1919 Add to Wish List

Item #11652

Price: $750

Newtown, Wales: Printed by James Wardrop at the Gregynog Press, 1938. Stone, Reynolds. No. 81 of 400 copies. A little gem of a book, one of the most charming of the Gregynog's books, with exquisite engravings by Stone. Read More Item Details for The Praise and Happinesse of the Countrie-Life. Written originally in Spanish … Put into English by H. Vaughan, Silurist. Reprinted from the edition of 1651 Add to Wish List

Item #233845

Price: $1,500

London: Printed by William Godid, for William Shrewsbury ... and John Leigh, 1676. First edition. Christmas Restored. First edition of these devotional treatises by the famous jurist, containing the first appearance of his "Poems upon Christmas Day" (pp. 91-118 of part 2). The celebration of Christmas, having recently been outlawed.....  Read More Item Details for Contemplations Moral and Divine Add to Wish List

Item #233122

Price: $4,000

Paris: Chez Durand, 1758. First edition, second issue. Banned and Burned: the Rare First edition. First edition of the last major work of the French philosopher and encyclopédiste Helvetius, De l'esprit (On the Mind) was condemned by the Church and the Sorbonne for its uncompromising atheism, regarded as dangerously revolutionary.....  Read More Item Details for De l'esprit Add to Wish List

Item #233527

Price: $1,350

London: Joseph Cundall, 1846. A charming story about a Christmas gathering at the house of Dr. Littlepump, in a small German village near Dresden, and the guests' encounter with a good-natured, well-mannered and quite talkative, bear. Read More Item Details for The Good-Natured Bear. A Story for Children of All Ages Add to Wish List

Item #233101

Price: $650

np: nd c. 1960. Read More Item Details for A Prayer Add to Wish List

Item #233614

Price: $1,250

probably Italian: 19th Century. Classical Oil Paintings. Decorative studies, probably from a larger series of classical divinities. Read More Item Details for Diana: oil on board of the goddess of the chase, holding a bow and arrow; together with matching oil on board of Flora, goddess of flowers, with an armful of blossoms; both figures poised against a background of blue Add to Wish List

Item #18236

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London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1775. Second edition, printed within a few days of the first impression. In answer to the colonists’ rallying cry of “No taxation without representation,” Johnson invokes the notion of virtual representation, and argues that the colonists “are represented … by the same.....  Read More Item Details for Taxation No Tyranny; an Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress Add to Wish List

Item #236330

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[London?]: 1921. Kelly, Richard Barrett Talbot (1896-1971). Read More Item Details for The Hideous Hermit—Forest of Wild Thyme—Noyes Add to Wish List

Item #14860

Price: $1,500

Original Kemble Drawing. Edward Windsor Kemble (1861-1933) is best-known for his superb illustrations of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Puddin’ Head Wilson, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and several of Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus stories. He was a self-taught artist, whose work “reveals a strong sense of humor.....  Read More Item Details for "The Search through Gus' Pockets" Add to Wish List

Item #16561

Price: $5,000

[Clèves, Prussia?]: Ca. 1845. An attractive drawing of a reposeful man in rural dress, probably a study for one of the artist's paintings of country life. Notes Bénézit, “[He] occupies an interesting place in the Dutch school of the 19th century”: the son of an Amsterdam Acedemician, and married to.....  Read More Item Details for Recumbent peasant: pencil on paper, signature at lower left “B C Koek Koek” in another hand Add to Wish List

Item #18193

Price: $1,250

London: Martin Secker, [1929]. One of 250 Signed. Read More Item Details for Pansies Add to Wish List

Item #12150

Price: $7,500

London: Printed for G. & J. Robinson, 1804. First edition, with half-titles. A BEAUTY. First edition in an Irish binding of Sophia Lee's partly autobiographical epistolary novel. It was translated into French by Madame de Salaberry and published under the title Savinia Rivers, ou le danger d'aimer. Read More Item Details for The Life of a Lover Add to Wish List

Item #240930

Price: $2,125

London: [c. 1860]. Leech, John. Fine Equestrian Cartoon by John Leech. Relates to Leech’s series of riding cartoons in the magazine Punch. John Leech (1817-1864) was one of the most prolific and successful of the English artists and caricaturists of the mid 19th century. “His humour was like his talent.....  Read More Item Details for “Brown tries his new Hack, which is as quiet as a Lamb,—just about!” Add to Wish List

Item #14110

Price: $1,375

Leech, John. John Leech (1817-1864) was one of the most prolific and successful of the English artists and caricaturists of the mid 19th century. "His humour was like his talent, gentle, warm-hearted and positive, his world, the ups and downs of middle class life, the sports of the squirearchy, and.....  Read More Item Details for “Oliver Twist” Add to Wish List

Item #14446

Price: $5,500

v.p: Ca. mid-1940s. Thurber! Mencken! The Archive of the Best-Selling The Aspirin Age. The Aspirin Age, edited by Isabel Leighton, actress, writer, translator, foreign correspondent, was a compilation of pieces by various writers concerning the events in American life and history from the 1920s-1940s. It was a best-seller, going through.....  Read More Item Details for Archive of her book, The Aspirin Age, consisting of first editions in English, Chinese and Japanese, photographs and promotional material, and approximately 50 letters from authors appearing in the book and others involved in its production Add to Wish List

Item #15652

Price: $12,500

1778. State of the French Government: Louis XVI attempts Reform, 1776-8. In a law dated 18 March 1776, Louis XVI attempted to rationalize the organization of provincial governments, and the present manuscript is the resulting report on the actual ranks and classes of the various provincial government officials. The principal.....  Read More Item Details for Etat des gouvernemens tant généraux que particuliers et des Etats Majors du Royaume déterminés par le Roi Louis XVI suivant l’Ordonnance de sa Majesté du 18 mars 1776 Add to Wish List

Item #247863