India Company School, Hoe Copy
Item 308572Album of Indian miniatures.
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[India]: ca.1830. India Company School, Hoe Copy. Read More Item Details for Album of Indian miniatures Add to Wish List
Item #308572
Price: $3,000
[India]: ca.1830. India Company School, Hoe Copy. Read More Item Details for Album of Indian miniatures Add to Wish List
Item #308572
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Paris: Nicolas Langlois, ruë Saint Jacques, 1696. Second edition. Of the first edition (1691), Fowler wrote, "from the point of view of the practical architect this Cours d'architecture was the best work of its kind yet issued" Read More Item Details for Cours d’Architecture qui comprend les ordres de Vignole, Avec des Commentaires, les Fgures & Descriptions de ses plus beaux Bâtimens, & de ceux de MICHEL-ANGE…& tout ce qui regarde L’Art de Bâtir… Add to Wish List
Item #316174
Price: $500
Buenos Aires: Rueda, [1968]. The classic Argentine epic poem, El Gaucho Martin Fierro, with an introduction by Borges. Borges wrote prologues for three editions of Martin Fierro in the 1960s (each is distinct; this is the third). Read More Item Details for Martin Fierro. [Prologo de Jorge Luis Borges] Add to Wish List
Item #315954
Price: $1,750
Buenos Aires: Francisco A. Colombo, 1933. First edition. Read More Item Details for Las Kenningar Add to Wish List
Item #315953
Price: $500
Buenos Aires: Torres Agüero, [1977]. Second edition. Read More Item Details for Prólogos. Con un prólogo de prólogos Add to Wish List
Item #315962
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London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855-56. First edition. "In 1852 Burton proposed to the Royal Geographical Society that he make the hajj, or pilgrimage, to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. Forbidden to non-Muslims, less than half a dozen Europeans were known to have visited them and..... Read More Item Details for Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah Add to Wish List
Item #314798
Price: $3,000
Florence: 6 November 1539. A letter of recommendation from Cosimo II de Medici (1519-1574), Duke of Florence and later the Grand Duke of Tuscany, for his counselor Agnolo Niccolini (1502-1567), addressed to the Conte di Benevento With a later Medici family letter: Medici, Carlo de. Letter signed, [N.p. , likely..... Read More Item Details for Letter signed (“fratello et servitor Cosimo de Medici”), to the Conte di Benevento, 6 di Novemb. 1539 Add to Wish List
Item #317061
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London: For the Author, T. Spilsbury and Son, 1793. First edition. Dalzel was Governor at Cape Coast Castle, the notorious slave trading hub on the coast of present day Ghana. Read More Item Details for The History of Dahomy, an Inland Kingdom of Africa; Compiled from Authentic Memoirs Add to Wish List
Item #314830
Price: $1,500
New York: B. Frodsham, 548 Broadway, 1861. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed to Dr. E. Parmly from the author. Presentation Copy. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Dr. E. Parmele [sic, Eleazar Parmly] / Presented by / The Author." Eleazar Parmly was a prominent 19th-century dentist. A rare presentation copy..... Read More Item Details for The Prince's Visit: A Humorous Description of the Tour of His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, through the United States of America, in 1860. New York: B. Frodsham, 1861. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed to Dr. E. Parmly from the author Add to Wish List
Item #317356
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Santa Ana, California: 10 January 1981. ‘I am one of the secret Christians battling the Black Iron Prison’. An outstanding letter from Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), the “Shakespeare of Science Fiction”, writes (in part): “And in March 1974 I saw a prison; we are in it; I call it (as..... Read More Item Details for Typed Letter, signed (“Love, Phil”), to “Pat” [Patricia Warrick], 10 January 1981, on anamnesis and identity, the events of March 1974, and his novel Valis Add to Wish List
Item #315289
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1830s-40s. A collection of letters written to George Barrell Emerson (1797-1881), pioneer of girls' education and cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson graduated from Harvard in 1817, and served as tutor in mathematics and natural philosophy there from 1819 to 1821. He left that post in 1821 to become the..... Read More Item Details for A collection of 16 ALS, being received correspondence from various New England thinkers and educators Add to Wish List
Item #314884
Price: $10,000
[Early 1800s]. NORDMANN COPY. A collection of French erotic lithographs in an ornate romantic binding. Includes a series of 17 lithographs ("Le départ de la garnison," "L'Antichambre en goguette," "Ah! Le bon bouillon que j'aurai" etc.). Read More Item Details for Album of erotic plates Add to Wish List
Item #317424
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[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
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[Havana, Cuba]: Bohemia, April 16, 1964. Signed beneath the image with the revolutionary's signature slogan, "Hasta la victoria siempre, Che." A rare image of Che, taken in Havana in 1964 for Bohemia, a Cuban weekly magazine. Read More Item Details for Photograph, inscribed Add to Wish List
Item #314788
Price: $400
Ottawa, Illinois: Jameson Books, Inc, [1997]. Copy #3 of 250 copies of the Special Limited Edition, inscribed to Dick (Scaife) and signed by Edwin Feulner by the President of the Heritage Foundation. DICK SCAIFE'S COPY. Dick Scaife was one of the founding members of the Heritage Foundation. He joined Heritage’s..... Read More Item Details for The Power of Ideas. The Heritage Foundation at 25 Years Add to Wish List
Item #317322
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Yverdon …et Paris: P. Fr. Didot le jeune… and Méquignon l’aîné, 1779. First edition. Three Rare Treatises: Rabies, Breast-Feeding, Public Health. Rare treatise on Rabies by this surgeon, physician (1742-1832), and author of several medical treatises, including a six volume History of Anatomy and Surgery (Paris, 1770-73). Bound with two..... Read More Item Details for Observations sur la nature et sur le Traitement de la Rage … Add to Wish List
Item #10470
Price: $900
Winchester, Massachusetts: Emdund H. Garrett [Printed at the DeVinne Press], 1896. Garrett, Edmund H. Number 26 of 50 copies on Japan vellum, signed by the translator. With A.L.s. from Louise Guiney to the Illustrator. A beautiful and stylish 1896 edition of the Prosper Mérimée novella written in 1845 and the..... Read More Item Details for Carmen. Translated from the French and illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett. With a Memoir of the Author by Louise Imogen Guiney Add to Wish List
Item #266939
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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1887. A Major Landmark in photography. The first edition of this rare and important photographic work is a landmark in the evolution of the medium, and in the role of mechanical reproduction on the fine arts. Although the complete set of images for Animal Locomotion totaled..... Read More Item Details for Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements Add to Wish List
Item #312983
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Oxford: J. Vincent, 1839. First edition of the author's first book. Presentation Copy. Ruskin’s first book, published while a student at Christ Church, Oxford, the Newdigate Prize poem for 1839. "With J. Ruskin's kind regards" on the title-page. Read More Item Details for Salsette and Elephanta: a Prize Poem Add to Wish List
Item #315006
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London: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1814. First edition. A fine copy of this important work by Salt on his two years journey to Abyssinia. "On 2 March 1809 Salt sailed on a mission from the British government to Abyssinia, to carry presents to the king and report on the state..... Read More Item Details for A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels into the Interior of that Country, Executed in the Years 1809 and 1810 Add to Wish List
Item #314823
Price: $900
[New York]: Harper & Row, [1970]. First edition. Read More Item Details for In the Night Kitchen Add to Wish List
Item #315034
Price: $6,500
Np: Property of Selmur Productions [Alert 8014 W. 3rd St.], 30 June [to 21 September], 1967. A Work in Progress. “Charly is unable to answer — but it is obvious that somewhere in his simple heart the answer is locked.” A superb association copy of this unspecified, but quite early..... Read More Item Details for Charly A Screenplay Add to Wish List
Item #258253
Price: $7,500
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, 1893. First edition. Inscribed to a prominent animal rights activist. Inscribed at length by Stanley on the title-page: "To the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, who has done so much for the better treatment of animals. This book which posits so many African morals upon the same subject is..... Read More Item Details for My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories Add to Wish List
Item #314795
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Various places: Delhi, Baghdad, Asolo, Aden, Cairo, London, Cyrenaica, etc: 1935 to 1979. A substantial archive of unpublished letters of Freya Stark (1893-1993), author and intrepid traveller in the greater Middle East who moved in military and intelligence circles during the war years. Stark wrote a multi-volume autobiography and an..... Read More Item Details for Archive of 88 Autograph letters, signed, from Freya Stark, to Lucy Beach, Minnie Gray Granville, Stefana Drower, Peggy Drower, Sir Sydney Cockerell, and others, with related materials. [And:] Research archives of biographer Jane Geniesse, author of Passionate Nomad Add to Wish List
Item #314912
Price: $20,000
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, [1877-88]. First edition. The first edition of this pioneering use of photography for sociological study. The Scotsman Thomson (1837-1921) spent the decade 1862-1872 traveling in and producing some of the finest early photographic images of the Far East. After resettling in Britain, he..... Read More Item Details for Street Life in London. With Permanent Photographic Illustrations Taken from Life Expressly for this Publication Add to Wish List
Item #314998