We are happy to present this selection of some of our best books in various categories, new arrivals, and a smattering of Californiana for the ABAA's California Book Fair, virtual version.
Milan: Gotardo da Ponte, 1510. First Edition. Uncut and Bound in Red Morocco. The first edition of the chronicler's biography of St Francis, written in 1399 by the Italian Franciscan Bartolomeo da Rinonico (Pisa, d. 1401), and presenting an extended comparison of each aspect of his life with that of..... Read More about Liber Conformitatum (vitae beati Francisci ad vitam Domini Iesu
Price: $7,500
[Rochester, NY ?]: 1899. First edition and apparently unrecorded. A manuscript slip, " 'Compliments of the 'Children,' " is tipped in before the first leaf. UNRECORDED. Illustrated diary of William B. Burke's three-week hunting and fishing trip up the Saguenay River into the country south of Chicoutimi in early October..... Read More about Memories of Chicoutimi
Price: $3,000
China: Ca. first half of 19th century. Album of 34 Original Chinese Watercolors. A very interesting and engaging collection of genre scenes. The trees, rocks, and landscapes are particularly well rendered, and the figures are full of life. The pictures in many such albums often follow a sequence of events..... Read More about Album of 34 Chinese watercolor paintings on paper
Price: $6,000
London: Privately printed at R. Martin's Lithographic Office, 1827. Done Entirely in Lithography. According to the subscriber's list the privately-printed work was limited to only 100 copies, subscribed for by 97 individuals. Very scarce with five examples cited by OCLC, with varying numbers of leaves: British Library (41 leaves); Yale..... Read More about Flowers: A Series of Short Poems, original and translated: illustrated with figures drawn and...
Price: $4,500
Down, Beckenham, Kent: November 26, [1869]. Regarding a new American edition of Origin. Unpublished. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) writes to Charles Layton, London agent for Appleton, about bringing out a revised and expanded second American edition of On the Origin of Species. The letter is a reply to Layton's of the..... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("Ch. Darwin"), to Charles Layton, Appleton's London agent,...
Price: $50,000
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First edition, binding state A. Read More about Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
Price: $2,750
[Carmel, Calif: 1927]. Hagemeyer Portrait of Suffragist Sara Bard Field. Magnificent portrait of the great suffragist, reformer, activist, free-thinker, and poet, Sara Bard Field (1882-1974). Field was also the passionate lover of the anarchist C.E.S. Wood, and the couple lived together in a celebrated "free union" first in San Francisco..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Sara Bard Field
Price: $2,500
Vp [but mostly Washington D.C.]: 1939-1977. The close relationship evident in these letters began in the 1930s, when Torre Seiniger was a sportswear buyer for Bullock's and Barry Goldwater ran his family's department store in Phoenix. The correspondence begins with letters written during World War II, beginning with a touching..... Read More about Archive of personal correspondence to his close friends Charles and Torre Seiniger, and his...
Price: $2,500
[Carmel, Calif: ca. 1930]. Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944) was a writer, poet, soldier, corporate lawyer, associate of Clarence Darrow, and a lover of books. He was a founder of Portland's Public Library and the Portland Art Museum, self-proclaimed anarchist, atheist, regular contributor to radical journals of the day, and..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Charles Erskine Scott Wood
Price: $1,500
Mexico [mostly Mexico City or San Luis Potosi]: 1805-1872. 1) Discurso Pronunciado por el Director del Colegio de San Anastasio la Noche de su Inauguracion. 10pp. Publisher's wrappers. San Luis Potosi: Imprenta del Gobierno, 1855. 2) Informe Pronunciado por el Licenciado Jose Castillo. 21pp. Publisher's wrappers. San Luis Potosi: Imp..... Read More about Sammelband of 54 pamphlets or circulars, largely relating to government affairs, constitutional...
Price: $4,500
[ca. 1813]. Harding, George P. The Original Ashmole Watercolor for Ackermann's Oxford. A fine watercolor rendering, based on Ashmole's Foundation Portrait by John Riley at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, and used as a plate in Ackermann's The History of the University of Oxford, 1814. The watercolor follows Riley very closely, but..... Read More about “Elias Ashmole, Esq, Founder of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford”
Price: $2,500
Philadelphia: John Binns for C.&A. Conrad; Petersburgh: Somervell & Conrad; Norfolk: Bonsal, Conrad & Co.; and Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jr, 1810. First edition. A Rare Issue with Separate Atlas. First edition of the first U.S. government exploration of the Southwest. Pike's narrative includes his account of his travels to explore..... Read More about An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and Through the Western Parts of...
Price: $18,500
Paris: C. L. F. Pancoucke, 1819-1820. One of 25 large paper copies in quarto. "Beautifully engraved plates illustrating the science of botany" (Dunthorne) Published as the last volume of P.P. Chaumeton's Flore Medicale, the work was issued separately in three different formats: a regular issue in octavo, 25 large-paper copies..... Read More about Leçon de Flore. Cours Complet de Botanique ... suivi d'une Iconographie Vegetale ... Ouvrage...
Price: $4,500
N.p. [Washington, D.C.?]: n.d. [1940?]. Rare FDR Log: A Radio Message from Ernest Hemingway. A log of FDR’s inspection cruise of naval bases in the British West Indies. The log is a detailed narrative of the President’s activities and the progress of the ship he traveled on, the Tuscaloosa. As..... Read More about Log of the President’s Inspection Cruise through the West Indies on Board the U.S.S....
Price: $7,500
Washington: 1876. First edition. In the Yellowstone: "Such fishing I have never had before" One of the earliest descriptions of Yellowstone, being the account of a hunting expedition to the north-western territories undertaken by the author and six officers (plus a contingent of enlisted men) including US Secretary of War..... Read More about A Trip to the Yellowstone National Park in July, August and September, 1875. From the Journal of...
Price: $22,500
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, Paternoster Row; and J. Jones, 111 Jermyn Street, 1848. First edition. Landmark of Salmon Fishing Literature. The very scarce first edition of the first British work on Norwegian angling. Issued at the instigation of J. Jones, a tackle dealer of Jermyn Street, who wrote..... Read More about Jones's Guide to Norway, and Salmon-fisher's Pocket Companion
Price: $8,750
Melbourne: Sands & McDougall, Printers, 1878. First separate edition. Wilson’s monograph appeared as a report of the Zoological and Acclimitization Society of Victoria, and as here in its first separate publication “for the convenience of those who are not Members of that Society”. It was subsequently published in London the..... Read More about The Californian Salmon. With an account of its introduction into Victoria
Price: $1,000