Illustrated Books
Fine illustrated books including first editions of well known children's books both American and British, color plates books and photobooks.
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23 Chromolithographic Plates from "Florilegium Harlemense"
[London: 1908] ]. Read More
Price: $1,200
31 Devises à l'usage des grands.
s.l: s.n, 1945. One of 15 Hors Commerce copies from an edtion of 215. Thirty-one erotic illustrations each of which is accompanied by a four line poem. Read More
Price: $250
The Comic History of Rome.
London: Bradbury & Evans. 11, Bouverie, [1852]. Leech, John. First Edition with the original parts bound in at back, with ads. With inserted ads as per Abbey. Read More
Price: $750
PRINTED WRAPPERS BOUND IN
The Comic History of England.
London: Published at the Punch Office, 85, Fleet Street, 1847. Leech, John. First edition. PRINTED WRAPPERS BOUND IN. Read More
Price: $850
![The Comic History of England [with:] The Comic History of Rome. Gilbert Abbott a'Beckett.](/pictures/thumb/261010.jpg?v=1438725292)
The Comic History of England [with:] The Comic History of Rome.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1847; 1848; [1852]. First editions. A fine and attractive set. Read More
Price: $850
The Comic History of England [with] The Comic History of Rome.
London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co, nd. Early Editions. A fine and attractive set. Read More
Price: $450
The Creation. Lines from the Old Testament and From Paradide Lost.
Manchester: [1977]. Number 90 of 135 copies sgned by the Artist printed on Jaopanese paper. Read More
Price: $250
Two Autograph Letters, Signed, One to Miss Luff (autograph request)and another to Mr. Harris (accepting dinner engagement).
Morgan Hall, Fairford, Gloucestershire: Nov 25, 1905 & March 10, 1906. Read More
Price: $150
Original pen, ink and pencil drawing, 8-3/4 by 5-3/4 inches, mounted to 10 by 7 1/2 inch leaf, being a....
Abbey, Edwin Austin. Abbey was a prominent American illustrator, noted for his period drawings for Harper's and numerous literary volumes in the style of Hugh Thomson. "He was an important link with American drawing for British artists and was influential in introducing the taste for 18th century subjects and themes"... Read More
Price: $1,000
![New York in the Thirties [formerly titled: Changing New York]. Berenice Abbott, , Elizabeth McCausland.](/pictures/thumb/302621.jpg?v=1451927192)
Signed by Abbott
New York in the Thirties [formerly titled: Changing New York].
New York: Dover Publications, (1973). First Dover edition of Changing New York. Signed by Abbott. Signed "Berenice Abbott" on the title-page. Read More
Price: $300
Rare Berenice Abbott Portraits of Djuna Barnes
Group of 14 photographic snapshots of Djuna Barnes.
[New York: October, 1957]. Rare Berenice Abbott Portraits of Djuna Barnes. Rare images of Barnes in middle-age, taken by her friend Berenice Abbott at her studio in New York. These images remained unpublished and largely unseen until they were included in Hank O'Neal's 1990 memoir of his relationship with Barnes... Read More
Price: $2,000
Photographic portrait of Abbott, seated at his desk.
New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. [1920?]. Signed by the famous Congregationalist minister who took over Henry Ward Beecher’s congregation: “Yours sincerely / Lyman Abbott.” Provenance: C.N. Thomas of Underwood and Underwood. Read More
Price: $150
Along the Rhine with Ackermann
A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne: With Illustrations of the Scenes of Remarkable Events, and of...
London: R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, 1820. First edition, early issue, with the plates unnumbered. Along the Rhine with Ackermann. One of Ackermann’s most breathtaking color plate books — these exquisite views of the Rhine are justly prized for their matchless beauty. Read More
Price: $4,500
Fine Early Copy of Ackermann's Oxford
A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings.
London: Rudolf Ackermann, 1814. First edition. Fine Early Copy of Ackermann's Oxford. An early copy. The list of plates in vol. I is the first state (it does not list the portraits of Founders; this copy does not include the Founders). Plate 1, vol.1, is mislabeled “History of Cambridge” and... Read More
Price: $6,000
History of the Merchant Taylors' School.
London: Ackermann, 1816. First Edition, First Issue (paper watermarked 1816). This folio forms part of one of Ackermann’s larger, though not so successful projects, his History of the Colleges. Ford in his book on Ackermann notes that William Combe wrote the text for this, as well as five other schools... Read More
Price: $750
!["The Upholsterer's Repository/ Published by R. Ackermann's, 101, Strand,/ Price £1. 4s, in boards." [drop title]. Rudolph Ackermann.](/pictures/thumb/256777.jpg?v=1459971493)
"The Upholsterer's Repository/ Published by R. Ackermann's, 101, Strand,/ Price £1. 4s, in boards." [drop title].
London: R[udolph] Ackermann, 101, Strand, c. 1813. First Edition. Read More
Price: $750
The Pageant of History and the Panorama of today in Northern California...with Text by Nancy Newhall.
San Francisco: The American Trust Company, (1954). First Edition. Read More
Price: $150
These We Inherit. The Parklands of America.
San Francisco: Sierra Club, [1962]. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
Yosemite and the Range of Light.
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. First trade edition. A marvellous group of photographs of the area long associated with Ansel Adams - Yosemite "During his lifetime Adams was arguably the world's most famous photographer, with reproductions of his works hanging everywhere from college dorm rooms to museum galleries the world... Read More
Price: $300
Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History. Synchronized by Sebastian C. Adams. Salem Oregon.
Cincinnati, Ohio: Strobridge & Co, 1871. First edition. "In 1871, his Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History was published by Strobridge & Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, the premier publisher of American commercial art. The technique of chromolithography offered the emerging middle class affordable color reproductions and, in this case, made lessons of history... Read More
Price: $1,750
Autograph Note Signed to LIFE photographer ALFRED EISENSTAEDT, "For Alfred Eisenstaedt with greeting from Rocky New Hampshire, Sherman Adams, ---, 1952.
np: 1952. Eisenhower's Vicuña Coat Man. Read More
Price: $100
Addams to a Little Admirer
Autograph Letter, Signed (Chas Addams), to Robert Black (sic Block).
[New York]: 27 October 1954. Addams to a Little Admirer. The great American cartoonist of the macabre writes: “Dear Robert, Thanks for your very kind letter. I’m glad that you like my pictures and I will try to do more of them. They’re all so special, that it isn’t easy to... Read More
Price: $400
