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One of the rarest British color-plate architectural pattern books of the first half of the nineteenth century, Novel Designs for Cottages, Small Farms & Schools presents architecture as social engineering and provides the genesis … Robert Cruikshank Devastates Dandies
Dandies At Tea. “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy…” (Geo. M. Cohan). The clothes-obsessed dandy and dandyism phenomenon first appeared in the 1790s, both in London and Paris. In period vernacular, a dandy was differentiated from a … First Edition in the West: A “Pioneering Effort,” with Peking DuckIn 1687, a book that had been toiled upon by the Jesuits for decades was finally published. Titled Confucius Sinarum Philosophus [Confucius, Philosopher of the Chinese], it is the first edition of the first western translation of the … When Jackie Met André: Jacqueline Kennedy’s Gift Book to Malraux
The personal gift of Jacqueline and President Kennedy to French Minister of Culture André Malraux, in celebration of his … Who the Heck is Herwart von Hohenburg?
No copies have come to auction within the last thirty-five years. OCLC/KVK note only seven copies in institutional collections worldwide, only one of which is complete, in … When “Little Woman” and “Little Men’ Get Together, Hubba-Hubba
“I plod away, through I don’t enjoy this sort of thing. Never liked girls, or knew many, except my sisters, but our … A “Witch” So Rare It’s Scary
Some days I wake up lucky. I now have before me one of the great rarities in American literature, the true first edition of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Water Witch. Published no later … Subversive Book Asserts Rule By Law, Not KingIn 1644, Samuel Rutherford, a Presbyterian theologian, published Lex, Rex, the now excessively scarce, enormously important treatise on limited government and constitutionalism. Only four copies have fallen under the hammer within the last thirty-five years.Lex, Rex is the … The Miniature Theaters of Martin EngelbrechtIn the fourth decade of the eighteenth century a new form of entertainment emerged in a world hungry for novelty, cleverness, and beauty in the privacy of one’s home.Artist Martin Engelbrecht (1684-1756) and his brother Christian were printsellers … Tarzan Swings Into The 21st Century |
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