London: Smith, Elder, & Co.,, 1900. "His Descriptions of the Various Engagements are Masterpieces of Graphic Writing" DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Great Boer War… With Maps. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1900. First English edition. Octavo (8 x 5 1/4 inches; 204 x 133 mm.). x, 552, [12, publishers catalog]..... More
![Item #05002 Tragedy of the Korosko, The. [A Desert Drama]. Arthur Conan DOYLE, Sydney PAGET](/pictures/thumb/05002_1.jpg?v=1611347255)
London: Smith, Elder, & Co.,, 1898. "Sailing up the River Nile in "a Turtle-Bottomed, Round-Bowed Stern-Wheeler" With Forty Full-Page Illustrations by Sydney Paget DOYLE, Arthur Conan. [PAGET, Sydney, illustrator]. The Tragedy of the Korosko [A Desert Drama]. With Forty Full-Page Illustrations. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1898. First English edition..... More
Paris: Aux Bureaux du Charivari, 1871. Thirty-Nine Wonderfully Satiric Images by Daumier & Cham of the Siege of Paris by the Prussian army in the Winter of 1870-1871 CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé). DAUMIER, Honoré. Album du Siége Par Cham et Daumier. Recueil de Caricatures publiées pendant Le Siege dans Le..... More
![Item #05017 [The Three Correspondents. A Thrilling New War Story] The Windsor Magazine. Arthur...](/pictures/thumb/05017_1.jpg?v=1611343386)
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1896. "There was only the one little feathery clump of dôm plants in all that great wilderness of black rocks and orange sand" DOYLE, Arthur Conan. [The Three Correspondents. A Thrilling New War Story] The Windsor Magazine. London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, October 1896..... More
Bristol [&] London: J.W. Arrowsmith [&] Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton Kent & Co, [1893]. Conan Doyle's Napoleonic Era, Action and Adventure Novel DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Great Shadow and Beyond the City… With illustrations by James Greig and Paul Hardy. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, [and] London: Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton Kent & Co. Limited..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co.,, 1890. Strange Mystery Tales that are all Independent, Sometimes Involving Ship Voyages, Shipwrecks, Amnesia, Lost Love, Grand Thefts, Comedy, and Fairy Tales DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. First English edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. Diamonds are not Forever… DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Firm of Girdlestone. A Romance of the Unromantic by A. Conan Doyle. London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. First English edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 127 mm.). viii, [1-2]-399, [1, blank] pp. 32 pp. publisher's..... More
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1892. "He turned Lead into Gold" Millionaire; Gossip; Bankruptcy; Philanthropy; Love; Rejection; Suicide (This novel has them all…) DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Doings of Raffles Haw. London: Cassell & Company, 1892. First English edition. Small octavo (7 7/16 x 4 3/4 inches; 189 x 121 mm.).viii, [9]-256, [8..... More
Paris: Chez l’Auteur; Deroy; Et chez les principaux librairies de la République, , 1796. With 432 Hand Colored Plates Rarely Found Complete GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR, Jacques. Encyclopédie des Voyages, Contenant l’abrégé historiques des mœurs, usages, habitudes domestiques, religions, fêtes, supplices, funérailles, sciences, arts, et commerce de tous les peuples: Et la collection..... More
London: , 1835. Forty-Nine Hand-Colored Etched Plates by Alfred Crowquill after Robert Seymour SEYMOUR, [Robert]. CROWQUILL, Alfred, illustrator. Seymour’s Sketches, Illustrated in Prose & Verse by Alfred Crowquill [pseudonym of Alfred Forrester]. [London: H. Wallis & J. Thompson, n.d., 1835-36]. First edition, first issue. Quarto (10 3/16 x 8 7/16 inches; 262..... More
Paris & Bruxelles: Au bureau du Journal, 1869. Twenty-Eight Fine Hand Colored Costume Plates Including Ten Double Page [COSTUME]. Journal des Demoiselles et Petit Courrier des Dames Réunis. Modes de Paris. Littérature, Beaux-Arts, Théatres, Économie Domestique. Paris & Bruxelles: Au bureau du Journal, [16th January - 16th December, 1869]. First edition. Large..... More
Paris: Chaussures de Jacobs, 1846. A fine collection of fifty-four full-page hand colored fashion plates and seventeen hand colored plates of fashion apparels [COSTUME]. Journal des Dames et des Modes. Le Caprice. Paris: Chaussures de Jacobs, [1846]. First edition. Large octavo (10 3/16 x 7 inches; 259 x 178 mm.)..... More
Paris: Chez Ostervald ainé, Rittner, & Hautecœur, 1828. An Exceptionally Rare, Complete and Amusing Suite of Forty-Eight Hand Colored Lithographs Bound together with Sixty-Two Fine hand Colored Lithograph Plates by Charles Philipon, Émile Wattier, Jean Gabriel Scheffer and Leopold Zechmayer PHILIPON, Charles. WATTIER, Émile. [Les Compensations Composées et Dessinées par Ch. Philipon..... More
Paris: Chez Genty, 1829. 'Memories of a Brief Affair' Twelve Superb Hand-Colored Lithographs by Charles Philipon PHILIPON, Charles. Souvenir d' Amourette. [Memories of a brief affair]. [Paris]: Chez Genty, [1830]. First edition. Folio (13 x 9 1/2 inches; 331 x 241 mm.). Complete with twelve superb hand-colored lithograph plates by Charles Philipon..... More
![Item #04978 [Physionomie de L'Assemblée]. Honoré DAUMIER](/pictures/thumb/04978_1.jpg?v=1610750845)
Paris: Chez Aubert , 1849. Honoré Daumier's 'Uber' Rare Physionomie de L'Assemblée Thirty-One Superb Lithographs Complete DAUMIER, Honoré. [Physionomie de L'Assemblée]. [Physiognomy of the Assembly]. Paris: Chez Aubert, [November 10th, 1849 - February 18th, 1851]. First edition. Folio (14 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches; 653 x 260 mm.). Thirty-one fine lithographed plates (complete), each..... More
Paris: Jazerac et Duval, Engelmann, Langlumè & Brossier, 1824. First Edition of the Illustrator's First Book With Seventeen Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates ADAM, Victor. Un An de la Vie d un Jeune Homme. Histoire véritable en 17 Chapitres. Escrits par lui-même et Lithographiés par Victor Adam. Paris: Sazerac et Duval, Engelmann, Langlumè..... More
Paris: Genty, Editeur, 1830. Six Humorous Hand Colored Lithographs Depicting The Trials and Tribulations of Marriage PLATTEL, Henri Daniel. L'Alsacienne à Paris. Paris: Genty, Editeur, [1829]. First edition. Folio (13 x 9 1/2 inches; 330 x 241 mm.). Six fine hand colored plates lithographed by de Cheyère. Mid twentieth century quarter gray..... More
Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., 1840. A Scarce Vernier 'Dance' Album with Twelve Fine Hand Colored Lithograph Plates Heightened with Gum Arabic VERNIER, Charles, illustrator. Croquis des Bals Publics & Bals Masquès de Paris par les Dessinateurs du Charivari. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., [ca. 1840]. Folio (13 1/8 x 9..... More
Paris: P. Marino, 1825. Too Early… Too Late… VALMONT, Auguste de. Trop Tot & Trop Tard. Scènes Comiques dessinées par A. de V. Paris: P. Marino, [1825]. Folio (13 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches; 336 x 241 mm.). [iv] pp. Twelve amusing hand colored plates lithographed by Pierre Francois Ducarme. All..... More
Paris: Chez Aubert, 1840. Galerie Comique with Sixty-Eight Superb Hand Colored Lithographs TRAVIES, Charles Joseph, and others. Galerie Comique. Paris: Chez Aubert, [ca. 1840]. Folio (13 x 10 inches; 330 x 255 mm.). Sixty-eight hand-colored lithograph plates, all heightened with gum Arabic. Plate no. 56 with neat repair in center. Plate numbers 1..... More
London: George Redway, [1887]. The First Appearance in Book Form of Conan Doyle's Six Short Stories A Legendary Rarity [DOYLE, Arthur Conan]. Dreamland and Ghostland: An Original Collection of Tales and Warnings from the Borderland of Substance and Shadow; embracing remarkable dreams, presentiments, and coincidences; records of singular personal experience by various..... More
London: George Newnes Limited, 1891. "By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation…" (A Scandal in Bohemia - the very first appearance of Sherlock Holmes) “I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non conductor?” (The Adventures of the Dying Detective -..... More
London: John Murray, 1917. “Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.” DOYLE, Arthur Conan. His Last Bow. Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes. London: John Murray, 1917. First edition. Octavo (7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 184 x 124 mm.). vii, [1..... More
London: George Newnes, 1902. “Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!” First Edition 'Hound of the Baskervilles' in the Original Cloth The 'Number One' Sherlock Holmes Novel DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1902. First edition in book form (first serialized..... More
London: John Murray, 1927. “Who knows, Watson? Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.” The Final Collection of Sherlock Holmes Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. London: John Murray, [1927]. First edition of the final collection of Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur..... More
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