New York: George H. Doran Company, 1914. “I say, Watson,' he whispered, 'would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?" DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan. The Valley of Fear. A Sherlock Holmes..... More
![Item #04983 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. [Together with:] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The....](/pictures/thumb/04983_1.jpg?v=1608673147)
London: George Newnes, 1892. "Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot." An Excellent First Edition Set of the “Adventures” and “Memoirs” of Sherlock Holmes DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1892. First edition, first issue, without the words “Southampton Street” on the signboard in The..... More
London: Joannis Baskerville, 1806. A Superb Early Edwards of Halifax 'Etruscan' Binding With an Edwards Fore-Edge Painting [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. [EDWARDS OF HALIFAX, binder]. FALCONER, William. The Shipwreck, A Poem, By William Falconer, A Sailor: The text illustrated by additional notes, and corrected from the first and second editions; With a life..... More
London: John Murray, 1820. With a Fine Mid-Nineteenth Century Fore-Edge Painting depicting The Seat of the Duke Buccleuch, Richmond [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. MILMAN, Rev. H.H. The Fall of Jerusalem. A Dramatic Poem… London: John Murray, 1820. With a fine mid-nineteenth century fore-edge painting of 'The Duke of Buccleuch's Villa, Richmond'. Octavo (8 1/4 x...... More
Paris: F.-L. Schmied, 1924. Considered to be Schmied's First Important Book The Copy of Publisher, Bookbinder and Bookseller René Kieffer SCHMIED, Francois-Louis, illustrator. VIGNY, Alfred de. Daphné. Paris: Chez F.-L. Schmied, Peintre-Graveur-Imprimeur, 1924. Limited to 140 numbered copies (this being no. 41) signed by F.L. Schmied. Large quarto (12 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches;..... More
Stuttgart: Gustave Weise Verlag, 1909. A Super Rare and Near Mint Lothar Meggendorfer Board Game MEGGENDORFER, Lothar. Hänsel und Gretel - ein Märchenspiel von Lothar Meggendorfer (A fairy tale game). Stuttgart: [Gustav Weise Verlag] (monogram) No. 526, [ca. 1909]. Complete with colored lithograph board (three-section folding) 14 3/16 x 25 1/8..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929. "Music is a Higher Revelation than all Wisdom and Philosophy" Ludwig van Beethoven First Edition in English of Rolland's Notable Biography In a Superb Cosway-Style Binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe COSWAY-STYLE BINDING. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van. ROLLAND, Romain. Beethoven the Creator… The Great Creative Epochs..... More
Paris: Chez Blin, 1786-92. Ninety-Six Superb Color Printed Portraits of The Heroes of France Each Followed by "The Picture of Their Most Glorious Deed" [SERGENT-MARCEAU, Antoine-François]. Portraits Des Grands Hommes, Femmes Illustres, et Sujets Mémorables de France, gravés et imprimée en couleurs. Dédiée Au Roi. Paris: Chez Blin, [1786-1792]. First Edition of..... More
![Item #04952 [Caricatures Sans Titre - 1840]. Frédéric BOUCHOT, Henri MONNIER](/pictures/thumb/04952_01.jpg?v=1605747365)
Paris: Delpech, 1840. Rare Collaboration Between Frédéric Bouchot and Henri Monnier BOUCHOT, Frédéric. [&] MONNIER, Henri. [Caricatures Sans Titre - 1840]. [Paris, n.d., ca. 1840]. Oblong quarto (9 1/8 x 12 3/8 inches; 231 x 315 mm). Rare suite of eight hand-colored lithographed plates, mounted on stubs. Four by Frédéric Bouchot..... More
Brussels: S'Adresser Chez Martinet, 1860. Twenty Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates Depicting the Pleasures of Traveling by Train CHAM, illustrator. Paris à Bruxelles Train Direct dirigé Cham. [Quel plaisir de voyager!] (Cover Title).[Brussels]: S'Adresser Chez Martinet, [n.d., ca. 1860]. Folio (13 3/8 x 9 15/16 inches; 340 x 252 mm.). Lithographed title..... More
![Item #04937 Ombres Fantastiques [Fantastic Shadows]. LE POITEVIN, Eugène](/pictures/thumb/04937_01.jpg?v=1604092054)
Paris / London: Chez Aumont / Charles Tilt, [1830]. Devils, Bugs, Imps, Skeletons, and All Kinds of Mischief… LE POITEVIN, [Eugène]. Ombres Fantastiques Par Le Poitevin. [Fantastic Shadows] Paris / London: Chez Aumont / Charles Tilt, n.d. [1832]. First edition. Landscape folio (14 1/8 x 21 7/8 inches; 360x 556 mm.)..... More
London: George Routledge, 1846. Seymour's Humorous Sketches with Ninety-Two Hand-Colored Humorous Plates An Impeccable Provenance - The Clarence S. Bement / Joseph E. Widener Copy SEYMOUR, Robert, illustrator. PEAKE, Richard Brinsley. Seymour's Humorous Sketches. Comprising Ninety-Two Caricature Etchings Illustrated in Prose, by R.B. Peake. London: George Routledge, 1846. First edition, thus. A...... More
The Hague: Adrianum Vlacq, 1656. Best Edition of Gassendi's Contribution to Copernican Astronomy GASSENDI, Pierre. Institutio Astronomica luxta Hypotheses tam Veterum quàm Copernici & Tychonis: Dictata Parisiis a Petro Gassendo, Regio Matheseos Professore. Accedunt Ejusdem varii Tratatus Astronomici, Quorum Catalogum pagina versa indicabit, Editio ultima paulò ante mortem Authoris recognita, aucta..... More
London: R. Ackermann, 1812. One of the Quintessential English Regency Color-Plate Books Ackermann's Westminster with Eighty-One Magnificent Hand Colored Aquatint Plates ACKERMANN, Rudolph. COMBE, William. The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments. In Two Volumes. London: R. Ackermann, 1812. First edition. Two large folio volumes..... More
London: R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1808. With Nine (Possibly Ten) of Abbey's Twelve Key Plates in Their First "Luminous" State [ACKERMANN, R[udolph]. The Microcosm of London; or, London in Miniature]. London: R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, [1808-1810]. First edition, early issue, with nine (possibly ten) of Abbey's twelve key plates..... More
London: [Essex House Press] Edward Arnold , 1904. Essex House Press Prometheus Unbound In a Fine Designer Binding by Marie-Louise Farge SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. [ESSEX HOUSE PRESS]. ASHBEE, C.R., artist. FARGE, Marie-Louise, binder. Prometheus Unbound. A Lyrical Drama. Printed at Essex House, Campden, Gloucestershire, under the care of C.R. Ashbee..... More
London: William Holland, 1802. Exceptionally Rare and Complete Hand-Colored Panorama/Frieze Depicting thirty-eight clumsy, ill-matched pairs dancing with as much aplomb as they can manage… NIXON, John [Colley] A Country Dance. [Designed by John Nixon, Esqr. Lately published]. London: William Holland, [ca. 1802]. Large landscape etching in four pieces with stipple, hand-colored (total..... More
![Item #04922 [Vie d’un gamin, en 12 chapitres]. Edme Jean PIGAL](/pictures/thumb/04922_01.jpg?v=1600289299)
Paris: Chez Gihaut Frères, Editeurs, 1826. Extremely Rare Complete Suite of Lithographed Plates by Pigal [PIGAL, Edme Jean, illustrator]. [Vie d’un gamin, en 12 chapitres]. [The life of a street urchin]. Paris: Chez Gihaut Frères, Editeurs, 1826. Oblong folio (10 1/8 x 13 5/8 inches; 257 x 346 mm.). Twelve..... More
London: Printed for C. Rivington...and J. Osborn, 1741. The Rare First Edition of the First British Novel A Shockingly Rare Book that Shocked When First Published RICHARDSON, Samuel. Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded. In a Series of Familiar Letters from a Beautiful Young Damsel, to her Parents. Now First Published in Order to..... More
Stockholm: Gjöthström and Magnusson, [1830]. A Remarkable Suite of Sixteen Lithograph Plates - Including Four with Hand-coloring A Wonderful Caricaturists View of Stockholm MÖRNER, Carl Gustav Hjalmar. Stockholmska Scener Tecknade och lithografierade. [Caricature Scenes of Stockholm in Lithograph] Stockholm: Gjöthström & Magnusson, [1830]. First Edition in Book Form. Folio (14 x 10..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1987. Mexican Poet and Diplomat Octavio Paz - The Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1990 Illustrated by the American Abstract Expressionist Painter Robert Motherwell Signed by the Poet and the Artist PAZ, Octavio. MOTHERWELL, Robert, artist. Three Poems (Tres Poemas). New York: Limited Editions Club, 1987. Signed limited..... More
La Flèche: George Griveau, 1645. A Fine Presentation Copy of Jacques Grandami's Nova demonstratio immobilitatis terrae petita ex virtut magnetica Athanasius Kircher's Correspondent on his Works on Magnetism GRANDAMI, Jacques. Nova demonstratio immobilitatis terrae petita ex virtut magnetica. La Flèche: George Griveau, 1645. First edition. A fine presentation copy presented by the author..... More
Los Angeles: Sutton House, 1933. One of the Rarest of all the Books Illustrated by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. Snickerty Nick & the Giant. By Julia Ellsworth Ford… Rhymes by Witter Bynner. Music by Charles Arthur Ridgway. Los Angeles: Sutton House, 1933. [Second edition]. Quarto (9 9/16 x 7 1/4 inches;..... More
London: Saunders and Otley, 1840. A Superb Cosway Binding With an Exquisite Watercolor on Ivory by the Renowned Artist Miss C.B. Currie COSWAY BINDING. WAAGEN, Dr. [Gustave Friedrich]. NOEL. Peter Paul Rubens, His Life and Genius. Translated from the German of Dr. Waagen… by Robert R. Noel, Esq. Edited by Mrs..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., [1916]. An Exceptionally Fine Riviére Rubáiyát Illustrated by Willy Pogany [RIVIÉRE & Son, binders]. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Presented by Willy Pogany. [The illustrations and decorations in this edition of Fitzgerald's translation of the "Rubáiyát" are by Willy Pogany]. London: George G. Harrap & Co..... More
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