London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. "A Most Valuable and Important Book" Second and Enlarged Edition With Additional Text and Six Extra Hand-Colored Plates [ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]. NIMROD (pseud. of C.J. Apperley). Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire, Formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High sheriff for the Counties of... More
Paris: Apud Jacob Bessin, 1614. Scarce Life of St. Augustine [AUGUSTINE of HIPPO, Saint]. ANGELIS, Ludovico de. De Vita, et Laudibus S.P.N. AVR. Augustini. Hipponensis Episcopi, et ecclesia Doctoris eximij. Libri Six. Recogniti secunda editione, & in compendium, à suo auctore R.P.F. Ludovico de Angelis, Portuensi, Lusitano, Ordinis Eremit. alumno &... More
London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1793. First Octavo Edition With Material Not Found in the First Quarto Edition BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent... More
London: Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ld., 1902. A Spectacular Cosway-Style Binding with Ten Oval and Round Miniatures [COSWAY-STYLE BINDING]. RIVIÈRE & SON, Binders. MANSON, James A. Sir Edwin Landseer, R. A. Illustrated with Twenty-one Plates, and a Photogravure Frontispiece. London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd.; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons... More
London: Bradbury & Evans / Chapman & Hall, 1848. With Three Watercolor Portrait Miniatures Under Glass Sumptuously Extra-Illustrated [COSWAY-STYLE BINDING]. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. FORSTER, John. The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith. A Biography in Four Books. London: Bradbury and Evans/Chapman & Hall, 1848. First edition, sumptuously extra-illustrated. Three octavo volumes... More
London, Paris & Edinburgh: Boussod, Valadon & Cie., 1896. "Seldom did Personal Characteristics Play a Greater Part than in the Elizabethan Age" Finely Bound by Roger de Coverly - Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson's Teacher CREIGHTON, The Right Rev. Mandell. (Lord Bishop of Peterborough). Queen Elizabeth. London, Paris & Edinburgh: Boussod, Valadon &... More
London and Birmingham: Houlston and Sons [and] Houghton and Hammond, 1879. Extra-Illustrated with Some Remarkable Hand-Colored Caricatures by Cruikshank, Rowlandson and Others [CRUIKSHANK, George]. BATES, William. George Cruikshank: The Artist, The Humorist, and the Man, with some account of his brother Robert. A Critico-Bibliographical Essay. By William Bates… with numerous illustrations... More
Springfield: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1943. The First Single Volume Universal Biographical Dictionary [DICTIONARY]. WEBSTER. Webster's Biographical Dictionary. First Edition. A Merriam-Webster. A Dictionary of Names of Noteworthy Persons with Pronunciations and Concise Biographies. Springfield: G.&C. Webster, 1943. First edition. Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 5/8 in; 239 x 167... More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. Edition De Luxe With an Original Pencil Sketch by Kate Greenaway [GREENAWAY, Kate]. SPIELMANN, M.H., and G.S. LAYARD. Kate Greenaway. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500 numbered copies (this copy being No. 181), signed by the artist’s brother, John Greenaway... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874-87. "A Faithful Record of the Impressions Made on the Mind of a Competent Observer" Elegantly Bound by Bayntun of Bath in Full Blue Morocco ca. 1920 Extra Illustrated With 379 Portraits and Views and Six Autographs GREVILLE, Charles F. The Greville Memoirs. Edited by Henry Reeve, registrar... More
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East Aurora, New York: The Roycroft Shop, 1908. "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man" One Hundred and Seventy “Potted” Biographies of Great Men and Women HUBBARD, Elbert. The Complete Writings of Elbert Hubbard. East Aurora, New York: The... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. In a Beautiful and Unusual Kelliegram Binding From the Library of Jakob Raskob - Builder of The Empire State Building [KELLIEGRAM Binding]. [CRUIKSHANK, George]. JERROLD, Blanchard. The Life of George Cruikshank. In Two Epochs. A New Edition. With Eighty-Four Illustrations. London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. New edition... More
Buenos Aires: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club by Guillermo Kraft, 1943. With Illustrations by Raúl Rosarivo HUDSON, William H. ROSARIVO, Raúl, illustrator. Far Away and Long Ago. A History of My Early Life. With an Introduction by R.B. Cunninghame Graham and Illustrations by Raúl Rosarivo. Buenos Aires... More
London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791-93. First Edition, First Issue of Boswell's Life Of Johnson Together With The Excessively Rare 'The Principal Corrections and Additions' Bound in at the End of Volume Two BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works... More
London: Neville Spearman, Holland Press, 1964. Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report "The Only Such Title Personally Authorized by Ian Fleming" Inscribed by the Author to Antiquarian Bookseller Sam Joseph SNELLING, O[swald].F[rederick]. [FLEMING, Ian]. Double O Seven James Bond: A Report. London: Neville Spearman, Holland Press, [1964]. First edition, first printing, inscribed... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1876. Extra-Illustrated with Seventy-Seven Fine Portraits and Views Handsomely Bound by Root & Son TREVELYAN, George Otto. The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay by his nephew George Otto Trevelyan, M.P. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876. First edition. Extra Illustrated with seventy-seven fine portraits and views... More
London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1804. The “Best Edition” of Marshall’s Classic Biography Near Fine in Contemporary Mottled Sheep [WASHINGTON, George]. [MARSHALL, John]. The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American forces during the war which established the independence of his country, and first President of the United States... More
London: Country Life, 1938. Publisher's Special Binding The Silent Traveller (Chiang Yee) in London YEE, Chiang. The Silent Traveller in London. By Chiang Yee Author of the Silent Traveller in Lakeland, of The Chinese Eye and of Chinese Calligraphy. London: Country Life, [1938]. First edition. Specially bound by Leighton-Straker. Octavo (8 7/8 x.... More
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