Recording a young woman's fascination...
New Bedford, CT: 1855-1859. Comprised of 18 handwritten pages, three hand-drawn illustrations, and 12 pages of pasted in ephemera. Red leather with gilt to spine and boards; some scuffing and... (Item #2469)
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Bryn Mawr Student Commonplace Book...
[Pennsylvania]: 1894-1896. An exceptional piece documenting the well-rounded college experience of one the early students at a Seven Sisters College. Comprised of 25 handwritten pages, 29 original illustrations, 11 pasted... (Item #2231)
Selection of lyric poems copied...
[n.p.]: [c. 1830]. Comprised of 7 pages in ink in a single hand, containing six works of poetry. Dark blue printed wraps over lined paper, measuring 7x 6 inches. Ownership... (Item #2730)
Mount Kenya Recipes
Nairobi: The English Press Ltd., [1940]. First edition. Original yellow cloth binding with title to front board. Spine a bit sunned; boards generally soiled and corners bumped. Small stain to... (Item #2890)
Almayer's Folly
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First Edition. Original hunter green publisher's cloth, top edges gilt. A few small spots and chips to spine; corners lightly worn. A Near Fine copy... (Item #2391)
Journal of Captain Cook's Last...
Hartford, CT. Printed and sold by Nathaniel Patten, 1783. First edition. Octavo in fours (6 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 169 x 111 mm). [1]-208 pp. Map absent as is... (Item #1851)
Voyage to the Pacific Ocean...
London: printed for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Cadell, 1784. First edition. Three quarto volumes (11 7/16 x 9 inches; 290 x 230 mm.)... (Item #2022)
Manuscript cookery from the Knowles...
[Johnstown, NY]: 1872. Comprised of a total of 83 pages, with 50 written in several hands and 28 stitched or pasted in clippings. This small book, measuring 89 x 127mm... (Item #2780)
Receipt Book, 1874…1883, 1885.
Manuscript recipe book from Mrs. Stephens of Maidstone, Kent. Containing 17 handwritten pages of cookery recipes. Contemporary red sheep over stitched card; scuffing to front and back covers; shelf-wear to... (Item #1967)
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge...
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp. 1929. First edition. A Fine copy, lacking the publisher's slipcase. One of a thousand copies signed by Coolidge on the limitation page. "As America's 30th president... (Item #2654)
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CORYATS CRUDITIES. Hastily gobled up...
London: Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby], 1611. First edition. Quarto in eights (8 1/8 x 6 inches; 206 x 153 mm). [-]2; a8-b8 ([-]1 inserted after a3); b4; c8-g8; h4-l4; B8-D8... (Item #897)
The Red Badge of Courage
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. First edition. A Fine copy of the book with the spine very slightly toned and a pea-sized rub mark on the coated front... (Item #1520)
Voyage de Milady Craven a....
Paris: Durand, 1789. First Thus. The first French translation, released in Craven's adopted country in the same year as the English. Bound in contemporary mottled calf with gilt to spine... (Item #2163)
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Trattato della pittura...
Paris: Appresso Giacomo Langlois, 1651. First Edition. First edition (not to be confused with the French edition which published later the same year, the Italian edition being much more rare)... (Item #2178)
The Divina Commedia of Dante...
London: A. Strahan for T. Cadell, 1802. First English language edition. A lovely set of the first complete translation into English of Dante's "Divine Comedy." Full contemporary polished calf by... (Item #1832)
The Divina Commedia of Dante...
London: A. Strahan for T. Cadell, 1802. First English language edition. The first complete translation into English of Dante's "Divine Comedy." Full contemporary diced Russian calf, smooth spines ruled and... (Item #2884)
The Descent of Man, and...
London: John Murray, 1871. First Edition. Original green publisher’s cloth binding stamped in blind with spines lettered in gilt. Black coated endpapers. With errata on the verso of the title..... (Item #2382)
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The Selected Works (15 vols.)
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896-1897. First Thus. The first authorized collected edition of Darwin's works, in 15 volumes.Original red half morocco over marbled boards with gilt to spine... (Item #2786)
Free the Wilmington 10, Rally...
Milwaukee: Milwaukee Alliance Against Racial and Political Repression, 1977. First edition. Near Fine poster measuring 11x17 inches. Unbacked; with small staple holes to all four corners; one small tear to... (Item #2033)
Le Deuxieme Sexe (in 2 vols.)
[Paris]: Gallimard, [1949]. First edition. Original publisher's cloth bindings with titles to spine and pictorial illustrations of Mario Prassinos to boards. Pegasus motif endpapers. Gentle rubbing to extremities of spines;... (Item #2869)
De la Democratie en Amerique...
Paris: Pagnerre, 1850. Thirteenth Edition. Revised, corrected and augmented with a comparative examination of democracy in the United States and Switzerland, and an appendix. Text in French. Inscribed by the... (Item #2130)
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The Life and Strange Surprizing...
London: John Stockdale, 1790. First Thus. Bound in full polished calf with elaborate gilt to spines, boards, and dentelles; red morocco spine labels. All edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Later... (Item #2819)
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Archive of 10 handwritten diaries...
[Norwich, Vermont]: 1882-1912. Comprised of a total of 1,339 pages in the hand of Sarah Sargent, all in pencil. Set of 10 Standard Diary Company cloth and leather bound diaries... (Item #1990)
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1908 Travel Diary of an...
[Germany]: 1908. Black sheep over stitched card, with some rubbing to the spine and edges. Text block reinforced internally with paper tape. Measures 3 x 5 inches. Comprised of 72... (Item #2204)
The Battle of Life
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition. Vignette title in the fourth state (Smith II.8). Small 8vo: [viii], 175, [1], [2]; complete. Tipped onto the advertisement leaf is a smaller... (Item #1771)