Fine Books & Manuscripts

BRITISH INDIA. FITZCLARENCE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, EARL OF MUNSTER. 1794-1842. Journal of a Route across India, through Egypt, to England.......

PRESENTATION COPY OF BUCKINGHAM'S TRAVELS. BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK. 1786-1855. Travels in Palestine. through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead, Ea...

ETHIOPIA. WADDINGTON, GEORGE. 1793-1869. AND REV. BERNARD HANBURY. 1793-1833. Journal of a Visit to some Parts of Ethiopia. London: John Murray, 1...

HAND-COLORED VIEWS OF THE FIRST BURMESE WAR. MOORE, JOSEPH. Fl 1825. Eighteen views taken at & near Rangoon [First Series]. London: Thomas Clay, 1...

RARE DENHAM PRESENTATION COPY. DENHAM, DIXON; AND HUGH CLAPPERTON Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Year...

FINE COPY OF CRAWFURD'S EMBASSY TO CHINA. CRAWFURD, JOHN. 1783-1868. Journal of an Embassy from the Govenor-General of India to the Courts of Siam...

FIRST ISSUE OF TANNER'S UNIVERSAL ATLAS. TANNER, HENRY SCHENCK. 1786-1858. A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms,...

SOUTH AFRICAN NATURAL HISTORY. SMITH, ANDREW. 1797-1872. Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa. London: Smith, Elder and Co., [1838]-1849. ...

'APPARENTLY ONLY A FEW COPIES WERE ISSUED COLORED.' ALLEN, WILLIAM. 1793-1864. Picturesque Views on the River Niger, Sketched During Lander's Last...

AUTHOR'S COPY OF THE TRAVELS OF A PRINCE. SCHOMBURGK, ROBERT H. 1804-1865. And JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR. 1791-1844. Translator. Travels of His Royal Hig...

WALLACE'S FIRST TRAVEL NARRATIVE. WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL. 1823-1913. A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an Account of the Na...

THE FINEST SCIENTIFIC TRAVEL BOOK EVER WRITTEN.... WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL. 1823-1913. The Malay Archipelago: : The Land of the Orang-utan, and the...

WALLACE ASSOCIATION COPY. WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL. 1823-1913. Island Life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras. London: Macmi...

VERY EARLY PRESENTATION COPY FOR THOMAS CLEGG. LIVINGSTONE, DAVID. 1813-1873. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Mur...

SOUTHWEST AFRICA. BAINES, THOMAS. 1820-1875. Explorations in South-West Africa being an Account of a Journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvi...

RARE PRESENTATION COPY OF BATES'S CLASSIC. BATES, HENRY WALTER. 1825-1892. The Naturalist on the Amazons. London: John Murray, 1864. 8vo. Engrave...

DISCOVERY OF THE NILE, PRESENTATION COPY. The two important accounts of the discovery of the source of the Nile: GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS. 1827-1892....

INDIA ALBUM. An album of 66 images of views and portraits, albumen prints, several signed and numbered in the negative, mostly mounted one per pag...

PRESENTATION COPY FROM ISABEL BURTON. BURTON, ISABEL. 1831-1896. AEI Arabia Egypt India. A Narrative of Travel. London and Belfast: William Mullan...

TWO PRESENTATION COPIES TO MAJOR J.B. POND. STANLEY, HENRY M. 1841-1904. The Congo and the founding of its free state, a story of work and explora...

CHINA IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY. WHITE, HERBERT C. 1896-1962. Peking the Beautiful. Shanghai: The Commercial Press, 1927. Folio. 70 mounted colo...

PAPUA NEW GUINEA HIGHLANDS, 1930s. 181 Silver gelatin print photographs, 1930-1934, most 4 x 5 inches, affixed to re-purposed logbook, many trimm...

WORLD TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION. 2 works, including David DuBose Gaillard's copy of Juan and Ulloa's Travels in South America:: 1. ULLOA, ANTONIO DE...

GRAND TOUR PHOTO ALBUMS OF ASIA. 11 albums of photographic prints, of scenes in the Holy Lands, Asia Minor, and India, albumen prints, by John He...

GRAND TOUR PHOTO ALBUMS OF EUROPE. 4 albums of photographic prints, of scenes in Greece and Italy, albumen prints, some by Alfred Noack (and other...

ZENGER IMPRINT, 1735. TENNENT, GILBERT. 1703-1764. The Espousals, or A Passionate Perswasive to a Marraige with the Lamb of God ... A Sermon upon ...

TEA TROUBLES. TOWNSEND ACTS. Manuscript Document signed by more than 60 townspeople including both men and women of Newburyport, Massachusetts, ag...

RARE BOSTON PRINTING OF AN INTOLERABLE ACT. [INTOLERABLE ACTS.] An Act for the better regulating the Government of the Province of the Massachuset...

THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD. AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, From Monday, May 29, to Tuesday, May 30, 1775, N...

ONE OF THE EARLIEST PRO-COLONIST USES OF 'YANKEE DOODLE.' STOCKTON, RICHARD. 1730-1781. Autograph Letter Signed ('Richd. Stockton') to his brother...

THE FIRST CONFIRMED REPORT IN MASSACHUSETTS OF THE VOTE FOR INDEPENDENCE. [DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.] The New-England Chronicle, July 11, 1776,...

MEDICINE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. JONES, JOHN. 1729-1791. Plain Concise Practical Remarks on the Treatment of Wounds and Fractures. BOUND WITH: S...

REVOLUTIONARY WAR PRIVATEERING COMMISSION. HANCOCK, JOHN. 1737-1793. Document Signed ('John Hancock'), partially printed and accomplished in manus...

JOHN GLADSTONE'S COPY OF ABBE RAYNAL. RAYNAL, GUILLAUME. 1713-1796. The Revolution of America. London: Lockyer Davis, 1781. 8vo (170 x 99 mm). Co...

THOMAS JEFFERSON SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT. JEFFERSON, THOMAS. 1743-1826. Parallel calipers belonging Thomas Jefferson, 88 x 40 mm (closed), c.1800, ...

PICART'S ILLUSTRATED OVID. OVID. 43 B.C.E.-17 A.D.E. Ovid's Metamorphoses in Latin and English Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. Amsterdam: Pr...

PARISIAN FASHION IN THE BELLE EPOQUE. BARBIER, GEORGE, LÉON BAKST, AND OTHERS. Journal des dames et des modes. Paris: Bureau d'Abonnement, July-De...

LITHOGRAPHS BY MAYAKOVSKY AND BURLIUK. MAYAKOVSKY, VLADIMIR; DAVID BURLIUK; NIKOLAI BURLIUK; AND VELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV. Trebnik troikh: sbornik stikh...

LISSITSKY, EL (LAZAR LISSITSKII). 1890-1941. Illustrator. KONSTANTIN BOLSHAKOV. Solntse na izlete. [The Spent Sun]. Moscow: Tsentrifuga, 1916. 8v...

MATISSE ILLUSTRATED POEMS. REVERDY, PIERRE. 1889-1960. HENRI MATISSE. 1869-1954. Illustrator. Les Jockeys Camouflés. Paris: La Belle Édition, 1918...

LÉGER, FERNAND. 1881-1955. Illustrator. BLAISE CENDRARS. 1887-1961. La Fin du Monde. Paris: Editions de la Sirène, 1919. Folio. 22 lithographic i...

COLLAGES BY MAX ERNST. ERNST, MAX. 1891-1976; ELUARD, PAUL, text. Repetitions. Paris: Sans Pareil, 1922. 8vo. Color half-tone frontispiece, 9 line...

C. R. ASHBEE'S COPY OF THE ASHENDENE FAERIE QUEENE. SPENSER, EDMUND. 1552?-1599. The Faerie Queene Disposed into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII. Mor...

ERIC GILL'S GOLDEN COCKEREL CHAUCER. CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. 1343-1400. Troilus And Criseyde. Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. Smal...

POCHOIR DESIGNS. BENEDICTUS, EDOUARD. 1878-1930. Nouvelles Variations. Paris: Albert Levy, [1928]. Folio. 75 decorative designs on 20 pochoir pla...

AN ART DECO HIGHLIGHT. SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, GAIUS. C. 69-122. SCHMIED, FRANÇOIS-LOUIS. 1873-1941. ILLUSTRATOR. Les douze Césars. Paris: F.-L. Sc...

FOR CECILE ELUARD. HUGNET, GEORGES. 1906-1974. Four pamphlets illustrated by Duchamp, Picasso, Miro and Hugo, two presentation copies from Hugnet ...

GUSTAV KLIMT PORTFOLIO. [KLIMT, GUSTAV. 1862-1918.] Gustav Klimt, Eine Nachlese. Vienna: Franz Deuticke, [1946]. Folio. 30 collotype plates (15 i...

MAX ERNST LIMITED EDITION. BENJAMIN PERET. 1899-1959. ERNST, MAX. 1891-1976. Illustrator. La Brebis Galante. Paris: Les Éditions Premières, 1949. ...

HUNTER, DARD. 1883-1966. Papermaking by Hand in America. Chillicothe, Ohio: Mountain House Press, 1950. Folio. Color frontispiece, extensively i...

BERMAN, WALLACE. 1926-1976. Semina, No. 5. Larkspur, CA: Wallace Berman, 1959. 8vo. Printed folder with 18 loose inserts of letterpress poems, hal...

DUBUFFET DESIGN. BENOIT, PIERRE-ANDRE. 1921-1993. JEAN DUBUFFET. 1901-1985. Illustrator. Oreilles gardées. [Paris: Imprimerie Union, 1962.] 4to. ...

SIGNED BY DUCHAMP AND REGISTERED WITH THE DUCHAMP ARCHIVES. DUCHAMP, MARCEL. 1887-1968. By or Of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Selavy. Pasadena: Pasaden...

ADAMS, ANSEL. 1902-1984. Two gelatin silver prints: 1. 'University of California, Berkeley,' 12-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches (320 x 240 mm), printed witho...

LAM, WILFREDO. 1902-1982. Illustrator. ANTONIN ARTAUD. 1896-1948. Le Theatre et les dieux. [Paris]: Editions Aubry-Rueff, [1966]. Small 4to. 5 or...

GOREY, EDWARD. 1925-2000. Thus I Refute Beelzy. Original illustration art, ink on paper, approximately 240 x 180 mm, signed ('Edward Gorey') in in...

GOREY, EDWARD. 1925-2000. Finding Out. Original illustration art, ink on paper, approximately 210 x 150 mm, signed ('Edward Gorey') in ink at lowe...

GOREY, EDWARD. 1925-2000. Leaves from a Mislaid Album. Original illustration art, ink on paper, 178 x 114 mm, signed ('Edward Gorey') in ink at lo...

MORIYAMA, DAIDO. B. 1938. Shashin yo Sayonara [Bye Bye Photography]. Tokyo: Shashin Hyoron Sha, 1972. 8vo. Numerous photographic illustrations. P...

MARTHA GRAHAM IN MOTION. MORGAN, BARBARA. 1900-1992. Martha Graham - Letter to the World (Kick). Photograph, 260 x 345 mm, gelatin silver print, o...