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JAMES, Grace (1882-1965). Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales. Warwick Goble, illustrator. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1910.  4to....

JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784). A Journey to The Western Islands of Scotland. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775.  8vo (207 x 126 mm). (Light spo...

JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784) and Hill BOOTHBY (1708-1756). An Account of the Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson, from His Birth to His Eleventh year, Writt...

KINGSLEY, Charles (1819-1875). Autograph manuscript signed upper right corner pp. [1] ("CK"), as a broach church priest of the Church of England. ...

KIPLING, Joseph Rudyard (1865-1936). Debits and Credits. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926.  8vo. (Some offsetting from old laid-in clippin...

KIPLING, Joseph Rudyard (1865-1936). A group of 3 works, comprising:  Captains Courageous. London & NY: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1897. Publisher...

[LEAF BOOK]. An Original Leaf from the Polycronicon Printed by William Caxton at Westminster in the Year 1482. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press f...

[LEECH, John (1817-1864)]. KITTON, Frederick George (1856-1904). John Leech, Artist and Humourist: A Biographical Sketch. London: George Redway, 1...

[LEECH, John (1817-1864)]. FRITH, William Powell (1819-1909). John Leech, His Life and Work. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1891.  2 volumes, 8v...

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1892). The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1855.  8vo. Advertisements dated November 1855. Original ...

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882). The Masque of Pandora. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875.  8vo. (Some offsetting to a few pages.) Original pu...

LOUIS XVI, King of France (1754-1793). Document signed ("Louis"), 17 December 1776. Countersigned by several ministers.  1 page, folio, creased an...

LOUIS XVI, King of France (1754-1793). Document signed ("Louis"), 23 December 1783. Countersigned by several ministers.3 pages, folio, with seal o...

LOUIS XVI, King of France (1754-1793). Partial document signed ("Louis"),  December 11, 1787. Countersigned by several ministers.1 page, folio, cr...

LOUIS XVI, King of France (1754-1793). Partly printed document signed ("Louis"), 19 April 1791. Countersigned by an unidentified administrator.  1...

LOUIS XVI, King of France (1754-1793). Partly printed document signed ("Louis"), July 16, 1791. Countersigned by Arnaud de Laporte.  1 page, folio...

LOUIS XVI, King of France (1754-1793). Partly printed document signed ("Louis"), 29 September 1791. Countersigned by Arnaud de Laporte, and with a...

[LOUIS XVI]. A group of 2 documents with secretarial signatures, comprising:  Partially printed document secretarially signed ("Louis"). 1777. Cou...

[MINIATURE BOOKS] -- [ACHILLE J. ST. ONGE]. A group of 18 works, including:CHURCHILL, Winston. King George VI: The Prime Minister’s Broadcast Febr...

[MINIATURE BOOKS]. ALIGHIERI, Dante (ca 1265-1321). La Divina Commedia di Dante. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1878.51 x 29 mm. Half-title, engraved front...

[MINIATURE BOOKS] -- [ALMANACS]. London Almanack for the Year of Our Lord, 1734. London: Company of Stationers, [1733].51 x 28 mm. Folding engravi...

[MINIATURE BOOKS] "“ [KINGSPORT & LA PETIT OISEAU PRESSES]. A group of 6 works published by the Kingsport Press or the La Petit Oiseau Press, comp...

[MINIATURE BOOK] -- [BIBLE, in English]. The Bible in Miniature, or a Concise History of the Old and New Testaments. London: E. Newberry, 1780.41 ...

[MINIATURE BOOKS] -- [BLACK CAT PRESS]. A group of 18 works published by the Black Cat Press, including:DAVIS, Frank Marshall. Black Man 's Verse....

[MINIATURE BOOKS] -- [BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. A group of 12 works, including:ADOMEIT, Ruth E. The Little Cookie Book: Thirty-One Favorite Recipes of a...

[MINIATURE BOOKS] -- [CALIFORNIA PRESSES]. A group of 11 works published by southern California presses, including:CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. Spe...

[MINIATURE BOOK]. CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B. C. E.). M. Tullii Ciceronis de Officiis Libri Tres. [Antwerp]: Platiniana Raphelengi, 1610.65 ...

[MINIATURE BOOKS] -- [CLASSICS]. BOETHIUS, Aniciuis Manlius Torquatus Severinus (480?-524?).  De consolatione philosophiae. Douai: B. Beller, 1632...

[MINIATURE BOOKS] -- [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865.)]. A group of 6 works by or about Lincoln, comprising:Abraham Lincoln 1809-1959. The Address by...

[MINIATURE BOOK]. LIPSIUS, Justus (1547-1606). De Constantia libri duo. Amsterdam: Guilj. Caesium, 1624.  68 x 40 mm. Engraved title-page, text pr...

[MINIATURE BOOKS] -- [LITERATURE]. A group of 21 literary works, including:SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest. London: Anthony Treherne & Co, 1904....

[MINIATURE BOOKS].  My Box of Books.  12 volumes, 109 x 71 mm. Each chapbook 16pp., with hand-colored title vignette and illustration. Original pi...

[MINIATURE BOOKS]. My Pet Box of Books. New York: Appleton, [ca 1850s].12 volumes, 83 x 54 mm. Each chapbook 8pp., with hand-colored title vignett...

[MINIATURE BOOKS] -- [RELIGION]. A group of 28 works, including:[BIBLE]. The Bible in Miniature, for Children. Worcester: Dorr, Howland & Co., 183...

[MINIATURE BOOKS]. A group of 11 works published by European Presses, including:[MASON, Thomas]. Witty Humorous and Merry Thoughts. Glasgow: Bryce...

PEPYS, Samuel (1633-1703). Memoirs of Samuel Pepys. Comprising His Diary from 1659 to 1669. London: Henry Colburn, 1825.  2 volumes, 4to (299 x 22...

POE, Edgar Allan. "The Raven" in:  The Literary Emporium; a Compendium of Religious, Literary, and Philosophical Knowledge, Vol. I&II. New York: J...

[POETRY & PLAYS]. A group of 14 works, including:SCOTT, John. The Poetical Works. London: J. Buckland, 1782. Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked)....

[POLAR/ARCTIC EXPLORATION]. NANSEN, Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg (1861-1930). Farthest North. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897.2 volumes, ...

[PORTRAITS]. Theatrum honoris in quo nostri Apelles, saeculi seu Pictorum, qui patrum nostrorum memoria vixerunt celebriorum praecipue quos Belgiu...

SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de (1900-1944). Wind, Sand and Stars. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939.  8vo. Original quarter blue calf, blue-and-white ...

SCOTT, Walter, Sir (1771-1832). Woodstock: or, The Cavalier. Edinburgh & London: for Archibald Constable and Co.; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and ...

SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950). Cashel Byron's Profession. London: The Modern Press, 1886.  8vo. Original wrappers printed in red and black (reb...

SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950). Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant. London: Grant Richards, 1898.  2 volumes, 8vo. Photogravure portrait frontispiec...

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). East of Eden. New York: The Viking Press, 1952.8vo. Original publisher's green cloth stamped in red and dark green (f...

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). Sweet Thursday. New York: The Viking Press, 1954.8vo. Original publisher's beige cloth stamped in blue and red, top e...

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). A group of 3 works, comprising:The Wayward Bus. 1947. -- Sweet Thursday. 1954. -- Journal of a Novel The East of Eden...

STERNE, Laurence (1713-1768). A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. London: T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1768.  2 volumes, 16mo (144 mm ...

STERNE, Laurence ( "Mr. Yorick") (1713-1768). The Works of Laurence Sterne. London: W. Strahan et al, 1780.10 volumes, 8vo (176 x 107 mm). 10 engr...

TARKINGTON, Booth (1869-1946). The Gentleman from Indiana. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899.  8vo. Original green cloth stamped in red and ...

TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892). Poems, Chiefly Lyrical. London: Effingham Wilson, 1830.  12mo (180 x 105 mm). 2pp. publisher's advertisements....

WALLACE, Lew (1827-1905). Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880.8vo. 12 pp. advertisements at rear. (Some staining.) Ori...

WOOD, Ellen ( "Mrs. Henry Wood") (1814-1887). East Lynne. London: Richard Bentley, 1861.3 volumes, 8vo (186 x 112 mm). (Some minor spotting and so...

[WORLD LITERATURE]. A group of 9 works of literature, including:  Specimens of German Romance. London: Geo. B. Whittaker, 1826. 3 volumes. Contemp...

ADAIR, James (1709?-1783). The History of the American Indians; particularly those Nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Ge...

[AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR] -- [TILGHMAN, Tench (1744-1786)]. Memoir of Lieut. Col. Tench Tilghman, Secretary and  Aid to Washington, together wi...

AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851).  The Birds of America. New York and Amsterdam: Johnson Reprint Co. & Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [i.e. Nico Israel], ...

AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851)Carolina Parrot (Plate XXVI)Psitacus carolinensisEngraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring by Robert Havel...

AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851)Ruby-throated Humming Bird (Plate 47)Trochilus colubrisEngraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring by Robert...

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