The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphrey Repton (with hand-colored illustrations)
by Repton, Humphry; John Claudius Loudon (illustrator)
London: Printed for the Editor, 1840. First collected edition. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down retaining one morocco label with the second replaced. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 215 x 130mm and collating xxxi, [1], 619: bound without half title, else complete including 253 engraved illustrations, of which 181 are expertly hand-colored. A lovely, square copy... Read More
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The Baby's Biography: Record of the Child-Life of Geraldine Richmond
by [Baby Book] [Maternity] Jennie M. Richmond
Lacon, Illinois, 1894. Handmade baby book on watercolor paper stitched at spine measuring 200 x 160mm and slipped into a folded sheet measuring 250 x 170mm. External wrap with a lovely original watercolor floral with the name Geraldine; tender, with splitting along foldline. Baby book comprised of 16 leaves of manuscript and original pen drawings to rectos only. Additional... Read More
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![Nuptiae Sacra; or an Inquiry into the Scriptural Doctrine of Marriage and Divorce [with] Thoughts on the Propriety of Preventing Marriages Founded on Adultery](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/098/530/1547530098.0.m.jpg)
Nuptiae Sacra; or an Inquiry into the Scriptural Doctrine of Marriage and Divorce [with] Thoughts on the Propriety of Preventing Marriages Founded on Adultery
by [Marriage & Divorce] [Women's Rights]
London: J. Wright; Philanthropic Reform, 1801. First editions. Two pamphlets bound together in modern quarter calf over marbled boards with morocco label to spine. Measuring 203 x 120mm and both collating complete: [4], 136; 27, [1, blank]. Toning throughout both tracts, with closed tears to pages 69-70 and 77-80 with no loss of text; contemporary pencil annotations throughout the... Read More
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![Accounts of the Estate of the late Miss Henrietta Campbell, Dec[eased]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/617/232/1486232617.0.m.jpg)
Accounts of the Estate of the late Miss Henrietta Campbell, Dec[eased]
by [Women's Property Rights]
Pembrokeshire and London, 1834. Folio measuring 190 x 110mm stitched at spine and comprised of 17 manuscript pages of accounts. Compiled by Henrietta Campbell's family friend and executor Dr. Lt. General Alexander Adams, the document shows the scope of Campbell's property, her outstanding expenses related to domestic labor and healthcare, the portion of her estate that was entailed, and... Read More
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The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia (in 3 vols.)
by Roberts, David
London: Day & Son, 1856. First quarto edition. Near Fine. A Near Fine set. Six volumes bound in three quarto volumes (11 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches; 292 x 200 mm.). Complete with 250 tinted lithograph plates, including frontispiece portrait in Volume I, title-pages, and maps (untinted), all with tissue guards. Bound in original 'deluxe' binding (by Bickers... Read More
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The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds & Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel (in 2 vols.)
by Robinson, W. Heath (illustrator); Francois Rabelais
London: Grant Richards, 1904. First edition. Very Good. Two quarto volumes (11 3/16 x 8 3/4 inches; 285 x 223 mm.). xlii, [1, blank], [1, illustration], 377, [1, blank]; xliv, 350, [2, blank] pp. Photogravure frontispiece in each volume, with tissue guard. Volume I with fifty-five full-page illustrations, fifty-nine grotesque heads, and twenty-six other small drawings or vignettes,... Read More
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![[The Art of Papermaking. As explained by W. Heath Robinson]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/129/732/1337732129.0.m.jpg)
[The Art of Papermaking. As explained by W. Heath Robinson]
by Robinson, W. Heath (illustrator)
London: G. Heath Robinson and J. Birch Ltd, 1922. A complete set of ten 3 3/16 x 3 3/16 inches: 82 x 82 mm. glass printer's slides, each one depicting a humorous image of the art of paper making. Each one printed in black on the inside of two sheets of glass secured together with a thin black tape... Read More
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Autograph Letter Signed (ALS) thanking the publishers for sending an art book
by Rodin, Auguste
Rue de Varenne, 1913. One sheet, Rodin's personal stationary, folded into four leaves, written on the first leaf only. One additional crease where the letter was folded, otherwise in excellent condition. Roughly translated as follows: "77 Rue de Varenne (VII') | February 11, 1913 | Gentlemen, I received your superb edition of the book on art and thank you... Read More
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Collection Relating to the Financial Empire of a Woman & her Daughter
by [Women and Money] [Financial Estates] [Financial Autonomy] Mary Ann Tritch Rogers
Colorado; Massachusetts, 1942. Hailing from an immigrant family that rose to prominence in the West, Mary Tritch Rogers and her daughter Georgette Houston were often overlooked in their own time in favor of the family patriarchs. Mary's father George Tritch (1829-1899) was, after all, a German immigrant whose evolution from downtrodden pioneer to millionaire rail road and real estate... Read More
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Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children
by Roosevelt, Theodore
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919. First edition. Near Fine. First printing. A near fine copy. Octavo (200 x 143 mm). x, [1]-240 pp. With an illustrated four-page facsimile letter between pp. 104 & 105, and several line drawings in the text. Bound in publisher's green cloth, covers bordered in blind, front cover and spine lettered in gilt.... Read More
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Au Royaume de la Perle
by Rosenthal, Leonard. Edmund Dulac (illustrator)
Paris: L'Edition D'Art. H. Piazza, 1920. First French edition. One of 1,500 copies. Original strong blue color wrappers, embossed and ornamented with sponge-like designs in silver and gilt; small paper label printed with brown lettering and design on front cover. This copy is not numbered but is an "Examplaire Offert par Léonard Rosenthal a M. Poupon".Large quarto (11 7/8... Read More
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Verses (Presentation copy)
by Rossetti, Christina G.
London: G. Polidori's, 1847. First edition. Fine. A Fine copy, inscribed on front blank "E.H. Polidori / from Christina Rossetti / July 1847." Small octavo (6 1/4 x 3 7/8 inches; 159 x 98 mm.). [iv], 66, [2, blank] pp. Page 55-56 are in the corrected state: dated 1847 at the end; stanza 5, line 1 reads "And... Read More
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Poems
by Rossetti, Christina
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923. Golden Treasury Series. Finely bound by Rivière and Son ca. 1923 (stamp-signed to lower turn-in) in contemporary full dark brown calf. Front cover with a fine art-deco design inlaid in colors and "C.G. Rossetti" inlaid in olive green. Spine with a single raised band, lettered in gilt and with an inlaid design, rear... Read More
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The Blessed Damozel (Signed limited edition)
by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel; Charles Ricketts; Thomas B. Mosher
Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1901. First Variorum edition. Number 2 of 10 copies printed on vellum (this being No. 2) signed by Thomas Mosher, with designs by Charles Ricketts. Small quarto (5 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 146 x 134 mm.). [i-v, blank], vi, limitation, [inserted photogravure portrait], xiii, [i, blank], [1]- 32, [2], [4, blank] pp. The photogravure... Read More
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Goodbye, Columbus (Inscribed first edition)
by Roth, Philip
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of Roth's first book, in a Near Fine dust jacket. Book is inscribed on the title page by the author, and dated in 2007. The dust jacket is just a bit toned on the spine and with a little bend at the crown. Otherwise a lovely example... Read More
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by Rowling, J. K.
New York: Arthur A. Levine Books - Scholastic, 1998. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy of the book in like jacket. Spine a bit rolled, but unmarked, without previous owner's names or bookplates. In a very attractive dust jacket with "The Guardian" blurb on the rear panel (as required for the first issue jacket).... Read More
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Signed first edition)
by Rowling, J. K.
London: Bloomsbury, 2000. First edition. Fine/Fine. The fourth book in the Harry Potter series, signed by the author on the half-title at the December 9th, 2000 signing event at City Hall, Candleriggs, Glasgow as a charity event for Maggie's cancer charity. A pristine copy in like dust jacket. Comes with signature authentication. Taking place in Harry Potter's... Read More
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by Rowling, J. K.
New York: Arthur A. Levine Books - Scholastic, 1998. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy of the book in like jacket. Book with a contemporary owner's gift inscription on the front free end paper. In a very attractive dust jacket with "The Guardian" blurb on the rear panel (as required for the first issue... Read More
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Signed first edition)
by Rowling, J. K.
London: Bloomsbury, 2000. First edition. Fine/Fine. A lovely copy of the fourth book in the Harry Potter series. A Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket, correctly priced at 14.99 pounds. Signed by the author on the dedication page and with the golden ticket laid in (from Ottakar's Pl, July 18th). Comes with signature authentication. ... Read More
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The Works of John Ruskin (in 26 vols.)
by Ruskin, John
Philadelphia: Reuwee, Wattley & Walsh, 1891. Edition de Luxe. Strictly limited to 550 copies, of which this is 206. Signed in black ink by The United States Book Company. Twenty-six octavo volumes (8 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches; 222 x 150 mm.). Early twentieth century three-quarter green calf over green, gold and white marbled boards ruled in gilt. Spines... Read More
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Sesame and Lillies
by [Fore-Edge Painting]; [Fine Binding - Ramage]; John Ruskin
London: George Allen, 1900. Complete edition. Small octavo (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 181 x121 mm.). xxxvi, [ii, blank], [1]-228 pp. Pages 60-64 partially or wholly printed in red. Bound ca, 1900 by Ramage (stamp-signed in gilt on lower front turn-in). Full dark green crushed levant morocco, covers elaborately tooled with gilt lilies and inlaid red morocco hearts.... Read More
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Selection of lyric poems copied out by an educated woman, including work by Bluestocking Anna Laetitia Barbauld
by [Commonplace Book] Mrs. Russell
[n.p.], 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 signature of Mrs. Russell to header of front wrap. Scattered foxing and some dampstaining not affecting text. Text block loose but holding. In all, an intriguing glimpse into a woman's... Read More
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A Few Selections from the Writings of Paul Lindsay Russell
by Russell, Paul Lindsay
Lake Forest, Ill, 1910. First edition. Very Good. Publisher's plain black cloth. Octavo. 44 pp. Some toning and an ink spot to upper flyleaf. Ink ownership signature, dated 1910, to upper pastedown. A Very Good copy of a rare work of poetry by a obscure Black author. The introduction explains that Paul Lindsay Russell was born... Read More
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Franny and Zooey
by Salinger, J.D. [Jerome David]
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1961. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Publisher's cloth boards, a bit sunned at top edge. Slight chipping to top edge of dust jacket and small chip to spine, and a bit of scuffing, mostly to back panel. A clean, Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Salinger's intriguing work on the Glass... Read More
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Franny and Zooey
by Salinger, J.D. [Jerome David]
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1961. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. A Near Fine copy in Very Good+ dust jacket. Some fading to cloth at top edge and some rubbing to dust jacket with a bit of crinkling and creasing to spine. Ink ownership signature, crossed out, to front flyleaf. Salinger's intriguing work on the... Read More
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