Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell & Son for Longman & Rees, and J. Wright, London, 1800. First and only edition. ESTC T115459; Sabin 30010 (Hamilton) & 38570 (Lafayette); Jackson, La Fayette, a Bibliography, page 199 (mis-attributes the poem to Anne Bannerman). A 457-line poem by George Hamilton (1757-1832), set at the.....
San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1952. First edition, one of 129 copies signed by the printer, artist and translator. A handsomely printed and illustrated selection of the poems of poet Oscar Venceslas Lubiz-Milosz (1877-1939), who though Lithuanian by birth wrote in the language of his adopted country, France. The text.....
San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1951. First edition, one of 175 copies. An attractive and amusing work on mushrooms, the history of their uses in cooking, how to choose and clean them, etc., with several recipes of the ideal mushroom dishes, including beouf stroganoff, oeufs aux champignons and creole mushroom.....
(San Mateo, Calif.: The Quercus Press), 1940. First edition, one of 250 copies, of which 200 were for sale. Broomfield A30. A fine rendering of two unusually mellow poems by Robinson Jeffers that were inspired by a family visit to Kelmscott Manor in 1929, as described in the excerpt from.....
Portland, Oregon: Printed by McArthur & Wood at the Attic Press & Are for Sale by Them at 739 Glisan Street, 1901. First edition, one of 39 copies (of 105) bound by Stikeman for the 39 subscribers; the other 66 copies were bound in limp vellum. OCLC 12028497 records 15.....
Carl Van Vechten: Bilignin, France, 1934. Iconic photograph of Gertrude Stein in her garden in Bilignin, France. This is one of several photographic images of Stein by her friend and collaborator Carl Van Vechten.
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1829. First edition. American Imprints 38563. A study of French poet, theologian and writer François Fénelon, with translations from his writings, by the Boston author Eliza Lee Follen (née Cabot) (1787-1860). This is Follen's first book, preceded by a serial publication for children; she.....
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[London: Printed by Thomas Davison for the author, 1816]. First edition, privately printed in an edition of 50 copies, of which about 14 are known to survive. Randolph, Studies for a Byron Bibliography, page 119; Tinker 552; Wise, Byron, page 50 (“practically impossible to acquire”); NCBEL III, 282. The first.....
London: Printed for John Barber and Sold by Benj. Tooke, Henry Clements and John Walthoe, 1717, First edition. ESTC T38771; NCBEL II, 767. The last of three plays by Delarivier Manley (1663-1724), who was well known for her roman à clef fictionalized memoirs. The is plot is loosely based on.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. First edition. ESTC T91685; Rothschild 1338 (Horace Walpole’s copy). The letters of poet Henrietta Knight (1700-1756) to poet William Shenstone (1714-1763), written over a twenty year period during which she was sequestered by her husband at their Warwickshire country home, Barrells. Lady Luxborough and.....
London: Printed for H. Herringman, and Sold by R. Bentley, J. Tonson, F. Saunders, and T. Bennet, 1693. Third edition, preceded by editions in 1673 and 1676. ESTC R1905; Wing S2845; NCBEL II, 744. One of Thomas Shadwell's most popular plays of the many he wrote, a comedy centered on.....
London: Printed for C. Rivington, 1734. First edition. ESTC T42622; Foxon, page 45; Teerink 747; Sale, Samuel Richardson, Master Printer, 135; Lonsdale, Eighteenth-Century Women Poets, pages 118-129. The only book by the Irish poet Mary Barber (1685-1755), whose first published poem written on behalf of a destitute woman, received the.....
Sherborne: Printed for R. Goadby and sold by W. Owen, Bookseller, London, 1752 [-1754]. First edition in book form, preceded by an issue in parts. ESTC T125628 (BL & Ox only); not found in Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature. ESTC notes a leaf of verse titled “A caution” after.....
Paris: E. Typographia Regia [Colophon: Curante Sebastiano Cramoisy], 1651. The first printed edition of the complete text. The first work of history written by a Western woman, Anna Comnena (1083-1153), the 12th century Byzantine princess. She wrote The Alexiad to chronicle the achievements of the reign of her father, emperor.....
Patavii [Padua, Italy]: Typographia Seminaria, 1698. First edition. The famous work of Quranic scholarship by Ludovico Marracci. Marracci's Quran was the first to publish the entire Arabic text with a Latin translation, to which Marracci added extensive notes. In the second volume, Refutatio Alcorani, Marracci systematically refutes the tenets of.....
London: Printed in the Year, 1689. First edition. ESTC R10117; Wing S5329; NCBEL I, 1223 (A. Marvell). 28 tracts on English affairs during the reign of Charles II, written mostly as anonymous pamphlets during the decade 1671-1681 and compiled here as an act of preservation "for the sole use of.....
[Venice: Aldus Manutius, January 1502]. (Colophon: Venetiis in Aedibus Aldi. Mense Ianuario m.d.ii). First Aldine edition, first issue with the misprint of "Propetius" for Propertius on the title-page and the cancellan of the corrected title-page on the final leaf. Renouard 1502-16; Adams C1137; Clemons and Fletcher 32. The first Aldine.....
Edinburgh: Printed by James Donaldson, for Alexander Donaldson, and sold at his Shops [sic], and by all the Booksellers in Scotland, 1774. First edition with "Shops" in the imprint, second issue with the catchword "Lord" on page iv; "comparatively" on page 34; etc. Pottle 50 and see pages 98-101; Rothschild.....
London: Printed by J. Plymsell; for T. N. Longman, 1797. First edition. Colbert; ESTC N12984. Rachel Charlotte Biggs was acquainted with France when she traveled by herself there in 1792 to aid an aristocratic lady friend, during which time she witnessed the Revolution during its grim climax. Out of concern.....
London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1778. First edition, all published. ESTC P2575; NCBEL II, 1305. A complete run of 42 issues of an illustrated magazine published by George Kearsly between 1774 and 1777, intended to display and celebrate the art of copperplate engraving. Each of the 123 examples is accompanied.....
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832. First and only edition. Letters from France, Belgium and Germany between 1814 and 1816 by a highly cultivated and connected young lady who writes to various friends about adventures and intrigue in high places. The author of the letters is perhaps autobiographical or.....
Paris: Fr. Cocheris Fils, Libraire, 1808. First and only edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Williams 8(c); OCLC records 15 copies. A French translation of more than 30 poems by Helen Maria Williams, including ones on her real and imaginary travels: "Sonnet sur la ligne équinoxiale”; “Sonnet sur l’oiseau du.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1826. Second edition, published the same year as the first, but under a different title. Colbert; ODNB; NCBEL III, 1288; not in Wolff, Block or Garside, Raven and Schöwerling. A novel in the form of a travel diary by Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860) which she states in.....
N.p., n.d. [but circa 1960]. A photographic portrait of John Steinbeck taken by artist William Ward Beecher (1921-2006), a descendant of the famous New England Beechers. How many portraits were produced from this one sitting is not recorded, but there were at least two: this one and a similar one.....
Fair copy manuscript, no place, circa 1806. There are six fair copy manuscripts of Psyche held in institutions that have been found: National Library of Wales, Morgan Library, Beinecke Library, two at the British Library (one incomplete), Wilson Library at North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and one is listed in OCLC.....