London: Folio Society, 1967. Engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. First Edition, Thus. Hardcover in a Slipcase. Sir Roger de Coverley, fictional character, devised by Joseph Addison, who portrayed him as the ostensible author of papers and letters that were published in Addison and Richard Steele’s influential periodical The Spectator. As.....

New York: George Braziller, 1970. Hardcover in an Illustrated Slipcover. The Book of Hours of Engelbert of Nassau, housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford as MSS. Douce 219–220, is a splendid example of a book of hours following the Dominican Rite. Crafted in Ghent during the late 1470s or.....

Paris: A. Quantin, 1879. Limited Edition. Full Leather. Comte De Caylus was a French antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters. Caylus had quite another side to his character. He had a thorough acquaintance with the gayest and most disreputable sides of Parisian life and left a number of more or.....

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1911. Illustrated by W. H. D. Koerner. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. A social commentary on the evils of the wealthy set in New England via a story of romance. Written to teach people a little about personal finance and.....

Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1902. Limited Edition #725 of 1000 the Centenary Edition. Half Leather. Alfred Barbou was himself a famous writer at that time as well as an intimate friend of Victor Hugo. This book was approved by Victor Hugo and his wife, was translated into several languages.....

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1911. Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. One of the Rarest Baum Titles, using the Laura Bancroft Pseudonym.The Twinkle Tales is a 1905 series by L. Frank Baum, published under the pen name Laura Bancroft. The six.....

London: Fanfrolico Press, 1928. Limited Edition No. 251 of 750 copies. Hardcover. This lovely edition presents a comprehensive compilation of the writings of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, a notable English poet and physician of the nineteenth century. Delving into his complete letters, poetry, and dramatic pieces, this volume offers readers a......

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coats, c1893. Photogravures by Charles L. Mitchell and Francis Frith. Near Fine Hardcovers in a Very Good Dust Jackets. Lorna Doone was made into a1951 American adventure film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Barbara Hale and Richard Greene. The BBC also filmed a version of the.....

Paris: A. Hiard, 1836. Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet was a French bishop and theologian renowned for his sermons and other addresses. He has been considered by many to be one of the most brilliant orators of all time and a master French stylist. Court preacher to Louis XIV of France, Bossuet.....

New York: The American Past, 1986. Illustrations by Warren Chappell. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket with a Very Good Slipcase. Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention is a work of historical non-fiction, written by Catherine Drinker Bowen and originally published in 1966. Bowen recounts the.....

London: The Folio Society. 1993. Hardcovers in Slipcase. The Brontës were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, are well-known poets and novelists.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1960. Stapled wraps. Discussion on the necessity of revising King James' version of the Holy Scriptures, and on the character, principles and revisions of the American Bible Union.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1871. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. Is it possible to connect two continents by a telegraph line through Bering Strait? Richard J. Bush thought it was possible even though he encountered challenges such as a sinking ship, shortage of supplies, annoying.....