Documents & Manuscripts
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Three Calligraphic panels in Kufic script by Yousuf Ahmad
by Yousuf Ahmad (Yousef Ahmad), 1869-1942
1933 Handwritten. Very Good. No Binding. Signed by Illustrator(s). (1) One calligraphic panel in Kufic script, signed; Y. Ahmad and dated 1351 AH. (1933 AD.). Gouache on thick paper, Islamic phrases constituted of three tile styles: Allahu Rabbi Haqqa (Allah is my Lord indeed).. al- Ka'batu Qiblati (Kaba is my Kiblah- direction).. al- Kur'an imami (Kuran is my leader). 110x39 cm. (2) Tow un-signed calligraphic panels in Kufic on paper by Yusuf Ahmad, forming sequent four names of Allah; al-Salam...
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$10,000.00
The Adventures of Sir Paladin
by Smith, Thayer
Half Calf. Very Good. A gory original monster epic with exceptional, and graphic, artwork deemed to shocking for children at the time! Oblong, 24 by 33.5 cm. Unpaginated, 48 pp. With mounted artwork on 23 of those pages, 22 of which are pen and ink work, and one, a watercolor. The story can be viewed as a broad, but adulatory, parody of Malory, Tennyson and all the epic literature of chivalrous knights going out to slay the foe. Here the story is told in a matter-of-fact, pared down prose style,...
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$4,500.00
Sketches for A.H. from S.T.S. [Album of Comical Pen-and-Ink Sketches Mostly (23 ink drawings, one pencil, and one photo)]
by Smith, Thayer
Half Morocco. Marbled paper pastedown on boards. . Very Good. Sketches that effortlessly transport us back to Victoria England as experienced by the upper classes. N.d., circa 1870s to 1880s. Folio, 36 by 27.5 cm. The drawings were dedicated to Anna Hill, who herself was the subject of many of them, beginning with the title page illustration which depicts her in Egypt reading a letter from home. This title page reveals instantly the cleverness of the artist's conception as well as his...
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$4,000.00
The Farmer's Boy. Rural Tales.
by Robert Bloomfield
Brown leather spine with gilt nameplate and title on the spine. Tan cloth boards.
Robert Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy was the most successful poem of the "Romantic" period, selling 100,000 copies between 1800 and 1830. However, what was marketed was not the poem which the working-class Bloomfield had written, but a highly polished, politely spelled and punctuated re-write, prepared by the local squire, who deliberately covered up the fact that Bloomfield had written originally for a Suffolk voice, with... Read more about this item
Robert Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy was the most successful poem of the "Romantic" period, selling 100,000 copies between 1800 and 1830. However, what was marketed was not the poem which the working-class Bloomfield had written, but a highly polished, politely spelled and punctuated re-write, prepared by the local squire, who deliberately covered up the fact that Bloomfield had written originally for a Suffolk voice, with... Read more about this item
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$124.89
The Salisbury Plain Poems of William Wordsworth Salisbury Plain, or A Night on Salisbury Plain, Adventures on Salisbury Plain (including The Female Vagrant), Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain The Cornell Wordsworth
by Wordsworth, William; Gill, Stephen (ed)
New York: Cornell University Press, 1975. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good /no dustwrapper. large 8vo. b&w facsimile plates The first volume in the Cornell Wordsworth series, edited by Stephen Gill; Salisbury Plain, or A Night on Salisbury Plain, Adventures on Salisbury Plain (including The Female Vagrant), Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain; the aim of the series is to present Wordsworth's poems from first manuscript through all variant readings, to the final printing in the...
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$21.47
A Fifteenth Century Italian Plutarch
by Mitchell, Charles (introduction and notes)
Thomas Yosoloff, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 40 pp. with 17 pp. of text with 10 tipped-in color plates with explanations. First US edition (first printing). Very good copy in pink cloth with bright gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Some edge and corner wear. In a very good dust jacket.
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$20.00
An history Of the Memorable and Extraordinary Calamities of margaret of anjou, queen of england; Wherein may be seen the Inconstancy of Fortune, the Changes of Courts, and the Miseries of human Life, to which Crowns and Sceptres are subject...Translated out of the original Manuscript..
by BAUDIER, Michael
London: Printed by James Bettenham, For G. Strahan.., 1737. xii, 192pp. Later half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints split, chipping to foot of spine. Book-label of James Dolman to FEP, scattered spotting. The sole English edition of French royal historian Michel Baudier's (c1589-45) moral biography of Margaret of Anjou (1430-82), Queen (and sometime regent) of England 1445-61 and 1470/1. As daughter of the Duke of Anjou and...
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$315.38
REGENCY SCRAP BOOK / ALBUM
by HARKNELL, Marie Antonie; TURNER, Mary Ann:
[Original manuscript]., [c.1825-1830].. 23.5 x 19.5cm. Handsomely bound in contemporary half dark green morocco over green cloth boards, the spine with four raised bands, richly decorated in gilt and with titles in gilt. The book composed of varying plain and coloured pages (including yellow, pink, green, blue, and purple), 52 of which contain various black and white engravings (19 pages, one page embellished with classical cameos), botanical watercolours (2), manuscript verse (30, including "Byron's...
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$189.23
CALENDAR OF THE CORRESPONDENCE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON Commander in Chief of the Continental Army with the Continental Congress: Volume I.
by Fitzpatrick, John C. , Ed. - George Washington
Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1906. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in boards. Crease to exterior fabric at spine crown and base. Wear to exterior. Bump to corners of volume. Hinge is starting. Interior is clean. Prepared from the original manuscripts in the Library of Congress by John C. Fitzpatrick, Division of Manuscripts. Fascimile plates preceded by tissue pages throughout. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
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$30.00
THE SECRET CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR ROBERT CECIL WITH JAME VI OF SCOTLAND [1766], NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. [COMPLETE IN 3 VOLUMES]
by Sir Robert Cecil with James Vi Of Scotland; edited by Edmund Goldsmid
Edinburgh: Privately Printed. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1887. Paperback. Collectanea Adamantaea; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 65, 43, 52 pages; THE SECRET CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR ROBERT CECIL WITH JAME VI [1766], OF SCOTLAND, NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. Complete in three volumes. This is the original printing produced in printed vellum dustwrappers. This is one of a series that was edited by Edmund Goldsmid, mostly from previously unpublished original manuscripts, both historical narratives and...
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$195.95
Autographs of Distinguished Artistes, Collected by Mr. T. P. Salt, Birmingham
1859-1901. Very Good. An incredible assemblage of operatic and classical musician autographs from the 19th century, including autographs of Adelina Patti, Christine Nilsson, Emma Albani, Minnie Hauk, John Parry, Paderewski, Charles Gounod, Nellie Melba, Ferdinand Hiller, Giovanni Belletti, Clara Novello, Mario (Giovanni Matteo De Candia), Giulia Grisi, Therese Tietjens, Marietta Alboni, Pauline Viardot, Marietta Piccolommini, Sims Reeves, and on and on -- 81 in all. Oblong 8vo. 22 by 24 cm. 54 pages with...
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$7,500.00
Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman conquest: with anecdotes of their courts, now first published from official records and other authentic documents, private as well as public, new edition, with corrections and additions
by Strickland, Agnes
London: Henry Colburn. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo 7" - 7. Handsome set of the dozen volumes that comprise an important, influential early addition to English women's history, to English politics and the monarchy, to Great Britain's Court and courtiers, and to its Kings and rulers, Queens and fortunes. The O.D.N.B. entry for her notes that the work evidences the author's turn in the 1830s (and that of her sister, the co-author, Elizabeth) towards biography, history and the original...
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$990.00
Pasiphaë
by GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS / Swinburne, Algernon C
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1950. Limited Edition. Fine. John Buckland Wright. 8vo; 9 x 5 3/4 inches (228 x 144 mm); 40 pp., 13 pt Bembo type. 6+1 copper engravings by John Buckland Wright, with tissue guards. This is copy no. 96 of 100 special numbered copies with one extra engraving facing the title page. Bound by Sandorski & Sutcliffe, London (stamped in gilt on inside front cover) in wine coloured vellum boards, gilt title and gilt image of Horus with the sun between the horns; gilt fillet on...
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$850.00
[Manuscript] Histoire de la Cochonnette
Christmas, 1944. Hardcover. Cotton toile fabric pasted onto boards. . Very Good. Charming original story about a clever pig and his rooster and chicken pals, and how they escape becoming their master's Xmas supper and then a ravenous wolf. Oblong, 21.5 by 27.5 cm. Unpaginated, 20 leaves, text and illustrations only on rectos. Eighteen original watercolor illustrations, all but two of which are full page or dominate the page. The watercolors are rendered with a confident simplicity -- these...
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$950.00
A large illuminated initial “S”, on a cutting from a fine Romanesque New Testament in Latin
by [Illuminated initial]
Parchment, a cutting, c.160×130mm, ruled in plummet and written in two columns of which 19 lines of one column are preserved, chapter and verse initials alternately red or blue, the start of the book with an 8-line inhabited initial in gold and colours, formerly pasted-down and consequently with traces of paper glued to the reverse.
It is not known when the parent volume was cut up, and apart from the next item no other cuttings have yet been recognised. The text would have been outdated by the mid-13th... Read more about this item
It is not known when the parent volume was cut up, and apart from the next item no other cuttings have yet been recognised. The text would have been outdated by the mid-13th... Read more about this item
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$4,415.25
Logboek van een slavenhaler. (Vertaling Walter Penn).
by CONNEAU, Theophilus
(Amsterdam, Amsterdam Boek, 1978). Wrappers. 392 pp. A slaver's log book from 1853 after the original manuscript. .
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$29.63
Diary of the 'Terra Nova' Expedition to the Antarctic 1910-1912. An account of Scott's last expedition edited from the original manuscripts in the Scott Polar Research Institute and the British Museum by H.G. R. King. Forword by Charles Wright.
by WILSON, Edward
London, Blandford Press, 1972. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 10 maps and many illustrations and plates, several in colours, including watercolour illustrations by the author, all drawn from the collection of the Scott Polar Research Institute, XXIII, 279 pp.First edition. - An account of Scott's last expedition by his chief scientific officer, edited from the original manuscript.
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$88.88
Catalogue of the Bute Collection of Forty-Two Illuminated Manuscripts and Miniatures
by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1983. Paperback. 155pp. Several colour and b&w illustrations. Includes price list. Covers a little age-discoloured. A very pleasing copy. (ar14). Soft Cover. Very Good.
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$16.40
Privilegieboek van den Jongen Handboge (Privilege-book of the Young Handbow) of Antwerp (Guild of St. Sebastian); in Dutch, illustrated manuscript on parchment
BOOK DESCRIPTION: EXQUISITELY WRITTEN AND DECORATED MANUSCRIPT FOR AN EARLY ARCHERY GUILD. In Dutch, illustrated manuscript on parchment, Belgium, Antwerp, c. 1575 with 17th-century additions. Dimensions 273-275 x 187 mm., complete, frame-ruled in faint rust-brown ink (justification 215-218×135-137 mm.), written below top line by three scribes, the main scribe writing an elegant gothic script with some cursive elements (semi-hybrida) in 22-32 lines, the second scribe annotating the first in a less...
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$45,000.00
NLT Gospel of John
by St. John
The Scottish Bible Society is pleased to announce the launch of John's Gospel in the New Living Translation (British text edition). The New Living Translation is a new translation which combines readability with faithful adherence to the original manuscripts. The font size for this publication for the main body text is 10pt. The headings of the gospel text are set in 10pt in a bolder print.
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$2.14
Expense Book of John Halsted, Commissary under Benedict Arnold, Before Quebec, 1776. Printed from the original manuscript book in the possession of Thos. O'Leary, Asst. Librarian Chateau de Ramezay
by HALSTED, John
Montreal: C. A. Marchand, Printer, 1913. Pamphlet. Fair. 16 p. 25 cm. Brown paper pamphlet. Light soiling and chipped edges, holes around staples. Paper browning. Halsted supported Benedict Arnold in bringing and keeping an army in Quebec and Montreal in the winter/spring of 1776.
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$25.00
Expense Book of John Halsted, Commissary Under Benedict Arnold, Before Quebec, 1776
by Halsted, John; Edited by Thomas O'Leary
Montreal: C.A. Marchand, Printer, 1913. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Reprint. Very mild wear, tiny tear to top edge of front cover. Stapled wraps, 16 pages, unopened at top edge. Printed from the original manuscript book in the possession of Thomas O'Leary, Assistant Librarian at Chateau de Ramezay. During the Revolutionary War, American-born Canadian merchants supported the American expedition to Canada led by Colonel Benedict Arnold by providing supplies to the American army on credit. One such...
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$30.00
Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 from the Original Manuscripts of Father Joseph Ohrwalder. Late Priest of the Austrian Mission Station Oat Delen, in Kordofan
by Wingate, Major F. R
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company Limited, 1892. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. xiipp. + 1 leaf,460pp. Octavo in original gilt lettered decorative green cloth and coated dark green endpapers with photogravure frontispiece and illustrations in text from photos. Spine slightly browned. Very good condition. 1892
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$586.64