London: Thomas McLean, 1824. Alken, Henry. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 26 x 18 cm. No text, 20 engraved color plates printed recto only, depciting heads of people and animals, hunting scenes, dog and cock fights. One of the scarcer scrapbooks by Alken. Minor rubbing to boards, some marginal toning and light plate offsetting. More about Henry Alken's Scrap Book
London: Thomas McLean, [1824]. Alken, Henry. First edition. Hardcover. No text. 27 x 19 cm. 50 hand-colored plates, many with multiple images, of the fifty plates, twenty are full paged sporting scenes, well drawn and nicely coloured, and printed on heavy paper. All plates printed recto only. Bright, clean copy... More about Sporting Scrap Book
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1843. Alken, Henry. Second edition. Hardcover. 358 pages. 21 x 14.2 cm. First edition with colored plates -- 15 hand-colored aquatint plates, including the engraved title vignette. Each plate marked, drawn and etched by H. Alken (except the title which does not bear his name).TOOLEY 471. "First... More about Jorrocks's Jaunts And Jollities; Being The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eating....
London: Rudolph Ackermann (Eclipse Sporting Gallery), 1842. Alken, Henry. First edition. leather_bound. 402 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Thirty six hand colored plates including frontispiece and title by Alken. TOOLEY 65. " First issue, "with four plates mounted, with titles beneath them." He goes on to note, "Considered by many... More about The Life Of A Sportsman
NY: E.P. Dutton, 1928. Second edition. Hardcover. 450 pp. More about My Studio Window Sketches of the Pageant of Washington Life
New York: Aperture, 1984. Arbus, Diane. First edition. Hardcover. 175 pages. 29 x 24 cm. 151 black and white photographs. A collective portrait of sixties' style and culture. Bibliography, More about Diane Arbus Magazine Work
Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1865. Hardcover. 85 pages. 8vo, first published 1852. An early guidebook to Girard College. Bookplate. More about The Girard College and Its Founder: Containing the Biography of Mr. Girard, The History of the...
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1966. First edition. Paperback. More about Proverbial Comparisons in Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones Peruanas
NY: Doubleday Page, 1906. First edition. leather_bound. 467 pages. 29 x 19 cm. More than fifty black and white illustrations with lettered tissue guards. Limited edition, copy 34 of 100 printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper by the De Vinne Press. Clean, bright copy, covers slightly splayed. More about Glimpses of Italian Court Life; Happy Days in Italia Adorata
Philadelphia: Univ.of Pennsylvania Press, 1959. Second edition. Hardcover. 288 pages. Experiments in creating a perfect society by establishing a small scale experimental community. Index. More about Backwoods Utopias The Sectarian And Owenite Phases Of Communitarian Socialism In America: 1665-1829
NY: Overlook Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. 4to, 125 black and white photographs and drawings, and fifty-eight color photographs. Index. An architectural and social tour. Bookplate. More about At Home with the Presidents
Paris: Edouard Rouveyre, 1880. Malval. First edition. leather_bound. 178 pages. 8vo, 22 x 13 cm. Etchings in sepia and black and white by Malval. Limited edition, copy 70 of 100 on Whatman paper. Lovely binding by R.W. Smith, raised bands, gilt spine panel florets and lettering. More about La Societe Galante et Litteraire au XVIII Siecle
NY: Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Editions Verve of Paris, 1952. First American edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 37 x 27.5. 126 full-page photographs with cover designed and executed by Henri Matisse. This the American edition from the French edition by Verve, "Images a La Sauvette." Engraving and printing by... More about The Decisive Moment
London: Macmillan & Co Limited, 1903. Hardcover. 477 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. In a "vellucent" binding by Cedric Chivers of Bath, stamp-signed on the back turn-in, of transparent vellum over paper. Front cover with a multi-color painted architecturally frame with three mother of pearl inlays enclosing an original painting... More about Evelina Or The History Of A Young Lady's Entrance Into The World; With an Introduction by Austin...
London: Seeley, 1893. Hardcover. 314 pp. Index. Explores the history of the beautiful countess who inspired Waller to write his greatest poems. More about Sacharissa Some Account of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland Her Family and Friends 1617-1684
Washington,DC: Cosmos Club, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 176 pp. More about Founders of The Cosmos Club 1878
London: George Newbold, (1851). Later printing. Hardcover. 242 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Ten engraved plates, several folding, and woodcut title page. Originally issued in parts by David Bogue. COHN 548. Plates and text clean, backstrip head nicked with small loss, wear at front joint, bookplates. More about 1851, Or, The Adventures Of Mr And Mrs Sandboys And Family Who Came Up To London "To Enjoy...
London: Thomas Tegg And Son, 1835. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 291 pages. 15 x 10 cm. COHN 441. "The fourth edition, but the first with the illustrations, of which there are twenty (woodcut vignettes), including one upon the title page." Bound by Zaehnsdorf, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, contents bright and clean. More about The Beauties Of Washington Irving, Esq.; Illustrated With Woodcuts, Engraved by Thompson From...
London: Chatto and Windus, 1875. Cruikshank, George. Hardcover. 388 & 428 pp. 8vo, copiously illustrated, hundreds of illustrations by Cruikshank with many fold-out plates. Vol.I: Years 1835-43. Vol.II:Years 1844-53. Writers including Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert A'Beckett, The Brothers Mayhew, etc., contributed. The years 1835-1853 embrace the best period of Cruikshank's... More about The Comic Almanack An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry,...
NY: McGraw-Hill, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 384 pages. 28 x 21 cm. More than 500 illustrations. Index. More about Great Historic Places of Europe
Washington, DC: New York Ave. Presbyterian Church, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 369 pp. More about A History of the New York Presbyterian Church
London: Sherwood, Neely , And Jones, 1823. Cruikshank, George and I.R. Cruikshank. Second Issue. Hardcover. 376 pages. 23.5 x 15 cm. Thirty-six colored aquatint plates by George and Isaac Robert Cruikshank, host of wood-cuts, three sheets of engraved music. TOOLEY 196. "An enormously popular work translated into French, and a.... More about Life In London; Or, The Day And Night Scenes Of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. And His Elegant Friend...
London: Jones & Co, 1821-1822. First edition. leather_bound. 656 & 668 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. 8vo, nineteen hand-colored plates Vol.I, and thirteen colored plates, Vol.II., with one (Tom and Bob catching a Charley Napping) of the two extra plates. These are colored aquatints and etchings reinforced by aquatinting. Illustrated... More about Real Life in London; or, The Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His Cousin, The Hon....
NY: Frederick A. Stokes, 1894. First edition. Boards. Approx. 12 pages. 30 1/2 x 25 1/2 cm. Six full-page color lithographs printed recto only by a prominent socialite of the time, her depictions of the smart set, the antithesis of Charles Dana Gibson's incisive, subtle parodies, but in the same... More about Out-Of-Town Aquarelles Facsimiles of Paintings in Water Color
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1948. First edition. Paperback. More about Relationships in Attitudes, Opinions, and Values Among Family Members