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Squarings. Twelve Poems. Lithographs by Felim Egan.

HEANEY (Seamus).

Squarings. Twelve Poems. Lithographs by Felim Egan, 1980.

'SHIFTING BRILLIANCIES' SIGNED BY HEANEY AND FELIM EGAN

Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book by Messrs. Maurice & Edward Detmold.

KIPLING (Rudyard).

Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle… 1903.

Poems.

JOHNSON, Lionel

Poems.

Typed Letter Signed with initials, addressed to 'CHAIRMAN OF THE PARTY', (Lord Woolton).

CHURCHILL (Winston S.)

Typed Letter Signed with initials, addressed to 'CHAIRMAN… 1946.

[Album of photographs of whaling and trading voyages.]

[PEDERSEN (Captain Christian Theodore)], & LEVY (Aaron), compiler.

[Album of photographs of whaling and trading voyages.], 1930.

TRADING IN THE ARCTIC: C.T. PEDERSEN, ROALD AMUNDSEN, JOHNNIE JOHNS

The Transfiguration, an illuminated cutting from a Book of Hours on vellum.
[France (eastern?), 15th century (c.1470s/80s)]

The Transfiguration, an illuminated cutting from a Book… 1470.

FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM

Of Gardens.

Bacon (Francis), RILEY (Dominic) [Binder] & PENNELL (Betty)

Of Gardens, 1993.

DOMINIC RILEY BINDING INSPIRED BY GARDENS

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

SAUVAGE (Slyvain) & DE LACLOS (Choderlos)

Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1930.

EIGHT ORIGINAL WORKS AND FOUR COPPER PLATES BY SAUVAGE

Accurata Globi terrestris delineatio, qua Europa, Asia, Africa et America ...

SEUTTER (Matthaus).

Accurata Globi terrestris delineatio, qua Europa, Asia, Africa… 1744.

SIX MAPS IN THE ORIGINAL SLIPCASE

Historia de la Conquista de Mexico

SOLIS Y RIBADENEYRA (Antonio).

Historia de la Conquista de Mexico, 1684.

THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO

Dernier Voyage du Capitain Cook autour du Monde, ou se trouvent les circonstances de sa mort...

ZIMMERMAN (Heinrich).

Dernier Voyage du Capitain Cook autour du Monde, ou… 1783.

[Souvenirs of geological and natural history travels.]

ROUSSEL (Alexandre-Victor).

[Souvenirs of geological and natural history travels.], 1871.

A VETERAN OF THE PACIFIC TOURS HIS OWN COUNTRY

Uncle Fred in the Springtime: original dust jacket artwork. With later letter from Peggy Bacon to Charles E. Gould,

[WODEHOUSE (P.G.)] & BACON (Peggy).

Uncle Fred in the Springtime: original dust jacket… 1939.

[Letters on the American War].

HARTLEY (David).

[Letters on the American War], 1779.

“A MOST PARTIAL & UNJUST CONCLUSION WITHOUT ANY PREMISES"

Erinnerungen an Nassau N.P. Bahama Inseln.

COONLEY (Jacob Frank.)

Erinnerungen an Nassau N.P. Bahama Inseln, 1895.

BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE BAHAMAS

The New Game of the Ascent of Mont Blanc.

SMITH (Albert).

The New Game of the Ascent of Mont… 1861.

A Description of the Spanish Islands and Settlements On the Coast of the West Indies, Compiled from authentic Memoirs, Revised by Gentlemen who have resided many Years in the Spanish Settlements ...

JEFFERYS (Thomas).

A Description of the Spanish Islands and Settlements… 1762.

An Act to prohibit all Trade and Intercourse with the Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachuset's Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Three Lower Counties on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and

[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] & GEORGE III.

An Act to prohibit all Trade and Intercourse… 1776.

ECONOMIC WEAPONS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

The Death of Captain Cook.

WEBBER (John). & BARTOLOZZI (F.),

The Death of Captain Cook, 1784.

A VERY FINE COPY

Memoirs of Lieutenant Joseph Rene Bellot... With his Journal of a Voyage in the Polar Seas, in search of Sir John Franklin

BELLOT (Joseph Rene).

Memoirs of Lieutenant Joseph Rene Bellot... With his… 1855.

A BEAUTIFUL COPY

[Maps, manuscripts, and printed ephemera from Trollope's time as British Commander in Quebec.]

TROLLOPE (Charles).

[Maps, manuscripts, and printed ephemera from Trollope's time… 1858.

WITH AN IMPORTANT MS. MAP OF QUEBEC

A Letter on the abolition of the slave trade; addressed to the freeholders and other inhabitants of Yorkshire.

WILBERFORCE (William).

A Letter on the abolition of the slave… 1807.

WILBERFORCE PLEADING THE CASE OF ABOLITION ON THE EVE OF SUCCESS

Tabula Quinta de Asia.

PTOLEMY (Claudius). & BERLINGHIERI (Francesco di Niccolo).

Tabula Quinta de Asia, 1482.

THE THIRD ENGRAVED MAP OF IRAN

De l'origine et des progrès d'une science nouvelle.

[DUPONT DE NEMOURS (Pierre Samuel).]

De l'origine et des progrès d'une science nouvelle, 1768.

A lovely copy of this important exposition of physiocrat doctrine

Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic, Slavery; in Reply to a Paragraph of Mr. Mill's Celebrated 'Article on government'.

THOMPSON (William). & [WHEELER (Anna).]

Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women,… 1825.

"THE FIRST DETAILED STATEMENT OF SOCIALIST FEMINISM"

Ueber familiäre Formen von cerebralen Diplegien.

FREUD (Sigmund).

Ueber familiäre Formen von cerebralen Diplegien, 1893.

A PRESENTATION COPY OF AN EARLY NEUROLOGICAL WORK.

Complete Poems and Prose.

WHITMAN (Walt).

Complete Poems and Prose, 1888.

THE DEFINITIVE LIFETIME EDITION OF WHITMAN'S WORKS, BOLDLY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

An Historical and Geographical Description of the Great Country & River of the Amazones in America.

PAGAN (Count Blaise Francois de), & HAMILTON (Wm.) trans.

An Historical and Geographical Description of the Great… 1661.

WITH THE RARELY FOUND MAP

Epistolarum Familiarium Libri VIII. (Ed. Antonius Moretus and Hieronymus Squarzaficus).
Venice, Damianus de Mediolano, de Gorgonzola, Petrus de Quarengiis, Bergomensis, 15 June 1495.

BRUNI ARETINO (Leonardo)

Epistolarum Familiarium Libri VIII. (Ed. Antonius Moretus and… 1495.

ONE OF ONLY TWO FIFTEENTH-CENTURY EDITIONS

The Martyrdom of St. Catherine, in an initial on a choirbook leaf [Southern Netherlands (perhaps Delft), dated 1541 (more probably 1544)].

SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS ARTIST

The Martyrdom of St. Catherine, in an initial… 1541.

A VIBRANT MINIATURE

Christ Among the Doctors, an illuminated cutting from a Book of Hours on vellum. [France (eastern?), 15th century (c.1470s/80s)]

Christ Among the Doctors, an illuminated cutting from a…

FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM

Jiu shi zhu Yesu xin yi zhao shu - Gutzlaff's Version of the New Testament.

GUTZLAFF (Karl Friedrich August).

Jiu shi zhu Yesu xin yi zhao shu… 1854.

Album showing Hong Kong, Shanghai, Saigon, and Singapore.

VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS.

Album showing Hong Kong, Shanghai, Saigon, and Singapore, 1890.

Denkmäler des Alten Roms oder Sammlung der vornehmsten und noch in Rom vorhandenen Alterthümer nach Barbaults Zeichnung nebst einer Erklärung derselben aus dem Französischen übersetzt....
Augsburg,(Georg Christoph Kilian), 1767.

KILIAN (Georg Christoph)

Denkmäler des Alten Roms oder Sammlung der vornehmsten… 1767.

RARE FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO SUPERB COLLECTIONS OF PLATES

Traité des pierres gravées par P.J. Mariette. Recueil des pierres gravées du Cabinet du Roy.
Paris: de l'imprimerie de l'Auteur, 1750.

MARIETTE (Pierre-Jean)

Traité des pierres gravées par P.J. Mariette. Recueil… 1750.

SUMPTUOUSLY ILLUSTRATED, FROM A CONNOISSEUR'S LIBRARY

Xi hu quan jing [Complete Scenery of the West Lake].

UNKNOWN CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHER. & possibly DA FANGBO STUDIO.

Xi hu quan jing [Complete Scenery of the… 1910.

Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi & moderni autori Greci, & Latini.

VERDIZOTTI (Giovanni)

Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi… 1570.

DESIGNS DRAWN ON THE BLOCKS BY VERDIZOTTI HIMSELF

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition.

WILKES (Cmdr. Charles).

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, 1845.

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean,

VANCOUVER (George).

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific… 1801.

A Journal of Transactions and Events During a Residence of Nearly Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador; Containing Many Interesting Particulars, Both of the Country and its Inhabitants, not Hitherto Known.

CARTWRIGHT (George).

A Journal of Transactions and Events During a… 1792.

A Classic of Canadiana and 18th Century Travel Literature

Tonnewonte, or, The adopted son of America. A tale, containing scenes from real life, By an American.

AN AMERICAN [HART (Julia Catherine Beckwith).]

Tonnewonte, or, The adopted son of America. A… 1824.

CANADA'S FIRST NOVELIST

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition.

WILKES (Cmdr. Charles).

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, 1845.

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