The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair – Maggs Bros. Ltd – Rare Books & Manuscripts

The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair

30 Apr—3 May, 2026

New York, USA

The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair

Location

Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue
New York

Schedule

OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW
Thursday, April 30
5 p.m. – 9 p.m.

SHOW HOURS
Friday, May 1
12 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 2
12 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Sunday, May 3
12 p.m. – 5 p.m.

About

From the fair website:

The 66th New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is now scheduled to take place from 30 April - 3rd May 2026.

Both American and international exhibitors will offer a rich selection of manuscripts, unique ephemera, artist books, zines, as well as early American and European literature, modern first editions, children’s books, maps, autographs, photographs, and more.

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Fair Items

[A trip to Hakone].

UNKNOWN ARTIST. & 'MIMIZU' and 'KONRO'.

[A trip to Hakone], 1910.

Male friendship in the form of an onsen holiday

[Manuscript on paper] Trattato della noblissima arte (calcografica) incisoria

[Manuscript on paper] Trattato della noblissima arte (calcografica)… 1745.

THE HISTORY OF ENGRAVING AND THE PRACTICE OF PRINT COLLECTING

Αιλιανου ποικιλης ιστοριας. βιβλια ιδ. Εκ την Ηρακλειδου περι πολιτειων υπομνημα. Πολημωνος φισιογνωμονικων εγχειριδιον... Variae historiae libri XIIII.
Rome: [Antonio Blado], January 1545

Αιλιανου ποικιλης ιστοριας. βιβλια ιδ. Εκ την Ηρακλειδου… 1545.

EDITIO PRINCEPS

Shoreline.

Shoreline, 2025.

THE SOUNDS OF THE SHORELINE

On Painting. Translated from the original Italian, abridged and accompanied with etchings by Susan Allix.

ALLIX (Susan) & LEON BATTISTA (Alberti)

On Painting. Translated from the original Italian, abridged… 1999.

ALBERTI'S MANUAL OF PAINTING, VIA SUSAN ALLIX

Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Publications of the American Mission Press, Beirut, Syria. Founded at Malta, 1822, and at Beirut, 1834. Prices in Piasters. The Piaster Equal to About Four Cents, or Two Pence.

AMERICAN MISSION PRESS.

Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Publications of… 1891.

A SNAPSHOT OF AMERICAN PRINTING IN THE MIDDLE EAST

The Heart of a Woman.

ANGELOU (Maya).

The Heart of a Woman, 1981.

Inscribed by the author.

Female Friendship, Or the Innocent Sufferer.

ANON. & [COGSWELL (Nathaniel), publisher],

Female Friendship, Or the Innocent Sufferer, 1797.

THE FIRST NOVEL PUBLISHED IN MAINE

Pride and Prejudice.

Pride and Prejudice, 1894.

The Thompson Peacock edition.

Sense and Sensibility.

Sense and Sensibility, 1813.

A second edition in beautiful Regency binding.

Mansfield Park.

Mansfield Park, 1816.

An Austen family copy of the second edition in beautiful Regency binding.

Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion.

Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion, 1818.

An Austen family copy of the first edition in beautiful Regency binding.

Original pencil, graphite and ink wash portrait of Christopher Isherwood, as used on rear cover of the jacket for Isherwood's novel A Meeting by the River.

ISHERWOOD (Christopher) & BACHARDY (Don)

Original pencil, graphite and ink wash portrait of… 1967.

Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market.

BAGEHOT (Walter).

Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market, 1873.

"AN UNDYING CLASSIC" (J.M. KEYNES).

Jungle Cooking.

Jungle Cooking, 1948.

AMERICAN STAPLES USING INDIGENOUS AMAZONIAN INGREDIENTS

Richard Barnfield's Sonnets.

RILEY (Dominic) [Binder] & BARNFIELD (Richard)

Richard Barnfield's Sonnets, 2001.

A BEAUTIFUL AND THOUGHTFUL BINDING BY DOMINIC RILEY

The Savoy.

BEARDSLEY (Aubrey).

The Savoy, 1896.

A RARE SET IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS AND BOARDS

Typed Letter Signed (

BECKETT (Samuel).

Typed Letter Signed ("Samuel Beckett") in French, written… 1953.

Beckett, writing the same month Waiting for Godot was first performed

Typed Letter Signed (

BECKETT (Samuel).

Typed Letter Signed ("Samuel Beckett") to Heathcote Williams,… 1965.

"At some future time [...] I should be happy for one or more to appear in your review"

Ecclesiasticae historiae gentis Anglorum, Libri V.

BEDE , The Venerable, 673/4-735.

Ecclesiasticae historiae gentis Anglorum, Libri V, 1566.

CAREFULLY COLLATED WITH THE OLD ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND ANNOTATED THROUGHOUT BY THE SCHOLAR FRANCIS TATE

The American Military Pocket Atlas

SAYER (Robert). & BENNETT (John).

The American Military Pocket Atlas, 1776.

THE HOLSTER ATLAS

The Harlem Book of the Dead. With a Foreword by Toni Morrison.

MORRISON (Toni)., VAN DER ZEE (James)., DODSON (Owen). & BILLOPS (Camille).

The Harlem Book of the Dead. With a… 1978.

Signed and inscribed.

The Man That Was Malcolm X.

[MALCOLM X] & BLACK NATION NEWS.

The Man That Was Malcolm X, 1970.

A TRIUMPH OF THE GENRE

Tracts, chiefly relating to the antiquities and laws of England.

BLACKSTONE (William).

Tracts, chiefly relating to the antiquities and laws… 1771.

A FINE COPY OF BLACKSTONE’S SHORTER LEGAL WRITINGS

Designs to a Series of Ballads, Written by William Hayley, Esq. and Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals. Drawn, Engraved, and Published by William Blake; with the Ballads Annexed by the Author's Permission.

BLAKE (William) and,

Designs to a Series of Ballads, Written by… 1802.

"ONE OF THE RAREST LETTERPRESS BOOKS CONTAINING PLATES DESIGNED AND ENGRAVED BY BLAKE"

Histoires prodigieuses... extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs & Latins, sacrez & prophanes: mises en nostre langue par P. Boaistuau, surnomé Launay, natif de Bretagne: avec les pourtraicts & figures.
Paris,

BOAISTUAU (Pierre)

Histoires prodigieuses... extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs… 1560.

MONSTERS AND PORTENTS

Le Philocope de Messire Jehan Boccace florentin, contena(n)t l’histoire de Fleury et Blanchefleur, divisé en sept livres traduictz d’italien en françoys par Adrian Sevin.
Paris, D. Janot, 24 FebruarY 1542

BOCCACCIO (Giovanni)

Le Philocope de Messire Jehan Boccace florentin, contena(n)t… 1542.

OWNED BY A PICARDY COUNTESS IN THE LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin with rubrics in French and a prayer in Middle English, illuminated manuscript on vellum.
[France, Rouen, c. 1440]

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin… 1440.

'TROWT FEND ME': THE FITZ-RALPH HOURS, ILLUMINATED BY THE TALBOT MASTER

Use of Angers, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum.
Bruges, c. 1440-1450

Use of Angers, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on… 1440.

FINELY ILLUMINATED IN BRUGES

Heures en Francoys & Latin a l'usaige de Romme, corrigées & augmentées de plusieurs suffrages & oraisons. Avec figures nouvelles, appropriées chascune en son lieu.
Lyon, [Macé Bonhomme for] Guillaume Rouillé, 1549

BOOK OF HOURS (French & Latin)

Heures en Francoys & Latin a l'usaige de… 1549.

A MANNERIST BOOK OF HOURS

The Last September.

BOWEN (Elizabeth).

The Last September, 1929.

First edition of Bowen's greatest novel.

Seven Winters.

BOWEN (Elizabeth).

Seven Winters, 1942.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

The Heat of the Day.

BOWEN (Elizabeth).

The Heat of the Day, 1949.

An association copy inscribed by the author.

Last Gleam of the Midnight Sun.

BRADFORD (William).

Last Gleam of the Midnight Sun, 1878.

A PREPARATORY STUDY FOR "MIDNIGHT SUN, THE ARCTIC."

A Chart of Baffin's Bay with Davis & Barrow Straits; by Captn. Ross & Lieut Parry R.N., in 1818, 19 & 20, and the Discoveries of Captn. Parry in 1822 and 23 & Captn. Lyon in 1824.

BRITISH ADMIRALTY.

A Chart of Baffin's Bay with Davis &… 1824.

THE KEY TO THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE

The Mystique of Vellum

BROCKMAN (James), FRANKLIN (Colin), BROCKMAN (Stuart) & TURNER (Decherd)

The Mystique of Vellum, 1984.

BOUND BY FATHER AND SON

A View of the Vivarium, constructed principally with large masses of the Rock of Gibraltar, in the garden of Joshua Brookes Esq.

BROOKES (Joshua)., SCHARF (George) artist and lithographer, & HULLMANDEL (Charles Joseph), printer.

A View of the Vivarium, constructed principally with… 1830.

A PRIVATELY PRINTED IMAGE OF JOSHUA BROOKES'S VIVARIUM

[Album containing Carte de Visites of Freed People's School Teachers and Missionaries in Mississippi.]

BROWN (Mary Hyde), compiler.

[Album containing Carte de Visites of Freed People's… 1869.

TERROR PREVAILED

Afro-American World Almanac. What Do You Know About Your Race?

BROWN (Ross D.)

Afro-American World Almanac. What Do You Know About… 1942.

THE RARE FIRST EDITION

Fraternity.

BUCKLAND WRIGHT (John), SPENDER (Stephen), HAYTER (Stanley William), KANDINSKY (Wassily) & MIRÓ (Juan)

Fraternity, 1939.

NINE ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGS SIGNED, INCLUDING KANDINSKY AND MIRO

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

ROBINSON (Ivor) [Binder] & BULL (René) [Illustrator]

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1913.

AN EARLY BINDING BY THE GREAT MASTER

The Pilgrim's Progress through this world to the next written in form of a dream.

BUNYAN (John)., [NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTION FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE BLIND] & [HOWE (Samuel Gridley)]

The Pilgrim's Progress through this world to the… 1836.

A LANDMARK PUBLICATION IN BLIND LITERACY