Member Catalogues
including Books from the Collection of Igor Stravinsky’s Personal Librarian, Edwin Allen
Recent acquisitions in Graphic Arts, Fine Binding & Printing
286 books, pamphlets, and some manuscripts, primarily from a single, multi-generational family collection. Included are biographies, memoirs, unit histories, naval history, Confederate imprints, Reconstruction, women in the war, and related topics.
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Approximately 450 items
Notable recent acquisitions, together with some interesting items you may have missed
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Holiday List #1218 (December 2018) contains a descriptive listing of 33 horticulture and gardening books. Highlights include: D. M. Dewey's "tree-peddler's" catalogue titled DEWEY'S POCKET SERIES, Rochester, NY 1872; Green's TREATISE ON THE CULTIVATION OF ORNAMENTAL FLOWERS, Boston 1828; Hoffy's NORTH AMERICAN POMOLOGIST, Philadelphia, PA 1860; and Thornton's NEW FAMILY HERBAL, London 1810. Please contact us at info@woodburnbooks.com or phone us at (609) 466-0522 if you would like to receive a print version of this catalogue.
JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #208: 33 books on the history of science, mostly chemistry, mining & mineralogy. The authors include: Académie Royale des Sciences, Paris; Fredrick Accum, Charles Babbage (signed), Carl Gustav Christoph Bischof, 3 books on the natural history of Burma, Jean Andre De Luc, Paul Dienst, Barthelemy FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Gécamines Company, Geological Society, London, F. Leteur, James Mitchell, Carl Friedrich August RAMMELSBERG, William RICHARDSON, D.D. of Moy, William Alexander Ross, Christian Carl Friedrich Ferdinand Senft, John Lawrence Smith, Josiah Edward Spurr, Henri STRUVE, Herr G. Tornier, Thomas Thomson (4 works), Andrew URE, and John White Webster.
Bibliotreats *mostly* $150 & under. Because 'tis the season!
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Our list for the 2018 Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair. Highlights include a very rare Dublin printing of the first edition of Susannah Carter's influential Frugal House-wife [circa 1765-68], a set of three photographs of 19th century street food vendors in Athens and Constantinople, a watercolor-illustrated Japanese Wagashi sweets manual, a presentation copy of the earliest known Iraqi cookbook to appear in English, an early and superb Julia Child letter, culinary manuscripts, gastronomic ephemera, and spirited cocktail manuals.
Catalog 18-6 contains 75 items: books, miniature books, leaves, documents, speeches, ephemera, maps, newspapers, and sheet music . . . All at least 50% off our current listed price. From $15 to $2,850. (Sorry, no additional dealer discounts.) PLEASE ORDER BY EMAIL OR PHONE.
Ever wonder how to be a telegraph operator? Wonder no more. These 34 recent acquisitions also include some fine 1920s fiction in dust jackets... some of the best New Yorker graphics ever... and some fine Western Americana including scarce Arthur H. Clark Company and "Western Frontier Library" titles and products from the strange (and strangely prolific) Father Crocchiola.
From the Collection of Marilyn Horne