Member Catalogues
Our first e-list of select new arrivals includes a document in which one former slave Underground Railroad leader in St. Louis sends funds to another in New Orleans; Barnaby Conrad's book on bullfighting with his original sketch of a matador; one of few surviving music manuscripts of a "Howdy Doody Show" song; and a letter from 22-year-old Stephen Ambrose in a first edition of the first published title bearing his name.
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A CATALOGUE OF SIGNIFICANT AND UNUSUAL IMPRINTS RELATING TO AMERICA
Printed books, manuscripts, bindings and portfolios, 1470-1833
Twenty-five items relating to crime, criminals, and trials in the United States
Showcasing an assortment of periodical offerings relating to Spain, Portugal and Latin America.
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Our Summer catalog is designed to portray the diversity of our listings. Mixed in are, of course, Travel and Exploration offerings, but we are also highlighting the breadth of the types of books we have to offer and hopefully tempt you to click through to the website.
JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #201: 86 books: Beechey's Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s Strait (1831); Maynard Dixon, Poems and Seven Drawings, Grabhorn Press, (1923); Edwards, A Voyage up the River Amazon (1847); Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882-3); Badeau, Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, from April, 1861, to April, 1865 (1881); Hartshorne, Japan and Her People; Holder & Woods, Our Living World; An Artistic Edition of the Rev. J. G. Wood’s Natural History of Animate Creation (1885); Kelly, A Stroll through Diggings of California (1852); Tarbell's Lincoln (1909); Mackay, The History of the United States of America Continued to<br /> the Southern Secession (8 vols.); Morgan, League of the Ho-De’-No-Sau-Nee or Iroquois (1901); Roosevelt & Grinnell, American Big-Game Hunting (1893); Schoolcraft, Notes on the Iroquois (1847); Smith's Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan (1908); Sylvester, Indian Wars of New England (1910); Wimer, Events in Indian History (1842); Wright & Allom, China (1843); and a special LARGE PAPER COPY - one of only 22 printed - of Carl Irving Wheat's, The Maps of the California Gold Region. 1848-1857, Grabhorn Press, 1942.
JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #200: 53 books: Marie Antoinette; Bidwell's Forging His Chains (1890); Dibdin, A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany (1821); Cassell’s History of England; Ewald, The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, K. G., and His Times (1882-3); Fellowes, A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe, in 1817 (1823); Gibbon, Roman Empire (1881); Gibson, The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized (1694); Lodge, Portraits of illustrious Personages of Great Britain (1840); The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet (1845); Sleeman, Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official (1844); Thornton, Illustrations of the History and Practices of the Thugs (1837); Wilson, Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland, etc.
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An extended, evolving, highly illustrated PRB&M catalogue of books, chapbooks, toy books, alphabets, and more ~ for and about children ~ many items interestingly/beautifully/brightly illustrated, and many from one extraordinary collection.
