Member Catalogues
A century of politically committed poetry from the African Diaspora in the West, ranging from calls for equality and civil rights to the Black power movement and Afrocentrism.
Autumn 2014. Presidents, pirates, explorers, and American literary greats with appearances by De Bry, Captain Cook, Captain Bligh, President Lincoln, and others.
Summer 2014. A selection of signed and inscribed books, several extra-illustrated or with manuscripts laid in. From a 13th century bible from the library of Talleyrand to Where the Wild Things Are.
Spring 2014. The first in a series of lists which will present a large private library recently acquired from the San Francisco Bay Area. This list focuses on illuminated manuscripts but includes early books, fine press, and association material.
Spring 2014: This list features a broad array of autograph material from world leaders, musicians, artists, and writers. Churchill, Clemens, Einstein, Eliot, Elizabeth I, Hitler, Lincoln, Napoleon, Roosevelt, Thoreau, Wordsworth and more all lie within.
37 interesting items by or about people who undertake to get things done--one burial yes, but also sex, medicine, crime, and communication with the dead.
Native Americana, with emphasis on social movements
<p>From the collection of the pianist renowned for his interpretations both of Beethoven and of 20th-century music.</p>
<p>Antiquarian E-List</p>
A catalog representing a portion of our relevant holdings on Japanese immigration and life in the Americas, including many books in Japanese.
Selections from a single collection, featuring hunting in North America and Africa with some in Asia and Europe
<p>Recent acquisitions in many fields and formats, among them regional Americana, African-Americana, Civil War, presidents and politics, literature, aviation, medicine, and travel</p>
A catalog representing a small portion of our relevant holdings in fields ranging from suffrage to wage equality, socialist feminism to lesbian separatism.
Books, pamphlets, leaflets, posters, and pinback buttons - all the tools of the agitator - produced by and about farm workers.
A selection of 88 items printed in or about the United States between 1787 and 1925. Included are our usual assortment of items relating to travel and places, but also trade catalogues, broadsides, and works on health and medicine (popular and academic), social reform (prisons, temperance, vice), native Americans, women, religion, technology, architecture, abolition, philosophy, and other topics.
<p>Works date from the first decade of the 18th century to the last decade of the 20th, covering every geographic region and nearly every country and including uncommon broadsides, runs of 19th c. periodicals, signed colonial documents, maps, books, and pamphlets with topics ranging from Artigas and Bolivar to Indigenous Peoples, Law, Language, and Livres d’Artiste, to Photography, Spanish, Portuguese, and English Exploration, The Cold War, Columbus, Slavery, and Bibliography.</p>