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Member Catalogues

Our new catalog, LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, has been posted on our website. It contains 66 select items, mostly new arrivals, including Archives, Letters, Manuscripts, and Signed Photographs. Highlights include important Handwritten Manuscripts by D. H. Lawrence, A. A. Milne, and Saul Bellow among others; Manuscript Poems by W. H. Auden, Willa Cather, and Robert Frost among others; Letters with fine content by T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Sean O'Casey, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, and W. B. Yeats among others; Signed Photographs by Sinclair Lewis, and much more.<br /> <br />

September 11, 2019


AUTHORS: George ARMSTRONG; Henry ASHBY; John BELL; BELL, Charles; Rudolf Maximilian BOHNSTEDT; Thomas Neville BONNER; Abraham Arden BRILL; Walter Albert Ferdinand BRUNN; Werner E. BUNJES; Aulus Cornelius CELSUS; Henry Dwight CHAPIN; John CHEYNE; Thomas COAR; Andrew COMBE; David Francis CONDIE; Charles DARWIN; Emil FEER; Helmut FERNER; Louis FISCHER,; Sigmund FREUD; Carl GERHARDT Henry GRAY; William HARVEY; Adolph Christian Heinrich HENKE; Eduard Heinrich [Edward] HENOCH; HIPPOCRATES; Friedrich HOFMANN; Luther Emmett HOLT; Charles Gilmore KERLEY; Henry KOPLIK; Frans de LE BOE; Leonardo da Vinci; François MAGENDIE; Joachimus MERIAN; Leslie T. MORTON; Carlo MUSITANO [Carolus MUSITANUS]; Albrecht PEIPER; Godfrey Roger PISEK; John REVERE; Victor ROBINSON; Jacob Christian Gottlieb SCHAFFER; Harriet Sarnoff SCHIFF; Heinrich SCHIPPERGES; Johann Heinrich SCHULZE; Peter V. SCOLES; Ignaz Philipp Ignác Fulop SEMMELWEIS; J. Lewis Job SMITH; SOBOTTA; J. STAUBESAND; Johann STORCH; John Leonard THORNTON; Kenneth R. T. TYSON; Michael UNDERWOOD; Dieter Werner UNSELD; Alfred VOGEL; George Arthur WRIGHT.

September 9, 2019

September 3, 2019

September 3, 2019

A nice selection of books on music, Abraham and Mary Lincoln, plus an eclectic array of autographs.

August 28, 2019

48 books largely on the history of pediatrics, history of medicine, 17th-century to the 20th century. AUTHORS: Isaac A. ABT; AVICENNA; Adolf BAGINSKY; Jeffrey P. BAKER; R. Frederick BECKER; Peter Hinckes BIRD; Eugene BOUCHUT; Sir Thomas BROWNE; California Medical Association; Ann G. CARMICHAEL; John Crerar Library; Chicago; William Potts DEWEES; George F. DICK; Gladys Henry DICK; Michael A. DORSO; John EBERLE; Johann EGGERS; Richard EIMAS; Richard T. EVANSON; Ludwig FRANKEL; John A. GEHWEILER; Benjamin Lee GORDON; John Price Crozer GRIFFITH; Clifford G. GRULEE; O. Cameron GRUNER; John G. GUNN; Henry HARRIS; L. Christoph HELLWIG; Herman H. HENKLE; Eduard Heinrich HENOCH; Oliver Wendell HOLMES; Friedrich JAHN; J. Roy JONES; Max KASSOWITZ; Abraham LEVINSON; William Palmer LUCAS; Kenneth M. LUDMERER; Henry MAUNSELL; John Forsyth MEIGS; Alois MONTI; Hugh C. MULDOON; Sir William OSLER; Howard A. PEARSON; Albrecht PEIPER; Hermann PETERS; William F. PETERSEN; Richard M. RATZAN; C. A. RODIN; Heinrich SCHIPPERGES; Eustace SMITH; Job Lewis SMITH; Christian Augustus STRUVE; Karl SUDHOFF; Jurgen THORWALD; Matthias (Mathias) TILING; University of Iowa Libraries; Niclas (Nicolas) VENETTE; James W. WILSON.

August 28, 2019


20 PRB&M RARITIES. Our list title refers to reported U.S. library copies; the catalogue is highly illustrated.

August 21, 2019

A catalogue of illustrated travel books

August 21, 2019

Two dozen books by, for and/or about women

August 19, 2019

[29 books]. SUBJECTS: Afghanistan, Arabian Nights, Babylon, Egypt; Iran, Language (Farsi); Middle East, Persia, Persian Poetry, Saudi Arabia, Turkey. AUTHORS: George ANTONIUS; Sir Thomas ARNOLD; H. W. (Henry Walter) BELLEW; Pietro BIZARI [BIZZARI]; Philippus CHALLIMACUS; Jacques-Joseph CHAMPOLLION-FIGEAC; CLEASIAS; James DARMESTETER; DÉMON STUDIO, Tehran; Shirin EBADI; Lewis EINSTEIN; Charles Boileau ELLIOTT; Mahshid ESSALAT-WEBER; James Elroy FLECKER, [Herman]; Helle FLECKER; James FRASER (1713-1754); James Baillie FRASER (1783-1856); Alfred GUILLAUMEHAFEZ (14th century); Muḥammad Mustajāb ibn ḤĀFIẒ RAḤMAT KHĀN; HAFIZ RAHMAT KHAN BARECH; Barbara HODGSON; William KIRKPATRICK (1754/6-1812); Moritz von KOTZEBUE; Colonel Sir John MALCOLM; Thoma MINADOUS; Azadeh MOAVENI; Henry Vollam MORTON; Major Sir William OUSELEY; William Gifford PALGRAVE (1826-1888); Julia S. H. PARDOE; PHOTIUS; Mahin POURDAD ESSALAT MOBAYAN; Henricus PORSIUS; Alfred "Toby" RAWLINSON; John RICHARDSON (1740 or 1741-1795); Freya Madeline STARK; Emanuel SWEDENBORG (1688-1772).

August 17, 2019


189 items, an assortment of books and pamphlets on book history, bibliography, bookbinding, catalogues, collections and collecting, clubs, fine presses and their books, libraries, paper, printing, type, and bookselling

August 13, 2019

33 books: SUBJECTS: Astronomy, Biography, Chemistry, Dictionary, Electricity, Italian Renaissance, Mathematics, Optics, Philosophy, Poetry, Pyramids, Roman theatre, Science, Scientific Instruments, Telegraphy, Thermodynamics AUTHORS: Jacques DALECHAMPS; John Theophilus DESAGULIERS ; Janus GRUTER ; Denison OLMSTED ; William Somerville ORR ; Wilhelm OSTWALD ; Jacques OZANAM ; Ignace Gaston PARDIES ; Jean Claude Eugene PECLET ; Francesco PETRARCA [PETRARCH] ; Denis PETAU, [Dionysius PETAVIUS]; Alessandro PICCOLOMINI ; Titus Maccius PLAUTUS ; PLINY the Elder ; Henry Crozier Keating PLUMMER ; Melchior de POLIGNAC ; William Henry PREECE; Thomas PRESTON ; Ilya Romanovich PRIGOGINE ; Joseph PRIESTLEY ; Matthew PRIOR ; Augustin PRIVAT-DESCHANEL; Richard A. PROCTOR; James SIVEWRIGHT ; Friedrich TAUBMANN

August 6, 2019


Agriculture, Chemistry, Distillation, Economics, Herbology, Italy, Mathematics, Medicine, Monsters, Natural Science, Philosophy, Physics, Roman Military & Gladiators; AUTHORS: ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO -- FRANCIS BACON -- BIOT -- BOYLE -- BRUNFELS -- BUFFON -- BULWER -- KING CHARLES I & II -- DESAGULIERS -- FOSTER -- FRIES -- GESSNER -- HEWITT -- LIPSIUS -- MONTAIGNE -- SIR THOMAS MORE -- MOXON -- MUSSCHENBROEK -- PASTEUR -- PEREGRINIS -- RYFF -- SCULTETUS -- SUCKLING -- RICHARD WALLER.

August 4, 2019

50 books selected from our recently acquired inventory

August 2, 2019