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The Man Trap was a contest book that advertised $1,500 in prize money for the best solutions to the mystery. When the publishers were advised by the federal government that the rules made the contest partially one of chance and therefore a…

One 8-page part from the first edition plus 24 16-page parts from the second edition.

This was an early purchase I made as I started to collect nautical fiction. A few years later I bought some disbound parts and noticed that they were eight-page…

“Sir Frederic” is possibly the famed war correspondent and artist Sir Frederic Villiers. The two men struck up an acquaintance during this time period. Doyle lived at Tennison Road from 1891 to 1894, meaning his stay there coincided with the…

In 1494 Aldus Manutius announced his intent to print the Bible, but left it to his heirs to carry through on that commitment. A unique trial sheet of a polyglot Bible (shown in facsimile in the Bibliography section of this exhibition) survives as…

Provenance: Henry Hester’s copy, with his signature on the title page.

The first book printed in Alaska, and one of only four known copies. This copy also has numerous pencil annotations, probably added at a later date by Henry Hester, the book’s…

Carl Linnaeus’ Systema Natura, or A General System of Nature, was a major work of Enlightenment science. This copy of William Turton’s English translation was in James Monroe’s library and contains his bookplate. SF.

This preliminary version of the Nakaz (or Instruction) is interleaved with manuscript contemporary notes, possibly by a delegate to the Assembly that Catherine II convened in 1767 to discuss her draft law code. It is in a sumptuous full red morocco…