Browse Items (131 total)
Sort by:
Women of the Wilderness by Mindy Melnikoff.
Pen and ink and watercolor, 16 x 12 in.
Though she’s never heard of me or of my collection on women in the American wilderness, no one but Roz Chast could better capture the agonies and joys of foraging through book stores far and wide for un-…
Though she’s never heard of me or of my collection on women in the American wilderness, no one but Roz Chast could better capture the agonies and joys of foraging through book stores far and wide for un-…
Portmeirion.
No. 104 of 200 copies with slipcase, signed by Gerry. Letterpress printed in red and black in 5½ pt. Adobe Caslon type on Somerset mould-made paper under the supervision of John Randle.
Portmeirion tells the story of the building of this North…
Portmeirion tells the story of the building of this North…
History of Brazil, 3 vols.
Provenance: Inscribed by the author to Sir Charles Stuart, later Lord Stuart de Rothesay, with his arms.
Sir Charles Stuart (1779–1845) was British ambassador to France and Russia and envoy to Portugal and Brazil. In 1825, on behalf of Portugal,…
Sir Charles Stuart (1779–1845) was British ambassador to France and Russia and envoy to Portugal and Brazil. In 1825, on behalf of Portugal,…
Peter Orlovsky at the Black Cat Café.
Ink on paper, 12 x 8 in.
Artist and set designer Robert LaVigne created portraits of many luminaries in the San Francisco bohemian scene. This drawing of Peter Orlovsky (1933–2010), poet and longtime partner of Allen Ginsberg, helps to document…
Artist and set designer Robert LaVigne created portraits of many luminaries in the San Francisco bohemian scene. This drawing of Peter Orlovsky (1933–2010), poet and longtime partner of Allen Ginsberg, helps to document…
Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and inquiries thereupon.
Micrographia is the most influential work in the history of microscopy. Published by order of the Royal Society in London, it is a remarkable work documenting early experimental science. Robert Hooke, secretary to the society, relied on “a sincere…
Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and inquiries thereupon.
In his bibliography of Robert Hooke’s work, Sir Geoffrey Keynes ranked the Micrographia of Robert Hooke “among the most important books ever published in the history of science” (Oxford, 1960, xi), and it has been described as enjoying “immediate…
High school senior year Physics notebook.
This is the earliest known Frost manuscript notebook, pre-dating Notebook No. 1 described in Robert Fagan’s The Notebooks of Robert Frost (Harvard University, 2007). A series of eight physics experiments conducted by Frost while studying at Lawrence…
Handmade English Valentine, Richard Pitt to His Wife, Anne Pitt.
Watercolor on thick paper, 19 x 16½ in.
Provenance: Philatelist and writer Frank Staff.
One of the earliest mailed valentines, this message is filled with tender emotion. It is a superb tribute to love, crafted by a sailor returning home to his…
Provenance: Philatelist and writer Frank Staff.
One of the earliest mailed valentines, this message is filled with tender emotion. It is a superb tribute to love, crafted by a sailor returning home to his…
Monograph on the Aye-Aye (Chiromys madagascariensis, Cuvier).
Provenance: Inscribed to The Rev. Dr. Whewell, F.R.S. “from his friend, the Author.”
Four years after Darwin’s Origin of Species, Richard Owen published this work on the aye-aye, a rare lemur with large ears and a long finger used to locate and…
Four years after Darwin’s Origin of Species, Richard Owen published this work on the aye-aye, a rare lemur with large ears and a long finger used to locate and…
Opera in New York.
Pages taken from Century Illustrated Magazine 23, nos. 5 and 6 (March 1882 and April 1882), profusely extra-illustrated.This volume contains a remarkable range of lithographs, engravings, photographs, autograph letters and documents, original…