Authors starting with I from B & L Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

Single sheet bound into pressboard binder. First printing. From the 29th Congress, 1st session of the Illinois State Senate. Document number 181. Apparently the Illinois legislature believed it to be their responsibility to provide this notice to Great Britain, based upon an existing treaty providing a requirement of twelve months' prior written notice of intention to occupy territory."Be it resolved . . . to give notice to Great Britain of the intention of the United States to be the so... more information

Illuminated manuscript engrossed on 12 leaves of vellum, each leaf measuring 245 x 190 mm. Written in English and beautifully embellished with wide borders on each page, initials and other decorations in colour and gold. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full red levant, wide inner red levant borders, gilt-tooled back and sides, extra tooled sides Legascon style, lettered on spine and center front cover, gilt edges. Preserved in a cloth slipcase. The manuscript contains the following six poems: A psalm... more information

Each volume with frontispiece portrait of Washington. Half-calf and marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments. Joints starting with some wear to spines and corners, front cover of volume II unattached. From the library of Louis E. Goodman, with his bookplate. Later edition of the author’s celebrated biography of America’s first president. Finished at the end of his own life, Irving saw this work as his masterpiece.... more information