Member Catalogues

We are pleased to offer the following list. It includes: - two unrecorded legal briefs concerning vineyards and water rights in California, both 19th-century Los Angeles imprints - a document organizing the lucrative (and exploitative) silver mines of Potosí under Spanish management - a rare broadside announcing the confiscation of Royalist estates by the Commonwealth during the English Civil Wars

Highlights: Libretto to the earliest opera, Dafne Signed scores of Delibes, Dukas, d’Indy, Stravinsky, and Viotti First editions of Boccherini, Ravel, Schubert, Stravinsky, Visconti, Weber, and Zuccari Music from the collections of Arkwright, Crotch, Dolmetsch, Hogwood, and Serkin Manuscripts of Weber pre-dating published scores 18th-20th century ballet

44 items, primarily Americana, with a few exceptions

A selection of 51 fore-edge painted books.

Fair list for the Manhattan Rare Books Fair, May 2, 2026

“The Extraordinary Lives of Everyday People!” With a focus on Pennsylvania. April/May 2026 - New Arrivals

Highlights include: - an extraordinarily rare volume from Alexander Hamilton's library, signed by him and two of his sons - an unproduced HBO screenplay based on the memoir of Arthur Kinoy, an important civil rights lawyer - a 1689 manuscript document from Plymouth Colony recording a land sale - a volume of briefs and related documents, with salty annotations, from the prosecutor of the Tweed Ring - a copy of the first German book with realistic life-size images of fish owned by a distinguished book binder - an Enlightenment-era argument against witchcraft trials by an Italian jurist - Sem's account, in 68 images, of the important 1918 Bola-Pacha treason trial - incunable editions of two important legal reference works in a contemporary binding - a collection of the only known copies of 25 English execution broadsides - a copy of the first English treatise on marriage law owned by an early Connecticut lawyer, politician, and poet - a first edition of Care's English Liberties, a work that inspired the American Founders - a rare complete card game used to promote female suffrage in Great Britain

A varied list of 36 items from the 18th and 19th century.

90 books in the history of science and astronomy. The books are supplemented with a fine collection of signed papers by Percival Lowell on Mars, Venus, Jupiter, etc., other colleagues as well.

We are pleased to offer the following list. It includes: - a copy of Hémard’s classic Code Civil in a lavish checkerboard binding by his publisher, René Kieffer - a rare piece of pro-divorce propaganda from seventeenth-century England - a handsome first edition of Tapping Reeve’s landmark Baron and Femme, the first American treatise on family law

Children's books and illustrated books, mostly recent arrivals with a selection of items from our inventory

Twenty-six newly catalogued books and autographs

Our new catalog—SPRING MISCELLANY 2026--contains 35 items including Early Baseball, Cookery, Illustrated Books, Signed Books by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bertrand Russell, James Thurber, William Wordsworth, and more

We are pleased to offer the following list. It includes: - a contemporary account of a notable 18th-century English murder extra-illustrated with related contemporary unrecorded items - an unrecorded 1888 Des Moines, Iowa wanted broadside - a rare illustrated 1922 exposé of the Parisian underworld