Member Catalogues
We are pleased to offer the following list. It includes: - an 1837 portrait of foundational legal scholar Francis Joseph Troubat, long held by America's oldest legal institution - an unrecorded 1875 satirical mezzotint depicting an actor on trial for desecrating Shakespeare - an original 1887 courtroom drawing by E.W. Kemble, the iconic illustrator of Huckleberry Finn
An interesting assortment of books by and about the popular illustrator who specialized in woodcuts, also including several signed prints and an assortment of other ephemera.
A CATALOGUE OF SIGNIFICANT AND UNUSUAL IMPRINTS RELATING TO AMERICA
We are pleased to offer the following list. It includes: - an account of the Lizzie Borden trial that belonged to Ms. Borden’s lead defense attorney - a first edition of a foundational JP manual owned by an Irish Peer - a c.1806 anti-feminist English manuscript abut marriage
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
Our new catalog—DOROTHY PARKER & THE ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE--contains 31 items including Manuscripts, Signed Books, Letters, Photographs, and much more. Enjoy!
44 items, primarily Americana, with a few exceptions
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
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
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
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.