Charles Agvent

SUMMER MISCELLANY 2017 Our new catalog--SUMMER MISCELLANY 2017--contains 85 select items, all new arrivals, in a variety of fields, especially African-Americana, Botany, Japan, Ornithology, and Poetry. Highlights include THE FIRST COOKBOOK WRITTEN BY AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN (1829); an 18th Century Illustrated Japanese Manuscript of Floral Arrangements; Latham's GENERAL HISTORY OF BIRDS with 193 hand-colored engravings; Ninagawa's study of Japanese pottery with 125 hand-colored plates; Randall Jarrell's THE SEVEN-LEAGUE CRUTCHES with a MANUSCRIPT VERSE; signed books and documents by Louis Armstrong, Charles Chesnutt, T. S. Eliot, Joel Chandler Harris, Dorothy Parker, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington, etc.; a selection of fine bindings and illustrated books, and much more.

WINTER MISCELLANY 2017 Our new catalog--WINTER MISCELLANY 2017--contains 61 select items, all new arrivals, in a variety of fields. Highlights Bickham’s 1741 entirely engraved THE UNIVERSAL PENMAN; SCARCE German and Japanese bookplate collections; Plattes’s 1639 A DISCOVERY OF INFINITE TREASURE; signed books & documents by Fidel Castro, Florence Nightingale, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Elizabeth Bishop, Samuel Beckett, etc.; a selection of fine bindings and illustrated books, and much more.