Dr. John Moore was a Scottish physician, travel author, novelist, and editor of the works of Tobias Smollett

This collection has 7 books (14 vols.), dating from 1781 to 1800 including copies of his three novels, a travel book about Italy, and his reflections on the French Revolution.

Joel Barlow was a lawyer, diplomat, and Revolutionary War chaplain and pursued his writing ambitions after the war, joining the writers’ group known as the Hartford Wits. He was an ardent proponent of American democracy. Granted French citizenship, he supported the French Revolution in spite of dedicating The Vision of Columbus to Louis XVI. Appointed US minister to France in 1811, he died in Poland on the way to a meeting with the French foreign minister.

This collection includes 7 items dating from 1787 to 1811, specifically 5 books, 1 leaflet, and 1 letter.

May Sarton was a prolific American poet, novelist, and memoirist. she is considered an important contemporary figure in American literature, as well as a 'poet's poet'. She is lauded by literary and feminist critics for her works addressing themes in gender, sexuality, and universality.

The collection contains 34 items created by Sarton, dating between 1939 and 1954 with the exception of a post card, specifically, 5 letters, a Christmas/New Year’s card 2 post cards, 4 printed broadside poems, and 21pp. typescripts of 18 poems 1939-1987.

Malcolm Cowley was an American literary critic, poet, editor and a social historian who went on to become a representative of the America’s ‘Lost Generation’ after the World War I. In 1939, he received the ‘Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize’ for his poetry. In 1980, he was honored with the ‘National Book Award for Biography’ for his exceptional work, ‘And I Worked at the Writer’s Trade’.

The collection contains 23 items dating from 1930 to 1980, specifically 12 letters, 3 poems, 7 books, 1 photo and 1 signed newspaper article.

Irving Stone was a prolific American author of biographical novels of historical personalities such as Lust for Life about Vincent van Gogh and The Agony and the Ecstasy about Michelangelo. In a century in which popular culture appropriated politics, art, literature, and history, Stone was a preeminent purveyor of the accessible mainstream biography.

The collection has 28 items dating from 1939 to 1985, specifically 20 letters, 2 post cards, 1 photo, 1 signed sheet, 1 souvenir typescript, and 3 books.

1883.Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz First edition.

Copyright edition. 4-1/4 x 6-1/8 inches. (8),[9]-312pp.

Sketches of Italy combines selections from two of Symonds' previous works, Sketches in Italy and Greece (1879) and Sketches and Studies in Italy (1879). This edition of Sketches in Italy was published as volume 2126 in Tauchnitz's Collection of British Authors series. Dark brown older leather spine and corner tips with 5 bands and gilt type on spine. Marbled outside cover papers with previous owners bookplate on front endpaper, including Villa Collina Ridente, E.M. May. Covers starting. Clean internally, overall, very good+ condition.

1882. London, Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co. : Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.

First edition. 8-1/2 x 11 inches. (4),[iii]-xvi,i-lvi,[1]-427pp.

Plates: 61 colour & 1 black & white. based upon Berge's "Schmetterlingsbuch".

Red scuffed leather spine with gilt type, 5 bands and symbols at top and bottom of spine. Red cloth boards worn at all corners and some spotting. Marbled paper edge. Previous owner's book plate on inside front cover. Inside pages text and plates clean. A nice copy. Very good condition. [3.3kg approx]

1938. New York, Alfred A. Knopf

Later Special Edition. 7-1/4 x 10 inches. (12),[7]-84,(2). Slipcase with gold label on spine and front printed with red border and black type.

Book covers with white spine and corner tips, gold covers with red symbol on front cover. with 12 illustrations by the author. A bookplate of a former owner and a gift inscription to former owner dated 1940 both on on front end papers.

The Prophet is a spiritual book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work. The message of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is that its teachings are ultimately the way to a universal spiritual freedom and a good, happy life, though not without difficulties - in fact, the same difficulties of the human condition that everyone else.

Hints to Emigrants; Waugh and Innes, Edinburgh, 1824 & Town of Carrickfergus,: Belfast, 1811

Two works bound together as one.

4 x 6-3/4 inches. Bound in 3/4 brown leather with marble boards and leather spine label. Rubbing to the leather and with some age toning.

"Hints to Emigrants": by the Rev. William Bell. Rare first edition with all plates. 1824, Edinburgh, Waugh and Innes. xii 206pp. Illustrated with rare fold-out frontispiece map "The Perth, Lanark & Richmond Settlements: District of Bathurst Upper Canada" often wanting.

"The History and Antiquities of the County of the Town of Carrickfergus, From the Earliest Records, to the Present Time in Four Parts", by Samuel McSkimin, Rare first edition. 1811, Belfast, printed by Hugh Kirk Gordon. xii,[1]-206. Illustrated with frontispiece plate of Carrickfergus castle plus two fold out plans of the town.

Mosses (Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1877), with an ALS to his "friend Congdon", 5 May 1879, re sending a pamphlet of critical notices about his work and that the Rev. Karl Knortz of Johnstown, Penn. is translating his poems into German for an anthology of American lyrics to be published in Berlin.

Dr. M.F (Marcus Fayette) Bridgman was an American poet and physician. He was a fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

1869. Toronto, Published for the Compilers by W. C. Chewett and Co.

First Edition, rare. The Evangelist: Selected and Arranged by Douglas Russell and G. C. Needham. Faded brown cloth hardcover, 3 x 4-1/2 inches, page edges dyed light red, (4) 186 pp. 221 hymns, text only, including an 8pp. index of first lines.

A note at the beginning of the book says that the compilers felt the need for a hymnal that would be suitable for their "evangelistic labours." Likely only a limited run was printed for them, and sold at their meetings.

Byles Mather was a loyalist clergyman in Boston. Byles graduated at Harvard University in 1725, received his A.M. degree there in 1728 and in 1733 he became pastor of the Hollis Street Church (Congregational), Boston. He was one of the Boston literary intellectuals who examined Phillis Wheatley to determine if she wrote her poems.

• Ms. of “To the Reverend Dr. Watts on His Divine Poems”, 1 leaf, laid paper (several splits but holding), dated December 20th, 1806, Rochester, E.H.C...

Niven Busch was an American novelist and screenwriter of movies such as the acclaimed The Postman Always Rings Twice. He has had fourteen books on the best-seller lists and sold over 10 million copies.

ALS:

• (2 pp.) addressed Dear Jimmy, 12 November 1948, thanking Jimmy for his story of the trip, his favorite river “Old Clean Rogue (probably in Oregon), send him a document (not enclosed), had given a copy to Dave Epstein, publishers and advertising.

Wallace Bruce was an American Counsel at Edinburgh, known as "the Poet of the Hudson". He was also the Poet Laureate of Canongate Kilwinning Masonic Lodge No. 2, in Edinburgh, Scotland, a successor of Robert Burns. He was chief editor of the Literature at Yale, poet at the Newburg Centennial, poet at the unveiling of the Burns statue in Central Park. Wallace Bruce occasionally used the pen-name Thursty McQuill.

• Three to his brother, Frank, 6 July 1872, 15 July 1896, and 15 August 1896, re note of $300, his arrival in New York...

• ALS to his nephew Alfred, 9 October 1900, re his being in Hudson.

On Hotel Ritz Place Vendome Paris letterhead 2pp. 5-1/4 x 7 inches folded, Hotel Ritz Place Vendome, Paris October 1, 1902

Dear Sir Edmond Monson

I thank you very cordially for your kind letter. I am very sorry that my passage through Paris will be so short as not to allow me to call at the Embassy. I will sail from Liverpool on the 9th & I must hurry back to England where I have yet a good deal to attend. 

Believe me dear Sir Edmond Monson,

Yours very sincerely

Wilfrid Laurier

1852. Philadelphia, Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.

10-1/2 x 8 inches on an untrimmed 12 x 9 inch sheet. The paper is age toned and map is printed on one side only. There is some scattered foxing in the border area otherwise, very good condition.

(1852 Map of N. America- No. 4): Engraved to Illustrate Mitchell's School and Family Geography.

A very interesting map of North America...Alaska is marked 'Russian America.' Northern Canada is marked 'British America.' Southern Canada is marked 'New Britain. Forts and Indian Tribal Nations are marked throughout the West...

The Death of General Wolfe three engravings:

#1. ND. The Death of General Wolfe (Quebec) engraving. Black & white engraving. Paper: 10-1/2 x 8 inches. Image: 6-7/8 x 5 inches. No date. Some paper border staining otherwise, very good condition

#2. ND. The Death of General Wolfe hand-coloured engraving. Hand-coloured engraving Paper: 9-3/4 x 6-3/8 inches. Image: 7 x 4-3/4 inches. No date. Some top right staining, otherwise, very good condition.

#3. 1778. General Wolfe's Monument in Westminister Abby engraving. Black & white engraving. Paper: 5 x 8 inches. Image: 3-1/2 x 6 inches. Engraved for Hervey's Naval History, Vol.5, p. 177. Very good condition..

#1. Circa 1765. Title: The Brave Capt Tyrrill in the Buckingham of 66 Guns & 472 Men defeating the Florissant, Aigrette & Atlante, three French Ships of War, the 3rd of Novr 1758...

#2. Circa 1760. Title: The Glorious Action off Cape Francois 21 Octobr. 1757, between Three English and Seven French Ships of Warr, wherein the latter were entirely defeated...

#3. Circa 1760. Title: The Gallant Action (off the Isle of Man) where the brave Capt. Elliot Defeated and Took the Marshall Belleisle...

[1826]. Florence, Italy, l costume antico e moderno o storia del governo

#1 Title: "Case Canadiane" (House in Canada)

#2 Title: "Iterno di una abitazione di Nutka" Canada - Nuu-chah-nulth

#3 Title: "Esterno delle abitazioni di Nutka" Canada - Nuu-chah-nulth

#4 Title: "Eschimo del Nord-ovest della Baja d'Hudson" (Hudson Bay - Canada)

#5 Title: "Abiti degli Eschimo" (Eskimo - Canada)

Giulio Ferrario was founder of the 'Societa Tipografica de Classici Italiani' and served as the director of the Braidense National Library in Milan, Italy. Ferrario's work "Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire" was a 19th century multi volume / language world encyclopedia of culture, vividly illustrated almost all finely hand-colored.

[1827]. Milan, Italy

#1 Title: "La baie des amis dans le détroit de Noutka"

#2 Title: "Le roc de New-Eddystone"

#3 Title: "Esterno delle abitazioni di Nutka"

#4 "Eschimo del Nord-ovest della Baja d'Hudson" (Hudson Bay - Canada)

#5 "Iterno di una abitazione di Nutka"

#6 Title: "Abiti degli Eschimo"

#7 Title: "Intérieur d'une maison d'Unalaschka"

Giulio Ferrario was founder of the 'Societa Tipografica de Classici Italiani' and served as the director of the Braidense National Library in Milan, Italy. Ferrario's work "Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire" was a 19th century multi volume / language world encyclopedia of culture, vividly illustrated almost all finely hand-colored...

William Jennings Bryan was an American lawyer, orator and politician. At age 36, Bryan remains the youngest person in United States history to receive an electoral vote for president. He was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States (1896, 1900 and 1908). He was perhaps the best-known orator and lecturer of the era.

22 B&W Photos: circa 1890-1920.

• 18 b&w photos, 1 photo print,

• 3 b&w photos of his wife and children,

• 1 b&w photo of his home. Brown Brothers, NY,

1806 to 1849

#1. 16th July 1806. An act for allowing, until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and seven the Importation of certain Fish from Newfoundland and the Coast of Labrador...

#2. [1st Aug. 1808]. An act for allowing, until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and eight, the Importation of certain Fish from Newfoundland and the Coast of Labrador...

#3. [15th June 1810] An Act for reviving and further continuing until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and eleven, several Laws for allowing the Importation of certain Fish from Newfoundland and the Coast of Labrador...

#4. [27th June 1817] An Act to regulate the Celebration of Marriages in Newfoundland...

#5. 3rd June 1824]. An Act to Repeal Several Laws Relating to the Fisheries Carried on Upon the Banks and Shores of Newfoundland, and to Make Provision for the Better Conduct of the Said Fisheries for Five Years...

#6. 17th June, 1824. An act for the better Administration of Justice in Newfoundland, and for other purposes...

#7. [1st August 1832]. An act to continue certain Acts relating to the Island of Newfoundland, and to provide for the Appropriation of all duties which may hereafter be raised within the said Island...

#8. 1842. An act for amending the Constitution of the Government of Newfoundland...

#9. [24th May, 1849] An act to confirm certain acts of the legislature of Newfoundland respecting the rebuilding of the town of St. John's Newfoundland...

Georges Simenon was a Belgian-born French novelist. During 1923-33 he wrote more than 200 pseudonymous books of pulp fiction...

Typescript sheet signed:

• 10.5 x 8.5 inches (26.5cm x 21.5cm) Ts signed by Georges Simenon, 1985. Near-fine condition.

The Family Lie book was published 1n 1978.

Doctor Malempin decides to take his family on vacation to the South...

Nicholas Murray Butler was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. Butler was a prominent figure in the development of the modern American university and of public secondary education. He was president of Columbia University (forty-four-year tenure)...

3 TLS and Card Signed:

• To the Class of 1925, 2 June 1925, re significance of Commencement Day.

• To Phillip P. Thurston, President of the Philolexian Society, 4 May 1927, re an honorary membership and his being an active member...

• To Seymour Halpern, 26 November 1928, advising Halpern to communicate with the Director of Admissions at Columbia.

• Card signed, 22 November 1932.

Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery and fiction author. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers

2 TLS:

• To Charles Bryant, 11 August 1968, with signed envelope, re Mona Lisa painting (“I knew that MONA LISA was done on wood….”).

• To Neil McAleer (author of popular science), 28 January 1978, re T.A. Heppenheimer’s Colonies in Space, Nicholas Shaffner’s Beatles Forever, and McAleer’s Earthlove.

1 Insert:

• Pages 25, 26 poems and Bradbury signed limitation leaf from Twin Hieroglyphs That Swim the River Dust, Northridge, CA: Lord John Press 1978.