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Seller of antiquarian and rare books, ephemera and works on paper.

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05/19/2024

Engraved official letter form partially engraved on bluish laid paper, manuscript annotations on both sides of one sheet of paper, with the official red wax seal of the Département de Loches with “Marianne,” the national personification of Liberty, in Roman-style clothing, standing above “République Françoise.” Chosen deliberately to signify a break with the old royal regime of kings and promote republican ideology, Marianne had become the female allegory of the First French Republic by the date of this Extract from the register of Deliberations of the Directory of the District of Loches, July 2, 1793. Written hastily and in a rough hand, this is a legal record of a criminal proceeding that records indictments that were delivered by Citizen Bomeau to the district administrator and commissioner about the measurements of quantities of grain and their destination during the harvest of 1792.

07/28/2023

The marriage certificate written out and signed by Ezra Stiles as Pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Newport, Rhode Island, for Thomas Dering and Mary Sylvester, March 9, 1756.

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07/22/2023

America's first drag queen governor, Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, Queen Anne's first cousin, affirms the witness to the witnesses of Thomas Burroughs signing his will in 1703.

"New York the second day of September 1703 there appeared before Edward Viscount Cornbury hereto Ext Gentt & Governor in Chief of the Provinces of New York New Jersey &c John Sheppard and Bart Lewis and made oath upon the Holy Evangelist that they did see the Testator Thomas Burroughs sign seal and Publish the above written Testament as his last will and testament and at the time of its publication thereof he was of Sound and perfect memory to ye best of their knowledge & understanding and at the same time they saw William Huddleston sign ye will as a witness thereto Cornbury.”

07/02/2023

“Jim Crow’s Trip to Downing Street” appeared in 1837, an early illustrated print reference to this infamous racial stereotype, masquerading here in an occasional political satire.

04/06/2023

Welwood, James, Memoirs of the Most Material Transactions in England, for the Last Hundred Years, Preceding the Revolution in 1688. London, printed for Tim Godwin, 1700. Extra-illustrated with 55 engraved portraits, 6 by Hollar. King Charles I (Hollar, Pennington 1433)

03/17/2023

Original watercolor designed by James Dunthorne II, later etched by Thomas Rowlandson, Mar. 1, 1788. Original watercolor and pen-and-ink drawing on paper for Rowlandson’s etching, The Hypochondriac. Unrestored, original state.

Manuscript text on verso in an eighteenth century hand:
"The mind disemper’d – say, what potent charm,
Can Fancy’s spectre-brooding rage disarm?"

03/08/2023

Albert Smith's "The Man in the Moon," a wickedly funny literary and theatrical review of London 1847-49. Lola Montez? The Countess of MANSfeldt! Tribute to the Kembles: F***y Kemble Butler's OH-OHS!" A very rare complete copy in book form of all seven volumes.

02/25/2023

A tinsel print mounted in a finished watercolor landscape depicting Sarah Egerton as Helen Macgregor in Rob Roy. A hand-colored etching based on Isaac Pocock’s operatic drama, Rob Roy Macgregor, or Auld Land Syne, based on Walter Scott’s novel, Rob Roy 1817. The etched figure of Mrs. Egerton in ink on paper was first cut out in silhouette, then treated as part of a collage, dressed in fine silk fabric, then pasted onto Whatman watercolour board.

01/13/2022

Y Bibl Sanctaidd; sef Yr Hen Destament a'r Newydd : gyda nodau eglurhaol, a dosparthiadau ar gynnwysiad y pennodau. Gan y Parch. Samuel Clark, M.A. . Hefyd, holl nodau cyfeiriol y Parch. John Brown, ar ymyl y ddalen. Gwedi eu cyfieithu i'r Gymraeg, er budd i'r Cymry; allan o'r argraffiad diweddaf yn Saesoneg; gan John Humphreys. Publisher: Gwrecsam (Wrexham): Argraffwyd gan J. Painter, tros y cyfieithydd M,DCCC,XIII.

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