Rome, Italy: Bibliografia delle Scienze Matematiche e Fisiche, 1868 - 1887. First Edition. Half parchment with mottled brown paper over boards. Editor's name, Bullettino with abbreviated title, Volume number and year on the spine, separated with four printed bands and punctuated with three fleur-de-lis like devices. 18 of 20 Volumes..... More

Paris: March 28, 1872. Complete translation of the Sonnets available upon request. Two apparently unpublished Sonnets and a personal letter from the young age of 22. While the recipient is not identified, this small collectin indicates that de Montesquiou was a well practiced poet and communicator at a relatively young..... More

Great Britain: Cambridge University Press, 1938. First Edition. Blue cloth over boards. 5" x 7.5", pp. vi, [3] 4-319. This book was first intended as an opportunity for Einstein to financially aid his friend, Infeld. Though it soon became a joy for him to share physics in near layman's words..... More

Ridgefield, CT: June 15,1960. 7" x 10.5", 2 pp., on personal letterhead stationary. Very readable, written in blue ink on both sides. Stamped mailing envelope included. Alice Geraldine Farrar (1882 – 1967) was an American soprano opera singer and film actress, noted for her beauty and acting ability. She had..... More

Toronto, Canada: The Coach House Press, 1972. True First Edition. Metallic card cover of a speeding train, giving a blurred perspective of motion. The pages are all of a monotone light sepia, each page a sequential graphic of a passing train in background of the text. 8" x 5.5", 52..... More

New York: June 1st, 1895. SIGNED "Benjamin Harrison". 4.75" x 1.5" adhered to cardboard backing. Typed "Very sincerely yours", followed by signature. In a different hand beneath the signature is the provenance, "written to C. Ellis Stevens from Fifth Ave. Hotel NY. June 1st 1895" Benjamin Harrison (Aug 20, 1833..... More

Boston, MA: January 11, 1894. 5" x 3", off-white postal. one-cent note card, canceled at Back Bay, Boston. In this note she politely apologies for being unavailable for a previously scheduled appointment. Julia Ward Howe (1819 – 1910) is perhaps best remembered as the the author of the Battle Hymn..... More

1849 - 1854. Letters addressed to the Surveyor General of Iowa and Wisconsin, Caleb Booth. Reporting the surveyors work in the field, laying out what was then the near West. Blue stationery, 15" x 9" folded in half, with flattened mailing folds. All letters are docketed on the rear with..... More

A 5-page and 6-page letters from Private John Johonot of the Sixth Battalion, Light Artillery of the 16th Maine Regiment written in 1862 only months before his death on December 20th in Baltimore. Transmittal envelopes are included as well as an especially poignant 2-page letter from his wife to her..... More

Tuileries, Paris, France: Nov. 19, 1841. Boldly and elegantly signed by Louis Phillip (1773 - 1850), moniker the "Citizen King", King of the French from 1830 to 1848. The last French monarch to bear the title "King", and the only French monarch to descend from the Orléans branch of the..... More

Cairo, Egypt: Maktbit Misr, 1995. Prof. Moustafa Gouda. First Edition. Egypt, Inscribed to anonymous “my book”. /s/ Naguib Mahfouz. Mahfouz was suffering great difficulty which prevented him to write due to his injury from attempted assassination by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in October 1995. Naguib Mahfouz, (1911 -..... More

Montauban, France: Self-published, September 1, 1839. Quarter brown leather with marbled paper over boards. The title in gilt on the spine indicates an intentional preservation of this work. 4.5" x 7", 237 pp. of manuscript copy of "Murat", a short book by Alexandre Dumas, origninally published as part of his..... More

Cairo, Egypt: Maktbit Misr, 1977 - 1988. First Edition. All volumes are inscribed to the same person, Dr. Ali Hassan Ibrahim. Ibrahim was Mahfouz's medical doctor and close confidante, as well as himself a home grown poet. Ibrahim was the son of Sir Ali Ibrahim (1880 - 1946). The elder..... More