Biography & Memoirs from The Owl at the Bridge

Hammond was an American mining engineer employed by Cecil Rhodes in South Africa; he was involved in the Jameson Raid (1895/6), captured & sentenced to death, eventually released on payment of a fine; he promoted many hydroelectric and mining projects. VOLUME TWO ONLY. Pages 387-813, index, plates; 23 cm. Bound in green cloth, spine faded, no dust… Read more about this item

Boston, Published by the Author, 1859. Thomas Dorr led an armed rebellion against the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations to overthrow exclusionary election laws which allowed only very few propertied men to vote. Sabin 37790. Hard Cover. 368 pages, portrait frontispiece; 19.5 cm. Frontispiece portrait, guardsheet, & title-page heavily foxed; a few early pages lightly… Read more about this item

"Dedicated / with Affection and Amusement / to my many Friends / in the Rare-Book World / and / a Handful of Subtle Enemies." Contents: The John Carter Brown Library In Its Early Days, 1907-1914; The Rare-Book Division of The New York Public Library, 1914-1917; The Annmary Brown Memorial As a Private Library, 1917-1947; The Annmary Brown Memorial… Read more about this item

Memoir of the New York "art, book, music, and theater critic" by his close friend. Includes bibliography. 64 pages; 24.5 cm. Boun in grey boards, cream paper spine; no dust jacket; spine a bit darkened; Very Good. Stock#ofc0801.

"Leonardo called his notebooks 'a collection without order taken from many papers which I have copied here, hoping afterward to arrange them in order, each in its place, according to the subjects treated of.' He died before he could carry out this plan. Now more than 400 years after his death, the contemplated arrangement has been made in… Read more about this item

"Art was his métier, but conversation was his art. Here, recorded over ten years' time, the fabled mind of Bernard Berenson." "W / First American Edition 1965... This work was originally published in Italy by Aldo Garzanti Editore under the title Colloqui con Berenson... 1963..." 305 pages, index; 21 cm.; top of pictorial dust jacket spine slightly… Read more about this item

"Partly penetrating self-analysis, partly mature wisdom, partly inspired gossip, these diary notes capture... the magic of this legendary figure, the last great Humanist." "First Edition." 547 pages, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, index; 23.5 cm. Ex San Diego Public Library; rebound in red buckram with neat proprietorial marks; withal Good+. Stock#ofc0630.

"The story of the making of the connoisseur spans four decades... No less fascinating than Berenson's own development, and the accidents that shaped his career, are his relations with an extraordinary cast of characters... among them George Santayana, William James, Bertrand Russell, Logan Pearsall Smith, Norman and Hutchins Hapgood, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, the the Michael Fields, Gertrude Stein, Edith… Read more about this item

"Among US collectors of the early 1900s, Berenson was regarded as the pre-eminent authority on Renaissance art. Early in his career, Berenson developed his own unique method of connoisseurship by combining the comparative examination techniques of Giovanni Morelli with the aesthetic idea put forth by John Addington Symonds that something of an artist's personality could be detected through his works… Read more about this item

"In a book as outstanding for its text as for its illustrations, Iris Origo, brilliant biographer and scholarly social historian, has re-created the life and world of a singularly attractive saint." ix, 303 pages; index, bibliography, notes; 26 cm. Slightly shelfworn but Very Good in Fair dust jacket & with bookplate. Stock#ofc0621.

"Five Volumes in One / Complete & Unexpurgated" (front of dust jacket). "...Frank Harris attempted to give the world the most honest autobiography ever written. ... With this edition... it becomes available in its full and authentic form for the first time anywhere." --dust jacket. xviii, 983 pages, index of names, frontispiece portrait; 23.5 cm. Pictorial dust… Read more about this item

"This book began several years ago as an article. I intended to detail George Catlin's quest as a case study in the history of art patronage in America. I was attracted to Catlin because of his surpassing importance to students of Indian culture. ...Catlin... spent only a few years in what he considered real Indian country.… Read more about this item

"Muir's interest and pleasure in the whole of nature, his delight in intellectual as well as physical adventure, and the extraordinary range of his activities, give Muir's life a seldom-equalled richness and variety of experience-- lived with humor and love." x, 326 pages, illus., endpaper map; color pictorial dust jacket slightly worn; ink inscription on front flyleaf; "Handbound 1979… Read more about this item

List of Subscribers, pages vii-xiv; Introduction by Wilmarth Lewis; essays by Elizabeth Baer, Leicester Bradner, Clarence S. Brigham, Lloyd A. Brown, Curt F. Bühler, Frederick R. Goff, E. P. Goldschmidt, Lewis Hanke, Richard S. Hill, William A. Jackson, George Kubler, Gerald D. McDonald, James G. McManaway, William Greene Roelker, Carl P. Rollins, Jesse H. Shera, Rollo G. Silver, Henry Stevens… Read more about this item

"First Printing." xiv, 368 pages, index, 16 illustrations; library pocket pasted on front flyleaf & library shelf label on spine of dust jacket; no other markings; withal Good+ in Good dust jacket with chipped edges. Stock#ofc0544.

The author comments in his introduction that "during his brief career as a London printer [Dexter] turned out... some books of great importance to both England and America. On the other hand, in New England he was, for nearly 40 years, right-hand man to Roger Williams..." series: The Printers' Valhalla, edited by George Parker Winship. xiii, 115… Read more about this item

Bookplate of Samuel J. Hough. Stock#mcr37.

Chapters: The Dual Lives, Historical Precautions, Machiavelli & Vettori, Machiavelli & Guicciardini, The Carpi Comedy, General Correspondence, Intimate Letters, Contemporary Testimony, The Great Contrast. 130 pages, ten plates (portraits; facsimiles), index, bibliography; ex-Mercantile Library of Philadelphia with their name punch-stamps throughout, their bookplate, & various markings; bound in green cloth, spine ends frayed, bottom of spine has one-inch… Read more about this item

From the journal Rinascimento, 1974. "Questo Machiavelli, dunque, che tanto recalcitrava ad identificarsi culturalmente ed umanamente con quello celebre, sembra non accettare di buon grado tale identificazione neppure da un punto di vista documentario..." 62 pages; wraps; Very Good. Stock#mcr29.

Title exactly transcribed: Lettere/ Di/ Niccolò Machiavelli/ Che Si Pubblicano Per La Prima Volta./ Dedicate/ a sua eccellenza/ Milord Nassau Clavering/ Conte di Cowper, Visconte di Fordwich Barone di Wingham, e Cav. Baronetto, Pari della Gran Brettagna. Gamba 627; Grasse 4: 325. xxvii, [1], 271 pages; 21 cm. (a4, b10, A-R8). Cut on title-page (arms). Dedication (pages… Read more about this item