San Francisco: Colt Press, 1940. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of five hundred copies, large octavo size, 119 pp., with prospectus. Mai (ca.1751-1780), was mistakenly known as "Omai" in Britain, and that is how many still think of him today. He was a young Polynesian priest who was brought..... More

Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Freres, Fils et Cie, 1874. Second Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 640 pp., text in French. The best known work by knight and historian Geoffroi de Ville-Hardouin (c. 1150-c.1213/18), written between 1207 and 1213. This work is one of the oldest known examples of historical French prose..... More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995-2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (covering 650 CE to 1250 CE), quarto size, 723 pp., second volume in slipcase. The symmetry and beauty of Islamic art and architecture has been admired for centuries; these two volumes, while published separately, are being offered as a...... More

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1936. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 550 copies, octavo size, 309 pp. This diary, written by the young Lewis H. Garrard, includes contemporary descriptions of Native Americans, traders, mountain men, with their dress, behavior, and speech, and also includes legendary characters such as..... More

Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1840. Hardcover. Octavo size, 534 pp. A condensed history of England, from the ancient Britons through the inauguration of recently crowned Queen Victoria, with 270 woodcuts and steel engravings.The work also includes information by "Pinnock" such as "a variety of valuable information.....and a life of Dr..... More

[Stanford, California, Printed in San Francisco]: James Ladd Delkin, Stanford University [Printed by the Grabhorn Press], 1941. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, quarto size, [73] pp. An essay by Albert Leon Guerard (1880-1959) on Vichy France, the nominal government of German-occupied France during WWII. He begins: "The France..... More

London: Seeley and Co., Ltd., 1896. Sixth Edition. Leather bound. Duodecimo size, 438 pp. An interesting account of an unrising in several regions of India during 1857 while under control of the British Empire. The volume details the circumstances of the uprising, the forces involved in the conflict and the..... More

Denver, Colorado: The Old West Publishing Company, 1964. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 deluxe versions (presentation copy), folio size, 397 pp., signed by Dale L. Morgan. William H. Ashley (ca. 1778-1838) was a prominent player in the fur trade in the western United States, forming the company Rocky Mountain..... More

Glasgow: Hugh Hopkins, 1869. Second Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, 587 pp. Joseph Ritson (1752-1803) was an interesting and, even for his day, unusual man. Described by the DNB as an "antiquarian"; at the age of 20, upon reading the "Fable of the Bees" he decided to "forswear..... More

Moscow and Leningrad: State Art Publishers [Printed in the Soviet Union], 1939. Hardcover. Quarto size, approx. 125 pp. A fascinating piece of Soviet propaganda published for the Soviet Pavillion at the New York World's Fair which opened in 1939, six months prior to the start of WWII. The Soviets spent..... More

San Francisco: [Printed at the Grabhorn Press], 1953. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 185 copies, quarto size, 79 pp. This account of Mr Peloubet's adventures, written by himself, was translated after many years and printed for his descendent, Francis Peloubet Farquhar. More than just a memoir intended for the Peloubet..... More

London: Hurst and Blackett... 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, 655 pp. These journals, published at the end of the Crimean War (which lasted for over two years),by George Cavendish Taylor (1827-1889) were his observations on that war, based on "some experience in the subjects"; as a...... More

Japan: The Japan Council against A & H Bombs, 1961. Tomatsu, Shomei and Domon, Ken. Hardcover. Square quarto size, [140] pp. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States have led to numerous examinations of the war, violence, and death surrounding the attacks. "document 1961" is a collection..... More