The MFLIBRA Reference Archive
This archive preserves a selection of rare and antiquarian books previously handled by MFLIBRA over the years. Though these volumes have found new homes, their bibliographical record remains part of the continuing history of the book.
1873 Scarce Victorian Book - Butterflies and Fairies by Mary Albert, Illustrated
Author: Mary Albert.Title: Butterflies and Fairies.Publisher: London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1873. First Edition.Language: Text...
View full details1847 Rare Bible bound by Bagster - Polyglot Bible, Old and New Testament, Clasp
Author: The Holy Bible; The Book of Common Prayer.Title: The English Version of the Polyglott Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments; togethe...
View full details2009 Rare First Edition - Canadian Content illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles Van Sandwyk. Waisiki Doughty.Title: Canadian Content.Publisher: Vancouver, Charles van Sandwyk Fine Arts, 2009. First Editio...
View full details1930 First Edition - Turn Again Tales by Laurence Housman, Illustrated
Author: Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Alec Buckels, Marjorie Dawes, May Smith, Roy Meldrum, Harold King, Marian Allen, W. G. Raffé, A. H. Watson...
View full details1926 First Edition- The Paper Dragon, A Raggedy Ann Adventure in Publisher's Box
Author: Written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle.Title: THE PAPER DRAGON. A Raggedy Ann Adventure.Publisher: New York, Joliet, Boston, The P.F. ...
View full details1698 Rare Latin French Bible - Book of Chronicles, Paralipomenon, Paralipomènes
Author: Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy.Title: Les Paralipomènes, traduits en François, avec une explication tirée des Saints Pères & des Auteurs...
View full details1910 Rare Book - Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey by Emily and Anne Brontë
Author: Emily Brontë; Anne Brontë.Title: Wuthering Heights; Agnes Grey.Publisher: London, The Gresham Publishing Company, n.d. (1910).Language: Tex...
View full details1745 Rare Book Set - The Odyssey of Homer by Alexander Pope, Illustrated
Author: Homer. Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope. With The Battle of the Frogs and Mice, attributed to Homer and translated by Thomas Par...
View full details1859 Rare Victorian Book - The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Illustrated
Author: Edgar Allan Poe.Title: The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe.Publisher: London, W. Kent & Co. (Late D. Bogue), 86 Fleet Street, 1859.La...
View full details1918 Scarce 1stED - The Book of Elves and Fairies illustrated by Milo Winter
Author: Frances Jenkins Olcott. Illustrated by Milo Winter.Title: The Book of Elves and Fairies.Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Co...
View full details1930 Rare Book - Raggedy Ann and Andy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees
Author: Johnny Gruelle. Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle.Title: Raggedy Ann and Andy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees.Publisher: Joliet, Illinois...
View full details1967 Second edition, second printing - The Lord of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien.Title: The Lord of the Rings. (The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King). Publisher: London, Geo...
View full details1926 Rare Book - Grimm's Fairy Tales Selected and Illustrated by Elenore Abbott
Author: Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm.Title: Grimm’s Fairy Tales.Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1944.Language: Text in English.Size:...
View full details1874 Rare Book bound by Zaehnsdorf - Maud, and Other Poems by Alfred Tennyson
Author: Alfred Tennyson.Title: Maud, and Other Poems.Publisher: London, Henry S. King and Co., 65 Cornhill and 12 Paternoster Row, 1874.Language: T...
View full details1920 Rare Book - The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle.Title: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.Publisher: New York & Chicago, A. L. Burt Company, ca. 1920.Language: Text in E...
View full details1912 First Edition - Chronicles of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Author: L. M. Montgomery.Title: Chronicles of Avonlea.Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & Company, June 1912 (First Edition, first printing).Langua...
View full details1887 Rare Book - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, writing as Ellis Bell
Author: Emily Brontë, writing as Ellis Bell; and Anne Brontë, writing as Acton Bell. With a biographical notice by Charlotte Brontë (Currer Bell).T...
View full details1860 Rare book - The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Illustrated
Author: Edgar Allan Poe.Title: The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe.Publisher: London, J. & C. Brown and Co., Ave Maria Lane, [circa early 186...
View full details1915 Rare Psychoanalysis Book - The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
Author: Sigmund Freud. Translated with introduction by A. A. Brill.Title: The Interpretation of Dreams.Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin,...
View full details1878 Rare Victorian Book - The Mine, or Darkness and Light by A.L.O.E.
Author: A.L.O.E. (a Lady of England)- Charlotte Maria Tucker.Title: The Mine, or Darkness and Light.Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, ...
View full details1900 Rare Book bound by Bayntun - The Phaedrus, Lysis, and Protagoras of Plato
Author: Plato. Translated by J. Wright.Title: The Phaedrus, Lysis, and Protagoras of Plato.Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1900.Lang...
View full details1914 Rare First Edition - A Year with the Fairies illustrated by Marion T. Ross
Author: Anna M. Scott. Illustrated by Marion T. Ross.Title: A YEAR WITH THE FAIRIES. Publisher: Chicago, P.F. Volland & Co., 1914. Firs...
View full details1886 Scarce First Henry Sandham Illustrated Edition - Lenore by Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe. Illustrated by H. Sandham.Title: Lenore.Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1886. First Henry Sandham Illustrated Editio...
View full details1919 Jessie Willcox Smith First Edition - At The Back of the North Wind
Author: George MacDonald. (Jessie Willcox Smith, illustrator).Title: At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald. Illustrated by Jessie Wil...
View full details1927 First Edmund Dulac Illustrated Edition - Treasure Island by Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.Title: Treasure Island.Publisher: London, Ernest Benn Limited, 1927. First Edmund Dulac...
View full details1858 Rare Book - Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Poetical Works of John Milton
Author: John Milton. Illustrated by William Harvey.Title: The Poetical Works of John Milton.Publisher: London, George Routledge and Co., 1858.Langu...
View full details1864 Rare book- The Snow-Image, A Childish Miracle by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne.Illustrations: Illustrated by Marcus Waterman. Title: The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle.Publisher: New York: James G. ...
View full details1880 Scarce First US Edition - William HAUFF'S Fairy Tales, Illustrated
Author: William Hauff. (Percy Pinkerton, translator).Title: Hauff's Fairy Tales: Translated from the German by Percy Pinkerton. Illustrated. Publ...
View full details1911 Rare First Edition - Andersen's Nightingale Illustrated By Edmund Dulac
Author: Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Title: The Nightingale and Other Stories. Publisher: New York and London, Hodder and ...
View full details1888 Rare Victorian Book set - Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Gothic
Author: Victor Hugo. Illustrated by Luc-Olivier Merson and A. de Lemud.Title: Notre-Dame de Paris.Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 18...
View full details1890 Rare French Book - One Thousand and One Nights, Les Mille et une Nuits
Author: Anonymous. Adaptation by Paul de Maurelly. Illustrated by H. Grobet.Title: Les Mille et Une Nuits. Contes Arabes choisis pour la jeunesse.P...
View full details1901 Rare Book- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and Hugh Thomson
Author: Jane Austen. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.Title: Sense and Sensibility.Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited; New York, The Macmilla...
View full details1875 First English Edition - The English at the North Pole by Jules Verne
Author: Jules Verne. Illustrated by Édouard Riou.Title: The English at the North Pole.Publisher: London and New York, George Routledge and Sons, 18...
View full details1925 First Edition - Old Swedish Fairy Tales Illustrated by Jeannette Berkowitz
Author: Anna Wahlenberg. Illustrated by Jeannette Berkowitz.Title: Old Swedish Fairy Tales.Publisher: Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company, 19...
View full details2018 Scarce Triptych - Splendid Crow Field Guide to Decent Humans by van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: Splendid Crow: Life is Art; Art is Life (also known as A Field Guide to Decent Humans).Publisher: North Vancouve...
View full details1897 First Edition bound by Asprey - Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Author: Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by I. W. Taber.Title: Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks.Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Li...
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