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.
1824 Rare Book Set - Sir Walter Scott’s Historical Romances, Ivanhoe, etc.
Author: Sir Walter Scott.Title: Scott’s Historical Romances: Ivanhoe, The Monastery, The Abbot, and Kenilworth.Publisher: Edinburgh, for Archibald ...
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1922 First Edition Illustrated by Ruth Wood - Children’s Hour with Peter Pan
Author: J. M. Barrie (adapted). Edited by Watty Piper. Illustrated by Ruth Wood.Title: Children’s Hour with Peter Pan.Publisher: New York, The Plat...
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2009 Scarce Signed First Edition - The Fairy Market by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: The Fairy Market.Publisher: North Vancouver, The Fairy Press (Charles Van Sandwyk Fine Arts), 2009. First...
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1921 First Edition - Peter Rabbit in Mother Goose Land by Alma Hudson
Author: Alma Hudson. Illustrated by Richard Hudson.Title: Peter Rabbit in Mother Goose Land.Publisher: New York, Cupples & Leon Company, 1921. ...
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1900 Scarce Mcloughlin Edition - The Night Before Christmas & Other Stories
Author: Clement C. Moore (attributed). Illustrated by various McLoughlin Bros. staff artists.Title: The Night Before Christmas and Other Stories.Pu...
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1898 Rare First Edition - The Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang, Illustrated
Author: Selected and edited by Andrew Lang. Illustrated by H.J. Ford.Title: The Arabian Nights Entertainments.Publisher: London: Longm...
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1894 Rare First Edition - The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, Illustrated
Author: Edited by Andrew Lang. Illustrated by H.J. Ford.Title: The Yellow Fairy Book.Publisher: London: Longmans, Green, and Co., and New York: 15 ...
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1628 Rare Book - Georgii Buchanani - Scottish Poems by George Buchanan
Author: George Buchanan.Title: Georgii Buchanani Scoti, Poemata quae extant. Editio postrema.Publisher: Lugduni Batavorum: Ex officina Elzeviriana,...
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1935 Rare Book - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Gwynedd Hudson
Author: Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Gwynedd M. Hudson.Title: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.Publisher: New York: The Dial Press, Inc., 1935.Lan...
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1580 Scarce Book - Ovid’s Metamorphoses - Ovidii Metamorphoseon, Illustrated
Author: Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid).Title: Ovidii Metamorphoseon Libri XV. In quibus corrigendis, collatis probatissimis fide exemplaribus, maximam...
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1890 Scarce Book - Character and Fortune. ABC Guide to Palmistry by Paul Bello
Author: A Well-Known Palmist (Paul Bello).Title: The A B C of Palmistry. Character and Fortune Revealed. With 12 Full-Page Illustrations.Publisher:...
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1880 Scarce Routledge Binding with Brass Edges- Milton’s Paradise Lost, Regained
Author: John Milton. Illustrated by William Harvey.Title: The Poetical Works of John Milton. A New Edition, Carefully Revised, from the Text of Tho...
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1882 Rare Book - Lancashire Legends, Superstitions, Witches by Harland Wilkinson
Authors: John Harland, F.S.A. and T. T. Wilkinson, F.R.A.S.Title: Lancashire Legends: Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c., with an Appendix conta...
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1926 Rare Facsimile of the British Museum - Songs of Innocence by William Blake
Author: William Blake. Title: Songs of Innocence.Publisher: New York: Minton, Balch & Co., 1926. Printed and made in Great Britain.Language: Te...
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1881 Scarce First Edition - Gudrun and Other Medieval Epics Stories Illustrated
Author: John Gibb. Illustrated by various artists.Title: Gudrun and Other Stories: From the Epics of the Middle Ages. Publisher: New York: Scribner...
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1903 Scarce First Edition - Algonquin Indian Tales Collected by E.R. Young
Author: Egerton R. Young. Illustrated by J.E. Laughlin.Title: Algonquin Indian Tales.Publisher: London: Charles H. Kelly, 2 Castle Street, City Roa...
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1966 Signed First Edition - The Wind in the Willows illustrated by Tasha Tudor
Author: Kenneth Grahame. Illustrated by Tasha Tudor.Title: The Wind in the WillowsPublisher: The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York, ...
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1852 Rare Book- Flora’s Interpreter and Fortuna Flora by Sarah J. Hale, 4 Plates
Author: Sarah Josepha Hale.Title: Flora’s Interpreter and Fortuna Flora.Publisher: Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey and Company, 1852.Language: Text in E...
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1900 Rare Book - Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, Illustrated
Author: Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by Mrs. H. B. Paull.Title: Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales. A New Translation.Publisher: London and New Yor...
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1876 Rare Book - The Poetical Works of John Milton, Paradise Lost and Regained
Author: John Milton.Title: The Poetical Works of John Milton.Publisher: Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1876.Language: Text in English.Size: 6.5 x 4.5...
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1910 Rare Edition - The Tale of Peter Rabbit illustrated by Beatrix Potter
Author: Beatrix Potter.Title: The Tale of Peter Rabbit.Publisher: London and New York, Frederick Warne and Co., no date (circa 1910 -- according ...
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1935 Scarce with Dust Jacket -The Complete Book of Fortune, Occult Sciences
Author: Unknown.Title: The Complete Book of Fortune A Comprehensive Survey Of The Occult Sciences And Other Methods Of Divination That Have Been E...
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1899 Rare First Edition - The Red Book of Animal Stories by Andrew Lang
Author: Andrew Lang. Illustrated by H. J. Ford.Title: The Red Book of Animal Stories.Publisher: London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. First Editi...
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1932 Scarce Signed First Edition - Mabel Lucie Attwell’s Fairy Book
Author: Mabel Lucie Attwell (illustrator). Various authors.Title: Lucie Attwell’s Fairy Book.Publisher: London: S.W. Partridge & Co., 4–6 Soho ...
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1897 Scarce Edition - The Heroes of Asgard by A. & E. Keary Illustrated by Huard
Author: Annie Keary & Eliza Keary. Illustrated by Huard.Title: The Heroes of Asgard. Tales from Scandinavian Mythology.Publisher: London: Macmi...
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1865 Rare Book - Robert Burns’s Poetical Works, Illustrated by John Gilbert
Author: Robert Burns. Edited by Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. Illustrated by John Gilbert.Title: The Poetical Works of Robert Burns.Publisher: London:...
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1904 First Edition - Sir Galahad, A Christmas Mystery by William Morris
Author: William Morris. Designed by Thomas Wood Stevens.Title: Sir Galahad: A Christmas Mystery.Publisher: Chicago: The Blue Sky Press, 1904. Unnum...
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1860 First ED.- Edgar Poe and His Critics by Poe's Fiancée Sarah Helen Whitman
Author: Sarah Helen Whitman.Title: Edgar Poe and His Critics.Publisher: New York: Rudd & Carleton, 130 Grand Street (Brooks Building, corner of...
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1938 The Night Before Christmas illustrated by Rackham - Bound by Sangorski
Author: Clement C Moore. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.Title: The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore Lld. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.Pub...
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1903 Rare Book - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Title: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.Publisher: New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1903.Language: Text in E...
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1882 Rare Book - Poems of Edgar Allan Poe with a Full Memoir of the Poet
Author: Edgar Allan Poe.Title: Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Including Some Poems Not Hitherto Introduced in His Works; To Which is Added a Full and Im...
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1621 Rare Latin vellum Book - Martial's Epigrams - M. Val Martialis Epigrammata
Author: Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial). Edited by Petrus Scriverius (Peter Schrijver).Title: M. Val. Martialis, Ex Museo Petri Scriverii.Publi...
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1912 Rare First Edition - The Rocket Book Illustrated by Peter Newell
Author: Peter Newell.Title: The Rocket Book.Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912. First Edition.Language: Text in English.Size: 9" x 7"...
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1827 Rare Edition ~ Night Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality by Edward Young
Author: Edward Young, D.D.Title: The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts.Publisher: London: Printed for John Sharpe, Duke Street, Piccadilly, 1827.Langua...
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1936 Rare Book - The Enchanted Forest by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Author: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite and Grenbry Outhwaite.Title: The Enchanted Forest.Publisher: London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1936. Third printing.La...
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1902 Jules Verne - The Moon Voyage From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon
Author: Jules Verne. Illustrated by Henry Austin.Title: The Moon Voyage. Containing “From the Earth to the Moon” and “Round the Moon.”Publisher: Lo...
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