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.
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1885 Rare Book - A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Arthur B. Frost
Author: Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Arthur B. Frost.Title: A Tangled Tale.Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., 1885. Third thousand of the First...
View full details1926 Rare Luxurious Binding by Riviere - The Compleat Angler
Author: Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton.Title: The Compleat Angler.Publisher: London, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, [1926].Language: Text in E...
View full details1917 First illustrated Edition by N.C. Wyeth - Robin Hood
Author: [No author stated; traditional tales retold].Title: Robin Hood.Publisher: Philadelphia, David McKay, 1917. First illustrated Edition by N.C...
View full details1900 First W. Heath Robinson illustrated Edition - The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe. Illustrated and decorated by W. Heath Robinson. Introduction by H. Noel-Williams.Title: The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe.Publi...
View full details1890 Rare Book - Among the Cannibals and The Mysterious Document by Jules Verne
Author: Jules Verne. Illustrated by Henry Austin.Title: Among the Cannibals. Containing The Mysterious Document, On the Track, and Among the Cannib...
View full details1962 First Illustrated Edition by Tasha Tudor - The Secret Garden
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated by Tasha Tudor.Title: The Secret Garden.Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, J. B. Lippincott Company...
View full details1888 Rare Book - Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Author: Mrs. Shelley (Mary Shelley).Title: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, 1888.Language: Tex...
View full details1923 First Anne Anderson Illustrated Edition - Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Author: Johanna Spyri. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.Title: Heidi.Publisher: Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1923. First Anne Anderson Illustrate...
View full details2019 Rare Signed Book - Affairs Of The Heart by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk. Title: Affairs Of The Heart According to Peaceable Creatures.Language: Text in English.Publisher: Nor...
View full details1956 Rare Bayntun Binding - Poetry and Prose of William Blake, in One Volume
Author: William Blake. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes.Title: Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Complete in One Volume.Publisher: London, The Nonesuch L...
View full details1929 Scarce Limited First Edition - The Pow-Wow and the Witch Murder Trial
Author: A. Monroe Aurand Jr. and John George HohmanTitle: The Pow-Wow Book. Three Volumes in One: The Pow-Wow Book; An Account of the “Witch” Murde...
View full details1908 Rare First Edition -The Lady of the Blue Beads by Annie and Ida Rentoul
Author: Annie R. Rentoul. Illustrated by Ida S. Rentoul.Title: The Lady of the Blue Beads: Her Book, Being an Account of Her First Blue Moon Spent ...
View full details1890 Scarce Edition - The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Illustrated
Author: Edgar Allan Poe. Illustrated by John Tenniel, Birket Foster, and others.Title: The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Together with his E...
View full details2015 Scarce Limited Deluxe First Edition - Tree Whispers by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk. Title: Tree Whispers. Publisher: North Vancouver, Canada, Savuti Press, 2015. This is the deluxe edition, limited to 1...
View full details1933 Rare First US Edition - Goblin Market illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Author: Christina Rossetti. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.Title: Goblin Market.Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co, no date (circa 1933). F...
View full details1931 Rare Deluxe Edition - The Compleat Angler illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Author: Izaak Walton. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.Title: The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation: Being a Discourse of Rivers, ...
View full details2009 Rare Signed Book - Canadian Content illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles Van Sandwyk. Waisiki Doughty.Title: Canadian Content.Publisher: Vancouver, Charles van Sandwyk Fine Arts, 2009. S...
View full details1852 Rare First Edition - The Select Tales of Hannah More, Illustrated
Author: Hannah More.Title: The Select Tales of Hannah More.Publisher: Boston, Frederick Charlton, 1852. First Edition.Language: Text in English.Siz...
View full details1885 Scarce First Edition - Edouard Laboulaye's Last Fairy Tales, illustrated
Author: Édouard Laboulaye.Title: Laboulaye’s Last Fairy Tales.Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1885. First US Edition.L...
View full details1853 Rare Book - Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.Title: Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Spanish.Publisher: London, Henry G. Bohn, 4 & 5 York ...
View full details2005 Signed 1stED - Sketches from the Dream Island of Birds, Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: Sketches from the Dream Island of Birds. (From the front cover:) “I am the sketchbook belonging to Charl...
View full details1892 Rare Book Set - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Complete in Five Volumes
Author: Victor Hugo.Title: Les Misérables (Complete in Five Volumes: I. Fantine, II. Cosette, III. Marius, IV. The Idyll and the Epic, V. Jean Valj...
View full details1861 Scarce Book - Favourite Fairy Tales With Twelve Coloured Illustrations
Author: [Anonymous; collected and retold from classic sources].Title: Favourite Fairy Tales. With Twelve Coloured Illustrations.Publisher: Edinburg...
View full details2001 Scarce Signed First Edition - The Fairies’ Christmas by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk. Typography by Robert R. Reid. Title: The Fairies’ Christmas. Language: Text in English. Publisher: North Vancouver, Th...
View full details1926 First Edition - Wee Miss Violet, Fairy Flowers illustrated by Willy Pogany
Author: Isidora Newman. Illustrated by Willy Pogany.Title: Wee Miss Violet and Other Fairy Flowers.Publisher: Racine, Wisconsin, Whitman Publishing...
View full details2013 Rare Book - An Unexpected Gift, A Christmas Tale by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: An Unexpected Gift.Language: Text in English.Publisher: North Vancouver, C.S.V. Fine Arts, The Fairy Press, 2013...
View full details1890 Rare Book - Notre-Dame, or The Bellringer of Paris by Victor Hugo
Author: Victor Hugo.Title: Notre-Dame, or The Bellringer of Paris.Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited, Broadway House, Ludgate Hi...
View full details1951 Book - The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
Author: Jules Verne. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth.Title: The Mysterious Island.Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951.Language: Text in En...
View full details2009 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 details1904 First Edition - In the Closed Room illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.Title: In the Closed Room.Publisher: New York, McClure, Phillips & Co., 19...
View full details1956 First Illustrated Edition by Shepard - The Secret Garden by F.H. Burnett
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.Title: The Secret Garden.Publisher: London, The Reprint Society, 1956. First and ...
View full details1880 Rare Book with Clasp - The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments
Author: —Title: The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues; and with the Former Translations Dil...
View full details1587 Scarce Latin Vellum Book - Achilles Tatius’ Clitophon and Leucippe
Author: Achilles Tatius (Achillis Statii Alexandrini). Translated by Annibale Cruceio.Title: Achillis Statii Alexandrini De Clitophontis et Leucipp...
View full details2018 - Collection of Little People Common to the Forest by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: Here Follows A Collection of Little People Common to the Natural Forest (The Enlarged Edition).Publisher: North ...
View full details1881 Rare First Edition - Legends of the Northwest by Hanford Lennox Gordon
Author: H. L. Gordon.Title: Legends of the Northwest.Publisher: St. Paul, Minn., The St. Paul Book and Stationery Co., 1881. First Edition.Language...
View full details1925 First Illustrated Edition by Louis Rhead - Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Author: Johanna Spyri. Illustrated by Louis Rhead.Title: Heidi.Publisher: New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1925. First Illustrated Editi...
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