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.
1850 Rare Bible bound by Bagster - Polyglot Bible, Old and New Testament, Clasp
Author: [Unattributed; various scriptural editors].Title: The English Version of the Polyglot Bible; Containing the Old and New Testaments: With a ...
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1884 Rare First Edition - New England Legends and Folk Lore by S.A. Drake
Author: Samuel Adams Drake. Illustrated by F. T. Merrill. Title: A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore in Prose and Poetry.Publisher: Boston,...
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1859 Rare Tennyson Elaine – Exquisite Vellum and Gilt Binding
Author: (Alfred Tennyson).Title: Elaine. (No title page, only the half-title page).Publisher: No place, no publisher, no date. (London, Edward Moxo...
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1766 Rare Book - The Isle of Anglesey, the Ancient Seat of the British Druids
Author: Henry Rowlands.Title: Mona Antiqua Restaurata. An Archæological Discourse on the Antiquities, Natural and Historical, of the Isle of Angles...
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1930 Rare First Edition - Moby Dick by Melville illustrated by Rockwell Kent
Author: Herman Melville. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent.Title: Moby Dick, or The Whale.Publisher: New York, Random House, 1930. First one-volume il...
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1900 Scarce First Edition - Dean’s Fairy Book, Companion to the Doyle Fairy Book
Editor: Edited by F.G. Green.Title: Dean’s Fairy Book. A Companion to the Doyle Fairy Book.Publisher: London, Dean and Son, 160a Fleet Street, (cir...
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1924 Miniature Edition bound by Zaehnsdorf - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll. John Tenniel, illustrator.Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [with] Through the Looking Glass, And What Alice Found...
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1922 Rare Book - The After You Story Book, Profusely Illustrated
Author: Various authors. Illustrated by G. Sheridan Knowles, Wright Barker, W. Kay Blacklock, W. Luker, Ernest Walbourn, W. Heath Robinson, and oth...
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1900 Rare Book - Grimm’s Fairy Stories for Children and the Household
Author: The Brothers Grimm. Translated by Beatrice Marshall.Title: Grimm’s Fairy Stories for Children and the Household.Publisher: London, Ward, Lo...
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1890 Rare Book - The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by Fenimore Cooper
Author: J. Fenimore Cooper.Title: The Last of the Mohicans. A Narrative of 1757.Publisher: New York, Hurst & Co., Publishers, No. 122 Nassau St...
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1890 Rare Book - Five Weeks in a Balloon, A Voyage of Exploration by Jules Verne
Author: Jules Verne. Illustrated by Riou.Title: Five Weeks in a Balloon. A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central Africa.Publisher: London,...
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1854 Rare Book - The Complete Works of Robert Burns, Poems, Illustrated
Author: Robert Burns. Illustrated by various artists.Title: The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. Wi...
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2002 Scarce Signed First Edition - The Meaning of Mice by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: The Painter Mouse presents the Meaning of Mice ‘translated for humans’ by Charles van Sandwyk.Publisher: North ...
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1923 Rare Book - Moby Dick or The White Whale illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
Author: Herman Melville. Illustrated by Mead Schaeffer.Title: Moby-Dick or The White Whale.Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923.Langua...
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1911 Scarce Edition with Dust Jacket - Black Beauty The Autobiography of a Horse
Author: Anna Sewell.Title: Black Beauty. The Autobiography of a Horse.Publisher: New York, The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., 1911.Language: Text in E...
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1928 Rare First Edition - BAMBI a Life in the Woods by Felix Salten, Illustrated
Author: Felix Salten.Title: Bambi. A Life in the Woods. Foreword by John Galsworthy.Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster, 1928. First edition i...
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1855 Rare Book - Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality by Edward Young
Author: Edward Young.Title: Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality.Publisher: Philadelphia, John B. Perry, 1855.Language: Text in English.Si...
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1878 Rare Victorian Book - The Hunting of the SNARK by Lewis Carroll
Author: Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Henry Holiday.Title: The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits.Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., L...
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1877 Rare Floriography Book - Floral Poetry and the Language of Flowers
Author: Anonymous. Edited by J.H.S.Title: Floral Poetry and the Language of Flowers.Publisher: London & Belfast, Marcus Ward & Co., 1877. F...
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1934 Rare Book - Una and the Red Cross Knight from Spenser's Faery Queene
Author: N.G. Royde-Smith. Illustrated by T.H. Robinson.Title: Una and the Red Cross Knight and Other Tales from Spenser’s Faery Queene.Publisher: L...
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1910 Scarce Book bound by Root - Ovid's Art and Remedy of Love
Author: Ovid. Embellishments by Edgar Wilson.Title: The Art of Love.Publisher: San Francisco & New York, Paul Elder and Company. Printed by Nei...
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1915 Rare Book - Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know by Mary Hamilton Frye
Author: Edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie. Mary Hamilton Frye, illustrator.Title: Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know.Publisher: Garden City, New Yor...
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1930 Rare Book - The Complete Book of Fortune, Occult Sciences And Divination
Author: Not attributed.Title: The Complete Book of Fortune: A Comprehensive Survey of the Occult Sciences and Other Methods of Divination.Publisher...
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1920 Rare Book - Alice in Wonderland illustrated by Margaret W. Tarrant
Author: Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Margaret W. Tarrant.Title: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited,...
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1962 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...
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1893 Rare Book - The Prince From the Italian of Nicolo Michiavelli
Author: Niccolò Machiavelli.Title: The Prince and Other Pieces. From the Italian of Nicolo Michiavelli. With an Introduction by Henry Morley.Publis...
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1924 Rare First US Edition - Jules Verne, The Lighthouse at the End of the World
Author: Jules Verne. H. C. Murphy, illustrator.Title: The Lighthouse at the End of the World.Publisher: New York, G. Howard Watt, 1924. First US E...
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1854 Rare Book Set - History of the Life of Richard Cœur-de-Lion King of England
Author: G.P.R. James.Title: A History of the Life of Richard Cœur-de-Lion, King of England.Publisher: London, Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Ga...
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1938 Scarce 1stED with Dust Jacket - Walt Disney Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Author: Walt Disney. Adapted from Grimm’s Fairy Tales.Title: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Adapted from Grimm's Fairy Tales. An A...
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1926 Rare First Edition - Winnie-The-Pooh Illustrated by Ernest Shepard
Author: A.A. Milne. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.Title: Winnie-the-Pooh.Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Company, 1926. First American Ed...
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1881 Rare Second Edition - Hector Servadac The Career of a Comet by Jules Verne
Author: Jules Verne. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer.Title: Hector Servadac or The Career of a Comet. Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle...
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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...
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1926 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...
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1917 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...
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1900 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...
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1890 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...
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