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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1950 First Edition - Fairies of the Flowers and Trees by Cicely Mary Barker
Author: Cicely Mary Barker. Illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker.Title: Fairies of the Flowers and Trees: Poems and Pictures by Cicely Mary Barker.Pub...
View full details1962 Tasha Tudor First Illustrated Edition - The Secret Garden by F. H. Burnett
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated by Tasha Tudor.Title: The Secret Garden.Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, J. B. Lippincott Company...
View full details1931 Rare Book in Dust Jacket - Moby Dick Illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer
Author: Herman Melville. Illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer.Title: Moby Dick; or, The White Whale.Publisher: Chicago, Philadelphia & Toronto, Th...
View full details1935 Rare First Edition - Andersen Fairy Tales Illustrated by Rex Whistler
Author: Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.Title: Fairy Tales and Legends by Hans Andersen.Publisher: London, Cobden-Sanderson Lt...
View full details2021 Rare book - Animal Wisdom written and illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk. Title: Animal Wisdom.Language: Text in English.Publisher: North Vancouver, B.C., Charles van Sandwyk Fine Arts, 2021. ...
View full details1896 Rare First Edition - The Were-Wolf by Clemence Housman. Illustrated
Author: Clemence Housman. Illustrated by Laurence Housman.Title: The Were-Wolf.Publisher: London: John Lane at the Bodley Head; Chicago: Way and Wi...
View full details1859 Rare Book - The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Illustrated
Author: William Cowper. With a memoir by Rev. H. Stebbing, A.M.Title: The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq., including the Hymns and ...
View full details2002 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...
View full details1893 Rare Book Set - The Earthly Paradise, a poem by William Morris
Author: William Morris.Title: The Earthly Paradise. A Poem.Publisher: Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893. Complete set of 3 volumes.Language: Text in E...
View full details1888 Scarce Deluxe Edition - Walden; A Week on the Concord; Essays of Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau. Edited by Will H. Dircks.Title: Walden; A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers; Essays and Other Writings.Publisher...
View full details1873 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 details1874 Rare Zaehnsdorf Binding - Legend of King Arthur, The Holy Grail by Tennyson
Author: Alfred Tennyson.Title: The Holy Grail and Other Poems.Publisher: London, Henry S. King and Co., 1874.Language: Text in English.Size: 6.5 x ...
View full details1914 First Edition - The Butterfly Babies Book Illustrated by M. T. (Penny) Ross
Author: Elizabeth Gordon. Illustrated by M. T. (Penny) Ross.Title: The Butterfly Babies’ Book.Publisher: Chicago and New York, Rand McNally & C...
View full details1870 Rare Victorian Floriography Book - Flora Symbolica, The Language of Flowers
Author: John Ingram. With original illustrations printed in colors by Terry.Title: Flora Symbolica; or, The Language and Sentiment of Flowers. Incl...
View full details2015 Rare First Edition - Tree Whispers, Illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk.Title: Tree Whispers.Publisher: North Vancouver, Savuti Press, 2015. First Edition. Printed offset (600 copies)...
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 details1914 Rare 1stED - Poems of William Morris by Pre-Raphaelite Florence Harrison
Author: William Morris. Illustrated by Florence Harrison.Title: Early Poems of William Morris.Publisher: London, Glasgow & Bombay, Blackie &...
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 details1854 Rare Book - The Tower of London, A Romance Illustrated by George Cruikshank
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth. Illustrated by George Cruikshank.Title: The Tower of London. A Historical Romance.Publisher: London, George Rou...
View full details1850 Scarce Book - Stories About Dogs by Thomas Bingley and Thomas Landseer
Author: Thomas Bingley. Illustrated from drawings by Thomas Landseer.Title: Stories About Dogs: Illustrative of Their Instinct, Sagacity and Fideli...
View full details2021 Rare book - Animal Wisdom written and illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk. Title: Animal Wisdom.Language: Text in English.Publisher: North Vancouver, B.C., Charles van Sandwyk Fine Arts, 2021. ...
View full details1895 Rare Pirate Book- The Life of William Dampier and The Buccaneers of America
Author: Anonymous (biographical narrative of William Dampier). Illustrated by Paul Hardy.Title: The Life and Adventures of William Dampier with a ...
View full details1860 Rare First Edition-The Nine Lives of a Cat, illustrated by Charles Bennett
Author: Charles Bennett.Title: The Nine Lives of a Cat: A Tale of Wonder. Publisher: London, Griffith and Farran, Corner of St. Paul’s Chu...
View full details1896 Rare Second Edition - Poems. Third Series, by Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson. Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd.Title: Poems — Third Series.Publisher: Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1896. Second edition (as stat...
View full details1931 Rare First Illustrated Edition by Roy Best -Picture Story Book of Peter Pan
Author: Story based on the play by Sir J. M. Barrie. Illustrated by Roy Best.Title: The Picture Story Book of Peter Pan.Publisher: Racine, Wisconsi...
View full details1922 Rare Book - Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights illustrated by Edmund Dulac
Author: Emily Brontë. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.Title: Wuthering Heights.Publisher: London & Toronto, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.; New York, E....
View full details1898 First Edition, Unique Hand-Illuminated - Flower Favourites by Lizzie Deas
Author: Lizzie Deas.Title: Flower Favourites. Their Legends, Symbolism and Significance.Publisher: London, George Allen, 156 Charing Cross Road, 18...
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 details1866 Rare Book - The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, with Original Memoir
Author: Edgar Allan Poe. Illustrated by F. R. Pickersgill, R.A., John Tenniel, Birket Foster, Felix Darley, Jasper Cropsey, P. Duggan, Percival Ske...
View full details1963 Rare First Limited Edition #419- The Planet of the Apes, Planete des Singes
Author: Pierre Boulle. Title: La Planète des Singes [The Planet of the Apes]. Publisher: Paris, Le Cercle du Nouveau Livre, 1963. First edition, fi...
View full details1822 Rare First Edition Book set - The Pirate by Sir Walter Scott
Author: Sir Walter Scott.Title: The Pirate.Publisher: Edinburgh, Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., London, 182...
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 details1912 Rare First Signed Edition #1004 - Æsop Fables Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Author: Æsop. Translated by V. S. Vernon Jones. Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.Title: Æsop’s Fables.Publisher: Lon...
View full details1893 Rare Book - Poems. Second Series. By Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson.Title: Poems. Second Series.Publisher: Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1893. Fifth Edition (stated).Language: Text in English.Siz...
View full details1876 Rare Book - Christmas Books (A Christmas Carol, etc.) by Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Fred Barnard.Title: Christmas Books (Household Edition).Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadil...
View full details1976 Rare First Illustrated Edition - Watership Down Signed by John Lawrence
Author: Richard Adams. Illustrated by John Lawrence.Title: Watership Down.Publisher: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, Penguin Books Ltd / Kestrel...
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