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.
1900 Rare Book - At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald illustrated
Author: George MacDonald. Illustrated by Arthur Hughes. Cover-design and frontispiece by Laurence Housman.Title: At the Back of the North Wind.Publ...
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1869 Rare Book Set - Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Illustrated
Author: Samuel Pepys. Edited with life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke.Title: Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.Publisher: Londo...
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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, Searl...
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1882 Rare Book - Poems of Edgar Allan Poe With Memoir, Illustrated
Author: Edgar Allan Poe.Title: Poems of Edgar Allan Poe.Publisher: Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Co., 1882.Language: Text in English.Size:...
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1917 First Edition in Rare Dust Jacket - Hansel and Grethel by John B. Gruelle
Author: Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Illustrated by John B. Gruelle.Title: All About Hansel and Grethel.Publisher: New York, Cupples & Leon Compan...
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1706 Rare Italian Vellum Book - Il Pastor Fido by Giovanni Battista Guarini
Author: Giovanni Battista Guarini.Title: Il Pastor Fido.Publisher: Parigi (Paris), Appresso Tomaso Iolly, 1706.Language: Text in Italian.Size: 4 x ...
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1922 Rare Book in dust jacket - Heidi Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
Author: Johanna Spyri. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.Title: Heidi.Publisher: Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1922.Language: Text in Englis...
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1920 Scarce First Edition - The Password to Fairyland by Florence Mary Anderson
Author: Southwart, Elizabeth. Illustrated by Florence Mary Anderson.Title: The Password to Fairyland.Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall, ...
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1900 First Edition - The Story of Don Quixote llustrated by Walter Crane
Author: Miguel de Cervantes. Retold by Judge Parry. Illustrated by Walter Crane.Title: The Story of Don Quixote of the Mancha.Publisher: London, Bl...
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1888 Rare First Edition - Jack The Giant Killer illustrated by Richard Doyle
Author: Richard Doyle. Illustrated by Richard Doyle.Title: Jack the Giant Killer.Publisher: London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888. First Edition.Lang...
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1894 Rare First Edition - A Farm in Fairyland by Laurence Housman, Illustrated
Author: Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Laurence Housman.Title: A Farm in Fairyland.Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1894. First Am...
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1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
Author: Jules Verne. Edouard Riou, illustrator.Title: Five Weeks in a Balloon. A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central Africa. With Sixty-...
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1936 First Edition - Not So Deep as a Well. Collected Poems of Dorothy Parker
Author: Dorothy Parker. Decorated by Valenti Angelo.Title: Not So Deep as a Well. Collected Poems.Publisher: New York, The Viking Press, 1936. Publ...
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2009 Rare First Edition - Canadian Content illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk
Author: Charles van Sandwyk. With an introduction by Waisiki Doughty.Title: Canadian Content.Publisher: North Vancouver, Charles van Sandwyk Fine A...
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1923 First Edition - The Rose Fyleman Fairy Book Illustrated by Hilda T. Miller
Author: Rose Fyleman. Illustrated by Hilda T. Miller.Title: The Rose Fyleman Fairy Book. Selected from the poems of Rose Fyleman.Publisher: London,...
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1890 Scarce Book - Macdonald's Princess And Curdie illustrated by James Allen
Author: George MacDonald. Illustrated by James Allen.Title: The Princess and Curdie.Publisher: London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dublin: Blackie &...
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1698 Rare Latin Book - Sacred Latin Hymns and Music Scores by Santolio Victorino
Author: Santolius Victorinus (Santolio Victorino).Title: Hymni Sacri et Novi.Publisher: Parisiis, Apud Dionysium Thierry, via Jacobæa sub signo Urb...
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1850 Rare Bagster Bible - Polyglot Bible, Old and New Testament, Clasp and Maps
Author: The Church of England (text); Samuel Bagster (publisher/binder).Title: The English Version of the Polyglott Bible: Containing the Old and N...
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1947 Rare First Edition - Four Centuries of Witch-Beliefs by R. Trevor Davies
Author: R. Trevor Davies.Title: Four Centuries of Witch-Beliefs: With Special Reference to the Great Rebellion.Publisher: London, Methuen & Co....
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1962 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...
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1887 Rare Early Edition - Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Illustrated
Author: Jules Verne. Edouard Riou, illustrator.Title: Five Weeks in a Balloon. A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central Africa. With Sixty-...
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1936 Rare First Edition - The Gaucho Martin Fierro by José Hernández
Author: José Hernández. Adapted from the Spanish and rendered into English verse by Walter Owen. Illustrated by Alberto Guiraldes.Title: The Gaucho...
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2021 Rare Signed Book - Animal Wisdom 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. L...
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1890 Rare First Edition - The Children of the Castle illustrated by Walter Crane
Author: Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by Walter Crane.Title: The Children of the Castle.Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co., 1890. First Edition....
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1877 Rare Book - The Pilgrim's Progress illustrated by H.C. Selous & M.P. Priolo
Author: John Bunyan. Illustrated by Henry Courtney Selous & M. Paolo Priolo.Title: The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which Is to C...
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1927 Rare First Edition in original Box - Wooden Willie by Johnny Gruelle
Author: Johnny Gruelle.Title: Wooden Willie.Publisher: New York, Joliet, and Boston, The P. F. Volland Company, 1927. First edition.Language: Text ...
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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...
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1847 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...
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2009 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...
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1930 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...
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1926 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. ...
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1698 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...
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1910 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...
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1745 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...
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1859 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...
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1918 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...
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