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  • A Great Peace Maker… 1914.

    GALLATIN, Count (Editor). A Great Peace Maker [.] The Diary of James Gallatin Secretary to Albert Gallatin U.S. Envoy to France and England 1813-1827 and Negotiator of the Treaty of Ghent. 10 plates (including frontispiece). PROVENANCE: ‘CLIVE 18.X.34’. Clive refers to Mervyn Horatio Herbert, 17th Baron Darcy de Knayth, styled Viscount Clive (1904 – 1943) British peer and Royal Air Force Officer, who died tragically in 1943, leaving behind his wife Vida, who later married Brigadier Derek Schreiber- Chief of Staff to the Governor-General of Australia. 8vo. London: William Heinemann, 1914.

    £55.00
  • Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors. 1900.

    LIMITED EDITION OF 947 COPIES OF WHICH THIS COPY IS NUMBER 244. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ELBERT HUBBARD AND ALSO ILLUMINATOR IDA METCALF. HUBBARD, Elbert.(1856-1915). Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors. 6 monochrome frontispiece illustrations depicted the various authors: Thomas Macaulay, Lord Byron, Joseph Addison, Robert Southey, Samuel T. Coleridge, Benjamin Disraeli. Illuminated title page, illuminated floral borders to the first page of each chapter. Illuminated letters. Green suede soft cover (spine faded, covers fading). 8vo. New York: Roycrofters, 1900.

    £67.50£75.00