Selections from the Rare Book Room

Below are some of the exceptional items from the Shop's third floor, beginning with the most recent arrivals. To browse previously sold items, click here. To see a catalog of books in our glass case, click here.

Signed Note by Herman Melville

Framed document signed by Andrew Jackson

First Edition Moby-Dick

Three volumes of Audubon's Quadrupeds of North America

Whitman inscription

Early edition of Bambi, inscribed by author Felix Salten

First edition in dust jacket

Leaf from the first American Bible

18th-19th cent. Leatherbound Orations and Sermons by Massachusetts Preachers

The Trial of the British Soldiers

Purchas His Pilgrimes, the Third Part

Original Edward Gorey posters

A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator by the Staff of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University

The Secret of the Totem

The Game of Golf

The Book of Sports

Switch on the Night

James and the Giant Peach

The Violin-Makers of the Guarneri Family (1626-1762): Their Life and Work by William Henry Hill et. al.

With the Camel Corps up the Nile

Boston Illustrated

War Horses Present & Future

Clever Dogs, Horses, Etc

The Factory Girl

The High Court of Justice

Mirografias