First Edition. A signed copy of the first edition of this exhibition catalog for a show of Birk's works held at the Laguna Art Museum in 2000. Birk's paintings are a mashup of historical tropes and modern figures, here posed in scenes from an imagined civil war in California. This.....

An auction map for the sale of two city blocks in what is now Midtown Manhattan, just below Central Park. The area for sale ran from 7th Avenue to 8th Avenue and from 57th Street to 59th Street. The terms were 10% payable at the auction, 30% payable when the.....

An attractive handcolored map showing what was known in detail in Europe of the Far East in the late 18th century. While the interior of China is quite compressed, it is filled with geographical details and place names. Japan, Korea, Formosa (Taiwan) and other regions are shown in outline only.....

An engraved map of the Chinese empire by the French geographer A. H. Brué, with wide margins and period outline color. This map includes all of modern-day China, showing Tibet in the west, Mongolia at the north, Korea and Manchuria to the east, and the edges of India and Burma.....

One of 26 signed, lettered copies of the first volume in a vampire novel trilogy. Hogan is a novelist; del Toro is best known as the director of films such as Pan's Labyrinth and the Hellboy series. The books are the basis of the four-season TV series that aired on.....

First Edition. A posthumous look at Earle's final ten very productive years, with full-color reproductions of his screenprints, with text by Earle (1916–2000) on the facing pages. An appendix lists the prints and their details. "This book represents the serigraphs which were printed and published from 1991 to 2000... Silk.....

First Edition. Noted biologist E. O. Wilson's copy of the first edition of this influential textbook. Hutchinson (1903–1991) is considered one of the key scientific thinkers in the modern ecology movement. He taught at Yale for five decades beginning in 1928. This book is a summary of a lifetime of.....