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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 30 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields.

 

 

 

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Image for A SUPERB BLACK & WHITE PORTRAIT of the GREAT AMERICAN COMPOSER & CONDUCTOR LEONARD BERNSTEIN, with Violinist ISAAC STERN and Columbia Records Producer & Clarinetist DAVID OPPENHEIM at a recording session of Bernstein's composition "THE SERENADE, (after Plato's Symposium)".

A SUPERB BLACK & WHITE PORTRAIT of the GREAT AMERICAN COMPOSER & CONDUCTOR LEONARD BERNSTEIN, with Violinist ISAAC STERN and Columbia Records Producer & Clarinetist DAVID OPPENHEIM at a recording session of Bernstein's composition "THE SERENADE, (after Plato's Symposium)".

By: (Bernstein, Leonard; Stern, Isaac; and Oppenheim, David). Gara, Emmerich.

Price: $500.00

Image for A NEW, AUTHENTIC, AND COMPLETE COLLECTION OF VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD...Containing a New, Authentic, Entertaining, Instructive, Full, and Complete Historical Account of CAPTAIN COOK'S FIRST, SECOND, THIRD AND LAST VOYAGES, Undertaken by Order of his PRESENT MAJESTY, FOR MAKING NEW DISCOVERIES in GEOGRAPHY, NAVIGATION, ASTRONOMY, &c. in the SOUTHERN and NORTHERN HEMISPHERES, &c &c &c....To which will be added, Complete and Genuine Narratives of other Voyages of Discovery Round the World, &c. undertaken, performed, and written by English Circum-Navigators, &c...viz. those of Lord Byron, Capt. Wallis, Capt. Carteret, Lord Mulgrave, Lord Anson, &c...The whole of these voyages of Capt. James Cook &c. being newly written...from the AUTHENTIC JOURNALS of several PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and OTHER GENTLEMEN...publishing under the immediate Direction of GEORGE WILLIAM ANDERSON, Esq. Assisted by a PRINCIPAL OFFICER who sailed in the RESOLUTION SLOOP, And by other gentlemen of the ROYAL NAVY

A NEW, AUTHENTIC, AND COMPLETE COLLECTION OF VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD...Containing a New, Authentic, Entertaining, Instructive, Full, and Complete Historical Account of CAPTAIN COOK'S FIRST, SECOND, THIRD AND LAST VOYAGES, Undertaken by Order of his PRESENT MAJESTY, FOR MAKING NEW DISCOVERIES in GEOGRAPHY, NAVIGATION, ASTRONOMY, &c. in the SOUTHERN and NORTHERN HEMISPHERES, &c &c &c....To which will be added, Complete and Genuine Narratives of other Voyages of Discovery Round the World, &c. undertaken, performed, and written by English Circum-Navigators, &c...viz. those of Lord Byron, Capt. Wallis, Capt. Carteret, Lord Mulgrave, Lord Anson, &c...The whole of these voyages of Capt. James Cook &c. being newly written...from the AUTHENTIC JOURNALS of several PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and OTHER GENTLEMEN...publishing under the immediate Direction of GEORGE WILLIAM ANDERSON, Esq. Assisted by a PRINCIPAL OFFICER who sailed in the RESOLUTION SLOOP, And by other gentlemen of the ROYAL NAVY

By: (Cook, Captain James 1728-1779); Anderson, George William.

Price: $3,900.00

Image for LIFE IN LONDON OR, THE DAY AND NIGHT SCENES OF JERRY HAWTHORN ESQ. AND HIS ELEGANT FRIEND CORINTHIAN TOM, ACCOMPANIED BY BOB LOGIC, THE OXONIAN, IN THEIR RAMBLES AND SPREES THROUGH THE METROPOLIS.... Embellished with Thirty-six Scenes from Real Life, Designed and Etched by I.R. & G. Cruikshank; and enriched also with numerous designs on wood by the same artists.

LIFE IN LONDON OR, THE DAY AND NIGHT SCENES OF JERRY HAWTHORN ESQ. AND HIS ELEGANT FRIEND CORINTHIAN TOM, ACCOMPANIED BY BOB LOGIC, THE OXONIAN, IN THEIR RAMBLES AND SPREES THROUGH THE METROPOLIS.... Embellished with Thirty-six Scenes from Real Life, Designed and Etched by I.R. & G. Cruikshank; and enriched also with numerous designs on wood by the same artists.

By: (Cruikshank, George & Robert); Egan, Pierce.

Price: $795.00

Image for "4?XIV?54 DEAR FRIDOLF": AN ORIGINAL SIGNED CALLIGRAPHIC ART WORK BY BYRON MACDONALD, IN THE FORM OF A LETTER TO FRIDOLF JOHNSON, PENNED IN UNCIAL, IN A CONCENTRIC CIRCLE SPIRALING OUT FROM THE CENTER TO THE EDGES.

"4?XIV?54 DEAR FRIDOLF": AN ORIGINAL SIGNED CALLIGRAPHIC ART WORK BY BYRON MACDONALD, IN THE FORM OF A LETTER TO FRIDOLF JOHNSON, PENNED IN UNCIAL, IN A CONCENTRIC CIRCLE SPIRALING OUT FROM THE CENTER TO THE EDGES.

By: Macdonald, Byron "Jim".

Price: $2,500.00

Image for [4 RARE PAMPHLETS REGARDING 4 SENSATIONAL FRENCH TRIALS]. Plaidoyer et replique de Me Chaix-d'Est-Ange dans le proces d'Emile de La Ronciere, precedes d'une Note de M. le lieutenant-general Clement de la Ronciere, d'Esquisse preliminaire de M. Eugene Roch, et d'une lettre de M. Emile de La Ronciere, adressee a "l'Observateur des tribunaux". (With Facsimiles). TOGETHER WITH: Plaidoyer de Me Chaix-d'Est-Ange pour M. le ministre du Commerce et des Travaux publics intervenant, contre M. Victor Hugo. TOGETHER WITH: Plaidoyer de M. Chaix d'Est-Ange pour le sieur Auguste Labauve, et les sieur et dame Formage, plaignans et parties civiles, contre Frederic Benoit, accuse. TOGETHER WITH: Proces fait a la lettre adressee au duc d'Orleans par Cauchois-Lemaire.

[4 RARE PAMPHLETS REGARDING 4 SENSATIONAL FRENCH TRIALS]. Plaidoyer et replique de Me Chaix-d'Est-Ange dans le proces d'Emile de La Ronciere, precedes d'une Note de M. le lieutenant-general Clement de la Ronciere, d'Esquisse preliminaire de M. Eugene Roch, et d'une lettre de M. Emile de La Ronciere, adressee a "l'Observateur des tribunaux". (With Facsimiles). TOGETHER WITH: Plaidoyer de Me Chaix-d'Est-Ange pour M. le ministre du Commerce et des Travaux publics intervenant, contre M. Victor Hugo. TOGETHER WITH: Plaidoyer de M. Chaix d'Est-Ange pour le sieur Auguste Labauve, et les sieur et dame Formage, plaignans et parties civiles, contre Frederic Benoit, accuse. TOGETHER WITH: Proces fait a la lettre adressee au duc d'Orleans par Cauchois-Lemaire.

By: Ronciere, Emile de La; Benoit, Frederic; Hugo, Victor; Cauchois-Lemaire, Louis; and Chaix d'Est-Ange, (Gustave) [1800-1876].

Price: $3,750.00

Image for A SIGNIFICANT PHOTOGRAPH INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH. A most famous photograph of this important gathering of Russian artists, each of whom contributed to the play "The Bedbug", inscribed and signed by the great modern Russian composer

A SIGNIFICANT PHOTOGRAPH INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH. A most famous photograph of this important gathering of Russian artists, each of whom contributed to the play "The Bedbug", inscribed and signed by the great modern Russian composer

By: Shostakovich, Dmitri

Price: $7,500.00