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This is a first edition of Robert Burns’ 1787 book Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect finely bound by George Bayntun Bindery in England. The binding is full crushed dark blue levant leather with raised bands, gilt tooled panels enclosing thistle…

This 1633 edition of Poems, with Elegies on the Author's Death (also known as Poems by J.D.) is the first collected volume of John Donne’s poetry and the most authentic of all the early editions of his works. Donne (1572-1631) was an Oxford…

 This unusual book contains mementos from the Royal Bourbon Family. Within these pages, the reader will come across carefully preserved locks of hair from certain members of the Bourbon family. Often a nostalgic practice for parents to remember their…