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Curated Libraries for Home

Curating distinctive libraries for home.

 

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Your Library

Tailor-made library collections to reflect your interests and literary tastes. Custom services include appraisal, organization, cataloging and more.

Our Expertise  

Experience, industry knowledge, and a love of books provide for the highest quality books and service.  

 
 
 

"THE ESSENCE OF THE BEAUTIFUL IS UNITY IN VARIETY."

- Felix Mendelssohn

 

 

 

 
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Living With Books
Literature, History, Gastronomy
Literature, History, Gastronomy

Join us Saturday, February 16th at Amangani Resort to enjoy an assortment of rare books about gastronomy, natural history, and the history of the West.

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Private Showings
Private Showings

Arrange for a viewing of our current offerings. Schedule a special event to allow your guests a unique experience with world class antiquarian books.

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Holiday Trunk Show
Holiday Trunk Show

December 12th at Twenty Two Home, plus an announcement of our Winter Pop Up Series.

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A Culinary Collection
A Culinary Collection

A project organizing, cataloging, and designing space for a collection of over 1,000 cookbooks

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J.M. Carey's Law Books
J.M. Carey's Law Books

Early laws of Wyoming, as part of the Dakota Territory. Personal copies of Senator & Governor J.M. Carey. A picture of justice, lifestyle & land on the 1860s plains.



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Hayden & Moran
Hayden & Moran

Early exploration, study and illustrations of Wyoming + Idaho

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Play it again, Sam
Play it again, Sam

Sheet music for the song from Casablanca, signed by the actress

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Louis Agassiz: Freshwater Fish of Central Europe
Louis Agassiz: Freshwater Fish of Central Europe

A beautifully illustrated volume of ichthyology by the most influential naturalist of nineteenth-century America.

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Austin + Adams: A Rare Book of the West
Austin + Adams: A Rare Book of the West

Each image printed on rag paper by Ansel Adams himself.

An essay on culture and landscape by a great writer of the Southwest.

One of only 108 copies of a fine letterpress binding.

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The Artist, the Writer and the Yurt
The Artist, the Writer and the Yurt

We talk books and home with author Alexandra Fuller and artist Wendell Field in Kelly, Wyoming. 

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These French architectural models of the 18th and 19th centuries (currently on display at @cooperhewitt ) are gorgeous specimens of technique and artistry. "Apprentices (compagnons) honed skills in masters' workshops by day, with evening courses in the art of geometrical design drawing. A compagnon made an acceptance model after basic training. Acceptance led to the "tour de France;' during which the compagnon traveled to different masters in various cities, over several years, to learn essential disciplines. After a successful tour, the compagnon produced a reception piece to demonstrate competence. He became a completed companion when he produced a masterwork, which required a very high level of design, craftsmanship, and technical virtuosity in a harmonious whole."
"The history of the book is the history of the French book" is what I imagine Terry Belanger saying over my shoulder every time I work with this collection of French and German books. One of our esteemed faculty at the Colorado Antiquarian Book School last year, Belanger also insisted I learn French when I described my work to him. He was right of course! These books are teaching me a lot as I catalog them. Wish I could head to #CABS2019 next month and soak up rare book wisdom and information for another week.
When we started exploring 1920s and 1930s bookends for a library install that needed hints of Art Deco influence, we were overwhelmed by all of the figurative pieces out there. Many of them were too detailed, too busy for an already colorful and visually stimulating wall of art books. The client agreed: one figurative set, if we could find just the right piece. These ceramic parrots hit the spot!
I suppose she was talking to the writer -- but perhaps also wise words for the reader? From the queen of place-based fiction - Cather wrote characters that are inseparable from their surrounds (geographic and cultural).
Do you suppose we should catalog the pipe collection along with the books? A true gentleman's library!
The first comprehensive guide to salmon fishing, 1850. “I have been for a long time exceedingly desirous of rendering fly-fishing for salmon more accessible to the public than it has hitherto been..." Edward Fitzgibbon's The Book of Salmon. Hand-colored illustrations of flies are based on examples by reputable Scottish and Irish fishermen. A delightful binding in happy red morocco and marbled boards. Part I contains: "The theory, principles, and practice of fly-fishing for salmon; with lists of salmon-flies for every good river in the empire." Part II contains: "The natural history of the salmon, all its known habits described, and the best way of artificially breeding it explained."
Consider your dream collection in your dream home: Which books go in the bedroom, as opposed to the main library space? For this project, we pulled some of the more fun and unusual books from the curated subjects found in the rest of the house: the music industry, illustration, architecture, interiors and more. They suited the more personal, cozy bedroom space and its design aesthetic.
"And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass." - Henry David Thoreau's Walden, illustrated by Aldren Watson, 1944. It was a delight to discover the illustrations after already picking it up for rather satisfying marbling on boards and endpapers.
We know they're around but don't often see them in the middle of the day - This young (brown) black bear wandered onto our 2nd story deck, then spent some time trying to figure out if he could climb down into the woods instead of coming back the way he came.