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"AN ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THE FIRST CLASS": LA ROCHEFOUCAULT-LIANCOURT'S TRAVELS THROUGH THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA AND CANADA, SCARCE 1799 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, WITH THREE MAPS OF AMERICA—A BEAUTIFUL COPY
LA ROCHEFOUCAULT-LIANCOURT, [Francois Alexandre].
Travels Through the United States of North America, the Country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797; With an Authentic Account of Lower Canada.
London: For R. Phillips by T. Davison, 1799.
First edition in English of "an original source of the first class for American history at the close of the 18th century" (Larned). Quarto, bound in full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, with three engraved folding maps of North America and six folding tables. In near fine condition. An exceptional example of this landmark work. First editions are rare.
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 112450
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First edition of Lucy Madox Rossetti's Mrs. Shelley; extra illustrated and bound by Bayntun; with an autograph letter signed by Mary Shelley laid in
ROSSETTI, Lucy Madox. [Mary Shelley].
Mrs. Shelley.
London: W. H. Allen & Co, 1890.
First edition of Lucy Madox Rossetti's biography of Mary Shelley; extra-illustrated and with an autograph letter signed by Mary Shelley laid in. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Bayntun with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, quadruple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, extra-illustrated with 77 engraved plates of portraits and views, 11 of which are hand-colored including a frontispiece portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley. With a fragment of an autograph letter signed and entirely in the hand…
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 133425
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"The largest single engraving enterprise ever undertaken in England": Rare Finely Bound Complete Set of Boydell's Monumental illustrated edition of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare
SHAKESPEARE, William. Revised by George Steevens.
The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare.
London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for John and Josiah Boydell, George and W. Nicol., 1802.
Rare finely bound complete set of "by far the largest single engraving enterprise ever undertaken in England", John Boydell's magnificent illustrated folio edition of the dramatic works of Shakespeare. Folio, 9 volumes. Bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles to the spine, all edges marbled. Elaborately illustrated with 96 plates engraved by the most eminent British engravers and painters of the era including Richard Westall, Thomas Stothard, George Romney, Henry Fuseli, Benjamin West, Angelica Kauffman, Robert Smirke, James Durno, John Opie, Francesco Bartolozzi, Thomas Kirk, and Henry Thomson. Edited by George Steevens, one of the greatest Shakespearean scholars of…
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 109329
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"As you may have seen by the newspapers, I am about to raise a Coloured Regiment in Massachusetts. This I cannot but regard as perhaps the most important corps to be organized during the whole war": First edition of Robert Gould Shaw's Memorial
[SHAW, Robert Gould; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Harriet Beecher Stowe; James Russell Lowell; et al].
Memorial.
Cambridge: University Press, 1864.
First edition of this scarce volume dedicated to the commander of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Robert Gould Shaw, with contributions by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison, Edwin M. Stanton, and James Russell Lowell and with extracts from Colonel Shaw's letters. Octavo, original publisher's half leather over red boards with gilt titles to the spine, tipped in tissue-guarded oval carte-de-visite frontispiece of Shaw. In very good condition. Scarce, with only a handful of copies having appeared at auction in the last century.
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 126433
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FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF MARK TWAIN'S ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN; FROM THE LIBRARY OF WILLIAM SAFIRE
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel Clemens].
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade).
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
First edition, first issue of Mark Twain’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full dark green morocco with morocco spine label lettered in gilt, raised bands to the spine, mar top edge gilt, with 174 illustrations by Edward W. Kemble. With all of the agreed upon first issue points for the clothbound book: page 9 with “Decided” remaining uncorrected (to “Decides”); page 13, illustration captioned “Him and another Man” listed as on page 88; page 57, 11th line from bottom reads “with the was,” instead of “with the saw”. Other points of bibliographical interest included in this copy are the frontispiece portrait…
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 127896
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THE AUTOGRAPH CENTENARY EDITION OF THE WORKS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON; complete with a double-sided manuscript page entirely in Emerson's hand
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo .
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1903.
The Autograph Centenary edition of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of 600 numbered copies containing a double sided manuscript in Emerson’s hand bound into volume one. Octavo, 12 volumes, publisher's original three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, illustrated with numerous mounted photogravures. One of 600 numbered copies signed by the publisher, this is number 46. The original manuscript reads, "But whilst race works thus immortally to keep its own, it is resisted by other forces. The Arabs of today are the…
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 138934
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Rare Illuminated Astrological Sign Symbol Painting Collection; elaborately bound in full decorated calf and containing twelve original paintings
Illuminated Astrological Sign Symbol Painting Collection.
Rare collection of illuminated paintings depicting the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Quarto, bound in full calf with gilt tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels with fleuron cornerpieces surrounding a gilt-bordered morocco onlay displaying a coat of arms, patterned endpapers, twelve vellum leaves. The illuminated paintings include: the Aires the Ram, Taurus the Bull, the Gemini Twins, Cancer the Crab, Leo the Lion, the Maiden Virgo in Medieval dress, the Scales of Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius the Centaur, Capricorn the Goat, Aquarius the Water-bearer, and Fishes Pisces. Painted in a style reminiscent of Medieval…
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 199552
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“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world”: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson; Finely Bound in Full Morocco
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson [Including Treasure Island; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Kidnapped].
Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable for Longmans, Green and Company, 1894.
Edinburgh edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, often considered the finest edition of Stevenson due to the paper quality used. Octavo, complete set, 34 volumes, bound in full contemporary morocco, gilt titles to the spine, top edges gilt, gilt turn-ins. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 25015
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"Perhaps the greatest French illustrated book of the first half of the eighteenth century": Rare first edition, first issue of Oeuvres de Moliere
MOLIèRE. [POQUELIN, Jean-Baptiste].
Oeuvres de Moliere. Nouvelle Edition.
Paris: [Pierre Prault], 1734.
First edition, first issue of one of the greatest French illustrated books of the first half of the eighteenth century. First issue with "Comteese" in vol. VI, p. 360, line 12. Quarto, six volumes bound in full calf with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Illustrated with 33 engraved plates by Laurent Cars after François Boucher, engraved frontispiece portrait of Molière by Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié after Charles-Antoine Coypel, 210 engraved head and tailpieces, and 104 engraved initials by Joullain and Cars after Boucher, Blondel and Oppenord. In near…
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 130224
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"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor": The Amontillado edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe
POE, Edgar Allan.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. [Including: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Gold Bug, Raven, Eureka].
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1884].
The Amontillado edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Octavo, 8 volumes bound in full morocco by P.B. Sanford with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in 6 compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece to each volume by R. Swain Gifford, Frederick Church and others, etched engraved vignettes to the title pages. One of 315 numbered copies signed and dated by the publisher on the limitation leaf of each volume, this is number 290. In fine condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $9,200.00 Item Number: 118042
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The Historian's Masterpiece; The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Finely Bound Set
GIBBON, Edward.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1782-1788.
Rare early editions of the historian's masterpiece. Quarto, 6 volumes, bound in full paper boards, 3 folding engraved maps. The frontispiece portrait of Gibbon is after Sir Joshua Reynolds, the three engraved folding maps are of the Western and Eastern Roman Empire, and a folding map of Constantinople (this map is in its original folded issue, instead of the more common method of having the plate trimmed to the margin and inserted; it is more rare in this folded state). In near fine condition.
Price: $9,200.00 Item Number: 140394
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“All he wanted was toleration, and by the enlightened use of the dispensing power to be the true father of all his people": First Editions of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples; Signed by Winston S. Churchill
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company, 1956-1958.
First British editions of each volumes of this classic set. Octavo, 4 volumes, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Winston Churchill in volume one. Each volume is fine to fine in near fine dust jackets. An exceptional set, rare and desirable signed.
Price: $9,200.00 Item Number: 147142
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First edition of Walt Whitman's Two Rivulets: Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India; one of only 100 copies signed and dated by Walt Whitman and with an autograph note signed by him tipped in
WHITMAN, Walt.
Two Rivulets: Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India.
Camden, New Jersey: Author's Edition, 1876.
Scarce first edition, first issue with the blank leaf between 'As a Strong Bird' and 'Memoranda' and single leaf of advertisements for Whitman’s books inserted between the back flyleaves. One of only 100 copies. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentetlles, gilt top stain, marbled endpapers. With the frontispiece sepia photograph of Whitman signed and dated by him, "Walt Whitman 1881." From the library of Richard Hoe Lawrence with an autograph note by Whitman…
Price: $9,200.00 Item Number: 114654
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“Please, sir, I want some more”: First Edition of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist
DICKENS, Charles.
Oliver Twist.
London: Richard Bentley, 1838.
First edition, second printing with "By Boz" to each title page and the "Church" plate. Octavo, three volumes, bound in full brown calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, triple ruled gilt to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, top edge gilt. Original cloth bound in at rear of each volume. In near fine condition with light rubbing.
Price: $9,200.00 Item Number: 15010
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"TIS I ALONE THAT CAN TEACH YOU TO MAKE WARRE, I KNOW WHAT THE GREATEST CONQUERORS KNEW AND ARE": Rare second edition in English of Machiavelli's Florentine History
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò.
The Florentine History in VIII Books.
London: Printed for Charles Harper, and John Amery, 1674.
Rare second edition in English of Machiavelli's Florentine History, the first edition to appear after Thomas Bedingfield's version in 1595. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, morocco spine label, raised bands. In near fine condition with occasional spotting. Scarce in commerce.
Price: $9,200.00 Item Number: 148998
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Rare First Edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's second novel Valperga
SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft.
Valperga: or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca. By the Author of ‘Frankenstein’.
London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823.
Rare first edition of Shelley's second novel, which has been called "a meditation on political, psychological, and sexual power" and is considered by many to be her finest work. 12mo., bound in 19th century three quarter calf over marbled boards by Bumpus, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, morocco spine labels, raised bands. In very good condition, contemporary name. A very sharp example.
Price: $9,200.00 Item Number: 117880
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First Edition of The Army Reunion; Inscribed To William Tecumseh Sherman
[WILLIAM T. SHERMAN],.
The Army Reunion: With Reports of the Meetings of the Societies of The Army of the Cumberland; The Army of the Tennessee; The Army of the Ohio; and The Army of Georgia.
Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1869.
First edition of this record of post-war social meetings by members of the army; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Small quarto, bound in full deluxe red morocco stamped in blind with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt centerpiece, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of General Sherman, illustrated with tissue-guarded portraits and drawings of society badges. General Sherman and his son's bookplates to the front pastedown. Inscribed on the front flyleaf to General Sherman, "Respectfully Presented to W.T. Sherman General of the United States…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 145742
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"Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow": The Shakespeare Head Press limited edition of The Works of William Shakespeare
SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Works of William Shakespeare.
Stratford-on-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1904.
The Shakespeare Head Press limited edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. Octavo, ten volumes bound in full crushed levant morocco by Brentanos, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait to each volume. One of one thousand numbered copies, this is number 98. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 139577
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"SUFFERING HAS BEEN STRONGER THAN ALL OTHER TEACHING, AND HAS TAUGHT ME TO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR HEART USED TO BE. I HAVE BEEN BENT AND BROKEN, BUT - I HOPE - INTO A BETTER SHAPE": Charles Dickens' Great Expectations; attractively bound
DICKENS, Charles.
Great Expectations.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1861.
First edition, second impression of Dickens’ popular Victorian bildungsroman. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine in three compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Second impression lacking the advertisements, quite likely as issued. Edition statements neatly removed from titles. In very good condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 132084
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"The veritable Bible of Christmas": COMPLETE SET OF DICKENS' CHRISTMAS BOOKS, INCLUDING FIRST EDITIONS OF THE CHIMES, THE BATTLE OF LIFE, AND THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN
DICKENS, Charles.
The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.
London: Chapman and Hall/Bradbury & Evans, 1843-48.
Complete set of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books. Octavo, 5 volumes, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panels, all edges gilt. A Christmas Carol, in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas is a second edition in brown cloth with red and blue title-page dated 1843, 'Stave One' and corrected text, Smith's second state, plates hand-colored (2 repaired), spine repaired, new endpapers, 1843; first edition of The Chimes; A Goblin Story with advertisement leaf for the tenth edition of A Christmas Carol, first state of vignette title-page, recased, 1845, Chapman & Hall; fourteenth edition of…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 141205
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The Beauties of Mozart, Consisting of the most Admired Sonatas Duetts and Concertos of this Esteemed Author
MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus.
The Beauties of Mozart, Consisting of the Most Admired Sonatas Duetts and Concertos of this Esteemed Author.
London: Printed & Sold by Preston, c. 1810.
Rare edition of this compilation of Mozart's sonatas. Quarto, bound in full diced morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, 6 parts in 1, each part engraved throughout, titles incorporating small oval portrait vignette. In near fine condition.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 143842
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“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present": First Edition In Parts of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
DICKENS, Charles.
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: Bradbury and Evans, May 1849-November 1850.
First edition in parts of "the most perfect of all the Dickens novels" (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, original blue-green illustrated serial issue wrappers being twenty parts in nineteen with the majority of preliminary advertisements present, frontispiece, vignette title-page and forty engraved plates. In excellent condition, an unrestored example of Dickens' classic work, with some of the backstrips with small chips. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very nice example.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 96702
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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more": THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN; Finely Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, one of only 250 examples
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Works of Jane Austen [Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma].
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892.
One of only 250 examples of the work of Jane Austen. Octavo, 12 volumes, bound in full calf and marbled boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, all edges gilt, inner dentelles, frontispieces. In near fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 125892
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Signed Limited Editions Of President Eisenhower’s Mandate For Change and The White House Years: Waging Peace 1956-1961; both volumes inscribed by Eisenhower to his Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates, Jr.
EISENHOWER, Dwight D.
The White House Years: Mandate for Change 1953-1956 and The White House Years: Waging Peace 1956-1961.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1963-65.
Signed limited first editions of Eisenhower's memoirs, each one of 1500 copies. Thick Octavo, two volumes, original tan cloth with green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, cartographic endpapers. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the author. Association copy, Waging Peace is an Advance presentation copy, inscribed by Eisenhower to Secretary of Defense, Thomas S. Gates, Jr., "Devotedly Dwight D. Eisenhower" on an Eisenhower Farm, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania bookplate. The recipient, Thomas S. Gates is mentioned numerous times in both of these volumes. "To replace Neil McElroy as Secretary of Defense I prevailed on Secretary of the Navy Tom Gates to delay…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 133263
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The Bombay Edition of Rudyard Kipling; Bound in Full Morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe; With Volume One Signed by Him
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: The Deluxe Signed Edition. [Including Plain Tales from the Hills; The Phantom Rickshaw; The Light That Failed; Gunga Din; The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book; Captains Courageous; Kim; Just So Stories].
London: Macmillan & Company, 1897-1919.
The Bombay edition of Rudyard Kipling's collected works. Octavo, 30 volumes, bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt titles to the spine, gilt tooling and ruling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. One of 1,050 sets with volume one signed by Rudyard Kipling. In very good condition.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 114945
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"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often": Winston Churchill’s Collected Works; 38 Volumes In Full Vellum In the Original Slipcases
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The First Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill: Centenary Limited Edition.
London: Library of Imperial History In association With Charles Scribner's Sons and The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, 1973-76.
Centenary limited edition of Churchill’s complete Works, one of only 3000 sets produced, with the additional four volumes usually not present. Octavo, original full vellum, 38 volumes, stamped with the Churchill arms, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, original dark green slipcases, also gilt-stamped with the Churchill coat of arms. In near fine to fine condition in the original slipcases. An exceptional set.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 140050
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter; Elaborately Bound in full morocco by Bennet
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel.
The Scarlet Letter.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1920.
First edition thus of Hawthorne’s masterpiece. Quarto, bound in full morocco by Bennett, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, with scarlet leather onlay of the letter A on the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated with 31 mounted color plates by Hugh Thomson. In fine condition. Housed in a linen slip case and chemise box. An exceptional example from The Bennett Book Studios, a fine book bindery in New York City established in the late 1920s by bookman and binder Whitman Bennett. From the library of bibliophile and Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 133264
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"One of the most splendid editions of Homer ever delivered to the World": First edition of the Foulis Homer
HOMER,.
Homeri Opera. [The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer].
Glasgow: Robert & Andrew Foulis, 1756-1758.
First edition of the Foulis Homer; the typographic masterpiece of the Foulis Press, and one of the finest editions of Homer. Folio, 4 volumes bound in full tree calf, rebacked with gilt titles and Greek key ruling to the spine, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, Greek key ruling to the front and rear panels, text in Greek. Vols. I and II lacking the half-titles as usual. Provenance: John Hope (1868-1936) with his stamp to the title pages. Ownership signatures of Henry Schwab. In very good condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. An excellent example of this typographic gem.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 143357
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Complete first edition collection of every book published by the Chairman of the Vanguard Group John Bogle; all but one volume signed or inscribed by Bogle and the legendary Burton Malkiel
BOGLE, John C. [Burton Malkiel].
Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor; Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor; John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years; Character Counts: The Creation and Building of The Vanguard Group; The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism; The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns; Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life; Common Sense on Mutual Funds: Fully Updated 10th Anniversary Edition; Don’t Count on it!: Reflections on Investment Illusions, Capitalism, “Mutual” Funds, Indexing, Entrepreneurship, Idealism, and Heroes; The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation; Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution.
New York: McGraw Hill and Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1994-2019.
Complete first edition collection of every book published by the Chairman of the Vanguard Group, all but one volume signed or inscribed by him and signed by legendary investor and author of A Random Walk On Wall Street Burton Malkiel. Octavo, 14 volumes, original publisher's cloth and half cloth. The collection contains: Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor. New York: Irwin, 1994. First edition, early printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Rob Skalski - with best wishes for a fine career at Vanguard. John Bogle November 19, 1997"; Common Sense on…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 143557
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Gustave Dore's magnificently illustrated edition of Dante's Inferno; elaborately bound in full morocco by Antoine Chatelin
ALIGHIERI, Dante.
L’Enfer de Dante Alighieri. Avec Les Dessins de Gustave Dore. [Dante’s Inferno].
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1861.
First Hachette edition with French text of Dore's magnificently illustrated edition of Dante's Inferno. Folio, bound in full morocco by Antoine Chatelin with elaborate Grolieresque gilt-decorated morocco onlays to the spine and panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, full gilt-decorated morocco doublures, watered silk endleaves stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 75 full-page engravings by Gustave Dore including his striking frontispiece portrait of Dante. French translation by Pier-Angelo Fiorentino, accompanied by the text in Italian. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional presentation linking two great artists of the 19th century.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 137107
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times": First Edition, First Issue of Charles Dickens' A Tale Of Two Cities
DICKENS, Charles.
A Tale of Two Cities.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1859.
First edition, first issue of one of Dickens' most enduring works, with p. 213 misnumbered "113," the signature mark "b" at the foot of the plate list, and the misspelling "affetcionately" on line 12, p. 134. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, panels decoratively triple-ruled in gilt with gilt floral cornerpieces, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Sixteen plates after H.K. Browne including frontispiece and title vignette. In near fine condition.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 104577
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"Thine is the victory without the battle- the crown without the conflict": Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom's Cabin; Lengthily signed by her
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly and A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1892.
Finely bound example of the author's classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, volume with title vignettes and six wood-engravings. Lengthily signed by the author as follows, "There is no death to such as thou dear Eva, neither darkness nor shadow of death. Thine is the victory without the battle- the crown without the conflict Uncle Tom's Cabin Chap 24 Harriet Beecher Stowe April 17 1893." In near fine condition. A unique example.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 117857
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First Edition in English of The Works of Machiavelli
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo.
The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English.
London: Printed for J.S., to be sold by Robert Boulter at the Turks-head in Cornhil, against the Royal Exchange, 1675.
Rare first edition in English of the works of Machiavelli, an important work of political science which includes The Prince. Folio, bound in full calf, crimson morocco spine label, raised bands, decorated blind-tooled panel design to the front and rear panels. Includes: The History of Florence; The Prince; The Discourses of Nicholas Machiavel, Upon the First Decade of Titus Livius; and The Art of War (this last work is incomplete in this copy). Each with a separate dated title page but pagination and register are continuous. Also includes "Nicholas Machiavel’s letter to Zanobius Buondelmontius", which is not in fact by…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 146152
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Scarce First edition of Commandino's commentary of Ptolemy's Planisphaerium; one of the few extant examples from the Aldine Press in Roman type
PTOLOMAEUS, Claudius. Edited and with Commentary by Federico Commandino.
Ptolemaei Planisphaerium. Iordani Planisphaerium. Federici Commandini Urbrinatis in Ptolemaei Planisphaerium Commentarius.
Venice: Paulus Manutius (Aldine Press), 1558.
First separate edition and first edition of Commandino's commentary of Ptolemy's Planisphaerium, the original Greek text of which is no longer extant. Octavo, two volumes bound into one in eighteenth century vellum, all edges speckled red, Aldine device on both titles and both final pages, woodcut initials, numerous woodcut diagrams. The Ptolemaei is printed in Roman type and the Planisphaerium in Italics; examples from the Aldine Press in Roman type are scarce as the press's founder, Aldus Manutius, invented the Italic type which he used almost exclusively. The Aldine press was also the first to issue printed books in the small…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 95289
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Rare presentation copy of Robert Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy; presented by Herman Melville to his sister
BLOOMFIELD, Robert. [Herman Melville].
The Farmer’s Boy.
London: Sampson, Low, Son & Co, 1858.
Later printing of the poem that made Robert Bloomfield's reputation. Octavo, original publisher's cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, illustrated with thirty engravings from drawings by Birket Foster, Harrison, Weir, and G.E. Hicks. Presentation copy, inscribed on the verso of the front free endpaper, "Fanny Melville from Herman Xmas 1876.” Presentation inscription likely in the hand of Melville's wife. Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819, to Allan Melvill (1782–1832)[3] and Maria (Gansevoort) Melvill (1791–1872). Herman was the third of eight children in a family of Scottish and Dutch descent. His siblings, who…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 144051
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"But since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved": First collected edition in English of the works of Niccolo Machiavelli including The History of Florence and The Prince
MACHIAVEL, Nicolas. [Niccolo Machiavelli].
The Works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence: The History of Florence; The Prince; The Discourses of Nicholas Machiavel; The Art of War In Seven Books.
London: John Starkey at the Miter in Fleetstreet, near Temple-Bar, 1675.
First edition in English of the most important writings of Niccolo Machiavelli, widely considered the foundation of the modern study of politics. Includes The History of Florence, The Prince, Discourses on Livy, and The Art of War. Folio bound in three quarter modern calf over marbled boards with gilt-lettered morocco spine label, modern endpapers but retaining early binder's flyleaves, engraved ornamental initials, headpieces. Without the general title, frontispiece or ads sometimes encountered. Included is “Nicholas Machiavel’s Letter to Zanobius Buondelmontius in Vindication of Himself and His Writings,” which was in fact authored by Henry Neville, the translator of this edition.…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 148533
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"Turn up the lights—I don’t want to go home in the dark": Rare Manuscript Edition of the Works of O. Henry
O. HENRY [WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER],.
The Complete Works of O. Henry: The Manuscript Edition.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1912.
The manuscript edition of the Works of O. Henry, limited to 125 examples. Octavo, 12 volumes, bound in original half vellum. In fine condition. The manuscript is bound into volume one. An exceptional set.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 121390
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Rare early printing on Cervantes' masterpiece Don Quixote; with numerous illustrations after the drawings of renowned royal painter Antoine Coypel
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de.
Vida Y Hechos Del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote De La Mancha: Con Muy Bellas Estampas Gravadas Sobre Los Dibujos de Coypel, Primer Pinto de el Rey de Francia.
En Haia [The Hague]: Por P. Gosse y A. Moetjens, 1744.
Rare early printing and one of the most highly coveted editions of Cervantes' masterpiece. Octavo, 4 volumes, bound in full calf, gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, burgundy spine labels, triple gilt ruled, marbled endpapers, all edges red, ribbons bound in, with numerous engravings after the drawings of Antoine Coypel, renowned for the paintings he produced for King Louis XIV of France including those decorating the ceiling of the Royal chapel at Versailles. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 92807
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"This as far as I know is what happens to them": First Edition of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel The Grapes of Wrath; Signed by John Steinbeck and Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
STEINBECK, John.
The Grapes of Wrath.
New York: The Viking Press, 1939.
First edition, with "First Published in April 1939" on copyright page and first edition notice on the front flap of the dust jacket. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by John Steinbeck on a page bound-in. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 149708
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few": First edition of Winston Churchill's Famous Speech; from the library of Jacqueline Kennedy
CHURCHILL, Winston S. [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis].
A Speech by The Prime Minister The Right Honourable Winston Churchill in the House of Commons August 20th, 1940.
London: His Majesty's Stationary Office, The Baynard Press, 1940.
First edition of one of Winston Churchill's most famous speeches. Octavo, original wrappers. From the library of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis with the bookplate from the Sotheby's 23 - 26 April 1996 sale of the estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to the verso of the front wrapper. When John F. Kennedy was sworn in as president on January 20, 1961, 31-year-old Jacqueline Kennedy became the third youngest First Lady in American history. As a presidential couple, the Kennedys differed from the Eisenhowers by their relative youth and their relationship with the media. Historian Gil Troy has noted that in particular, they…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 135114
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First Edition of The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports
DOUGHTY, James and Thomas.
The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports.
Philadelphia: J. and T. Doughty, 1830-33.
First edition of "The first color-plate sporting book printed in America"(Grolier/Henderson). Quarto, 3 volumes. bound in contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, top edge gilt. Three engraved titles, 2 engraved portraits, and 57 lithographic plates after Thomas Doughty and others (comprising 53 hand-colored lithographs, one colored etching, two uncolored engravings and one uncolored wood-engraving), 17 in-text wood engravings, index leaves printed on blue paper trimmed, mounted, and bound into vol.III. According to Bennett, Volume III is perhaps the most difficult of all American sport items to find...Artistically Vol. 1 is much the most important, for it contains the original plates…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 84654
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"Can I live without you?" The Académie française edition of the complete works of Gustave Flaubert; one of only 50 sets elaborately bound and illustrated
FLAUBERT, Gustave.
The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert.
New York and London: M. Walker Dunne, 1904.
The limited Académie Française edition of the complete works of Flaubert. One of only 50 sets produced on Japon paper, this is number 40. Octavos, 10 volumes, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and elaborate floral gilt tooling to the spine and front panel, raised gilt bands, fleuron cornerpieces within gilt frames and central gilt floral spray with red and white morocco inlays to the front and rear panel, gilt turn-ins, purple morocco doublures, purple silk endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges uncut, frontispiece to each volume and numerous plates my Clare Victor Dwiggins in both black and white and…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 95353
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"the most widely read journal in the United States throughout the period of the Civil War": Rare continuous run of 260 issues of Harper's Weekly covering the entirety of the American Civil War; profusely illustrated with engravings depicting all of the war's major events and battles
Harper’s Weekly, A Journal of Civilization. [Harper’s Weekly’s Complete Coverage of the American Civil War: January 1, 1861-December 30, 1865].
New York: Harper & Brothers, January 1, 1861-December 30, 1865.
Rare continuous run of 260 issues of Harper's Weekly, covering the entirety of the American Civil War. Folio, five volumes, bound in full buckram with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, illustrated with hundreds of wood-engraved illustrations, many from noted American illustrators including portraits of Union and Confederate Army Generals and Officers, battlefield scenes, maps, city views, and dozens of satirical caricatures and cartoons, many from noted American illustrators. Of note are dozens of illustrations by American painter Winslow Homer early in his career, including the "Great Sumter Meeting in Union Square," "The Sharpshooter," and "The Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln." Also…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 142619
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Rare First Edition of Malthus' Principles of Political Economy
MALTHUS, Thomas R. [T.R.}.
Principles of Political Economy Considered With a View to Their Practical Application.
London: John Murray, 1820.
Rare first edition of Malthus' classic work. Octavo, bound in full diced morocco, raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 143844
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Rare First British Edition of Thomas Paine's Dissertations on Government, the Affairs of the Bank, and Paper-Money
PAINE, Thomas.
Dissertations on Government, the Affairs of the Bank, and Paper Money.
London: Printed by W.T. Sherwin , 1817.
First British edition of Paine's defense of the Bank of North America. Small octavo, bound in modern wrappers. In near fine condition with light toning to the extremities.
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 112396
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Rare Complete Set of Theodore Martin's The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort; each volume inscribed by Queen Victoria to Sir Francis Seymour
MARTIN, Theodore. [Queen Victoria].
The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort. With Portraits and Views.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1875-1880.
Complete set of Martin's extensive biography of Prince Albert, contracted and edited by Queen Victoria, each volume inscribed by her. Octavo, five volumes, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, stamped ruling to the panels, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece to each volume, illustrated with 8 additional tissue-guarded plates of portraits and views; one a folding facsimile of a draft memorandum by Prince Albert to Lord Lyons in 1861. Association copies, each volume is inscribed by Queen Victoria on the front free endpaper to Sir Francis Seymour. Volume I is inscribed, "To Sir Francis Seymour Bart. In recollection of his dear…
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 117508
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"WHEREVER YOU GO, WHEREVER YOU HIDE A THOUSAND SHIPS WILL SEARCH YOU OUT": Rare first edition set of the works of Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall; with Botany Bay signed by both authors
HALL, Norman James and Charles Bernard Nordhoff.
The Collected Works of Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.
Boston and New York: Various Publishers, 1918-1942.
Rare first edition set of the works of Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, including a first edition of Botany Bay signed by the authors. Octavo, 13 volumes, original cloth. Botany Bay is signed by the authors opposite the copyright page. Doctor Dogbody's Leg is inscribed by James Norman Hall on a tipped-in note, "For Harry Heinsforster with best wishes from James Norman Hall." Each volume is near fine to fine in a near fine to fine dust jacket with the exception of High Adventure, Faery Lands of the South Seas, The Pearl Lagoon, and Falcons of France which are…
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 118065
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THE LIMITED AUTOGRAPH CENTENARY EDITION OF THE WORKS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON: FINELY BOUND WITH AN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT in EMERSON's hand
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Autograph Centenary Edition.
Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1903.
The Autograph Centenary edition of Emerson's complete works with an autograph manuscript in his hand and with his notations tipped in. One of six hundred copies additionally signed by the publisher, this is number 576. Octavo, 12 volumes bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with photogravures including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Emerson. Tipped into volume I, the manuscript in Emerson's hand reads in part, "He repeats after Plato the affirmations of real essence. There is not any life in those…
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 137099
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"One of the classics in pharmacology": First edition of William Withering's An Account of the Foxglove and Some of its Medical Uses
WITHERING, William.
An Account of the Foxglove, and Some of its Medical Uses: With Practical Remarks on Dropsy, and Other Diseases.
Birmingham: Printed by M. Swinney, 1785.
Rare first edition of this classic work in pharmacology. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, folding frontispiece of hand-colored folding frontispiece plate of a foxglove plant. In very good condition with the plate in fine condition. Rebacked.
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 131940
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“ONE OF THE BEST POLITICAL BIOGRAPHIES IN ENGLISH:” FIRST EDITION OF WINSTON S. CHURCHILL'S LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL; Signed by winston s. churchill and finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Lord Randolph Churchill.
New York and London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1906.
First editions of Winston S. Churchill's impassioned two-volume biography written in defence of his maligned father's posthumous reputation; a bulwark of any Churchill collection. Octavo, 2 volumes bound in three quarters morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and five raised bands to the spine, top edge gilt, engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Randolph Churchill after a photograph by Mackintosh to Volume I, engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Randolph Churchill after a photograph by Russell and Sons to Volume II, illustrated. Signed by the author on the first blank of Vol. I, "Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill 1907." In…
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 144651
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“Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia": First Edition of C.S. Lewis' The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
LEWIS, C.S.
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950.
First edition of the first work in Lewis' acclaimed Narnia series. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt signature to the front panel, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 142909
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Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm; signed by him and finely bound by Zaehnsdorf
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Second World War. Volume I: The Gathering Storm.
London: Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1948.
First edition, second issue of the first volume of Churchill's masterpiece, The Second World War with the errata slip tipped into page 610. Octavo, bound in full 20th century crushed levant morocco by Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt turn-ins and inner denelles stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf, marbeld endpapers, all edges gilt, errata slip tipped into page 610. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Winston S. Churchill 1955." Gilt inscription to the spine, "Obsequio de Cesar Guillen Al Sindicato de Periodistas…
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 145064
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Extra-Illustrated Works of Daniel Webster; Signed by Him and Millard Fillmore
WEBSTER, Daniel [Millard Fillmore].
The Works of Daniel Webster.
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851.
The subscriber's edition of the works of Daniel Webster, signed by Webster in the first volume. Octavo, 6 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt topstain, extra illustrated with 12 autograph letters, documents, and notes by Webster and others, including one printed ship's passport signed by Millard Fillmore, as President, and Webster, as Secretary of State, as well as 70 additional engraved portraits and views. In near fine condition. An exceptional presentation, rare and desirable signed.
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 133643
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First Editions of The Works of William Thackeray
THACKERAY, William.
The Works of William Thackeray.
London: Various Publishers, 1840-1867.
First edition of the works of William Thackeray. Octavo, 34 volumes, uniformly bound in three-quarters morocco. From the library of Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, with his bookplate to each volume. Harmswoth was a British newspaper and publishing magnate who exercised vast influence over British popular opinion. Gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt. Includes: Paris Sketch Book, 2 volumes., 1840; Comic Tales and Sketches, 2 volumes., 1841; Irish Sketchbook, 2 volumes., 1843; Cornhill to Grand Cairo, 1846; Mrs. Perkins Ball, [1847]; Book of Snobs, 1848; Our Street, 1848; Vanity Fair, 1848 (With the suppressed woodcut on…
Price: $8,000.00 Item Number: 19005
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“ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WORKS IN WESTERN LITERATURE”: RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF OVID’S METAMORPHOSIS
OVID,.
Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished by G. S.
London: Printed by William Stansby, 1626.
First edition of George Sandys’ famous verse translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with engraved title page. Small folio, bound in contemporary calf, illustrated with engraved title by T. Cecil, and full-paged engraved portrait of Ovid by Marshall. In very good condition, names. Rare and and desirable.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 146369
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"I WAS MUCH SURPRISED TO HEAR FOWLS SPEAK, AS THEY WERE TO SEE SUCH A MONSTER AS I APPEARED TO BE": RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST PROTO-SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS: A VOYAGE TO CACKLOGALLINIA
BRUNT, Samuel.
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia: with a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of that Country.
London: J. Watson, 1727.
First edition of this early 18th century satire published in imitation of Jonathan Swift's masterpiece Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, or, Gulliver's Travels. Octavo, bound in full brown morocco by Charles Thurman, Binder. Raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, embossed front and rear panels, engraved frontispiece. From the library of NASA scientist and science fiction expert Frederick I. Ordway III, best known for his contribution to the development of close personal friend, Stanley Kubrick's, epic film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Rare.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 36011
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"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart": The works of Washington Irving: The author's autograph edition
IRVING, Washington.
The Works of Washington Irving: The Autograph Edition [The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Rip Van Winkle].
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895–97.
The Works of Washington Irving: The Author's Autograph edition. Octavo, 40 volumes, uniformly bound in full morocco by the Knickerbocker Press, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, with suede doublures and endleaves. One of 500 sets, this set contains a page of original manuscript by Irving tipped in to volume one of The Alhambra. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 86738
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From the Library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: First Edition of Ken Gormley's The Presidents and the Constitution: A Living History; Inscribed by Bill Bader to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
GORMLEY, Ken; [Bill Bader] [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
The Presidents and the Constitution: A Living History.
New York: New York University Press, 2016.
First edition of this "fluidly fashioned collection of essays about how the roster of American presidents shaped the executive duties as defined in the Constitution" (Kirkus Reviews). Octavo, original half cloth, original red silk ribbon, illustrated with black and white images. Association copy, inscribed by Bill Bader on the front free endpaper, "For Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with great admiration and best wishes, - Bill Bader, 12 April, 2016." From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Arguably the most famous Supreme Court Justice in American history, lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme…
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 146581
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"For Ruth, Who has taught me so much about these issues - and so much else. With deepest admiration and respect": From the Library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: First Edition of Deborah L. Rhode's Speaking of Sex; Inscribed by Rhode to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
RHODE, Deborah L. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
Speaking of Sex: The Denial of Gender Inequality.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
First edition of this analysis of sex and gender-based inequality in the United States. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Ruth, Who has taught me so much about these issues - and so much else. With deepest admiration and respect, Deborah." From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Arguably the most famous Supreme Court Justice in American history, lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. Popularly dubbed “the Notorious R.B.G.” (a…
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 147158
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"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses" Finely Bound Set of the Works of George Eliot with A Signed Letter
ELIOT, George.
The Works of George Eliot [Including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda].
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908.
Large paper edition of the works of George Eliot, with an autographed signed letter tipped in. Octavo, 25 volumes, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate tooling to the front and rear panels, raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, elaborately illustrated with tissue-guarded engravings including frontispieces in color. In near fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 100111