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"No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done": Chuck Yeager Signed Bell X-5 Experimental Research Plane
YEAGER, Chuck.
Chuck Yeager Signed Bell X-5 Experimental Research Plane.
Display model of the Bell X-5 experimental research plane, boldly signed by pilot Chuck Yeager. The piece measures 8.5 inches in height, 13 inches in height and 8.5 inches in width. In fine condition.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 103598
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"My sympathies are with the suffragettes": Rare English parlor game book containing numerous early 20th century signatures
[MACKENZIE, Poppy].
The Truth About My Friends.
London: Dow & Lester, n.d.
Small parlor game book belonging to Poppy Mackenzie, each page with tipped-in printed slip lifting to reveal a self-criticism or "truth" (one of them being "My sympathies are with the suffragettes"), below which the participants have signed their name. In good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 135645
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"Who dost though love O seer in thy vision? Women I love, slender and strange and stately waiting untroubled for the years to bear them": First Edition of Sir George Macmunn's Kipling's Women
MACMUNN, Sir George [Rudyard Kipling].
Kipling’s Women.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., n.d..
First edition of the former President of the Kipling Society's study of the women portrayed in Kipling's song and story. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles and central gilt emblem to the front panel. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 135257
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First Edition of A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln; Signed by both Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney
FONER, Eric and Olivia Mahoney.
A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln.
New York: 1990, CHS/ W.W. Norton & Company.
First edition of this early work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by both Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carl Steinbrenner.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 119339
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"People go off to marvel at the height of mountains and the great waves of the sea and the broad courses of rivers, and the flow of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars: but they neglect themselves": C.S. Lewis' copy of Sir Thomas Browne's highly influential 17th century Christian confessional Religio Medici; with Lewis' ownership signature and notes throughout
BROWNE, Thomas. [C.S. Lewis].
Religio Medici and Other Essays by Sir Thomas Browne.
London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd, [1911].
C.S. Lewis' copy of Browne's celebrated 17th century "confession of Christian faith qualified by an eclectic and generally skeptical attitude" (The Oxford Companion). Octavo, original boards, paper spine label, gilt vignette to the front panel, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Browne. British author and theologian C.S. Lewis' copy with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper, "C.S. Lewis April 1919", underlines, marks, and footnotes to several pages, most notably a lengthy quote from The Confessions of St. Augustine to page 29: "(1) Et eunt homines mirari alta montium et ingentes fluctus maris et latissimos lapsus fluminum et oceani ambitum…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 122430
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Rare partial document signed by George Washington in 1799 regarding the sale of land; signed by him eleven months before his death on December 14, 1799
WASHINGTON, George.
George Washington Signed Partial Document.
January 21, 1799.
Rare partial document signed by George Washington on January 21, 1799, eleven months before his death on December 14, 1799. Octavo, the partial manuscript document reads, "I do acknowledge that this is the Platt referred to in the Deeds made for the Lands of George Mercer." Signed by Washington, "Go. Washington" and countersigned by three witnesses. Accompanied by a typed letter signed by Dorothy Twohig, editor-in-chief of the The Papers of George Washington which reads in part, "The note on Mercer explains Washington's involvement in the whole affair which started before the Revolution. After the war Washington tried to extricate himself from…
Price: $27,000.00 Item Number: 142623
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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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Rare 18th century printing of Pictures of the Old and New Testaments; lavishly illustrated with 151 full-page engravings
Pictures of the Old and New Testaments, Showing the Most Nottable Historys, in 150 Copper Platis, brought in Copper by the Most Famouss and Pricipal Masters.
Amsterdam: Reinier & Josua Ottens, n.d..
Rare 18th century printing of this lavishly illustrated biblical text. Quarto, bound in full contemporary mottled calf with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, illustrated with 152 copper-engraved plates after Matthias Scheits. Text in English and French. In near fine condition. From the library of Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington with his bookplate. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. Rare.
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 131429
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The Arbury edition of the works of George Eliot
ELIOT, George.
The Works of George Eliot.
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, n.d..
The Arbury edition of the works of George Eliot. Octavo, 24 volumes bound in three quarter half russet crushed morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, hand-colored tissue-guarded frontispiece and photogravure plate printed on cream velin to each volume. One of one thousand numbered copies, this is number 277. In very good condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 144866
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The illustrated library edition of the works of Charles Dickens
DICKENS, Charles.
The Works of Charles Dickens.
London: Chapman and Hall, n.d.
The Illustrated Library edition of the works of Charles Dickens. Octavo, 30 volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, illustrated by Robert Seymour, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz), George Cattermole, amd John Leech. In very good condition. Armorial bookplate to each volume.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 133060
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Rare December 29, 1975 Time Magazine Cover featuring a portrait of Mother Teresa; inscribed by her
BOJAXHIU, Mary Teresa. [Mother Teresa].
Mother Teresa Signed Time Magazine Cover.
New York: Time, December 29, 1975.
Rare cover from the December 29, 1975 issue of Time Magazine featuring a portrait of Mother Teresa by Bob Peak and inscribed by her, "God bless you M Teresa MC." In near fine condition. Double matted and framed with the original transmittal envelope inserted into a pocket on the verso of the frame showing the printed Missionaries of Charity return address and postmarked Bronx, 3 April 1986. The entire piece measures 17 inches by 14 inches.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 133441
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he Libraire d'Amateurs edition of Voltaire's L'Ingénu
VOLTAIRE. [AROUET, François-Marie].
L’Ingénu: Histoire Veritable Tiree Des Manuscrits Du Pere Quesnel 1767.
Paris: Librairie d'Amateurs, n.d.
The Libraire d'Amateurs edition of Voltaire's satirical novella. Quarto, bound in three quarter crushed morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, ribbon bound in, top edge gilt, with 46 monochrome plates by Umberto Brunelleschi. In fine condition. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 137212
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I Am Prepared to Die; Signed and dated by Nelson Mandela
MANDELA, Nelson.
I Am Prepared to Die.
Kent: A.G. Bishop & Sons, Ltd, c. 1965.
Second edition of Mandela's Rivonia Speech. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed and dated on the front panel, "NMandela 25.3.05." In fine condition.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 125089
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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 PRINTED LETTER SIGNED BY THEODORE HERZL IN the wake of the collapse of Zionist fundraising efforts in Russia
HERZL, Theodor.
Theodor Herzl Printed Letter Signed.
December 19, 1903.
Printed letter signed by the father of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, in the wake of the collapse of Zionist fundraising efforts in Russia. One page, printed, sent from Vienna on December 19, 1903, the letter is in German and translates into English as, "As of around the 23rd of Oct. we have requested that you, in consideration of the current situation in Russia, which for a longer time has made the collection and delivery of the Shekel impossible to us, to compress in the fund-raising of the Shekel in your country as quickly as possible, and to send us the…
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 143208
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The Albion edition of the Poetical Works of Thomas Moore; finely bound with a double fore-edge painting
MOORE, Thomas.
The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: Frederick Warne and Co., n.d..
The Albion edition of Moore's poetical works. Octavo, bound in full polished tree calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Moore. With a double concealed fore-edge painting revealing two golfing scenes. In very good condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 129405