Shop
Showing 1–16 of 6218 results
- Browse by Category
- Browse All
- Americana
- Art and Architecture
- Autograph Letters Signed
- Biography and Autobiography
- Children's Books
- Economics and Finance
- Featured Rare Books
- Fine Bindings and Sets
- First Edition
- First Edition>Signed
- Food and Wine
- Framed Autographs and Historical Documents
- Gifts
- Gifts - For Her
- Gifts - For Him
- Gifts - Graduation and Celebrations
- Gifts - Holidays
- History, Law, and Politics
- Literature
- Music
- New Arrivals
- Philosophy
- Photography
- Poetry
- Presidents and World Leaders
- Religion
- Science and Natural History
- Science Fiction and Mystery
- Signed
- Signed & Autographed Books
- Sports and Leisure
- Travel and Exploration
- Uncategorized
Rare Sammelband collection of the treatises of Thomas Paine; including Rights of Man and Common Sense
PAINE, Thomas.
Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, Part I; Rights of Man Part the Second. Concerning Principle and Practice; Letter Addressed to the Addressers, on the Late Proclamation; Dissertations on First Principles of Government; Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America; A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America; Miscellaneous Articles of Thomas Paine.
London: H. D. Symonds, J. S. Jordan, J. Ridgway et al, 1792-1793.
Sammelband collection of early printings of the treatises of Thomas Paine. Octavo, bound in full contemporary tree calf with gilt tooling to the spine, engraved frontispiece portrait of Paine. The collection includes: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, Part I [London: Printed for H. D. Symonds, 1792]; Rights of Man Part the Second. Concerning Principle and Practice [London: Printed for J. S. Jordan, 1792]; Letter Addressed to the Addressers, on the Late Proclamation [London: Printed for H. D. Symonds, 1792]; Dissertations on First Principles of Government [London: Printed for the Proprietors]; Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America [London: Printed for H. D. Symonds, 1793]; A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America [London: Printed for J. Ridgeway, 1712 (1792)]; Miscellaneous Articles of Thomas Paine [London: Printed for J. Ridgway, 1793]. In very good condition.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 122960
-
“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions": John Locke's Two Treatises Of Government
LOCKE, John.
Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, And his Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter, is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government.
London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, 1728.
Rare fifth printing of Locke’s famed treatises on government. Octavo, bound in full contemporary paneled calf with blind ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, red morocco spine label and publication year lettered in gilt. In near fine condition. Rebacked. Desirable bound in contemporary calf.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 122873
-
Rare Blume High School Class of 1947 yearbook; signed by Neil Armstrong as a graduating senior
[ARMSTRONG, Neil].
Neil Armstrong Class of 1947 Signed Yearbook.
Wapakoneta, Ohio: Blume High School Class of 1947, 1947.
Rare Blume High School Class of 1947 yearbook, signed by Neil Armstrong as a graduating senior. Quarto, original leatherette. Signed by Neil Armstrong beneath his senior portrait on page 12 of the yearbook. Armstrong is also featured in a number of additional photographs throughout the book: on page 44 as a Band Officer, page 52 as a member of the Senior Hi-Y group, and on page 57 as a member of the School Council. In near fine condition. A rare piece offering a unique first-hand glimpse into the early scholastic achievements of the first man to set foot on the moon.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 122684
-
Collection of Four Supreme Court Ruling Pamphlets; signed by justices Harry A. Blackmun, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and David Souter
BLACKMUN, Harry A.; Stephen Breyer; Elena Kagan; David Souter.
Supreme Court Justice Signed Pamphlet Collection.
Washington, D.C.: 1991-2015.
Rare collection of four typescript Supreme Court ruling pamphlets signed by Harry A. Blackmun (Diane Griffin v. United States: December 3, 1991), David Souter (William “Sky King v. St. Vincent’s Hospital: December 16, 1991), Stephen Breyer (Kingsley v. Hendrickson et al: June 22, 2015), and Elena Kagan (Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment: June 22, 2015). In fine condition. A fine collection of signatures offering first-hand insight into each justice’s manner of reasoning.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 122987
-
First Edition of Walt Disney's Fantasia; Inscribed by Walt Disney
DISNEY, Walt; Deems Taylor .
Walt Disney’s Fantasia. With a Foreword by Leopold Stokowski.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.
First edition of the lavishly illustrated companion volume to Disney’s animated musical masterpiece. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 16 mounted color plates. Presentation copy, inscribed by Walt Disney on the title page, “To Robert Fraser from Walt Disney B.A. 1941.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $8,000.00 Item Number: 122482
-
Signed Limited Edition of the Works of H.G. Wells; Additionally inscribed by Him to Lover Elizabeth von Arnim
WELLS, H.G.
The Works of H.G. Wells Including [The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Etc].
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1924-27.
One of 20 sets for presentation from an overall edition of 620, this is letter e and Wells has written (Little e), signed by H.G. Wells in volume one, and additionally inscribed by Wells in volume one to his lover Elizabeth von Arnim, “To Little e H.G.” With her bookplate to all but two volumes. After her first husband’s death, she had a three-year affair with the writer H. G. Wells, then later married Frank Russell, elder brother of the Nobel prize-winning writer and philosopher Bertrand Russell. She was a cousin of the New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield. Her first marriage made her Countess von Arnim-Schlagenthin and her second Elizabeth Russell, Countess Russell. Though known in early life as May, publication of her first book introduced her to readers as Elizabeth, which she eventually became to her friends and finally even to her family. She is now known invariably as Elizabeth von Arnim. She used the pen name Alice Cholmondeley only for the novel Christine, published in 1917. According to Katy Roiphe’s Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939, 2008, she “arranged for her married lover (H.G. Wells) to visit her Swiss chalet bedroom by means of a hidden entrance”. The affectionate inscription confirms that, even after their affair had ended, they remained close friends. Octavo, 28 volumes. Bound in original publishers cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt. Frontispiece illustrations including the author portrait in volume one. In near fine condition. An exceptional association.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 122895
-
First Edition of Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon; Signed by Him
FRANK, Pat.
Alas, Babylon.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1959.
First edition of this classic apocalyptic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Pat Frank ’59.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Arthur Hawkins. First editions are exceptionally rare signed, as the author passed away in 1964.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 122391
-
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 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 illumination, likely produced in the late 18th to early 19th century. In very good condition.
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 199552
-
First edition of Elizabeth A. Sharp's Rembrandt; elegantly bound by Riviere and Son in a Cosway-style binding
SHARP, Elizabeth A. [Rembrandt].
Rembrandt. [Cosway].
London: Methuen & Co., 1904.
First edition of Sharp’s biography of Dutch master painter Rembrandt van Rijn. Octavo, elegantly bound by Riviere and Son in full morocco in a Cosway-style binding with a hand painted miniature ivorene portrait of Rembrandt under glass to the front panel within an elaborate gilt botanical vignette, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt-ruled turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, illustrated with forty engravings including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Rembrandt. In near fine condition.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 199442
-
Scarce 16th century illustrated edition of Dante's masterpiece La Divina Comedia
DANTE ALIGHIERI,.
La Divina Comedia di Dante, Di Nuovo Alla Sua Vera lettione ridotta con lo aiuto di molti antichissimi esemplari. Con Argomenti, et Allegorie per Ciascun Canto, & Apostille nel margine. Et Indice Copiosissimo di tutti i Vocaboli pin importanti usati dal Poeta, con la sposition loro. [The Divine Comedy].
In Vinegia: Apresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, et Fratelli, 1555.
Scarce and highly sought after 16th century illustrated edition of Dante’s masterpiece; one of the rarest editions of the Commedia printed in the 16th century and the first to print the adjective ‘Divina’ on the title page. 12mo, bound in full vellum, all edges red, illustrated with 12 engravings within the text, woodcut initials and headpieces, colophon dated 1554. With a dedication to Coriolano Martirano, sonnet by Boccaccio, biography of Dante by Lodovico Dolce, dictionary of “vocaboli più oscuri” and Index of marginal notes. The introduction of the adjective ‘Divine’ is attributed to Lodovico Dolce who authored the commentary printed in this edition which was never reprinted by Giolito. In near fine condition with light restoration to the title page which has been trimmed. Scarce with only 3 copies having appeared at auction in the past 90 years.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 122594
-
"Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were - Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter": Rare collection of Beatrix Potter early printings; including The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Tom Kitten, and The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
POTTER, Beatrix.
Beatrix Potter Collection. [Including: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tailor of Gloucester, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, The Tale of Tom Kitten, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, and The Tale of Pigling Bland.
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1903-1913.
Rare collection of Beatrix Potter tales. 12mo, 12 volumes in the original boards with pictorial onlays to the front panels, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by the author. Early printings. In near fine condition. A charming collection.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 122899
-
First edition of Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
POTTER, Beatrix.
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny.
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1904.
First edition of the fourth sequel to Potter’s immensely successful The Tale of Peter Rabbit which was an instant commercial success in its own right, with ‘muffatees’ for ‘muffetees’ on page 15. 12mo, original boards with pictorial onlay to the front panel, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. In very good condition. A nice example.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 122984
-
"SEE WHAT YOU'RE MISSING IN NEW YORK": FIRST EDITION OF THE GODFATHER; INSCRIBED BY MARIO PUZO
PUZO, Mario.
The Godfather.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969.
First edition of Puzo’s definitive novel of the Mafia underworld. Octavo, original half black cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Mel and Jessie See what you’re missing in New York. Mario.” The recipient Mel Shestack was a writer and close friend of the author, who hired Puzo as an associate editor to write for Magazine Management, giving him an early break in the industry. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket art by S. Neil Fujita. An exceptional association.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 122755
-
“FOUNDED THE SCIENCE OF MODERN POLITICS”: RARE 1640 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF MACHIAVELLI’S THE PRINCE
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo.
Nicholas Machiavel’s Prince. Also, The life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca. And The meanes Duke Valentine us’d to put to death Vitellezzo Vitelli, Oliverotto of Fermo Paul, and the Duke of Gravina. Translated out of Italian into English; by E. D. With some Animadversions noting and taxing his errours.
London: R. Bishop for Wil: Hils, and to be sold by Daniel Pakeman, 1640.
Rare first edition in English of Machiavelli’s Prince, a seminal work in the foundation of modern political theory and a great classic of political science. 12 mo, bound in full contemporary calf with burgundy morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine, all edges red. Name to the title page, rebacked. An exceptional example, most rare and desirable in this condition and in a contemporary binding.
Price: $78,000.00 Item Number: 122648
-
Scarce First edition of John Marbecke's A Concordāce; One of the finest and most complete copies obtainable
MARBECKE, John.
A Concordāce, that is to saie, a work wherein by the ordre of the letters of the A.B.C. ye maie redely finde any worde conteigned in the whole Bible, so often as it is there expressed or mentioned.
London: Richardus Grafton, 1550.
Rare first edition of the first concordance in English to the Bible. Quarto, bound in full polished calf with raised bands and gilt titles to the spine, trimmed and mounted engraved title page. In near fine condition with some leaves supplied and mounted and restoration to the margins. One of the finest and most complete copies obtainable as this work is invariably found in defective condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. From the library of Anglo-Irish George Stokes with his bookplate to the pastedown and a presentation note signed by his daughter.
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 122671
