U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere
by GILLISS J.M.
1855. First Edition. GILLISS, J[ames] M[elville]. The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere During the Years 1849-'50-'51-'52. Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1855. Two volumes. Large quarto, contemporary three-quarter calf, raised bands, black morocco spine labels, marbled boards. $2800.First edition of the official report of Gilliss' important expedition to South Americaonly the third American Naval Scientific expeditionillustrated with four folding maps, a very large hand-colored folding view of Santa Lucia, Chile, 41 full-page lithographs (four tinted and 19 printed... Read More
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Glenn Miller's Method for Orchestral Arranging
by MILLER Glenn
1943. First Edition. Signed. MILLER, Glenn. Glenn Miller's Method for Orchestral Arranging. New York: Mutual Music Society, (1943). Quarto, original gilt-stamped red cloth. Housed in custom half morocco clamshell box. $3800.First edition, inscribed by the composer on the front free endpaper, Sincerely Glenn Miller, extremely scarce signed.In a patriotic gesture in the fall of 1942, Glenn Miller disbanded his group to join the army. His mysterious deathhe boarded a plane to Paris on December 15, 1944 and was never... Read More
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Address Book
by EDWARDS Esther Gordy
1970. BULLOCK [i.e., EDWARDS], E[sther]. G[ordy]. [Motown Address Book]. Detroit, Michigan, circa 1970. Slim quarto (3-1/2 by 12 inches), original full floral-patterned cloth; pp. [68]. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $3200.Vintage address book from the 1970s-80s, used by Esther Gordy Edwardssister of Motown founder Berry Gordy, and executive and founder of the Motown Historical Museumand filled with addresses and phone numbers for many members of her famous family and such celebrities as Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight,... Read More
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Some Historical Account of Guinea... Also a Republication of the Sentiments of several Authors... Particularly an Extract of a Treatise written by Granville Sharp.
by BENEZET Anthony SHARP Granville
1762. First Edition. (SLAVERY) BENEZET, Anthony. Some Historical Account of Guinea With An Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, Its Nature, and lamentable Effects. Also a Republication of the Sentiments of several Authors of Note Particularly an Extract of a Treatise written by Granville Sharp. Philadelphia: Printed 1771. London: Re-printed: W. Owen E. and C. Dilly, 1772. Octavo, period-style full brown calf gilt, raised bands; pp. (6), iv, 198 (6). $1850.First English edition of Benezet's... Read More
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Declaration of the People's Natural Right
by SHARP Granville
1775. SHARP, Granville. A Declaration of the People's Natural Right to a Share in the Legislature; Which is the Fundamental Principle of the British Constitution of State. London: Printed for B. White, 1775. Octavo, period-style three-quarter brown calf and marbled boards, raised bands, dark red spine label; pp. (4), (i-xl), 1-278 (279), (1), 2-4. $3000.Rare true expanded ""Second Edition,"" with same initial collation as a virtually unavailable 1774 edition ""made for the purpose only of being given among the... Read More
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Treatise of Artillery
by LEBLOND Guillaume
1746. First Edition. LE BLOND, Guillaume. A Treatise of Artillery: or, of the Arms and Machines Used in War Since the Invention of Gunpowder. Being the First Part of Le Blond's Elements of War. London: E. Cave, 1746. Quarto, later burgundy and black cloth rebacked and recornered. $950.First edition in English of French military historian Le Blond's respected treatise on military artillery, with 50 copper-engraved artillery-related illustrations on 14 folding plates.Guillaume Le Blond was an 18th-century professor of mathematics,... Read More
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London: A Pilgrimage
by JERROLD Blanchard DORE Gustave
1872. First Edition. (LONDON) DORÉ, Gustave and JERROLD, Blanchard. London: A Pilgrimage. London: Grant, 1872. Large folio (13-1/2 by 17 inches), contemporary three-quarter red morocco, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. $5800.First edition of Doré and Jerrold's London, ""superb, and noble in sentiment"" (van Gogh), with 54 striking full-page wood-engravings and 126 in-text vignettes of ""all segments of London society"" by Doré. Handsomely bound.""One can hardly deny that Doré is not merely one of the most... Read More
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History of Tattooing and its Significance
by HAMBLY W.D.
1925. First Edition. HAMBLY, W.D. The History of Tattooing and its Significance. With Some Account of Other Forms of Corporal Marking. London: H.F. & WItherby, 1925. Octavo, original red cloth gilt. $3200.First edition, with eight plates of photographic illustrations, 16 in-text illustrations, and a folding map.The author of this early anthropological account of the practice of tattooing was trained at Oxford and worked as the assistant curator of African Ethnology of the Field Museum in Chicago. In addition to... Read More
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Around the World in Eight Days
by POST Wiley GATTY Harold
1931. First Edition. Signed. POST, Wiley, and GATTY, Harold. Around the World in Eight Days: The Flight of the Winnie Mae. New York: Rand McNally, (1931). Octavo, original tan cloth, original dust jacket. $2800.First edition, signed by both Post and Gatty on the half title, in scarce original dust jacket.This tale of their historic flight around the world in eight days and 16 hours is illustrated with numerous black and white photographic plates, diagrams, and a facsimile of the... Read More
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Stanley Brereton
by AINSWORTH William Harrison
1881. First Edition. Signed. AINSWORTH, William Harrison. Stanley Brereton. London: George Routledge and Sons, (1881). Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary burgundy morocco rebacked with elaborately gilt-decorated spines laid down, raised bands, top edges gilt. $1800.First book edition of Ainsworth's final novel, with two signed autograph letters by Ainsworth tipped in at the front of Volume I planning future meetings with friends and mentioning a literary endeavor, handsomely bound.""When we became reconciled to Mr. Ainsworth writing a modern novel, we soon... Read More
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Jack Sheppard. A Romance
by CRUIKSHANK George AINSWORTH William Harrison
1839. First Edition. (CRUIKSHANK, George). AINSWORTH, William Harrison. Jack Sheppard. A Romance. London: Richard Bentley, 1839. Three volumes. Octavo, original green cloth, uncut. $1200.First edition, with over two dozen etchings by Cruikshank, with an autograph letter bound into volume I from Ainsworth to the publisher inviting him to dine and mentioning Charles Dickens.Jack Sheppard was a brilliant, violent thief who gained a great deal of notoriety during his brief career in London. ""He became a legend in his own... Read More
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Law, Legislation and Liberty
by HAYEK Friedrich A.
1973. First Edition. HAYEK, Friedrich A. Law, Legislation and Liberty. London and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973-79. Three volumes. Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jackets. $3600.First English editions, published coincident with first American editions, of F.A. Hayeks groundbreaking trilogy, the Nobel laureates defining work that on publication argued a powerful challenge to current trends in social theory and policy (Economist), in scarce original dust jackets.Co-winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics and a prominent member... Read More
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Writings
by HAY Ian BEITH John Hay
1921. HAY, Ian (pseudonym of BEITH, John Hay). The Writings. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1921. Ten volumes. Octavo, publisher's three-quarter black pebbled morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $1200.""Argyll Edition"" of the writings of ""Ian Hay,"" the pseudonym of John Hay Beith, signed by Beith on a tipped-in leaf in Volume I, with color frontispiece in each volume and a photographic portrait of the author, attractively bound.""Beith's first novel, Pip (1907), colored... Read More
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Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography, of South Wales
by MALKIN Benjamin Heath
1804. First Edition. (WALES) MALKIN, Benjamin Heath. The Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography, of South Wales, from Materials Collected during Two Excursions in the Year 1803 Embellished with Views. London: T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804. Quarto, contemporary full mottled calf rebacked in gilt-decorated calf spine, original red morocco spine label, original marbled endpapers. $3000.First edition of this picturesque travelogue through the Welsh countryside, illustrated with frontispiece and 11 full-page soft-ground etchings by J. Laporte after views drawn on the... Read More
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Autograph letter signed WITH: Last of the Californios
by FORD Gerald R. CROSBY Harry COPLEY Helen COPELY Helen
1981. Signed. FORD, Gerald R. Autograph letter signed. Rancho Mirage, California: December 18, [1981]. WITH: Engraved free frank envelope addressed in typescript. WITH: CROSBY, Harry, COPLEY, Helen. Last of the Californios. (La Jolla, California: Copley Books, 1981). Original letterhead leaf (6-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches), manuscript on the recto; original letterhead envelope (4-1/2 by 6-1/2 inches), typescript; tall quarto, original gilt-stamped red cloth, cartographic endpapers, original slipcase. $1500.Scarce December 1981 autograph letter signed by President Ford on his personal letterhead... Read More
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Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds
by HEMANS Felicia HEWITSON William C.
1857. HEWITSON, William C. Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, Accompanied with Descriptions of the Eggs, Nests, Etc. London: John Van Voorst, 1846. Two volumes. Octavo, early full polished brown calf, raised bands, black morocco spine labels. $1600.Second edition, substantially different from the first, with 138 hand-colored plates of the eggs of British birds.First published in 1831-42 under the title British Oology, ""the book consists of an account of the breeding habits of the various species of... Read More
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Indictment, Arraignment, Trial, and Judgment... of Twenty-nine Regicides
by CHARLES I FINCH Heneage
1713. (CHARLES I) [FINCH, Heneage, Earl of Nottingham]. The Indictment, Arraignment, Tryal, and Judgment, at Large, of Twenty-nine Regicides, the Murtherers Of His Late Sacred Majesty King Charles the First, of Glorious Memory Together with a Summary of the Dark and Horrid Decrees of those Cabbalists, Preparatory to that Hellish Fact. London: J. Walthoe, et al., 1713. Octavo, later full dark brown paneled calf nicely rebacked with original spine and spine label laid down, raised bands. $1500.Later edition of... Read More
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True and Affecting History of Henrietta de Bellgrave
by DE BELLGRAVE Henrietta
1823. First Edition. ANONYMOUS. The True and Affecting History of Henrietta de Bellgrave. New York: W. Borradaile, 1823. Slim octavo, later half black sheep; pp. 40. $1800.First American edition of this popular chapbook extracted from an 18th-century British novel narrating the misadventures of an aristocratic young French woman who survives a shipwreck on the way to Bombay, ends up in a forced marriage to pagan Indian man, and uses that story to try to bring her daughter to Christianity.This... Read More
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Trial of Ford Lord Grey of Werk... For Unlawful Tempting and Inciting
by LORD GREY OF WERK FORD BERKELEY Henrietta
1716. First Edition. (LORD GREY OF WERK) (BERKELEY, Henrietta). The Trial of Ford Lord Grey of Werk [et al.] For Unlawful Tempting and Inciting, the Lady Henrietta Berkeley to Unlawful Love with an Intent to Cause Her to Live in a Scandalous Manner. London: J. Morphew, 1716. Slim octavo, period-style full paneled calf, raised bands, red morocco spine label. $2000.First edition of the verbatim transcript of this sensational 17th-century trial in which Lord Grey was charged with seducing the... Read More
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Verve
by TERIADE E. MATISSE Henri
1937. First Edition. TÉRIADE, Efstratios (ELEFTHERIADES, Efstratios). Verve. Volume 1, Numbers 1. Paris: (Imprimerie des Beaux-Arts), 1937. Folio (10-1/2 by 14 inches), original paper wrappers. $1700.First American edition of the first issue of Verve, published in Paris in 1937, featuring cover art by Matisse, along with numerous heliogravures (many full color), original lithographs by artists such as Leger and Miró, along with articles by Dos Passos, Garcia Lorca, and Gide, and much more.""Fifty years ago in Paris, the magazine... Read More
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National Sports of Great Britain
by ALKEN Henry
1825. ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain. London: Printed for Thomas M'Lean, 1825. Royal octavo, 19th-century full red morocco, elaborately decorated spine and covers, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. $5200.Second edition of this compendium of British sports, with 50 hand-colored engravings (different from those in the first edition) depicting hunting, angling, horse-racing, and other diversion, handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt.""Henry Alken was the premier sporting illustrator of his time. He worked in colored aquatint in... Read More
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Experiments on Air
by CAVENDISH Henry
1784. First Edition. CAVENDISH, Henry. Experiments on Air. ISSUED WITH: Remarks on Mr. Cavendish's Experiments on Air. In a Letter from Richard Kirwan. ISSUED WITH: An Answer to Mr. Kirwan's Remarks. ISSUED WITH: Reply to Mr. Cavendish's Answer, by R. Kirwan. BOUND WITH: Experiments on Air [Part II]. Read June 2, 1785. EXCERPTED FROM: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Volume 74. [London: Lockyer Davis and Peter Elmsly, 1784-85]. Small quarto, modern marbled wrappers; pp. 119-53, 154-69,... Read More
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Punishments of China
by CHINA MILLER William MASON George Henry
1804. First Edition. (CHINA) [MASON, Major George Henry] (MILLER, William, publisher). The Punishments of China, Illustrated by Twenty-two Engravings. London: William Miller, 1804 [i.e., circa 1819]. Folio (10-1/2 by 14-1/2 inches), contemporary full straight-grain burgundy morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, all edges gilt. $3200.Later edition of this survey of the punishments of China, illustrated with 22 folio engravings, each finely hand-colored. A handsome copy in contemporary morocco-gilt.This collection depicts a variety of Chinese punishments for assorted crimes, as well as... Read More
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Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages
by COSTUME SHAW Henry
1843. First Edition. SHAW, Henry. Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries. London: William Pickering (Charles Whittingham, Chiswick Press), 1843. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary full red pebbled morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers, raised bands, black and tan morocco spine labels, all edges gilt. $4500.First edition of this beautifully illustrated study of costumes and decorations by Shaw, one of the greatest illuminators of the 19th century, with 94 plates of finely tailored... Read More
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Amelia
by FIELDING Henry
1752. First Edition. FIELDING, Henry. Amelia. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752. Four volumes. Small octavo, early 20th-century full tan calf, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, brown and russet morocco spine labels, all edges gilt. $3000.First edition of Fieldings final novel, his landmark work that introduced the novelistic tradition of social protest and reform. Handsomely bound by Riviere and Son.Fielding's last novel, Amelia, shows the ""mellowness, pathos, and insight"" of a mature writer whose humor and ""realistic frankness shocked... Read More
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