Picturesque Guide to Bath, Bristol Hot-Wells
by IBBETSON Julius Caesar HASSELL John
1793. First Edition. IBBETSON, Julius Caesar. A Picturesque Guide to Bath, Bristol Hot-Wells, the River Avon, and the Adjacent Country. London: Hookham and Carpenter, 1793. Tall quarto, early 20th-century three-quarter dark green morocco, raised bands, top edge gilt, uncut. $2200.First edition of this engaging 18th-century guide to the British resort town of Bath, with 16 hand-colored aquatints on heavy paper, handsomely bound.This work exhibits the talents of three British artists experimenting in the medium of aquatint: John Laporte, watercolorist... Read More
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Typographia
by JOHNSON John
1824. First Edition. JOHNSON, John. Typographia, or the Printer's Instructor: Including an Account of the Origin of Printing, with Biographical Notices of the Printers of England, from Caxton to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1824. Two volumes. Royal octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. $3500.First edition of this history of printing, the largest of four sizes published (royal octavo), with two... Read More
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Account of the Pelew Islands
by KEATE George COOK James HAWKESWORTH John
1788. First Edition. KEATE, George. An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean, Composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and Some of His Officers, Who, in August 1783, Were There Shipwrecked, in the Antelope, a Packet Belonging to the Honourable East India Company. London: G. Nicol, 1788. Quarto, contemporary full tree calf rebacked in calf-gilt with original red morocco spine label and marbled endpapers preserved. $3500.First edition of... Read More
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Alton Trials
by LINCOLN William S. GILMAN Winthrop SOLOMON John
1838. First Edition. (SLAVERY) (CONSTITUTION) (GILMAN, Winthrop S.) (SOLOMON, John) LINCOLN, William S. Alton Trials: of Winthrop S. Gilman, Who Was Indicted with Enoch Long and Thadeus B. Hurlbut: For the Crime of Riot, Committed on the night of the 7th of November, 1837, while engaged in defending a Printing Press, From an attack made on it at that time, by An Armed Mob, Written out from notes of the trial, taken at the time, By a Member of... Read More
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Works
by LOCKE John
1714. First Edition. LOCKE, John. The Works of John Locke. London: John Churchill and Sam. Manship, 1714. Three volumes. Folio (8 by 12-1/2 inches), early 19th Century full brown calf rebacked with original elaborately gilt-decorated spines laid down, tan morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers and edges. $10,500.First edition of the collected works of Locke, the most worthy of the indisputably great philosophers, with exquisite copper-engraved frontispiece portrait by George Vertue and full-page memorial plate.""Locke is the most worthy of... Read More
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Travels of Sir John Mandeville
by MANDEVILLE John
1725. First Edition. MANDEVILLE, John. The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. Which Treateth of the Way to Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde, with Other Ilands and Countryes. London: Printed for J. Woodman and D. Lyon, and C. Davis, 1725. Octavo, contemporary calf sympathetically rebacked, raised bands. $5000.First edition, first issue, large paper copy, one of only 350 copies printed, of the definitive English translation of a fantastical medieval travel narrative that helped shape European thought... Read More
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Christian Correspondent
by NEWTON John
1790. First Edition. NEWTON, John. The Christian Correspondent; or A Series of Religious Letters, Written by The Rev. John Newton to Captain Alexr. Clunie, From the Year 1761, to the Death of the Latter in 1770. Hull: Printed by George Prince, 1790. Octavo, modern half olive cloth, black morocco spine labels. $1200.First edition of the collected 18th-century letters between John Newton, a slaveship master and born-again Christian, to Alexander Clunie, a fellow slaveship captain and Newton's Christian mentor.The Rev.... Read More
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Embassy from the East-India Company... To the Emperor of China
by NIEUHOFF John OGILBY John
1673. (CHINA) NIEUHOFF, John. An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, Delivered by Their Excellencies Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his Imperial City of Peking Englished by John Ogilby. London: by the Author, 1673. Tall folio (11 by 16-1/2 inches), period-style full red morocco gilt, black morocco spine label, raised bands, marbled endpapers. $15,000.Second edition in English, splendidly illustrated with frontispiece portrait, engraved title page,... Read More
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Autograph letter signed
by ROSS John
1857. Signed. ROSS, John. Autograph letter signed. [Oklahoma], March 6, 1857. Single sheet of lined blue paper, measuring 7-3/4 by 6-3/4 inches; pp. 2. $3000.Wonderful signed autograph letter, dated 1857, from Cherokee Nation Chief John Ross directing his brother, National Treasurer Lewis Ross, to pay John Ross's general store partner and brother-in-law John Stapler for school supplies given to the Cherokee Female Seminary.The signed autograph letter, dated ""Executive Department, March 6th, 1857"" and written entirely in John Ross' hand... Read More
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Stones of Venice
by RUSKIN John
1851. First Edition. RUSKIN, John. The Stones of Venice. London: Smith, Elder, 1851-53. Three volumes. Royal octavo, contemporary three-quarter tan calf, raised bands, brown and red morocco spine labels, elaborately gilt-decorated spines. $3600.First edition of Ruskins famous survey of the Gothic architectural style, illustrated with 53 full-page mezzotints and lithographs (many hand-colored), and numerous in-text wood-engraved diagrams and architectural details.""A strange, unexpected and, I believe, most true and excellent sermon in Stonesas well as the best piece of schoolmastery... Read More
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Modern Painters
by RUSKIN John
1888. RUSKIN, John. Modern Painters. London: George Allen, 1888. Six volumes. Quarto, 20th-century three-quarter dark maroon morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and partly unopened. $3500.1888 edition, profusely illustrated with over 90 full-page steel- and wood-engraved plates and numerous in-text illustrations after drawings by Ruskin, Leonardo, Raphael, the Missal-Painters, J.M.W. Turner, R. Allen and others, very handsomely bound.Ruskin, writer, critic, and artist, was a chief influence upon public taste in Victorian England. Modern Painters, first... Read More
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Boydell's Graphic Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare
by SHAKESPEARE BOYDELL John
1804. BOYDELL, John. Boydell's Graphic Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare. (London: Boydell, 1804). Large folio (13 by 17 inches), modern blue cloth, morocco spine label. $5500.Collection of 100 large folio engraved plates from the sumptuous Boydell Shakespeare, after paintings by the periods most eminent English artists including Reynolds, Romney, Smirke, Stothard, Fuseli and Westall, with one plate engraved by William Blake.""Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery completely altered the course of English painting. Most painters earned their livings by painting... Read More
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Laws and Acts of Parliament
by SKENE John
1597. First Edition. (SCOTLAND) (GOLF) SKENE, John. The Lawes and Actes of Parliament, Maid be King James the First, and his Successours Kinges of Scotland WITH: De Verborum Significatione. WITH: The Lawes and Acts of Parliament XIX Day of December 1597. WITH: The XXI Parliament the xxiii day of October, 1612. WITH: The Acts Made in the XXII Parliament. WITH: The XXIII Parliament the 4. day of August 1621. Edinburgh: Robert Walde-grave; Thomas Finlason, 1597, 1612, 1617, 1621. Together... Read More
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Select Views in Italy
by SMITH John
1792. First Edition. (ITALY) SMITH, John. Select Views in Italy, with Topographical and Historical Descriptions in English and French. London: T. Chapman, 1792-96. Two volumes bound in one. Folio (11 by 14-1/2 inches), contemporary full red straight-grain morocco gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. $6800.First edition, profusely illustrated with engraved map of Italy and 72 beautiful engraved folio plates, splendidly bound in full contemporary morocco.Views include natural landscapes and ""magnificent remains of antiquity,"" after sketches by John Smith and... Read More
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Catalogue of the Printed Books
by SPILSBURY William H. NICHOLSON John
1859. First Edition. SPILSBURY, William H. Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn. WITH: NICHOLSON, John. Supplementary Volume, Containing the Additions from 1859-1890. London: Printed for the Society, 1859, 1890. Two volumes. Large octavo, original brown cloth. $1850.First edition of this comprehensive listing of books as of 1859 held in the extensive law library of Lincoln's Inn, one of the four major societies for English and Welsh barristers, with the rare... Read More
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Grapes of Wrath
by STEINBECK John
1939. First Edition. STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking, (1939). Octavo, original pictorial beige cloth, illustrated endpapers, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $28,500.First edition, first issue, of Steinbeck's most important novel, his searing masterpiece of moral outrage and ""intense humanity,"" winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize.""It is a long novel, the longest that Steinbeck has written, and yet it reads as if it had been composed in a flash, ripped off the... Read More
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Reports of Adjudged Cases
by STRANGE John
1755. First Edition. STRANGE, John. Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer, from Trinity Term in the second Year of King George I to Trinity Term in the twenty-first Year of King George II. London: Henry Lintot, 1755. Two volumes. Thick folio, contemporary full tan calf, raised bands, red morocco spine labels. $2400.First edition of this posthumously published collection of reports and transcriptions of cases from 1715 to 1750, with engraved... Read More
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Tyranny Unmasked
by TAYLOR John
1822. First Edition. TAYLOR, John. Tyranny Unmasked. Washington City: Davis and Force, 1822. Octavo, late-19th-century three-quarter brown calf, raised bands, black spine label, marbled boards and endpapers. $2500.First edition of this powerful work by John Taylor of Caroline""one of the first and clearest spokesmen of state rights"" (ANB)arguing against Hamiltonian principles and the Marshall Court, and forcefully declaring that tyranny is that ""which takes away our money, transfers our property and eats the food belonging to others,"" handsomely bound.""One... Read More
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Short History of Standing Armies in England
by TRENCHARD John
1739. (TRENCHARD, John). A Short History of Standing Armies in England. Written By that Eminent Patriot, Thomas Trenchard, Esq. London: Printed and Sold by Dick Thomas, 1739. Small octavo (5 by 8-1/4 inches), period-style half brown calf and marbled boards; pp. ((1-4), (i-viii), 9-68. $3200.1739 edition of Trenchard's controversial work, issued posthumously, the work that shaped American revolutionary thought by arguing that a standing army will inevitably ""find a Tyrant"" and fracture the balance of power needed to protect... Read More
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On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours
by TYNDALL John
1861. First Edition. TYNDALL, John. The Bakerian Lecture: On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours, and on the Physical Connexion of Radiation, Absorption, and Conduction. London: Taylor and Francis, 1861-62. Quarto, modern marbled paper wrappers. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $2000.First appearance of both parts of Tyndall's important paper on heat absorption and radiationdescribing and experimentally demonstrating what we would now call ""the Greenhouse Effect""extracted from the journal Philosophical Transactions where they originally appeared,... Read More
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Complete Digest of the Theory, Laws and Practice of Insurance
by WESKETT John
1781. First Edition. WESKETT, John. A Complete Digest of the Theory, Laws and Practice of Insurance Compiled from the Best Authorities in Different Languages. London: Richardson & Urquhart, et al., 1781. Folio (10 by 15 inches), modern full brown morocco, raised bands, red morocco spine label. $3500.First edition of this scarce and important work on insurance law, proposing several reforms in its introductory essay, and with numerous references to America.Weskett's book begins with a critical 80-page essay on insurance... Read More
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Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experience of That
by WOOLMAN John
1776. First Edition. WOOLMAN, John. A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experience of That Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman, Late of Mount-Holly, in the Province of New Jersey, North-America, to which are added, His Works, containing his last Epistle and other Writings. Dublin: R. Jackson, 1776. Octavo, period style full brown calf, red morocco spine label; pp.(i-iii), iv-xv, (xvi), (1), 2-434 (2). $1100.Exceptional 1776 Dublin edition, the first complete edition to be printed in... Read More
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Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea
by HANWAY Jonas
1753. First Edition. HANWAY, Jonas. An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea: with a Journal of Travels from London through Russia into Persia; and back again through Russia, Germany and Holland. ISSUED WITH: The Revolutions of Persia. London: T. Osborne, D. Brown, et al., 1754. Four volumes. Quarto, contemporary full speckled calf rebacked, raised bands, burgundy morocco spine labels. $5800.First edition of Hanway's engaging narrative of his ""perilous adventures"" in the Caspian mercantile trade through... Read More
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Poetical Works
by SWIFT Jonathan
1892. SWIFT, Jonathan. The Poetical Works. New York and London: (Chiswick Press), circa 1893. Three volumes. 12mo, contemporary full crimson morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers with floral designs incorporating blue, green and white morocco inlays, green morocco-gilt doublures with red morocco inlays in a floral design, raised bands, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. $2800.Later Aldine edition of the poems of Swift, with portrait of the poet and extra-illustrated with 15 window-mounted engravings, six hand-colored, splendidly bound in... Read More
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British Dominions in North America. WITH: A Topographical Dictionary of... Lower Canada
by BOUCHETTE Joseph
1832. (CANADA) BOUCHETTE, Joseph. The British Dominions in North America; or a Topographical and Statistical Description of the Provinces of Canada. Two volumes. WITH: A Topographical Dictionary of the Province of Lower Canada. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1832. Together, three volumes. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt. $4500.Expanded second edition of Bouchette's important illustrated survey of Canada, with frontispiece portrait, 19 aquatint and lithographic views, including a lovely double-page prospect of Montreal, and 11 maps... Read More
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