![Nuptiae Sacra; or an Inquiry into the Scriptural Doctrine of Marriage and Divorce [with] Thoughts on the Propriety of Preventing Marriages Founded on Adultery](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/098/530/1547530098.0.l.jpg)
Nuptiae Sacra; or an Inquiry into the Scriptural Doctrine of Marriage and Divorce [with] Thoughts on the Propriety of Preventing Marriages Founded on Adultery
by [Marriage & Divorce] [Women's Rights]
London: J. Wright; Philanthropic Reform, 1801. First editions. Two pamphlets bound together in modern quarter calf over marbled boards with morocco label to spine. Measuring 203 x 120mm and both collating complete: [4], 136; 27, [1, blank]. Toning throughout both tracts, with closed tears to pages 69-70 and 77-80 with no loss of text; contemporary pencil annotations throughout the first tract documenting one reader's responses to the controversial claims. Numbers 2 and 4 in ink to headers of each... Read More
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![Accounts of the Estate of the late Miss Henrietta Campbell, Dec[eased]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/617/232/1486232617.0.l.jpg)
Accounts of the Estate of the late Miss Henrietta Campbell, Dec[eased]
by [Women's Property Rights]
Pembrokeshire and London, 1834. Folio measuring 190 x 110mm stitched at spine and comprised of 17 manuscript pages of accounts. Compiled by Henrietta Campbell's family friend and executor Dr. Lt. General Alexander Adams, the document shows the scope of Campbell's property, her outstanding expenses related to domestic labor and healthcare, the portion of her estate that was entailed, and the division of remaining money and personal items among her three sisters Lady Campbell, Lady Gage, and Mrs. Hulton. A... Read More
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The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds & Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel (in 2 vols.)
by Robinson, W. Heath (illustrator); Francois Rabelais
London: Grant Richards, 1904. First edition. Very Good. Two quarto volumes (11 3/16 x 8 3/4 inches; 285 x 223 mm.). xlii, [1, blank], [1, illustration], 377, [1, blank]; xliv, 350, [2, blank] pp. Photogravure frontispiece in each volume, with tissue guard. Volume I with fifty-five full-page illustrations, fifty-nine grotesque heads, and twenty-six other small drawings or vignettes, all in line. Volume II with forty-three full-page illustrations, thirty-five grotesque heads, and thirty-four other small drawings or vignettes, all... Read More
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![[The Art of Papermaking. As explained by W. Heath Robinson]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/129/732/1337732129.0.l.jpg)
[The Art of Papermaking. As explained by W. Heath Robinson]
by Robinson, W. Heath (illustrator)
London: G. Heath Robinson and J. Birch Ltd, 1922. A complete set of ten 3 3/16 x 3 3/16 inches: 82 x 82 mm. glass printer's slides, each one depicting a humorous image of the art of paper making. Each one printed in black on the inside of two sheets of glass secured together with a thin black tape border. The subjects: 1. "Rag experts selecting the best rag for a special paper" 2. "Carrying the rag... Read More
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Autograph Letter Signed (ALS) thanking the publishers for sending an art book
by Rodin, Auguste
Rue de Varenne, 1913. One sheet, Rodin's personal stationary, folded into four leaves, written on the first leaf only. One additional crease where the letter was folded, otherwise in excellent condition. Roughly translated as follows: "77 Rue de Varenne (VII') | February 11, 1913 | Gentlemen, I received your superb edition of the book on art and thank you infinitely for sending it, which has given me great pleasure and I send you all my thanks for this volume... Read More
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Collection Relating to the Financial Empire of a Woman & her Daughter
by [Women and Money] [Financial Estates] [Financial Autonomy] Mary Ann Tritch Rogers
Colorado; Massachusetts, 1942. Hailing from an immigrant family that rose to prominence in the West, Mary Tritch Rogers and her daughter Georgette Houston were often overlooked in their own time in favor of the family patriarchs. Mary's father George Tritch (1829-1899) was, after all, a German immigrant whose evolution from downtrodden pioneer to millionaire rail road and real estate magnate was documented in Sketches of Colorado (1911) and celebrated in numerous newspaper and society articles in his lifetime. Meanwhile,... Read More
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Au Royaume de la Perle
by Rosenthal, Leonard. Edmund Dulac (illustrator)
Paris: L'Edition D'Art. H. Piazza, 1920. First French edition. One of 1,500 copies. Original strong blue color wrappers, embossed and ornamented with sponge-like designs in silver and gilt; small paper label printed with brown lettering and design on front cover. This copy is not numbered but is an "Examplaire Offert par Léonard Rosenthal a M. Poupon".Large quarto (11 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches; 302 x 234 mm.). 139, [1, printer's imprint] pp. Ten mounted color plates, with descriptive tissue... Read More
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The Fur Hunters of the Far West; A Narrative of Adventure in the Oregon and Rocky Mountains
by Ross, Alexander
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1855. First edition. Near Fine. Lithograph frontispiece to each volume, folding map of the Pacific Northwest to volume one, 16 pp publisher's advertisements dated September 1855 to rear of volume two. Publisher's original orange blindstamped cloth gilt. Hinges cracked but holding firm, a little occasional foxing, spines a little toned. Head and tail of spine of volume one neatly reinforced. A Near Fine example. A fundamental account of fur trading in the... Read More
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Poems
by Rossetti, Christina
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923. Golden Treasury Series. Finely bound by Rivière and Son ca. 1923 (stamp-signed to lower turn-in) in contemporary full dark brown calf. Front cover with a fine art-deco design inlaid in colors and "C.G. Rossetti" inlaid in olive green. Spine with a single raised band, lettered in gilt and with an inlaid design, rear cover with a small design inlaid in colors. All edges gilt, marbled end-papers. Small octavo (5 7/8 x 3 3/4... Read More
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Verses (Presentation copy)
by Rossetti, Christina G.
London: G. Polidori's, 1847. First edition. Fine. A Fine copy, inscribed on front blank "E.H. Polidori / from Christina Rossetti / July 1847." Small octavo (6 1/4 x 3 7/8 inches; 159 x 98 mm.). [iv], 66, [2, blank] pp. Page 55-56 are in the corrected state: dated 1847 at the end; stanza 5, line 1 reads "And now that thou art gone"; stanza 5, line 3 reads "And see the clouds"; stanza 6, line 1 reads '"Yes,... Read More
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The Blessed Damozel (Signed limited edition)
by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel; Charles Ricketts; Thomas B. Mosher
Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1901. First Variorum edition. Number 2 of 10 copies printed on vellum (this being No. 2) signed by Thomas Mosher, with designs by Charles Ricketts. Small quarto (5 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 146 x 134 mm.). [i-v, blank], vi, limitation, [inserted photogravure portrait], xiii, [i, blank], [1]- 32, [2], [4, blank] pp. The photogravure frontispiece is after the author's 1874 portrait of Alexa Wilding for Lord Mount-Temple. Publishers vellum over boards, spine lettered in... Read More
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Goodbye, Columbus (Inscribed first edition)
by Roth, Philip
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of Roth's first book, in a Near Fine dust jacket. Book is inscribed on the title page by the author, and dated in 2007. The dust jacket is just a bit toned on the spine and with a little bend at the crown. Otherwise a lovely example of this modern high spot. Housed in a custom grey slipcase with chemise. Goodbye, Columbus compiles the titular... Read More
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
by Rowling, J. K.
London: Bloomsbury, 1999. First edition. Fine/Fine. First printing (numberline to 1), first state with "Joanne Rowling" on the copyright page and page 7 with the misaligned text. A Fine copy in like dust jacket. Pages very faintly toned at margins, still a very appealing copy. The exciting third book in the series, where the action really starts to heat up and we first become acquainted with Sirius Black. Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award, the Bram... Read More
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by Rowling, J. K.
New York: Arthur A. Levine Books - Scholastic, 1998. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy of the book in like jacket. Book with a contemporary owner's gift inscription on the front free end paper. In a very attractive dust jacket with "The Guardian" blurb on the rear panel (as required for the first issue jacket). Very slight foxing to the jacket, only visible from the verso. Overall, a handsome copy of a book that... Read More
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by Rowling, J. K.
New York: Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Press, 1998. First American edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket (with just a bit of sunning to the spine panel). With The Guardian blurb on the rear panel (as required for the first issue jacket). Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first book in the series, brought the wizarding world to muggle readers across the United States. This first printing of Sorcerer's Stone was... Read More
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The Works of John Ruskin (in 26 vols.)
by Ruskin, John
Philadelphia: Reuwee, Wattley & Walsh, 1891. Edition de Luxe. Strictly limited to 550 copies, of which this is 206. Signed in black ink by The United States Book Company. Twenty-six octavo volumes (8 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches; 222 x 150 mm.). Early twentieth century three-quarter green calf over green, gold and white marbled boards ruled in gilt. Spines with five shallow raised bands, decoratively tooled in compartments. Brown and dark blue morocco labels lettered in gilt. Top edge... Read More
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Selection of lyric poems copied out by an educated woman, including work by Bluestocking Anna Laetitia Barbauld
by [Commonplace Book] Mrs. Russell
[n.p.], 1830. Comprised of 7 pages in ink in a single hand, containing six works of poetry. Dark blue printed wraps over lined paper, measuring 7x 6 inches. Ownership signature of Mrs. Russell to header of front wrap. Scattered foxing and some dampstaining not affecting text. Text block loose but holding. In all, an intriguing glimpse into a woman's use of literature to express her own preoccupations with humans' place between nature and the divine. The six poems... Read More
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A Few Selections from the Writings of Paul Lindsay Russell
by Russell, Paul Lindsay
Lake Forest, Ill, 1910. First edition. Very Good. Publisher's plain black cloth. Octavo. 44 pp. Some toning and an ink spot to upper flyleaf. Ink ownership signature, dated 1910, to upper pastedown. A Very Good copy of a rare work of poetry by a obscure Black author. The introduction explains that Paul Lindsay Russell was born in a "hamlet" in South Carolina in 1890. "As he was only one of a large family of children, his... Read More
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The First Part and the Second Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha
by Ashendene Press; Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
[Chelsea]: [The Ashendene Press], 1927. First Ashendene edition. Fine. One of 225 copies on Batchelor paper, out of a total edition of 245 copies. A bright, Fine set. Two large folio vols (430 x 308 mm). Beautifully bound in original full white pigskin. Printed in red and black in Ptolemy type; text in double columns; border and initials designed by Louise Powell and cut on wood by W. M. Quick and Geo. H. Ford. Bookplates of Don Cameron... Read More
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Sketches from Punch's Book of British Costumes
by Sambourne, Edward Linley
London, 1874. Oblong twelvemo (3 x 5 1/2 inches; 75 x 140 mm.). Hand colored manuscript title-page and 59 original pen and ink hand-drawn satirical cartoons after images produced in Punch magazine, one dated January 1874. A fine Persian style lacquer 'wallet' binding ca. 1874, original purple velvet spine expertly restored, original silver clasp. Housed in a red felt lined quarter black morocco over pale green cloth clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt... Read More
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Shane
by Schaefer, Jack
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. Original cream cloth-grain boards, titles to spine and front cover in black. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom brown morocco-backed brown cloth solander box. Cloth bright and fresh, binding square and tight, light foxing to top edge of book block, contents clean and fresh, a Fine copy in very Nearly Fine jacket, not price-clipped, minor rubbing to edges, short closed tear to head of front and rear... Read More
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The Pleasure Garden. An Illustrated History of British Gardening
by Scott-James, Anne
London: John Murray, 1977. First edition. Small quarto (9 1/16 x 6 1/2 inches; 231 x 165 mm.). One of ten copies specially bound by Zaehnsdorf in quarter green morocco, ruled in gilt, over green cloth boards. Vellum tips. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt with two raised bands and with Zaehnsdorf monogram in gilt at foot of spine. Top edge gilt. Olive green endpapers. Text illustrations. Housed in a fleece-lined green cloth slipcase. A Fine copy. ... Read More
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Live and Let Live; or Domestic Service Illustrated
by [Sedgwick, Catharine Maria]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1837. First edition. Near Fine. BAL second state, without the period following the word Illustrated on the title page. Original green publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine. Some rubbing to extremities and boards. In all square and sound. Small stains to front endpapers. Early ownership signature to header of title. With less foxing than typical. Collating viii, 9-216, 16: complete, retaining publisher's catalogue to rear. With one appearance at auction in the... Read More
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The History of Female Favourites..
by [Sex Work] La Roche-Guilhem, Anne de
London: Printed for C. Parker, 1772. First English language edition. Contemporary calf with five raised bands. Measuring 217 x 127mm. Front blank neatly excised, else collating complete: [4], 324. Front board slightly bowed with small scuff; lacking spine label, and with cracking to joints near spine ends but remaining sound. Armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Headfort to the front pastedown. Minor worming to pastedowns and to preliminary and final leaves not affecting text. Internally fresh and unmarked. A... Read More
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The Court of Cupid. Containing the Eighth Edition of the Meretriciad, with Great Additions (in 2 vols.)
by [Sex Work] [Thompson, Edward] The Author of the Meretriciad
London: Printed for C. Moran, 1770. First collected edition. Contemporary speckled calf, skillfully rebacked with original spines laid down. Gilt and morocco labels to spines. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 155 x 96mm and collating complete, including final advert leaf to volume II: [2], ii, 147, [1, blank]; [2], v, [1, advert], 139, [3]. Bookplates of J. O. Edwards to front pastedowns of each, with additional bookseller's ticket to front endpaper of volume II. Front endpaper of volume I detached at... Read More
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