Journal of a Cruise of the United States Schooner Dolphin
by PAULDING, Hiram
New York: G.& C.& H. Carvill, 1831. First edition. Twelvemo (6 1/4 x 3 7/8 inches; 160 x 100 mm). 258, [2, blank] pp. With frontispiece folding map. Original full pink cloth, with original printed paper spine label. Label is complete. All edges uncut. Previous owner's old ink signature on front free endpaper. Small ink spot on title-page. Small ink spot and small hole on front endpaper. Cloth with some sunning to edges and spine. With foxing throughout,... Read More
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Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Flowering Plants
by PAXTON, Joseph
London: Orr & Smith/William S. Orr & Co, 1834. Sixteen octavo volumes (9 ? x 6 ½ inches; 236 x 166 mm). With 717 hand-colored engraved or lithographed plates. Numerous wood engravings in the text. Including the rarely present volume XVI. With an additional 5 colored plates on ornaments, and one unnumbered plate. Half green morocco over green cloth boards. Gilt decoration and lettering on the spine. Spines lightly sunned and extremities slightly bumped. Overall a very good... Read More
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Sight and Touch [LEC]
by PAZ, Octavio
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1994. BALTHUS; LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. BALTHUS, [artist]. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Sight and Touch. In Spanish, English and French. With Three Woodcuts by Balthus New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1994. Full Description: PAZ, Octavio. BALTHUS, [artist]. Sight and Touch. In Spanish, English and French. With Three Woodcuts by Balthus New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1994. Limited to 300 copies signed by Paz and Balthus on the limitation page. This... Read More
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Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England
by PEPYS, Samuel
London: Printed for Ben Griffin, 1690. First Edition of the Author's Only Acknowledged Publication [PEPYS, Samuel]. Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England, for Ten Years, Determin'd December 1688. London: Printed for Ben Griffin, 1690. First edition with the Griffin-Keble imprint. Small octavo (6 11/16 x 4 5/16 inches; 170 x 110mm). [4], 214, [18], [2, blank] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait by R. White after G. Kneller. With a large folding sheets of... Read More
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Verzameling van Verschillende Gekleede Mans- en Vrouwen-Standen
by PERKOIS, Jacobus
Rotterdam: J. Immerzeel, Jr., 1818. PERKOIS, Jacobus. . Verzameling van Verschillende Gekleede Mans- en Vrouwen-Standen. Ter Oefening van Jonge Schilders en Liefhebbers, naar't leven geteekend door de Kunstteekenaars Perkois en Prins, en in't koper gebragt door den Kunstgraveur M. de Sallieth. Rotterdam: J. Immerzeel, Jr., 1818. First edition. Thirty-three beautiful hand-colored plates depicting street vendors and other laborers, many of which are women, by Sallieth after Jacobus Perkois and and Huibert Prins. Title-page with an engraved vignette by... Read More
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Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes
by PERON, Francois Auguste
Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1807. Full Description: PERON, Francois Auguste. Louis FREYCINET. Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes, exécuté par ordre de Sa Majesté l'Empereur et Roi, sur les corvettes "Le Géographe", "Le Naturaliste", et la goëlette "Le Casuarina", pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804; publié par décret impérial, sous le ministère de M. de Champagny, et rédigé par M. F. Péron, Naturaliste de l'Expédition. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1807-1816. First edition. Complete with two text... Read More
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Histoires ou Contes du Tems Passe
by PERRAULT, Charles
Amsterdam: Chez Jaques Desbordes, 1708. Full Description: PERRAULT, Charles. Histoires ou Contes du Tems Passe. Avec des Moralitez Par le Fils de Monsieur Perreaul. de l'Academie Francois. Amsterdam: Chez Jaques Desbordes, 1708. A very early rare edition of the "Mother Goose" fairy tales of Charles Perrault which is an exact reprint of the Dutch counterfeit published the same year as the first edition of Paris, 1697. Twelvemo (4 5/8 x 2 13/16 inches; 119 x 71 mm).... Read More
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Fairy Garland
by PERRAULT, Charles
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1928. DULAC, Edmund. . [PERRAULT, Charles, author]. A Fairy Garland. Being Tales from the Old French. London: Cassell & Company, Limited, [1928]. First Edition. Limited to 1,000 copies signed by Dulac, this being number 572. Large quarto (8 7/8 x 11 1/8 inches; 225 x 282 mm). 251 pp. With twelve color plates. Quarter vellum over blue cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine tips very lightly bumped.... Read More
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Tales of Passed Times by Mother Goose
by PERRAULT, Charles
London: Printed for W. Osborne and J. Griffin, 1786. MOTHER GOOSE. . With Morals. Translated from the French. The Twenty-second Edition. London: Printed for W. Osborne and J. Griffin, 1786. Full Description: [PERRAULT, Charles]. [MOTHER GOOSE]. The Tales of Passed Times by Mother Goose.. With Morals. Translated from the French. The Twenty-second Edition. London: Printed for W. Osborne and J. Griffin, 1786. An early, rare edition. The "Twenty-second" edition. Small sixteenmo (3 7/8 x 2 9/16... Read More
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Economic Writings of Sir William Petty
by PETTY, William
Cambridge: The University Press, 1899. Full Description: PETTY, William. The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty. Together with the Observations upon the Bills of Mortality, more probably by Captain John Graunt. Edited by Charles Henry Hull. Cambridge: The University Press, 1899. First edition of Petty's collected economic writings. Two octavo volumes (8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 207 x 144 mm). With a frontispieces for each volume. Volume II with two frontispieces. This set includes "A Treatise... Read More
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Elementa Doctrinae de Circulis Coelestibus et Primo Motu
by PEUCER, Kaspar
Wittenberg: Excudebat Johannes Crato, 1569. Full Description: PEUCER, Kaspar. Elementa Doctrinae de Circulis Coelestibus et Primo Motu. recognita et correcta. Wittenberg: Excudebat Johannes Crato, 1569. Early (4th?) edition. First published in 1551. With numerous woodcut diagrams in the text, including four with working volvelles in facsimile. Volvelles found on pages 91, 94, 149 and 189. Also with eight folding tables. A woodcut device on title-page and woodcut initials. Small octavo (6 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches; 159... Read More
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Theoricæ Novæ Planetarvm
by PEURBACH, Georg von
Basileae: Ex Officina Henric Petrina, 1573. PEURBACH, Georg von. errores, ex neglecta temporis aequation prouenientes, ostendutur, & multa quae ad Theoricarum, praesertins Octauae Sphaetae, intellectum faciunt, explicantur. QVAESTIONES VERO IN Theoricas Planetarum Purbachn, authore CHRISTIANO VRSTISIO Basil. eadem forma damus. Omnia recens in gratiam Candidatorum Astronomiae edita. Cum gratia & priuilegio Caes. Maiest. Basileae: [Ex Officina Henric Petrina, 1573]. Early edition of Peurbach's Theoricæ Novæ Planetarvm. Together with the follow up work: Quaestiones In Theoricas Planetarum by Christian... Read More
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Phaedri, Augusti Caesaris Liberti, Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri Quinque
by PHAEDRUS
Amsterdam: Johannem Janssonium and Elizei Wyerstraet, 1667. AESOP. Full Description: PHAEDRUS. [AESOP]. Phaedri, Augusti Caesaris Liberti, Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri Quinque. Notis perpetuis illustrati, & cum integris aliorum observationibus in lucem editi a Johanne Laurentio Jcto. Amsterdam: Johannem Janssonium and Elizei Wyerstraet, 1667. The first illustrated edition of Phaedrus to be published in the Netherlands and the first and only Laurentius edition. With Octavo (7 x 4 1/2 inches; 180 x 115 mm). [62], 462, [204, Index Vocabulorum]... Read More
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Examen Vanitatis Doctrinae Gentivm
by PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, Giovanni Francesco
Mirandola: Giov. Mazzochi, 1520. First edition. Folio (11 15/16 x 8 5/16 inches; 303 x 211 mm). [6], 208 leaves. Full marbled calf. Boards tooled in gilt. With gilt central device with the coat of arms of Pope Pius VI. Spine with two morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Edges dyed blue. Floral endpapers. With a tiny hole repaired in the final leaf. Otherwise an exceptionally clean copy. Provenance: Giuseppe Martini, with his name and copious note... Read More
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Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi
by PIKE, Zebulon Montgomery
Philadelphia: Published by C. & A. Conrad, & Co..., 1810. Full Description: PIKE, Z[ebulon] M[ontgomery]. An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi,. and through the Western Parts of Louisiana, to the Sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Juan, Rivers; Performed by the Order of the Government of the United States during the Years 1805, 1806, and 1807. And a Tour through the Interior Parts of New Spain, When Conducted through these Provinces,... Read More
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Mentorial Tales for the Instruction of Young Ladies
by PILKINGTON, Mrs
Philadelphia: Johnson and Warner, 1811. Early American edition. First English edition was printed in 1802 and first American edition in 1803. Present dedication page dated October 1, 1802. One twelvemo volume (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches; 137 x 85 mm). iv, [1, contents], [1, blank], 5-292 pp. We could find no copies of either the first American or First English at auction. We could find only one complete copy of the 1803 edition in a library. Contemporary... Read More
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Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale, ou La Manie
by PINEL, Philippe
Paris: Chez Richard, Caille et Ravier, 1801. The Textual Foundation of Psychiatry PINEL, Ph[ilippe]. Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale, ou la Manie...Avec figures représentant des formes de crâne ou des portraits d'aliénés. Paris: Chez Richard, Caille et Ravier, An IX [1800/1801]. First edition. Octavo. lvi, 318 pp. Folding letterpress table (between pp. 250 and 251) and two engraved plates. Contemporary French quarter mottled sheep over paste paper boards. Smooth spine ruled in gilt with gilt red... Read More
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Traité de la Circulation et du Crédit
by PINTO, Isaac De
Amsterdam: Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1771. The very scarce first edition. xvi, 368, with additional [8] pp. (sheet H* inserted before gathering I: entitled, Etat des Finances en Angleterre a la fin de la session du Parlement en 1770). Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt with green label and gilt lettering: at foot of spine in gilt lettering 'Bibliothèque de Michel Chevalier' (spine head slightly frayed). Occasional spotting and staining, but a very good... Read More
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Artis Cabalisticae: Hoc Est, Recondite Theologiae Et Philosophiae, Scriptorum
by PISTORIUS, Johannes
Basileae: Sebastianum Henricpetri, 1587. PISTORIUS, Johannes; REUCHLIN, Johannes. editor]. REUCHLIN, Johannes, [contributor]. Artis Cabalisticae: Hoc Est, Recondite Theologiae Et Philosophiae, Scriptorum. Tomus I. In quo Pauli Ricii Theologicos & Philosopicos libros sunt Latini pene omnes & Hebraei nonnulli praestantissimi Scriptores, qui artem commentarijs suis illustrarunt. Opus Omnibus Theologis Et Occultae Abstrusaeq'ue Philosophiae Studiosis pernecessarium: & hactenus a claissimis multis uiris mango defiderio exspectatum. Basileae: Sebastianum Henricpetri, 1587. Full Description: PISTORIUS, Johannes, [editor]. [Johannes Reuchlin, Paolo Riccio, Leo... Read More
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Victoria Regia, au Point de Vue Horticole et Botanique
by PLANCHON, Jules
Ghent: C. Arnoot-Braeckman for L. van Houtte, 1850. VAN HOUTTE, Louis. La Victoria Regia, au Point de Vue Horticole et Botanique. avec des Observations sur la Structure et les Affinites des Nympheacees. Ghent: C. Arnoot-Braeckman for L. van Houtte, 1850. Full Description: PLANCHON, Jules. VAN HOUTTE, Louis. La Victoria Regia, au Point de Vue Horticole et Botanique. avec des Observations sur la Structure et les Affinites des Nympheacees. Ghent: C. Arnoot-Braeckman for L. van Houtte, 1850. ... Read More
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Opera
by PLATO
Venice: Vernardinus de Choris, de Cremona, and Simon de Luere, for Andreas Torresanus, 1491. Venice: Bernardinus de Choris and Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus, August, 13 1491. [And:] FICINO, Marsilio. Platonica theologia de immortalitate animorum. Venice: 13 August 1491. Second edition of the works of Plato. Folio (11 7/8 x 8 inches; 301 x 206 mm). [4], 444 leaves. Printed in Gothic type in double columns. With beautifully illuminated initials and border to the first text leaf.... Read More
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The Jewel House of Art and Nature
by PLAT, Sir Hugh
London: Printed by Elzabeth Alsop, 1653. Containing Divers Rare and Profitable Inventions, together with Sundry New Experiments in the Art of Husbandry. With Divers Chymical Conclusions concerning the Art of Distillation, and the Rare Practices and uses thereof...Wherunto is added. A Rare and Excellent Discourse of Minerals, Stones, Gums, and Resins; with the Vertues and use thereof. London: Printed by Elizabeth Alsop, 1653. Revised edition and second overall edition. Small quarto (7 ? x 5 ½ inches; 185... Read More
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
by POE, Edgar Allan
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [n.d. c.a. 1932]. First photoplay edition. In publisher's dust jacket. Octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 202 x 136 mm). [4], 315, [1, publisher's ads] pp. "Illustrated with scenes from the Universal Photoplay, presented by Carl Laemmle." With photographic endpapers, frontispiece and six additional movie still black-and-white plates, one of which is double paged. These film stills are from the Universal motion picture of "The Murders in... Read More
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Poems of the "Old South
by POETRY
Boston: Old South Fair Committee, 1879. POETRY. The rare deluxe autograph edition, published two years after the trade edition. Signed or inscribed by each of the six poets. Small octavo (7 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 180 x 147 mm). [2], 35, [1, blank] pp. With a sheet signed by each of the authors inserted to face the beginning of their respective poem. With frontispiece, historiated initials and engraved vignettes throughout. Publisher's original red-brown cloth binding bound in at... Read More
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Muse in Good Humour
by POETRY
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1745. POETRY. [with]: The Muse in Good Humour: or, A Collection of Enigma's, Serious and Comic. With a Complete Key to the Whole. Part II. Vol. II. London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1745. First Cooper edition. Volume II only. Two parts in one twelvemo volume, comprising Part II (6 1/2 x 3 5/8 inches; 164 x 94 mm). [2], ii, 174; viii, 148 pp. Bound without General title-page. Parts I and II each... Read More
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