Trial of Theodore Parker
by BURNS Anthony PARKER Theodore
1855. First Edition. Signed. (BURNS, Anthony) PARKER, Theodore. The Trial of Theodore Parker, for the 'Misdemeanor' of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855. With the Defence. Boston: Published for the Author, 1855. Octavo, original brown cloth. $2800.First edition of the fiery abolitionist's attack on the trial and rendition of Anthony Burns, and the federal governments attempt to prosecute Parker and other key abolitionists""one of the... Read More
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Histoire de l'Empire Ottoman
by LAVALLEE Theophile
1855. First Edition. LAVALÉE, Théophile. Histoire de l'Empire Ottoman. Paris: Garnier Frères, 1855. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter black morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges. $1600.First edition of this history of the Ottoman Empire, with 18 steel-engraved plates by Allom, Bentley, Salmon, and Leitch, including a striking frontispiece view of Istanbul. Handsomely bound.Lavallée's history of the Ottoman Empire covers the rise of one of the largest and most powerful empires the world has ever seen, from ancient... Read More
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Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species
by CLARKSON Thomas
1786. First Edition. (CLARKSON, Thomas). An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African . With Additions. London, Printed: Philadelphia: Re-Printed by Joseph Crukshank, 1786. Octavo, period-style full brown speckled calf gilt, red morocco spine label, raised bands; pp. (i-v), vi-xix, (xx-xxi), 22-155. $4500.First American edition of Clarkson's extremely scarce first published work, preceded by the same years first English edition, his famous prize essay on the abolition of slavery, igniting the campaign for one... Read More
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Northern Cambrian Mountains
by COMPTON Thomas
1817. (WALES) [COMPTON, Thomas]. The Northern Cambrian Mountains, or a Tour Through North Wales, Describing the Scenery and General Characters of that Romantic Country, and Embellished with a Series of Highly-Finished Coloured Views, Engraved from Original Drawings. London: Thomas Clay, 1820. Folio (measures 10 by 13-1/2 inches), contemporary marbled boards sympathetically rebacked and recornered in brown calf, raised bands. $9800.Second and enlarged edition, with 39 magnificent hand-colored aquatint plates of views of North Walesnine more than the 30 found... Read More
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Thoughts on Emigration
by COOPER Thomas
1794. First Edition. COOPER, Thomas. Thoughts on Emigration, in a Letter from a Gentleman in Philadelphia, to His Friend in England. London: No publisher, 1794. Slim octavo, modern marbled paper wrappers, paper cover label. Housed in a custom half cloth portfolio with attached chemise. $2400.First separate edition of this letter between Thomas Cooper and Joseph Priestley, treating America as a haven for Dissenters, abolitionists, and all those British citizens no longer sympathetic with the British government.Born in England and... Read More
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History of the Worthies
by FULLER Thomas
1662. First Edition. FULLER, Thomas. The History of the Worthies of England. Endeavoured by Thomas Fuller, D.D. London: J[ohn]. G[rismond]. W. L. and W[illiam]. G[odbid]., 1662. Folio (8-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches), 18th-century full paneled calf rebacked, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, gilt armorial centerpiece on covers. $1400.First edition, with engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and featuring an early biography of Shakespeare, in nicely rebacked calf with armorial centerpieces.The Worthies of churchman and... Read More
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Poems
by GRAY Thomas
1768. First Edition. GRAY, Thomas. Poems by Mr. Gray. London: J. Dodsley, 1768. Octavo, contemporary full red morocco, covers with border of onlaid black morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated covers and spine, raised bands, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. $2200.First collected edition of Gray's poetry, including his masterpiece ""Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard"" (first published in 1751), one of the most famous poems in the English language. Handsomely bound in contemporary morocco-gilt.Thomas Gray was ""a... Read More
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Jude the Obscure
by HARDY Thomas
1896. First Edition. HARDY, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. (London: Osgood, McIlvaine, 1896). Octavo, original gilt-stamped blue-green cloth, top edge gilt, uncut. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase. $2200.First edition, first issue, of Hardy's last work of fiction, with map and lovely frontispiece etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, in original cloth. The copy of Frank J. Hogan, with his morocco-gilt bookplate.Jude the Obscure ""was begun as a serial story in Harper's Magazine at the end of November... Read More
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Changed Man
by HARDY Thomas
1913. First Edition. HARDY, Thomas. A Changed Man, The Waiting Supper, and Other Tales, Concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. London: Macmillan, 1913. Octavo, original dark green cloth, top edge gilt, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and slipcase. $2500.First edition of this collection of a dozen of Hardy's short stories, including his lengthy gothic tale ""The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid,"" with photogravure frontispiece, in very scarce original dust jacket.""A Changed Man is... Read More
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Littletons Tenures in English
by LITTLETON Thomas
1616. (LITTLETON, Thomas). Littletons Tenures in English. London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1616. 12mo, contemporary full calf rebacked and recornered, raised bands, red morocco spine label. $2800.Early 17th-century edition in English of what has been deservedly called by Holdsworth one of the five great works in the history of English law, and by Coke ""the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any human science.""""Littleton's Tenures was written in the professional law French of... Read More
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Whole Proceedings on the Trial Against Thomas Paine
by PAINE Thomas
1793. (PAINE, Thomas). The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of an Information Exhibited ex Officio by the King's Attorney-General Against Thomas Paine. London: Martha Gurney, 1793. Octavo, period-style half brown calf and marbled boards, red morocco spine label; pp. (1-3), 4-196. $4000.Second edition, issued in the same year as the first, of the court transcript to Thomas Paine's 1792 British trial for seditious libel. A scarce and valued record, handsomely bound.Paine's Rights of Man is ""the clearest of all... Read More
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Trial of Thomas Paine, For a Libel
by PAINE Thomas
1792. First Edition. PAINE, Thomas. The Trial of Thomas Paine, For a Libel, Contained in the Second Part of Rights of Man, Before Lord Kenyon, and a Special Jury, At Guildhall, December 18, 1792. With the Speeches of the Attorney General and Mr. Erskine, at Large. London: C. and G. Kearsley, 1792. Slim octavo, modern full polished green calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers; pp. (ii), (1) 2-45. $3500.One of the first editions of the first contemporary... Read More
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Life and Works of Thomas Paine
by PAINE Thomas
1925. PAINE, Thomas. The Life and Works of Thomas Paine. Life of Thomas Paine by William M. Van der Weyde with an Introduction by Thomas A. Edison. New Rochelle, New York: Thomas Paine National Historical Association, 1925. Ten volumes. Octavo, modern three-quarter brown morocco gilt, raised bands, uncut. $5500.Patriots Edition of the complete writings of Thomas Paine, illustrated with 32 full-page portraits and photographs, handsomely bound.Thomas Paine remains a powerful ""symbol of the modern fight for the rights of... Read More
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Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance
by PAINE Thomas
1796. First Edition. PAINE, Thomas. The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance. Philadelphia: Printed [by Henry Sweitzer] for Robert Campbell, 1796. Octavo, period-style marbled wraps; pp.(1-3) 4-27 (28). $1500.1796 American edition of Paine's fiery attack on the British financial system, issued the same year as the Paris first edition, asserting the impact of the American Revolution on England, citing Adam Smith and prompting a run on the Bank of England.With Paine's controversial Decline and Fall, he... Read More
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Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance
by PAINE Thomas
1796. PAINE, Thomas. The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance. Paris: Printed by Hartley, Adlard and Son. London: Reprinted for D.I. Eaton, 1796. Slim octavo, period-style half brown calf and gray paper boards; pp. 44. $2000.First English edition and second edition in English of Paine's fiery attack on British finance, with Jefferson possessing a copy in his library and Paine writing Jefferson in 1797, saying, ""people who affected to laugh at my Decline and Fall now... Read More
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V.
by PYNCHON Thomas
1963. First Edition. PYNCHON, Thomas. V. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, (1963). Octavo, original lavender cloth, mustard endpapers, original dust jacket. $4200.First edition of Pynchon's first novel, a beautiful copy in the elusive first-issue dust jacket.V.'s far-reaching scope and complexity established Pynchon as one of the most imaginative voices of the postwar era. ""Inconclusive, gripping, confusing in outline but convincing in detail, V. is a blackly comic odyssey into the occult corners and bizarre anxieties of 20th-century Europe and America"" (Parker,... Read More
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Canterbury Tales
by CHAUCER TYRWHITT Thomas
1775. CHAUCER (TYRWHITT, Thomas, editor). The Canterbury Tales. London: T. Payne, 1775-78. Five volumes. Octavo, early 19th-century full navy straight-grain morocco, elaborately blind-tooled spines, raised bands, all edges gilt. $4800.First Tyrwhitt edition of Chaucers classic""the best-edited English Classic that ever has appeared""handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt. From the esteemed collection of Frederic Perkins, with his engraved armorial bookplates.In preparing his groundbreaking edition, Tyrwhitt consulted roughly 25 manuscripts of Chaucer's Tales. ""Tyrwhitt's edition has enjoyed the highest reputation, and the... Read More
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Complete Collection of State-Trials
by EMLYN Sollom SALMON Thomas
1730. [EMLYN, Sollom; SALMON, Thomas]. A Complete Collection of State-Trials, and Proceedings for High-Treason, and other Crimes and Misdemeanours; from the Reign of King Richard II. To the End of the Reign of King George I. London: J Walthoe et al., 1730-35. Eight volumes. Folio, contemporary full brown sheep rebacked, raised bands, red morocco spine labels. $9000.Second edition, considerably expanded, of this collection of English state trials, giving detailed accounts of some of the most famous and consequential English... Read More
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Whole Proceedings of the Trial of Indictment against Thomas Walker... for a Conspiracy to Overthrow the Constitution and Government
by GURNEY Joseph ERSKINE Thomas
1794. First Edition. [ERSKINE, Thomas] GURNEY, Joseph, reporter. The Whole Proceedings of the Trial of Indictment against Thomas Walker [and five others] for a Conspiracy to Overthrow the Constitution and Government, and to Aid and Assist the French, (being the King's Enemies). Philadelphia: Samuel Harrison Smith, 1794. Octavo, period-style full marbled calf, red morocco spine label; pp. 104, xix. $950.First American edition of one of Thomas Erskine's most famous cross examinations, in which he demolished the principal witness for... Read More
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History of the Indian Tribes of North America
by HALL James MCKENNEY Thomas
1854. McKENNEY, Thomas and HALL, James. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs Philadelphia: D. Rice and A. N. Hart, 1854. Three volumes. Royal octavo, publisher's full brown morocco expertly rebacked with original spines neatly laid down, blind-tooled boards and spines, raised bands, all edges gilt. $25,000.Second octavo edition of one of the most recognized and desirable American color plate books produced in the 19th century, illustrated with 120... Read More
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Miscellaneous Tracts
by SIMPSON Thomas
1757. First Edition. SIMPSON, Thomas. Miscellaneous Tracts on Some Curious, and Very Interesting Subjects in Mechanics, Physical-Astronomy, and Speculative Mathematics; Wherein, the Precession of the Equinox, the Nutation of the Earth's Axis, and the Motion of the Moon in Her Orbit, Are Determined. London: J. Nourse, 1757. Small quarto, period-style half calf-gilt, red morocco spine label, marbled boards. $3000.First edition of this collection of Simpson's astronomical papers, including the first book appearance of Simpson's important paper on taking the... Read More
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De Antiquo et Novo Italiae Statu Libri Quatuor. Adversus Macchiavellum
by MACHIAVELLI Niccolo BOZIUS Thomas
1596. First Edition. (MACHIAVELLI) BOZIUS, Thomas. De Antiquo et Novo Italiae Statu Libri Quatuor. Adversus Macchiavellum. Rome: Guglielmum Facciottum, 1596. Small quarto, modern full brown calf, raised bands, red morocco spine label. $1100.First edition of this harshly critical polemic against Machiavellian theories and thought, attractively bound.Machiavelli's The Prince, Discourses on Livy, and a majority of Machiavelli's other works were listed in Pope Paul IV's list of prohibited books in 1559. ""The backlash of the Catholic Church and the Jesuits... Read More
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Solemn Appeal to the Public, from an Injured Officer, Captain Baillie
by NELSON Horatio BAILLIE Thomas
1779. First Edition. (NELSON, Lord Horatio) (Horatio, Viscount Merton of Trafalgar) BAILLIE, Thomas. A Solemn Appeal to the Public, from an Injured Officer, Captain Baillie, Late Lieutenant Governor, of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich. London: for Baillie by J. Almon, 1779. Tall folio (10-1/2 by 17 inches), contemporary full red morocco rebacked with original elaborately gilt-decorated spine laid down, marbled endpapers; pp. (8), xliv, 190. $4500.Admiral Horatio Nelson family copy of this defense of Thomas Baillie, complete... Read More
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Family Shakespeare
by SHAKESPEARE BOWDLER Thomas
1825. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Family Shakespeare. London: Longman et al., 1825. Ten volumes. 12mo, early full dark purple calf, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, brown morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers and edges. $3200.Fourth edition of Thomas Bowdler's Family Shakespeare, famously edited to make the plays more appropriate for children, beautifully bound.Thomas Bowdler's own description of this edition, stated on the title, calls it an edition ""in which nothing is added to the original text; but those words and expressions... Read More
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Independent Whig
by TRENCHARD John GORDON Thomas
1736. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) [GORDON, Thomas and TRENCHARD, John]. The Independent Whig: Or, a Defence of Primitive Christianity, and of Our Ecclesiastical Establishment, against the Exorbitant Claim and Encroachments of Fanatical and Disaffected Clergymen. London: Printed for J. Peele and Sold by J. Osborn, 1736. Two volumes. 12mo, contemporary full speckled calf, raised bands, renewed red morocco spine labels. $1200.Early edition of this pioneering and influential work by Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard, ""the foremost libertarian thinkers of the early... Read More
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