Metamorphosis;
by SANDS, Benjamin
New York: Samuel Wood and Sons, 1824. TRANSFORMATION BOOK. [SANDS, Benjamin, author]. Metamorphosis; or, a Transformation of Pictures, with Poetical Explanations, for the Amusement of Young Persons. New York: Samuel Wood and Sons. Printed by J. Rakestraw, Philadelphia, 1824. A later edition, first published in Philadelphia circa 1787. Oblong leaf folded perpendicularly three times into 4 leaves; the top (80 mm) and bottom (60 mm) are folded inward over the central portion and spaces between the leaves have... Read More
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Signed Photograph
by SANGER, Margaret
New York: Ira L. Hill, 1917. SANGER, Margaret. Margaret Sanger. An Autobiography. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1938]. First edition. Octavo (9 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches; 237 x 161 mm). [1]-504, [2] pp. With photographic frontispiece portrait. Title-page printed in black and blue. Original full blue cloth. Spine printed in orange and gilt, and lettered in gilt. Top edge brick red, others uncut. Some minor rubbing to boards. Overall about fine. Margaret Sanger is... Read More
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De herbis et plantis, De Animalibus & reptilibus
by HORTUS SANITATIS
Venice: Bernardinus Benalius & Johannes de Tridino alias Tacuinus, 1511. [H]ORTUS SANITATIS. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius & Johannes de Tridino alias Tacuinus, 1511]. The fifth, expanded edition of the Latin text and the first edition printed in Italy. The tract De facile acquisibilibus is added for the first time as a supplement to the section De urinis. Folio (11 7/8 x 8 1/8 inches; 300 x 205 mm). With 367 (of 368) leaves, bound without the final blank which... Read More
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Gene Sarazen Signed Photograph and Signed Score Card
by SARAZEN, Gene
Georgia, 1935. SARAZEN, Gene. Georgia: 1935. Black and white photograph signed "Gene Sarazen" in black ink on bottom. (Measures 9 3/4 x 7 1/2"). Photograph of Sarazen alone on the course, dropping one of his putts that leads him to the Masters in Augusta, Georgia on April 9th, 1935. He is surrounded by elegantly dressed spectators as he sinks his putt into the 9th green during his thirty-six hole play off. Catching up to Craig Wood who wholed... Read More
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Traite d'Enluminure d'Art au Pochoir
by SAUDÉ, Jean
Paris: Editions de l'Ibis, 1925. Full Description: SAUDÉ, Jean. Traité d'Enluminure d'Art au Pochoir. Prédédé de notes par MM. Antoine Bourdelle, Lucien Descaves...et S E M. Aquarelles de Beauzée-Reynaud, Benedictus, Bourdelle, Brunetta, L. Chapuis, Dorival, Abel Faivre, Halouze, Lepape, Madelaine, Morisset, Rodin, S E M et Vignal. Reproductions d'après Jean Fouquet, A. Besnard, Image de Georgin. Paris: Aux Éditions de l'Ibis, 1925. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies, this being number 464 signed by Saudé. Folio... Read More
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Traité d'économie politique
by SAY, Jean-Baptiste
Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Crapelet, 1803. Full Description: SAY, Jean-Baptiste. Traité d'économie politique, ou Simple exposition de la manière dont se forment, se distribuent, et se consomment les richesses. Paris: Chez Deterville, 1803. First edition. Two octavo volumes (7 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 195 x 125 mm). [3], [1, blank], xlvi, 527, [1, blank]; [3], [1, blank], 572 pp. Complete with half-titles. Bound with publisher's folded advertisement leaf at the end of volume II. Bound without... Read More
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Stock Market Theory And Practice
by SCHABACKER, Richard W.
New York: B.C. Forbes Publishing Company, 1930. New York: B.C. Forbes Publishing Company, [1930]. First edition. Octavo (9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 233 x 156 mm). [i]-xxix, [3], [1]-875, [1, blank] pp. With folding frontispiece map of the Financial District in New York, two folding charts, twelve black-and-white plates and ninety illustrations in the text. This volume also includes twelve appendices with historical records and statistics. Original full black paper boards, stamped in blind. Spine lettered... Read More
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Shane
by SCHAEFER, Jack
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. Full Description: SCHAEFER, Jack. Shane. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First edition of this scarce title, with the date printed on the title-page. Signed by Schaefer on the title-page. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches; 192 x 133 mm). [viii], 214, [2, blank] pp. Original light brown cloth, front cover and spine lettered in dark brown. Some light toning to pastedowns. In original unclipped dust jacket with $2.50 on flap.... Read More
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Autograph Musical Bars, Signed
by SCHONBERG, Arnold
Brookline, MA, 1933. SCHONBERG, Arnold. Autograph Musical Bars, Signed. Brookline, MA: 1933. A small (5 1/2 x 2 inch; 140 x 52 mm) piece of pink paper with three bars of a musical phrase and signed "Arnold Schoenberg Brookline 31. XII. 33" Also with the word "Autogramm" in front of the music staff. On the verso of the paper are three more lines of music with the phrase " "con brio" which means "with spirit or vigor." The... Read More
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Lambarene
by SCHWEITZER, Albert
Lambarene, 1949. SCHWEITZER, Albert. N.p., N.d., ca. 1949]. One page black and white printed directory of Albert Schweitzer's Hospital he founded in 1913, located in Lambarene, now Gabon. Inscribed by Schweitzer in blue ink, three lines. Signed "A.S." The top half of the page is a black and white illustration of the hospital grounds marked with 46 locations. The bottom half of the page names each of the 46 locations. Written in French. (Measures 12 x 8... Read More
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Prismes
by SEGUY, E.A.
Paris: Editions d'Art Charles Moreau, 1930. SEGUY, E.A.. . Prismes. 40 Planches de Dessins et Coloris Nouveaux Paris: Editions d'Art Charles Moreau, 1930. First Edition. With forty pochoir plates by Seguy. Complete. Folio (12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches; 321 x 244 mm). Publisher's quarter cloth over printed boards portfolio. Spine printed in black. With original silk ties. Portfolio cover with some wear to edges and top outer corner bumped. Cloth with minor fraying and splitting at... Read More
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New Light of Alchymie
by SENDIVOGIUS, Michael
London: Richard Cotes, for Thomas Williams, 1650. FRENCH, John. . A New Light of Alchymie. Taken out of the Fountaine of Nature, and Manuall Experience. To which is added a Treatise of Sulpher... Also Nine Books of the Nature of Things, Written by Paracelsus, vis... Also a Chymicall Dictionary explaining hard places and words met withall in the writings of Paracelsus, and other obscure Authors. All which are faithfully translated out of the Latin into the English tongue, By... Read More
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Lives of Game Animals
by SETON, Ernest Thompson
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925-1928. First edition. Limited to 177 copies, signed by the author on the frontispiece of volume I and with usual cat's paw. This set being number 100. Illustrated with 50 maps and 1500 illustrations. Frontispieces with tissue guards. Four quarto volumes (10 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches; 273 x 206 mm). Volume I covers "Cats, Wolves, and Foxes", Volume II covers "Bears, Raccoons, Badger,... Read More
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Haggadah for Passover
by SHAHN, Ben
Paris: Trianon Press, 1966. SHAHN, Ben; TRIANON PRESS. illustrator]. SHAHN, Ben. TRIANON PRESS. Haggadah for Passover. Copied and Illustrated by Ben Shahn. Paris: Trianon Press, 1966. Full Description: SHAHN, Ben, [illustrator]. Haggadah for Passover. Copied and Illustrated by Ben Shahn. Paris: Trianon Press, 1966. Limited edition. One of 292 copies signed by the artist, this being number 100. Large folio (15 1/2 x 12 inches; 395 x 305 mm). [xxiv], 135 pp. Illustrations and text by... Read More
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Alphabet of Creation: An Ancient Legend from the Zohar
by SHAHN, Ben
New York: Spiral Press for Pantheon, 1954. New York: Spiral Press for Pantheon, [1954]. First edition. One of 50 copies printed on Umbria handmade paper, signed by Shahn and with an original drawing by him. This copy being number five. Tall octavo (10 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches; 275 x 170 mm). [44] pages including colophon and numerous Shahn illustrations plus the frontispiece of an original Shahn watercolor of the letter 'Zadhe', signed by him below. Publisher's... Read More
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Shakespeare's Comedy of a Midsummer-Nights Dream
by SHAKESPEARE, William
London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1914. ROBINSON, W. Heath. SHAKESPEARE, [William]. Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-Night's Dream. With illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. London: Constable & Co., 1914. First signed, limited edition, first issue. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the artist. This being number 95. Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 7/8 inches; 290 x 225 mm). xii, [4], 185, [3] pp. Twelve mounted color plates. Forty-six full-page and seventeen smaller black and white text illustrations. Color-plates... Read More
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Collection of Poems, Viz
by SHAKESPEARE, William
London: Bernard Lintott, 1709. Full Description: SHAKESPEARE, William. A Collection of Poems, Viz. I. Venus and Adonis. II. The Rape of Lucrece. III. The Passionate Pilgrim. IV. Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Musick. London: Bernard Lintott, [1709]. First edition, first issue of the second collection of "Poems" (the first being 1640) and the first to include "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece." One small octavo volumes (6 3/4 x 4 inches; 170 x 103 mm).... Read More
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Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies
by SHAKESPEARE, William
London, 1623. London: 1623. Full description: [SHAKESPEARE, William]. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: A Leaf from Each of the Four Folios]. "Much Ado About Nothing" (pp. 113/114 in the First Folio of 1623); "Macbeth" (pp. 157/158 in the Second Folio of 1632); "Henry VI part I" (pp. 425/426 in the Third Folio of 1664); and "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar" (pp. 21/22 in the Fourth Folio of 1685). [London: 1623, 1632, 1664, 1685]. Four... Read More
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Plays of William Shakspeare
by SHAKESPEARE, William
London: Printed by T. Bensley; for Wynne and Scholey, 1803. TAYLOR & HESSEY. A Magnificent Set of Shakespeare Bound by Taylor & Hessey SHAK[E]SPEARE, William. The Plays of William Shakspeare. London: Printed by T. Bensley; for Wynne and Scholey, 1803-1804. Eight octavo volumes (9 3/16 x 5 7/8 inches; 234 x 148 mm). With woodcuts by J. Thurston, after W.H. Pyne and P.J. Loutherbourg. Includes Rowe's life of the poet. Each play is separately paged, and selected... Read More
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Eight Tragedies in Italian
by SHAKESPEARE, William
Firenze: Vittorio Alauzet, 1814. Firenze & Pisa 1814-15. Eight titles in four octavo volumes (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 195 x 125 mm). Each volume with two plays. Uniformly bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spines stamped in gilt. Each volume with spine label, lettered in gilt. Some rubbing to boards. Tail of spine of Amleto volume a bit chipped. Spines of Amleto and Riccardo III cracked, but holding firm. Some minor chipping to spine... Read More
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Taming of the Shrew
by SHAKESPEARE, William
London: Printed for C. Bathurst.., 1786. or Catherine and Petruchio. A Comedy. Altered from Shakespeare, by David Garrick, Esq. Marked with the Variations in the Manager's Book, at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Gardens. London: Printed for C. Bathurst..., 1786. [with] MOORE, Edward. The Gamester, A Tragedy of Five Acts. Marked with the Variations in the Manager's Book, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. London: Printed for S. Bladon...,1789. [with] SOUTHERN, Thomas. HOPKINS, Mr. Isabella; or the Fatal... Read More
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Works of William Shakespeare. [John Payne Collier Edition]
by SHAKESPEARE, William
London: Whittaker & Co, 1844. COLLIER, John Payne. . The Works of William Shakespeare. [John Payne Collier Edition]. The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: With Various Readings, Notes, A Life of the Poet, and A History of the Early English Stage. By J. Payne Collier, Esq. FSA. In Eight Volumes. London: Whittaker & Co., 1844. Full Description: SHAKESPEARE, William. COLLIER, John Payne, [editor]. The Works of William Shakespeare. [John Payne Collier... Read More
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Gallery of Illustrations for Shakespeare's Dramatic Works
by SHAKESPEARE, William
Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, Publishers, 1874. Full Description: [SHAKESPEARE, William]. The Gallery of Illustrations for Shakespeare's Dramatic Works. Originally Projected and Published by John Boydell. Reduced and Re-Engraved by the Heliotype Process With Selections from the Text. Edited by J. Parker Norris. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, Publishers, 1874. In the 25 original parts. Large quarto (14 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches; 365 x 286 mm). xvi pp Each part with 4 heliotype engraved plates for a total... Read More
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Tempest
by SHAKESPEARE, William
London: William Heinemann, 1926. RACKHAM, Arthur. . SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1926. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 520 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, this is copy number 222. Large quarto. [2, blank] xiii, [1], 185, [3, blank] pp. Twenty-one mounted color plates, with descriptive tissue guards, and twenty-five drawings in black and white. Original quarter vellum over white boards. Front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in... Read More
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Typed/Autograph Letter Signed
by SHAW, George Bernard
London, 1898. 8220;G. Bernard Shaw." London: 1898. Full Description: SHAW, George Bernard. Typed/Autograph Letter Signed. "G. Bernard Shaw." 29 Fitzroy Square W. London: 27th April, 1898. Typed letter signed "G. Bernard Shaw." with a manuscript post script at the bottom in Shaw's hand. Letter addressed to "Mrs. Bloomfield Zeisler" famous Austrian concert pianist. One quarto sheet (10 1/8 x 8 inches; 257 x 202 mm) Letter on recto, blank verso. Paper is lightly toned. Some chipping... Read More
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