The time of the hero
by LLOSA, Mario Vargas
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1966. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, dustjacket in flawless condition; overall a gorgeous copy. Signed first American edition, first printing translated by Lysander Kemp. Set among the students of Lencio Prado Military Academy in Peru (which Llosa actually attended), a group of cadets start a rebellion. It is said that the school itself burned several copies and condemned the book as propaganda against Peru. In 1962 it... Read More
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Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter
by LLOSA, Mario Vargas
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Gioux, 1982. UNCORRECTED, UNREVISED SIGNED PROOF. Paper wrappers in pristine condition. First American edition translated by Helen Lane. An intricate tale of love and scandal with two stories woven together. “On one level, the book concerns young Mario, who, while working at a second-rate Lima radio station, becomes romantically involved with Julia, his divorced, thirty-two-year-old aunt…Interwoven with this love affair is the tale of Pedro Camacho, Mario’s friend at the radio station, and the... Read More
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An inaugural dissertation on the warm bath
by LOCKETTE, Henry Wilson
Philadelphia: Carr & Smith, 1801. FIRST EDITION. With 1 plate (trimmed) depicting a steam cabinet. Disbound. First edition describing the physical effects that bathing has on the body. He discusses warm, hot or tepid baths as therapeutics in the treatment of diseases as diverse as tetanus, typhus and mental disturbances such as mania and hysteria.
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An essay concerning humane understanding. In four books
by LOCKE, John
London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1706. FIFTH EDITION. Index bound after Contents and before text. Contemporary full-paneled calf, panels blind-stamped on front and rear boards, edges partially rubbed with corners reinforced, rebacked; interior excellent. Fifth edition, containing expansions of all four books. This edition includes the final textual changes by Locke, though it was published posthumously. It was also the last edition printed in folio format. Locke’s (1632-1704) famous work of empirical philosophy deals with the fundamental... Read More
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Peter’s letters to his kinsfolk
by [LOCKHART, John Gibson]
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1819. Volume 1 with half-title, frontispiece, engraved title vignette, 3 plates and 18 pages publisher’s advertisements; Volume 2 with half-title, engraved title vignette and 3 plates; Volume 3 with half-title, engraved title vignette, 3 plates, 1 text engraving and 1 page publisher’s advertisements. Grey cloth-backed boards with paper spine labels; some light occasional interior spotting. Uncut; ownership inscription to fly-leaf of volume 1. Second edition, although there is some... Read More
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Doctor Dolittle’s Circus
by LOFTING, Hugh
New York: Fred[erick] A. Stokes, 1924. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With colour frontispiece, illustrated title and 79 plates, all by Lofting. Original decorated yellow cloth with illustrated end-papers, binding a bit soiled, but generally a very good copy. Inscribed by the author on half-title ("Sincerely yours, Hugh Lofting"). First American edition. A presentation copy of the fourth book in the Doctor Dolittle series. Here Doctor Dolittle lends his rare Pushmi-Pullyu to the circus to raise money. As all of the... Read More
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L’uomo delinquente
by LOMBROSO, Cesare
Turin: Fratelli Bocca Editor, 1897. LIMITED EDITION. With numerous charts and graphs in the text. Original printed wrappers bound into cmorocco-backed marbled boards (front board detached). Presentation copy from the author, signed on the front wrapper and a small photograph of the author, signed by him, pasted onto the title page. Limited edition of Lombroso’s great work, one of 100 copies signed, and greatly expanded from the 1876 first printing. The author’s revolutionary study of the morally depraved individual.... Read More
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The man of genius
by LOMBROSO, Cesare
London: Walter Scott, 1891. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Complete with the large folding map. Publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering on front cover and spine; front joint loose, otherwise a fine copy. First edition in English of Lombroso’s main work on which he built his criminal anthropological theories. Included is the frontispiece map of famous painters and musicians. Lombroso’s theory of anthropological criminology essentially states that criminality is inherited, and that someone who would be “born criminal” can be... Read More
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Due Tribuni. Studiati da un alienista
by LOMBROSO, Cesare
Rome: Casa Editrice Sommaruga, 1883. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, front wrapper detached. Unopened. First and only edition of Lombroso's intriguing study of a persecution complex in which he compares and contrasts eccentric personalities. He here describes one Tito Livio Cianchettini (1821-1900), a Roman newspaperman also known as "the philosopher of the sidewalk" who published, edited and distributed his own satirical journal, "The Traverso of the Ideas," in which he criticized the evils of humanity. While many regarded him... Read More
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L'uomo delinquente studiato in rapporto alla antropologia, alla medicina legale ed alle discipline carcerarie
by LOMBROSO, Cesare
Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1878. With half-title, and 8 lithograph plates. In the very rare original printed wrappers with some chipping on the edges; spine broken, but the book is preserved in a folding clamshell case. Ownership signature dated 13 November 1938 on the half-title. Second edition of the author’s revolutionary study of the morally depraved individual, first printed two years prior. It is in this work that Lombroso unfolds his theory that criminal behavior is based upon genetic predisposition... Read More
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La donna delinquente. La prostituta e la donna normale
by LOMBROSO, Cesare & FERRERO, Gugielmo
Turin: L. Roux, 1893. FIRST EDITION. With 8 folding photo-lithograph plates, text illustrations and diagrams. Cloth-backed boards; a fine copy from the library of Guido Olivieri, with his small ownership stamp in the upper corner of title. First edition of this famous work on the analysis of prostitution and the "female offender" by Lombroso (1835-1909), one of the greatest observers of criminals, their background and activities. He approaches his subject by focusing on the biological and behavioral characteristics of... Read More
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ALS. To “Maitre” (Master)
by LOMBROSO, Cesare
1905. A cover letter from Lombroso, who is sending a new edition of his book Le crime. Causes et remèdes (first published in 1899). Allow me to remember the beautiful moments we spent together. I am sending you the new edition of my book Crime: a book against crime and a little against my opponents who have claimed that I forgot the economic and social causes of crime, causes that very much preoccupy me. My sincere regards to... Read More
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Love of life
by LONDON, Jack
New York: MacMillan, 1907. FIRST EDITION. Original blue cloth, title and author in gilt on cover, very small blemish on edge of back cover, otherwise an excellent copy. First edition of London’s collection of eight stories. Written during his “Klondike” period, the title story Love of life follows the trek of a prospector across the Canadian tundra. The first printing consisted of 7937 copies. BAL 11904; Sisson & Martens p. 36.
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The call of the wild
by LONDON, Jack
New York: Macmillan, 1903. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull, decorated by Charles Edward Hooper. Original frontispiece tissue guard present. Publisher’s decorated cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers. Original dust jacket included but front detached, small tear in the center of the frontispiece. Newspaper clippings from 1904-1909 pasted throughout preliminary ad endleaves causing some staining, otherwise a very nice copy with inscription dedicated to “Grace Parrish-Pierce, March 23, 1904. First edition, at least fourth... Read More
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the Year 1841. Part I-II
by ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON
London: Richard and John Taylor, 1841. FIRST EDITION. With 6 pages letterpress tables of meteorological data. Contemporary gilt-decorated diapered calf with Greek key border (rebacked), board edges gilt, marbled edges. Without the plates. First edition, the compiled papers given by members of the Royal Society of London. Twenty-one in all, the papers cover light, magnetism, crystallization, optometry, medical physics, meteorology, biology, paleontology, physiology, embryology, and mathematics. In addition to the essays, the text includes a full list of Royal... Read More
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Mouvement circulaire de la matiere dans les trois regnes
by LONGET, François-Achille
Paris: Germer Baillière, 1866. FIRST EDITION. First chart entirely composed of letterpress, second letterpress with two chromolithograph illustrations. Charts folded into a printed blue cartonnage chemise (some damage to edges). A remarkably well-preserved set in original condition. First edition of this monumental schema tracing the digestion of minerals to vegetables to animals. Obviously intended for instruction, these poster-sized charts could be mounted on the wall for tabular reading. The first table lists 16 mineral elements that, the author asserts,... Read More
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Song of Hiawatha
by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING. Rebound in half leather over marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments with morocco spine label; interior excellent. Without the advertisements. Pasted onto a blank leaf is the signature of Longfellow (“Yours truly Henry W. Longfellow”). First edition, second printing, of one of the most famous American poems of the nineteenth century. BAL 12112; Grolier American 100, 66.
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The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems
by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
London: W. Kent & Co., 1858. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, PRECEDING THE AMERICAN. Original olive cloth with blind-stamped boards, spine titled in gilt, yellow end-papers. Previous owner's inscription on front free end-paper, light scattered foxing, spine sunned [as usual] and lightly frayed, boards lightly soiled and rubbed, a very good solid copy. Classic American narrative poetry.
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Longfellow’s Evangeline with illustrations by F.O.C. Darley
by [LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth]; DARLEY, F.O.C.
Boston: Houghton, Miflin and Company, 1883. FIRST EDITION. Title in red and black. With 16 full-page illustrations. Original printed paper over thick boards, wron and chipped; interior with some spotting, but overall a very good copy. First edition. Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1822-1888) was an American painter, known for illustrating works of many famous authors, including Dickens, Poe, Hawthorne, Irving, Longfellow and Stowe.
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Dionysus Longinus on the sublime. Translated from the Greek, with notes and observations; and some account of the life, writings, and character of the author
by LONGINUS, Dionysus
Dublin: William Sleater, 1792. Late eighteenth century mottled calf, edges stained green. Front hinge cracked, front paste-down lacking. Ownership inscription on title crossed out, two leaves of paper pasted over fly-leaf, hiding ownership inscription (Robert Ashworth, Merrion Square, Dublin, AD 1796). Fifth edition. Includes Smith's account of the life, writings and character of Longinus. William Smith (1711-87), editor and translator, was also known as "Thucydides' Smith," is best remembered for two books, his translation of Thucydides and this translation... Read More
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![In the House of Lords : on appeal from Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery in England : between Sir John William Ramsden, baronet ... [et al.] appellants, and Lee Dyson, John Buckley, and James Bates, respondents Author: Ramsden, John ... [et. al.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/346/695/1359695346.0.l.jpg)
In the House of Lords : on appeal from Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery in England : between Sir John William Ramsden, baronet ... [et al.] appellants, and Lee Dyson, John Buckley, and James Bates, respondents Author: Ramsden, John ... [et. al.]
by HOUSE OF LORDS
London: Waterlow & Sons, printers, 1865. FIRST EDITION. With 9 folding albumen prints, each with an original manuscript caption explaining the image and noting the exhibit from the various affidavits, signed by Wm. Dransfield (a commissioner who administered oaths in trial court and who is mentioned in print) and some with the blind-stamp of S. Musgrave, photo-printer. Folding plan and specifications of the land and improvements at Huddersfield owned and made by James Stott, one of the witnesses. Contemporary... Read More
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Electrons and Photons. Repports et Discussion du Cinquieme Conseil de Physique tenu a Bruxelles...de l’Institu International de Physique Solvay
by LORENTZ, Bragg, Compton, D. B. A. Octobre, Born, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, and Bohr
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1928. FIRST EDITION. Text illustrations. Recent cloth, new endpapers. First edition. The fifth Solvay conference was perhaps the most famous, as it included luminaries such as Nobelists Einstein, Bohr, Bragg, Compton, Bohr, Dirac, Schrodinger, Curie, De Broglie and Heisenberg. Papers here include Bragg’s “L'intensité de réflexions des rayons X”; Compton’s “Discordances entre l'experience et la theorie électro-magnétique du rayonnement”; De Broglie, “La nouvelle dynamique des quanta”; Born & Heisenberg, “La mécanique des quanta”; Schrödinger, “La mécanique des... Read More
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Versuch einer theorie der electrischen und Optischen erscheinungen in bewegten körpern
by LORENTZ, H.A.
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1895. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers pasted onto boards, a bit soiled; interior fine. An excellent copy preserved in a half-morocco slipcase. First edition of one of the great classical works of modern physics. In the present volume, Lorentz (1853-1928) describes his theory of electrical and optical appearances in moving bodies. He assumed the electrical nature of matter and stated that all electrical particles become shortened when in motion along the direction in which the ether... Read More
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M. annaei lucani pharsalia, sive de bello civili caesaris & pompeii
by LUCAN
Venice: Stephani Curti, 1689. Engraved title by Portio F., second letterpress title with woodcut engraving of a lion, decorated initials. Seventeenth century vellum over pasteboards, spine hand-lettered, front cover lacking, spine torn and detached from inner hinge; small stain at upper fore-edges, text not affected. An edition of Lucan's ten books on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey as well as an excerpt from Petronius's Satyricon consisting of the writer's "poem" on the civil war. The annotator, Hugo... Read More
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M. annaei lucani pharsalia, sive de bello civili caesaris & pompeii
by LUCAN
Venice: Stephani Curti, 1689. Engraved title by Portio F., second letterpress title with woodcut engraving of a lion, decorated initials. Seventeenth century vellum over pasteboards, spine hand-lettered, front cover lacking, spine torn and detached from inner hinge; small stain at upper fore-edges, text not affected. An edition of Lucan's ten books on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey as well as an excerpt from Petronius's Satyricon consisting of the writer's "poem" on the civil war. The annotator, Hugo... Read More
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