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Cinq Chants Populaires de Palestine d'Israël [title in Hebrew and French]
by ABRAVANEL, Claude
Paris, February-June 1949. Folio. 10 pp. pen and ink on musical staff paper, autograph note with French translation and guide to Hebrew pronunciation laid in A manuscript fair copy of five short pieces for solo voice and piano by the Jewish-Swiss composer and musicologist Claude Abravanel (1924-2012). Lyrics are in Hebrew and French, the titles of the five pieces in French are "Chant des Marins," "Chant pour le Sabbat," "Mélodie," "Chanson Religieuse," and "Hora / Danse Israélienne." The manuscript... Read More
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Nouvelle Méthode pour Reconnaitre les Maladies Internes de la Poitrine par la Percussion de cette Cavité
by AUENBRUGGER, Leopold
Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Migneret, 1808. Second French edition. 8vo. xxiii, [1], 440, [2, errata], 4 (ads) pp., half-title. Contemporary half green calf and marbled boards, black morocco spine label; tips bumped, old library stamp to verso of title, spine shelf label, text toned and occasionally foxed "The greatness of Auenbruggers discovery of the value of immediate percussion of the chest as a diagnostic measure was not recognized until many years after he first published. His little book met... Read More
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Leçons sur le Diabète et la Glycogenèse Animale
by BERNARD, Claude
Paris: J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1877. First edition. 8vo. Tables and one illustration. viii, 576 pp., with half-title. Publisher's printed wrappers, unopened; spine ends chipped First edition in publisher's wrappers. "Bernard, in this work, first showed that one of the primary signs of diabetes is an excess of sugar in the blood and usually in the urine. Much of Bernard's experimentation and research had a direct relationship to clinical medicine" (Heirs of Hippocrates). REFERENCE: Cushing B320; Garrison-Morton 3942; Heirs of... Read More
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Antony & Cleopatra
by (CIRCLE PRESS) SHAKESPEARE, William & Ronald KING (artist)
[Guildford]: Circle Press Publications, 1979. No. "H.C. III" of 5 hors commerce copies (of 355 total copies), signed by the artist. Folio. Illustrated throughout with color silkscreen prints and manuscript facsimiles, with additional signed print. xi, [7], 59, [3] pp., printed letterpress. Loose as issued, in printed covers, laid in publisher's linen and blue morocco chemise with die-cut outer panel; fine
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Oriental Eclogues
by [COLLINS, William]
London: J. Payne, 1757. First thus, second edition of Persian Eclogues. 8vo. [iii]-vii, 23, [1, ads] pp., lacking half-title. 2( 1, half-title) A-G2. Removed from pamphlet volume (numbered "6" in ink at head of title) and bound in later blue wrappers, light soiling to E2v and F1r The second edition of Collins's first published work, Persian Eclogues (1742), with new title and revisions to the text. The preface outlines the conceit of the work, that the poems originated... Read More
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The Waterlilies
by CONRAD,Henry S.
Washington, [D.C.]: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1905. 4to. 30 plates (including 12 chromolithographs), 82 illustrations to text. xiii, [1], 279, [1] pp. Rebound in later half crimson morocco with remnant of printed wrappers mounted an bound-in; ffep heavily toned and foxed, faint dampstain to top portion of textblock through page 35, offsetting from previoulsy laid-in photograph (of the author as an infant?) on front blank Inscribed on the ffep, "To my beloved father & mother, in grateful... Read More
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Caledonia,
by [DEFOE, Daniel]
Edinburgh: Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1706. First edition. Folio. [10], 60 pp. COLLATION: 2 ¶2 2¶1 A-P2. Modern three-quarter red morocco, arms of the Earl of Perth stamped in gilt on front cover; near fine, with a small piece from the lower corner of the title-page, not affecting the text First edition of Defoe's lengthy poem in praise of Scotland, written to promote union when Defoe was chief propagandist and agent in Scotland... Read More
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Traité-Pratique de l'Inoculation
by DE FOIGNY, Gandoger
Nancy: J.B. Hiacinthe Leclerc; Paris: J. Merlin, 1768. First edition. 8vo. [10], xvi, 500, [10] pp., half-title. Contemporary half speckled calf and boards, citron morocco spine label; tips bumbed, offsetting to half-title, an attractive copy First edition of this history of and argument for inoculation by Gandoger de Foigny (1732-1770), professor of anatomy and surgery at the Collège des Médecines in Nancy. PROVENANCE: 19th-century book-ticket (Bessinge, Science medicales); Librairie Alain Brieux (book-label)
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The Culprit Fay
by DRAKE, Joseph Rodman
New York: George Dearborn, 1835. First edition. 8vo. [6], 84 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait and vignette title-page. Publisher's deluxe binding, black morocco, gilt- and blind-tooled, gilt lyre and cherub centerpiece (as in cloth trade binding) gilt board edges and turn-ins, glazed endpapers, a.e.g., in custom blue morocco-backed slipcase and chemise; light rubbing to extremities, endpapers discolored, frontispiece offset to engraved title. First edition of the first collection of Drake's poetry, published 15 years after his early death from consumption,... Read More
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Poems
by FERRARS, Ralph [pseud. of William PETER]
London: James Ridgway, 1823. A New Edition. 8vo. [6], 171, [1] pp. Contemporary tan straight-grained morocco gilt, bluemorocco spine label, by J. Helston E. Edwards, Camborne (ticket on front pastedown); front joint cracked, lower blank portion of dedication leaf excised The Abbey copy of the poems of the Cornwall poet and politician William Peter in an attractive provincial binding by the Camborne binder J. Helston E. Edwards. REFERENCE: Ramsden, p. 68 PROVENANCE: J.R. Abbey (bookplate)
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The Intriguing Chambermaid.
by FIELDING, Henry
London: J. Watts, 1734. First edition. 8vo. Printed music in text to 12 songs. [12], 40 pp. Later drab wrappers; title-page foxed Uncommon first edition of Fielding's ballad-opera adaptation of Jean François Regnard's Le retour imprévu. REFERENCE: Cross, III, pp. 297-8; Rothschild 839
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Don Quixote in England.
by FIELDING, Henry
London: J. Watts, 1734. First edition. 8vo. Printed music in text to 15 songs. [16], 64 pp. Later drab wrappers; sporadic foxing First edition of Fielding's ballad opera, begun in 1728 while he was studying literature in Leiden and dedicated to the Earl of Chesterfield. A second edition was published in 1754; this first edition is uncommon on the market. REFERENCE: Cross, III, p. 298
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The Connection
by GELBER, Jack
New York: Grove Press, Inc / London: Evergreen Books Ltd, (1960). First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with b/w photographs by John E. Wulp from the original Living Theater stage production. 96 pp. Publisher's photo-illustrated wrappers. Light rubbing to covers First edition, signed ("Jack Gelber") on the half-title of this groundbreaking and controversial work, a play-within-a-play about heroin-addicted jazz musicians waiting for their score. Performances featured live jazz music by Freddie Redd. The Connection premiered off-Broadway on July 15, 1959, at... Read More
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Idées et sensations
by GONCOURT, Edmond and Jules de
Paris: Libraire Internationale, 1866. First edition. 8vo. [vi], 255, [1] pp. Near contemporary half red pebbled cloth and marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, publisher's blue-gray printed wrappers bound in. Light toning to wrappers, else fine. Presentation copy on large paper of the first edition of this collection of bons mots extracted from the Journals. Inscribed on the half-title by Jules de Goncourt to Edouard Thierry (1813-1894), drama critic and director of the Comédie Française. Thierry makes... Read More
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
by [HOLMES, Oliver Wendell]
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858. First edition. 8vo. Engraved vignette title-page and 8 plates, letterpress title-page printed in red and black. viii, 373, [1] pp. Publisher's brown cloth, covers stamped in blind with ornate frame with curved inner corners, spine titled in gilt and stamped with 4 gilt rings (3 with fleur-de-lis and 1 with publisher's monogram), publisher's advertisements on endpapers (BAL binding A); small circular wormhole to cloth on rear joint, slight gouge to lower margin of... Read More
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Poems
by HOPKINS, Gerard Manley
London: Humphrey Milford, 1930. Second edition, no. 47 of 250 copies printed on hand-made paper. 8vo. Two photogravure portraits, two facsimiles of Hopkinss manuscripts, and a drawing by Hopkins used as a headpiece. [20], 159, [1] pp. Publisher's half parchment and patterned boards; small nick and some soiling to spine, small dealer description affixed to colophon page Hopkins poems were not published until 1918, nearly thirty years after his death, gathered and edited by his friend Robert Bridges. This... Read More
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Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera
by HORACE
London: William Sandby, 1749. 2 vols. 8vo. 35 engraved plates (including frontispiece to vol. I), engraved dedication leaf and title-page vignette portrait of Horace, title-pages in red and black. [2], vi, [2], 166; [2], 167-353, [1] pp. Ca. 1875 red straight-grained morocco gilt, by Cecil & Larkins; fine Sandby's Horace in a beautiful and restrained binding in the style of Roger Payne. Cecil & Larkins were active 1875-1880 REFERENCE: ESTC T46228
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The Oriental Moralist,
by [JOHNSON, Richard]
Dover, [NH]: Printed by Samuel Bragg, Jr. for Wm. T. Clap, Boston, 1797. First American edition. 12mo. [xiv], 232, [1, blank], [1, bookseller's advertisement] pp. [A]6 B-U6 W6(W6, blank). Contemporary sheep, red morocco spine label; covers rubbed, title-page stained and damaged with old crude thread stitch repair, textblock toned, worn and frayed throughout, occasional tears and areas of loss, portion of text from N6 torn away, still a sturdy, serviceable copy The FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of the first English... Read More
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Drawings 1960-1962
by KELLY, Ellsworth
New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 1999. First edition. 4to. Illustrated with 35 plates. Publisher's grey cloth, illustrated dust-jacket; fine Signed ("Kelly") by the artist on the title-page
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John Woodvil
by LAMB, Charles
London: Printed by T. Plummer for G. and J. Robinson, 1802. First edition. 8vo. Uncut in publisher's pink boards; fine, in a custom green cloth chemise Fine first edition in boards of Lambs first play, a presentation copy from Fanny Holcroft to fellow author Catherine Hutton. Holcroft (1780-1844), a translator and novelist and friend of Charles and Mary Lamb, was the author of the anti-slavery poem The Negro and such novels as Fortitude and Frailty and The Wife... Read More
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A Book Explaining the Ranks and Dignities of British Society.
by [LAMB, Charles]
London: Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile and School Library, 1809. Second edition. 12mo. Frontispiece and 23 plates, all hand-colored. [4], 136, [2], [2, ads] pp. Contemporary half red morocco; damage to tail end of spine, some discoloration to plates Published anonymously and now ascribed to Charles Lamb. REFERENCES: Gumichian 3594
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A Year's Life
by LOWELL, James Russell
Boston: C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1841. First edition. 8vo. viii, 182 pp., errata slip tipped-in at rear. Publisher's tan boards, printed spine label; near fine, with slight wear and offsetting to covers, in custom green cloth slipcase and chemise First edition in publisher's boards of Lowell's first major publication, preceded only by a Harvard poem and class address. With p. 41, l. 9, ending with an exclamation point (as indicated in errata slip); in some copies the exclamation... Read More
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![[Typee] Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands;](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/699/333/1402333699.0.l.jpg)
[Typee] Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands;
by MELVILLE, Herman
London: John Murray, 1846. First edition, second state of C2 (p. 19, l. 1 reads Pomare). 8vo. Map at p. [xvii]. xvi, [2], 285, [1] pp., + 16 pp. catalogue dated March 1846 (BAL "B" variant, no priority), with half-title. Publisher's red cloth (BAL variant B), covers stamped in blind, spine titled in gilt. An exceptional copy, with just a trace of wear to front board fore-edge and rear joint, small chip from tail end of spine A fine... Read More
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Leçons sur la Pathologie Comparée de l'Inflammation
by METCHNIKOFF, Élie
Paris: G. Masson, 1892. First edition. 8vo. 3 colored lithographs by Roussel after Metchnikoff, 65 illustrations to text. xi, [1], 239, [1] pp. Contemporary half tan morocco and marbled boards; joints rubbed, pages toned, previous owner's inscription to flyleaf, book-plate First edition of Metchnikoffs classic lectures on inflammation (Garrison-Morton) and phagocytosis, delivered in French at the Pasteur Institute in 1891. Metchnikoff states that, even though phagocytosis in man and higher animals has been the focus of study, a... Read More
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Los Siete Libros de la Diana
by MONTEMAYOR, Jorge de
Anvers [Antwerp]: Iuan [Juan] Stelsio, 1561. First Antwerp edition, fifth edition overall. 12mo. Woodcut device on title and recto of final leaf. [3], 230, [2] ll. COLLATION: A-T12 V4. Contemporary vellum; A8 trimmed with some loss to text at fore-edge margin due to misaligned imposition, running titles trimmed First Antwerp edition, fifth edition overall, of this foundational and wildly popular pastoral prose romance and Shakespeare sourcebook, written in Spanish by the Portuguese author Jorge de Montemayor (c.1520-1561). First published... Read More
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