Statuta Inclytae
by NICCOLINO Francisco Abbate
1680. (AVIGNONLAW) NICCOLINO, Francisco Abbate. Statuta Inclytae Civitatis Avenionis. Avenione [Avignon]: Laurent Lemolt, 1680. Quarto, contemporary full dark brown calf, gilt-decorated spine, raised bands. $950.Rare 17th-century Latin edition of the statutes of the town of Avignon, printed in Avignon, in contemporary calf-gilt. While most of the text is in Latin, the chapter on bakers and bread (26)detailing permissible weights and pricesis in French. Chapter 34 contains laws regarding the Jews of Avignon.From 1309-77, during the Avignon Papacy, seven successive... Read More
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Revolution of America
by RAYNAL Abbe
1781. First Edition. RAYNAL, Abbé [Guillaume Thomas François]. The Revolution of America. London: Lockyer Davis, Holborn, 1781. Small octavo (5 by 7-3/4 inches), period style full brown calf, raised bands, red morocco spine label, ; pp. (iii) iv-xiii (xiv) xv-xvi, (1) 2-181 (3). $1400.First edition in English, simultaneous with the first French edition, of Raynal's provocative work that dismissed the American Revolution as a ""temporary upheaval,"" triggering Paine's fierce reply in his Letter to Abbé Raynal, where he heralded... Read More
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Emancipation Proclamation
by LINCOLN Abraham
1863. LINCOLN, Abraham. Proclamation of Emancipation. Iowa: W.H. Pratt, 1865. Large lithographic broadside, measuring 12 by 15 inches; matted and framed, entire piece measures 16 by 20 inches. $3800.Original large calligraphic portrait lithograph of Abraham Lincoln created from the text of the Emancipation Proclamation, with portions of the text highlighted to create a portrait of Lincoln clearly visible within the text, designed by W.H. Pratt.On January 1, 1863, Lincoln reportedly paused before signing the final Emancipation Proclamation, saying, ""I... Read More
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Document signed (ship's papers)
by LINCOLN Abraham
1864. Signed. LINCOLN, Abraham. Printed document signed: ship's papers. Washington, DC: September 26, 1864. Broadside, measures 22 by 17 inches, partially printed, engrossed in manuscript, original white wafer seal of the Presidency affixed; handsomely matted and framed, entire piece measures 34 by 28 inches. $38,000.A remarkable ships passport signed by President Lincoln and his Secretary of State William Seward during the Civil War, authorizing passage for the ship Illinois, ""lying at present in the port of New Bedford bound... Read More
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Manuscript poll book
by LINCOLN Abraham
1860. (LINCOLN, Abraham). Manuscript poll book. New Salisbury, Indiana, November 6, 1860. Slim folio (8-1/2 by 14 inches), stitched, original self-wrappers; pp. 12. $4250.Fascinating 1860 poll book for New Salisbury, Jackson Township, Harrison County, Indiana used to record votes in the election of November 6, 1860.Democratic President James Buchanan pledged to serve only one term as president. Thus, the field was wide open in 1860. Senator Stephan A. Douglas, Buchanan's chief rival, decided to seek the 1860 Democratic nomination.... Read More
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Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. WITH: Enquirer
by GODWIN William BYRON LOVELACE Ada
1796. First Edition. GODWIN, William. An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, And its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness. WITH: The Enquirer. Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1796, 1797. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown calf and marbled boards. $10,500.First octavo edition of Godwin's revolutionary masterwork, the first edition with his extensive revisions""his passionate advocacy of individualism, his trust in the fundamental goodness of man, and his opposition to all restrictions on liberty have... Read More
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Essays on Philosophical Subjects
by SMITH Adam
1795. First Edition. SMITH, Adam. Essays on Philosophical Subjects To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Dugald Stewart. London: for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, et al., 1795. Large quarto (9 by 11-1/4 inches), period-style full speckled brown calf, raised bands, red morocco spine label; pp. [i-iii], iv, [v]-vi, [vii-ix], x-xcv, [blank], [1-3], 4-93, [94-97], 98-111, [112-115], 116-129, [130-133], 134-184, [185-187], 188-194, [195-197], 198-244; slipcase. $13,800.First edition of this core... Read More
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Negro in American History
by CROMWELL John Wesley CROMWELL HILL Adelaide CROMWELL Adelaide
1914. Signed. (CROMWELL, Adelaide) CROMWELL, John Wesley. The Negro in American History. Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the American of African Descent. Washington: American Negro Academy, 1914. Octavo, original gilt-lettered green cloth. $3200.First edition of Cromwell's paramount African American history that ""broke fresh ground"" in its defining biographies of leaders such as Frederick Douglass and Phillis Wheatley, a major biography of Reconstruction congressman Robert B. Elliot, who crafted a core argument against the 1873 decision in... Read More
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Typed letter signed
by EINSTEIN Albert
1942. Signed. EINSTEIN, Albert. Typed letter signed. Princeton, November 3, 1942. One sheet, measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches, typing on recto only; matted and framed with a portrait of Einstein, entire piece measures 21 by 17 inches. $38,000.An exceptional typed letter signed by Einstein on precursors like Johannes Kepler's work to his Special and General Theories of Relativity, beautifully framed.The letter, on letterhead from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, reads in full: ""November 3, 1942. Mr. Felix... Read More
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Autograph letter signed
by EINSTEIN Albert
1921. Signed. EINSTEIN, Albert. Autograph letter signed. No place, August 14, 1921. Single sheet of cream lined paper, measuring 7-1/2 by 11 inches; p. 1. $35,000.Rare heartfelt autograph letter of recommendation written and signed by Einstein in German, enthusiastically recommending his friend and colleague, physicist Prof. Dr. Paul Epstein, for an academic position.The autograph letter, dated ""14 VIII 21,"" written entirely in Einstein's hand reads (translated from the original German): ""Prof. Dr. Epstein is certainly one of the most... Read More
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Typed letter signed
by EINSTEIN Albert
1946. Signed. EINSTEIN, Albert. Typed letter signed. Princeton, April 3, 1946. Single sheet of gray letterhead, measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches; p. 1. Matted and framed with a portrait, entire piece measures 19 by 15-1/2 inches. $9500.Original typed letter signed by Albert Einstein, thanking his friend, Dr. Isadore Held, for his birthday wishes as well as for sending a new book that Einstein found both ""extraordinarily enlightening"" and humorous. Text in German.The letter, typed on Einstein's personal letterhead with... Read More
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Book of Recipes for the Cooking School
by LYFORD Carrie Alberta
1921. First Edition. LYFORD, Carrie Alberta. A Book of Recipes for the Cooking School. Hampton, Virginia: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, (1921). Octavo, original mustard brown cloth. $2250.First edition of this collection of recipes intended for Home Economics students at the Hampton Institute.Founded just after the Civil War, with roots traced back to the beginning of the war, Hampton Universitythen the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Instituteis one of the oldest historically black universities in the country. This book was... Read More
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Lively Years 1920-1973
by ATKINSON Brooks HIRSCHFELD Albert
1973. First Edition. Signed. ATKINSON, Brooks and HIRSCHFELD, Albert. The Lively Years 1920-1973. New York: Association, (1973). Quarto, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $2800.First edition, presentation copy, of this tribute to American theater, inscribed in the year of publication to one of the country's most famous theater critics: ""For Elliot Norton, Brooks Atkinson,"" and additionally signed and dated ""11/73"" by Al Hirschfeld with an original self-portrait sketch by him.This vibrant theatrical history is the second book collaboration between... Read More
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Three Young Rats
by CALDER Alexander
1944. First Edition. Signed. CALDER, Alexander. Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes. Drawings by Alexander Calder. Edited with Introduction by James Johnson Sweeney. New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. Folio, original half tan cloth and pictorial yellow boards, original dust jacket. $4200.Limited first edition, one of only 760 copies, with a wonderful inscription with flourishes that fills almost the entire front free endpaper: ""to Edward L. Fischer, Cordial Greetings from Alexander Calder, Jan. 1945.""Calder's 85 illustrations are as direct, delightful... Read More
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Letters on the Slave-Trade
by ALEXANDER G. W.
1842. First Edition. ALEXANDER, G[eorge]. W[illiam]. Letters on the Slave-Trade, Slavery, and Emancipation; With a Reply to Objections Made to the Liberation of the Slaves in the Spanish Colonies; Addressed to Friends on the Continent of Europe, During a Visit to Spain and Portugal. London: Charles Gilpin, 1842. Small octavo (4-1/2 by 6-3/4 inches), original gilt- and blind-stamped brown cloth, uncut and unopened; pp. xvi, 176. $2900.First edition of a signal work by leading British abolitionist Alexander, whose lifelong... Read More
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Poetical Works
by POPE Alexander
1891. POPE, Alexander. The Poetical Works. New York and London: (Chiswick Press), circa 1891. Three volumes. 12mo, contemporary full crimson morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers with floral designs incorporating blue, green and white morocco inlays, green morocco-gilt doublures with red morocco inlays in a floral design, raised bands, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. $3200.Later Aldine edition of the poems of Alexander Pope, with portrait of the poet and extra-illustrated with 15 window-mounted engravings, six hand-colored, splendidly bound... Read More
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Roots
by HALEY Alex
1976. First Edition. Signed. HALEY, Alex. Roots. Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. Thick octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $950.First trade edition of Haley's acclaimed historical novel, inscribed by him in the year of publication, ""10/20/76 B and M my very best and my love! Alex Haley.""""Haley's most celebrated novel, Roots, has been compared to both Moby Dick and War and Peace. The Washington Post called it the most highly acclaimed book of our time The author... Read More
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Don Juan
by ATKINSON John Augustus THORNTON Alfred
1821. First Edition. (ATKINSON, John Augustus, illustrator) THORNTON, Alfred. Don Juan. London: Thomas Kelly, 1821-22. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century full red levant morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $1800.First edition of this satirical survey of life in early 19th-century England, wonderfully illustrated with 31 hand-colored aquatint plates by Atkinson, handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt by Root & Son.""The first volume is a parody of Mozart's and Byron's Don Juan, the second an imitation of Egan's... Read More
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Television
by DINSDALE Alfred
1926. First Edition. DINSDALE, Alfred. Television. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. Octavo, original paper wrappers, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom slipcase. $6500.First edition of the first book on the newly invented television, richly illustrated, in original printed wrappers.This important work focuses on the pivotal television research of Scottish engineer John L. Baird, who produced televised objects in outline in 1924, recognizable human faces in 1925, and in 1926 became the first person to televise pictures... Read More
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Principles of Economics
by MARSHALL Alfred
1890. First Edition. MARSHALL, Alfred. Principles of Economics. London: Macmillan, 1890. Thick octavo, original green cloth rebacked with original spine laid down. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $16,500.First edition of this foundational work on economics. Only Volume I (as here) was ever published, scarce in contemporary cloth.The founder of ""diagrammatic economics"" and the first to introduce simple graphs as a tool for explaining concepts such as the laws of supply and demand, Alfred Marshall was arguably the most... Read More
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Money, Credit & Commerce
by MARSHALL Alfred
1923. First Edition. MARSHALL, Alfred. Money, Credit & Commerce. London: Macmillan, 1923. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. $7500.First edition, by one of the most important turn-of-the-century economists, in the rare original dust jacket.The founder of ""diagrammatic economics,"" Alfred Marshall was arguably the most important economist of the 19th century. The third of a series by Marshall, succeeding Principles of Economics (1890) and Industry and Trade (1919), this work ""contains a quantity of materials and ideas, and collects... Read More
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Non-Slaveholder
by ALLINSON William J.
1853. First Edition. ALLINSON, William J., editor. The Non-Slaveholder. Philadelphia: George W. Taylor, 1853-54. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo, modern three-quarter calf gilt, marbled boards. $4600.Complete run of the final 24 issues (the two-volume ""New Series"" of 1853-54) of the abolitionist journal, The Non-Slaveholder, published from 1846 to 1854.This local abolitionist journal covered the quickly changing events around slavery, from news of anti-slavery gatherings to slave laws and from the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin to some of... Read More
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Photograph signed
by EDISON Thomas Alva
1910. Signed. EDISON, Thomas Alva. Photograph signed. No place, circa 1920. Vintage silver print, measures 6-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches, mounted on heavy card, mount measures 10 by 12 inches; framed, measures 12 by 14 inches. $6500.Very scarce vintage photographic portrait of Edison seated in a library, inscribed and signed by him with a bold flourish on the mount: ""To Mrs. Blauvelt, from a believer in woman suffrage, Thos A Edison.""This scarce vintage photographic portrait of Thomas Edison is an... Read More
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Leon Bakst
by BAKST Leon LEVINSON Andre
1925. First Edition. (BAKST, Leon) LEVINSOHN, Andre. Leon Bakst. Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, [1925]. Folio (11 by 14-1/2 inches), original full vellum, uncut; original slipcase. $4000.Limited first German edition of Levinsohn's life of Bakst, number 23 of only 250 copies produced, tracing the artist's important contributions to the history of modern art and dance, with 68 full-page mounted plates of costumes and sets, 52 in color, including the frontispiece portrait of Bakst by Modigliani, and numerous in-text mounted linecuts... Read More
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Prince Charles Edward
by LANG Andrew
1900. First Edition. LANG, Andrew. Prince Charles Edward. London, Paris, New York, Edinburgh: Goupil, 1900. Folio (10 by 13 inches), contemporary full vellum gilt, brown morocco spine label, top edge gilt, uncut. $1700.Limited edition, number 358 of 1500 copies on fine paper of this richly illustrated biography of Bonnie Prince Charlie, with a fine hand-colored frontispiece and 47 photogravure plates, handsomely bound in full vellum gilt by Bumpus.Written by Scottish man of letters Andrew Lang, this biography of Prince... Read More
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