Collection of the works of Joan Aiken

by Aiken, Joan

London: Jonathan Cape, British Broadcasting Corporation, etc., 2011. First editions, UK or American according to precedence, plus some first American editions, as noted. Variously illustrated by Pat Marriott, Quentin Blake, and others. 109 vols. 8vo. Original publisher’s bindings, illustrated dust jackets when called for. Often with ownership signature of John Clute, and Hand Clute bookplate by Judith Clute. Generally... Read More

Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.

Edo Kiriezu. Set of 31 maps of Tokyo.

by TOMATSU Masanori, KAGEYAMA Muneyasu, et al

1850. TOMATSU Masanori, Muneyasu KAGEYAMA et al. Edo Kiriezu. A complete set of 31 Coloured Woodblock Maps of Tokyo. 12mo, 165 x 90 mm. folded, 490 x 535 mm. unfolded, each bound in original pale blue wrappers, preserved in a contemporary wooden box. Edo: Owariya Seishichi, 1852-1864. A very special set of these Tokyo maps consisting... Read More

Offered by Ursus Rare Books

Tabulae anatomicae

by DA CORTONA, Pietro; BERRETTINI DA CORTONA, Pietro;

1741. CORTONA, Pietro da. Tabulae Anatomicae a Celeberrimo Pictore Petro Berrettino Cortonesi. Text by Cajetano Petrioli. [4], 84 pp., illustrated with an engraved plate on title and 27 full-page engraved anatomical plates after Pietro da Cortona. Folio, 405 x 285 mm., bound in contemporary Italian calf. Rome: Antonii de Rubeis, 1741. First edition. One of the most... Read More

Offered by Ursus Rare Books

Green Hills of Africa (Inscribed first edition)

by Hemingway, Ernest

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First edition. Very Good/Very Good. First printing in early issue dust jacket with green bar on rear panel extending through nine lines of the blurb. A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. Book with spine toned and a faint dampstain to front board. Front inner hinge (now) professionally repaired. Price-clipped dust... Read More

Offered by Whitmore Rare Books, Inc.

The Intelligent Investor. A Book of Practical Counsel

by Graham, Benjamin

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949. First edition, early printing (code of F-Y, i.e. June 1949, on copyright page, the earliest being April 1949). 276 pp, several black-and-white charts and graphs. 8vo. Black cloth, publisher's logo blind stamped on cover, gilt stamping on spine, very good dust jacket, two small losses on front cover, minor bumping to head... Read More

Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.

(Leibniz's independent discovery of calculus) NOVA METHODUS PRO MAXIMIS ET MINIMIS [in] ACTA ERUDITORUM ANNO MDCLXXXIV

by Mencke, Otto (et al.)

Leibniz's independent discovery of calculus Text in Latin. Union List 1, 53. Four volumes (1682, 1683, 1684, and 1685) bound as one. Numerous diagrams and illustrations. Lacking the frontispiece for all four volumes. Errata follow text in each volume. A bit of marginal waterstaining at start. Hinges cracked, usual for a vellum binding of this thickness. Four dedication leaves misbound in... Read More

Offered by Oak Knoll Books

Flappers and Philosophers

by FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First. Original Cloth. Very Good. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY FITZGERALD: "For Hazel Austin Walker / from California / by mistake / from / F Scott Fitzgerald." Flappers and Philosophers is the most difficult Fitzgerald book to find signed or inscribed. First edition, early printing (October 1920, one month after the first). F. Scott Fitzgerald... Read More

Offered by Manhattan Rare Book Company

ENGLISH BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT & THE NEW

Hammersmith, England: Doves Press, The, 1905. full limp vellum, uncut fore and tail edges, gilt on spines, individual later cloth slipcases with leather spine labels. Doves Press. five folio volumes (13 3/16 x 9 3/16 inches; 335 x 234 mm). full limp vellum, uncut fore and tail edges, gilt on spines, individual later cloth slipcases with leather spine labels.... Read More

Offered by Oak Knoll Books

Fifteen-page early draft of his essay, "Hardy and the Hag

by Fowles, John

[Lyme Regis?], 1976. The manuscript comprises 15 quarto pages of typescript, and 3 pages of typed notes, all so thoroughly reworked (in both pen and pencil) in Fowles' hand that the original kernel of thought is transformed into a full-blown essay right before our eyes. Fowles inserts, deletes, adds paragraphs in the margins, and in three cases turns the... Read More

Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Institutiones oratoriae. [Edited by Omnibonus Leonicenus]

by Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius

[Venice]: Nicolaus Ienson ... Mense Maii Die XXI, 1471. Third edition of Quintilian (preceeded by two Rome editions printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz); folio (323 x 220 mm.), [211] of 212 leaves (lacking the terminal blank leaf; nos. 67-68 in excellent facsimile); leaves 1 and 2 of the Tabula bound in at the back instead of the front; ruled... Read More

Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Fleeing the Nazis After Hitler's Rise, Einstein Rushes to Save Two of his Closest Scientific Colleagues

by Albert Einstein

5/5/33. Germany as an island of intellectuals is no longer possible, he writes, blaming the fall of his country and exile of his colleagues on poor education, a vestige of Bismarck ""I am almost collapsing under all my responsibilities.""  A glimpse into the tragic end to the scientific flowering of pre-Nazi Germany, along with Einstein's explanation for why it all... Read More

Offered by The Raab Collection, LLC

From the Battlefield Library of William Henry Harrison, Carried With Him to Inspire During the War of 1812

by William Henry Harrison

19/09/1813. The Battle of Lake Erie was fought on September 10, 1813, on Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio during the War of 1812. Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of the British Royal Navy. This ensured American control of the lake for the rest of the war, which in turn allowed... Read More

Offered by The Raab Collection, LLC

Autograph Letter [Signed "A toi"] to Louise Colet

by FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE

Croisset: np, 1847. First edition. Letter; custom case. Very Good. A LONG, EARLY, AUTOGRAPH LETTER BY FLAUBERT TO HIS MUSE LOUISE COLET, WITH REVEALING REFLECTIONS ON LIFE AND ART. On Louise Colet: "Louise Colet was truly Flaubert's muse and a midwife for his Emma Bovary. It is to her that the hermit of Croisset chronicled, in over... Read More

Offered by Manhattan Rare Book Company

President James Monroe Has Read and Returns the Counsel of Jefferson During Missouri Crisis of 1820, But Would Ultimately Ignore It

by James Monroe

13/04/1820. Here Monroe returns the original to its recipientThe first great crisis over slavery occurred when Missouri requested to be admitted to the Union as a slave state in 1819. The number of slave and free states was then balanced at 11 each, and admission would upset that balance. Both north and south staked out positions based on sectionalism,... Read More

Offered by The Raab Collection, LLC

Mere Weeks After Hitler's Rise to Power, Einstein Speaks on the Growing Global Chaos and Threat to Minorities: “The main thing is that minority groups should be allowed security in the community.”

by Albert Einstein

15/02/1933. He revises the typescript of his interview with the War Resisters League, of which he was Honorary Chairman, and calls out William Randolph Hearst and the head of the press and film empire in Germany, who aided Hitler’s rise On philosophy: “The intellect without the emotions is insignificant”; On racism: “The main thing is that minority groups should be... Read More

Offered by The Raab Collection, LLC

AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; OR THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES

by WILSON, Alexander [HAND-COLORED PLATES]

Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1808-1814. First Edition. Hardcover. Some offsetting of plates onto text, unevenly browned, some spots and stains. One plate is nicked in the outer edge, another with an early repair along the gutter, neither affecting the image. Spines lightly faded, extremities a bit worn, some inner hinges cracked. Very Good set of this attractive and historic... Read More

Offered by Charles Agvent

DIANETICS

by Hubbard, L. Ron & Winter, J. A. & Pohl, Frederik

*** IN THE SCARCE DELUXE BINDING ***DIANETICS, Hermitage, 1950, first edition, some light wear to the lower fore edge corner tips, some rubbing and light wear to the bottom edges of the boards, else a tight, bright vg+ copy with the t.p.e.'s in gold gilt as called for in a vg+/near fine dust-wrapper.... Read More

Offered by The Fine Books Company

AN EMBASSY FROM THE EAST-INDIA COMPANY OF THE UNITED PROVINCES, TO THE GRAND TAR

by NIEUHOFF, John. et al.

London 1669, Macock. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Full leather, raised bands, gold stamped, engraved title page printed in red & black, 2 copper etched frontispieces,folio 27 x 41 cm. 327+184+106p., 121 copper etched plates, COMPLETE. RARE . .*** *** *** . . COMPLETE AS ISSUED WITH THE MAP AND ALL ENGRAVINGS . . . ONE OF THE EARLIEST BOOKS ON CHINA... Read More

Offered by Rare Oriental Book Co., An Art and Intellectual Property Company Since 1967, ABAA, ILAB

SALOMÉ: DRAME EN UN ACTE

by WILDE, OSCAR

Paris and London: Librairie de l'Art Indépendant; Elkin Mathews et John Lane, 1893. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 600 COPIES (500 of which were for sale). 243 x 150 mm. (8 x 5 5/8"). 84 pp., [1] leaf. Pleasing red very coarse-grained morocco by Sangroski & Sutcliffe (stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in), covers with gilt coat of arms... Read More

Offered by Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts

PERHAPS THAT OF PAUL THE DEACON

by VERY EARLY VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY, FROM A CAROLINGIAN HOMILIARY IN LATIN

Germany, second quarter of ninth century. Each leaf approximately 305 x 205 mm, (12 x 8"). Single column, 29-30 lines in a large and extremely legible Caroline minuscule. Rubrics in red, each leaf with one or more large initials in red. Text with a few contemporary corrections and erasures. Accompanied by a copy of a letter from Bernhard... Read More

Offered by Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts

The Florentine Historie

by Machiavelli, Niccolò [Translated by Thomas Bedingfield]

London: Printed by T.C. [Thomas Creede] for W.P. [William Ponsonby], 1595. First Edition. Very good. First edition in English. Contemporary (likely original) vellum, Contemporary (likely original) vellum, fragment of the original printed paper label on spine. Woodcut engraved ornamental title page, the upper right corner chipped and replaced with paper appropriated from the lower left corner of the... Read More

Offered by Biblioctopus

Torat Ha-Elo-Him ... The Law of God ..

by JUDAICA, American - BIBLE IN HEBREW and ENGLISH - Isaac LEESER (1806-1868), editor

Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman, 5605. 8vo, 5 volumes. (8 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches). Hebrew and English text on facing pages. Each volume inscribed at the head of the English-language title "To my beloved wife from her affectionate husband," the first volume with a later family annotation. Contemporary purple morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered... Read More

Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Libro Aureo de Marco Aurelio

by GUEVARA, Antonio de

Antwerp: Joannes Grapheus, 1529. Full Description: GUEVARA, Antonio de. Libro Aureo de Marco Aurelio. Emperador y Elocuentísimo Orador. Nueuamente Impresso. [Antwerp: Joannes Grapheus], 1529. First Antwerp edition, and fourth edition in all. The Earliest obtainable edition. Preceded only by two editions from Seville printed by Cromberger in 1527 and 1528, and an edition in Valencia in 1528.... Read More

Offered by Heritage Book Shop, LLC

The Newe Testament of Oure Sauvoure Jesu Christe, Newly and Dylygently Translated into Englyshe wyth Annotacions in the Mergent to Helpe the Reader to the Understandyne of the Texte. “Matthew Bible”

by Tyndale, William, translator

London.: John Daye and Wiiliam Seres., 1549. Second edition of the Matthew Bible.. Modern full brown leather, raised bands, gilt decorations, embossed border. Bound by Starr Bookworks.. Title page re-margined, outer margin tightly trimmed, scattered soiling, dampstains, wormholes, and old repairs.. Folio, 29.5x19.5x2.2 cm.. A milestone in the history of English Bibles. Much of the text of the... Read More

Offered by Lee Johnson’s Zephyr Books

DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP

by Dick, Philip K.

*** NICE ASSOCIATION COPY ***DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP, Doubleday, 1968, first edition, tiny hole from fastener to the upper margin of the first 3 leaves, else just about fine in vg+/near fine dust-wrapper with some slight wear. Publishers complimentary card laid in with the signature of the Doubleday... Read More

Offered by The Fine Books Company