Recueil de cartes géographiques et d'estampes pour l'histoire philosophique du monde primitif. by SALES, Jean Baptiste Claude Delisle - 1795

1774 William Shakespeare PLAYS Illustrated Theatre Julius Caesar Winters Tale 3v

"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good - in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
– Robert Graves

A rare set of the plays of William Shakespeare. This three-volume lot includes some of the most famous works of Shakespearean theatre, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and Julius Caesar. The plays in this collection are 'acting versions' of the staged plays, and according to Ritchie and Sabor,
"this edition offers a valuable record of the ways in which the plays were being altered at the time, with an introductory advertisement justifying this practice." (Ritchie & Sabor, p.397)
John Bell, the publisher of this landmark set, provided a "read-along guide to contemporary theatrical display with direct references to the performance of Shakespeare on the contemporary stage, it had commercial appeal." (R&S, p.232).

This beautiful, charming set includes 26… Read More

1933 1ed Ernest Hemingway Winner Take Nothing Classic American Short Stories

'Winner Take Nothing' was Ernest Hemingway's first new book of fiction following the publication of "A Farewell to Arms" in 1929 – a book which contains fourteen stories. Some of them have appeared in magazines, but the majority had not been published before.

This work follows the stories of a variety of strange characters - "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," is about an old Spanish Beggar. "Homage to Switzerland" concerns various conversations at a Swiss railway-station restaurant. "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" is laid in the accident ward of a hospital in Western United States, and so on.

This first edition "Winner Take Nothing" features the original publisher's cloth hardcover binding. Contents include:
• After the storm
• Clean, well-lighted place
• The light of the world
• God rest you merry, gentlemen
• The sea change
• A way you'll never be
• The mother of a queen
• One reader writes… Read More

1871 Robert E Lee 1st ed Civil War Military Confederate Army Illustrated CSA Map

"Human virtue should be equal to human calamity."
­­--Robert E. Lee

John Esten Cooke was an American novelist, writer and poet. During the American Civil War, Cooke served as a staff officer in the Confederate States Army cavalry.

After he started writing, he almost immediately became a successful novelist and prolific short story writer, eventually authoring 31 books and almost 200 published articles and poems Even before the end of the war, in 1863, Cooke wrote the first of several popular biographies, that of Stonewall Jackson. His later efforts at biography, such as this biography of Robert E. Lee as well as officers that he had personally known, were considered more accurate that his early Jackson biography.

"A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee" was published just after Lee's death. It includes 25 illustrations and maps.

Item number: #25181
Price: $599

COOKE, John Esten

A life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten… Read More

1578 LIVY History of Rome Ab Urbe Condita Caesar Punic WARS Feyerabend Godelevaeus

"Men of outstanding ability are more likely to lack the power of controlling their own people than of defeating an enemy in battle."
― Livy, The History of Rome

Few works on the history of Rome are as important and impactful as Livy's 'Ab Urbe Condita.' Livy began working on this work at the end of the 1st-century BC and covers the earliest times and the foundation of Rome through the reign of Caesar Augustus.

This extremely rare 16th-century printing of Livy was published in Frankfurt, Germany in 1578 and features the commentary of Wilhelm Godelevaeus and Sigmund Feyerabend.

Item number: #25418
Price: $950

LIVY, Titus

In Titi Livii Patavini Historiarum ab urbe condita libros, qui quidem extant, omnes, Observationes

Francofurti ad Moenum : Feyerabend, 1578.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o "Observations" – [2], 380
o "Ab Urbe Condita" – 508, [16]
· Provenance:… Read More

1680 RARE Franciscan Fortunat Hueber Solemnis Sublimis Bible Devotional Vellum

Fortunatus Hueber was a 17th-century German historian and confessor who was relatively unknown outside of Bavaria. Nevertheless, he wrote many treatises on Franciscan saints and foundations as well as devotionals and church histories. One of his lesser-known works was "Apparatus Solemnis Sublimis" – a devotional describing the character of Christ through signs, anecdotes and sayings of church fathers, and descriptions of ecclesiastical concepts and symbols. Each section or 'apparatus' of this book is based on a verse from scripture.

The decorative vellum binding on this 1680 first edition is particularly desirable, especially with the functioning leather and brass clasps.

Item number: #25419
Price: $599

HUEBER, Fortunatus

Apparatus solemnis sublimis et illimis pro felicibus ac publicis auspiciis ad diademata, coronas

Monachij: Joannis Jaecklin, 1680.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [18],… Read More

1774 William Shakespeare PLAYS Illustrated Theatre Julius Caesar Winters Tale 3v

"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good - in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
– Robert Graves

A rare set of the plays of William Shakespeare. This three-volume lot includes some of the most famous works of Shakespearean theatre, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and Julius Caesar. The plays in this collection are 'acting versions' of the staged plays, and according to Ritchie and Sabor,
"this edition offers a valuable record of the ways in which the plays were being altered at the time, with an introductory advertisement justifying this practice." (Ritchie & Sabor, p.397)
John Bell, the publisher of this landmark set, provided a "read-along guide to contemporary theatrical display with direct references to the performance of Shakespeare on the contemporary stage, it had commercial appeal." (R&S, p.232).

This beautiful, charming set includes 26… Read More

1933 1ed Ernest Hemingway Winner Take Nothing Classic American Short Stories

'Winner Take Nothing' was Ernest Hemingway's first new book of fiction following the publication of "A Farewell to Arms" in 1929 – a book which contains fourteen stories. Some of them have appeared in magazines, but the majority had not been published before.

This work follows the stories of a variety of strange characters - "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," is about an old Spanish Beggar. "Homage to Switzerland" concerns various conversations at a Swiss railway-station restaurant. "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" is laid in the accident ward of a hospital in Western United States, and so on.

This first edition "Winner Take Nothing" features the original publisher's cloth hardcover binding. Contents include:
• After the storm
• Clean, well-lighted place
• The light of the world
• God rest you merry, gentlemen
• The sea change
• A way you'll never be
• The mother of a queen
• One reader writes… Read More

1871 Robert E Lee 1st ed Civil War Military Confederate Army Illustrated CSA Map

"Human virtue should be equal to human calamity."
­­--Robert E. Lee

John Esten Cooke was an American novelist, writer and poet. During the American Civil War, Cooke served as a staff officer in the Confederate States Army cavalry.

After he started writing, he almost immediately became a successful novelist and prolific short story writer, eventually authoring 31 books and almost 200 published articles and poems Even before the end of the war, in 1863, Cooke wrote the first of several popular biographies, that of Stonewall Jackson. His later efforts at biography, such as this biography of Robert E. Lee as well as officers that he had personally known, were considered more accurate that his early Jackson biography.

"A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee" was published just after Lee's death. It includes 25 illustrations and maps.

Item number: #25181
Price: $599

COOKE, John Esten

A life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten… Read More

1578 LIVY History of Rome Ab Urbe Condita Caesar Punic WARS Feyerabend Godelevaeus

"Men of outstanding ability are more likely to lack the power of controlling their own people than of defeating an enemy in battle."
― Livy, The History of Rome

Few works on the history of Rome are as important and impactful as Livy's 'Ab Urbe Condita.' Livy began working on this work at the end of the 1st-century BC and covers the earliest times and the foundation of Rome through the reign of Caesar Augustus.

This extremely rare 16th-century printing of Livy was published in Frankfurt, Germany in 1578 and features the commentary of Wilhelm Godelevaeus and Sigmund Feyerabend.

Item number: #25418
Price: $950

LIVY, Titus

In Titi Livii Patavini Historiarum ab urbe condita libros, qui quidem extant, omnes, Observationes

Francofurti ad Moenum : Feyerabend, 1578.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o "Observations" – [2], 380
o "Ab Urbe Condita" – 508, [16]
· Provenance:… Read More

1680 RARE Franciscan Fortunat Hueber Solemnis Sublimis Bible Devotional Vellum

Fortunatus Hueber was a 17th-century German historian and confessor who was relatively unknown outside of Bavaria. Nevertheless, he wrote many treatises on Franciscan saints and foundations as well as devotionals and church histories. One of his lesser-known works was "Apparatus Solemnis Sublimis" – a devotional describing the character of Christ through signs, anecdotes and sayings of church fathers, and descriptions of ecclesiastical concepts and symbols. Each section or 'apparatus' of this book is based on a verse from scripture.

The decorative vellum binding on this 1680 first edition is particularly desirable, especially with the functioning leather and brass clasps.

Item number: #25419
Price: $599

HUEBER, Fortunatus

Apparatus solemnis sublimis et illimis pro felicibus ac publicis auspiciis ad diademata, coronas

Monachij: Joannis Jaecklin, 1680.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [18],… Read More