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Fédéraliste
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Fédéraliste: ou Collection de quelques Ecrits en faveur de la Constitution proposée aux États-Unis de l'Amérique, par la Convention convoquée en 1787. Publiés dans Les États-Unis de l'Amérique par MM. Hamilton, Madisson et Gay, Citoyens de l'État de New-York.

by HAMILTON, Alexander

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Paris: Chez Buisson, 1792. JAY, John. MADISON, James. Le Fédéraliste, ou Collection de quelques Ecrits en faveur de la Constitution proposée aux États-Unis de l'Amérique, par la Convention convoquée en 1787. Publiés dans Les États-Unis de l'Amérique par MM. Hamilton, Madisson et Gay [sic], Citoyens de l'État de New-York. Paris: Chez Buisson, 1792. First edition in French, the supposed second issue (without the introduction, as issued). However, Sabin states that the supposed first issue and this issue are, in all probability, the same edition. This is also the second edition overall (preceding other American editions besides the first, and any London editions). Two octavo volumes (7 9/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 192 x 123 mm). [5], xxii-lii, [1]-366 pp.; [4], [1]-511, [1, blank] pp. The preliminary pages contain the Constitution. Speckled quarter sheep-skin over speckled paste paper boards. Spines stamped in gilt. Each volume with a tan and dark green morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. All… Read More
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Report of the Committee of Claims, on the Petition of Elizabeth Hamilton
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Report of the Committee of Claims, on the Petition of Elizabeth Hamilton: January 11, 1810. Read and Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on next.

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City of Washington: A. & G. Way, Printers, 1810. HAMILTON, Alexander. , [HAMILTON, Elizabeth, subject]. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the Petition of Elizabeth Hamilton. January 11, 1810. Read and Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on next. City of Washington, A. & G. Way, Printers: 1810. First edition. Unbound pamphlet. Octavo (9 x 5 3/8 inches; 230 x 138 mm). [3], [1, blank] pp. With two stab marks. Uncut. Very good. We could only find one other copy at a library and no copies at auction. "On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton was mortally wounded during a duel with Aaron Burr and died the following day. Five years after Hamilton's untimely death, his widow, Elizabeth Hamilton, submitted a petition to Congress asking for a pension based on her husband's military service as Lieutenant Colonel in the Revolutionary war. In 1782, Hamilton had been a member of the Continental Congress that passed legislation establishing army pensions. For ethical reasons, he had relinquished his claim… Read More
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Manuscript Lyrics for One Foot, Other Foot from the Musical Allegro
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Manuscript Lyrics for "One Foot, Other Foot" from the Musical "Allegro

by HAMMERSTEIN II, Oscar

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NP, 1947. NP: 1947. Full Description: [HAMMERSTEIN II, Oscar]. Manuscript Lyrics for "One Foot, Other Foot" from the Musical "Allegro" . [N.p.n.d, c.a. 1947}. One sheet letterhead, onion skin paper with "Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd" printed in blue at top left margin (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 281 x 216 mm). With a manuscript note in pencil to godson Stuart reading "For Stuart, written in anticipation of his/ coming triumph by his godfather, /Oscar Hammerstein." Below the note is a pencil line and then two pencil manuscript columns of lyrics for the song "One Foot, Other Foot" from the Hammerstein's musical "Allegro" which opened on broadway in October 1947. Manuscript on recto only. Accompanying this is a typed sheet of the same lyrics. Some light toning to paper. Two small pieces of tape from previous mounting to top margin. A tiny chip to lower outer corner. Otherwise fine. "Rodgers & Hammerstein's innovative experiment Allegro chronicles nearly four decades in the life of a man, Joseph Taylor, Jr., from… Read More
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Thin Man
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Thin Man

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First edition. Octavo. [x], [259], [1, colophon], [2, blank] pp. Original pale green cloth decorated in red and blue. Covers faded as always, with some very minor wear to head and tail of spine. In the publisher's red-variant pictorial dust jacket (with "Recommended by the Book-of-the-Month Club" sticker affixed, jacket with reviews on the upper inner flap and priced at $2.00 net). Jacket is very bright, with just minor chipping at extremities of the creases. A minor crease down the jacket spine. Some small color touch-ups to the jacket spine extremities. There are four variants of the jacket, of no established priority. Previous owner's small bookplate on front pastedown. Overall, an about fine copy with none of the usual fading to the spine of the jacket. "The Thin Man offered another sleuth, Nick Charles, who was to become as well known as Sam Spade" (Benet, The Reader's Encycopedia). The Thin Man introduces the married detectives Nick and Nora Charles; although… Read More
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Maltese Falcon
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Maltese Falcon

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. Full Description: HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First edition. Octavo (7 7/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 188 x 131 mm). [4, blank], [8], 267, [1], [4, blank] pp. Original light gray cloth decoratively stamped in dark grayish blue and black on front cover and spine. Front cover stamped with a falcon. Top edge stained dark blue, others uncut. Spine a bit sunned. With a portion of the front flap of the first issue dust jacket neatly affixed to front pastedown. A very good or better copy without any wear. The Maltese Falcon was "one of the first examples of hard-boiled fiction, and it marked the first appearance of Hammett's famous private eye, Sam Spade. Dealing with the theft of a jewel-encrusted falcon, which originally belonged to the Knights Templars, the story was as romantic in content as it was realistic and tough in manner. It was filmed three times, and in the version by John Huston (1941), the story became one of the great… Read More
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Trumpet-Major: A Tale
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Trumpet-Major: A Tale

by HARDY, Thomas

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London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1880. London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1880. First edition. Three volumes, octavo (7 1/2 x 5 in., 190 x 127 mm). Publisher's pictorial red cloth, stamped in black on front covers, blind-stamped (triple-ruled border) on back covers. Spines stamped in gilt and black. Spines very slightly sunned. Inner hinged of volume I starting, but firm. Two previous owner's bookplates on front pastedowns of each volume. Overall an about fine, bright copy house in a quarter morocco clamshell. As Purdy explains, the Smith-Elder imprint of Spottiswoode & Co. The fine pictorial binding depicts two vignettes drawn by Hardy on the fronts, a millhouse in the bottom half and an encampment in the top and the spines have a sword crossed by a horn. This set with the triple-rule border in blind, is less common than those featuring a double-rule border. Literature: Purdy, pp. 31-35; Sterling 427; Sadleir 1115 HBS 66272. $22,500.
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Works [Mellstock Edition]
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Works [Mellstock Edition]

by HARDY, Thomas

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London: Macmillan and Co, 1919. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE; STRANG, William. The Works of Thomas Hardy. London: Macmillan and Co., 1919-1920. The Mellstock Edition. Limited to 500 copies, signed by the author. Thirty-seven octavo volumes. Etched frontispiece portrait by William Strang in Volume I, map of Wessex in Volume II. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for the J. W. Robinson Company in contemporary three-quarter blue calf over blue cloth boards, spines elaborately tooled in gilt in compartments, with red morocco floral onlays, red morocco gilt lettering labels, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. Some minor touch-up, two volumes have professional paper repairs of the text, else a bright, fine copy of the best edition of Thomas Hardy's works. Purdy, pp. 278-288. HBS 67707. $12,500.
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Trumpet-Major
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Trumpet-Major: a Tale

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London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1880. A Tale. In Three Volumes. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1880. First edition in book form (first printed serially in Good Words from January to December 1880). Three octavo volumes (7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches; 185 x 125 mm) . [i]- vi, 295, [1, blank]; [i]-vi, 276; [2, blank], vi, 259, [1, blank] pp. Volumes I & II without preliminary blank. Publisher's primary binding of volume I and secondary binding of volumes II and III all of red diagonal-fine-ribbed cloth, the only difference being back covers stamped in blind with double-rule (vol. I) or triple-rule (vols II & III) border. Front covers decoratively stamped in black with a three-panel design incorporating two vignettes, an encampment at top, a mill at bottom, and lettering in the center panel. Spines decoratively stamped in gilt and black with standard, sword, and bugle, and lettered in blind and gilt (with imprint at foot of spine: Smith, Elder & Co.). Yellow coated endpapers. Spines of all volumes a bit darkened.… Read More
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Pair of Blue Eyes
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Pair of Blue Eyes

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London: Tinsley Brothers, 1873. First edition in book form (first published in Tinsleys' Magazine from September 1872 to July 1873). One of presumably 500 copies printed. Three small octavo (6 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 168 x 110 mm). [4], 303, [1, blank]; [4], 311, [1, blank]; [4], 262 pp. Bound without half-titles. Late nineteenth-century half blue morocco over marbled boards. Boards ruled in gilt. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt, and with gilt roses in four compartments. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Occasional light staining. Overall a very nice set in a handsome binding. Hardy's third published novel, A Pair of Blue Eyes tells the story of the young woman Elfride and her competing lovers; after an aborted elopement with one of her suitors, Elfride determines to marry the other, whom she feels she truly loves. After he discovers her the extent of her previous romantic entanglements, however, he breaks off their match. The miserable Elfride eventually marries someone else entirely, but dies… Read More
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Under the Greenwood Tree
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Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. By the Author of 'Desperate Remedies.' In Two Volumes.

by HARDY, Thomas

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London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. Rare First Edition of Hardy's Second Novel in the Original Cloth [HARDY, Thomas]. Under the Greenwood Tree. A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. By the Author of ‘Desperate Remedies.' In Two Volumes. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. Rare first edition of Thomas Hardy's second novel. Two octavo volumes (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 188 x 124 mm). [6], 215, [1, blank]; [6], 216 pp. Complete with half-titles. Original green sand-grain cloth over beveled boards. Covers stamped in black with an Oxford frame and spines ruled in gilt and black and lettered in gilt. A bit of rubbing to extremities and corners. Gilt on the spine with some rubbing. Hinges with some professional repairs. Previous owner's ink signature on front pastedown of each volume. Some foxing and staining, mostly at front and rear. Overall, a very good copy, in the scarce original cloth. Housed in slipcase. After burning his first effort at a novel, and receiving scant attention upon the publication of… Read More
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Das Wesen des Christentums
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Das Wesen des Christentums: Sechzehn Vorlesungen vor Studierenden aller Facultäten im Wintersemester 1899/1900 an der Universität Berlin.

by HARNACK, Adolf

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Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1900. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1900. First edition. Octavo (8 5/16 x 5 1/2 inches; 211 x 141 mm). [4], 189, [1, table of contents], [2, ads] pp. Contemporary half black hard-grain morocco over dark blue morocco-grain cloth boards. Smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt. Original brown coated endpapers. Some rubbing to extremities. A one-inch crack at the top of the front outer joint. Overall a very good copy. "These lectures on ‘The Essence of Christianity' by the then professor of church history at Berlin University were received with an enthusiasm unparalled for centuries in the field of religious pamphleteering. They proclaimed the fundamental concord of the tenets of the early Church as preserved in the non-Roman churches with the religious aspirations, the intellectual climate and the social and economic morality of the twentieth century; and innumerable reprints and translations broadcast this message of liberal… Read More
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Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca

Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca: Or, a complete collection of voyages and travels. Consisting of above six hundred of the most authentic writers ... And the voyages under the direction of the East-India Company in Holland, in Dutch. Together with such other histories, voyages, travels, o

by HARRIS, John

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London: Printed for T. Osborne [and seventeen others], 1764. Third and best edition, much enlarged. Two folio volumes (16 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches; 410 x 260 mm.). [10], xvi, 984; [12]. 1056, [19, index], [1, plate list] pp. (þ2 a2É‘2 b-e2 2É‘2 B - 11R2; a2 b-c2 (-C2) B - 12R2). Complete with sixty-one engraved plates, including fifteen folding maps. Title-pages in red and black. Beautifully bound in period-style Cambridge-paneled speckled calf with blind-tooling, spine compartments densely gilt in a repeating leaf pattern, red and green morocco gilt lettering labels, marbled endpapers. Scattered light foxing. A small owner's stamp in purple ink to the outer margin of the title-page of Volume II. A closed tear in the center of leaf 5Z2 in Volume II has been expertly repaired. Overall a very good, remarkably clean and bright copy of this important collection of voyages. "A collection of all known voyages ... [Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca] is valuable for the original impressions of… Read More
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Narrative of the Proceedings Relative to the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea
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Narrative of the Proceedings Relative to the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea: by Mr. John Harrison's Time-Keeper; Subsequent to Those Published in the Year 1763.

by HARRISON, John

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London: Printed for the author, and sold by Mr. Sandby, 1765. Harrison, John. A Narrative of the Proceedings Relative to the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea; by Mr. John Harrison's Time-Keeper; Subsequent to Those Published in the Year 1763. London. Printed for the author, and sold by Mr. Sandby, 1765. First edition. Small octavo (6 7/8 x 4 9/16 inches; 175 x 115 mm). [2], 18 pp. Bound without half-title and final blank. Engraved initial and headpiece on page [1]. We could only find four copies of this at auction in the past 40 years, present copy included. Of these four copies, only one was complete with both the half-title and final blank. Pamphlet bound in half brown morocco over brown library cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Drab dark blue endpapers. Title-page lightly soiled, otherwise internally very clean. Small stamp of The Birmingham Assay Office Library on newer front free endpaper leaf and on verso of title-page. Overall a very good copy. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell. "The… Read More
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Sketches of Hawaiian History and Honolulu Directory
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Sketches of Hawaiian History and Honolulu Directory

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Honolulu: C.C. Bennett, 1869. HAWAII. BENNETT, C.C. publisher] Sketches of Hawaiian History and Honolulu Directory. Honolulu: C.C. Bennett, 1869. First edition of "The first Honolulu city directory" (Forbes). With the directory starting on page 77 and in double columns. A second edition was published in 1871 with the historical chronology extending to 1871 and the directory in single columns. Contains the errata slip facing page 88 entitled "NAMES omitted, and Shifts that have been made since compiling." Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm). xii, 88, xiii-xxvii. Contemporary quarter black sheep over publisher's original printed paper boards. Boards and a bit chipped and toned. Rubbing and some splitting to spine along outer joints. A bit of toning and foxing, bu generally text is very clean. Previous owner's ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Overall a very good copy. This volume contains 28 pages of advertisements, some with illustrations, a sketch of historical events and a… Read More
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Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls
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Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls: Being a Second Wonder-Book

by HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel

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Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1853. Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys; Being a Second Wonder-Book. With fine illustrations. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853. First American edition, first printing (without imprint of Geo. C. Rand on copyright page). Small octavo (6 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches; 167 x 109 mm). [8, advertisements], [4], 5-336, [2, blank] pp. With wood-engraved vignette title-page and six additional engraved plates. With eight-page publisher's catalogue inserted between front endpapers. Publisher's purple-brown cloth. Covers ruled and decoratively stamped in blind and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Edges stained yellow. Pale yellow endpapers. Minimal rubbing to extremities. Spine a bit sunned. Some minor flaking to the head and tail of the spine. Binding slightly skewed. Overall a very good or better copy. Chemised and housed in a brown cloth slipcase, with red morocco spine label. BAL 7614. Browne, p. 74. Clarke A22.2a. Peter Parley to Penrod, Pg. 10. HBS 67826.… Read More
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Wonder Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Wonder Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne: With sixty designs by Walter Crane.

by HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1893. CRANE, Walter. . HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys. With sixty designs by Walter Crane. [Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company] Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1893. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 250 numbered copies on large paper, this being number 176. Quarto. x, 210 pp. With sixty designs by Walter Crane, including decorative head- and tail-pieces printed in colors and an added color title and nineteen color plates mounted on leaves of Japanese vellum ruled and captioned in gold. With tissue guards. Original embossed parchment over boards. Front cover and spine decoratively lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Decorative endpapers in gold and white. Minimal foxing. Otherwise a fine copy. In the original green linen dust wrapper decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine and green linen slipcase. "In October, 1891, Walter Crane left with his family for a tour through the United States, which… Read More
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Wonder Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Wonder Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne: With sixty designs by Walter Crane.

by HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1893. CRANE, Walter. . HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys. With sixty designs by Walter Crane. [Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company] Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1893. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 250 numbered copies on large paper, this being number 9. Quarto. x, 210 pp. With sixty designs by Walter Crane, including decorative head- and tail-pieces printed in colors and an added color title and nineteen color plates mounted on leaves of Japanese vellum ruled and captioned in gold. With tissue guards. Original embossed parchment over boards. Front cover and spine decoratively lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Decorative endpapers in gold and white. Previous owner Stilwell's bookplate on front free endpaper. A fine copy. In the original green linen dust wrapper decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine and green linen slipcase. "In October, 1891, Walter Crane left with his family for a tour… Read More
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De L'Espirit: Or, Essays on the Mind and Its Several Faculties
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De L'Espirit: Or, Essays on the Mind and Its Several Faculties: Translated from the edition printed under the author's inspection.

by HELVETIUS, Claude Adrian

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London: Printed for the Translator, 1759. Full Description: HELVETIUS, Claude Adrian. De L'Espirit: or, Essays on the Mind and Its Several Faculties. Translated from the edition printed under the author's inspection. London: Printed for the Translator, 1759. First edition in English (published one year after the first edition in France). Quarto (10 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches; 275 x 215 mm). xvi, 331 [1, blank] pp. with the title page printed in red and black. Full later crushed morocco. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Top edge deckled, fore-edge and bottom edge uncut. Newer endpapers. Title-page with a small tear to upper blank margin, presumably from erasing a previous owner's old signature which there are traces of. Leaf B4 with small tear to top blank margin and a small hole in text, only affecting one letter. Leaf X2 with a closed tear, with no loss, and a large marginal stain. Pages 273-296 with a marginal dampstain, not touching text. A few leaves with minor stains and spots. Still, A… Read More
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Nouvelle Decouverte D'un Tres Grand Pays
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Nouvelle Decouverte D'un Tres Grand Pays: Situé dans l'Amerique, entre La Nouveau Mexique, et La Mer Glaciale, Avecles Carrtes, & les Figures necessaires, & de plus l'Hisstoire Naturelle & Morale, & les avantages, qu'on en peut tirer par l'etablissement des Colonies. Le Tout Dedis á Sa Majesté

by HENNEPIN, Louis

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Utrecht: Chez Guillaume Broedelet, Marchand Libraire, 1697. First edition of this account of Hennepin's travels in what is now the United States and Canada. Twelvemo (6 x 3 1/2 inches; 153 x 30 mm). [70], 506 pp. [with extra 10 * pages, all numbered 313]. With engraved title-page, two folding maps and two folding plates (the first ever view made of Niagara Falls, the other of one of the earliest pictures of an American bison). In this book, (his second) Hennepin includes the substance of his first, the Description de la Louisiane, printed in 1683, and continues with the account of a voyage he here claims to have made to the mouth of the Mississippi and back up again. "In the second book Hennepin adds, to his actual voyage up the Mississippi, a pretended one down that stream prior to La Salle" (Howes). That voyage was, in fact, undertaken Le Clerq, and while Hennepin has been much maligned through the ages for his plagiarism, this should not detract from his monumentally important contributions to… Read More
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Assertio Septem Sacramentorum Aduersus Martin. Lutheru
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Assertio Septem Sacramentorum Aduersus Martin. Lutheru: Aedita ab Invictissimo Angliae et Franciae Rege, et do. Hyberniae Henrico Eius Nominis Octavo.

by HENRY VIII, King of England

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London: Richard Pynson, 1521. Full Description: [HENRY VIII, King of England]. Assertio Septem Sacramentorum Aduersus Martin. Lutheru. Aedita ab Invictissimo Angliae et Franciae Rege, et do. Hyberniae Henrico Eius Nominis Octavo. [London: Richard Pynson, 1521]. First edition. Small quarto (8 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 210 x 155 mm). 80 leaves. With the final two blank leaves. Final leaf of text is errata and colophon. Large woodcut initials. Title-page within a allegorical woodcut boarder, signed HH for Hans Holbein. "The woodcut border on the title-page, which depicts the story of C. Mucius Scaevola and King Porsenna (McKerrow & Ferguson 8), was adapted from a design by Hans Holbein for the De immortalitate animae by Aeneas Gazaeus, printed by Froben in Basel in 1516." (Sotheby's). Probably remboitage binding of 17th-century vellum, rebacked. The arms of Pope Urban VIII in gilt as central devices on front and back board. Boards double ruled in gilt and with gilt bees as corner devices. All edges gilt.… Read More
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