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Undine: By De La Motte Fouque. Adapted from the German by W.L. Courtney and illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

by LA MOTTE FOUQUÉ, Friedrich, Baron de

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London: William Heinemann, 1909. RACKHAM, Arthur; COURTNEY, W.L.. Limited Edition, Signed by Arthur Rackham RACKHAM, Arthur, [illustrator]. COURTNEY, W.L., [translator]. LA MOTTE FOUQUÉ, Friedrich, Baron de. Undine. By De La Motte Fouque. Adapted from the German by W.L. Courtney and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1909. One of 1,000 copies signed by Rackham, of which this is number 809. Quarto. viii, 136 pp. Fifteen color plates mounted on brown paper with descriptive tissue guards, and thirty black and white text illustrations. Original full vellum. Front cover and spine lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt. With cream silk ties. Brown endpapers. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Vellum a bit rubbed and soiled, bookplate, new ties. Very good. Latimore and Haskell, 34-35. Riall,. HBS 67120. $1,500.
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Politique discourses
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Politique discourses: treating of the differences and inequalities of vocations, as well publique, as priuate: with the scopes or endes wherevnto they are directed. Translated out of French, by Ægremont Ratcliffe Esquire

by LA PLACE, Pierre-Antoine de

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London: [by T. Dawson?] for Edward Aggas, 1578. RATCLIFFE, Aegremont. First Edition in English [LA PLACE, Pierre-Antoine de]. RATCLIFFE, Aegremont, [translator]. Politique discourses, treating of the differences and inequalities of vocations, as well publique, as priuate: with the scopes or endes wherevnto they are directed. Translated out of French, by Ægremont Ratcliffe Esquire London: [by T. Dawson?] for Edward Aggas, 1578. First English edition, a translation of Discours politiques sur la voye d'enter deuëment aux estats. Small quarto (6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 171 x 120 mm). [1]-81, [1, blank] leaves. Title within engraved border and with engraved printer's device. With engraved historiated initials. With final blank. "Anonymous. By Pierre de la Place. Printer's name conjectured by STC" (BL). We could find no copies at auction in the past 35 years. Modern half black morocco over marbled boards. Spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Edges speckled brown. Title-page lightly toned with fore-margin a… Read More
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Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse
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Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse: fait par ordre de l'assemblée constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere et la 2e année de la République Françoise. Par le Cen. Labillardière...

by LABILLARDIÈRE, Jacques Julien Houton de

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Paris: Chez H.J. Jansen, 1800. LA PÉROUSE, Jean F.G. de. The Journey in Search of Lapérouse, with the Rare Atlas of Plates Bound by Courteval LABILLARDIÈRE, [Jacques Julien Houton de]. Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse, fait par ordre de l'Assemblée Constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere. et la 2e. année de la République Françoise...Paris: Chez H.J. Jansen, An VIII de la République Françoise [i.e., 1799-1800]. First edition, quarto issue. Two quarto text volumes (11 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches; 290 x 222 mm.) and one folio atlas volume (22 1/4 x 16 3/8 inches; 565 x 415 mm.). xvi, 442; 332, 113, [1, errata] pp. Atlas with engraved title, double-page route map of the Western Pacific and Indian Oceean by Barbie du Bocage and forty-three plates engraved by Copia after drawings by Piron, the expedition artist, and the botanical plates by Redoute. Contemporary French mottled calf [by Courteval]. Covers with borders of rope-and-disc design enclosed between gilt… Read More
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École de Patience: La Guerre Vue Par Chas Laborde. Avec une évocation par Pierre Mac Orlan de l'Académie Goncourt.

by LABORDE, Guy

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Monaco: A La Voile Latine, 1951. Eacute;cole de Patience. La Guerre Vue Par Chas Laborde. Avec une évocation par Pierre Mac Orlan de l'Académie Goncourt. Monaco: A La Voile Latine, [1951]. Quarto. 148pp. Limited to 381 copies, of which this is number 119. Illustrated in color and in black and white by Chas Laborde. Printed wrappers, green cloth chemise and matching slipcase. Slipcase and chemise lightly sunned. Fine. HBS 66498. $350.
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My Tibet
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My Tibet: Text by His Holyness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet. Photographs and Introduction by Galen Rowell.

by DALAI LAMA

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Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990. ROWELL, Galen. Full Description: DALAI LAMA. ROWELL, Galen. My Tibet. Text by His Holyness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet. Photographs and Introduction by Galen Rowell. Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990. First Edition. Limited to 200 copies, signed by the author, The Dalai Lama and photographer Galen Rowell. This being number 181. Folio (13 x 9 inches; 336 x 228 mm). [8], 162 pp. With over 100 full color photographs. Full red cloth. Front board stamped in blind, lettered in gilt and affixed with a color photograph. Spine lettered in gilt. Housed in a red cloth slipcase. A fine, unread copy. "This special edition of My Tibet is limited to two hundred numbered copies, each with a slipcase, a special binding, and an extra page signed by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet and Galen Rowell." (from the limitation page). HBS 68914. $2,000.
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Royal-cookery: or, the Compleat Court-Cook
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Royal-cookery: or, the Compleat Court-Cook: Containing the choicest receipts in all the several branches of cookery, viz. for making of soops, bisques, olio's, terrines, surtouts, puptons, ragoos, forc'd-meats, sauces, pattys, pies, tarts, tansies, cakes, puddings, jellies, &c. as likewise forty pl

by LAMB, Patrick

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London: Printed for J. Nutt and A. Roper, 1716. Second, much expanded edition, with "several new cuts and above five Hundred new receipts." Octavo (7 5/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 195 x 115 mm) [8], 302, [10] pp. Five of the final leaves comprise 'A bill of fare for every season in the year.' Complete with forty engraved plates, thirty-three of which are folding. Plates are not bound in numerical order, but all are present. This edition is mentioned in Bitting, but not in the collection. Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked to style. Newer red morocco spine label. lettered in gilt. Board edges gilt. Previous owner's armorial bookplate on front pastedown. A bit of minor staining and a few very minor marginal wormholes. A paper flaw to plate " 9" and plate "11' trimmed close, mildly affecting engraving. Overall text and plates generally very clean. A very good copy. "In August 1677 Lamb was appointed as master cook to the queen consort, held in tandem with the office of sergeant of his majesty's pastry in… Read More
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Album with 191 Fashion Design Illustrations
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Album with 191 Fashion Design Illustrations

by LAMOTTE, Louise

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Paris, 1920. LAMOTTE, Louise. Paris: 1920-1924]. Three large quarto volumes with 191 beautiful original fashion design illustrations tipped in on cards. Illustrations are in pen-and-ink and hand-colored with watercolors and sometimes heightened in gold and silver. Leaves: (11 x 9 inches; 280 x 225 mm) Illustrations: (9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches; 240 x 160 mm). Each illustration is stamped with Lamotte's ink stamp on verso, and occasionally also on recto. The stamp reads "3 Faubourg St. Honore Paris Louise Lamotte" Each plate is also numbered and named on verso in ink. Many of the illustrations are also signed by Lamotte on verso. The spine of volume one reads 1920-1921, volume II reads 1922-1923, and volume III reads 1924. These drawings are particularly interesting in that the 1920s marked an important era in fashion. Fashion underwent a modernization and a simplification from the earlier Victorian and Edwardian eras. As seen in these present examples, the "roaring twenties" brought "the development of… Read More
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Vision of Pierce Plowman
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Vision of Pierce Plowman: Newlye imprynted after the authours olde copy, with a brefe summary of the principall matters set before euery part called passus. Wherevnto is also annexed the Crede of Pierce Plowman, neuer imprinted with the booke before.

by LANGLAND, William

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London: Owen Rogers, 1561. Full Description: LANGLAND, William. The Vision of Pierce Plowman. Newlye imprynted after the authours olde copy, with a brefe summary of the principall matters set before euery part called passus. Wherevnto is also annexed the Crede of Pierce Plowman, neuer imprinted with the booke before. London: Owen Rogers, 1561. Fourth edition. Quarto (7 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 185 x 130 mm). 127 leaves. Bound without the 'Crede' as usual. Text in black letter. Woodcut engraved initials throughout, and tailpiece on title-page. 19th-century full calf. Boards double ruled and tooled in blind. Spine with tan calf label, lettered in gilt. All edges speckled red. Some minor rubbing to boards and edges. A bit of toning throughout. But still a very good copy of this scarce title. All early editions are rare with Pforzheimer listing only this and the second edition of 1550. The 'Crede' (absent from most copies, including ours) is particularly scarce. "Its rarity, about half a dozen copies have… Read More
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Voyages and Travels in Various Parts of the World
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Voyages and Travels in Various Parts of the World: During the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, and 1807...Illustrated by Engravings from Original Drawings.

by LANGSDORFF, Georg Heinrich von

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London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1813. [-1814]. First English edition. Two quarto volumes in one (10 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches; 265 x 214mm). xxi, [3], [1]-362, [6, index]; [8], [1- 8], [11]-386, [6, index], [2, blank] pp. Volume II lacking the half-title. With all twenty-one engraved plates (including frontispieces for each volume), two of which are sheets of music. Also with the folding map. The pieces of music are entitled "Brasilian Air" and "Song of the Native of Nukahiwa." Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spines with two brown morocco labels, lettered in gilt. Spines tooled in gilt. Edges speckled red-brown. Drab green endpapers. Title-pages with some offsetting. Most leaves facing the plates with some offsetting as well. Some occasional staining, but generally very clean. Some faded stray ink marks to page 45 in volume I. Overall a very good copy. "Langsdorff was a German physician with a passion for natural history. Together with Mikolai Petrovich Rezanov, chamberlain of Czar… Read More
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Essays on Physiognomy
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Essays on Physiognomy: Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind. Illustrated by more than eight hundred engravings accurately copied; and some duplicates added from originals. Executed by, or under the supervision of, Thomas Holloway. Translated from the French

by LAVATER, Johann Caspar

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London: Printed for John Murray.., 1789. BLAKE, William. . Essays on Physiognomy. Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind. Illustrated by more than eight hundred engravings accurately copied; and some duplicates added from originals. Executed by, or under the supervision of, Thomas Holloway. Translated from the French by Henry Hunter. London: Printed for John Murray..., 1789. Full Description: LAVATER, Johann Caspar. [Blake, William] Essays on Physiognomy. Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind. Illustrated by more than eight hundred engravings accurately copied; and some duplicates added from originals. Executed by, or under the supervision of, Thomas Holloway. Translated from the French by Henry Hunter. London: Printed for John Murray..., 1789-1798. First edition in English. Three quarto volumes in five (13 1/4 x 10 5/8 inches; 337 x 270 mm). [12], [i] ii-iv [v-xxiv], [1-3] 4-281, [1, blank]; [i-v] vi-xii, [1-3] 4-238; [i-vi], [239] 240-444; [i-v] vi-xii,… Read More
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And then we got a Parking Fine, original artwork

And then we got a Parking Fine," original artwork: From "Christmas 1993: or Santa's Last Ride" by Leslie Bricusse. Published in London by Faber & Faber, 1987.

by LE CAIN, Errol

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1987. LE CAIN, Errol; BRICUSSE, Leslie. And then we got a parking fine." Original pen, ink, and watercolor drawing, signed. [N.p.: 1987]. (Image size: 11 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches, framed sixe 28 x 23 in.). Matted, framed and glazed. Original drawing for plate opposite p. 34 in Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride, by Leslie Bricusse (London: Faber & Faber, [1987]). Delightful drawing of a worried Santa standing near his illegally-parked sleigh, while a stern police officer writes out a parking ticket. Fine. HBS 67549. $5,000.
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Nouveaux Memoires Sur L'etat Present De La Chine
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Nouveaux Memoires Sur L'etat Present De La Chine

by LE COMTE, P. Louis

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Paris: Jean Anisson, 1696. First edition. Two twelvemo volumes (6 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches; 158 x 97 mm). [28], 508; [4], 536 pp. Complete with frontispiece portrait in volume I and 20 additional plates in two volumes, 4 of which are folding. With engraved headpieces. Full mottled calf. Boards double ruled in gilt. With cherubs as central and corner devices. Spines stamped in gilt with cherubs. Each spine with two red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. All edges speckled red. Without back flyleaf in volume I. Some light staining throughout. Overall very good. "Louis le Comte, also Louis-Daniel Lecomte, was a French Jesuit who participated in the 1687 French Jesuit mission to China under Jean de Fontaney. He arrived in China on 7 February 1688. He returned to France in 1691 as Procurator of the Jesuits. His Nouveau memoire sur l'etat present de la Chine, which was published in Paris in 1696, caused great debate within the Chinese Rites Controversy. By 1696, he had been… Read More
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Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques
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Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques

by LE MERCIER DE LA RIVIÈRE, Pierre Paul

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London and Paris: Chez Jean Nourse and Chez Desaint, 1767. An Important and Representative Physiocratic Work [LE MERCIER DE LA RIVIÈRE, Pierre Paul]. L'Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques. London: Chez Jean Nourse, Libraire; & se trouvé à Paris, Chez Desaint, Libraire, 1767. First quarto edition, published in the same year as the first (twelvemo) edition. (Measures 10 x 7 3/4 inches). [6], [viii], 511pp, [1,blank]. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine elaborately gilt-stamped with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers, all edges red. Previous owner's old ink notes on front free endpaper. Housed in a custom quarter brown morocco clamshell, gilt-stamped. One of the most important French economic texts of the period, representative of physiocratic views and concepts. This work brought about the attack by Mably in his Doutes proposés aux philosophes économistes sur l'ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques (1768). Higgs, Bibliography of Economics, 3980.… Read More
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Historical Outline of Lower California

Historical Outline of Lower California

by LEESE, Jacob P.

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New York: E. S. Dodge & Co, 1865. Historical Outline of Lower California. New York: E. S. Dodge & Co., 1865. First edition. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 223 x 146 mm).[1]-46, [2, blank] pp. Original grey printed wrappers. Wrappers chipped along lower portion of the spine and slightly chipped along edges. Some light foxing throughout. Overall a very good copy. "Jacob Primer Leese was a Santa Fe trader who settled in San Francisco in 1836 and engaged in the hide and tallow trade with Yankee ships. He married a sister of General Vallejo and became very wealthy. In 1863, Leese and other promoters founded the Mexican Mining and Colonization Company and obtained a land grant from the Mexican government of some 46,800 square miles between the 24th and 31st parallels of latitude in Baja California. They failed to meet their obligations, however, and the grant was transferred to another party in 1866. The outline was written "in the interest of the Mexican Mining and Colonization Company." In addition to… Read More
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Instruction in the Mosaic Religion
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Instruction in the Mosaic Religion: Translated from the German of J. Johlson, Teacher of an Israelitish School at Frankford on the Maine. By Isaac Leeser, Reader of the Portuguese Jewish Congregation in Philadelphia.

by LEESER, Isaac

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Philadelphia: Adam Walde, 1830. LEESER, Isaac. . JOHLSON, Joseph [author]. Instruction in the Mosaic Religion. Translated from the German of J. Johlson, Teacher of an Israelitish School at Frankford on the Maine. By Isaac Leeser, Reader of the Portuguese Jewish Congregation in Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Adam Walde, 5590 [1830]. First American edition and first edition in English. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 210 x 131 mm). viii, 139, [1, blank] pp. Full contemporary sheep. Red morocco spine label. Marbled endpapers. Page 35 with a large closed tear, professionally repaired with no loss of text. Internally very clean. Overall a very good copy. "Leeser brought with him to Philadelphia his translation of J. Johlson's Instruction in the Mosaic Religion. He had it published there in 1830, appropriately dedicated to his uncle Zalman Rehine. The book is a catechism published in Germany and translated and adapted by Leeser for "the instruction of the younger ... of Israelites of both sexes, who have… Read More
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recueil des hystoires troyennes
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recueil des hystoires troyennes: ou est conte nue la genealogie de Saturne [&] de Jupiter... Cy comence le volume intitule le recueil des hystoires de troye compose par... Raoul lefevre prestre chapellain de tresredoubte seigneur monseigneur le duc phillipe de bourgoingne...

by LEFEVRE, Raoul

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Lyon: Jacques Sacon, 1510. Le recueil des hystoires troyennes. ou est conte nue la genealogie de Saturne [&] de Jupiter... Cy comence le volume intitule le recueil des hystoires de troye compose par... Raoul lefevre prestre chapellain de tresredoubte seigneur monseigneur le duc phillipe de bourgoingne... Lyons: Jacques Sacon, 1510. Extremely rare 1510 illustrated edition (probably a unique example) of Le Fevre's famous Troy Book, first printed by Caxton at Bruges about 1473-4, that being both Caxton's first book and the first book printed in the English language. Caxton's second book was the same work printed at Bruges in French, which may be the first work of French literature ever printed, and one of the first of any texts in the French language. The first edition printed in France is reported as at Lyons in 1486. The second edition in France is reported as printed at Lyons in 1490, the woodcuts of which are also found in the present edition and that of the abridged reprint of 1544. One or the… Read More
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Ancient Historie of the Destruction of Troy
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Ancient Historie of the Destruction of Troy: Conteining the founders and foundation of the said citie, with the causes and maner of the first and second spoiles and sackings thereof, by Hercules his followers: and the third and last vtter desolation and ruine, effected by Menelaus and all the notabl

by LEFEVRE, Raoul

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London: Printed by Thomas Creede, 1607. CAXTON, William. A Rare Early Edition of Caxton's Translation of the First Book Printed in English [LEFEVRE, Raoul]. CAXTON, William, [translator]. The Ancient Historie of the Destruction of Troy. Conteining the founders and foundation of the said citie, with the causes and maner of the first and second spoiles and sackings thereof, by Hercules his followers: and the third and last vtter desolation and ruine, effected by Menelaus and all the notable worthies of Greece. Here also are mentioned the rising and flourishing of sundry kings with their realmes: as also the decay and ouerthrow of diuers others. Besides many admirable, and most rare exploits of chiualrie and martiall prowesse, effected by valourous knights: with incredible euents, compassed, for, and through the loue of ladies. Translated out of French into English, by W. Caxton. Newly corrected, and the English much amended. By William Fiston. London: Printed by Thomas Creede, 1607. A rare early… Read More
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In politica Aristotelis introductio Iacobi Fabri...Item, Oeconomicon Xenophontis
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In politica Aristotelis introductio Iacobi Fabri...Item, Oeconomicon Xenophontis

by LEFÈVRE D'ETAPLES, Jacques

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Paris: Simon de Colines, 1535. ARISTOTLE. Politicorum libri octo. Commentarij. Oeconomicorum duo. Commentarij. Hecatonomiarum septem. Oeconomiarum publ. unus. Explanationis Leonardi in Oeconomica. duo. Paris: Ex officina Simonis Colinæi, 1543. Second Colines edition (first published by Colines in 1526). Folio. [6], 191 [i.e., 198] leaves. Both titles within Colines's "Aristotles" border. Contemporary limp vellum with title in manuscript on spine. Yapp edges. Traces of four pairs of leather ties. Tear to vellum on back cover at spine and to gutter of last thirteen leaves, not affecting text. Some light foxing and marginal dampstaining. Stamp on first title of the Portuguese royal arms. Generally, a very good, fresh copy. In a fleece-lined cloth slipcase. The first work contains the introduction to the Politica by Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples, with commentary of Josse Clichtove, and the translation of the Oeconomicon Xenophontis by Raphael Volaterranus (i.e., Raffaele Maffei). The second works… Read More
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Wall Street Stories

by LEFÉVRE, Edwin

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New York: McClure, Phillips & CO, 1901. First edition, first impression. Author's first book. Octavo (6 7/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 175 x 118 mm) [8], 224, [5, publisher's ads], [3, blank] pp. Publisher's original dark green cloth. Front board ruled in blind. Front board and spine, lettered in gilt. Some light rubbing to extremities. Endpapers with some very light foxing. Binding slightly skewed. Internally, very clean. Overall about fine. This is the first book by the acclaimed Wall Street journalist, turned novelist. This book is made up of eight short stories pertaining to the happenings on Wall Street. Many of Lefevre's stories were originally printed in McClure's Magazine during 1900. "Eight tales of the habits and customs of Wall Street. Some are thinly-veiled portraits of well-known Wall Street characters such as James R. Keene and Daniel Drew" (Hess Collection). Einaudi. Goldsmiths'. Kress. HBS 67852. $1,850.
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Mark Lemon

Mark Lemon

by LEMON, Mark

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London: Elliott & Fry, 1886. LEMON, Mark. LEMON, Mark. Mark Lemon. London: Elliott & Fry, [N.d., ca. 1886]. Carte de visite of Mark Lemon. [London: N.d., ca., 1886]. Card measures 2 1/2" x 4". Lemon was a life long friend of Charles Dickens and first editor of "Punch." He collaborated with Dickens in the farce "Mr. Nightingale's Diary," and a contributor to "Household Words." Very good. HBS 66263. $100.
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