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[London], 1720. London]: [n.d.c.a.1720]. First edition, first issue (?). There is a lot of mixed information on the publication of this work, however Virgina McLean in her bibliography "A short-title catalogue of household and cookery books published in the English tongue, 1701-1800" notes that the issue with the address of "Queen street" [present copy] is presumably 1720 and the first. Additionally, this copy has the portrait without the wig which came before the portrait with the wig. Octavo (7 x 4 1/2 inches; 179 x 115 mm). [2], 42 leaves. With frontispiece portrait, title-page, forty leaves of recipes, "the order for bill of fare" leaf, index leaf and eight engraved plates, three of which are folding. Without ad leaf as called for in Bitting, as usual. All leaves printed on recto only. Each leave is actually an engraved copperplate. Full polished calf. Boards double ruled in blind. With calf spine label, lettered in gilt. Spine stamped in gilt and blind. Previous owner's initials stamped in… Read More

London: Richard Bentley, 1864. First edition. Octavo. [x], 386 pp, [1, ads]. Full brown cloth, ruled in gilt on front cover and gilt-stamped on spine. With 5 color illustrations throughout. Tips bumped and spine with small tears to head and tailcap. Previous owner's bookplate and contemporary signature on title-page. Otherwise, very good. HBS 66633. $850.

Cincinnati: Truman and Smith, 1838. Full Description: M'GUFFEY, W.[illiam] H.[olmes]. The Eclectic First Reader for Young Children. Consisting of Progressive Lessons in Reading and Spelling Mostly in Easy Words of One and Two Syllables. Cincinnati: Truman and Smith, 1838. Early edition of McGuffey's first Reader, prior to revised editions. The first edition was published in 1836 and was used for very young children. Twelvemo (5 15/16 x 3 7/8 inches; 150 x 98 mm). 72, [2, blank] pp. With numerous small woodcut illustrations throughout. We could find no copies of this or any earlier edition at auction. Original quarter green cloth over original printed boards. Boards very rubbed and soiled but holding strong. Some early ink numbers on front board. Previous owner's early ink inscription dates 1840 on front pastedown. Foxing and toning throughout as usual in American books of this time. Still a very good copy. "McGuffey Readers, formally McGuffey's Eclectic Readers, series of elementary school… Read More

Paris: Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1682. Full Description: DESGODETS, Antoine Babuty. Les Edifices de Rome Dessinés et Mesurés Tres Exactement. Paris: Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1682. First edition. Folio (17 x 11 inches; 432 x 277 mm). [26], 323, [1, blank] pp. With engraved title, engraved headpieces and initials, and 137 engraved architectural plates, Many of which are double paged. The plates are included in the pagination. Full contemporary speckled calf. Spine elaborately stamped in gilt. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. All edges speckled red. Some rubbing along joints and boards. Outer joints with some splitting and repairs. A few instances of light dampstaining, and some minor offsetting. Still a very good and clean copy. "The most complete and accurate survey of the ruins of ancient Rome to have been undertaken at the time; not superseded for many years." (Christies). "The plates, many of them masterpieces of architectural drawing and engraving, were engraved from the drawings of… Read More

Firenze: Vittorio Alauzet, 1814. Firenze & Pisa 1814-15. Eight titles in four octavo volumes (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 195 x 125 mm). Each volume with two plays. Uniformly bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spines stamped in gilt. Each volume with spine label, lettered in gilt. Some rubbing to boards. Tail of spine of Amleto volume a bit chipped. Spines of Amleto and Riccardo III cracked, but holding firm. Some minor chipping to spine labels. Overall a very good set. Aside from the British Library and the Folger Library we could find very few of these titles at any other libraries. [comprised of]: Amleto, Tragedia di G. Shakspeare, Recata in Versi Italiani Da Michele Leoni Di Parma. Firenze: Per Vittorio Alauzet, 1814. First edition to be translated into Italian and published for the first time. 264 pp. With half-title. The true first full translation dates back to 1777 by Alessandro Verri, but the manuscript was never published. There were also some adaptations for stage that were… Read More

Würzburg: Verlag und Druck der Stahel'schen K. Hof-Und Universitats-Buch-Und Kunsthandlung, 1896. Würzburg: Verlag und Druck der Stahel'schen K. Hof- Und Universitats- Buch- Und Kunsthandlung, 1896. Second edition. Octavo. 12 pp. Original buff printed wrappers. Contemporary signature on top right hand corner, Dr. R. Bernoulli, most likey related to Dr. Daniel Bernoulli, prominent Swiss mathematician responsible for the "Bernoulli Theorem" still practised today. Wrappers a bit browned, otherwise, a very good, clean copy. "While performing experiments with a Crookes vacuum tube, a type of cathode-ray tube, Röntgen observed that some agent produced in the tube was causing barium platinocyanide crystals to fluorescence was caused by unknown rays (which he named "x-rays") originating from the spot where cathode rays hit the glass wall of the vacuum tube. He announced his discovery in the present paper, which described the rays' photographic properties and their amazing ability to penetrate all… Read More

Chez Briasson, 1754. The First French Work on Economics Using Mathematical Argument [FORBONNAIS, François Véron Duverger de]. Elemens du commerce. Premiere[- Seconde] Partie. Leiden and Paris: Chez Briasson..., 1754. Scarce first edition. Two twelvemo volumes. [6], 400, [2, errata]; [2], 276 pp. Contemporary French mottled calf. Spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with two tan morocco gilt lettering labels, board edges decoratively tooled in gilt, edges stained red, marbled endpapers. A few minor rust spots. A wonderful copy. "After initial employment in industry and trade in Nantes, [Forbonnais's (1722-1800)] desire to obtain an official position in the government services (successful in 1756 when he was appointed general inspector of currency) inspired his career as a writer on economic and financial subjects. These all have a strong mercantilist flavour, and also display considerable antagonism to the Physiocrats. Forbonnais contributed a number of economic articles to the… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Inc., [1927]. First edition, second issue binding (with "Gantry" spelled correctly on spine). Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 189 x 133 mm). [viii], 1-432 pp. Original blue cloth. Front board and spine stamped and lettered in orange. Fore-edge uncut. In publisher's dust jacket. Jacket with some very minor rubbing to spine. Jacket with price intact, but corners clipped. Small bookseller label on rear paste down. Overall a near fine book in a near fine dust jacket. "Elmer Gantry (1927) attacked hypocrisy in the church. Gantry begins his career as a relatively sincere divinity student who is troubled by his strong sexual nature, but he becomes a hypocritical minister and, later, a jackleg traveling evangelist. Some ministers of the day approved of the book as an attack on genuine abuses within their profession, and literary gadfly H. L. Mencken praised its satire of corrupt… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Inc., [1927]. First edition, first issue binding (with "Cantry" spelled incorrectly on spine). With an inscription card tipped in on dedication page reading "-To Louis/Emerson, with/the greetings of/Sinclair Lewis." Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 189 x 133 mm). [viii], 1-432 pp. Original blue cloth. Front board and spine stamped and lettered in orange. Fore-edge uncut. Spine lightly rubbed. Some minor shelf wear to spine extremities and corners. Previous owner's tiny book plate tipped in on front free endpaper. Overall a very good copy. "Elmer Gantry (1927) attacked hypocrisy in the church. Gantry begins his career as a relatively sincere divinity student who is troubled by his strong sexual nature, but he becomes a hypocritical minister and, later, a jackleg traveling evangelist. Some ministers of the day approved of the book as an attack on genuine abuses within their profession, and literary gadfly H. L. Mencken… Read More

New York: The New York Herald, 1862. Full Description: [LINCOLN, Abraham]. [Emancipation Proclamation]."A Proclamation by the President of the United States. Operations of the Confiscation Act. All Slaves in States in Rebellion January 1, 1863, to Be Free." New York. [Published in]: The New York Herald, Tuesday, September 23, 1862. Whole No. 9506. The publication of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in James Gordon Bennett's pro-Democratic New York Herald and one of, if not the first official public announcements of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Broadsheet folio, one large leaf folded along top to make four pages (two leaves printed on recto and verso). Six-column format. (22 x 15 1/2 inches; 560 x 395 mm). Light creases down the middle in both directions. Some nearly invisible repaird along top margin and edges. Some of the repairs just touching a few letters in the headline. Still a very good copy of this important declaration. We could only find 3 copies of this at auction and it… Read More

Amsterdam: Chez Jean Néaulme, 1762. Aamsterdam [i.e. Paris]: Chez Jean Néaulme, 1762. First edition, twelvemo issue (priority between this and the octavo is still subject to discussion). Four twelvemo volumes (6 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches; 164 x 100 mm). [2], viii, [2], 466; [4], 407, [1, blank]; [4], 357, [1, blank], [361]-384; [4], 455, [1, blank], [4, "Privilegie"] pp. Bound with no the half-title in Volume I as usual, but with them present in Vols. II-IV (as called for). Blank leaf P12 excised in Volume III as usual. Leaf H4 misbound between H8 and H9 in volume II. Five engraved plates (including frontispiece in each volume) by De Longueil, Louis le Grand, and J.J. Pasquier, after Ch. Eisen. Titles printed in red and black. Contemporary calf. Boards triple-ruled in gilt with floral corner devices. Spines stamped in gilt and each volume with two red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Gilt board edges. Marbled endpapers. All edges dyed red. Some rubbing to boards and edges. Spines with some… Read More

London: Printed by J. Flesher for Robert Horne, 1669. Full Description: MUN, Thomas. England's Treasure by Forraign Trade. Or, The ballance of our forraign trade is the rule of our treasure. London: Printed by J. Flesher for Robert Horne, 1669. Second edition. Small octavo (6 1/4 x 4 3/16 inches; 160 x 107 mm). [6], 186, 149-155, [1, blank] pp. Although the pagination jumps, book is complete and collates the same as the British Library copy. With Imprimatur on leaf A1V. Only one copy of the first has been at auction since 1977. Early half calf over marbled boards. Rebacked to style using original black morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. All edges speckled red. Board edges rubbed. Corners bumped. Spine label chipped. Previous owner's old ink signature on title-page. Top edge trimmed close throughout, occasionally touching headline. Some foxing and toning. Still a very good copy. Thomas Mun was a merchant and economic writer. "Mun's prominence as a guardian of the East India trade ensured him… Read More

London: Printed by George Larkin for Benjamin Harris, 1682. Full description: CARE, Henry. English Liberties: Or, the Free-born Subject's Inheritance. Containing, I. Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, the Habeas Corpus Act; and divers other most useful statutes: with large comments upon each of them. II. The proceedings in appeals of murther; the work and power of parliaments; the qualifications necessary for such as should be chosen to that great trust. Plain directions for all persons concerned in ecclesiastical courts; and how to prevent or take off the writ De Excommunicato Capiendo. As also the oath and duty of grand and petty juries. III. All the laws against conventicles and Protestant dissenters with notes, and directions both to constables and others concern'd, thereupon; and an abstract of all the laws against papists. London: Printed by George Larkin for Benjamin Harris, [n.d.c.a. 1682]. First edition. An unrecorded variant of one of the two undated imprints listed in the ESTC, with a… Read More

London: rinted by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet, for Michaell Sparke, 1631. Full Description: BRATHWAIT, Richard. The English Gentlewoman, Drawne Out to the Full Body expressing, what habilliments doe best attire her, what ornaments doe best adorne her, what complements doe best accomplish her. London: Printed by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet, for Michaell Sparke,, 1631. First edition. The Bradley Martin copy. Small folio (6 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 1475 x 130 mm). [48], 221, [23] pp. With additional elaborately engraved title-page by William Marshall, and the rare folding plate of explanation for the engraved title. With the unpaginated leaves of Appendix and Errata at end. With engraved historiated initials at the beginning of each section. Bound by Wallis in early 20th century full modern calf, boards double-ruled in blind. Spine with two red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Boards sunned. Outer hinges repaired. With previous owner's bookplates on endpapers, (Fox Pointe Collection on front free, Bradley… Read More

London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1797. First edition. Octavo. [v], vi-xii, 482, [1, errata] pp. including half-title. Recent half calf over marbled boards, spine bands ruled in gilt, black morocco gilt spine label. Some light foxing (especially to the first and final leaves). A very good copy. Goodwin's Enquirer is of chief importance as one of the catalysts behind Malthus' writing his Principle of Population a year after this book's publication. "In all his early life Malthus was brought into close contact with the supporters of radical not to say revolutionary views; and his father was a zealous partisan of the new doctrines... Godwin's Enquirer (1797) was naturally a topic of conversation between father and son; their discussion started a 'general question of the future improvement of society'... and he accordingly wrote and published a book called "An Essay on the Principle of Population" (Palgrave). Godwin replied to Malthus' criticism in his 1820 publication On Population. Godwin's Enquirer is… Read More

London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1793. London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793. First edition. Two quarto volumes (10 5/8 x 8 3/8 inches; 269 x 214 mm.). xiii, [1, blank], [19, contents], [1, blank], 378; [4], [23, contents], [1, blank], [379]-895, [1, blank], [2, errata and directions to the binder] pp. Complete with half-titles. Contemporary tree calf. Spines stamped in gilt in compartments with two morocco gilt lettering labels. One in black, the other in green with a red inlaid oval. Board edges decoratively tooled in gilt. Edges dyed light yellow. A bit of scuffing to boards, edges and corners a bit rubbed. Volume two with a small minor crack to bottom of front hinge. Volume I with minor worming to front pastedown, and which extends for the next three leaves at the innermost margin only and just barely touches the half-title. Previous owner James Baillie Fraser old ink signature on title-page of each volume. Other previous owner's signature on top of contents page of volume II and… Read More

London: G.G. & J. Robinson, 1796. Second edition. Two octavo volumes (8 1/16 x 5 1/16 inches; 207 x 131 mm). xxii, [2, errata], 464; ix, [1, errata], 545, [1, blank] pp. Half-titles present in both volumes. Full contemporary tree calf. Spines with red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Spine numbers in gilt on onlaid morocco lozenges. Edges speckled red. Minor old ink notation on front pastedown of both volumes. Some minor rubbing to spines and edges. Corners slightly bumped. Internally very clean. Overall an almost fine set. "The Enquiry was, and remained, the work by which [Godwin] was best known. It was one of the earliest, the clearest, and most absolute theoretical expositions of socialist and anarchist doctrine. Godwin believed that the motives of all human action were subject to reason, that reason taught benevolence, and that therefore all rational creatures could live in harmony without laws and institutions. Believing in the perfectibility of man, he thought that ‘our virtues and… Read More

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1751. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. Printed for A. Millar, London: 1751. First edition, first issue, with L3 in the uncancelled state with the catchword "than". Twelvemo (6 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches; 166 x 100 mm). [viii], 253, [3 ads] pp. With errata leaf. Early nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards. Rebacked to style. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Top edge dyed brown. Page 19 with paper-flaw, affecting a few letters. A repair of a closed tear to the top of page 119, touching some letters, but with no loss. Closed tear two leaves, pp 193-196, touching a couple of letters, but with no loss. Overall a very good copy. Hume wrote of the Enquiry: "of all my writings...incomparably the best. It came unnoticed and unobserved into the world" (Autobiography, p. 16, quoted in Rothschild). "Soon after leaving Edinburgh University at the age of 15, [Hume (1711- 1776)]... embarked on a course of intense study of his own devising, which… Read More

Tübingen: U. Morhart, 1531. First edition. Quarto (7 5/8 x 6 1/16 inches; 192 x 155 mm). Complete with 318 leaves. Leaf 38 blank as usual. Text in Latin. Title-page with woodcut portrait of Stoeffler, previously mistaken for Copernicus. With three large woodcut initials. With numerous tables and text diagrams throughout. We could find not other copy at auction in the past fifty years. Seventeenth-century full mottled calf, rebacked to style. Spine stamped in gilt. Red morocco spine label. All edges speckled red. Newer endpapers. Title-page with some tiny holes, not affecting text. Pages fairly toned throughout. Evidence of a label that has been removed on the front pastedown. Binding is tight and sound. Overall a very good copy. "[Stoeffler's] were the best ephemerides of the day..." (The Book Nobody Read, Owen Gingerich). "The name ephemeris or ephemerides is generally reserved for a series of solar, lunar, and planetary positions running over several years. An almanac or calendar runs for a… Read More

Skaggaddahunk: Scantlewood, Timberlake & Co. Printers to the North River Society, 1867. DICKENS, Charles. DICKENS, Charles. An Epistle to "Boz". Alias Charles Dickens. By Zedekiah Comitatus, M.P.E.C. Skaggaddahunk: Scantlewood, Timberlake & Co. Printers to the North River Society, 1867. Originally issued in wrappers, now rebound in half black cloth over floral cloth, gilt-stamped on spine. Top edge gilt. Some expected foxing throughout. Near fine. This is a satire on Dickens with a ficitious author and a fictitious place of publishing. HBS 66262. $1,000.