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Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by R. Aitken, 1781. Rare Second American Edition and Earliest Attainable of the First Book Published that was Devoted to Women and Printed in the Colonies [BOUDIET DE VILLEMERT, P.J.]. The Ladies Friend; being a treatise on the virtues and qualifications which are the brightest ornaments of the fair sex, and render them most agreeable to the sensible part of mankind. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by R Aitken 1781 Second American translation of Pierre-Joseph Boudier de Villemert's book "Ami des femmes" first published anonymously in Paris in 1758. And first Aitken edition, proceeded by the 1771 John Dunlap issue. This current edition has 22 pages more than the Dunlap edition. This Aitken edition was printed the same year he began work on his bible. The Aitken Bible was the first complete English Bible printed in America. Twelvemo (5 1/8 x 3 inches; 130 x75 mm). 103, [1, table], [3, publisher's ads], [1, blank] pp. Without front free-endpaper. We could find no copies… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. Full Description: CHANDLER, Raymond. The Lady in the Lake. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First edition, First and second printing before publication. In first issue unclipped dust jacket with $2.00 price. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 190 x 130 mm. [vi], 216, [1, blank], [1, note] pp. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in dark green. Edges uncut. Binding slightly skewed. Dust jacket. Jacket has minor tape repairs to inside along head and tail of spine. Some minor flaking to top and bottom edges of jacket and jacket spine. Previous owner's gift inscription dated 1943 on front free endpaper. Still overall a near fine copy. The fourth adventure of Chandler's L.A. P.I. extrordinaire, Philip Marlow. Private detective Philip Marlowe is looking for the missing wife of Derace Kingsley. Is she dead or not? And is she the lady in the lake? This novel was the basis for the 1947 first-person film noir directed by, and starring, Robert Montgomery.… Read More

Lambarene, 1949. SCHWEITZER, Albert. N.p., N.d., ca. 1949]. One page black and white printed directory of Albert Schweitzer's Hospital he founded in 1913, located in Lambarene, now Gabon. Inscribed by Schweitzer in blue ink, three lines. Signed "A.S." The top half of the page is a black and white illustration of the hospital grounds marked with 46 locations. The bottom half of the page names each of the 46 locations. Written in French. (Measures 12 x 8 1/4 inches). Two fold lines. Very good. The Albert Schweitzer Hospital is still one of the primary sources of healthcare for the surrounding regions of West Africa. Its Medical Research Unit is one of the leading scientific institutions in Africa working to end malaria. At Lambaréné, Schweitzer was doctor and surgeon in the hospital, pastor of a congregation, administrator of a village, superintendent of buildings and grounds, writer of scholarly books, commentator on contemporary history, musician, host to countless visitors. He received many… Read More

London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1820. Full Description: KEATS, John. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1820. First edition. Twelvemo (6 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches; 155 x 97 mm). [vi], 199, [1, printer's imprint] pp. Bound without the half-title or the ads at the rear. With the publisher's advertisement leaf at the front, bound after the title-page. Late nineteenth-century full red morocco. Boards ruled and stamped in gilt. Spine lettered and stamped in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Watered green silk paste-downs and free endpapers. All edges gilt. A minor crack to bottom outer hinge. Some minor foxing but generally very clean. Overall a very good, attractive copy. Housed in a red cloth slipcase. Slipcase with some rubbing and soiling. First edition of the poet's third and last book. Taylor and Hessey originally planned to issue the last of Keats's poems in five separate pamphlets at a half-crown each but quickly… Read More

Hartford, Conn: N.A. & R.A. Moore, 1864. Full Description: HILLARD, E.B.. The Last Men of the Revolution. A Photograph of Each from Life, Together with Views of their Homes Printed in Colors. Accompanied by brief Biographical Sketches of the Men. Hartford, Conn.: N.A. & R.A. Moore, 1864. First edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 190 x 135 mm). 64 pp. With six original mounted carte-de-visite photographs, six chromolithographic plates. Tissue guards. Half newer black leather over brown textured cloth boards. Front board lettered and ruled in gilt. Spine ruled in gilt. Some minor wrinkling to cloth. Overall a very good copy. A collection of biographies and interviews with the last living veterans of the American Revolution that were known to the author, Reverend E. B. Hillard. These men lived to be over one hundred years old and There are six original mounted carte-de-visite photographs, one for each man, as well six chromolithographic plates of images of their homes. These men are Samuel… Read More

Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826. Full Description: [COOPER, James Fenimore]. The Last of the Mohicans. A Narrative of 1757. By the Author of "The Pioneers." Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826. First edition, first issue with the following issue points: Vol. I: pagination present on page 71, page 89 misnumbered 93, chapter XVI misnumbered XIV and the final "i" is present on page vii, (in some copies it is numbered "vi"; BAL states that "examination suggests that the folio was correctly set and the 'i' may have dropped out during the printing," the sequence of states has not been established). State A of Volume II (sequence of states not determined) with "a Book" in the fifth line of the copyright notice. BAL 3833. Two twelvemo volumes (6 3/4 x 4 3/16 inches; 174 x 106 mm). [2, blank], [i]-xi, [1, blank], 282, [4, blank]; [2, blank], [4], 289, [5, blank] pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Brown calf spine labels, lettered in gilt. Spine stamped and numbered in gilt. Some… Read More

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1762. First Collected Edition BLACKSTONE, [Sir] William. Law Tracts. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. [II.] Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1762. First collected edition. Two octavo volumes. [4], 257[-258], [6]; [4], cxv[-cxvi], [4 ], 135[-136], [8] pp. With eight illustrations of seals and two charts, including one folding. Early nineteenth-century calf, covers decoratively bordered in blind, spines with red morocco labels, gilt-stamped. Some very light wear to extremities, some edge-browning to first and last few leaves. Front outer hinge on vol. II hairline cracked but sound. Otherwise, an excellent copy. The first collected edition, with revised versions of four of Blackstone's early works: Collateral Consanguinity, Considerations on Copyholders, The Law of Descents, and The Great Charter. Maxwell and Maxwell I, p. 30. HBS 67320. $2,500.

France, [nd ca late 15th-century]. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Illuminated Manuscript Leaf from the New Testament, in Latin. From the Gospel of St. Luke. [presumed France: n.d., circa late 15th-century]. One octavo leaf (7 x 4 5/8 inches; 176 x 117 mm). On vellum, in a bold gothic hand. Recto and verso. Recto is Luke 1:26-1:32. This leaf is From the Gospel of St. Luke. The text is the important portion of the gospel in which the Angel Gabriel Visits Mary and announces that she is pregnant and will give birth to the Lord Jesus. Recto with a beautiful gilt and hand-colored miniature of Saint Luke, forming the left-most border. Within an architectural column, Luke is sitting at an alter, reading an open book. A cow rests at his feet with a sash reading "S LVCAS." Gilt and hand-colored foliate top and bottom border in red green blue and gilt. With twenty lines of manuscript in brown ink. A gilt two-line initial. Verso is twenty lines of manuscript in brown and rubrication. With a lovely two-line initial… Read More

Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1498. LEAF; WYNKYN DE WORDE|CAXTON, William. CAXTON, William, [translator]. LEAF. WYNKYN DE WORDE. [Leaf from "The Golden Legende"].. Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1498. Full Description: [VORAGINE, Jacobus de]. [CAXTON, William, translator]. [WYNKYN DE WORDE, printer]. J The Golden Legend. [Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1498]. A leaf fragment of Wynkyn de Worde's 1498 edition of Jacobus de Voragine's The Golden Legend, translated by William Caxton. From the second De Worde edition and the fourth overall printing of Caxton's translation. Small folio (10 3/4 x 7 5/8 inches; 274 x 194 mm). 47 lines of blackletter text in double columns printed on recto and verso. Tipped in with a facsimile title-page printed by Dauber & Pine Bookshop. Leaf is folio Clxxix, "the lyf of saynt Marye magdalene." Leaf without watermark. Leaf and title-page laid in to a rebacked quarter calf over marbled board portfolio. Front board with brown morocco label, lettered in gilt. Leaf with some… Read More

Strassburg: Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg, 1486. sanctorum sive Lombardica historia. [Strassburg: Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (perhaps associated with Georg Husner)], 19 December 1486]. Folio (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 x inches; 293 x 215 mm.). 265 leaves. Collation: [1], 18 ,26 a-z8.6 ,A-E6.8 ,F-I6.8 ,K-M6 ,N8. Gothic type. Double columns. Forty-seven lines plus headline. Initials supplied in red and blue throughout. Title-page and initial and final blank renewed and laid down. Contemporary binding of blindstamped calf over wooden boards, rebacked with original spine laid down. Original spine chipped along top and bottom edge. Intersecting triple fillets dividing the covers, the center panel stamped in blind with fleur-de-lis and floral stamps. With two brass clasps. Later endpapers. Title-page and initial and final blank renewed and laid down. Paper flaw repaired in the lower margin of leaf 1, not affecting text. A few additional minor marginal tears or paper flaws, not… Read More

Italy (Venice?), 1300. Italy (Venice?): 1300. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Small quarto (8 x 5 9/16 inches; 203 x 142 mm.). 281 leaves, plus one blank leaf at front and two blank leaves at end (fols. 279 and 281 apparently conjoint with two blank vellum leaves, fol. 280 on a stub between the foliated leaves). Apparently complete. Two columns of thirty-four lines. Written by two Italian scribes in black ink in gothic bookhands between four verticals and thirty-five horizontals ruled in faint brown, the verticals extending across the margins. Justification: 5 1/4 x 3 7/8 inches; 133 x 98 mm. Faint early ink foliation. Horizontal catchwords within ink frames in lower right margin of final versos. Pricking along the upper edges. Rubrics in red, paragraph marks alternately of red or blue, alternately red or blue one-line initials for the list of contents (fols. 1v-2), numerous two-line initials alternately in red flourished with blue or blue flourished with red, with penwork usually extending for… Read More

Boston: J.E. Tilton and Company, 1864. Octavo (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 188 x 124 mm). xx, 373, [1, blank] pp. With black and white engraved plates, including frontispiece and numerous textual illustrations. Full modern tan calf, ruled in gilt. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Spine heavily decorated in gilt. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Front board with some slight dampstaining. A very nice copy. HBS 64645. $250.

Paris: Chez F. G. Levrault, 1832. ou Lectures Graduées pour les Enfans de Six a Douze Ans. Traduit de L'allemand par Mad.e Élise Voïart. Paris: Chez F. G. Levrault, 1832. Three twelvemo volumes, out of four (?). (5 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches; 133 x 82 mm). vii, [1, blank], 185, [1, table]; [2], 162, [1, table], [1, blank]; [2], 138, [1, table], [1, blank] pp. Volumes I, III, and IV. Each volume has half-title, separate hand-colored vignette title-page and two hand-colored plates. Original pink paper boards. Boards stamped and lettered in black ink with a floral border and a colored vignette of the front board of each volume. Volume I edges speckled blue, volume II and IV edges speckled brown. Spines a bit sunned. Some light foxing and toning throughout. Each volume with a bookplate on front pastedown reading " Chambre d'etude." Overall a very good set. HBS 67528. $750.

Edinburgh: Printed and Sold by all the Booksellers, 1783. First Edition. 43, [1, blank] pp. Some minor foxing, mainly to title-page. This pamphlet is bound at the end of the volume. This pamphlet, representing Boswell's first foray into politics, is rare at auction. There have been no copies of this first at auction since 1968. According to Pottle "The pamphlet seems to be rare; at least it appears in the catalogues of few large libraries. There are two copies in the British Museum, one in the Harvard College Library and one in the New York Public Library." "This is the first of Boswell's " characteristical pamphlets" to bear his name on the title-page, and it makes a new and important stage in Boswell's career, his real reason for penning the pamphlet undoubtedly being that he saw a general election imminent and proposed to stand as parliamentary candidate for Ayrshire." (Maggs 603-1953). ESTC T17200. Pottle 105/106. [Bound together with] DE LOLME, John Lewis. Observations upon the National… Read More

Milano: Nella Stamperia Di Giuseppe Marelli, 1777. Lettere... Sull'Aria Infiammabile Nativa Delle Paludi. Milano: Nella Stamperia Di Giuseppe Marelli, 1777. First edition, and first complete edition containing seven letters to Giuseppe Campi on the author's investigations on marsh gas. Previously, only two letters had been published the year before. [1]-147, [1, glossary] pp. Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 inches; 197 x 125 mm). With etched title-vignette and thirteen other etched chapter head and tail pieces by Ant. Longonus. Some of the etchings illustrating experiments. Engraved initials at each chapter begining. Contemporary paste-paper boards. Some surface level worming to boards. Spine paper a bit chipped and darkened. A light dampstain to title-page and second leaf. Last leaf with a small paper flaw to lower margin, not affecting text. Worming to blank back pastedown. Overall a very good clean copy. "Alessandro Volta,... (born February 18, 1745, Como, Lombardy [Italy]—died March 5, 1827, Como),… Read More

Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1792. Full Description: SMITH, Hugh. Letters to Married Women on Nursing and the Management of Children. The First American Edition, Printed from the Sixth London One. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1792. First American edition. Printed from the sixth much expanded London edition. Twelvemo (6 1/2 x 4 inches; 165 x 100 mm). x, 11-167, [1, publisher's advertisements) pp. Contemporary speckled sheep, rebacked to style. Spine ruled in gilt. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. All edges speckled red. Minor chipping and scuffing to boards. Overall a very good copy. "Hugh Smith (1730-90), Physician to the Middlesex Hospital, wrote several 'Letters to Married Women on the Nursing and Management of Children' which were published together in 1792 in a volume which might be described as the prototype of the modern mothercraft manual. In it, as might be expected, he strongly recommends breast feeding and indeed he apologizes for the necessity of having to raise such an obvious… Read More

London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1774. First edition, second state, with the corrected error on line 16, p. 55, Volume I. Two quarto volumes. [4], vii, [1, blank], 568; [4], 606, [1, errata], [1, blank] pp. With engraved frontispiece portrait in Volume I. Contemporary speckled calf, spines ruled in gilt in compartments with red morocco gilt lettering labels. All edges speckled brown. Joints and ends of spine on Volume I expertly repaired, joints starting on Volume II. Armorial bookplates and a few small stains to endpapers. Occasional faint spotting and offsetting, but overall an excellent set. Rothschild 596. HBS 67638. $2,250.

London: J. Johnson, 1791. established by the National Assembly: occasioned by the publications of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, M.P. and Alexander de Calonne, late Minister of State. Illustrated with a Chart of the New Constitution. To which is added, An Appendix, containing original papers and authentic documents relative to the affairs of France. Addressed to Sir John Sinclair, Bart. M.P. London: J. Johnson, 1791. First Edition. Two octavo volumes in one (8 1/4 x 5 inches; 210 x 130 mm). Part I and only part ever published. Part II was to have been Letters on the State of the Clergy of England...which was never published. [iii]-viii, 276, [1]-195, [1, blank]; [4], 76 pp. Without half-title for volume I, but half-title present for volume II. With three large folding charts, the first two being "Sketch of the New Constitution of France," and its continuation in the second folding chart. The last folding chart, which we could not find present in other copies, and may not have been issued with this… Read More

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. Small quarto (7 3/8 x 5 3/16 inches; 188 x 132 mm). 126, [2] leaves. Complete. Leaves a3 and a4 bound out of order between b4 and c1. Title-page printed in red and black within a woodcut border. Final leaf with woodcut printer's device. We could only find one other copy at auction and one copy at the British Library who's title-page is defective. Sotheby's state's about their copy in 1978 that it is "one of the only two known copies of this edition, the other (with a damaged title) being in the British Library." Thus this copy may be one of three known copies. Full 17th-century vellum. Yapp edges. Spine… Read More

Torino: Carlo Manfredi, 1869. MAGIC AND CONJURING. [Magical Blow Book/Magic Picture Book]. Libro Magico Caduto Dalla Luna 1500 Anni Avanti La Creazione Del Mondo e Ritrovata Nei 1869. Torino: Carlo Manfredi 1869. Octavo (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 186 x 122 mm). In printed color facsimile wrappers. Title-page reinforced along edges. Some leaves with marginal reinforcement. Some occasional minor smudging. Overall a very good copy. With a total of two engraved title-pages (one at front and one at back), and 64 illustrated leaves. With six full sets of eighteen different full color illustrations plus an additional six illustrations. The illustrations include a wizard, imps, gentleman and gentlewoman, soldiers, birds, harbor, church, and others. We could only find one other copy at auction and one copy at a library (Getty). A beautiful copy of a magical blow book or flip book (also known as a magic coloring book). This type of trick is considered the oldest example of a "manufactured prop" to be used for… Read More