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Paris: Chez Gabriel Martin, Jean-Baptiste Coignard, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1735. GALLON, Jean-Gaffin; GALON, M.|ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. editor]. [ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, association]. Machines et Inventions approuvées par l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Depuis son etablissement jusqu'a present; avec leur description. Dessinés & publiées du consentement de l'Académie, par M. Gallon. Paris: Chez Gabriel Martin, Jean-Baptiste Coignard, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1735. First edition. Six quarto volumes (10 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches; 256 x 185 mm). Vol. VII, lacking as usual, is a supplement and printed later in 1777. [4], viii, [4], 215, [1, nlank]; [4], v, [3], 192; [[4], v, [3], 207, [1, blank]; [4], v, [3], 239, [1, blank]; [4], v, [3], 173. [1, blank]; [4], v, [3], 196, [35, table], [1, blank] pp. With a total of 433 engraved plates, all but two are folding, showing various machines and inventions. The plates are numbered as such: (1-429, plus 105*, 177*, 329*, 2 additional plates numbered… Read More

Paris: Louis Conrad, 1930. Thick octavo. [4], xxiii, [1], [2], 630, [1, table] pp. Illustrated with black and white frontispiece portrait. Beautifully bound in half brown morocco over marbled boards, covers ruled in gilt, spine decoratively gilt-stamped with green and red inlays and with four raised bands. Matching marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Original spine bound in at rear. Light foxing to fore-edge. A fine copy. HBS 67713. $950.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. Full Description: BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Madeline. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. First edition, first state (with twelve girls in "They went home and broke their bread" illustration and 1939 below Simon and Schuster on title-page). In First issue dust-jacket with $2.00 price on front flap. Illustrated by the author. Quarto (12 x 9 inches; 303 x 228 mm). [48] pp. Also included is a Christmas Card from the Lee Walps family with a picture of Madeline entitled "Madeline and Spring" which was printed with the permission of Mrs. Bemelmas. The blurb on the card reads: "Madeline and Spring' was especially drawn by Ludwig Bemelmans for the Lee Walp Family Collection. This collection currently includes first editions of all juvenile publications by this author-illustrator except 'Fifi.' We wish to thank Mrs. Ludwig Bemelmans (the original Madeline) for permission to reproduce her husband's original illustration." Original pictorial printed paper over boards. Book with… Read More

N.P., 1890. MAGIC AND CONJURING. n.p. n.d.c.a. 1890]. Small octavo (5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches; 140 x 95 mm). This copy in contemporary illustrated black wrappers. Internally all plates very clean and bright. Inside wrappers with instructions in German, French, English, Spanish, Italian and Russian. 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 magic. It works by a series of small notches, or incisions in the fore-margin to create tabs, (five tabs in this case) and depending on where the magician places their thumb, they flip the leaves of a certain group, revealing one set of plates. Then with a movement of the finger placement, a new set of plates will be revealed. Complete with a total of 49 plates on 28 leaves. Many of the plates are in beautiful color with sharp detail. The plates include a animals such as a lion, zebra, tiger and pig. Some musical scores, a few… Read More

London, 1840. MAGIC AND CONJURING. The Enchanted Scrapbook; Exhibiting Pictures, Which Appears and Vanishes at the Word Command. E. Wallis, London, [n.d.c.a 1840]. Small octavo (7 x 5 inches; 178 x 125 mm). This copy in contemporary floral embossed pink cloth. With matching topped slipcase. Slipcase stamped and lettered in gilt on front. Previous owner's old ink inscription on front blank, dated 1840. Internally all plates are generally clean and bright. A few smudges and a light dampstain. One leaf with a bird/solider has a closed tear, which has been invisibly repaired. Another leaf with a dancer/ ship has a large tear with a missing piece but it does not affect the illustration. Some minor sunning to spine and edges, cloth is splitting along hinge at top of spine. Slipcase is sunned and a bit worn. Overall a very good copy, especially rare in the original slipcase. With a total of 48 leaves. With twelve each of seven different full color illustrations of which include a Saint, a captive bird, a… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. The story of Carol Kennicott. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. First edition, second state (with type batter on pp. 54 and 387). Inscribed by Sinclair Lewis on front free endpaper. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 187 x 127 mm). [2, blank], [8], 451, [3, blank] pp. Inscription reads: "To Mr. + Mrs/ Will Owen Jones/ Christmas, 1920/William Allen White/ asks me to send you/this book in Christmas/ greeting- + he let/me tag along after hin!/ Sinclair Lewis/ Washington/ Dec. 1920" The inscription is probably to William Owen Jones managing editor of the Nebraska State Journal and author of the book By Land and Sea, a publication on foreign travel. Original dark blue cloth stamped in orange on front cover and spine. Spine lightly sunned and the edges of the spine and boards with a small amount of wear. Small booksellers stamp on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy. "Lewis attained fame with the publication of Main Street (1920). The book's protagonist,… Read More

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. Full Description: THOREAU, Henry David. The Maine Woods. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. First edition, first issue. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 181 x 119 mm). [viii], 328, [23, ads], [1, blank] pp. With list of Thoreau's writings on p. [ii] priced. Publisher's ads dated April, 1864 and The Atlantic Monthly advertising 'The Thirteenth Volume.' Original purple morocco grain cloth. Covers decoratively ruled and stamped with a wreath in blind. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Brown coated endpapers. Spine lightly sunned. Chemeised and and housed in a quarter morocco slipcase. Overall about fine. "The Maine Woods, autobiographical narrative by Thoreau, posthumously published (1864) as edited by the younger W.E. Channing. It contains three accounts of trips to Maine: 'Ktaadn' (Union Magazine, 1848), describing an excursion to Mt. Ktaadn in 1846; 'Chesuncook' (Atlantic Monthly, 1858), about a journey from Bangor to Chesuncook Lake in 1853, with an Indian guide, Joe… Read More

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

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. London: Jonathan Cape, [1965]. First edition. Small octavo (7 5/16 x 4 15/16 inches; 186 x 125 mm). 221, [3, blank] pp. Full black textured cloth. Lettered in gilt on the spine. Green and white endpapers. In dust jacket with wraparound illustration by Richard Chopping. Some very minor darkening to top edge of jacket. Text block of book with some foxing, mainly to top edge. Binding very slightly skewed. Otherwise, a bright, near fine copy. HBS 65995. $1,000.

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

[N.p. (probably Beijing): Central Intelligence Bureau of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, 1964. N.p. (probably Beijing): Central Intelligence Bureau of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, [May 1964]. First edition, first state, (with the ting) of Chairman Mao's "Little Red Book," after the Bible the most printed text in the world. Sixteenmo (5 7/16 x 3 15/16 inches). [4], 2 (preface), 2 (table of contents, with thirty chapters), 250, [2, blank] pp. Complete with frontispiece portrait of Mao and Lin Biao's calligraphic endorsement leaf. Half-title printed in red, title in red and green. Variant binding b in full red vinyl textured plastic, incised with the title and a star, being a separate protective jacket where stiff plain white cardboard covers are inserted adjacent to a linen backed spine with sewn head and tailbands. A bit of foxing, otherwise very good. In a black cloth clamshell case. This first state, of which around 50,000-60,0000 copies were printed, was never intended for sale,… Read More

[N.p. (probably Beijing): Central Intelligence Bureau of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, 1964. N.p. (probably Beijing): Central Intelligence Bureau of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, [May 1964]. First edition, first state, (with the ting) of Chairman Mao's "Little Red Book," after the Bible the most printed text in the world. Sixteenmo (5 7/16 x 3 15/16 inches; 138 x 100 mm.). [4], 2 (preface), 2 (table of contents, with thirty chapters), 250, [2, blank] pp. Complete with frontispiece portrait of Mao and Lin Biao's calligraphic endorsement leaf. Half-title printed in red, title in red and green. Wire-stitched in the original printed wrappers, small glue residue around stitches. A few blue ink spots on front cover due to previous owner's homemade dust jacket ink soaking through a bit to front cover. Edges bumped. A very good copy. Housed in a custom black cloth clamshell case. This first state, of which around 50,000-60,0000 copies were printed, was never intended for sale, but issued… Read More

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1907. Full Description: FRASER, David. The Marches of Hindustan. The Record of a Journey in Thibet, Trans-Himalayan India, Chinese Turkestan, Russian Turkestan and Persia. With 129 Illustrations, Maps and Sketches Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1907. First edition. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 220 x 145 mm). xvi, 521, [1, blank], [2, advertisements], [32, publisher's catalog] pp. With 129 illustrations including frontispiece, a folding chart, a large color folding map in the pocket at the end, and numerous black-and-white photos taken by the author. Publisher's full red cloth. Front board and spine lettered in gilt. Front board ruled in black and stamped with an image in black. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Red coated endpapers. Some rubbing to cloth ling edges of boards and spine. Two previous owner's bookplates o front pastedown. Some occasional very light foxing. Large folding map is very clean and bright with just a few… Read More

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.

London: Printed for Js. Jenkins...by L. Harrison.., 1814. Full Description: [JENKINS, James]. The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies: From 1799 to 1815. London: Printed for Js. Jenkins...by L. Harrison..., [1814-1815]. First edition, large paper copy. With the text watermarked J. Whatman / 1812 and 1810 and plates watermarked 1824-1825. Large quarto (13 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches; 345 x 286 mm). Complete with engraved title-page with an uncolored vignette and fifty-three hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece (captioned as "vignette title"), dedication leaf with the arms of the Duke of Wellington, and fifty-one views of military scenes and battles, by T. Sutherland, D. Havell, J. Clarke, M. Dubourg and J. Hassell from drawings by W. Heath. Bound without the List of Subscribers. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, by Bayntun of Bath. Boards tooled in gilt and stamped with gilt central lozenge devices. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt.… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. CATTERMOLE, George; BROWNE, Hablot Knight. BROWNE, Hablot Knight, [illustrator]. CATTERMOLE, George, [illustrator]. Master Humphrey's Clock. by "Boz" London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. Full Description: DICKENS, Charles. Master Humphrey's Clock. With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840[-1841] [i.e., 4 April 1840-27 November 1841]. First edition, first issue, in the eighty-eight weekly parts. Large octavo (10 3/4 x 7 inches; 274 x 180 mm). [i-viii], [1]2-306; [i-v]vi, [1]2-306; [i-v]vi, [1]2-426. With all preliminary matter, 3 frontispieces, title-pages, prefaces for 3 volumes in parts 26, 52 and 88. Part 26 also with dedication page. With two frontispieces, 130 woodcuts, and twenty-five initials by Browne; one frontispiece and thirty-eight woodcuts by Cattermole; one woodcut each by S. Williams and Maclise. Original white wrappers designed by Cattermole. Some parts with stab-holes. Wrappers generally fresh, some with a… Read More

1900. The Only Known Mathematical Manuscript of Alfred North Whitehead [Whitehead, Alfred North]. Mathmatical Manuscript Notebooks. Whitehead (1861-1947) Writing in manuscript. [Unsigned and undated, circa: 1900]. Two composition notebooks. Quarto (202 x 160 mm). 50 ff each, written primarily on rectos in black ink, with a few notes on versos, each page with approx. 15-20 lines of manuscript. Ruled paper self-wrappers, first and last leaves toned and worn, some chipping to edges, corners worn, lower right corner of last 2 ff in vol.I missing with some loss to text. Fragile. Two sequential notebooks, divided into three sections as follows: Part 1: 21 pp, on ff 1r-20r of first notebook. In black ink, written on versos. Treating Karl Weierstrass's 1858 "Über ein die homogenen Functionen zweiter Grades betreffen des Theorem." Part 2: 64 pp, on ff 24r-50r of first notebook, and 1r-32r of second notebook. Treating Karl Weierstrass's 1868 "Zu theorie der bilinearen und quadratischen Formen." Part… Read More

Lancaster, PA: The National Research Council, 1947. MATHEMATICS. Volume II, number 20 of the Quarterly Journal Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation. Octavo (9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 235 x 155 mm). 321- 404 pp. With frontispiece .Table of contents printed on the back wrapper and general title-page at the rear. Publisher's printed wrappers. Wrappers sunned. Library stamp to front wrapper and to blank recto of frontispiece. Overall very good. This journal contains an article on the technical developments of the Zuse Computer, which was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer. HBS 68936. $500.

London: Printed for Robert Harford, 1681. or, Useful Practices In Arithmetick, Geometry, And Astronomy, Geography And Navigation, Embattelling, And Quartering Of Armies, Fortification And Gunnery, Gauging And Dyalling. Explaining The Logarithms, With New Indices; Nepair'S Rods Or Bones Making Of Movements, And The Application Of Pendulums; With The Projection Of The Sphere For An Universal Dyal, &c. By Sir Jonas Moore, Knt. late surveyor general of his Majesty's Ord'nance. The Second Edition, with any large Additions. London: Printed for Robert Harford, 1681. [With separate title-page but continuous collation]: A Table Of Artificial Sines And Tangents, For Every Degree And Minute Of The Quadrant, Fitted To The Size Of The Logarithms. London: Printed for Robert Harford, 1679. Second and much expanded edition. Two parts in one twelvemo volume (5 x 2 7/8 inches; 125 x 73 mm). 24, 120, [178], [2, advertisements] pp. With one engraved folding plate (often lacking) and six engraved plates in the text,… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Octavo. 212, [2], pp. Original yellow and red patterned paper over boards, dust jacket. Some rubbing and scuffing to jacket, a few tape repairs to verso. Very good. HBS 67413. $850.