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London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842. First edition. Octavo (8 5/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 211 x 135 mm). 177, [1, colophon] pp. We could find no copies at auction since 1977. Modern half calf over marbled boards. Black morocco spine label. Spine lettered and stamped in gilt. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. "William Hardin Burnley was the largest slave owner in Trinidad during the nineteenth century. Born in the United States to English parents, he settled on the island in 1802 and became one of its most influential citizens and a prominent agent of the British Empire. A central figure among elite and moneyed transnational slave owners, Burnley moved easily through the Atlantic world of the Caribbean, the United States, Great Britain, and Europe, and counted among his friends Alexis de Tocqueville, British politician Joseph Hume, and prime minister William Gladstone." (Selwyn R. Cudjoe) "William Hardin Burnley was educated at Harrow School, which he entered in 1793. In 1798 he… Read More

London: For W. Faden, J. Robson, and R. Sewell, 1783. First edition. Quarto (10 x 7 3/4 inches; 255 x 197 mm). xx, 110, [4, blank] pp. With two folding maps, including frontispiece. Newer half calf over original marble paper boards. Contemporary red morocco spine label. Label lettered in gilt. Spine stamped in gilt. New endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Some mild foxing throughout. Previous owner's neat errata corrections in blue ink. Overall a very good copy. James Capper was a British army officer and meteorologist... "He was educated at Harrow School and served thereafter in His Majesty's Train of Artillery in the East Indies, first as a soldier cadet and later as an officer. He was then for a while a free merchant in Bengal before becoming in 1768 a captain in the Madras army and in 1769 senior writer for the presidency of Bengal. He was repatriated on grounds of ill health after becoming unwell on active service but returned to India in 1773, when appointed the East… Read More

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co, 1814. First edition. Quarto. [i-v] vi-xxii, [1, blank], 156, [fold-out map] pp. (Measures 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches). Full black morocco., gilt-stamped spine with five raised bands. All edges gilt. Previous owner's bookplate. The slightest of wear to spine extremities, otherwise, near fine. HBS 66802. $2,000.

London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753. WEST, Gilbert; WEST, Gilbert. Second Edition of West's Translation WEST, Gilbert, [translator]. PINDAR. Odes of Pindar. With several other Pieces in Prose and Verse, Translated from the Greek. To which is added a Dissertation on the Olympick Games. By Gilbert West, Esq. LL. D. London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753. Second edition of West's translation. Two small octavo volumes (6 11/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 169 x 104 mm). [4], xxiii, [1, contents], [1]-284; [4], 320 pp. With engraved frontispiece portrait in volume one. In addition to Pindar's "A Dissertation on the Olympick Games"and the "Odes of Pindar" this work includes translations of Horace, Euripides, Lucian, and other classical poets. Including The Fourth Odes of the Fourth Book of Horace, Iphigenia in Tauris. A Tragedy. Translated from the Greek of Euripides, The Triumphs of the Gout. Translated from the Greek of Lucian, Translations from the Argonauticks of Apollonius Rhodius, The Hymn of Cleanthes, and… Read More

Amsterdam: Jean Frederic Bernard, 1741. Nouvelle edition. Three quarto volumes (9 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 238 x 190 mm). [2, blank] [10, 4 of which are ads], [i]-xxxvi, [1]-526, [4, blank]; [2, blank], [6], xxxiv, [3]-383, [2, blank]; [8], [2, ads], [8. letter], 1-144, 147-218, [1]-150, [35, table], [3, blank] pp. Each volume with half-title. Volume I and II with engraved half-titles and volume II with engraved frontispiece. Volume III with engraved frontispiece. An additional seventeen engraved plates, four of which are folding. Three of the folding plates are engravings of Rabelais' residence and the other is a folding map. Complete with 21 engraved plates. Numerous other engraved initials, chapter titles and vignettes. Contemporary tan polished calf. Triple gilt fillet borders. Edges and turn-ins tooled in gilt. Spines with red and brown morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Spines stamped in gilt. All edges dyed red. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown of each volume.… Read More

Paris, 1796. The Compact Edition of Condillac's Works CONDILLAC, [Etienne Bonnot de]. Oeuvres choisies. Tome premier. Grammaire. Art d'écrire. Dissertation sur l'harmonie du style. [Tome second. Art de raisonner. Art de penser. Logique, ou premiers dévelopemens de l'art de penser. Traité des animaux]. Paris: 1796. Two quarto volumes. [6], 539, [1, blank]; [4], 559, [1, blank] pp. Nine folding engraved plates of diagrams. Contemporary mottled calf. Spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with brown and black morocco gilt lettering labels, board edges decoratively tooled in gilt, edges stained red, marbled endpapers. Small hole (paper flaw) in 492 (pp. 387/388) in Volume I, just touching a few letters, a few minor marginal paper flaws, not affecting text. Occasional minor browning and spotting in Volume II. Early ink annotations on front flyleaf of Volume I. An excellent copy. "Condillac [1714-1780] entered into intellectual life at just the juncture when...French thought was, with… Read More

New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1937. Full Description: STEINBECK, John. Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici Friede, [1937]. First edition, second issue. With page nine reset with words omitted and no bullet between the eights of the page numbers on p. 88. Small octavo (7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 187 x 121 mm). [1]-186, [6, blank] pp. Original full beige cloth stamped in terra cotta and black on front cover and spine. top edge dyed grey. In the original dust jacket. A small bit of soiling to front board. Inner hinges with hairline cracks but holding firm. Jacket is price-clipped. Spine and edges of the jacket darkened. Some minor rubbing to edges of jacket. Overall a near fine book in a very good jacket. This novella, one of Steinbeck's most famous works, concerns the friendship of two migrant workers during the depression: the intelligent and caring George Milton, and the semi-retarded giant, Lennie Small. This beautiful and ultimately heartbreaking work was dramatized for the theater by Steinbeck… Read More

Hammersmith: Sold by William Morris, at the Kelmscott Press, 1894. KELMSCOTT PRESS; MORRIS, William. MORRIS, William, [translator]. Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile. Hammersmith: Sold by William Morris, at the Kelmscott Press, 1894. Full Description: [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. [MORRIS, William, translator]. Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile. [Hammersmith: Sold by William Morris, at the Kelmscott Press, 1894]. One of 500 paper copies of an edition of 515 (15 in vellum). Sixteenmo (5 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches; 146 x 108 mm). [8], 67, [5, blank] pp. Printed in black and red. Engraved 3, 7 and 13 lined initials. Set in Chaucer type. Original holland-backed quarter cloth over blue paper boards. Front board printed in black. Some minor toning and spotting to paper boards. Cloth spine lightly rubbed. Overall a very good copy. "The following note (probably by Morris) appeared in the announcement: 'This tale dates from about the same period as that of King Florus, and its literary & historical value is equally… Read More

Augsburg: Gedruckt...durch Heynrichen Stayner, 1531. Ein Buch, So Marcus Tullius Cicero der Römer, zu seynem Sune Marco, Von den tugentsamen ämptern, und zugehörungen, eynes wol und rechtlebenden Menschen, in Latein geschriben, Welchs auffbegere, Herren Johansen von Schwartzenbergs [et]c. verteutschet, Und volgens, Durch ine in zyerlicher Hochteütsch gebracht, Mit vil Figuren, unnd Teütschen Reymen, gemeynem nutz zu gut, in Druck gegeben worden. [Augsburg: Gedruckt...durch Heynrichen Stayner, 7 December ] 1531. Third edition of the first German translation of De officiis, which was first published by Heinrich Steiner 16 February 1531. Folio (11 3/16 x 17 13/16 inches; 284 x 198 mm.). [8], XCI leaves. Lacking the final blank as commonly found. Large woodcut on title of Julius Caesar enthroned and surrounded by eight counsellors, with Cicero shown writing in the background (repeated on G2 verso), large woodcut portrait of Schwarzenberg by Weiditz after Dürer on verso of title, the head within a… Read More

Paris and New York: Editiones Officinae Bodoni at the Sign of the Pegasus, 1929. OFFICINA BODONI. The Operation of a Hand-Press during the First Six Year Years of Its Work. Paris and New York: Editiones Officinae Bodoni at the Sign of the Pegasus, 1929. First English edition. One of 500 numbered copies (a German edition of 350 copies and an Italian edition of 200 copies was also issued). Folio (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches). 79, [1], [2, colophon] pp. Complete with twelve Masereel woodcuts elucidating the printing process, twelve illustrations and tipped in specimens, two pages of Officina Bodoni printer's marks printed in red black and blue and a five page list of Officina Bodoni book printed in the first six years of its existence. Publishers cream linen with gilt spine lettering and a gilt printer's device on the front board. Original printed dust jacket with a small sticker removal to front cover and small tape reinforcement to the inside of jacket at bottom of spine. Previous owner's signature on… Read More

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1837. Full Description: [DICKENS, Charles]. Oliver Twist; Or, The Parish Boy's Progress. By Boz. With Other Tales and Sketches, from Bentley's Miscellany, and the Library of Fiction. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1837. First appearance of any part of Oliver Twist in America. The first two chapters of Oliver Twist, followed by twelve other pieces including Handy Andy, The Spectre of Tappington, The Wide Aware Club, The Abbess and the Duchess, Edward Saville, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Richie Barter, Authors and Actors, Plunder Creek, Recollections of Childhood. One of 2,000 copies. Small octavo (7 1/8 x 4 1/4 inches; 182 x 110 mm). [1]-186, [2, advertisements] pp. This is volume one of a presumed 2 volume set. According to Smith "The first two chapters of Oliver Twist, which is the only piece in the volume by Dickens, runs from pp (5)-22. This two-volume edition of 2,000 copies... was published on April 15, 1837." (Smith, page 87). Publisher's… Read More

Oxford: Joseph Barnes, 1610. First edition. Small quarto (7 x 5 1/2 inches; 175 x 138 mm). [2], 171, [3, not to reader], [6, table] pp. With a folding chart. Contemporary full calf, boards decoratively paneled in blind. Some chipping to edges and blindstamping. Top of spine with a small split. Contemporary manuscript notes on front free endpapers. Many leaves throughout volume trimmed close. In Bunny's work, page is trimmed at lower margin of 2 index leaves and table just touching text. Top margin of first two works trimmed close, occasionally affecting the headline. Overall very good. "This treatise was written in 1595 and sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury: Bunny describes in a preface the circumstances of its being written and the reasons for withholding it from publication until 1610." "In 1610, Edmund Bunny published his Of Divorce, etc., written in 1595, in which he supports the opposition of the established church to remarriage. In the "Advertisement to the Reader," Bunny gives some… Read More

Groninggen: P. Noordhoff, 1938. Full Description: VON NEUMANN, John. On Infinite Direct Products. Offprint of Compositio Mathematica. Volume 6, Fasciculus 1. Groninggen: P. Noordhoff, 1938. Offprint from Compositio Mathematica. Octavo (9 11/16 x 6 1/2 inches; 246 x 165 mm). 77, [1, advertisement] pp. Publisher's blue printed wrappers. Mild sunning along edges of wrappers. Spine with some chipping and wear. Minor creasing to back wrapper. Bookseller sticker to top corner of page one, not affecting text. Overall very good. "Described as the scientific genius who pioneered the modern computer, game theory, nuclear deterrence, and more, John von Neumann illuminated the fields of pure and applied mathematics, computer science, physics, and economics." (Institute for Advanced Studies). "Of substantially greater note for the foundations of quantum theory are six papers by von Neumann (three jointly published with Murray) on rings of operators... The first two, 'On Rings of Operators' and a sequel 'On… Read More

Manchester: George Nicholson, 1797. First Edition of an Early Work on Vegetarianism [NICHOLSON, George]. On the Conduct of Man to Inferior Animals, &c.. [Within] The Literary Miscellany. Manchester: Printed and sold at the office of G. Nicholson 1797. [Together with] [FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. Preceptive, moral and sentimental pieces. Prose. On Education, by Pratt. On Gymnastics, by Madame de Sillery. On a new Mode of Bathing; on Swimming; on Sleeping; by Dr. Franklin, &c. Printed and sold at the office of G. Nicholson; Manchester, 1797. [And] [Anonymous]. On Clothing. Printed and sold at the office of G. Nicholson; Manchester, 1797. First Edition of On the Conduct of Man. All titles bound together in one sixteenmo volume of The Literary Miscellany. (5 x 3 1/6 inches; 126 x 77 mm). [2], 8, 26; 48; 134, [1, contents], [1, blank] pp. With separate title-pages for each section. Each title-page with an engraved vignette. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with red morocco spine label,… Read More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. Full Description: DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Faces in the Struggle for Life. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First American edition, first issue, with two quotations on the verso of the half-title. One of only 1,500 copies printed. Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 inches; 195 x 125 mm). 432 pp. Folding lithographed diagram (speciation tree) facing p, 108. Original dark brown bead-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spine ruled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt. Original dark brown coated endpapers. A minor amount of foxing throughout. Page 70 with previous owner's marginal notes in red pencil. A small blindstamp to front flyleaf. Overall a near fine copy of the extremely scarce first issue of the first American edition. Housed in a custom black morocco clamshell. One of the most influential scientific works of the nineteenth century, On the Origina of Species… Read More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. Full Description: DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First American edition, third issue. "Revised Edition" on title-page and three quotations to verso of half-title. Octavo (7 11/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 196 x 125 mm). [1]-432 pp. With folding chart. Original pebbled brown cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind. Spine lettered in gilt. Green-coated endpapers. A very slight bit of fraying to top and bottom of the spine. Spine lightly sunned. Previous owner's pencil signature on front free endpaper. And an old ink gift inscription dated 1895 on front flyleaf. Some intermittent light foxing. Housed in a custom full black morocco clamshell. Overall a very good unrestored copy. One of the most influential scientific works of the nineteenth century, On the Origin of Species was (and still is) one of the most… Read More

London: H. G. Clarke and Co, 1845. First edition in English. (Originally published in Danish in 1837). Two twelvemo volumes. (Measures 125 x 85 mm.) [1, half-title], [v], 208, 16, catalog; [1, half-title], [v], 180, [12, catalog], pp. Publisher's original gift binding bound in full dark brown morocco, elaborately gilt-stamped on covers and spines. (Adds list cost of Only a Fiddler for 5s. for cloth and 9s. for morocco). Half titles in red, blue, green and gold. All edges gilt. Previous owner's signatures on front free endpaper of vol. 1. A fine set. Only a Fiddler is a romantic tale and may be semi autobiographical, the character Christian most likely representing Hans himself. His love interest is a Jewish girl named Naomi. Unlike most fairy tales, this one does not end up with a happy ending. Naomi and Christian never end up together, sharing only the feeling of emptiness. Soren Kierkegaard, (Andersen's neighbor at the time) reviewed Only a Fiddler and writes that Andersen "completely lacks any… Read More

Mainz: The Gutenberg Museum, 1952. MINIATURE BOOKS. Het Onze Vader. [The Lord's Prayer] Mainz: The Gutenberg Museum, 1952. (5 x 5 mm). 16 pp. Contains the Lord's Prayer in Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish and Swedish. Full black morocco. Ruled in gilt. Gilt cross on front cover. Housed in a lucite case with magnifying glass. About fine. "Described on publication as the smallest book in the world, produced as a fund-raiser for the reconstruction of the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz" HBS 65577. $400.

Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 1496. Opera]. De natura deorum, De divinatione, De legibus, Academica, De finibus bonorum et malorum, De fato, Timaeus, Somnium Scipionis, Quintus Tullius Cicero: Commentariolum petitionis. Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 1496. Full Description: CICERO, Marcus Tullius. [Opera]. De natura deorum, De divinatione, De legibus, Academica, De finibus bonorum et malorum, De fato, Timaeus, Somnium Scipionis, Quintus Tullius Cicero: Commentariolum petitionis. [Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, September 18, 1496]. Early [second?] collected edition. First collected edition was printed in 1471. The last complete copy of the first edition at auction was in 1970. No other copies of this early edition at auction that we could find. Small folio in 6 (11 7/8 x 8 inches; 300 x 205 mm). Part I. De natura deorum: a-e6. [30] leaves; Part II. De divinatione: A-C6 D4. [22] leaves]; Part III. De legibus. - Academica: aa-bb6 cc4 dd-ff6. [34] leaves; Part IV. De finibus bonorum et malorum, etc: AA-FF6 GG4 HH6… Read More

Venice: Vernardinus de Choris, de Cremona, and Simon de Luere, for Andreas Torresanus, 1491. Venice: Bernardinus de Choris and Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus, August, 13 1491. [And:] FICINO, Marsilio. Platonica theologia de immortalitate animorum. Venice: 13 August 1491. Second edition of the works of Plato. Folio (11 7/8 x 8 inches; 301 x 206 mm). [4], 444 leaves. Printed in Gothic type in double columns. With beautifully illuminated initials and border to the first text leaf. Numerous illuminated 7, 8, 9 and 10-line initials heightened in gilt with blue, red and green backgrounds. The initial letter will extend beyond the letter with illumination 5-7 lines both up and down. Additional 3, 4, 5 and 7-line initials in red, blue or gold. The first leaf of text (a1) with two large illuminated initials and a full illuminated border with red, green, blue and gilt scrolls, floral motifs and a shield surrounded by a wreath. This is the first edition to include Ficino's great work Platonica… Read More