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Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1777. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. First edition, first issue of Volume II of the Journals of Congress with the rare Aitken imprint and the first Congressional printing of the Declaration of Independence (found on pages 241-246). Aiken took over the printing of the Journals from Bradford before the 1776 Bradford edition had reached the printing of the Declaration of Independence, thus making this the first. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 222 x 140 mm). [2], 513, [22, index], [1, blank] pp. Rebacked in old quarter parchment over contemporary drab boards. Pages uncut. Boards with some minor wear. Pages with some occasional and expected toning. Overall a very good copy. "Robert Aitken was licensed by Congress to publish the Journals on 26 September 1776. Volume I of the series comprised reprints of his "Cartridge Paper" edition, the monthly issues which covered the first four months of 1776; the present volume II included the first publication of the June-December Journals, and… Read More

Paris: Chez De Bure Frères, 1829. First Edition. Large folio. [2], viii, 102, [Table], pp. Original printed paper boards, glassine. Illustrated with 6 engraved maps and plans and 14 engraved plates showing views by Langlume after Bence. Some foxing, minor soiling to covers, otherwise, near fine. HBS 66946. $3,000.

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. Rare First Edition of Hardy's Second Novel in the Original Cloth [HARDY, Thomas]. Under the Greenwood Tree. A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. By the Author of ‘Desperate Remedies.' In Two Volumes. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. Rare first edition of Thomas Hardy's second novel. Two octavo volumes (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 188 x 124 mm). [6], 215, [1, blank]; [6], 216 pp. Complete with half-titles. Original green sand-grain cloth over beveled boards. Covers stamped in black with an Oxford frame and spines ruled in gilt and black and lettered in gilt. A bit of rubbing to extremities and corners. Gilt on the spine with some rubbing. Hinges with some professional repairs. Previous owner's ink signature on front pastedown of each volume. Some foxing and staining, mostly at front and rear. Overall, a very good copy, in the scarce original cloth. Housed in slipcase. After burning his first effort at a novel, and receiving scant attention upon the publication of… Read More

1895. GREENAWAY, Kate. Under the Cherry Blossom". [N.d., ca. 1895]. Pen, ink and watercolor drawing. [N.d, c.a. 1895]. Two young girls in a daisy strewn meadow with five geese in the foreground and a tree laden with blossoms in the background. (Image size: 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches framed). Matted, framed, glazed. Kate Greenaway (1846-1901). Born in London to an engraver father and a seamstress mother, Kate Greenaway's drawings were to capture forever an idealized image of Regency in childhood and rural life. From the age of twelve, Greenaway studied her craft, first at the Finsbury School of Art and later at the newly founded Slade School of Fine Art. Greenaway got her first commissions through her father and after one of her card designs sold 25,000 copies in just a few weeks, her work became very sought after by publishers. Greenaway's lines were always light, fine and sure, her watercolors delicate in color and application and she used little or no shading in her work. She… Read More

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.

New York: Benjamin W. Hitchcock, 1862. CIVIL WAR. New York: Benjamin W. Hitchcock, 1862. A complete deck of 52 Civil War playing cards. Each card standard size (3 9/16 x 2 1/2 inches; 91 x 63 mm). The usual suits are replaced with "National Emblems" including blue Federal eagles, blue 13-star shields, red stars, and red American flags. Jacks are replaced by majors, Queens by the Goddess of Liberty, and Kings are replaced by colonels. The ace of eagles is a large illustration with publisher's imprints as well. Backs of cards are printed in blue with a shield, flags, a star with the letters "US," an anchor and oak leaves and acorns. Housed together in the original pull-top box. Box embellished on the front with an images of the Goddess of Liberty and the words " National Emblems!! Something New in the Card World! Time for a Change! Foreign Emblems Used Long Enough in the U.S." The back side of the box reads "THE AMERICAN CARD CO. Confident that the introduction of NATIONAL EMBLEMS in place of… Read More

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1892. Untersuchungen über die Ausbreitung der elektrischen Kraft. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1892. First edition. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 225 x 145 mm). pp. vi, [2], 295, [1] pp. Engraved illustrations and diagrams in the text. With original orange front and back wrappers bound in. Tipped in to the front is an ALS to "Colleague" signed Robert Watson-Watt and dated 12/10/68. The letter thanks the colleague for the opportunity to read their First Edition copy of Hertz's book and mentions that Hertz was a "Great inspiration to my efforts in relation to Radio and to 'Direction Finding'- later to be called Radar." In original orange wrappers, bound within modern half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with black calf spine label, lettered in gilt. Top edges red, others uncut. Wrappers with some rubbing and wear. Previous owner's old ink signature on front wrapper and title-page. Overall, a very attractive copy in the original wrappers and a nice modern… Read More

Basel: Apud Joannem Frobenium, 1518. Utopia] De optimo reip. statu, deque nova insula Utopia, libellus vere aureus...Epigrammata darissimi disertissimicus viri Thomae Mori, pleraque è Græcis versa. Epigrammata. Des. Erasmi Roterodami.. [Basel: Apud Joannem Frobenium, November-December 1518]. Fourth edition of Thomas More's Utopia, the second edition corrected by More, and the second edition of More's Epigrammata. Three parts in one small quarto volume (8 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches; 149 x 205 mm.). 163, [1, unnumbered page], 164, [2, unnumbered pages], [1, colophon, dated "Novembri MDXVIII"], [1, title-page for "Epigram"], 166-355, [1, colophon, dated "Decembri MDXVIII"] pp. Roman and Greek types. Twenty-six lines. Woodcut Utopian alphabet on b3 recto (designed by Petrus Aegidius and later used by Geoffroy Tory in the Champfleury). Title within a fine woodcut architectural border by Hans Holbein on title (repeated on c1), full-page woodcut map of Utopia on b2 verso by Ambrosius Holbein, half-page woodcut… Read More