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Philadelphia, PA: Bioren & Madan, 1795. First Edition.. Leather Bound. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). 16mo 5.75 - 6.75'' tall. Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). Bioren & Madan, Philadelphia, PA 1795. Corrected From the Latest and Best London Editions, With Notes By Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. to Which Are Added, a Glossary and the Life of the Author. First American printing of the works of Shakespeare. Imbellished with a striking Likeness from the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Chandos. First Edition. 1st American Printing. Volumes 1,3,4,5,6,7 ONLY of 8 volume set. Full leather bound, boards undecorated, spine has deep-red title band and black edition band, with gold lettering, stars and bands. Plain endpapers and page edges. Volume One has frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare. All title pages state 'First American Edition', with a date of 1795 or 1796. Some spine ends have small leather loss, to level of top or bottom of text block. All hinges are… Read More

Kehl, Baden: Imprimerie de la Soci�t� Litt�raire-Typographique, 1784. Leather Bound. Very Good. L 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Imprimerie de la Soci�t� Litt�raire-Typographique, Kehl, Baden 1784. In French. Famous first posthumous collected edition of Voltaire's [1694-1778] works known as the 'Kehl Voltaire', produced by Beaumarchais, who created a print foundry at Kehl to carry out this great work. Set contains 69 of the 70 Volume 8vo edition (smaller 12mo 90 volume edition was also produced). Volume 23 (Histoire de Charles XII) missing. Volumes 10 and 27 printed 1784, summary volume 70 printed 1789, all other volumes printed 1785. Uniform 18th century calf full brown leather. Spines decorated in gold floral designs, titles, volume numbers, within 6 boxed compartments. Boards have a natural brown mottled leather finish, slanted gold lines on the narrow board edges. All page ends stained a very light yellow finely bespeckled with green. Green silk reading ribbons.… Read More

Boston, MA: Prentiss Whitney / Boston Bewick Company, 1835. Broadside. Fine. 26 x 21 x 1.0. Broadside. Condition: Fine. Prentiss Whitney / Boston Bewick Company, Boston, MA 1835. 1 pages. Paper on cloth backing, hand-colored, covered with a thin ancient layer of protective lacquer or varnish. No folds or tears. Short wrinkles on the untaut paper surface. Framed in glass. Size: 26 x 21 x 1.0. An imposing and beautiful broadside document! Prentiss Whitney of Boston, Massachusetts published this beautiful copy of the Declaration of Independence. It is approximately 26"" tall by 21"" wide. It has a four-line title printed in 4 different fonts. The text of the document is primarily in a handscript font, with some words enlarged and bolded in print type of four different fonts. Bottom section contains the signature replicas. The entire document is surrounded by two intertwined vines which encircle 13 state medallions (filled with symbolic vignettes) and an eagle and shield Federal medallion. Vines and… Read More

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1932. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. L 4to 9.75 - 12'' tall. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1932. Signed by Rackham. First Edition. 288 pages. 1st Printing. Has 525 copies printed, this is number 183. White cloth with gold decorations, top page ends gold gilt. Nice Firm copy ! Light general wear. Size: L 4to 9.75 - 12'' tall. Beautiful edition of 24 classic Hans Andersen fairy tales with lovely Arthur Rackham color plates and black and white illustrations throughout. This book edition has a brief introduction by Arthur Rackham describing his joy in reading Andersen's tales as a child and expressing his honor to illustrate this volume. Signed Children Fiction Antique Fiction Modern::Children's RBR10B RBR10B

Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1769. The Holy Bible of King James 1769, revised by Dr. Benjamin Blayney, is now the only King James Bible standard text. The Bible is a very valuable one, having been only about 20 preserved of the whole Edition, the rest having been burnt by fire in Paternoster Row, London. First Edition. 1st Printing. Professionally rebound in full dark brown calfskin with gold titling, tooling and dentelles, with gauffered page ends, and marbled flyleaves. Romans III has piece taken out of page, see photos. 'The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments : Translated Out of the Original Tongues : And With the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, By His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.' Includes the 'Apocrypha', 'The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Translated out of the Original Greek : And With the Former Translations Dligently Compared and Revised, By His Majesty's Special… Read More

Leather Bound. Condition: Fine. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Printed by Nichols and Son and Bentley and A. Strahan, London, UK 1816. Printed 32 years after his death. Nice Firm Clean copies ! Unmarked. Medium brown leather spine and board tips, marbled paper boards. Spine has gold decor with stamped double label lettering pieces of black and red. Matte brown endpapers. Lovely frontispiece black and white engraving of Johnson in Volume I (Published by T. Cadell, & W. Davies, Strand). Binding, hinges, and signatures all Fine. No hints of foxing. Only problems are 1 spine label is missing from volume I, and overall some gold trim is worn from the spine. Size: L 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Printed for Nichols and Son; F.C and J. Irvington; et al. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. After nine years' effort, Johnson's 'A Dictionary of the English… Read More

Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, NY 1918. First Edition. 1st Printing. 355 pages. A. Edward Newton's own Copy. Front endpaper has pamphlet 'Christmas 1918' pasted, with text 'I am permitted by my friend Christopher Morley - to reprint for my friends two of his ballades which have given me much pleasure.' Front free page has the typical Oak Knoll bookplate. On verso is another bookplate with Daylesford Pennsylvania, illustrating Newton's Reading Room. On page 268 a printed note is attached with a safety pin. 'The Author has made a slip of the pen in locating the Carlton Hotel in Piccadilly and not on the corner of Pall Mall and the Haymarket. His attention has been called to it, but he preferred to leave the blunder as it was - and is - as a sort of lightning rod for critics, to divert their attention from - possibly - probably - more serious blunders.' Below, the text is obliterated - missing. A pencil written note is inside:… Read More

Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Isaac Collins Publisher, Trenton, NJ 1791. First Edition. 1st Printing. Unpaginated pages. Old Testament. Apocrypha. New Testament. Index to the Holy Bible (25 pages). Table of Time (1 pg.). Scripture Measures, Weights and Coins (4 pg.). Kindred and Affinity Forbidden in Scripture and Laws to Marry together (1 pg.). A Brief Concordance to the Whole Bible, Perused and Enlarged by John Downame (82 pg., 1790). Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Full leather binding is covered in a Black Cloth tarp glued under the boards, serving to protect the book, which seems to be in its Original Very Good condition. Page browning on approx. 10 preliminary pages and 10 ending pages of text. Size: L 4to 9.75 - 12'' tall. The Isaac Collins Bible was the first Bible printed in New Jersey and was considered one of the most typographically accurate Bibles of its day, the second quarto King James Bible printed in America, the best known product of the eighteenth century New… Read More

Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Antique Collectors Club Ltd, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England 1984. Limited Edition. Antique Collectors Club Edition Limited to 1500 copies Worldwide, this is No. 842. Nice Firm Clean copies ! Jacket has light edge wear. Size: Elephant Folio 15 - 23'' tall. Volume I Country Houses. 61 pg. + 271 Plates. Volume II Gardens: Lay-Outs and Town Planning: Bridges: Imperial Delhi: Johannesburg Art Gallery: The Washington Embassy: University Buildings. 52 pg. + 277 Plates. Volume III: Town and Public Buildings: Memorials: The Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool. 59 pg. +173 Plates. Architecture::Historic Buildings Architecture::Architecture General Biography Architecture::Historic Buildings Architecture::Architecture General Biography RBR29

Portfolio. Condition: Very Fine. Ediciones Vigia, Matanzas, Cuba 2009. In English and Spanish. 36 pages. A deluxe specialty book wrapped around with collages, drawings and even a special place marker wand! A book you will admire! 11 poems. Nice Firm Clean copy! Copy number 182. Two hundred copies manufactured and illuminated by hand by the Ediciones Vigia, in its Del Estero Coleccion. In its preparation it used white cardboard, acrylic paint, guano cardboard, white paper, craff; as well as printed papers. They were too used a wooden rod, cotton string and feathers natural; add small scraps of cloth for the flame of the oil lamp. Best known for the image of the bird-women, Zaida's work bursts with the richness of theme and purpose, from the sea-side houses, to the iconography of popular gods, to the pantheon of Cuban santeria, to the baroque work of the cities, towns full of beautiful and laborious bird men and women, overflowing with feathers, arrows, wounds, branches, and colors. Size: L 4to 9.75 -… Read More

Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Case, Tiffany and Co., Hartford, CT 1852. 448 pages. Early edition by the original publisher. With 100 engravings, from original designs, by W. Croome. Rebound.in red brown brick cloth. Moderate browning on pages, especially near the margins. A smudge on page 434. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. With An Introduction Containing an Account of the Indian Tribes, Their Manners and Customs. Introduction by Daniel Strock : 'Philip of Mount Hope is one of the few Indian chiefs, who are acknowledged by the. white man to have been. truly great. His fame increases with the lapse of years. A century and a half ago he was stigmatized by the historian and divine as a rebel, a murderer, a monster accursed of God and man. Fifty years later, the descendants of those who had quartered his lifeless remains, and sold his child into the burning slavery of the tropics, read the story of his misfortunes with sorrow, and found in it excuse for the evils he inflicted upon their fathers. Now,… Read More