Rare books from Dennis Holzman Antiques

Giovanni Guerigli, Venetia, Italy, 1619. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text is in Italian. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. First four pages of text marked with small Library stamps, but very discreetly, spine unmarked, in all other respects in good condition throughout. Edition unstated, but appears to be a very early translation, perhaps a First in Italian. Full vellum over boards, spine title "Farmac. del Quercetano", [4], 256 pages, added title page with engraving ("La farmacopea, overo, Antidotario riformato"), a translation from the Latin of "Pharmacopoea dogmaticorum restituta", by Giuseppe Quercetano. Withdrawn from the NLM library, corners and spine ends bumped, front cover curled up at fore-edge, vellum toned, text block edges soiled, a signature on front free end paper,large #24 in red… Read More

G. W. Bromley & Co, New York, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 4to, oblong. Text contains minor marks/notes in pencil. Previous owner's name in pencil on front paste down. Black cloth over boards, includes 191 highly detailed maps of Manhattan broken down into sections, shows streets, railroads, parks, buildings in incredible detail. It even indicates whether the buildings are brick or iron etc. Useful indexes and keys help read maps. Binding loose, hinges and text block cracked, some plates are loose but all are present, Covers worn, especially at spine ends and corners, staining on cloth, colors on plates faded, tears on some plates, a few repairs have been made, some toning and staining, notes/marks in pencil on several plates. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 15 lbs 15 oz. Category: Geography & Maps; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 012370. .

Richard Field, London, 1618. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Folio. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is sound. Rebacked, full brown leather, 6 raised bands, [8], 821, [9] pages, alphabetical list of topics, decorated letters and other illustrative elements. This third edition reinstates "a Digression towards the end of the fourth Booke, which had bene formerly effaced out of the Italian and Latine copies in all the late Editions." Italian history, covering the late 1400s to mid 1500s. Covers worn, especially around edges, text block toned/stained, title page reattached. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 6 lbs 3 oz. Category: History; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 012669. .

Printed by B. Alsop & T. Fawcet, London, 1639. Fifth English Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket (as issued). Size: 24mo. Text contains minor marks/notes in pen. Binding is sound. Previous owners' names in ink . Rebacked, original spine and board leather with gilt-stamped spine label, 305 pages, 5 1/2" x 3 1/4". Engraved title page by W. Marshall cut down, mounted, and inserted, a little toned with some paper loss to image on lower left edge; page 100 mistakenly printed as 110. The fifth and last English edition translated by Ralph Robinson, includes the dedication to More's grandson, Cresacre, that first appeared in the 1624 edition. Edges, corners and spine ends bumped and worn, scattered staining, pencil notes in blank margins. Includes 1992 receipt from Vanbrugh Rare Books. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Fiction; Politics & Government. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No:… Read More

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 25-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All volumes bound in gilt-stamped maroon leather and marbled paper over boards, marbled end papers, top edges gilt, illustrated with plates. Volumes I-II: Scenes of Clerical Life; III-IV: Adam Bede; V-VI: The Mill on the Floss; VII: Silas Marner, Brother Jacob; VIII-IX: Romola; X-XI: Felix Holt; XII-XIV: Middlemarch; XV-XVII: Daniel Deronda; XVIII: The Spanish Gypsy; XIX: The Poems; XX: Theophrastus Such; XXI-XXII: Essays; XXIII-XXV: Life Letters Journals. Volumes have nicks to the leather, otherwise in very good condition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 40 lbs 0 oz. Category: Literature & Literary;… Read More

B. M. Whitlock, New York, 1890-1907. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 17 1/4" x 15 1/4". 2-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Two volumes in three. Brown cloth spines with gilt-stamped brown paper over boards. Volume I is split into two: one volume with the text, the second (portfolio) with 44 loose color plates illustrating U.S. Army uniforms from 1774 to 1888. Volume II (another portfolio) contains loose plates XLV to XLVII with uniforms from 1898 to 1900 as well as plates I-XXIII with uniforms from 1902 to 1907. All volumes have stains on covers and light wear to extremities, portfolio flaps have tears and chips, some plates have light smudges, one has a tiny tear at bottom edge at blank margin, but overall they are in very good condition with bright colors. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 22 lbs 0 oz. Category: MIlitary & Warfare; Pictures of… Read More

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. First Edition with Scribner's A and seal on colophon. Gilt-stamped burnt-orange cloth over boards, fore-edge deckled, 241 pages. Corners and spine ends bumped and lightly worn, offsetting from previously inserted paper on front end papers, final three end papers in back of book have bent corners, otherwise very good condition. In original dust jacket that is bumped and worn at corners and spine ends, has chipping along top edge on back flap, lightly toned and rubbed at fore-edges, preserved in a Brodart jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 0 oz. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 014204. .

Carleton, New York, 1862. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Rebound, gilt-stamped dark green leather over boards with previous owner's name stamped on front board, all edges gilt, marbled end papers, divided into five parts: Fantine, Cosette, Marius, Saint Denis, Jean Valjean, each separately paginated, (iv), [7]-171, (iv), [7]-164, (iv), [7]-150, (iv), [7]-184, (iv), [7]-165, approximately 825 pages total. Light wear to corners, spine ends and edges, toning along spine, covers stained, gilt-stamped text block scratched, label on front paste-down indicating this was rebound by South Bend Tribune Book-Bindery, scattered staining in text. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 2 oz. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 014742. .

Printed for Thomas Flesher Bookseller, London, 1684. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 14" x 8 3/4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. 19th century rebind, full leather with tooled decoration on boards, gilt-stamped spine label, five raised bands, pp. [xii], 868, [4]. Rear board is stained, interior has some scattered light staining, dampstaining, edge tears. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 6 lbs 10 oz. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Medicine & Health. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 014770. .

Printed by Order of the Corporation of New York by W. A. Davis, New York, 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 10" x 8 1/4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Full gilt-stamped leather over boards, marbled end papers and text block edges, pp. (v), [2], 408, [2], with all listed illustrations plus two additional, unlisted plates: the scarce Baker's Benefit Society Engraving and a plate with three small, separate engravings: one for the Boat Builder's Association, a second with an encircled top hat, and a third titled "Ball Badge Canal Celebratoin The Meeting of the Waters". Covers heavily worn at extremities, tender hinges, both hinges cracked but still attached, scattered instances of staining, some short tears and additional, haphazard folds on some of the fold-out plates and maps. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 12 oz. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Pictures of… Read More

Printed for J. Dodsley, London, 1775. Second Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8 1/4" x 5 1/8". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Mid 19th century marbled paper wraps, 96 pages. Previous owner's name on title page, gift inscription on verso of front wrap to William T. Byrne (1876-1952). Byrne was a New York State politician who served as a NYS Senator (1923-1936) and a Member of the House of Representatives from New York (1937-1952). Wraps chipped at spine ends, light wear along edges, light staining on first and last pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Politics & Government; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015019. .

A. O. P. Nicholson, Washington, 1856. First Edition, House of Representatives Issue. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 11 3/4" x 9 3/4". 3-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Three volumes bound with blind-stamped cloth over boards, Vols. I & III in brown, Vol. II in black, all three have gilt -stamping on spines with "House Reps." at the head of the spines and "Navy Department" at the foot. Vol. I: pp. xvii, [1], 537; extensively illustrated with 82 color lithographs (includes the suppressed nude bathing litho), 6 engraved maps, 2 of which are folding, 4 tinted engravings of a waterwheel and ships, and 3 color plates of reproduced Japanese art, 2 of which are folding, also includes numerous in-text illustrations. Vol. II: pp. [8], 414, [4], 14 (this section is numbered backwards because it is a facsimile of the treaty in Japanese), xi, [1]; illustrated with 9 color… Read More

John Murray, London, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8" x 5 1/2". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Green cloth over boards, gilt-stamping along spine, 592 pages plus 32 pages of ads dated May, 1878, two lines of errata on p. x, presentation in publisher's clerk's hand on front free flyleaf. Corners and spine ends bumped, covers have minor stains/signs of rubbing, small divot on spine with fraying cloth, front board loosening but still attached. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 5 lbs 0 oz. Category: Science & Technology; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015379. .

The Noonday Press, New York, 1954. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Picasso, Pablo. Size: 17 1/4" x 11 1/4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Black cloth over boards with cream-colored printed title label on front board, pages deckled and composed of alternating pages of terra cotta, blue, gray, black, and cream-colored paper, unpaginated, approximately 35 pages, illustrated with four lithographs by Pablo Picasso. This book is unnumbered, though is one of an edition of 64. Covers rubbed, sun-fading along spine and top edges of boards, bottom right corner of frontispiece lithograph is creased. Illustrator: Picasso, Pablo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 0 oz. Category: Art & Design; Poetry. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015383. .

E. P. Little, Pittsfield, MA, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 6 1/4" x 4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Professionally reinforced spine, original embossed brown cloth with gilt-stamped title on spine, 100 pages. A rare book, this is the first publication to focus exclusively on the Adirondacks. Covers worn at extremities with some professional repairs made, notes in ink and pencil on end papers as well as some newspaper clippings, tear repaired on front free end paper, scattered foxing/staining throughout. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015469. .