Price: $3,500
Paris: par la Compagnie de Libraires, 1661. This 17th-century printing of the Office of the Holy Week, following the Roman Missal and Breviary is striking because of its royal French binding for Maria Theresa of Spain as Queen of France. Read More Item Details for L’Office de la Semaine Saincte, selon le Missel & le Breviaire Romain Add to Wish List
Item #260590
Price: $1,750
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1793. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates, first issue with the long 's' throughout. With 12 Plates by Blake. A tall copy in contemporary binding of the Stockdale edition of Gay’s Fables with 12 engravings by Blake, who freely adapted his source..... Read More Item Details for Fables … with a Life of the Author Add to Wish List
Item #259455
Price: $1,250
London: Thomas Wright, 1602. Later edition of Eirenarcha (first published 1581); later edition of The Duties (first published 1583). Ellizabethan Law Enforcement. William Lambarde (1536–1601) was an antiquary and lawyer, who, among his many accomplishments, compiled the earliest county history, THE PERAMBULATION OF KENT (1576). His appointment as a justice..... Read More Item Details for Eirenarcha, or of the Office of the Iustices of the Peace, In Foure Bookes. Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged, In the Fourth Yeare of the Peaceable Raigne of Our Most Gracious Queene Elizabeth … [Bound with] The Duties of Constables, Borsholders, Tythingmen, And Such Other Lowe and Lay Ministers of the Peace. Whereunto be Adioyned, the Severall Offices of Church Ministers and Churchwardens, and Overseers for the Poore, Surveighours of the Highwaies, and Distributors of the Provision Against Noysome Fowle and Vermine. And Now Enlarged Add to Wish List
Item #259203
Price: $7,500
Boston: February 12, 1864. A Manuscript for Tales of a Wayside Inn. First published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1864 and incorporated into Tales of a Wayside Inn as "The Spanish Jew's Tale. / Kambalu. Begun January 26, 1864 - Finished February 12, 1864. " His source for the "Kambalu"..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript, signed and dated, of his poem of “The Kalif of Baldacca” Add to Wish List
Item #260612
Price: $3,500
New York: Harpers, 1923. First edition, deluxe issue. No. 22 of 50 copies signed by Merle Johnson & editor Francis J. Dowd, with an extra plate. Read More Item Details for Howard Pyle’s Book of the American Spirit. The Romance of American History Pictured by Howard Pyle, Compiled by Merle Johnson: With Descriptive Text from Original Sources Edited by Francis J. Dowd Add to Wish List
Item #258648
Price: $17,500
London: Printed by I. W[olfe] for Francis Coldock, dwelling in Paules-churchyarde at the signe of the green Dragon, 1588. First edition. Cardinal Allen and the Catholic Plot to Overthrow Elizabeth. In 1587, Sir William Stanley, an English commander with the Earl of Leicester’s forces sent to help the Dutch overthrow..... Read More Item Details for A briefe discoverie of Doctor Allens seditious drifts, contrived in a pamphlet written by him, concerning the yeelding up of the towne of Deventer, (in Ouerrissel) unto the king of Spain, by Sir William Stanley. The contentes whereof are particularly set downe in the page following Add to Wish List
Item #259068
Price: $4,000
London: printed for N. Blandford; and sold by J. Peele, 1726. First Blandford edition. A famous poem about the relationship between Swift and Esther Vanhomrigh ("Vanessa"), who died in 1723 and among whose papers a manuscript of the poem was found. It was first published in Dublin on about April..... Read More Item Details for Cadenus and Vanessa. A poem. By Dr. S—t Add to Wish List
Item #260186
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Price: $65,000
[Venice: Aldus Manutius, February 1495/96]. First Aldine edition, and the first complete edition of Theocritus (printing 12 of the 30 Idylls here for the first time); the first edition of HESIOD’S THEOGONY; second edition of his WORKS AND DAYS; and first editions of most of the other minor works (enumerated..... Read More Item Details for [Idyllia] [and other texts] Add to Wish List
Item #259147
Price: $1,000
Paris: Deterville, 1819. “Deuxième édition” [i.e. third edition]. The third edition of this French manual on wine production, first published in 1801, followed by a second edition in 1807. Here in its original rose paper wrappers, uncut and unopened. Chaptal (1756-1832) was an important figure in the application of chemistry..... Read More Item Details for L’Art de Faire le Vin Add to Wish List
Item #259502
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Price: $6,000
Tokyo: Dai Nihon Kaiyo Bijutsu Kyokai [Greater Japan Pacific Art Association], Dated: Showa 18 [i.e. 1943]. The Japanese Bomb Lower Manhattan. “The purpose to publish this book is nothing but to let the people in Japan understand well the bravery and activity of the Japanese Navy. Every picture contained in..... Read More Item Details for Dai Toya Senso Kaigun bijutsu [Naval Art of the Great East Asia War] Add to Wish List
Item #260152