Item 367231Aids to Reflection.
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London: William Pickering, 1846. Sixth edition, Enlarged. Read More Item Details for Aids to Reflection Add to Wish List
Item #367231
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Price: $300
London: William Pickering, 1846. Sixth edition, Enlarged. Read More Item Details for Aids to Reflection Add to Wish List
Item #367231
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London: Printed for John Bumpus, 1824. Twenty-Fifth Edition with the author's last additions and Corrections. Read More Item Details for An Essay concerning Human Understanding Add to Wish List
Item #367229
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London: John Murray. Aldemarle Street, 1835. First edition. Read More Item Details for Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge Add to Wish List
Item #367208
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London: W. Pickering, 1835. Reprint of the 1834 Pickering edition. Reprint of "the seventh (and last) edition during the poet's lifetime ... prepared by his nephew Henry Nelson Coleridge ... " - Haney. Read More Item Details for The Poetical Works of … Add to Wish List
Item #367207
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London: Bernard Quaritch, 1881. First edition, second issue. Read More Item Details for Camoens. His Life and His Luciads. A Commentary Add to Wish List
Item #367206
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London: Bernard Quaritch, 1880, 1881, 1884. First editions. Read More Item Details for Os Luciadas (The Lusiads) [With:] Camoens. His Life and His Lusiads. A Commentary [And:] Camoens. The Lyricks (Sonnets, Canzons, Odes, and Sextines) Englished by Richard F. Burton Add to Wish List
Item #367205
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London: Printed for the War Office; and sold by T. Egerton, 1796. In Boards. Read More Item Details for Rules and Regulations for the Sword Exercise of the Cavalry. [At head of title:] By His Majesty's command. Adjutant General's Office, 1st December, 1796 Add to Wish List
Item #367204
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Dr Frederick Krecker was a Navy Physician and in practice in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. After retirement he , his wife and 3 children embarked on the "Orient" as their church's first Missionaries to Japan. Page 87-154 are his accounts of his work in Yokohama and Tokyo from 1876-1882..... Read More Item Details for Ledger and Missionary Account Book 1874-1882...with 6 bank statements to Krecker from the Yokahama branch of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, 1880-1882 Add to Wish List
Item #367202
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New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1945. ‘All suddenly the wind comes soft’. Attractively bound copy of this perennial favorite. Read More Item Details for The Collected Poems of ... With an Introduction by George Edward Woodberry, and a Biographical Note by Margaret Lavington Add to Wish List
Item #367201
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London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition. “Oxford! The very sound of the word spoken, or sight of it printed, is fraught for me with the most actual magic.” The incomparable Max wrote one novel, a satire begun in 1898 but abandoned for more than a decade and not finished until..... Read More Item Details for Zuleika Dobson or, An Oxford Love Story Add to Wish List
Item #367198
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London: Methuen, 1907. Beerbohm, Max. First edition. Observations of Edwardian England by the incomparable Max at his sharpest. Read More Item Details for A Book of Caricatures Add to Wish List
Item #367197
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Harar [now Ethiopia]: 1889. Arthur Rimbaud as Arms Merchant in Ethiopia in 1889. A choice memorandum from the final part of Arthur Rimbaud’s adventurous years in Yemen and Ethiopia, where he worked variously as a merchant, coffee trader, and arms dealer. Barely two decades after Richard F. Burton entered the..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Document, signed (“A. Rimbaud”), receipt for 3,000 Thalers from Ato Tesamma for the account of M. Savouré, Harar, 12 fevrier 1889 Add to Wish List
Item #367193
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New York: Fuck You Press, 1964. First trade edition. Poet, writer, editor, publisher, activist, and musician Ed Sanders (b.1939) published 'Fuck You. A Magazine of the Arts.' in the mid 1960s out of his shop, Peace Eye Bookstore in downtown New York City, as well as many other titles that..... Read More Item Details for Bugger. An Anthology Add to Wish List
Item #367192
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Trieste: 1886. Trieste May 13 / 86 Dear Mr. [Mitchell?] Yours of May 7 received yesterday. We have been on a visit to the interior. Came back and found copyist had been idle. I cannot decide about copyist till we ? the sheets F. K. came all right but no..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (“R.F. Burton”), dated Trieste 13 May 1886 Add to Wish List
Item #367147
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Trieste: 1876. 'I am pledged to you in that matter and I should openly refuse their assistance'. Burton’s correspondent, J. Frederick Collingwood, was secretary/librarian of the Anthropological Society of London, before its amalgamation with the Ethnological Society into the Anthropological Institute; Collingwood was also translator of Introduction to Anthropology by..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (“R.F. Burton”), to J. Frederick Collingwood, dated 17 August 1876, deploring the state of the Anthropological Institute Add to Wish List
Item #367145
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New York: Derby & Jackson, 119 Nassau Street, 1859. Second edition. William Elliott (1788-3 Feb. 1863) was a third-generation South Carolina planter, writer, and sportsman. He served in the state senate for nearly two decades, and was respected as one of the most gifted planters of the old South producing..... Read More Item Details for Carolina Sports by Land and Water. Including Incidents of Devil-Fishing, Wild-cat, deer and bear hunting, etc Add to Wish List
Item #367139
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[N.p., England: n.d., early 1920s?]. Poet Edmund Blunden’s holograph transcription of poems by John Clare, including The Destroyer, Obscurity, The Primrose Bank, Langley Bush, The Early Daisy, Violet and Daisy; and in typescript, The Ragwort and Flowers. The first leaves of the holograph poems show typesetting marks. Blunden was very..... Read More Item Details for Flowers and Trees [Fair Copy Transcription of Six Poems in the hand of Edmund Blunden] Add to Wish List
Item #367134
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Lanham, [Maryland], New York and Plymouth, UK: The Derrydale Press, [2008]. First trade edition. At head of title: The Derrydale Press Foxhunters’ Library. Substantive and well illustrated history of the celebrated Radnor Hunt on Philadelphia’s Main Line, established in 1883. Read More Item Details for Bright Hunting Morn. The 125th Anniversary of Radnor Hunt Add to Wish List
Item #367096
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New York: 21 February 1953. ‘I do not want to be misquoted’. At the threshold of celebrity, Kerouac writes his friend Allen Ginsberg and Ace Books distancing himself from the forthcoming paperback original publication of William Burroughs’ first novel, Junkie, published under the pseudonym William Lee. Through Carl Solomon, Ginsberg..... Read More Item Details for Typed Letter, signed (“John Kerouac”), to Allen Ginsberg and A.A. Wyn of Ace Books re: Junkie Add to Wish List
Item #367091
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1895. First edition. Beautiful Copy. An outstanding copy of this classic ghost tale. John Meade Falkner (1858-1932) was also author of Moonfleet (1898). Read More Item Details for The Lost Stradivarius Add to Wish List
Item #367090
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London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, in the Strand, 1771. First Edition, first issue. The first published account of Cook's first voyage, and thus the first appearance of any narrative of this epochal voyage. As such, it is the first published account of discoveries made during the..... Read More Item Details for A Journal of a Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771; Undertaken in Pursuit of Natural Knowledge of the Royal Society: containing All the various Occurrences of the Voyage ... to which are added a Concise Vocabulary of the Language of Otahitee Add to Wish List
Item #367085
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London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, Deputies to Christopher Barker, 1589. First edition, second issue. With the Rare Folding Map. The first edition, second issue of one of the greatest of all travel books, presenting for the first time the many narratives of exploration and travel compiled by Richard Hakluyt..... Read More Item Details for The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or over Land, to the Most Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any Time within the Compasse of these 1500 Yeeres: Divided into several parts, according to the positions of the Regions whereunto they were directed… Add to Wish List
Item #367084
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London: for George Nicol, 1790. First Edition. First edition of Bligh's account of the famous mutiny and the incredible voyage which followed. Although the mutiny is now the best known incident, the most remarkable part of the narrative is undoubtedly Bligh's account of the voyage in the Bounty's launch. His..... Read More Item Details for A Narrative of the Mutiny, on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship’s Boat, from Tofoa, One of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. Illustrated with Charts Add to Wish List
Item #367080
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London: George Nicol, 1792. First edition. The full official account of the Bounty expedition, the famous mutiny, and Bligh's miraculous navigation to safety. This work "includes a revised version of the text of Bligh's narrative of the mutiny, previously published in London in 1790 ... This account was based upon..... Read More Item Details for A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew Add to Wish List
Item #367079
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London: Cassell, 1948-54. First English edition. Finely bound first editions of Winston Churchill's masterpiece. Previously serialized in London's Daily Telegraph, this may be regarded as Churchill's magnum opus; it has been translated into some 20 languages. Its six volumes span the period from the end of the First World War..... Read More Item Details for The Second World War. Vol. I: The Gathering Storm; Vol. II: Their Finest Hour; Vol. III: The Grand Alliance; Vol. IV: The Hinge of Fate. Vol. V: Closing the Ring; Vol. VI: Triumph and Tragedy Add to Wish List
Item #367070