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n.p, November 1800. First Edition. The Hon. Anne S. Damer was the next proprietor of Strawberry Hill after Walpole. This is not a Strawberry Hill Press production as Hazen says. Read More about Epilogue To The Theatrical Representation at Strawberry Hill. Written by Johanna Baillie, And...
Price: $450
Mårbacka, Sunne [Värmland, Sweden]: 11 February 1926. First Woman to Win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A three page letter in Swedish, making mention of Princess Hildegard of Bavaria as well as her German publisher Albert Langen, who published her novel Charlotte Löwensköld in the year the letter is dated..... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("Selma Lagerlöf"
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London: Peter Buck, 1693. First edition. Congreve's First Play. The first edition of Congreve's first play, following his novel Incognita (1691). "It had a run of over fourteen nights at Drury Lane in January 1693, with a brilliant cast, and was altogether an unprecedented success for any beginner. Moreover, its... Read More about The Old Batchelour, a Comedy
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Mayfield Sussex: 23rd Sept. 1979. Typescript published in: Into Battle. A Soldier's Diary of the Great War (Cassell, 1978). Nice late letter in a bold hand from Glubb Pasha, Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1986), who served with distinction in France in the first world war, and was thrice wounded. Glubb’s... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“Glubb”), discussing his writing, and conveying a carbon...
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New York: 1864. "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1864, by S. Tackaberry, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. The nett [sic] proceeds from the sale of these photographs will be devoted to the... Read More about "Oh! How I love the Old Flag." Rebecca, a Slave Girl from New Orleans
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Philadelphia: Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by Philip Bacon, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania" printed on back of the mount, 1863. "The nett [sic] proceeds from the sale of these photographs will... Read More about "These Children were turned out of the St. Lawrence Hotel, Chestnut St., Philadelphia, on...
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London: Thomas Bosworth, 1854. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on the title-page; "From the Author." Dickens who was also interested in mesmerism dedicated Great Expectations to Townshend and gave him the maunuscript. Townshend desicated his volume of poetry, The Three Gates to Dickens. This is his second book on mesmerism andrare. Read More about Mesmerism Proved True, and the Quarterly Reviewer Reviewed
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Edinburgh: Printed for Robert Cadell, 1833. First edition in English, and the first generally published edition of the findings of the commission set up by the Royal Academy of Medicine of Paris to look into animal magnetism. Read More about Report of the Experiments on Animal Magnetism, made by a committee of the medical section of the...
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Paris: Aubert et Cie, 1847. First Edition. Read More about La Phrénologie, le geste et la physionomie démontrés par 120 portraits, sujets et compositions...
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Paris: Alcan, 1889. In his 1890 essay The Hidden Self, William James wrote that Janet's observations of "hysterical somnambulist" patients at Le Havre Hospital, shown in Janet's 1889 Doctorate of Science thesis, De l'Automatisme Psychologique. Read More about L'automatisme psychologique : essai de psychologie expérimentale sur les formes inférieures de...
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Paris: Germer Baillière, Libraire-Éditeur, 1837. First edition. Read More about Caracteres Phrenologiques: Et Physiognomiques Des Contemporains Les Plus Celebres
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Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1863. First American edition. "One of the classics of geology", Gelkie, p. 404. Read More about The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man. With Remarks on Theories of the Origin of...
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"Henri de Sta was born in Versailles as Arsène Henri Saint-Alary. He began his career around 1882 with La Vie Artistique and the publishing house of Léon Vanier. Coming from a family of militaries, garrison life became a regular theme in his career. De Sta worked as a humorous illustrator..... Read More about Watercolour of title-page "LA MAISON DE LA VIEILLE." With a man and 2 woman singing and...
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"Henri de Sta was born in Versailles as Arsène Henri Saint-Alary. He began his career around 1882 with La Vie Artistique and the publishing house of Léon Vanier. Coming from a family of militaries, garrison life became a regular theme in his career. De Sta worked as a humorous illustrator..... Read More about Watercolour of title-page "LA MAISON DE LA VIEILLE." Title done in gold. 4 cats and a...
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Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge [London: Trübner & Co.], 1878. Holmes edited this last book by his classmate and friend Edward H. Clarke (1820-77), an essay left unfinished at Clarke’s death. It is a study of hallucinations and visions, and what causes them. The effects of..... Read More about Visions: A Study of False Sight (Pseudopia.)...With an Introduction and Memorial Sketch by Oliver...
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Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1836. Third American edition, with notes, Improvements and Plates. Spurzheim was born in the German state of Trier, and worked closely with Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, generally considered to be the creator of the "science" of phrenology. Spurzheim expanded on the ideas of Gall, developing... Read More about Observations of the Deranged Manifestations of the Mind, or Insanity
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New York: William Wood and Company, 1880. Beard's significance in his field derives from his argument for the methodical study of neurosis, his efforts to end social condemnation of its sufferers, and his understanding of the connections between mental illness and social organization. Although some viewed Beard as a charlatan... Read More about A Practical Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion (Neurasthenia), its Symptoms, Nature, Sequences,...
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Chicago: W.T. Keener, 1885. First edition. Read More about Insomnia; and Other Disorders of Sleep
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[Ottoman Empire: n.d., 19th century]. Handsome manscript theological and philosophical treatise in Turkish. Read More about Islamic Manuscript in Turkish
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Westminster: Archibald Constable, 1892. Nice selection of images from the celebrated Indian Field SPorts of Capt. Thomas Williamson of the Bengal Army, originally published in folio in 1807. Read More about Illustrations of Indian Field Sports. Selected and Reproduced from the Coloured Engravings First...
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n.p: 5/16/70. 'I RETURNED FROM THE MAD-HOUSE HUNGRY FOR A TINY BIT OF AFFECTION…'. An poignant letter, tinged with accusatory sentiment but ending in a thinly veiled hope for reconciliation, probably to Danny Stirrup, a friend and Key West architect who had worked on Williams' home. In our letter, Williams’..... Read More about Typed letter signed Tennessee Williams ("10") to ("Dear Danny"
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[Montreal: n.d., ca. 1930]. Handsome ephemera from this Canadian sporting club, with a color map showing the club lands near Casey in northern Quebec. Scarce. Read More about “Manouan” Hunting and Fishing Club Inc. Northern Quebec [Cover title
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![Photo Album]: Fishing in Rhode Island](/pictures/thumb/316198.jpg?v=1568905886)
Rhode Island: summer 1941. The album depicts a young man in his mid-teens and an older man, perhaps his father, fishing, from both a river bank and from a boat, and them proudly displaying their catch, another of them with guns and a dog, as well as a few photos... Read More about Photo Album]: Fishing in Rhode Island
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Printed for the Pohoqualine Fish Association, 1900. Edition of 500 copies, No. 44. Testimony and proceedings in this trespassing trial concerning the Monroe county fishing club, the Pohoqualine Fish Association. Much is elicited in testimony concerning the club lands along McMichael’s Creek, fishing habits and customs of members, and efforts... Read More about Report to the Pohoqualine Fish Association of the State of Pennsylvania, by the President,...
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Austin, Texas: 1990. First edition. History of this private fishing club established in 1922 in the wilderness area at the headwaters of the Rio Grande, in southwester Colorado. Uncommon. Read More about Pearl Lakes Trout Club, Inc. A History
Price: $225