New York: Holt, 1917. Signed Alice Hobart on the title-page. This is her first book. Read More about Pioneering where the World is Old (Leaves from a Manchurian Notebook

Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson, [n.d.]. Reprint (first published 1909). "A most unconventional woman, Herbert wrote several books recounting her big-game hunting excursions." — Czech“These three books reek gloriously of blood” — Wayward WomenThe Two Dianas of the title are Agnes Herbert and her cousin Cicley, here travelling with two British shikaris..... Read More about Two Dianas in Alaska

Lisboa: Typ. Lisbonense, 1841. Social scientific study of the state of prostitution in the city of Lisbon, with a brief history of the profession and a concentration on the public health. Contains charts which attempt to track all protitution in the city, listing houses, each with an estimated number of..... Read More about Da Prostituição na Cidade de Lisboa

London: J. Johnson, 1796. First edition. A first-edition copy owned by a woman book collector. Having journeyed to Norway, Sweden and Denmark to make arrangements for some of Gilbert Imlay's commercial speculations and having written to him of her progress, Wollstonecraft extracted those passages describing the country and peoples and..... Read More about Letters written during a short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Paris: J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1857. Third edition. Third and Best Edition. Alexandre Parent du Châtelet's book was published posthumously in 1836. It had been eight years in the making, drawing on documents he obtained from the archives of the Prefecture of Police. Parent du Châtelet (1790-1836) was concerned about..... Read More about De la prostitution dans la ville de Paris

Boston: Privately Printed [by the Merrymount Press], 1913. Dwiggins, W.A. First edition, one of 500 copies. ONE OF TEN. In an ALS Crowninshield (on Winterthur letterhead) Francis tells his cousin George that he will send him one of the deluxe colored copies of which this is one of 10. Read More about The Story of George Crowninshield’s Yacht Cleopatra’s Barge on A Voyage of Pleasure to the...

London: J. Johnson, 1792. Second edition. Second edition of Wollstonecraft's famous argument for equality of education for both sexes. Published the same year as the first edition in London in 1792. Wollstonecraft felt that women ought to be the equal partners of men and wrote "...that if woman be not..... Read More about A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

Marchiennes, Belique: nd. Read More about Album of the Demolition of the Forges de la Providence Steel Company, Belgium Dampremy, Belgium

Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1649. A fascinating glimpse into the arguments following the Arminian-Calvinist debate. The first major work by Andreas Essenius (1618-1677), arguing against Socianianism, a Radical Reformation set of ideas by Lelio and Fausto Sozzini, denying the pre-existence of Christ (going beyond the Italian Antitrinitarian Council of Venice in 1550)..... Read More about Triumphus crucis sive Fides Catholica de satisfactione Domini Nostri Iesu Christi, asserta, &...

vp: 1957-94. The letters, including 56 Autograph Letters, and 9 Typed Letters, mostly on personal subjects but many with literary content, a few illustrated with sketches. ; Each with the original envelope or address panel. The typescripts, including a two-stanza poem Signed entitled "To a Japanese Friend Translating My English,"..... Read More about Archive of 68 ALSs and TLSs addressed to his translator Shozo Tokunaga

High Loft Press, 1985. Niumber 3 of 60 copies. Read More about Night Watches. By A.H

New York: Macmillan, 1900. First Edition. Read More about The Banker and the Bear. The Story of a Corner in Lard