Chicago: The Atomic Scientists of Chicago, 1946-1973. The Journal of the Nuclear Age. " ... perhaps the single most important journal for documenting both the arms race and the growth and development of atomic energy, and changing attitudes toward them ... The early issues of this journal, before 1956 in..... Read More about Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. No. 22 of 1000 copies on Art Paper. Beardsley's Last Book. Beardsley had intended a series of 24 drawings for Jonson's Venetian comedy, but died before completing it, at the age of 26. Read More about Volpone: or The Foxe. With a critical essay on the author by Vincent O'Sullivan together with an...
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New York: Printed and Published by T. Kinnersley, 1825. Beecher Family Bible. Read More about The Holy Bible...by the Late Rev. John Brown
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San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1899. Edition de luxe, no. 24 of 52 hand-illuminated copies, numbered and signed by the author. Read More about A Season Sowing
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Vienna: produced by the studio of Brüder Nedomansky, 1902. Sumptuous German Presentation Testimonial, 1902. An extremely attractive and well-produced artifact. The layout of the text is impeccable, the lettering faultless, while the binding was intended to be a showpiece, and succeeds. UNIQUE. Read More about A testimonial, hand-lettered in German in black, gold, red and silver inks, presented to...
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London: J. Debrett, 1791. Fine Emblematic Rococco Binding. Read More about The Royal Kalendar; or Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and...
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Paris: Desaint et Saillant .. 1752. First edition. Handsome copy of this curious retelling of Cortez in the third person that includes two folding engraved maps. Read More about Le Mexique Conquis
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New York: D. Applelton and Company, 1895. Large Paper Edition, Number 238 of 250. Signed by the author at the end of the Preface. Deluxe Issue, Signed. Read More about The Manxman. A Novel
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London: Printed by J.(ames) Moyes, Greville Street for James Carpenter & Son, Old Bond Street; and R. Ackermann, Strand, 1823. First Edition, Large Paper, with errata and List of Subscribers. The First Steel-Engraved Plate?, LARGE PAPER. The plate on page 288, “Silent the guest surveyed the crowd”, engraved by Charles..... Read More about The Social Day: A Poem, in Four Cantos
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Paris: Hachette, 1898. First edition. One of the great modern, comprehensive books by the painter and traveller, Vuillier (1844-1915). Read More about La Danse
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. Crossroads Edition, No. 103 of 256 copies. Deluxe Issue of the Best Edition. Davis (1864-1916) was the leading reporter of his day (his dispatches are studied in journalism schools), as well as an author and playwright and his good looks and manly elegance made..... Read More about The Novels and Stories…
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London: William Heinemann, 1902. New edition edited by Armstrong (first published 1891, expanded 1898). Zaehnsdorf Exhibition Binding. Dobson's magisterial biography. Part II consists of a Bibliography of Books relating to Hogarth, as well as Catalogues of Paintings and of Prints. Here in a superb, monumental Zaehnsdorf binding. Read More about William Hogarth. With an Introduction on Hogarth's workmanship by Sir Walter Armstrong
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London: printed for Jacob Tonson, 1693. First edition. Dryden’s Juvenal. Read More about The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English verse by Mr. Dryden, and several...
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Oxford: Moses Pitt, 1681. First edition. “… written throughout in a strain of vehement animosity to all who took the anti-royalist side …” (DNB), Dugdale's narrative is still nonetheless of essential interest because of the accuracy and detail of his chronicle. Read More about A Short View of the Late Troubles in England … to which is added a Perfect Narrative of the...
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New York: Brentano's [Printed by the University Press, Cambridge, Mass.], [1908]. Read More about The Works of
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Paris: Les Editions de France, [1929]. Number 45 of 50 copies on “velin pur fil Lafuma” signed by the author. One of 50 copies signed. The noted French historian and journalist writes of his interviews with the Marshal of France. Read More about Le Memorial de Foch. Mes Entretiens avec le Maréchal
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Paris: Chaignieau, 1796. Nouvelle édition. Grécourt (1683-1743), was born in Tours, and was author of verse, fables, and tales. Sir David Lionel Salomons (1851-1925), scientist and engineer who organized the first automobile exhibition in Britain in 1895, was the son of Sir David Salomons (1797-1879), financier and the first Jewish..... Read More about Oeuvres complètes
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London: Printed for James Carpenter and William Miller, 1811. LARGE PAPER COPY, with all plates in proof state. Large Paper, with the Engravings in Proof State. A spectacular copy of the Hamilton classic in its Zaehnsdorf dressing, with exceptionally fine impressions of the engravings. Read More about Memoirs of Count Grammont ... A New edition. To Which are Prefixed, A Biographical Sketch of...
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London: Iohannes Pine, 1733; 1737. First Pine edition, second isssue, with “potest” in medallion, p. 108, v. II. Pine’s Horace, in Matthews Binding. The pinnacle of Augustan book illustration, in an elegant binding by Matthews. “Pine’s complete command of his craft makes this the most elegant of English eighteenth-century books..... Read More about Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera
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London: by H. Woodfall, 1741. First edition. Inscribed, Presentation Binding. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "J. Shaftesbury | Given me by James Harris 1751." James Harris (1709-1780) was the eldest son of James Harris by his second wife Lady Elizabeth Ashley Cooper, third daughter of the second Lord Shaftsbury (died 1699)..... Read More about Hermes: or, a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Language and Universal Grammar
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London: Samuel Richards and Co [Printed by H Dean, Printer, Kingsland], 1822. Second Edition. UNCUT. Read More about Chrysal: or The Adventures of a Guinea, by an Adept
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Paris: various publishers, 1877-1904. First editions except where indicated. Jusserand was a close friend of Senator Lodge's while he was living in Washington, D.C. One the titles is inscribed. Read More about 11 Titles : de Josepho Exoniensi vel Iscano Thesim Proponebat (1877); La Thèatre en Angleterre...
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Paris: René Kieffer, 1926. No. 92 of 550 copies. Read More about Les caractères de Théophraste traduits du Grec, avec les caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle
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London: Richard Bentley & Charles Tilt, 1840-1844. Leech, John. First editions. First editions of Leech's Pedagogical Pleasantries. Read More about The Comic Latin Grammar [together WITH] The Comic English Grammar & Comic Arithematic. [WITH}...
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