Rare books and first editions on Social Thought, primarily on law, economics, education, and women such as the works by Susan B. Anthony.
Boston: Munroe and Francis; and New York: C.S. Francis, 1828. First edition. Her first book. First edition of... Read More about Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats. By a Lady of Philadelphia
Price: $1,500
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Mannheim: Kurpfalz Regierungsrath … F. Stamm, 27 April 1784. Law regulating the permissible peals of bells in the territory, the May-Peal, ringing of the bells in thanks after the end of storms, and prohibiting others. Read More about Kurpfalz. Regierungsrath, Mannheim. Ordinance governing Bell-Ringing] Von Gottes Gnaden Wir Carl...
Price: $400
Philadelphia: Printed for W. Spottiswood, and H. & F. Rice, Market-street, 1793. Second American edition. Read More about Strictures on Female Education; chiefly as it relates to the Culture of the Heart, in Four...
Price: $350
N. P [New York? 1836]. First edition. Usury. Commenting somewhat astringently on Bentham's various arguments on usury law in his 1787 work “A Defence of Usury.” The author criticizes Bentham and American bankers and stated that his/her intention was “to remove the prejudices which prevail (to a limited extent) among..... Read More about Jeremy Bentham and the Usury Law
Price: $300
London: T. J. Wooler, 1818. Second edition with notes and alterations. Bentham's plan for Parliamentary Reform was first written in 1809 but Cobbett's refusal to publish it delayed its appearance until 1817. Bentham maintained that the only solution and remedy for the country's problems was reform of Parliament, including annual..... Read More about Plan of Parliamentary Reform, in the Form of a Catechism, with Reasons for Each ARticle. With an...
Price: $400
Paris: Chez Bossange et Masson, et a Londres, 1818. Second edition. First published in 1811. This book was Translated from Bentham's mss. by Dumont and was not published in English until 1830, then under the title The Rationale of Punishment. This is the second edition. Read More about Théorie des Peines et des Récompenses, ouvrage extrait des manuscrits de M. Jérémie...
Price: $1,500
London: Printed and Published by R. Carlisle, 1823. First edition, second issue. This was actually preceded by a printing for circulation among friends in the same year. The pamphlet was one a series Bentham published betwee 1815-25 on radical law reform. Read More about Truth versus Ashhurst; or Law as it is, contrasted with what it is said to be. Written in...
Price: $375
New York: Published by Sea Cliff Press, [1983]. First edition, #36 of 90 copies. Read More about Prayers & Sermons for the Stations of the Cross
Price: $500
Elliot Stock, 1880. First edition of this imprint. A photographic facsimile, reproduced on hand-made deckle-edge paper, with an interesting introduction. "One of the best facsimiles ever executed" - Westwood & Satchell. Read More about A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle. Being a facsimile reproduction of the first book on the...
Price: $400
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First edition of the author's first novel. Read More about The Journey Down
Price: $250
New York: American Bible Society, 1855. Sophia Augusta Brown's Bible, Wife of John Carter Brown. The bible of Sophia Augusta Brown (1825-1909), wife of John Carter Brown, herself an active bibliophile who helped her husband build his library and oversaw its stewardship after his death. Sophia Augusta was 34 and..... Read More about The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments
Price: $7,500
London: Rowland Ward, 1898. First edition. Presentation Copy. A lively account of the author's adventures during an eight-month shooting trip in Baltistan, Ladakh, and Kashmir. Very scarce. A presentation copy, inscribed on the half title: “Robert Frazer from his old schoolfellow, the writer, February 1898”. Read More about Sport in the Highlands of Kashmir. Being a narrative of eight months’ trip in the Baltistan and...
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Philadelphia: Edward Earle. J. Maxwell, Printer, 1816. Contemporary notes in pencil on endpapers. Read More about Reflections on Suicide. Translated from the French of Madame de Stael by an American Lady
Price: $800
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. No. 458 of 500 copies. "an unfinished binding done by me at Miss Emily Preston's bindery, N.Y. Patty P.L. Sesler" and below in another hand J.S. Brown. Emily Preston was a Cobden-Sanderson student who ran a bindery at 223 East 17th St., NYC and was one..... Read More about The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn
Price: $650
London: John Murray, 1882. Seventh edition. The classic in a fine binding. Read More about The Hawaiian Archipelago. Six Months among the Coral Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes
Price: $250
New York: Putnam. London: John Murray, 1899. First American Edition. Her last work. Read More about The Yangtze Valley And Beyond An Account Of Journeys In China, Chiefly In The Province Of Sze...
Price: $400
London: George Newnes, 1900. First Edition thus. Miss Isabella Lucy Bird (later Mrs. J.F.Bishop) left England to seek a better climate for her health in 1878, she returneed to Japan in 1894 and 1896. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Read More about Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. An account of Travels in the Interior including visits to the...
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Paris: Black Sun Press, 1947. Portfolio number 5. First Edition. Read More about Portfolio
Price: $350
April 11, 1941. Inscribed below on mount: “To Beryl H. Levy, with admiration and good wishes — Hugo L Black April, 11, 1941.” With a TLS from Black tipped to the back of the frame, dated January 22, 1941, concerning Levy’s book Our Constitution, and inviting him to visit A very interesting legal..... Read More about Photograph, signed To Beryl H. Levy
Price: $1,250
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1759. Fourth edition. Read More about An Analysis of the Laws of England
Price: $750
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1765-1766-1768-1769. First Edition. Without the 8-page supplement of addenda and corrigenda, often lacking. Attractive set of this classic, one of the cornerstones of the Anglo-American legal system, and still regarded as the best general history of English law. In these lectures which he gave..... Read More about Commentaries on the Laws of England
Price: $15,000
Cambridge: March 12, 1937. Brief letter written by Alice Stone Blackwell to Mr. Paine, offering assistance to the crew of the British merchant ship Linaria, who refused to put into port in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. She writes: "Dear Mr. Paine: Here is a small contribution for the..... Read More about AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, CONTRIBUTING MONEY TO THE CREW OF THE SHIP...
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Cambridge: June 23, 1949. Letter signed by suffrage leader and activist Alice Stone Blackwell, less than a year before the end of her life. The letter, to Rev. George L. Paine, simply reads: "Dear Friend: Your kind communication has wholly bewildered me. I do not know in the least what..... Read More about Letter, Signed, from ALICE STONE BLACKWELL to REV. GEORGE L. PAINE
Price: $450
[Chicago]: Published by the Author [Charles H. Kerr], 1906. First edition. Translation sof Russian songs by the noted suffragist, Alice Stone Blackwell. Read More about Songs of Russia. Rendered into English Verse
Price: $50
[Harrisburg, Pa: Pennsylvania Women Suffrage Association, c. 1914]. Suffragte circular arguing that women have always been complicit in their own subjugation, citing women’s conservative reactions to Vassar College and female education in general. Blackwell aargues that the suffragists movement must persist despite the indifference or opposition of those who stand..... Read More about “Women Do Not Want It.”
Price: $450
