Price: $6,000

London: [John Beale] for John Jaggard, 1613. Beale piracy, with "Aturney" on title-page. Beale Pirated Edition of Bacon's Essayes. There were three editions of Bacon's Essayes dated 1613 with a Jaggard imprint. The first, printed by Jaggard after the 1612 Beale edition of the Essayes, has the spelling "Atturny" for.....  Read More Item Details for The Essaies of Sr Francis Bacon Knight, the Kings Aturney Generall. His Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed Add to Wish List

Item #319858

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[Pine Valley]: Privately Printed, 1928, 1933. First editions. Copies no. 49 of sixty-six numbered copies, the first printed by Rudge, the second by Edward Stern & Company. Copies were reserved strictly for presentation. The small printed slip that accompanied the errata for the first volume is laid in. Now in.....  Read More Item Details for A List of the Writings of Lewis Carroll [Charles L. Dodgson] in the Library at Dormy House Pine Valley, New Jersey [with:] A Supplementary List of the Writings Add to Wish List

Item #311689

Price: $17,500

[Waltham St. Lawrence]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1931. Gill, Eric. Number 473 of 488 numbered copies printed on Batchelor handmade paper, from a total edition of five hundred copies. Gill’s Masterpiece. One of Eric Gill's masterpieces as an illustrator. "Conceived in the fruitful mind of Robert Gibbings, this is the.....  Read More Item Details for The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I … Add to Wish List

Item #317876

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London: D. Brown, 1719. The second edition, with the addition of above three thousand words, not in the former. Very useful to all those that desire to understand what they read. Read More Item Details for Glossographia Anglicana Nova: or, A Dictionary interpreting such hard words of whatever language, as are at present used in the English tongue, with their etymologies, definitions, &c. also The Terms of Divinity, Law, Physick … Add to Wish List

Item #319394

Price: $300

New York: Grolier Club, 1894. One of 312 copies on hand-made paper. Printed by the De Vinne Press. With pencil note on pastedown by “CF” that it was from the library of Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946); bought at Dauber & Pine from a collection of Pinchot family books. Gifford.....  Read More Item Details for Facsimile of The Laws and Acts of the General Assembly for Their Majesties Province of New York … at New York Printed and sold by William Bradford … 1694 Add to Wish List

Item #34816

Price: $8,000

Chillicothe, Ohio: Mountain House Press, 1950. Number 204 of 210 copies (200 for sale), signed by the author. Schlosser 41 "The last work of the Mountain House Press and the author's magnum opus, this book provides a history of American papermaking by listing and describing the first paper mill in.....  Read More Item Details for Papermaking by Hand in America Add to Wish List

Item #311568

Price: $3,000

Venice: Giovanii Bonadio, 1564. Early Italian edition of Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews, translated by M. Pietro Lauro Modenese. The first Italian edition published in Venice in 1560, with the Editio Prinseps in Greek published in Basel in 1544. Josephus' works provide a comprehensive history of the Jews from Creation.....  Read More Item Details for Delle Antichita Giudaiche. Parte Prima [... Seconda]. Tradotto in Italiano per M. Pietro Lauro Modenese Add to Wish List

Item #221015

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Reading: Printed and sold by J. Newbery and C. Micklewright. Also by Mess. Ware, Birt, Astley, Austen, Robinson, Dodsley, and Needham, booksellers in London, 1743. First edition. Martin (d. 1782) polymath, lexographer and maker of scientific instruments, here first published his lectures on natural and experimental philosophy, including much on.....  Read More Item Details for A Course of Lectures in Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Geography, and Astronomy: in which the properties, affections, and phænomena of natural bodies, hitherto discover'd, are exhibited and explain'd on the principles of the Newtonian philosophy. The whole confirmed by experiments, and illustrated with copper-plates Add to Wish List

Item #320778

Price: $2,250

Paris: Pegasus Press, 1929. Limited to 175 Numbered Copies, Copy Number 13. Read More Item Details for Eustachio Celebrino da Udene, Calligrapher, Engraver and Writer for the Venetian Press Add to Wish List

Item #40914

Price: $3,000

New York: J. C. Riker, 129 Fulton Street, 1848. Sartain, John. First edition. Fine American Binding: FDR’s Copy. Signed on the flyleaf, “Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hyde Park” and then below FDR has added “Longfellow, Willis, Read, etc. All plates by Sartain.”. Read More Item Details for The Opal: A Pure Gift for the Holy Days. MDCCCXLVII. Edited by Mrs Sarah J. Hale Add to Wish List

Item #231599

Price: $2,500

New Haven: Printed by B.L. Hamlen, 1843. Printed for Private Circulation. Presentation from America’s ‘First Arabist of Note’. Inscribed on front cover "Rev. Dr. Bacon with the respects of the author." Edward Elbridge Salisbury (1814-1901), “America’s first Arabist of note”, studied theology and Hebrew, and graduated from Yale in the.....  Read More Item Details for An Inaugural Discourse on Arabic and Sanskrit Literature, delivered in New Haven, Wednesday, August 16, 1843 Add to Wish List

Item #256061

Price: $75,000

London: Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot, 1653. First edition. A Fine First of Walton’s ‘Angler’. A choice copy of the first edition of Walton’s Compleat Angler, a landmark of mid-seventeenth century English letters and one of the foundation stones of angling literature, with distinguished nineteenth century provenance. James.....  Read More Item Details for The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation Add to Wish List

Item #319605