Price: $750

London: printed for the author, and sold by T. Evans, at No. 54, in Pater-Noster Row; F. Blyth, [1772]. Some text leaves stained. The prefatory notice is dated Feb. 1, 1772; issued in 24 weekly numbers beginning October 31, 1772. Read More Item Details for The Complete English Dictionary or, general repository of the English language. Containing A Copious Explanation of all the Words in the English Language; Add to Wish List

Item #319346

Price: $300

[New York]: The Laurentian Press, 1902. Deluxe Issue, Printed on Japan vellum one of 35 copies, Copy #12. ONE OF 35. Read More Item Details for In A Balcony Add to Wish List

Item #319021

Price: $5,000

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First edition, first state binding. The first part of this work, A True Story, was first published in the Atlantic in November 1874. The story is a retelling of the experiences of Mary Ann Cord (renamed “Aunt Rachel” in the story), the African-American.....  Read More Item Details for A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime. By Mark Twain Add to Wish List

Item #324788

Price: $2,500

London: William Heinemann, 1897. First English edition, limited to twelve copies, of which this is No. 4. ONE OF 12 COPIES, UNRECORDED ISSUE. Inscribed on the half-title "To Anthony Hope Hawkins / from the Duchess of Olancho", and signed below "Richard Harding Davis." The fictional Latin American republic of this.....  Read More Item Details for Soldiers of Fortune Add to Wish List

Item #322452

Price: $850

New York & London: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. FIRST EDITION, BAL's Printing A (the title with 4-line copyright and a cancel), wrapper 1 (three works listed under Wiley and Putnam's Library of American Books: including Poe's Tales). Bridge and Hawthorne were classmates at Bowdoin and became lifelong friends, with Bridge.....  Read More Item Details for Journal of An African Cruiser. By an officer of the U. S. Navy Add to Wish List

Item #319256

Price: $1,250

London: sold at No. 13, Castle-Street, Leicester-Square [i.e. the author], 1786. First edition, the variant with p. 134 ending "spasmodic/ affection," no known priority. A seminal work on the subject by one of the foremost physicians of his day, a teacher of, and collaborator with, Edward Jenner. Unfortunately Hunter's hypothesis.....  Read More Item Details for Treatise on the Venereal Disease Add to Wish List

Item #320402

Price: $12,500

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1936. First Edition. THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ECONOMIC TREATISE OF THE 20TH CENTURY. First edition of Keynes’ last major work, the most influential economic treatise of the 20th century, in scarce original dust jacket. The General Theory ranks with the Wealth of Nations as an intellectual.....  Read More Item Details for The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money Add to Wish List

Item #321337

Price: $8,000

Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1885. The miniature portraits are of Charles Lamb in Volume One, and of Mary Lamb in Volume Two (Last Essays). Read More Item Details for Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia Add to Wish List

Item #320703

Price: $4,500

[Paris]: 1758-1760. First complete edition. Birth of the Physiocratic School. The first three parts, constituting L'Ami des Hommes, were first published by Mirabeau in 1756, before his meeting with Quesnay and his conversion to the physiocratic theses. In 1758 the work was reissued as a new edition with a fourth.....  Read More Item Details for L'Ami des Hommes ou Traité de la Population Add to Wish List

Item #322182

Price: $4,500

New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850-56. FIRST EDITIONS, second printings of vols. 1-3, vols. 1-3 in binding E (signed by Geo. W. Alexander); first edition of vol. 4 in a binding not identified in BAL; advertisements in vols. 1 and 4 as called for. “Poe’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Clemm, persuaded Griswold.....  Read More Item Details for The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe Add to Wish List

Item #319277

Price: $2,500

Winchester: D. Nutt, [1846-1847]. Surprisingly scarce, the work was originally issued in 8 parts and would seem to have been published in a regular issue (£2.2s) and a large-paper colored issue, as here (£4.4s), judging by early advertisements. Includes the wood-engraved plate of college seals in the rear. Read More Item Details for Memorials of Winchester College, Drawn & Lithographed by Charles W. Radclyffe Add to Wish List

Item #320084

Price: $2,000

London: Oct. 23, 1788. Henry Fuseli (1741–1825), Swiss-born painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, lived most of his life in England and was one of the preeminent figures of the Romantic movement. When he turned from poetry to painting, at the encouragement of Joshua Reynolds, he soon began painting scenes.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph Document, signed, a receipt issued to John Boydell, for 50 guineas "on account of a Picture of Hamlet delivered." Add to Wish List

Item #319631

Price: $1,750

Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, Chesnut Street. Baltimore: Carey, Hart & Co, 1834. First American edition. Source for Poe’s Dupin. Vidocq (1775-1857), first a convicted criminal and then “the principal and most active agent of the police”, was head of the Paris Sureté from 1810 to 1827. He wrote.....  Read More Item Details for Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827. Written by Himself. Translated from the French Add to Wish List

Item #320566