We can't wait to see some of you in person in stand A3. But for those of you who can’t attend, we’ve put together a small list of some of the highlights we will be exhibiting, including J. E. Brooks' presentation copy of Three Monographs consisting of the fourth, fifth, and sixth of the Capri pamphlets, issued anonymously by Norman Douglas; an exceptional association copy of The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats having belonged successively to Richard Woodhouse, Joseph Severn, and J. Lockhart Clarke; and the critical second edition of Philosophiae naturalis Principia mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton. See something you like? Go ahead and give us a call and we would be happy to assist you.
London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855-56. First edition. "In 1852 Burton proposed to the Royal Geographical Society that he make the hajj, or pilgrimage, to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. Forbidden to non-Muslims, less than half a dozen Europeans were known to have visited them and..... Read More about Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah
Price: $8,500
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Napoli: Luigi Pierro, Printers, July, 1906. Edition of 250 copies. Presentation Copy to J. E. Brooks. Three Monographs consists of the fourth, fifth and sixth of the Capri pamphlets, issued anonymously by Douglas, with a separate title page for each monograph and paginated continuously. Inscribed on the first title page..... Read More about Three Monographs [Cover title]. [Comprising:] The Lost Literature of Capri [and] Tiberius [and]...
Price: $7,500
![Item #320399 The Raven and Other Poems [and:] Tales. Edgar Allan Poe](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/320399.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690409098)
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. First editions of both titles. Raven with half title, "Wiley and Putnam's Library of American Books", name of stereotyper T. B. Smith on the title verso; Tales, third printing with three-line copyright. Students all over the world know of the title poem, and many..... Read More about The Raven and Other Poems [and:] Tales
Price: $38,000
London: Edward Moxon, 1840. First edition. Inscribed by Mary Shelley in December 1839. Contains the first printing of Shelley's "The Defence of Poetry" and also his translations from the classics (including Plato's “Symposium,” “Ion,” and fragments from “The Republic”) and 67 letters. “The Defence of Poetry” was edited by John..... Read More about Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations, and Fragments. Edited by Mrs. Shelley
Price: $45,000
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873. First London edition, catalogue dated October 1873. First London edition of Jules Verne's great novel of adventure and transportation, Le tour du monde en quatre vingts jours (first pulished in Paris in 1872-3). Read More about Around the World in Eighty Days
Price: $11,000