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[Albany: 1860]. Early Albany Law School Photographic Yearbook. A photographic yearbook from the Albany Law School class of 1860, assembled by student Horatio Colony (1835-1917). Opened in 1851, Albany Law School is the oldest independent law school in the United States. Many of its students in the 1850s and '60s.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph album with photographs and inscriptions of Albany Law School Class of 1860 and faculty Add to Wish List

Item #313321

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Boston: Printed by Mein and Fleemin[g], [October] 22, 1767. Early American newspaper prospectus. Rare early American newspaper prospectus, announcing publication of The Boston Chronicle, a weekly Loyalist paper. "John Mein, a bookseller, was the publisher, and John Fleeming the printer. With the beginning of the second year the size of.....  Read More Item Details for Proposals for Printing a New Weekly Paper, called The Boston Chronicle Add to Wish List

Item #313300

Price: $35,000

Charleston: James S. Burges, 1827. First and only edition. Rarity of American Judaica. A rare pamphlet issued by the first Jewish Reform movement in the United States, the Sephardic Reformed Society of Israelites in Charleston, South Carolina, recording an address by one of the movement’s leaders. The Reformed Society of.....  Read More Item Details for A Discourse Delivered in Charleston, (S.C) on the 21st of Nov. 1827, Before the Reformed Society of Israelites, for Promoting True Principles of Judaism According to its Purity and Spirit, on their Third Anniversary Add to Wish List

Item #305824

Price: $900

Paris: Charles Barrois, 1810. First edition. Madame de Genlis Teaches Mythology -- with Colored Plates. A remarkable, ingenious, and beautiful book by the famous pedagogue Genlis, who created these beautiful drawings herself as a means of instructing the young in mythology. Each plate represents the attributes of a deity with.....  Read More Item Details for Arabesques mythologiques, ou Les attributs de toutes les divinités de la fable ... Ouvrage fait pour servir à l'éducation de la jeunesse. Par Madame de Genlis Add to Wish List

Item #313615

Price: $3,000

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, et al, 1765. First separate edition. First Separate Edition. The first separate printing of Johnson's Preface to his celebrated edition of Shakespeare. Johnson's "humanely poised preface" (ODNB) is the pinnacle of 18th-century Shakespeare criticism. Adam Smith described it as the "most manly piece.....  Read More Item Details for Mr. Johnson's Preface to His Edition of Shakespear's Plays Add to Wish List

Item #313399

Price: $1,500

Copenhagen: C.G. Proft Sohn, 1794. Earliest Danish printing. Second German Edition, but the first with this title of Paine's influential pamphlet Common Sense (1776), advocating America's independence from Great Britain. Common Sense in German. Second German Edition, but the first with this title of that most influential pamphlet, Common Sense.....  Read More Item Details for Gesunder Menschenverstand. An die Einwohner von America gerichtet Add to Wish List

Item #313306

Price: $1,500

No place: [ca. 1950]. Fine New Yorker Cover Design. Although this is a preparatory drawing, it is a well-rendered, lively, and highly decorative image, consisting of a montage of fall motifs: colorful foliage, spacious skies, amber grain, purple mountains, fruited plains, a church, a silo, a school complete with child.....  Read More Item Details for Fine pencil, ink and watercolor design for a New Yorker cover Add to Wish List

Item #12776

Price: $2,250

London: Strahan and Company, 1869. First edition in book form. First edition in book form in publisher's cloth, first published in 32 sixpenny weekly numbers. With frontispiece illustrations for vol. I & II bound as directed at pp. 304 & 206, respectively. Sadleir reports having seen only one copy of.....  Read More Item Details for He Knew He Was Right Add to Wish List

Item #312566