Paris: Éditions Mornay, 1933. First edition, no. 1168 of 1800 copies on Rives (total edition of 2,000). Binding by Odette Pilon. Read More about Maria Chapdelaine

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 about A Discourse Delivered in Charleston, (S.C) on the 21st of Nov. 1827, Before the Reformed Society...

Paris: M. Royol, L. Bathlot, 37 B. de l'Echiquier, [1870]. No. 2 pour Baryton (on lower right of cover). Earliest printing of the celebrated French march, Le Régiment de Sambre et Meuse, composed during the Franco-Prussian war, revived and widely reprinted during the belle époque. Enrico Caruso recorded the song..... Read More about Le Régiment de Sambre et Meuse. Chanson, chantée par Vialla à l'Eldorado. Paroles de Paul...

Bordeaux: Feret Fils, 1850. First French edition. 'Bordeaux et ses vins'. The first French edition of the classic reference guide to the wines of Bordeaux, preceding by several years the official classification of the region in 1855. In 1846 Michel-Edouard Feret suggested to Charles Cocks, an Englishman living in Bordeaux..... Read More about Guide de l'Étranger à Bordeaux et dans la Gironde. Bordeaux ses Environs et ses Vins Classés...

[London: printed for the author at the Chiswick Press, April 1922]. First separate edition, 25 copies signed by the author, this copy numbered "Fourteen" One of 25 copies, signed. Doughty's private edition of his review of D.G. Hogarth's Arabia (Clarendon Press, 1922), reprinted from The Observer 19 March 1922.  David..... Read More about Hogarth's "Arabia"

Padua: Paolo Frambotto, 1654. First complete edition. On ancient Roman costume. An early and important study of the costume of ancient Rome, with well-executed plates. The first part originally appeared 1642, this is the first edition to include the second part. Read More about Octavii Ferrarii de re vestiaria libri septem

New York: Norton, [1977]. First edition. GOULD'S FIRST BOOK, WITH THANK YOU LETTER FOR BLURB. First book by Gould, with the ownership signature of Ashley Montagu on the front flyleaf. Montagu’s blurb is at the top of the back cover: “Stephen Jay Gould is one of the most brilliant of..... Read More about Ever Since Darwin. Reflections in Natural History

New York: Boni and Liveright, [1921]. First edition. The Dedication Copy, Inscribed to Alfred Stieglitz. THE DEDICATION COPY OF HARTLEY'S FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED BY MARSDEN HARTLEY ON THE DEDICATION PAGE TO ALFRED STIEGLITZ: "My dear Stieglitz, This is the book you saved from the chaos of a grim period. I...... Read More about Adventures in the Arts. Informal Chapters on Painters Vaudeville and Poets. [Introduction by...

Paris: Chez Durand, 1758. First edition, second issue. Banned and Burned: the Rare First edition. First edition of the last major work of the French philosopher and encyclopédiste Helvetius, De l'esprit (On the Mind) was condemned by the Church and the Sorbonne for its uncompromising atheism, regarded as dangerously revolutionary..... Read More about De l'esprit

Chillicothe, Ohio: Mountain House Press, 1950. Number 2 of 210 copies (200 for sale), signed by the author. COPY #2. "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 about Papermaking by Hand in America

vp [Washington, D.C.; Dublin]: vd [1792-1811]. Early 19th century American and Irish political library of Maryland Congressman Alexander McKim. Alexander McKim (1748-1832) fought in the Continental Army, serving under Lafayette. He was elected to the Maryland Senate and the United States Congress as a Democratic-Republican in the 11th through 13th..... Read More about Collection of 51 American and Irish Political pamphlets, from the library of Maryland...

New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1940. First edition. JFK’s First Book, Inscribed to Newsman Arthur Krock. The first edition of John F. Kennedy’s first book, inscribed to Arthur Krock: “To Mr. Krock. Who Baptized, Christened, and was Best Man for this book — with my sincere thanks, Jack Kennedy.” Arthur..... Read More about Why England Slept

Leipzig: Mainzer Presse, 1929-30. Kredel, Fritz. First trade edition. Koch and Kredel's Botanical Masterpiece. A superb collection of wildflower woodcuts by the noted artist and engraver Fritz Kredel, whose graver has caught perfectly the delicate beauty of Koch's original depictions. This is the first trade edition, preceded by a special..... Read More about Das Blumenbuch