Price: $6,500

St. Petersburg: pri Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 1802. First and only edition of the first primer of the Tatar language in the Russian empire. The first primer of the Tatar language, compiled by a native Siberian Tatar under the direction of Iosif Ivanovich Giganov 1764-1800?), a priest and teacher at the.....  Read More Item Details for Bukvar' tatarskago i arabskago pis'ma. [Primer of Tatar and Arabic] Add to Wish List

Item #314656

Price: $25,000

Birmingham: John Baskerville, Printer to the University, 1763. The third variant of the Subscriber's list, with the most names, ending with that of the Hon. Charles York, Esq, Attorney General. Baskerville's Masterpiece, in Staggemeier & Welcher Binding. The 1763 edition of Baskerville's Bible has always been recognised as his masterpiece.....  Read More Item Details for The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Translated out of the Original Tongues and With the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised Add to Wish List

Item #306680

Price: $3,000

Paris: Societatis Typographic Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici …, 1633. Bound by The French Binders, 1934. Beautifully bound in full red morocco by The French Binders, successors to The Club Bindery, and signed on the rear turn in by two of the firm's most distinguished binders, Henry Hardy and Gaston Pilon. The.....  Read More Item Details for Caerimoniale episcoporum iussu Clementis VIII Pont. Max. reformatum. Omnibus ecclesiis praecipuè autem Metropolitanis, Cathedralibus, & Collegiatis perutile ac necessarium. Ad SS. D. Dominum N. Urbanum VIII. PP Add to Wish List

Item #306616

Price: $1,000

New York: Sold by William Hamilton, Edmund and George W. Blunt [etc.], 1825. First edition. A choice copy of the uncommon first edition of this standard American manual, by the important New York publisher of The American Coast Pilot, Bowditch’s Practical Navigator, and many other sea manuals. Blunt’s advertisement to.....  Read More Item Details for The Merchant and Seaman’s Expeditious Measurer; Containing a Set of Tables, which show at one view, the Solid Contents of All Kinds of Packages and Casks ... also, Rules for Determining the Contents of all Sorts of Casks, in Wine and Beer Measure Add to Wish List

Item #316524

Price: $8,500

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 Item Details for Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah Add to Wish List

Item #314798

Price: $20,000

[New York]: Done into a privately emprynted booke, 1926. "One hundred copies of this conversation have been printed for H.D.W./ of which this copy is no. 65" with Connett device A at foot of limitation leaf. The Derrydale ‘1601’ in Original Condition. The famed Fireside Conversation, written while Clemens found.....  Read More Item Details for [1601] Being a fireside conversation in the tyme of the Goode Queene Bess in which divers persons of reknown hold converse on concerns personal and intimate. By Mark Twain Add to Wish List

Item #265825

Price: $4,000

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1844. First edition. Thomas De Quincey, 1775-1859. Pursuing ever more transgressive excursions after his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) and his On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts (1827), De Quincey turned his attention to the concepts of value, wages.....  Read More Item Details for The Logic of Political Economy Add to Wish List

Item #316460

Price: $8,500

[Havana, Cuba]: Bohemia, April 16, 1964. Signed beneath the image with the revolutionary's signature slogan, "Hasta la victoria siempre, Che." A rare image of Che, taken in Havana in 1964 for Bohemia, a Cuban weekly magazine. Read More Item Details for Photograph, inscribed Add to Wish List

Item #314788

Price: $750

New York: The Century Co, 1901. First edition. INSCRIBED TO WILL BRADLEY. Inscribed on flyleaf in pencil, "To Will Bradley-With affectionate regards from the pestiferous Oliver Herford.", with his sketch of a lion below. A fine association. Read More Item Details for Artful Antics Add to Wish List

Item #62314

Price: $2,500

[Boston: 1855]. An album of large oval portrait photographs of the members of the 1855 Massachusetts State Senate, all but 5 signed by the subject. The legislature that year sought to pass, among other things, resolves relating to Bloody Kansas, an act relating to the employment of children in factories.....  Read More Item Details for "Commonwealth of Massachusetts American Senate 1855." [Title on upper cover] Add to Wish List

Item #314895

Price: $6,000

London: Andrew Melrose, 1913. Special deluxe edition limited to 280 numbered copies only (this copy is no. 219). SIGNED BY AUTHORS AND SHACKLETON. Read More Item Details for Antarctic Days. Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton's men … introduced by Sir Ernest Shackleton Add to Wish List

Item #317040

Price: $13,500

London: printed by W. Bulmer and Co., for G. Nicol, 1798. Second edition, corrected. The official account of Lord Macartney's voyage and embassy to the Qianlong emperor in 1792-94, “compiled by the Secretary (and Minister Plenipotentiary in the absence of the Ambassador) Sir George Leonard Staunton. Macartney’s chief object was.....  Read More Item Details for Authentic Account of an Embassy to the Emperor of China.. Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney Add to Wish List

Item #317036

Price: $3,000

[Boston: n.d., ca. May 1861]. Stowe requests portrait of daughter, for her son ‘who leaves for the seat of war’. The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin writes to well known Boston photographer James Wallace Black (1825-1896): “Mr. Black, My daughter Miss Stowe I wish if possible to have taken this.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph Note, Signed (“H B Stowe”) to Mr. [James Wallace] Black, photographer of Boston, arranging a portrait of her daughter “for her brother [the author’s son Frederick] who leaves for the seat of war on Saturday” Add to Wish List

Item #212557