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 about Bukvar' tatarskago i arabskago pis'ma. [Primer of Tatar and Arabic

[Buffalo]: Printed [by Matthews Northrup] for Private Distribution, [1920]. First edition. Presentation Copy of the Rare First. Review of the tarpon in literature, pointers on angling for tarpon, and “A Partial Bibliography of the Tarpon” at pp. 53-57. Privately printed, and re-issued in several editions through 1951. Read More about The Tarpon

Paris: Ém. Paul, L. Huard et Guillemin, 1893. First edition, no. 9 of 20 large-paper copies on Japon Impérial, of a total edition of 650 copies. A classic work on early French bookbinding, comprising a history of the bookbinding trade in Paris, a study of the progression of binding styles..... Read More about Les Relieurs Français (1500-1800). Biographie Critique et Anecdotique Précédée de l'Histoire...

Paris: Chez l'Editeur, Rue de Sorbonne, No. 4, n.d. [ca. 1800]. A rare example of an odorless varnished binding ("reliure en vernis sans odeur"), a delicate and expensive technique in which layers of varnish were applied to covers decorated with either painted or engraved scenes. Albert Ehrmann, in his 1965..... Read More about Tablettes de Soirées

New York: George H. Doran, [1923]. First American Edition. Inscribed on the half-title: "Not that I assume to select your reading- Merely a thought that you would enjoy these delightful stories, and the quaint form of their telling. Cordially Will Bradley July '23"... Read More about Kai Lung's Golden Hours

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

[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 fo ot of limitation leaf. The Derrydale ‘1601’ in Original Condition. The famed Fireside Conversation, written while Clemens..... Read More about 1601] Being a fireside conversation in the tyme of the Goode Queene Bess in which divers persons...

Bismarck, N. D: The Tribune Co., Printers, 1900. Only edition. ‘The wolf is the enemy of civilization, and I want to exterminate him’. Scarce polemical guide to wolf hunting by Benjamin Corbin (1835-1912), Civil War soldier, trapper, hunter, stockman and frontier land promoter, who called himself the “boss wolf hunter.”..... Read More about Corbin's Advice or The Wolf Hunter's Guide. Tells How to Catch 'Em and All about the Science of...

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 about The Logic of Political Economy

Boston: Redding & Co, 1845. Second edition, improved. Second edition of this popular work on the evils of gambling and the tricks and deceptions used to defraud the unwary, by the riverboat gambler-turned anti-gambling crusader Jonathan Green (1813-1887). With chapters on cheating in poker, faro, and many other games. Green's..... Read More about An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling; Designed Especially as a Warning to the...

Paris: Chez Buisson, Libraire, rue Hautefeuille, 1792. Second edition overall and first French. Variant issue. Second edition: The ‘Federalist’ in the French Revolution. The first French edition of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay's celebrated collection of articles supporting the ratification of the United States Constitution. The other issue of this printing..... Read More about Le Fédéraliste, ou Collection de quelques Écrits en faveur de la Constitution proposée aux...

London: Macmillan, 1913. First edition. First edition of Keynes' first book, based on lectures given at the London School of Economics in 1911 and coinciding with his taking a seat on the newly created royal commission on Indian finance and currency. Read More about Indian Currency and Finance

[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 about "Commonwealth of Massachusetts American Senate 1855." [Title on upper cover