It is almost half way through the first month of the new year and we are pleased to present a list of fantastic and rare items. We can't think of a better way to distract ourselves from the blistering cold than by scrolling through a collection of exciting New Arrivals. Our recently catalogued inventory in all fields includes a memoir from American scoundrel, Stephen Burroughs, and hand-colored engravings of moth and butterfly specimens collected by the Denton Brothers.
London: printed for the author, and sold by T. Evans, at No. 54, in Pater-Noster Row; F. Blyth, [1772]. Some text leaves stained. The prefatory notice is dated Feb. 1, 1772; issued in 24 weekly numbers beginning October 31, 1772. Read More about The Complete English Dictionary or, general repository of the English language. Containing A...
Price: $750
London: 1880. Read More about Madame de Maintenon, A Memoir
Price: $4,500
[New York]: The Laurentian Press, 1902. Deluxe Issue, Printed on Japan vellum one of 35 copies, Copy #12. ONE OF 35. Read More about In A Balcony
Price: $300
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1860. First American Edition. One of two novels by Brunton, it was wildly successful and Jane Austen's family, who eventually read it with not a little bit of enjoyment, even had difficulty in locating a copy, which she found to be "an..... Read More about Self-Control. A Novel
Price: $875
Hanover, New Hampshire: Benjamin True [Vol. I]; Boston: Printed by E. Lincoln for Caleb Bingham [Vol. II], 1798-1804. First editions of both volumes. Notable account of an American scoundrel. Stephen Burroughs (1765-1840) was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, enlisted in the army at age 14. He soon deserted and was..... Read More about Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs
Price: $2,500
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First edition, first state binding. The first part of this work, A True Story, was first published in the Atlantic in November 1874. The story is a retelling of the experiences of Mary Ann Cord (renamed “Aunt Rachel” in the story), the African-American..... Read More about A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime. By Mark Twain
Price: $5,000
London: William Henemann, 1921. Inscribed to Roy Chapman Andrews. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication in Peking to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Chapman Andrews. Andrews, an explorer, naturalist, was President of the Explorer's Club, director of the American Museum of Natural History, and the model for Indiana..... Read More about Dogs of China & Japan. In Nature and Art
Price: $1,000
[Paris: n.d., first week of April 1827]. Cooper on Literary Life in Paris and the ‘Lawless’ Sioux. An excellent letter of American author James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), during his first residency in France (1826-8), where he “found himself moving in the best Paris society. He became a close friend of..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“J. Fenimore Cooper”), to Charles Gosselin, Cooper's French publisher
Price: $5,000
London: William Heinemann, 1897. First English edition, limited to twelve copies, of which this is No. 4. ONE OF 12 COPIES, UNRECORDED ISSUE. Inscribed on the half-title "To Anthony Hope Hawkins / from the Duchess of Olancho", and signed below "Richard Harding Davis." The fictional Latin American republic of this..... Read More about Soldiers of Fortune
Price: $2,500
New York: Putnam's Sons, [1972]. First edition. Inscribed on the title-pager to Douglas Nicholson by Gorey. Read More about Amphigorey
Price: $1,000
London: Printed for C. Chappel, Pall-Mall, 1811. First Edition thus (fourth overall). Francis Grose (1731-1791) was the lexicographer of the low life: his dictionary of vulgar and slang words, which appeared under several different titles, was the most complete of the eighteenth century, and appeared in numerous editions (including a...... Read More about Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence...
Price: $750
New York & London: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. FIRST EDITION, BAL's Printing A (the title with 4-line copyright and a cancel), wrapper 1 (three works listed under Wiley and Putnam's Library of American Books: including Poe's Tales). Bridge and Hawthorne were classmates at Bowdoin and became lifelong friends, with Bridge..... Read More about Journal of An African Cruiser. By an officer of the U. S. Navy
Price: $850
London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co, [1832]. Fifth edition, with Additions. First published in 1820. A charming book by the famed 19th century florist of Paddington Green, Middlesex. Read More about A Concise and Practical Treatise on the Growth and Culture of the Carnation, Pink, Auricula,...
Price: $650
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[London: 1910]. HUNTING IN NEW BRUNSWICK. Superb album documenting a hunting expedition by Captain Harry Holmes-Tarn and his wife, Nora in 1909. On 25 September, they sailed from Liverpool on SS Mongolian arriving in St. John's, Newfoundland. They returned to Liverpool on 19 November that year. The sporting industry in..... Read More about New Brunswick 1910 [Album of Photographs documenting a Hunting Trip
Price: $3,000
London: sold at No. 13, Castle-Street, Leicester-Square [i.e. the author], 1786. First edition, the variant with p. 134 ending "spasmodic/ affection," no known priority. A seminal work on the subject by one of the foremost physicians of his day, a teacher of, and collaborator with, Edward Jenner. Unfortunately Hunter's hypothesis..... Read More about Treatise on the Venereal Disease
Price: $1,250
London: How and Parsons, 1841-43. First Edition. Read More about Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, &c
Price: $750
New York: Random House, 1933. First Trade edition. Inscribed with an autograph poem by Jeffers. Signed and Inscribed by Jeffers to Albert Bender, a well-known San Francisco patron of the arts, on the front endpaper, and with an autograph quotation from the poem on page 105, beginning "For us too..... Read More about Give Your Heart to the Hawks and other poems
Price: $800
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1936. First Edition. THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ECONOMIC TREATISE OF THE 20TH CENTURY. First edition of Keynes’ last major work, the most influential economic treatise of the 20th century, in scarce original dust jacket. The General Theory ranks with the Wealth of Nations as an intellectual..... Read More about The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Price: $12,500
Allahabad: Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co, [1891]. First edition. Read More about In Black and White
Price: $900
Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1885. The miniature portraits are of Charles Lamb in Volume One, and of Mary Lamb in Volume Two (Last Essays). Read More about Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia
Price: $8,000
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1980. First edition. Inscribed to Richard Mellon Scaife. Read More about Fortune's Child
Price: $150
[Paris]: 1758-1760. First complete edition. Birth of the Physiocratic School. The first three parts, constituting L'Ami des Hommes, were first published by Mirabeau in 1756, before his meeting with Quesnay and his conversion to the physiocratic theses. In 1758 the work was reissued as a new edition with a fourth..... Read More about L'Ami des Hommes ou Traité de la Population
Price: $4,500
New York: c. 1865. The First Tammany Hall Building. The early inscription on the mat identifies the image as taken in 1854, suggesting this large albumen print made from an earlier glass plate negative. Another example in the collection of the City of New York suggests a date in circa..... Read More about Tammany Hotel [albumen photograph of Park Row in Printing House Square showing the Tammany Hotel...
Price: $2,500
New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850-56. FIRST EDITIONS, second printings of vols. 1-3, vols. 1-3 in binding E (signed by Geo. W. Alexander); first edition of vol. 4 in a binding not identified in BAL; advertisements in vols. 1 and 4 as called for. “Poe’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Clemm, persuaded Griswold..... Read More about The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe
Price: $4,500
London: S. and J. Fuller at the Temple of Fancy, 1810 [altered in manuscript to 1812]. The author served as the drawing master at Rugby School and here offers lessons illustrated with progressive plates of flowers and floral arrangements. "The necessity of an Improved Essay on Flower Painting is obvious..... Read More about A Practical Essay on Flower Painting in Water Colours
Price: $2,750