London: printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1792. Second edition. Second edition of Wollstonecraft's famous... Read More about A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
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Chicago: The Atomic Scientists of Chicago, 1946-1973. The Journal of the Nuclear Age. " ... perhaps the single most important journal for documenting both the arms race and the growth and development of atomic energy, and changing attitudes toward them ... The early issues of this journal, before 1956 in..... Read More about Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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London: John Pearson, 15, York St., Covent Garden, 1871. Facsimile edition of the1724 third edition of The Plays …, and of the 1735 edition of The Novels . First Edition thus, LARGE PAPER COPY. LARGE PAPER. Read More about The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn. With Life and Memoirs
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Paris: Chez Méquigon-Marvis. Libtraire, rue de L'École de Médecine, 1818. First Collected edition. Chiefly remembered today for his Paul et Virginie, Barnardin de Saint-Pierre was also a naturalist who wrote extensively on the harmony and order of nature. Paul et Virginie, in fact, appears in Volume IV of his Etudes..... Read More about Œuvres Complètes
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New York & Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1909-1912. First edition, Number 22 of 250 copies, signed by the author "with compliments of AMBROSE BIERCE on ffep of Volume One. Signed by the Author. After fighting in the Civil War and traveling exstensively throughout the Americas, Bierce found his fame..... Read More about The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce
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New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1890. First American edition, much more uncommon than First UK edition. Read More about In Darkest England and the Way Out
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Braunschweig: Vieweg und Sohn, 1842. Fourth edition. Early edition of the pioneering work in organic chemistry and nutrition by Justus Liebig (1803-1873), the greatest chemist of his time. Read More about Die organische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Agricultur und Physiologie
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London: Published by William Cobbett, 183, Fleet Street, 1830. First Edition. Read More about Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire…with Economical and Political...
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London: William Pickering, etc, 1836-1877. An excellent collection of the posthumous works of Coleridge, with many of the William Pickering titles in first edition. Includes the Literary Remains (4 vols., 1836-1839), On the Constitution of Church and State (1839), Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1840), Biographia Literaria (2 vols. in..... Read More about Collected Works
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London: Printed & Published by J. Robins & Co. Albion Press, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, 1819, 1819, 1819 & 1820. First edition, first issue, with the date on the title-page of volume one , p. 44 of vol. I has second issue title of "Epitaph on a Dyer" but lwith..... Read More about The Humourist. A Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Repartees, Witty Sayings, Epigrams,...
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London: Chapman and Hall for the Dickens Fellowship, 1905-1940. Read More about The Dickensian. A Magazine for Dickens Lovers & Monthly Record of the Dickens Fellowship....
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Paris: Vente à L'Hotel des Commissaires-Priseurs, 1878-1884. With prices realized and an Index. Read More about Catalogue des Livres Précieux, Manuscrits et Imprimés faisant partie de la Bibliothèque...
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London: Harding, Triphook and Lepard, 1824-46. The First, Second, and Third Series are all first editions. Read More about Original Letters, Illustrative of English History Including Numerous Royal Letters: From...
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808-1809. Pinkerton's collection of voyages was published over the course of six years in a total of seventeen volumes. The six volumes devoted to Europe comprise the largest section of the collection. They are "of great value for its texts, which are sometimes given..... Read More about A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels … Europe
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Paris: 1832-1846, 1848. First editions. Periodical issued bi-weekly, then weekly. Volumes for 1832-1836 have 24 issues, 1837 has 26, and 1838-1848 have 52 issues each. Read More about Le Voleur. Gazette des Journaux français et étrangers
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Edinburgh: Arch. Constable, 1821. Fore-Edge Views of Scotland. Each volume with a fine early fore-edge painting of a Scottish scene identified in an old hand in block letters on the ffep. Volume I : Berwick-on-Tweed Volume II : Falkland Palace Volume III : Edinburgh Castle Volume IV : Barnborough Castle..... Read More about The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet
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Paris: Crapelet, 1824. Read More about Les Poets François depuis le 12e Siecle Jusqu'à Malherbe
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London: John W. Parker, 1858-1870. Second edition, revised. Read More about History of England, from the fall of Wolsey to the death of Elizabeth
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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...
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London: Macmillan and Co. and New York, 1893. First Edition in English. Authortized translation by David Evans Jones, B.Sc. PMM: " Experimental proof by Herz of the Farday-Maxwell hypothesis that electrical waves can be projected through space...By inducing the waves to produce an electrical spark at a distance, with no..... Read More about Electric Waves Being Researches on the Propagation of Electric, Action With Finite Velocity...
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New York: Croscup & Company, [co. 1893]. Cabinet Edition, printed on Holland paper. Number 654 of 1000 sets. Rare. Read More about The Novels Complete and Unabridged of Victor Hugo
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all published in London (except as noted below): from 1801-1870. Substantial collection of the writings of on who, as "Hazlitt said in THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE (1825) ... 'improves upon acquaintance'; everyone can gain from knowing him better." (Nicholas Roe, ODNB). Comprising: Juvenalia; or, a Collection of Poems. Frontis..... Read More about Collection of 35 first and early editions of his works
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London: William Heinemann, 1891. First edition in English, no. 66 of 100 copies of the Large Paper Edition. The large paper edition of the first English edition of Hedda Habler, limited to 100 copies. First published in London in an edition of 12 copies to secure copyright followed by the..... Read More about Hedda Gabler. A Drama in Four Acts … Translated from the Norwegian by Edmund Gosse
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Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son, Printed Only for Subscribers,1895-1900. The Memorial Edition of which there have been printed 100 Copies; Lettered A to Z and 1 to 74. Issued in the Interest of La Société des Gens de Lettres for the Prix Barrie-Balzac, No. 33. PRINTED THROUGHOUT ON JAPANESE VELLUM..... Read More about The Memorial Edition of the Comedie Humaine
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Troy, New York: The Pafraets Book Company, (1903). Connoisseur's Edition on special watermarked paper. Number 16 of 150 copies. Read More about The Works of Samuel Johnson
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