Price: $7,500

London: Printed by F. G. for Richard Marriot; Printed by T. R. for John Martyn and James Allestry; Printed for Simon Miller, 1663-1678. First edition, first issue, a large paper copy. A BEAUTY, LARGE PAPER. The first and second part of Hudibras were first printed in 1663; the third part.....  Read More Item Details for Hudibras. The First Part. Written in the time of the late Wars ... The Second Part. By the Authour of the First ... The Third and last Part. Written by the Author of the First and Second Parts Add to Wish List

Item #323898

Price: $750

London: Elkin Matthews, 1905. First edition, trade issue, of Ronald Firbank's first separate publication, issued in an edition of 500 copies bound variously in sea-green wrappers and in this binding (simultaneously according to the bibliographer). There were also 10 presentation copies in large format prepared for Firbank. First Book, Outstanding..... Read More Item Details for Odette D'Antrevernes and a Study in Temperament Add to Wish List

Item #345418

Price: $1,000

London: John Murray, 1848. Gladstone Changes His Mind on the Jewish Question. Public opinion on the question of Jewish emancipation was “in a state of flux” during the 1830s and 1840s, with bills passed in Commons and rejected in the upper house, even as lesser disabilities were removed and Jews.....  Read More Item Details for Substance of a Speech on the Motion of Lord John Russell for a Committee of the Whole House, With a View to the Removal of the Remaining Jewish Disabilities; Delivered in the House of Commons, on Thursday, December 16, 1847. Together With a Preface Add to Wish List

Item #346224

Price: $5,250

London: for R. and J. Dodsley ... and W. Johnston, 1759. First edition, one of 1500 printed by William Strahan. "Hawkins and Boswell agree that Rasselas was written to help the dying Sarah Johnson and eventually to pay for her funeral ... Johnson told Reynolds he wrote the work in.....  Read More Item Details for [Rasselas] The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale Add to Wish List

Item #325524

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Chicago: Published by the Academy, 1867 [i.e. 1868]. First edition. "Contains remarks on the age of the rocks, based on discussion by Sir John Richardson and Mr. Ibister, and on the fossils of Kennicott and those collected by Hudson's Bay Co. employees; descriptions of fossil species including ten corals, twenty-three.....  Read More Item Details for Remarks on the Geology of the valley of Mackenzie River, with figures and descriptions of Fossils, from that region, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, chiefly collected by the late Robert Kennicott, Esq. ... [within:] Transactions of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Volume I. Part I Add to Wish List

Item #339141

Price: $1,750

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1947]. First edition. Inscribed. Author's first book, reflections inspired by Melville and what influenced Moby-Dick, concentrating especially on Shakespeare. Inscribed: “for Jacob Kainer who is one of the readers of this book I count on my left hand. Con amore, Charles Olson, the [night?] fox.....  Read More Item Details for Call Me Ishmael Add to Wish List

Item #345428