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[Masonry] [Cleopatra's Needle] [Central Park Obelisk] the Obelisk and Freemasonry According to the Discoveries of Belzoni and Commander Gorringe. Also Egyptian Symbols Compared with Those Discovered in American Mounds

WEISSE, John A. (1810 -1888); Samuel Birch (1813-1885) · 1880

$649.00 (€585.87 | £489.28 | ¥103,707)

New York, J. W. Bouton, 1880. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of this consideration claiming correspondences between ancient Egyptian obelisks and Freemasonry, shedding light on the beginnings of civilization. Demy 8vo (231 x 141mm): [2],178,34pp, with tissue-guarded frontispi...

Cakes and Ale or the Skeleton in the Cupboard [First State]

MAUGHAM, W[illiam]. Somerset (1874-1965) · 1930

$724.00 (€653.58 | £545.83 | ¥115,692)

London, William Heinemann, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Bright first impression ("First Published 1930") of Maugham's best novel. 8vo: [4],270pp. Publisher's Prussian blue linen-grain cloth, front cover and spine lettered in gold, front cover blocked in black with author's ...

How to Read [First Issue]

POUND, Ezra (1885-1972) · 1931

$364.00 (€328.59 | £274.42 | ¥58,166)

London, Desmond Harmsworth, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. A spectacular First Printing of this rancorous essay on literary instruction, language, criticism, and much else, including a checklist of recommended writers, beginning with Confucius and down through Flaubert and Ri...

[Italy, comprising] I. Northern Italy including Leghorn, Florence, Ravenna and routes through France, Switzerland, and Austria; [with] II. Central Italy and Rome; [and] III. Southern Italy and Sicily with excursions to Sardinia, Malta, and Corfu Handbook for Travellers

BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859 · 0

$326.00 (€294.29 | £245.77 | ¥52,093)

Leipzig Karl Baedeker, Publisher [various] An excellent 3-volume set (each volume issued separately) of early editions for the traveler wanting a handy panoramic survey of the entire country, in matching bindings. Foolscap 8vo (158 x 99mm): lxviii,698, with 36 maps, 45 plans, ...

Cheaper by the Dozen

GILBRETH, Jr., Frank B. (1911-2001) and Carey, Ernestine Gilbreth (1908-2006) · 1948

$349.00 (€315.05 | £263.11 | ¥55,769)

New York Thomas Y. Crowell First Edition First Printing (so stated) of this best-selling semi-autobiographical novel, which inspired the classic 1950 film starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, remade in 2003 starring Steve Martin. 8vo: [12],237,[1] pp, with full-page illustrati...

American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States

WILSON, Alexander (1766-1813); Prince Charles Lucian Bonaparte (1803-1857) · 18581877

$1,399.00 (€1,262.92 | £1,054.71 | ¥223,554)

London, Paris & New York Cassell Petter & Galpin [Chatto & Windus] First Edition thus [from 1808] A superb 3-volume British edition of this classic American bird book, the “first major scientific work published in the United States” (Burtt and Davis, p. 333), here in its final...

Vivienne: Gently Where She Lay [Inscribed to his wife]

HUNTER, Alan (1922-2005) · 1972

$274.00 (€247.35 | £206.57 | ¥43,784)

London Cassell First Edition First Impression (First Published 1972 on copyright page). 8vo: 15,[2]pp. Publisher's bluish-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, illustrated dust jacket priced £1.60 net. Inscribed by the author (and scarce such) in blue ink on front free end pape...

Ill Wind [Contango]

HILTON, James (1900-1954) · 1932

$214.00 (€193.18 | £161.34 | ¥34,196)

New York William Morrow First Edition First Printing of the author's tenth book, preceding Goodbye Mr. Chips and Lost Horizon. 8vo: [12],306,[2]pp. Publisher's brown cloth, upper cover and spine ruled and lettered in gilt, top edge stained chocolate-brown, illustrated dust jac...

The Fortune of War

O'BRIAN, Patrick (1914-2000) · 1979

$251.00 (€226.59 | £189.23 | ¥40,109)

London Collins First Impression First Impression of the sixth Jack Aubrey novel. 8vo: 280pp. Publisher's French blue cloth-effect paper-covered boards, spine stamped in gilt; illustrated dust jacket, priced £5.50. Near Fine or better (slight spine tilt, indent to base, board e...

Road to Volgograd

SILLITOE, Alan (1928-2010) · 1964

$26.00 (€23.47 | £19.60 | ¥4,155)

New York Alfred A. Knopf First Printing First American Edition (so stated). 8vo: [4],176,[4]pp. Publisher's turquoise cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge stained gold, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust jacket priced $3.95 with correct 10/64 date of public...

The golden treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language. Selected and arranged with notes

PALGRAVE, Francis T. (1824-1897) · 1861

$724.00 (€653.58 | £545.83 | ¥115,692)

Cambridge & London Macmillan First Edition Scarce First Impression of this spectacularly successful anthology, collecting the best-loved English poems from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries (from Shakespeare to Shelley, with a heavy dose of the Romantics), establ...

The Minstrelsy of the Woods; or, Sketches and Songs connected with the Natural History of some of the most interesting British and Foreign Birds. By the Author of “The Wild Garland”

WARING, S. [Sarah] · 1832

$364.00 (€328.59 | £274.42 | ¥58,166)

London Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street First Edition in original cloth of this popular paean to song birds with charming hand-colored lithographs. Crown 8vo (187 x 110mm): xi,[1],227pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece and sixteen further full-page plates. Publisher's gr...

The Town Garden : a Manual for the Management of City and Suburban Gardens

HIBBERD, Shirley (1825-1890) · 1855

$326.00 (€294.29 | £245.77 | ¥52,093)

Groombridge & Sons, 5, Paternoster Row Scarce First Edition of Hibberd’s first book, with extensive tables of annuals and perennials. Foolscap 8vo (142 x 91mm): 172,20pp. Publisher's olive-green pebbled grain cloth paneled in blind and lettered and decorated with vine motif in...

[Juvenile] The Wonders of the Telescope. By the Author of "The Wonders of the Microscope"

[PHILLIPS, Sir Richard, 1767-1840] · 0

$499.00 (€450.46 | £376.20 | ¥79,738)

London William Darton & Son, Holborn Hill Scarce early edition of this beautifully illustrated children's book. 12mo (144 x 89 mm): iv,5-156pp, with folding engraved frontispiece of the solar system and 13 further plates, most folding and all but two dated 1823. Of special not...

Travels through Spain, in the Years 1775 and 1776. In which Several Monuments of Roman and Moorish Architecture are illustrated by Accurate Drawings taken on the Spot [R. J. Hayhurst's copy]

SWINBURNE, Henry (1743-1803) · 1779

$2,149.00 (€1,939.97 | £1,620.14 | ¥343,401)

London Printed for P. Elmsly, in the Strand A superb First Edition (in period binding) of this account of a sojourn to Spain, "an exact investigation of the soil, cultivation, government, commerce, and manners." 4to (283 x 220mm): xv,[1],427,[15]pp, with folding engraved map a...

[Original Cloth] Anecdotes of Painting in England; With Some Account of the Principal Artists; and Incidental Notes on Other Arts.; Also, A Catalogue of Engravers Who Have Been Born or Resided in England. In Three Volumes

WALPOLE, Horace (1717-1797); Vertue, George (1684-1756); Dallaway, James (1763-1834); Wornum, Ralph N. (1812-1877) · 1849

$499.00 (€450.46 | £376.20 | ¥79,738)

London Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden First Edition thus First Printing of the Dallaway and Wornum edition, a "New Edition, Revised, with Additional Notes," complete in three volume in original cloth. Demy 8vo (220 x 135mm): xxxii,351,[1]; [5],352-479,514-720; [4],7...

[Original Cloth] Letters from the Canary Islands

BROWNE, D. J. [Daniel Jay, 1804-1867] · 1834

$724.00 (€653.58 | £545.83 | ¥115,692)

Boston George W. Light, Lyceum Press, 3 Cornhill Scarce First Edition (rare both in commerce and in institutional collections) of this account of the Canary Islands by the nineteenth-century Boston naturalist. Crown 8vo (186 x 111mm): 140pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece ("...

Ways of Seeing

BERGER, John (1926-1917) · 1972

$499.00 (€450.46 | £376.20 | ¥79,738)

Harmondsworth & London British Broadcasting Corporation & Penguin Books Scarce true First Edition ("First published 1972) of this provocative art history text, based on the BBC television series. The first hardcover edition, published in New York, appeared only the following y...

The Princess Casamassima [First Issue]

JAMES, Henry (1828-1911) · 1886

$364.00 (€328.59 | £274.42 | ¥58,166)

London and New York Macmillan First Edition First American (and first single-volume) Edition, First Issue (with 1886 title page), of James’s only overtly political novel. Crown 8vo (187 x 117mm): [4],596pp. BAL first-state binding: blue-green S cloth, front cover and spine sta...

[Hand-Colored] Manuel de l'amateur de melons ou l'art de reconnaître et d'acheter de bon melons ; précédé d'une histoire de ce fruit et une nomenclature de ses diverses espèces et variétés

MARTIN, Alexandre (1795-1864) · 1827

$1,099.00 (€992.10 | £828.54 | ¥175,615)

Paris Auguste Udron, rue du Battoir, no. 20 Rare First Edition of Martin's charming melon lover's manual. 12mo (129 x 75mm): [4],iv,156pp, with delicately four hand-colored lithographs depicting nine varieties of melon (in section and whole) and a Piquet à Thermomètre de Regni...