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First edition of Booker T. Washington's My Larger Education
WASHINGTON, Booker T.
My Larger Education: Being Chapters From My Experience.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911.
First edition of this uncommon collection of the author's speeches and essays concerning education. Octavo, original cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In good condition with rubbing to the extremities. Bookplate.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 137463
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The Print: Contact Printing and Enlarging; Signed by Ansel Adams
ADAMS, Ansel.
The Print: Contact Printing and Enlarging.
New York: Morgan and Lester, 1955.
Later printing of the third book in Ansel Adams' 'Basic Photo Series.' Octavo, original decorated boards, frontispiece of The Grand Teton, Snake River, illustrated with fifty black and white photographs and diagrams, including informative tables, formulas and testing instructions. Signed by Ansel Adams on the front free endpaper. Hear fine in a very good dust jacket. .
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146951
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“I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three": First Edition of Grant; Inscribed by Ron Chernow
CHERNOW, Ron.
Grant.
New York: Penguin Press, 2017.
First edition of this award-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ned and Andrea- Ron Chernow." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Evan Gaffney. Author photograph by Beowulf Sheehan.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145665
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First Edition of J.M. Coetzee's Diary of A Bad Year; Signed by Him
COETZEE, J.M.
Diary of a Bad Year.
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2007.
First Australian edition of this groundbreaking novel. Octavo, original boards. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover design by Chong.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 131086
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FIRST EDITION OF THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING ECONOMIST’S CLASSIC WORK INPUT-OUTPUT ECONOMICS
LEONTIEF, Wassily.
Input-Output Economics.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
First edition of the economist's groundbreaking work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Jacket design by the Duquesnes. The jacket unfolds into three charts.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 73478
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"Our comments focus on the design of macroeconomic policy after the global economy emerges from crisis rather than on current policy choices": First edition of What have we learned? Macroeconomic Policy after the crisis; signed by both John Stiglitz and David Romer
AKERLOF, George.
What Have We Learned?: Macroeconomic Policy After the Crisis.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2014.
First edition of this book in which top economists consider how to conduct policy after the recent financial and economic crises. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Joseph Stiglitz and David Romer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 88139
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First edition of Secondhand is Better; inscribed by Susan Cheever Cowley to Kenneth David Burrows
MATTHEWS, Douglas; Suzanne Wymelenberg; and Susan Cheever Cowley [Erica Jong].
Secondhand is Better (2H=B).
New York: Arbor House, 1975.
First edition of this unique handbook to secondhand buying. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Susan Cheever Cowley on the front free endpaper, "To Burrows, without whose diverse and grateful help this book - and a lot of other things - would not have been possible. Susan." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 142533
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First Edition of Wrinkles in Time; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning Physicist George Smoot
SMOOT, George and Keay Davidson.
Wrinkles in Time.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993.
First edition of the story of "the scientific discovery of the century, if not all time" (Stephen Hawking). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated with 8 pages of color photographs and 50 line drawings. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To John Rogers Best Wishes George Smoot." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 144347
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First Edition of High Yield Bonds; Inscribed by Martin Fridson
FRIDSON, Martin S.
High Yield Bonds: Identifying Value and Assessing Risk of Speculative Grade Securities.
Chicago: Probus Publishing Company, 1989.
First edition of this early work by Fridson. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Lengthily inscribed by the Martin Fridson on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a note to the recipient signed by Fridson. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 144682
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First edition of David R. Reuben's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*
REUBEN, David R.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*.
New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1969.
First edition of David Reuben's wildly popular sex manual, one of the first sex manuals to enter mainstream culture. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Jacket photograph by Arthur Shay.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 117058
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"Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being": First Edition of Ragtime; Signed by E.L. Doctorow
DOCTOROW, E.L.
Ragtime.
New York: Random House, 1975.
First edition of this work of historical fiction mainly set in the New York City area from 1902 until 1912 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by E.L. Doctorow on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 118328
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"No hands have wrought my monument; no weeds will hide the nation's footpath to its site": First edition of Nabokov's Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev.
New York: New Directions Books, 1944.
First edition this collection of Nabokov's translations of the major Russian poets. Octavo, original wrappers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 118156
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"The lesson of patience and self-containing may be learnt in these trips": The Canoe and the Saddle; Signed by John H. WIlliams
WILLIAMS, John H. (Editor).
The Canoe and the Saddle or Klalan and Klickatat to Which Are Now First Added His Western Letters And Journals.
Tacoma: John H. Williams, 1913.
Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers, frontispiece. With sixteen color plates and more than one hundred other illustrations. Signed by John H. Williams on the title page. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by John H. Williams. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 61031
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First Edition of Maurice Sendak's Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water; Inscribed by Him
SENDAK, Maurice.
Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water: Two Nursery Rhymes.
New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965.
First edition. Oblong quarto, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Willie Merry Christmas! Maurice Sendak Nov. '87." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141293
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First edition of John Updike's Marry Me; inscribed by him to Erica Jong and her husband Kenneth David Burrows
UPDIKE, John. Illustrated by Barbara Fox [Erica Jong].
Marry Me: A Romance.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1976.
First edition of "the gentlest book Updike has written" (Kirkus Reviews), privately printed exclusively for Members of the First Edition Society. Octavo, original publisher's full leather elaborately stamped in gilt, moire silk endpapers, all edges gilt, silk ribbon bound in. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the limitation page, "For Erica + Ken warm regards, John." The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 142811
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First Edition of David Friedman's Law's Orders; Signed by Him
FRIEDMAN, David.
Law’s Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
First edition of this creative, and provocative addition to the law and economics literature. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by David Friedman on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by C. Alvarez.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 105322
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First editions of The World's Worst Children and The World's Worst Children Two; both volumes signed by David Walliams
WALLIAMS, David.
The World’s Worst Children [with] The World’s Worst Children Two.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2016.
First editions of the best-selling author's collection of deliciously mischievous tales of simply the worst children. Octavo, two volumes, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with color illustrations by Tony Ross. Both volumes signed by the author opposite the copyright page. Both volumes are fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Tony Ross.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145215
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Finely Bound second edition of Anthony Trollope's The Small House at Allington
TROLLOPE, Anthony.
The Small House at Allington.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1864.
Finely bound edition the fifth novel in Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, gilt topstain, with eighteen illustrations by J.E. Millais including tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece to volume one. In very good condition. Ownership inscriptions to the front free endpapers and small stamps to the title pages.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 112301
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First edition of V.S. Pritchett's Blind Love and Other Stories; Inscribed by Him
PRITCHETT, V.S.
Blind Love and Other Stories.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1969.
First edition of Pritchett's collection of humorous short stories. Octavo, original light blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Rolland L. Comstock V.S. Pritchett." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ionicus.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 121277
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First Edition of Orhan Pamuk's Other Colors: Essays and A Story; Signed by Him and three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd
PAMUK, Orhan.
Other Colors: Essays and A Story.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Orhan Pamuk on the title page and additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the front panel, on the title page and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated by Maureen Freeley.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 123428
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Rare collection of four first edition Kipling indexes
[KIPLING, Rudyard].
Something of Rudyard Kipling and His Works [with] The Kipling Index.
London, Edinburgh, and Garden City: Various Publishers, 1914-1917.
Rare collection of four first edition Kipling indexes. Small octavo, four volumes, original wrappers. Contains: The Kipling Index [London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914], Something of Rudyard Kipling and His Works with an Index to the Volumes Published by Macmillan & Co., Ltd. [Edinburgh: R & R Clark, n.d.], The Kipling Index: Being a Guide to Authorized American Trade Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Works [Saxton, Gene F. Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, n.d.], and The Less Familiar Kipling, and Kiplingana [Monkshood, G. F. London: Jarrold & Sons, 1917]. In very good to near fine condition. Essential for the Kipling…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 126447
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Thomas Stafford's We Have Capture; Inscribed by Him
STAFFORD, Thomas P with Michael Cassutt.
We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race.
Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.
First edition, early printing of this exhilarating memoir of an Apollo space flight commander. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Ken, Tom Stafford." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147235
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"You've nothing to lose. You could make the experimental land for humanity. Over yonder, where we were, you could create a new commonwealth. On that ancient soil, Old-New Land!": Theodor Herzl's Altneuland
HERZL, Theodor.
Old-New Land [Altneuland].
Haifa: Haifa Publishing Company, 1961.
Second edition in English of Herzl's classic work, by the founder of political Zionism. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Translated by Paula Arnold. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing and wear.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 68046
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First Edition of David Lloyd George's Where Are We Going?, in the scarce original dust jacket
GEORGE, David Lloyd.
Where Are We Going?
Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton , 1923.
First edition of this work by the former prime minister of the United Kingdom. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 131326
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First edition in English of Charles Bossut's A General History of Mathematics; finely bound in full contemporary calf
BOSSUT, John.
A General History of Mathematics From the Earliest Times, to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century.
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1803.
First edition in English of Bossut's fundamental history of mathematics. Octavo, bound in full contemporary polished diced calf with gilt tooling to the spine, black morocco spine label lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, marbled endpapers and all edges marbled, ribbon bound in. Translated from the French by John Bossut. In near fine condition. Contemporary ownership inscription. A very attractive 19th century binding.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 137152
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First Edition of The French Lieutenant's Woman; Signed by John Fowles
FOWLES, John.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971.
Early printing of Fowles' classic third novel. Octavo, original brown cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed and dated by John Fowles on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Endpaper drawing by Tom Adams.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 144337
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First Edition of Don Delillo's Running Dog; Inscribed by Him
DELILLO, Don.
Running Dog.
New York: 1978.
First edition of "the best Vietnam novel to appear so far, bearing some relationship to Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers and some to V. S. Naipaul's Guerrillas (Houston Post). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Brian Light Best ever Don DeLillo." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lidia Ferrara. Jacket painting by Karl Korah.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141423
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"You will have the vote. Truth is great and will prevail": Rare First edition of John Masefield's My Faith in Woman Suffrage
MASEFIELD, John.
My Faith in Woman Suffrage.
The Woman's Press, [1910].
First edition of the English Poet Laureate's speech delivered in the Queens Hall, February 14th, 1910. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 135641
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First Edition of Edmund C. Bentley's Trent's Last Case
BENTLEY, Edmund C.
Trent’s Last Case.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, n.d. [c. 1913].
First edition of Bentley's groundbreaking detective novel, "one of the three best detective stories ever written" (Agatha Christie). Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece in color. In very good condition. Small bookplate and ownership inscription. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 137405
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First Edition of John Kotter's Power in Management: How to Understand, Acquire, and Use It; Signed by Him
KOTTER, John P.
Power in Management: How to Understand, Acquire, and Use It.
New York: Amacom, 1979.
First edition of this early work by Kotter. Octavo, original boards. Signed by John Kotter on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 106742
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“There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people": Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Kidnapped: Being the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751.
London: Humphrey Milford/ Oxford University Press, 1930.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated edition. Quarto, original cloth, slipcase, illustrated by Rowland Hilder. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The slipcase is in near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 138086
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Rare Photograph From It's A Wonderful Life; Signed by James Stewart
STEWART, James [Jimmy].
James Stewart Signed Photograph.
c. 1946.
Rare photograph of a scene from the classic Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life, starring James Stewart as George Bailey. Octavo, one page, glossy sepia photograph of a scene from It's a Wonderful Life, boldly signed by James Stewart in blue felt tip. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146560
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First Edition of Steven Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse; Signed by Him
MILLHAUSER, Steven.
Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Millhauser on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with the lightest of wear. Jacket design by Alice and Martin Provensen.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 885
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"I am Eloise and I am six": First Edition of Kay Thompson's The Absolutely Essential Eloise; Signed by and dated in the year of publication by illustrator Hilary Knight
THOMPSON, Kay; Illustrated by Hilary Knight.
Kay Thompson’s The Absolutely Essential Eloise.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
First edition of the essential edition of Eloise. Slim quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Signed and dated in the year of publication by illustrator Hilary Knight. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Scrapbook written by Marie Brenner.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 133190
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"Would I Find La Maga?": First Edition of Hopscotch
CORTAZAR, Julio.
Hopscotch.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1966.
First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket designed by George Salter. Translated by Gregory Rabassa.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 144373
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First edition of Palgrave's The Treasury of Sacred Song
PALGRAVE, Francis T.
The Treasury of Sacred Song: Selected from the English Lyrical Poetry of Four Centuries.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889.
First trade edition of Palgrave's treasury of the lyrical poems of the finest English poets. Octavo, original publisher's gilt-stamped half vellum, top edge gilt with others untrimmed. In near find condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 111084
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First edition of The Doors: Other Voices; Signed by John Densmore
[DENSMORE, John].
The Doors: Other Voices.
New York: Alchemical Music Co, 1971.
First edition of the sheet music accompaniment to the Doors' seventh studio album; the first album released by the band following Jim Morrison's death. Quarto, original wrappers, illustrated with photographs. Boldly signed by drummer John Densmore on the front panel. In good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 117962
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Finely bound example of Voltaire's epic poem La Henriade
VOLTAIRE,.
La Henriade avec des Variantes et des Notes. Et l’Effai sur le Poëme Epique.
London : Jacob Tonsen, 1734.
Finely bound example of Voltaire's epic poem La Henriade. Small octavo, original leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers. In good condition. Text in French.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 81165
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First edition of A New Deal For Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue; inscribed by Harvard Sitkoff
SITKOFF, Harvard.
A New Deal For Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
First edition of Sitkoff's comprehensive account of the emergence of civil rights as a national issue. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Dear Adrienne 'Harvest time would come in the next generation.' my best, Harvard Sitkoff." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Egon Lauterberg.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 143846
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First Edition of M. Parmentier's Instruction Sur Les Moyens De Suppleer le Sucre
PARMENTIER, M.
Instruction Sur Les Moyens De Suppleer le Sucre Dans Les Principaux Usages Qu’on En Fait Pour La Medecine Et L’Economie Domestique.
A Paris: Chez Maquignon aine, Librarie, rue de lEcole de Medecine, 1808.
First edition of this rare work on vinification. Octavo, contemporary if not original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 114368