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George Bell's Waterloo: The Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815
HOOPER, George.
Waterloo: The Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1904.
First edition, new impression of Hooper's account of the decisive engagement of the Waterloo campaign and Napoleon’s last. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 137102
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Rare 17th century Jodocus Hondius map of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and Jamaica
MERCATOR, Gerard; Henricus Hondius.
Cuba Insula. [17th Century Jodocus Hondius Map of Cuba].
Amsterdam: c. 1630.
Rare 17th century Jodocus Hondius map of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and Jamaica. One page, hand-colored, the map shows the islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and Jamaica with an inset of Havana and detailed embellishments of ocean waves, sea monsters and ships. In near fine condition. An excellent example of the bold and highly detailed Mercator-Hondius style of engraving.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 138671
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Original swatch from Martha Washington's white silk wedding dress, given by her as a gift to Mrs. Alexander Hamilton and handed down through generations of the Hamilton family
[WASHINGTON, Martha; George Washington].
Martha Washington Silk Wedding Dress Fragment.
1759.
Original swatch from Martha Washington's white silk wedding dress, given by her as a gift to Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, Elizabeth, and handed down through generations of the Hamilton family. The silk swatch measures roughly 2.75 inches by 2 inches, mounted on a stiff paper card inscribed in pencil on the verso, "A bit of Martha Washington's wedding dress Wh. was Mrs. Alex Hamilton's" in the hand of Hamilton's granddaughter-in-law, Mrs. Allan McLane Hamilton, and from her collection. Hamilton’s grandson, Allan McLane Hamilton was a prominent psychiatrist and founded the New York Psychiatric Society. In 1910, he published The Intimate Life…
Price: $50,000.00 Item Number: 134228
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"Things aren't different. Things are things": First Editions of each novel in the Sprawl Trilogy; Each Signed by William Gibson
GIBSON, William.
Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1984-1988.
First British editions and true firsts of each of the novels that comprise Gibson's The Sprawl Trilogy. Octavo, three volumes. Each signed on the title page by William Gibson. Neuromancer is a review copy, with a slip laid into it. Each are fine in fine dust jackets. Rare and desirable signed and in this condition.
Price: $12,000.00 Item Number: 133729
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"To Una who will at last get to the end!": First edition of From Russia, With Love; inscribed by Ian Fleming to his real-life Miss Moneypenny
FLEMING, Ian.
From Russia, With Love.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1957.
First edition, first state of the fifth James Bond novel and what Fleming considered one of his best books and listed in Life magazine as one of US President John F. Kennedy's top ten favorite books. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, gilt rose and gun emblem to the front panel. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Una who will at last get to the end! from Ian Fleming." The recipient, Una Trueblood, whose surname was later appropriated by Fleming for the character of Mary Trueblood in Dr. No. Una started…
Price: $75,000.00 Item Number: 133890
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Jacob Bigelow's Florula Bostoniensis. A Collection of Plants of Boston and Its Vicinity
BIGELOW, Jacob.
Florula Bostoniensis. A Collection of Plants of Boston and Its Vicinity, With Their Generic and Specific Characters, Principal Synonyms, Descriptions, Places of Growth, and Time of Flowering, and Occasional Remarks.
Boston: Published by Cummings, Hilliard & Co, 1824.
Enlarged and second edition of Bigelow's authoritative work on the flora of Boston and its vicinity. Octavo, original boards, rebacked, greatly enlarged and with a significant glossary of botanical terms. In very good condition. Period ownership inscriptions and notations.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 137356
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First Edition of Thomas Kuhn's The Essential Tension
KUHN, Thomas S.
The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133733
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FIRST EDITION OF IAN FLEMING’S GOLDFINGER; INSCRIBED BY HIM TO HIS REAL LIFE MISS MONEYPENNY
FLEMING, Ian.
Goldfinger.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959.
First edition of the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Una, who again wrote the whole thing! from Ian Fleming." The recipient, Una Trueblood, whose surname was later appropriated by Fleming for the character of Mary Trueblood in Dr. No. Una started working in 1948 at Kemsley Newspapers and The Sunday Times where she was soon appointed secretary to Ian Fleming, where he worked throughout the 1950s. She recalled that Fleming "always said he only wrote Casino Royale, the first Bond book,…
Price: $60,000.00 Item Number: 133728
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“Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good": Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly.
London: H. G. Bohn, 1852.
Early English printing of Stowe’s enormously influential work, published the same year as the first. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated by Leech, Gilbert, etc. In very good condition. Housed in a custom folding chemise and half morocco slipcase.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 134862
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Leo Tolstoy's Childhood, Boyhood, Youth; Inscribed by Him to His Doctor
TOLSTOY, Leo.
Sochinenia Grafa L.N. Tolstogo [Childhood, Boyhood, Youth].
Moscow: Typ. I.N. Kushnerev i Ko, 1893.
Early Russian printing of Tolstoy’s trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, Youth. Quarto, original half leather. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to his doctor, “To Dmitry Vasil’evich Nikitin. Leo Tolstoy. 28 March 1903.” With an original photograph of Tolstoy with Dmitry Nikitin opposite the title page. The recipient, Dmitry Nikitin was Tolstoy’s family doctor who described him as ‘‘a very attentive person [who] knows everything that medicine knows now.” The son of a priest from a small village, served as Tolstoy’s first family and later treated M. Gorky. Beginning in the 1850s, Tolstoy had to turn to doctors…
Price: $45,000.00 Item Number: 133583
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First Edition of Gypsy; In Exceptional Condition
LAURENTS, Arthur; Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
Gypsy.
New York : Random House, 1960.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name. An exceptional example.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 133724
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First Edition of Capitalism and Historians; Edited by F.A. Hayek
HAYEK, F.A.
Capitalism and the Historians.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, 1954.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small stamp to the front panel. Includes essays by T.S. Ashton, Louis Hacker, F.A. Hayek, W.H. Hutt and Bertrand de Jouvenel. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 133717
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First Edition of The Truro Bear; Signed by Mary Oliver
OLIVER, Mary.
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.
First edition of this collection by the award-winning poet. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Kosturko.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 133714
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“I have always tried for quality in everything I do. I don't have a problem with that; I have a problem with mediocrity": First edition of Reinhold Messner's Everest: Expedition to the Ultimate; signed by him
MESSNER, Reinhold.
Everest: Expedition to the Ultimate.
London: Kaye & Ward, 1979.
First edition of Messner's thrilling account of the first ascent of Everest without the use of artificial oxygen. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Reinhold Messner opposite the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Audrey Salkeld.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 137998
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Large Photograph of The Founding Father of Israel David Ben-Gurion; Signed by Him
BEN-GURION, David.
David Ben-Gurion Signed Photograph.
1947.
Large original silver gelatin photograph of the Founding Father of Israel David Ben-Gurion, boldly signed by him. Ben-Gurion's signature measures 5.25 inches by 1.25 inches. x 1.25" alone. Also signed and dated "Charles Bergman May 1947" who was possibly the photographer. The photograph was taken in May 1947, one year before Ben-Gurion declared the formation of the modern state of Israel on May 14, 1948. The British had controlled Mandatory Palestine since 1920, but in May 1947, they asked for international guidance in resolving the complicated question of possession and ownership. The British submitted the Palestine question to the United Nations.…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 133617
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“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it": First Edition of C.S. Lewis' The Silver Chair; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
LEWIS, C.S.
The Silver Chair.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1953.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, contemporary name to the half-title page. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. An exceptional example, as this is the most difficult volume in the series to find in collectible condition.
Price: $11,000.00 Item Number: 133711