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“A WORK MORE SPLENDID… IN ITS DECORATIONS WE HAVE SELDOM SEEN”
FORBES, James. Oriental Memoirs. London, 1813. Four volumes. First edition of this splendid richly illustrated work on India, with frontispiece portrait and 93 engraved and lithographed plates, including 28 hand-colored natural history plates. Presentation/association copy inscribed by Forbes on the half title of Volume I to his cousin John Underwood, founder of the first hospital for Indians in Madras: “to John Underwood Esq from his affec. cousin the author.” Magnificently bound for presentation in full elaborately gilt-decorated morocco. $23,000.
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“THE HIGHEST POINT IN ENGLISH BIBLE PRINTING”
(BIBLE). The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New. Cambridge, 1763. First Baskerville edition, one of only 1250 copies of the celebrated printer’s “most ambitious undertaking… widely acclaimed as his masterpiece,” exquisitely bound in period-style morocco-gilt. $18,000.
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“FOUNDED THE SCIENCE OF MODERN POLITICS”
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo. The Prince. London, 1640. Rare and important first edition in English of Machiavelli’s Prince, a seminal work in the foundation of modern political theory, and the great classic of political science. An exceptional copy. $75,000.
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BOLDLY SIGNED BY BOTH WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON: RARE 1793 SHIP’S PAPERS
WASHINGTON, George. Ship’s papers signed. New York, October 8, 1793. Ship’s papers granting permission to the commander of the brigantine The Betsey, to depart from the port of New York “laden with onions and flour” and sail to the West Indies. President Washington and Secretary of State Jefferson have both boldly signed this document. With the fragile affixed paper seals of both the United States and the Mayoralty of New York present. $42,000.
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“READER, I MARRIED HIM”
(BRONTE, Charlotte) BELL, Currer. Jane Eyre. London, 1847. Three volumes. Rare first edition of one of the greatest and most popular novels in English literature in lovely tree calf-gilt. $36,000.
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RARE FIRST EDITION OF STEVENSON’S TREASURE ISLAND
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. London, 1883. First edition, first issue of Stevenson’s swashbuckling yarn of piracy, mutiny and courage, “the finest tale of maritime adventure that has been told since Defoe” (Prideaux, 28), an exceptional copy, much nicer than usually found. $27,500.
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WITH 72 SUPERB ELEPHANT FOLIO EGYPTIAN PLATES, MANY IN COLOR
BINION, Samuel Augustus. Ancient Egypt or Mizraim. New York, 1887. Two volumes. Limited first edition, “Edition de Luxe,” number 193 of only 800 copies, splendidly illustrated with 72 spectacular large folio plates of pyramids, temples, views, the Sphinx, antiquities, mummies, papyri, among other Egyptian subjects, including 50 beautiful tinted and full-color lithographs. $19,800.
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1598 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF ARISTOTLE’S ENORMOUSLY INFLUENTIAL POLITICS
ARISTOTLE. Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Government. London, 1598. First edition in English of one of the world’s most important and influential political texts, “the most valuable work on that branch of philosophy that has descended to us from antiquity,” handsomely bound in rich crushed morocco by Bayntun. $19,000.
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WITH 24 LARGE SPLENDID HAND-COLORED VIEWS OF INDIA
FORREST, Lieutenant-Colonel [Charles Ramus]. A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna. London, 1824. First edition of this renowned India color-plate book, with 24 splendidly hand-colored aquatint views after original drawings by Forrest and large folding map showing the Ganges and the Jumna, handsomely bound. $18,000.
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HOW TO TRADE IN STOCKS, SCARCE 1940 FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY LIVERMORE
LIVERMORE, Jesse L. How to Trade in Stocks. New York, 1940. Rare first trade edition of the only book by Jesse Livermore, one of Wall Street’s most flamboyant stock traders, inscribed “To Mr. Denis Bonnan Doyle, Jesse L. Livermore.” This scarce work features the first in-depth explanation of the famed Livermore Formula, his highly successful trading method still in use today, and contains 16 color charts. How to Trade in Stocks was published in March 1940, and Livermore committed suicide in November of that year, making inscribed copies exceptionally rare—this is the first we have encountered. $17,500.
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