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| Robert Doisneau. Banlieue de Paris. 1949. First edition of Doisneau’s first book (The Suburbs of Paris) with 130 black-and-white photogravures by Robert Doisneau. $2800. |
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Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird. 1960. First edition in the rare original dust jacket of this elusive American classic. $16,000. |
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| James Joyce. Ulysses. 1924. Fourth Shakespeare and Company printing, issued just two years after the first, inscribed by Joyce. $25,000. |
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| Anne Bronte. Tenant of Wildfell Hall. 1848. Rare first edition of Anne Bronte's only separate publication. $45,000. |
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| Mary Shelley. Frankenstein. 1833. Two volumes. Scarce first American edition of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece of horror. $36,000. |
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| Geoffrey Chaucer. Works. 1687. The last Gothic type edition, beautifully printed, illustrated with engraved frontispiece and armorial woodcuts. $6500. |
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| James Boswell. Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.. 1791. First edition, first issue, of the greatest of literary biographies; handsomely bound. $9000. |
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| Thomas Robert Malthus. Definitions in Political Economy. 1827. First edition of Malthus’ last published work. $4000. |
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| Winston Churchill. Winston S. Churchill. 1966. First editions of the official biography of Winston Churchill, richly illustrated with numerous photographic plates and handsomely bound. $4200. |
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| Luigi Mayer. Views in the Ottoman Dominions. 1810. First edition, with 71 superb large folio hand-colored plates. $15,000. |
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| John F. Kennedy. Typescript Annotated Speech. 1960. Thirteen-page working draft of a major speech concerning the collapse of U.S-Soviet relations following the U-2 incident, with numerous annotations in Kennedy's hand. $18,000. |
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| Thomas Aquinas. Super quarto libro sententiarum. 1481. 15th-century Venetian printing of Thomas Aquinas’ important theological commentary, with much rubrication, decoration, and a beautifully illuminated 16-line initial letter. $22,000. |
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| Georges Braque. Le jour et la nuit. 1952. First edition of this collection of aphorisms, boldly signed by Braque with an original pen-and-gouache color composition. $17,500. |
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| James Cook. Account of the Voyages. 1773. First edition of the official account of Cook’s landmark first voyage, with 27 maps and charts, and 24 copper-engraved plates. $13,500. |
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| Golden Treasury. 1879. Twenty-volume collection of the world’s greatest poets, beautifully bound in full morocco and housed in a lovely wooden display case with glass doors. $12,000. |
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| Lord Byron. Hours of Idleness. 1807. First edition, rare first issue of Byron's first published work, fine in the original paper-covered boards. $6000. |
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| Thomas Cogan. Haven of Health. 1596. Fourth augmented edition of Cogan’s recipes for good health, a lovely, wide-margined copy. Included are fascinating descriptions of all sorts of food, game and herbs. $7500. |
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| Adam Anderson. Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce. 1764. First edition of this important history of commerce through the ages, complete with three large folding maps. $8500. |
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| Ludwig van Beethoven. Missa Solemnis. 1827. First edition of the piano-vocal score of Beethoven’s choral masterwork. $12,500. |
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| Franz Schubert. Symphony in B Flat ('Unfinished'). 1867. First edition, fully engraved, of the full score to Schubert’s unfinished masterpiece. $8500. |
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