Holiday 2020 Catalogue

81 H o l i d a y 2 0 2 0 “The Most Remarkable Portraits Of Elizabeth And Her Contemporaries” 98. (ELIZABETH I) CREIGHTON, Mandell. Queen Elizabeth. London, Paris and Edinburgh, 1896. Folio, contemporary full straight-grain burgundy morocco gilt. $3800. Early edition, with color frontispiece portrait and 39 illustrations, including 23 steel-engraved plates (one tinted, with many portraits), beautifully bound by Roger de Coverly in full morocco-gilt. Splendid and fine. Faraday’s Experimental Researches In Chemistry And Physics , First Edition 99. FARADAY, Michael. Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics. London, 1859. Octavo, original blind-stamped blue-green cloth. $2800. First edition of Faraday’s collected papers in chemistry and physics, documenting important discoveries from one of the world’s greatest scientists, with three engraved plates (one folding). Evidence of errata slip at page 445, no longer present. Near-fine. Presentation Copy Of Irving Fisher’s Landmark Doctoral Dissertation, Inscribed By Fisher To A UNC Economics Professor 100. FISHER, Irving. Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices. New Haven, 1926. Octavo, original navy cloth. $6000. Photo-engraved later printing of Irving Fisher’s groundbreaking doctoral dissertation at Yale, presentation copy, with numerous diagrams for the design of a hydraulic mechanism demonstrating equilibrium prices in a multi-market economy, inscribed to an economics professor at UNC: “To Mr. Frank R. Garfield with the compliments of Irving Fisher. January, 1927.” Bookplate of Erwin Tomash, who founded the technology company, Dataproducts Corporation, and co-created the Charles Babbage Institute. Only mild toning to spine. Handsome. “The Victor Belongs To The Spoils” 101. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Beautiful and Damned. New York, 1922. Octavo, original green cloth. $1500. First edition, first issue, of Fitzgerald’s second novel. Fine condition.