"ANTICIPATED ONE OF ADAM SMITH'S SHREWDEST INSIGHTS, THAT REGULATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS IMPEDED COMMERCE RATHER THAN PROTECTING IT… LET THE AMERICANS BE INDEPENDENT"

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (BURKE, Edmund) TUCKER, Josiah, D.D. Humble Address. Gloucester, 1775.

First corrected edition, second overall, issued within days of the same year's first edition of the "important and influential" British economist's seminal rebuke of Edmund Burke, charging him with a crucial misunderstanding how the political economics of self-interest would best prevent further "Disturbances and Disputes" with America, urging Britain in 1775 to "separate totally from the Colonies… to enter into Alliances of Friendship, and Treaties of Commerce , as with any other sovereign, independent States," handsomely bound. $3200.

“THESE BITS AND PIECES TELL US HOW PEOPLE LIVE”

BACH, Laurence. Paros Dream Book. Rochester, 1982.

First edition of this series of photographs of the Greek island Paros, containing 31 finely screened duotones, accompanied by Robert Goolrick’s impressions on facing pages, with inscribed presentation postcard laid in. $225.

“SKYLIGHTS INTO INFINITY”

(TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHS). Photograph Collection. Stereoscopic Cards. New York, circa 1900.

Collection of ten Victorian stereoscopic cards, circa 1900, each card with two vintage mounted albumen prints, with views of travel that feature images of the White House, a baptism in the River Jordan, Russia’s Peterhof Palace and more, issued by the leading firm of Underwood & Underwood. $450.

"I BELIEVE THAT STRINDBERG RARELY SANG THE 'STAR-SPANGLED BANNER' OR ADDRESSED ROTARY CLUBS, YET SWEDEN SEEMS TO HAVE SURVIVED HIM"

(LEWIS, Sinclair). Prix Nobel en 1930. Stockholm, 1931.

First edition of the program from the Nobel awards for 1930, with Sinclair Lewis' speech accepting the prize for Literature printed in full. $850.

“TO ARREST AND THEREBY ETERNALIZE THE CURRENT MOMENT”

COBURN, Alvin Langdon. Twelve Loose Views from "London" London and New York, 1909.

Loose collection of 12 hand-pulled gravure plates from Coburn’s first, groundbreaking photobook, each prepared by Coburn himself, representing a revolutionary “transition from pictorialism to modernism… a shift in attitude that triggered the final push towards photographic modernism” (Parr & Badger). $2400.

FIRST PUBLICATION OF JOULE'S KEY WORK "ON THE MECHANICAL EQUIVALENT OF HEAT," 1850, BOUND TOGETHER WITH FOUR OTHER IMPORTANT PAPERS ON THERMAL EFFECTS AND MAGNETIC INDUCTION

JOULE, James Prescott. Five Scientific Papers. London, 1849-55.

First appearances of five important scientific papers by Joule—including his important 1850 paper "On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat"—each extracted from the journal Philosophical Transactions where they originally appeared and bound together, complete with three engraved plates, one folding. $3800.

"INCOMPARABLY THE GREATEST MASTER IN OUR LANGUAGE"

SPENSER, Edmund. Works of Edmund Spenser. London, 1862. Five volumes. Splendid Chiswick Press edition of Spenser’s works, with biography by J. Payne Collier, very handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt. A lovely set. $900.

“SIMPLY THE BEST SET OF ILLUSTRATIONS EVER DONE ON THE CRUSADES”

(DORE, Gustave) MICHAUD, Joseph François. History of the Crusades. Philadelphia, circa 1880. Two volumes.

First American edition and first edition in English of Michaud's History of the Crusades to appear with Gustave Doré's illustrations, with 100 dramatic full-page wood engravings by Doré, two folio volumes in handsome publisher's morocco-gilt. $3800.

“THE FIRST WORK IN PHOTOFICTION”

MORRIS, Wright. The Inhabitants. New York and London, 1946.

First edition of this “first work in photofiction,” with 52 black-and-white photogravure plates of America at mid-century, an often haunting record of a people known by their imprint on the land. $1100.

DOCUMENTARY OF THE TRADITIONAL CHINESE SYSTEM OF PEDDLING,
WITH 61 COLOR PRINTS AND 31 MOUNTED PHOTOGRAPHS

CONSTANT, Samuel Victor. Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers. Peking, circa 1935.

First edition of this unusual documentation of Peking street-vendors, their instruments and their calls, illustrated with 61 color-printed lithographs, mounted paper cut-out and 16 mounted halftone photographs. $4500.

BEAUTIFUL COLOR POSTER FOR CORSARO AND SENDAK'S BOOK ABOUT THEIR OPERA PRODUCTION OF PROKOFIEV'S LOVE OF THREE ORANGES, INSCRIBED BY SENDAK FOR PRESENTATION TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR

SENDAK, Maurice. Poster inscribed ["The Love for Three Oranges"]. New York, 1984.

Lovely color poster, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, promoting the 1984 book companion to Corsaro and Sendak's 1982 adaptation of Prokofiev's opera, inscribed in the lower margin for presentation to Sendak's close friend and neighbor: "For Elizabeth—from Maurice Sendak. Dec. '85." $1800.

SIGNED BY CHARLES LINDBERGH JR.

LARSON, Bruce. Lindbergh of Minnesota: A Political Biography. New York, 1973.

First edition, signed by the author and Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., the renowned aviator, who has written the Foreword, on the title page. $1250.

FIRST EDITION OF HILDEBRANDT'S AQUARELLE, 1871-74, WITH 34 STUNNING LARGE FOLIO COLOR AQUARELLE PLATES OF SCENES FROM HIS WORLD TOUR, INCLUDING ALEXANDRIA, CAIRO, BOMBAY, HONG KONG, JAPAN, MACAO, PEKING, MANILA, AND SAN FRANCISCO

HILDEBRANDT, Eduard. Aquarelle. Auf seiner Reise um die Erde. Berlin, 1871-74.

First edition of this collection of 34 stunning color aquarelle plates finished by hand of scenes from the world tour of artist Eduard Hildebrandt, official Painter to the Royal Court of Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, featuring scenes from Alexandria, Benares, Bombay, Cairo, Bangkok, Rangoon, Hong Kong, Macao, Peking, Singapore, Manila, Japan, and two famous views of San Francisco. In the publisher's magnificent deluxe portfolio box, with a large sepia portrait of Hildebrandt mounted under glass on the front board. $15,000.

“THEY MAY BE THE LAST WORD UPON THE WAR”

CHURCHILL, Winston. War Speeches. London, 1941-46. Seven volumes.

First editions of Churchill’s separately published World War II speeches, handsomely bound. $4500.

AUSTEN'S THIRD NOVEL

AUSTEN, Jane. Mansfield Park. London, 1833.

Third edition of Austen's beloved third novel—the first one-volume edition, and the first illustrated edition, with engraved frontispiece illustration and engraved vignette title page, handsomely bound. $6500.

"COUNSELLOR BOTHER'UM AND COUNSELLOR BORE'UM"

[ANSTEY, John]. Pleader's Guide. London, 1796 & 1802.

First editions of both parts of this humorous legal poem, handsomely bound. $1000.

“NEVER HAVE I FOUND THE LIMITS OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC POTENTIAL”

SMITH, W. Eugene. W. Eugene Smith. His Photographs and Notes. (New York), 1993.

Second edition of this handsome monograph, issued posthumously, featuring 120 striking duotones, association copy from the library of photographer Margery Lewis Smith, Eugene Smith’s longtime partner and frequent collaborator. $100.

“WHICH ARE YOU—ALL SOUL AND SPIRIT, OR NONE?”

HERGESHEIMER, Joseph. Linda Condon. New York, 1919.

First edition of Joseph Hergesheimer’s character study. $250.

"THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM THE SLAVE TRADE THROUGH RECONSTRUCTION AND ITS AFTERMATH"

(CROMWELL, Adelaide) CROMWELL, John Wesley. Negro in American History. Washington, 1914.

First edition of Cromwell's paramount African American history that "broke fresh ground" in its defining biographies of leaders such as Frederick Douglass and Phillis Wheatley, a major biography of Reconstruction congressman Robert B. Elliot, who crafted a core argument against the 1873 decision in the Slaughter-House Cases, along with accounts of the lives and influence of Henry Highland Garnet, Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner and many more. This important association copy stands within that tradition in its owner signature of Cromwell's granddaughter, historian and scholar Dr. Adelaide Cromwell, co-founder of the African Studies program at Boston University. $3200.

"THAT THE TRAITOROUS BY INTENDINGS AND DESIGNING TO ALIENTATE THE HEARTS AND AFFECCIONS OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOOD SUBJECTS FROM HIS ROYALL PERSON AND GOVERNMENT, AND TO HINDER THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT…"

(ENGLISH LAW). Proceedings Upon Impeachments. No place, circa 1681.

Original manuscript from the late 17th century with the parliamentary impeachment proceedings against 14 individuals during the reign of Charles II. $3200.