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Photograph signed

SIGNED BY THE PILOT, NAVIGATOR, AND BOMBARDIER OF THE ENOLA GAY

(TIBBETS, Paul W.). Photograph signed. No place, image circa February 1946; signed at a later date.

Photographic print of "Enola Gay" Pilot Paul Tibbets, Bombardier Tom Ferebee, and Navigator Theodore Van Kirk, signed by each on his image. $1100.

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Autres Visages d'Acteurs. WITH: Three subsequent works.

SET OF FOUR REMARKABLE LE PRAT PHOTO-ESSAYS ON THE HUMAN FACE,
TWO INSCRIBED BY HER TO ART CRITIC RAYMOND CHARMET,
WITH ORIGINAL SILVER-GELATIN PRINT

LE PRAT, Thérèse. Autres Visages d'Acteurs. WITH: Three subsequent works. Paris, 1952-66. Four volumes.

First editions of Le Prat’s four separate photo-essays on dramatic facial expressions, together containing 190 striking full-page héliogravures, two copies inscribed to art critic Raymond Charmet. Accompanied by an original silver-gelatin print from negative. $2200.

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Cronique et Histoire

“ONE OF THE GREATEST HISTORIANS OF THE MIDDLE AGES”

COMMINES, Philippe de. Cronique et Histoire. Paris, 1546.

Newly corrected early edition of this important history of medieval France under Louis XI and Charles VIII, characterized by “a hard-headedness and realism… and a commendation of ruse and indiscretion.” $2800.

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Moral and Political Works

“PRODUCED A FERMENTATION OF ENGLISH THOUGHT UNSURPASSED UNTIL THE ADVENT OF DARWINISM” (PMM)

HOBBES, Thomas. Moral and Political Works. London, Printed in the Year 1750.

First collected edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, "the most original political philosopher of his time" (PMM), featuring such seminal writings as Leviathan, De Corpore, Human Nature, Behemoth and others, with engraved frontispiece portrait and re-engraved Leviathan title page, in contemporary calf binding. $9200.

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Elleanor's Second Book

“UNITED TESTIMONY IN FAVOR OF ELLEANOR ELDRIDGE”

ELDRIDGE, Elleanor. Elleanor's Second Book. Providence, 1842.

Early edition of this collection of stories of charity, sold as a fund-raiser for Eldridge in her effort to regain possession of her property, with fine frontispiece woodcut portrait of Eldridge. $800.

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Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to the North of England

"A SPRIGHTLY RECORD OF ENGLISH TRAVEL"

BRATHWAITE, Richard. Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to the North of England. London, 1723.

Third edition of Brathwaite's "rollicking" and "sprightly" travel narrative in verse, charmingly illustrated with copper-engraved frontispiece and five full-page plates, beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt by renowned French bookbinder Petrus Ruban. $1250.

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Grona Lund

“A POET OF THE SEEDY AND THE SUBVERSIVE”

PETERSEN, Anders. Grona Lund. Helsingborg, Sweden, 1973.

First edition of Petersen’s scarce first photobook, signed by him on the title page, with over 120 photogravures by this leading Swedish photographer whose frank “diarist approach, frequently directed at the fringes of society”(Parr & Badger), first emerged in this landmark work. $1400.

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Ruined Abbeys of Britain

"WHEN AN AMERICAN VISITS HIS ANCESTRAL FATHERLAND OF ENGLAND, HIS SUPREME DESIRE IS TO LOOK UPON THE CATHEDRALS, THE ANCIENT CASTLES, AND THE MUTILATED REMAINS OF THE OLD ABBEYS"

ROSS, Frederick. The Ruined Abbeys of Britain. London, 1889.

Second edition of this survey of Britain's religious ruins", with 12 beautiful color plates of abbeys and their environs by A.F. Lydon and dozens of intricate in-text architectural illustrations. $825.

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