William Penn: Some Reflections n Solitude; 2nd Ed.; 1693 PRICE $3000 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile William Penn SOME REFLECTION OF SOLITUDE, IN REFLECTIONS AND MAXIMS RELATING TO THE CONDUCT OF HUMAN LIFE. London: Thomas Northcott, 1693. Second edition. Leather binding in very good condition except for a 1/4" cut to the top of the spine; Plane binding in keeping with early Friends publications, though new end papers appear to be more recent; Repaired with new end papers, original rear paste-down retained; Pages show modest age toning; a couple pages with light stain to lower corner; One leaf has a 3/4" tear which runs into text between lines; A couple pages, 110/111 with a couple stains in the text; Last 14 pages have small stain at the fore-edge. Bronner & Fraser 96B; "copyright" page facing title rading 'Licensed, May 24, 1693' is pasted to the end paper, not part of gathering A and is not referenced in Bronner & Fraser's collation; [12] 136 pages; 467 entries, one more than in the first edition. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from By The Way Books Taylor, Derek; George Harrison: FIFTY YEARS ADRIFT. See Item R.L. Hobson: A CATALOGUE OF CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN IN THE COLLECTION OF SIR PERCIVAL DAVID. See Item William Penn: Some Reflections n Solitude; 2nd Ed.; 1693 See Item

The Comprehensive History of England (1858 Edition) Complete in Twelve Volumes PRICE £ 200 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Complete in Twelve Volumes. Blue and gilt-blocked blind-tooled cloth decorated boards, gilt titling, corners worn and bumped; binding mostly tight but joints occasionally exposed; pages occasionally foxed, fore edges toned.; 7.25 x 10.25 inches PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Walden Books The Comprehensive History of England (1858 Edition) Complete in Twelve Volumes See Item Verve Vol VI No's 21 et 22 (Cover by Matisse) See Item

Planned Chaos - Signed by Ludwig von Mises PRICE US$7,500 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper to General R.E. Wood [1879-1969], under whose leadership Sears Roebuck was transformed from a mail-order to a retail sales behemoth. pp. [6], 7-90. "Communist plotters, in the United States as elsewhere, are preparing for the conquest of political power. The discerning student, however, should consider how interventionism, under various enticing labels, is setting the stage for the final overthrow of the voluntary society, the market economy and constitutional government. [This work], by a world-famous expert, will prove a valuable aid to understanding in this field. It will help to explain the errors of those who believe a system based on individual freedom can be 'mixed' with socialism." - Foreword. Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. Above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Greaves & McGee B-14. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from RareNonFiction.com Rules For Radicals, Alinsky, Saul D. See Item Stable Money - A History of the Movement, Fisher, Irving [Signed]; Cohrssen, Hans R.L. See Item See Magazine, March 1953, Vol. 12, No. 2 - Rita Hayworth Cover See Item Ben Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews See Item Planned Chaos - Signed by Ludwig von Mises See Item Plants Used Against Cancer: A Survey (Bioactive Plants, Vol II) See Item

JK Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First Deluxe Edition) PRICE 140 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile First Deluxe edition first print hardback published by Bloomsbury in 1999. Full numberline: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Gilt page edges, ribbon marker PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Books-and-Records.com Kenneth Grant Hecate's Fountain (Signed Slipcased Limited Edition) See Item Bev Bevan The Electric Light Orchestra Story (Signed First Edition Hardback) See Item JK Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First Deluxe Edition) See Item Shane Rimmer From Thunderbirds to Pterodactyls (Signed Limited Edition) See Item Martin Gilbert First World War (Signed) See Item

[Vale Press, Charles Ricketts] The Amber Witch, The most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known PRICE 295 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Lady Guff-Gordon (1821-1869) [translation] [Vale Press, Charles Ricketts] The Amber Witch, The most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known. ….. London: Vale Press at the Ballantyne Press, 1903. Designs by Charles Ricketts. Limited Edition. London: Ballantyne Press, [Feb] 1903 Limited to 300 copies [with 10 on Vellum] Typography: Vale type with the Avon fount used for the author’s marginalia on heavy paper, watermarked with engraving tool and wreaths Ornaments: Full-page “honeysuckle” border, designed by Ricketts and engraved by Keates. Holland-backed blue boards are original with hand soiling and wear on the corners and edges. Spine has been replaced with linen cloth matching as issued. Labels are original. 4to; 8.125 by 11.875 inches; pp. i-iv v-viii ix x-clvi clvii-clx. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Front free endpage with offsetting from bookplates of notable book collectors Robert Honeyman IV and Lawrence M. Lande. This quasi-historical tale of witchcraft purported to be a true chronicle set down by William Meinhold. Oscar Wilde praised Lady Duff Gordon’s translation, first published in German in 1843. The Amber Witch was for some time held to be a genuine account of, and contemporary sidelight on, the conditions of the peasantry during the Thirty Years' War, and the attendant obsession with witchcraft and witch-hunting that permeated that era. [Watry] Background Information: Richett’s arranged to have the Vale Press publications printed at the Ballantyne Press as private press books by a carefully chosen selection of compositors, readers, pressmen and binders freed from the everyday demands of the press. [Watry] Charles Ricketts was a British artist, illustrator, author and printer, known for his work as a book designer and typographer and for his costume and scenery designs for plays and operas. Ricketts first made his mark in book production, first as an illustrator, and then as the founder and driving force of the Vale Press (1896–1904), one of the leading private presses of the day, for which he designed the type and illustrations. A disastrous fire at the printers led to the closure of the press, and Ricketts turned increasingly to painting and sculpture over the following two decades. [Tate] Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon was an English author and translator who wrote as Lucie Gordon. She is best known for her Letters from Egypt, 1863–1865 and Last Letters from Egypt most of which are addressed to her husband, Alexander Duff-Gordon, and her mother, Sarah Austin. Having moved in prominent literary circles in London, she contracted tuberculosis and travelled in 1861 to South Africa for health reasons. She travelled on to Egypt in 1862 where she settled in Luxor, learnt Arabic, and wrote many letters about Egyptian culture, religion, and customs. Her letters are notable for humour, outrage at the ruling Ottomans, and many personal stories from the people around her. [wiki] Full Title: The Amber Witch, The most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known. Printed from an imperfect manuscript by her father, Abraham Schweidler. Edited by William Meinhold, Doctor of Theology. Translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon Ref: Watley, 39; L’Art Ancient, 59, Ricketts, xxx; PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Blind-Horse-Books Hillerman, Tony Finding Moon [Original color drawing by Ernest Franklin] First Edition, First Print See Item Tolkien, J.R.R. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and other Verses from The Red Book 1st Am Edition See Item Dunbar, Paul Laurence Howdy Honey Howdy First Edition First Printing. 1905 African American Poetry See Item [Maconochie Brothers] [19th Century Handbill] Silvoceas The King of Fish No Copies In Institutions See Item Milk Cows Today – Slaughter Cows Tomorrow [Live Stock] See Item Dull, Mrs. S. R. [Henrietta Stanley] Southern Cooking 1941 Classic and Foundational Cookery Book See Item Album of New Hampshire Covered Bridge Photographs by Leslie L. Turner, 1920-40 See Item [Cocktail Recipes] Clysmic King of Table Waters c1910 Uncommon only two copies held in Institutions See Item Strutt, Joseph The Chronicle of England 2 Vol 1777 Finely Bound See Item [Vale Press, Charles Ricketts] The Amber Witch, The most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known See Item Keeler, Charles Elfin Songs of Sunland [Verse for Children] with Dust Jacket See Item Lamb, Charles With an introduction by Andrew Lang Beauty and the Beast 1887 Finely Bound See Item Walton, Isaak & Cotton, Charles The Complete Angler, Or Contemplative Man's Recreation; 1775 See Item The History of Magic [Bohn’s Scientific Library] London Henry G. Bohn, 1854 Ennemoser, Joseph See Item A Tramp Abroad 1st Edition 1880 Mark Twain, (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Finely Bound See Item

GIOVIO Paolo – Ragionamento - 1556 / Andrea ALCIATI – Les Emblemes - 1539 PRICE PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile GIOVIO Paolo – Ragionamento di Mons. Paolo Giovio sopra i motti, et disegni d’arme, et d’amore, che communamente chiamano imprese. Con un discorso di Girolamo Ruscelli, intorno allo stesso soggetto – 1556. In Venetia, appresso Giordano Ziletti, all’Insegna della Stella (BOUND WITH:) / Andrea ALCIATI – Les Emblemes de Maistre Andre Alciat, mis en rime francoyse, et puis nagueres reimprime auec curieuse correction– 1539. On les vend a Paris, en la maison de Chrestien Wechel. Full eighteenth-century rigid vellum, with gilt title on a leather label applied to the spine and, handwritten, to the lower edge, sprayed fore-edges, sedicesimo, 16,3 cm; pp. (2b) + (16) + 236 (real 232), 245 + (3b); title pages of both works very lightly stained, rare blooms in the first work, missing the last sheet of Alciati’s which would carry the repeated Wechel letterpress mark on the verso, overall an excellent copy. Ragionamento: letterpress in woodcut on the title page (allegory of the star with the motto “inter omnes”), some talking caps and !nal in woodcut, text in italics. Emblemes: title page almost entirely in Gothic characters, with beautiful letterpress in woodcut representing Pegasus, woodcut caps, introduction in French in Gothic type, followed by Latin text in italics with a French translation always in Gothic type; in total 112 allegorical representations in woodcut (most mid-page, some smaller, some larger, two full-page) of emblems. Graceful and curious juxtaposition of works in some ways similar: the first edition of Giovio’s Ragionamento on Enterprises and the Ruscelli’s Discorso – always on the same theme – and the very rare Latin-French edition of the Emblemata by Alciati. This is the re-edition, also by Wechel, of the first (French) of 1536, which includes the magni!cent woodcut apparatus attributed to Jean Mercure Jollat, composed of more than one hundred allegorical and symbolic woodcuts PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Libreria Belriguardo - Italian Rare Books BIRINGUCCIO Vannuccio – Pirotechnia - 1559 See Item GIOVIO Paolo – Ragionamento - 1556 / Andrea ALCIATI – Les Emblemes - 1539 See Item (Cesare BECCARIA) / VOLTAIRE - Dei Delitti e delle Pene / Commentaire sur le livre Des Delits - 1766 See Item PORCACCHI Tommaso – L’isole piu famose del mondo - 1572 See Item GIOVANNELLI Pietro – Cantus Novi Thesauri Musici - 1568 See Item

The Listener and Other Stories - Custom Clamshell PRICE $1395 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile London: Eveleigh Nash. Very Good. 1907. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A rare copy of Algernon 2nd collection of supernatural fiction and considered to be among his best work and include the short story "The Willows" considered one of the best short stories in the genre. 350 pages with 34 + 2 page publisher catalogues in the back. Book is about VG or better. Fading of the gilt on the spine. Some minor foxing to the first couple of pages, but otherwise internally clean. A beautiful collectors copy. ; 350 pages . PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Rare Collections Poems by Frank O'Hara See Item The Little Lady of the Big House (Signed Association Copy) See Item Strange Stories See Item Twice Told Tales See Item Nohow On See Item Pheasant Drawings See Item Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa See Item Psycho See Item Lady and the Tramp See Item Amphigorey Also (Extremely Rare Signed Association Copy - 1 of 6 First State Copies) See Item The Listener and Other Stories - Custom Clamshell See Item The God Emperor of Dune (Signed Copy) See Item

First Russian translation of the first major theoretical treatise on cubism PRICE € 525 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Albert Gleizes & Jean Metzinger. О кубизмѣ | O kubizm . Санкт-Петербург, Издат. "Журавль" | St. Petersburg, Zhuravl', [1913]. 21,8 x 17,7 cm. 38, [2] pp. Self wrappers. Untrimmed. The spine neatly restored with Japanese tissue, some browning, but overall a very well preserved copy of a fragile item, printed on paper with a green hue. First Russian translation of the first major theoretical treatise on cubism, Du "Cubisme" (1912), translated by Ekaterina Nizen (née Guro, 1874-1972). Nizen was the sister of important Russian Futurist painter and writer Elena Guro. Nizen's translation was favorably reviewed by Elena's husband, Mikhail Matiushin, in the third issue of the Futurist journal Soiuz molodezhi . It had great influence on Russian modernist art. Nizen has remained in relative obscurity, but she was closely involved in the modernist movement, contributing to Futuristic anthologies and signing two manifestos. A second translation was made by M. Volosin and published in Moscow in the same year. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Black Dog Rare Books "Go and enjoy yourself!": Sex tourism in Paris See Item Collected poems by Jo Corsen, including poems in Papiamento See Item Marriage of Ludwig Gutmann and Rosette Pinkus: manuscript with 8 watercolours See Item First Russian translation of the first major theoretical treatise on cubism See Item A young girl's adventures in decadent Paris, illustrated with photographs See Item A Yiddish children's book by a shining star of Russian Jewish literature See Item A Chinese physician accidentally ending up in Amsterdam in 1861 See Item Book of Common Prayer, from the library of Liverpool slave trader Moses Benson See Item A religious tract on the Great Comet of 1811, printed in Boston See Item

Charles Blanc, Editeur en Chef, Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Courrier Europeen de L'art et de la Curiosit PRICE $1,400.00 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile A great-looking, structurally sound set of Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Courrier Europeen de L'art et de la Curiosite , Blanc, Charles, Redacteur en Chef, published by Imprimerie de J. Claye. Very Good. First Edition. Unusually scarcely available to the trade in this state (First Editions, all) and condition (no worse than Very Good of exterior and Near Fine of interior). A consecutive run of volumes I-XI bound in six volumes plus Tome XIII, 2nd Periode, and Tome XIV, 2nd Periode. The Gazette des Beaux-Arts was a French art review that was founded in 1859 by Édouard Houssaye, with Charles Blanc as its first Chief Editor, and it ran until 2002. Mostly published monthly, it was headquartered in Paris. The first six volumes have been rebound most handsomely in blue marbled paper over boards, being backed in heavy, pebbled cloth, with five raised bands to spines and gilt-titling and numbering in compartments. Some mostly superficial wear to spine heads and feet, tips, edges, scuffing to raised bands, etc., moderate wear to marbled paper, some loss thereof here and there, but not much. "JCH" would appear to have been a previous owner insofar as her or his initials are also stamped at each spine bottom, and what appears to be "JChielland" is signed with a flourish at second free endpaper of each of the first five volumes. "Axel Wildstrand"'s Ex-libris bookplate graces the inside of each front flap, too, most tastefully. The endpapers are decorated in a kind of red, white and blue microcellular pattern. There are literally hundreds and hundreds of fine black-and-white illustrations, including initials, heads and tails, and lots of full-page illustrations, too, being tissue-guarded. Major artists from Goya to Rembrandt, Michel Ange to Delacroix, are represented in the form of drawings, etchings, engravings and lithographs among other art media. The volumes are collated with difficulty, in that word usage (e.g., "Tome," "Annee," etc.) varies between spine titles, half-titles, and title pages. Here goes: first volume says "1-2" and "1859" on spine, "Tome Premier" at half-title, 391 pp., including Table of Contents, lists of various kinds of illustrations, etc.; "Tome Deuxieme," 384 pp., ditto; the second volume says "3-4" and "1859" on spine, and "Tome Troisieme" at half-title: 384 pp., and including full lists of article titles, authors and illustrations; "Tome Quatrieme," with 384 pp., with similar lists; the third volume says "5-6" and "1860" on spine, and "Tome Cinquieme" at half-title, and with the same 384 pp.; "Tome Sixieme" has 388 pp.; the fourth volume says "7-8" and "1860" on spine, "Tome Septieme" at half-title, and at 384 pp., and then "Tome Huitieme" has 392 pp. and including full bibliographies and lists of engravings and etchings for the two tomes; the next volume is "9-10" (1861), "Tome Neuvieme," at 384 pp., and "Tome Dixieme" is at 384 pp. as well; the sixth volume say "11" and "1861" at spine and the half-title denotes "Tome Onzieme," and is 584 pp. in length. This volume has 12 original engravings and 151 reproductions thereof. I see an orphaned tissue guard, so at least one plate is missing. Two additional volumes round out the set, both a bit larger, but having been rebound similarly. No initials are stamped into spine feet, however. The first says Tome XIII, 2nd Periode, but the half-title says Dix-Huitieme Annee--Deixieme Periode, Tome Treizieme, and features marbled page edges. It appears devoted largely to "Le Genie de Michel-Angle Dans Le Dessin." 784 pp. and including full Tables of Contents. The final volume says Tome XIV 2nd Periode on spine, "Dix-Huitieme Annee--Deuxieme Periode, Tome Quatorzieme" at half-title. It refers back at p. 1 to the previous volume. 568 pp., also marbled page edges, same pebbly cloth to tips of both volumes, scuffing to tips and edges, some loss of paper to boards, but similarly tank-like in size and sturdiness and degrees of attractiveness. Else and withal, this is a fine collection of illustrations, including a truly magnificent engraving by Gustave Dore in No. 11 at p. 364 of Dante et Virgile au Tobeau de Farinata, in fold-out, dark and foreboding. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets. Less PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Structure, Verses, Agency Books Charles Blanc, Editeur en Chef, Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Courrier Europeen de L'art et de la Curiosit See Item

Taylor, Derek; George Harrison: FIFTY YEARS ADRIFT. PRICE $2800 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile FIFTY YEARS ADRIFT. Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd in association with Hedley, 1984. First edition. Leather bound in very good condition in a very good slipcase; Slight rubbing and a couple small spots to the spine. Signed by Derek Taylor and George Harrison. Limited to 2000 numbered copies. Publisher's original dark brown half leather, with five raised bands and gilt title and decorations to the spine, a gilt ship illustration to the upper board, and a gilt reproduction of Taylor's signature to the lower board. All page edges gilt and with bound in marking ribbon and buckram slipcase. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles of personal documents and memorabilia. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from By The Way Books Taylor, Derek; George Harrison: FIFTY YEARS ADRIFT. See Item R.L. Hobson: A CATALOGUE OF CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN IN THE COLLECTION OF SIR PERCIVAL DAVID. See Item William Penn: Some Reflections n Solitude; 2nd Ed.; 1693 See Item

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R.L. Hobson: A CATALOGUE OF CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN IN THE COLLECTION OF SIR PERCIVAL DAVID. PRICE $5900 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile A CATALOGUE OF CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN IN THE COLLECTION OF SIR PERCIVAL DAVID. London: Stourton Press, 1934. Wear to spine edges; Some soil to the covers; Contents very good. Item #26238 Limited edition of 650 copies; Large folio, 16" x 12"; 189 Pages and 180 plates of which most are in colour. Plates were printed from blocks made by John Swain and Son. The Aries Roman and Italic types were designed specially for this book by Eric Gill and the Chinese title and dedication by Professor Ma Heng. The watermark and the endpapers have been designed based on the decoration of "Celestial Rams" shown in plate XCIX. The binding in blue Chinese silk. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from By The Way Books Taylor, Derek; George Harrison: FIFTY YEARS ADRIFT. See Item R.L. Hobson: A CATALOGUE OF CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN IN THE COLLECTION OF SIR PERCIVAL DAVID. See Item William Penn: Some Reflections n Solitude; 2nd Ed.; 1693 See Item