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Marx, Karl; Frederick Engels, ed. CAPITAL A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production  Volumes I and II. Most pages uncut: unread and in wonderful condition. First edition in English. Translated from the third German edition, by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, and edited by Frederick Engels. “The first French translation… was substantially revised by Marx himself;Read More

A Dozen Items For the NYC Book & Ephemera Fair, March 6& 7, 2020 at 980 Park Ave. Click here for hours, a map, and $5 off your entry fee! First extensive work on the comparative anatomy of vertebrates   Valentini [Valentinus], Michael Bernhard [Michaele Bernhardo] (1657-1729).  Amphitheatrum Zootomicum Tabulis Aeneis Quamplurimis Exhibens Historiam Animalium Anatomicam … è miscellaneis S. R. I. academiæ naturæ curiosorum, diariis Societatum Scientiarum Regiarum, Parisiensis, Anglicæ & Prussiacæ, actis Hafniensibus & Lipsiensibus, zootomiis anatomicorum celeberrimorum aliisque scriptis rarioribus collectam. : Accedit methodus secandi cadav. humana cum enchiresibus iniiciendi ceram, hydrargyrum & stannum inRead More

A lovely tooled leather binding with a hand-painted scenic view on the fore-edge, most likely of Winnipeg from the St. Boniface ferry landing, ca. 1885. The painting bears a striking similarity to an engraving of this location drawn by George Munro Grant, which appeared in the classic book “Picturesque Canada” in 1882. Appearing on theRead More

Inscribed copy of Anne’s House of Dreams; photos of the author; postcards from Stuart MacDonald; and related ephemera. Book boasts an early and warm inscription to front free endpaper: “To Mrs. Warner with the author’s compliments, Very sincerely yours, L. M. Montgomery Macdonald, Sept. 1917”. Accompanied by three photos featuring L. M. Montgomery: in oneRead More

Lafitau [La Fiteau], Joseph-Francois. De Zeden der Wilden van Amerika (2 volumes in one). Lafitau (1681-1746) was a French Jesuit missionary who worked amongst the Indigenous tribes of Canada (chiefly the Iroquois) from 1711-1717, carrying out an unusually scientific study of their customs; “a voyageur in the mainstream of empirical ethnography” – DCB. This firstRead More

The Chemist and Druggist A Weekly Trade Journal / Volume XXIX July to December, 1886. London, 1886. pp. viii, 858. Index to contents at beginning of volume. 4to. This volume bound in original 3/4 leather over ‘pebbled’ dark brown buckram, with the spine in compartments and with morocco spine labels. Vertical crease on pages, elseRead More

            [SOLD] Johnson, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language (Two Volumes) In Which the Works are Deduced from Their Originals, Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To Which are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and An English Grammer. Dublin | Chapel-Street: Thomas Ewing,Read More

Ten Wood Engravings by David Jones for the Chester Play of the Deluge Limited run of ten woodcuts depicting the biblical flood, presented in a green card stock portfolio; published simultaneously with the 1977 Clover Hill edition of The Chester Play of the Deluge. The printer of the original 1927 Golden Cockerel Press edition didRead More

ONE OF THE GREAT ALDINE INCUNABLES THE 1498 EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THE WORKS OF ANGELO POLIZIANO: Omnia Opera Angeli Politiani, et alia quaedam lectu digna, quorum nomina in sequenti indice videre licet.  PRINTED AT VENICE IN TWO FOLIO VOLUMES IN LATIN, ITALIAN, GREEK AND HEBREW, THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF ANY MODERN AUTHOR.  – from the collections of Etienne Baluze and George Abrams  – Printed in twoRead More