Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces
Benjamin Franklin
First edition, wide-margined copy of the preferred quarto issue, of this major collection of Franklin's writings, many printed here for the first time, containing his powerful testimony before Parliament in 1766, in which his eloquent answers to questions about the Stamp Act and other incendiary measures made Franklin "the foremost spokesman for the American cause," complete with three plates (one folding) and folding table, an exceptional copy with a distinctive 19th-century provenance in contemporary calf boards. $14,800. | More...
A Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles from His Cradle to his Grave
William Sanderson
First edition of this important work on the life of Charles I, containing the rarely found engraved frontispiece of Charles I by G. Faithorne, with the very rare large crowned cipher of Charles II ("CAR REX"; "DIEU ET MON DROIT") stamped in gilt on front and back covers, a cipher very likely commissioned by the King for this specific work for presentation, as it has only been noted on copies of this edition of Sanderson's Compleat History. $16,500. | More...
First Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln
Rare second printing of Lincoln’s important first inaugural address, printed by order of the Senate four days after its delivery. $7000. | More...
Complete Poems and Prose
Signed by Walt Whitman
First edition of the first collected edition of Whitman's works, one of only 600 copies signed by Whitman on the Leaves of Grass title page, in original cloth. With Horace Traubel's hand-written limitation notice (not present on all copies): "Edition: Six Hundred / Number Four Hundred Seventy-seven" opposite the Leaves of Grass title page with Whitman's signature. $9500. | More...
The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Buddhism
Signed by the Dalai Lama
Later edition of this collection of essential wisdom on Buddhism, signed on the title page by the Dalai Lama. $2500. | More...
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton
Desirable 1638 fifth edition of Burton's masterpiece, "one of the most popular books of the 17th century," the last edition to be published during his lifetime, with engraved allegorical title page. $6200. | More...
The Life and Reign of
King Henry the Eighth
Edward Herbert, Lord of Cherbury
Sixth edition, with frontispiece portrait of Henry VIII, in contemporary calf-gilt. $1650. | More...
A History of Champagne
Henry Vizetelly
First edition, illustrated with lithographic frontispiece, five engraved plates, folding color lithographic map of vineyards, and hundreds of in-text engravings. $2600. | More...
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