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(Americana). BENNETT, Mrs. S.R.I. (Sarah). Woman’s Work Among The
Lowly. Memorial Volume of the First Forty Years of the American Female
Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless. New York: American Female Guardian Society, 1877. First edition. 8vo., original greyish tan cloth, 514, xiv pp. appendix. Some light wear to the spine ends and corners but still near fine. The Society was founded in 1834 as the American Female Moral Reform Society soon renamed the American Female Guardian Society, with the aim of providing assistance to impoverished women and children, and was run entirely by women save for a small board of ‘male counselors.’ $125 |
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(Anthology/Publisher’s Binding). Roses and Holly: A Gift-Book for All
the Year. With Original Illustrations by Gourlay Steel, R. Herdman...
And Other Eminent Artists. Engraved by R. Paterson. London: William P. Nimmo, 1867. First edition. Tall square 8vo., original green cloth with elaborate decoration in gilt on the upper board and spine, lower board decorated in blind, a.e.g., xii, 146, (2)pp. ads. With full-page plates and illustrations in the text. Some light rubbing, minor wear to the spine ends and corners but in fact a near fine copy of this attractive Victorian publisher’s binding. $165 |
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Aulu-Gelle. (0123?-0180?). Auli Gelli Noctes atticae: Editio nova et
prioribus omnibus docti hominis cura multo castigatior. Amstelodami: apud Ludovicum Elzevirium,1651. New Edition. From the Library of John Louis Goldsmid (1789-1835), with his gilt crest of a “demi-lion holding three arrows in pale points downwards tied with ribbons” stamped on the upper board (University of Toronto Libraries, British Armorial Bindings). 12mo., contemporary full black morocco, raised bands, gilt fleur-de-lis symbols in compartments, a.e.g., (48), 498, (124)pp. With an engraved title page. Lacking the front free endpaper, inner hinges tender, some light rubbing to the extremities, the ‘arrows tied with ribbon’ portion of the armorial crest is stamped in blind but has not been gilded (it does not give the appearance of the gilt being worn off but rather that it was never there), but this is still a better than very good copy. Goldsmid Vol.2, p.53 who states “A fine and rare edition.” $525 |
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BEACH, Rex. Money Mad. Toronto: Copp, Clark Co., n.d. First Canadian edition. Name otherwise fine in the pictorial dustwrappers which has chipping and wear to the extremities but is still very good. $150 |
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Limited Edition Signed by
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BUKOWSKI, Charles. Hollywood. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. 1 of 500 copies, signed by Bukowski. Cloth backed boards. About fine. $450 |
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(Canadiana) (KETCHESON, H.F.) The Canada Stamp Catalogue Giving the
Date of Issue, Color, Shape and Value of every Postage and Revenue
Stamp used in Canada and the Provinces; also the Prices at which most
of them can be purchased, clean or cancelled from the Author. Belleville, Ontario: H.F. Ketcheson, (1892). Third edition (so stated). Small 8vo., original purple cloth, (38), (1)pp. errata. Spine faded to tan as is common with purple cloth otherwise a fine copy of a scarce items. We did not locate any copies of this in Amicus and only one copy in OCLC (BL). “Ketcheson was one of the leading philatelists of the Dominion and was the author and publisher of the first revenue stamp catalogue in this country.” The above work gives a full description of all the varieties of Canadian postage stamps. “Such a work as this would seem to be a necessity to any one interested in these interesting stamps, and the catalogue bears on its face the evidence of much labor and expense....printed on heavy calendered paper and accompanied by many introductory notes regarding the different varieties.” (The Post Office, Vol.2, Issue 85, May 1891). $350 |
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(Canadiana) RYERSON, John. Hudson’s Bay; Or, A Missionary Tour in the
Territory of the Hon. Hudson’s Bay Company... Toronto: Published by G.R. Sanderson, 1855. First edition. 8vo., original brown cloth, this copy has been professionally rebacked and recased with new endpapers and portions of the original spine and covers laid down, xxiv, (1)-190pp. Rebacked and recased as noted above otherwise a very good copy. TPL 3608; Sabin 74586. $350 |
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(Canadiana) WALDO, Fullerton. Down the Mackenzie through the Great
Gone Land. New York: Macmillan, 1923. First edition. 8vo., original green cloth with pictorial paper panel on the upper board, xii, 251pp. Frontispiece plus thirty-four illustrations on double sided plates. A fine copy. $85 |
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(Canadiana - Almanacs and Yearbooks) A small selection of Canadian almanacs and year books from the 1870s to the 1900s. Click to view. |
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(Canadiana - Cookery) Magic Cook Book and Housekeepers Guide. Toronto: E.W. Gillett Co. Ltd., n.d. (191-?). 12mo., original pictorial wrappers depicting a line of chefs marching carrying cans of Magic Baking Powder, 59, (3)pp. index. Fine. $75 |
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(Canadiana - Cookery) Magic Cook Book and Housekeepers Guide. Toronto: E.W. Gillett Co. Ltd., n.d. (191-?). 12mo., original pictorial wrappers depicting a chef holding a can of Magic Baking Powder, 59, (3)pp. index. Fine. $75 |
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CHABON, Michael. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. New York: William Morrow, (1988). First edition. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. $250 |
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(Cigarette Cards) ALLEN & GINTER. Game Birds of America. (cover
title). Allen & Ginter Cigarette Brands:... Manufacturers of
Cigarettes and High Grade Smoking Tobaccos. Philadelphia: George S. Harris & Sons, Lith, nd. (189-?). Second edition, so stated on the upper wrapper. Small oblong 8vo., original pictorial colour printed wrappers, ties, (24)pp. printed on the rectos only. Each leaf has several chromithograph images of birds, which replicate the illustrations that appeared on the cigarette card series of the same name. In addition each page contains a chromolithograph image related to the habitat, hunting or ‘cooking’ of the various birds represented. Wrappers soiled with some wear along the edges and a scrape in the upper corner but still a very good example. $350 |
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COLLINS, Wilkie. Armadale. A Novel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. First U.S. edition. Tall 8vo., original greyish purple cloth, viii, (9)-320pp. double columns. Very slight wear to the top of the spine, small mark on the rear board but in fact a near fine copy of this title. Parrish & Miller pp. 57-58 noting several cloth colours and an issue in wrappers; Bleiler 409. “Roughly mid-way in time between The Woman In White and The Moonstone, Armadale is Collins’ third great mystery novel. In the opinion of many critics it is the finest of all these.” (Bleiler). $750 |
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COMFORT, Alex. Barbarism and Sexual Freedom. Lectures on the Sociology
of Sex from the Standpoint of Anarchism. London: Freedom Press, 1948. First edition. 8vo., original paper boards, 68pp. A fine copy in dustwrapper which has some offsetting but is otherwise about fine. $200 |
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(Costumes) (ALEXANDER, William). The Costume of the Russian Empire,
Illustrated by a Series of Seventy-Three Engravings. London: Printed for W. Miller, 1803. First edition. Folio, full contemporary calf, recently rebacked with a calf spine after the period, leather spine label, unpaginated. With 73 hand-coloured engravings and 73 pages of descriptive text which is printed in English on the recto and French on the verso. This copy has been professionally rebacked with a new calf spine after the period and a new leather label, some light rubbing to the boards and a bit of wear to the corners but certainly a very good copy with stunning hand-coloured plates. Abbey I:244. 'The fourth in a series of costume books issued by William Miller. The complete list, with published prices and references to others of the series in this collection, will be found in the Notes to the earliest book, Mason's The Costume of China, 1800 ... where the origin and subsequent series as a whole is also discussed. The Plates for this book are closely copied, but somewhat enlarged from a book by J.G. Georgi published by Carl Wilhelm Muller in St. Petersburg ... The text of this English edition is said to be by William Alexander.' (Abbey) Abbey provides complete details of the later printings and publishers of this work. $4,500 |
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(Costumes) (DALVIMART, Octavien). The Costume of Turkey,
Illustrated by a Series of Engravings; With Descriptions in English
and French. London: Printed for William Miller..., 1804. Later edition (first published 1802). Folio, full contemporary dark green crushed morocco, raised bands, elaborate gilt compartments, elaborate gilt borders on both boards, inner dentelles gilt, a.e.g., no pagination. With 60 full page hand-coloured engravings and 60 pages of descriptive text which is printed in English on the recto and French on the verso. This copy has been professionally rebacked with the spine laid down with the gilt stamping replaced at the foot of the spine, some rubbing to the corners but in fact a near fine copy of this work with quite striking hand-coloured illustrations. Abbey 2: 370. 'The drawings, from which (the) plates have been engraved were made on the spot by M. Dalvimart, and may be depended upon for their correctness ... and each impression has been carefully coloured according to the original drawing, that the fidelity of them might not be impaired' (Preface). $4,500 |
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Presentation Inscription
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CROSLAND, T.W.H. Sonnets. London: John Richmond Limited..., 1912. First edition. With a presentation inscription to American novelist, Irene Osgood, reading “To Mrs. Irene Osgood who read ‘em better than I write ‘em. T.W.H. Crosland. November 1912.’ Original paper boards, (32)pp. Touch of wear to the spine ends, fading to the spine and perimeter of the boards, two marks on the rear board otherwise a very good copy. Irene Osgood (1875-1922) American novelist, poet and dramatist. Born in Virginia, she spent the majority of her life in England. Her second husband was the English author, Robert Sherard, great-grandson of William Wordsworth. Their divorce caused a scandal as Sherard claimed that he had written many of the books that were published under Osgood’s name. Her novels include To a Nun Confessed; Servitude; The Indelicate Duellist and the Chant of a Lonely Hunter. $165 |
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DERLETH, August. “In Re: Sherlock Holmes” The Adventures of Solar Pons.
With an introduction by Vincent Starrett. Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran, 1945. First edition. Fine in a price-clipped dustwrapper with slight wear to the spine ends but still near fine. Contains: The adventure of the frightened baronet -- The adventure of the late Mr. Faversham -- The adventure of the black narcissus -- The adventure of the Norcross riddle -- The adventure of the retired novelist -- The adventure of the three red dwarfs -- The adventure of the Sotheby salesman -- The adventure of the purloined periapt -- The adventure of the limping man -- The adventure of the seven passengers -- The adventure of the lost holiday -- The adventure of the man with the broken face. $300 |
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DIDION, Joan. The White Album. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1979). Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Yellow wrappers. A bit of creasing to the spine but in fact, about fine. $650 |
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ERASMUS, Desiderius. Epitome Adagiorum Erasmi, Lunnii, Cognati, et
aliorum... Post Plantinianam & Parisiesem (sic) editionem diligenter
recognita... (Genevae): Apud Iacobum Chouet, 1593. Later edition. 8vo., full contemporary vellum with title in contemporary ink on the spine, and with initials and the date ‘1619' stamped on the upper board, (16), 912, (108)pp. Vellum soiled and darkened, though not as severely on the rear board, a bit of wear to the foot of the spine but in fact a near fine copy of this collection of proverbs. This collection of proverbs was first published in Paris in 1500 and contained some 800 entries. There were several editions published in the author's lifetime, each of them expanded with the last appearing in 1536, containing more than 4,000 entries. Many of the adages contained in this work have become commonplace--'more haste less speed,' ‘kill two birds with one stone,' ‘many hands make light work,' and ‘more haste, less speed' to name but a few. $1,000 |
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(Fine Arts) ANON. Standard Scroll Book. New York: Excelsior Publishing House, n.d. (188-?). Oblong 8vo., original decorated wrappers, (64)pp. The black background on some of the designs is a bit scuffed otherwise a very good copy. $150 |
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(Fine Press) PISSARO, Lucien. Notes On The Eragny Press, and a
Letter to J.B. Manson. Edited with a Supplement by Alan Fern. Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1957. First edition. 1 of 500 copies. Tall 8vo. original grey paper spine, decorated paper boards, title printed in blue on the spine, 16, pages [17-38] consist of illustrations, mostly wood engravings by Pissarro, and are numbered 1-11./ "Lucien Pissarro and his work, a supplement by Alan Fern," p. 39-[51]. With twelve illustrations (4 printed in colour). Some slight rubbing along the spine but otherwise a near fine copy with attractive illustrations. $500 |
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(GOTHICS). REEVE, Clara. The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story.
(WITH): WALPOLE, Horace. The Castle of Otranto;...With a Biographical
Preface. London: Printed for C. and J. Rivington....T. Tegg; and J. Duneau, by T. Davison, Whitefriars, 1826. Two works bound in one volume as issued. ‘British Classics’ series. First thus. 12mo., original printed paper boards, xvi, 153, (154 blank); 116, (2)pp. With an additional engraved title-page and an engraved frontispiece. Some occasional foxing, some light rubbing along the front hinge at the spine with just a hint of the beginning of a crack but this is in fact an lovely example in the original printed boards; one of the nicest examples of original boards that we have acquired. Rivington first published a combined edition of these novels in 1810, as volume 22 in the ‘British Novelists’ series and it had continuous pagination. It was reprinted in the same series in 1820. In the edition we are offering, first published in 1826, each novel has its own pagination, and it is listed as part of the ‘British Classics’ series on the rear board. It is not surprising that these two influential gothic novels have been combined in one volume. First published in 1777 under the title The Champion of Virtue, Reeve’s Old English Baron is the ‘gothic tradition’s linking corridor between the supernatural medievalism of Walpole’s Castle of Otranto and Mrs. Radcliffe’s romances. To Reeve must also go the credit for the installation of Gothic literature’s primal haunted chamber or forbidden compartment.’ (Frank. First Gothics, p.309). Walpole’s Castle of Otranto, regarded by many as the first gothic novel, served as the ‘blueprint for the technology of terror’ and is the ‘prototype for all later novels of horror, terror, and supernatural stimulation... (Frank. p.402). $900 |
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HOUSMAN, Laurence. Green Arras. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896. First edition. 8vo., original green cloth with elaborate decoration in gilt on the upper board and the spine, binding designed by Laurence Housman, viii, 90, (2), 16pp.ads dated ‘1896.’ With the errata slip showing 10 errors corrected. With 7 full-page plates including the title-page by Laurence Housman. Inner hinges cracked, slightest touch of rubbing to the foot of the spine but in fact an about fine copy of one of the most attractive cloth bindings of the 1890s. $450 |
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(JELLEY, Symmes W.) Shadowed To Europe: A Chicago Detective on Two
Continents. By “Le Jemyls.” Mooney & Boland Detective Series.
Illustrated by True Williams. Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1885. First edition. 8vo., original mustard cloth with pictorial decoration in black, 357pp. Rubbing to the cloth along the spine otherwise a better than very good but not quite near fine copy. $250 |
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Presentation copy from
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LAYTON, Irving (Editor). PAN-IC: A Selection of Contemporary Canadian
Poems. New York: Pan, Four Issues of Poetry, 1958. Number 2, with a signed presentation from Layton to Northrop Frye. 8vo., original wrappers decorated in black, (48)pp. About fine. A collection of poetry by twenty-two Canadian poets including Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, Earle Birney and others. A wonderful association copy. $1,500 |
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LeROUX, Gaston. The Mystery of the Yellow Room. New York: Brentanno’s, 1908. First U.S. edition. original yellow cloth with pictorial decoration in black, (307)pp. Name otherwise a fine copy. An early locked room mystery and the first LeRoux novel featuring fictional reporter Joseph Rouletabille. $175 |
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LEROUX, Gaston and Edgar Jepson (Translator). The Man with the Black
Feather. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, (1912). First U.S. edition. 8vo., original yellow pebbled cloth with a pictorial depiction of a feather in black on the upper board, x, 314, (8)pp. With three illustrations by Charles M. Relyea including frontispiece. Light foxing to leaves and plates, some soiling to boards and extremities but near fine. Hubin p.247. $150 |
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Presentation copy from
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McFADDEN, David. A Trip around Lake Huron. (Toronto): Coach House Press, (1980). Wrappers. First edition. Presentation copy from Michael Ondaatje to Canadian author and editor, Dennis Lee. Touch of wear to the spine ends otherwise about fine. $200 |
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MEYER-FOERSTER, W. Karl Heinrich A Tale. With Twelve Illustrations by
Adolf Ward. Sole authorized translation from the German by Grace
Barlow von Wentzel. London: Gowans & Gray, 1906. First English edition (preceded by a U.S. edition translated in 1903). 8vo., original cream cloth with pictorial decoration in black, red, yellow and green on the upper cover, 227pp. Cloth a touch soiled otherwise a near fine copy. $250 |
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(Military) BRACKENBURY, George. The Campaign In The Crimea: An
Historical Sketch. Second Series ... Il1ustrated by Forty Plates, From
Drawings Taken on the Spot By William Simpson. London: Paul and Dominic Colnaghi and Co., ..., 1856. First edition of the Second Series. Small 4to., original royal blue cloth with elaborate decoration on the upper board and spine, with the decoration duplicated in blind on the rear board, a.e.g., (viii), 136pp. With forty tinted lithograph plates and a frontis (engraved title) lithographed by Day & Son. There is some foxing that mostly affect the verso of the plates, but there are some plates where the foxing has penetrated the image and the margins; this copy has been professionally recased with new endpapers, a touch of rubbing but is in fact an about fine copy in an attractive and elaborate publisher's cloth binding. Simpson, an artist employed by Day & Son, 'was sent out by the Pall Mall printsellers, Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, to report the Crimean Campaign. He sent back eighty-one sketches, which were lithographed and printed by Day & Son, in two or three colours, and published at intervals within a month or so of being received. They were then issued in volumes, in 1855 and 1856 ... Simpson avoided illustrating the more gruesome aspects of the war, but made magnificent pictures of the wild and rocky coasts, the barren uplands, and scenes of the soldier's lives in trenches and redoubts, some of them grim enough.' (McLean: Victorian Book Design, p.126.) $1,000 |
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(Military) PRINCE AAGE OF DENMARK. A Royal Adventurer in the Foreign
Legion. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927. First edition. 8vo., original orange cloth with pictorial decoration in black, (6), 198pp. Ownership inscription otherwise about fine. On publication Prince Aage’s work received a good review in the NYT. The reviewer noted that the Prince convinced his father to let him resign from the Life Guard of Denmark and join the Foreign Legion, where ‘he was commissioned a captain in the adventurous and polyglot crew that is first in action wherever France fights. He sought excitement and found plenty of it. He went through several campaigns in Morocco, including the fierce battle against Abd-el Krim, and he was wounded and decorated for gallantry.’ The Prince recounts the brutal conditions and ‘ruthless’ tribesman that they encountered--the reviewer commenting ‘as far as it goes, Prince Aage’s narrative is a capital piece of work.’ $125 |
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MILLER, Joaquin. First Fam’lies In The Sierras. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1857. First edition (precedes the U.S. edition) and first book edition. Small 8vo., original pictorial yellow boards (a yellowback), (8), (152), (2)pp.ads. Some wear to the spine ends, corners and along the hinges, but still a very good copy. BAL 13758; Topp Vol.1 p.255. $400 |
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MORRISON, Arthur. The Dorrington Deed-Box. New York: New Amsterdam Book Co., n.d. (1900). First U.S. edition. 8vo., original blue/green pictorial cloth, 308pp. Small rubberstamp on the endpaper otherwise a fine copy. Hubin p.586 citing the first edition, London (1897). $350 |
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"First
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(Narcotics) Treadway, Walter Lewis. ‘Dedication and Opening of the
Lexington Narcotic Farm.' IN: United States Treasury Department Public
Health Reports. Issued Weekly by the United States Public Health
Service. Volume 50, Number 31. August 2, 1935. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1935. From the library of Dr. C.B. Farrar with his notation ‘First U.S. Narcotic Farm' in ink on the upper wrapper. Tall 8vo., original printed self-wrappers, pp. iii, 985-1015. Treadway's piece runs from pp.996-1000 and also has 4 photographic illustrations of the facility on 1 leaf, recto/verso.Some discolouration on the spine edge and bottom edge of the upper wrapper (from sun) otherwise an about fine copy of a scarce item. The United States Narcotic Farm opened in May, 1935 as a prison hospital initially run by the U.S. Public Health Service, and after undergoing several name changes it became a U.S. federal prison in 1974. Dr. Walter Treadway, a psychiatrist, was the Assistant-General in charge of the mental hygiene division, United States Public Health Service, 1922-1939. When opened its mandate was to treat people ‘voluntarily' who were admitted with drug abuse issues. The facility used mostly experimental treatments and it was the first of its kind in the United States, and included a farm where patients could work. While some patients did indeed enter voluntarily for treatment, a sizable proportion of those admitted were either motivated to do so in order to avoid a prison sentence or mandated to do so as part of federal sentencing. The facility was so well-known that it was mentioned in film and literature. In the film adaptation of Algren's The Man With the Golden Arm, the character of ‘Frankie' returns to Chicago after being ‘detoxed at the Lexington Medical Centre' and in Burrough's Junkie, the ‘main character spends a period of time at Lexington, where he checks himself in voluntarily in order to quit his heroin addiction. In fact Burroughs was a patient at the facility.' $850 |
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(Norway) BOWDEN, Rev. J. The Naturalist in Norway; Or, Notes on the
Wild Animals, Birds, Fishes, and Plants, of That Country. With Some
Account of the Principal Salmon Rivers.
London: L. Reeve & Co., 1869. First edition. 8vo., original blue cloth with a pictorial gilt decoration in the centre of the upper board, xii, (2), (1)-263pp. With eight coloured plates. Faint damp on the upper margin of the frontispiece, a trace of rubbing to the spine ends but otherwise a near fine copy. $400 |
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PASTERNAK, Boris. Doctor Zhivago. Translated from the Russian by Max
Hayward and Manya Harari. London: William Collins, 1958. First edition in English. Name, edges a bit dusty but otherwise a near fine copy in dustwrapper with chipping to the spine ends but certainly very good. $650 |
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Godwin’s response to
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(Science) GODWIN, William. Of Population. An Enquiry Concerning the
Power of Increase in the Numbers of Mankind, being an answer to Mr.
Malthus’s essay on that subject. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820. First edition. Tall 8vo., full 19th century morocco, with the gilt stamp of “The Law Society of Upper Canada” on the upper board, raised bands, leather labels, xvi, 17-22, (1)-626pp. Ex-library with the only markings being the Law Society stamp on the title and in the lower margin of a few leaves, outer hinges rubbed and tender otherwise this is certainly a very good copy of this important work. William Godwin (1756–1836) was the founder of philosophical anarchism. “Godwin’s philosophical importance rests principally on his Political Justice. He wrote other philosophical works, The Enquirer (1798) and Thoughts on Man (1831), but he has become perhaps better known for his novels, the most famous of which is Things as They are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794), and for the part he played in literary London from 1783–1836—from his heyday in the 1790s as the radical philosopher who married Mary Wollstonecraft, through the next forty years in which he was variously the butt of attacks by Thomas Malthus, Samuel Parr and a host of anti-jacobin scribes...” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The above work is in fact Godwin’s response to Malthus’s work, An Essay on the Principle of Population and its inherent criticisms of Godwin’s work. Godwin refuted Malthus’s ideas and predications about population growth. $2,250 |
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(Science) JARDINE, William. The Naturalist’s Library. Edited by...
Entomology. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars/ London: Henry Bohn, 1853, 1855, 1852. Volumes 1-7 of Entomology (complete), which comprise volumes XXVIII through XXXIV of The Naturalist’s Library. Later printings. With the added engraved titlepages bearing the imprint of London: Henry Bohn. Small 8vo., contemporary brown half morocco, marble boards, raised bands, gilt titles, various pagination. With 227 plates and added engraved titlepages that are hand coloured, while the 7 frontis portraits are not; for a total of 234 plates. Scattered light foxing (not affecting plates), some of the plates have been closely trimmed slightly affecting some of the plate numbers or the text at the foot but in fact this is a near fine set of this comprehensive work on entomology with lovely hand-coloured plates. Volume 1: Introduction to Entomology; volume 2: British Butterflies; Volume 3: British Moths, Sphinxes, Etc.; volume 4: Foreign Butterflies; volume 5: Exotic Moths; volume 6: Beetless; volume 7: Bees/Honey Bees. These seven volumes relating to entomology were part of a larger forty volume work, The Naturalist’s Library, with the other volumes dealing with Birds, Mammals and Fishes. It was originally published between 1833 to 1843 and given its extreme popularity, it was reprinted throughout the 19th century. $2,500 |
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(Science) JENNER, Edward. An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of
The Variolae Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western
Counties of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the
Name of The Cow Pox. II. Further Observations on the Variolae vaccinae.
III. A Continuation of Facts and Observations.... London: Printed, For The Author, 1800. Second edition (and the first complete of all three texts). 4to., full contemporary calf, recently rebacked with a new calf spine after the period, contemporary leather spine label, vii, (1), 182, 1p. errata. With the half-titles to parts I and III. With four hand-coloured engraved plates by William Skelton, printed in sepia. Professionally rebacked as noted o/w a fine copy in a cloth slipcase. Garrison & Morton 5423 citing the first edition of 1798; Norman 1163, Waller 5138, Wellcome III, p.351. The second and definitive edition of all three of Jenner's treatises on vaccination published between 1798 and 1800. In the first work, Jenner ‘established the fact that a "vaccination" or inoculation with vaccinia (cowpox) lymph matter protects against smallpox. He performed his first vaccination on May 14, 1796. This work describes 23 successful vaccinations, announced to the world as one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medicine.' (G & M). In the second and third works (part II & III here) Jenner provides further evidence on the efficacy of vaccinations, new facts and addresses the concerns of some of his critics. $15,000 |
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"... a milestone in computer
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(Science) (LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm). Brevis descriptio machinae
arthimeticae, cum figura. [contained in] Miscellanea Berolinensia ad
incrementum scientarium. Berlin: Papen, 1710. First edition of Leibniz's description of his famous calculating machine. Small 4to., contemporary flexible cream paper boards, (20), 1-394pp. With 30 of31 plates--Lacking one plate (figure 80) and the frontispiece. This copy was deaccessioned by the University of California Library and it contains a letter stating such. It bears the perforated stamp, 'Univ of California' on the title-page and on all but 3 of the plates. Unfortunately, the perforated stamp penetrates the image of the plate(s) but is oddly not as obtrusive a presence as it sounds. Some browning, boards soiled but certainly a better than very good copy of an important book. Ravier 305. Leibniz's paper 'Brevis descriptio machinae arthmeticae ', a milestone in computer history, runs from pp.317-319, and also includes one folding engraved plate (Figure 73) showing the calculating machine mechanism, including the step-drum gear, which constitutes one of the greatest advances in the early history of computing. The paper was extremely influential in the development of the calculating machine and the stepped-drum that Leibniz showed and described here and was 'the greatest advance in calculating- machine technology until 1875.' (Hook & Norman). In 1694, 'Leibniz built his calculating machine, which was far superior to a previous design by Pascal, and it proved to be the first general purpose calculating device able to meet the major needs of mathematicians and bookkeepers.' (Rosenberg. The Computer Prophets, p.48) The mechanism, which included a device now known as the 'Leibniz wheel' could 'do not only addition and subtraction fully automatically but also multiplication and division. Leibniz's device enabled his machine to perform the operation of multiplication automatically by repeated additions.' (Goldstine. The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann, p.7) While Leibniz demonstrated his machine before the Royal Society and elsewhere, this is the first description of it that appeared in print in this volume of the journal of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. In addition to this paper, the volume also contains other contributions by Leibniz on mathematics and physics. $22,000 |
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(Science) MALTHUS, T.R. (Thomas Robert). Principles of Political
Economy, Considered with a View to Their Practical Application. London: John Murray, 1820. First edition. Tall 8vo., full 19th century morocco, with the gilt stamp of “The Law Society of Upper Canada” on the upper board, raised bands, leather labels, vi, 601pp. Ex-library with the only markings being the Law Society stamp on the title and in the lower margin of a few leaves, a bit of foxing, outer hinges rubbed and the front hinge is tender otherwise this is certainly a very good copy of this important work. DSB IX:70; Goldsmith 22767, Kress C577. Thomas Robert Malthus [1766-1834] English political economist. “Malthus is known in the history of science almost exclusively for his influence on Charles Darwin, exerted almost accidentally. His life, work, and friends were mainly centered on social conditions and political economy, and his work on population was part of these.” In the above title, one of his major works, he “included an analogy of his population theory with the quantity of funds designed for the maintenance of labor and the prudential habits of the laboring classes... and was proposing investment in public works and private luxury as a means of increasing effective demand, and hence as a palliative to economic distress. The nation, he thought, must balance the power to produce and the will to consume.” (DSB). $4,000 |
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(Scotland) PLAYFAIR, James. A Geographical and Statistical Description
of Scotland. Containing A General Survey of that Kingdom, Its Climate,
Mountains, Lakes, Rivers... And A Statistical Account of Every Parish.
Accompanied by An Accurate and Elegant Map of Scotland. To Which Are
Added, Several Tables to Illustrate the Work. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co., 1819. In two volumes. First edition. With the contemporary leather bookplate of “Thomas Milne.” Tall 8vo., contemporary half calf, marble boards, leather spine labels, xii, 527; (4), 427pp. With a folding table and a large folding map of Scotland in colour at the rear of volume two. The map has an old repair to the verso and that has been reinforced with archival tape (there is a tiny spot of scuffing to the recto where the repair has been done), some foxing throughout, a 1” x 3” strip of the marble paper has been torn off the upper board of volume one, but this is still a better than very good copy of this uncommon work by James Playfair. James Playfair (1738-1189) minister in the Church of Scotland and writer on geography. After studying at the University of St. Andrews, Playfair served in various parishes and on several occasions was offered the post of moderator of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland, but he repeatedly declined. In 1800 he was appointed the principal of the United College, St. Andrews, and it was here that the bulk of his literary output occurred. His earlier work included the two-volume System of Chronology (1784); a six volume System of Geography, Ancient and Modern (1810-14); a four volume General Atlas (1814) and the above title, Statistical Description of Scotland (1819). ‘Of these much-laboured compilations only the last remains of interest today. It is based almost entirely on the multi-volume Statistical Account of Scotland by Sir John Sinclair, to which Playfair had contributed accounts of the parishes of Meigle, Essie, and Nevay. In passages original to his own book Playfair described how he had tunnelled into ‘Dunsinnan hill’ to discover the remains of Macbeth’s fortress. He defended the authenticity of Ossian’s poems and praised Burns, but ignored Scott, who was not yet know as the author of the Waverley Novels but had written long poems on Scottish themes. Playfair also commented interestingly on changes in the dress and manners of the highlanders since 1745.” (ODNB). $950 |
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(SECRETARIES). The Gregg Writer. A Monthly Magazine for Secretaries,
Stenographers and Typists. New York: Gregg Publishing Co., Vol. XLLIII, No. 5. January 1941. Tall 8vo., pictorial wrappers, (viii), 213-264, ix-xii pp. Illustrated. Fine. $35 |
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(TRADE CATALOGUE). J.H. Bunnell & Co., Electric Railway Appliances.
Catalogue No. 14 January 1895. New York: J.H. Bunnell & Co., 1895. Tall 8vo., original pictorial wrappers, 224pp. Profusely illustrated. Pieces out at spine ends, corners chipped otherwise very good. $200 |
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VIZINCZEY, Stephen. In Praise of Older Women the amorous recollections
of Andras Vajda. (Toronto): Contemporary Press, 1965. First edition. Name otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper with some wear and creasing to the spine ends and corners. $400 |
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48.
(Wilde, Oscar) MASON, Stuart (Pseud. Christopher Millard). A
Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde. Giving the Particulars as to
the Original Publication of each Poem, with Variations of Readings and
a Complete List of all Editions, Reprints, Translations, &c. New York: Mitchell Kennerly, 1908. First U.S. Edition. 1 of 475 copies (50 copies shipped to the U.S.) Tall 8vo., original white buckram with title in gilt, (12) 147, (5)pp. With a frontispiece and eight plates. Title page browned, some light soiling to boards but otherwise near fine. A printed slip tipped-in at the titlepage regarding the publication of “…Methuen’s complete edition of the poems of Oscar Wilde, on which this Bibliography is based, has been postponed till January 1908.” $450 |
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(Wilde, Oscar) RENIER, G.J. Oscar Wilde. London: Issued to Subscribers by Peter Davies, 1933. First Edition. 1 of 500 copies signed by the author. Tall 8vo., original cream buckram, t.e.g., xi, 1-184pp. With frontispiece. An about fine copy in the original glassine dustwrapper with paper flaps, which has tears and is shorter than the book itself, but still a very good example of the original glassine dustwrapper. $500 |
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YEATS, W.B. The Wild Swans At Coole. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919. First U.S. edition (preceded by the Cuala Press edition and the English edition). The U.S. edition is enlarged from the Cuala Press edition and has a new preface. 8vo., original blue grey paper boards with a design in black by T. Sturge Moore, (x), 115, (116 blank), (6)pp.ads. Bookplate of Toronto book-collector W. Macdonald MacKay, boards slightly browned on the top edge, outer rear hinge partly cracked but still an about near fine copy in the dustwrapper which has some browning, slight chipping to the spine ends, a few nicks to the edges but still a better than very good example of the dustwrapper that also has a design by T. Sturge Moore. $2,000 |
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