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Item #66781 Account of the European Settlements in America. Edmund BURKE

BURKE, Edmund.

Account of the European Settlements in America. Containing an Accurate Description of their Extent, Climate, Productions, Trade, Genius, and Disposition of their Inhabitants... A New Edition. Illustrated with Maps.

London: John Joseph Stockdale, 1808. Considered the best edition of this work, which was first published in 1757. Quarto. [1-5]6-482[-484, ad leaf]. Two engraved maps. Contemporary calf, gilt, with two black morocco spine labels. Marbled endpapers and matching edges. Minor wear to binding; rubbing to joints. Some browning and offsetting.....

Price: $1,500.00

Item #68752 Complete Works [Autograph Centenary Edition]. Ralph Waldo EMERSON

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.

Complete Works [Autograph Centenary Edition]. With a biographical introduction and notes by Edward Waldo Emerson and a general index.

Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1903. The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. With a biographical introduction and notes by Edward Waldo Emerson and a general index. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1903-1904. Autograph Centenary Edition. Limited to 600 numbered copies, signed by the publisher, this being number.....

Price: $4,500.00

HUMBOLDT, Alexander von.

Essai Politique sur le Royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne.

Paris: Chez F. Schoell, 1811. First octavo edition. With more extensive text than the quarto edition before it. Five octavo volumes (8 1/8 x 4 15/16 inches; 205 x 125 mm). Volume I with large folding map and Volume II with an engraved folding plan. Complete. Uniformly bound in full.....

Price: $2,850.00

Item #68967 System of Moral Philosophy, Francis HUTCHESON

HUTCHESON, Francis.

System of Moral Philosophy, In Three Books.

Glasgow: R. and A. Foulis, 1755. Full Description: HUTCHESON, Francis. A System of Moral Philosophy, In Three Books. Glasgow: R. and A. Foulis, 1755. First edition. Three books in two quarto volumes (10 1/4 x 8 inches; 261 x 202 mm). [12], xlviii, 358, [2, blank]; [4], 380, [2, blank].....

Price: $5,500.00

Item #68536 On the Conduct of Man to Inferior Animals, &c. George NICHOLSON

NICHOLSON, George.

On the Conduct of Man to Inferior Animals, &c. [Within] The Literary Miscellany.

Manchester: George Nicholson, 1797. First Edition of an Early Work on Vegetarianism [NICHOLSON, George]. On the Conduct of Man to Inferior Animals, &c.. [Within] The Literary Miscellany. Manchester: Printed and sold at the office of G. Nicholson 1797. [Together with] [FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. Preceptive, moral and sentimental pieces. Prose. On Education.....

Price: $2,750.00

RUSCHA, Edward. RUSCHA, Edward.

Babycakes. With Weights.

New York: Multiples, Inc., 1970. New York: Multiples, Inc.], 1970. First edition of Ruscha's eleventh book. From an edition of 1200. Small square octavo (7 1/2 x 6 inches; 190 x 152 pp). 52 pp. With black-and-white photographs of one baby (Rusha's own) and twenty-one cakes. Each with their respective.....

Price: $2,750.00

Item #69441 Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris. Edward TYSON

TYSON, Edward.

Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris. or, the anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. To whichis added, a philological essay concerning the pygmies, the cynocephali, the satyrs, and sphinges of the ancients. Wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkeys, and not men, as formerly pretended.

London: Printed for Thomas Bennet...and Daniel Brown, 1699. Full Description: TYSON, Edward. Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris. or, the anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. To whichis added, a philological essay concerning the pygmies, the cynocephali, the satyrs, and sphinges of the.....

Price: $7,500.00

Item #69121 London Chronicle [The U. S. Constitution]. UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION

UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.

London Chronicle [The U. S. Constitution]. Vo.. LXII. No. 4834-4835. From Saturday, October 27, to Tuesday, October 30, 1787 [and] From Tuesday, October 30, to Thursday, November 1, 1787.

London: Sold by T. Wilkie, 1787. The London Chronicle [?The New Plan for the Constitution of the United States of America?]. Vo.. LXII. No. 4834-4835. From Saturday, October 27, to Tuesday, October 30, 1787 [and] From Tuesday, October 30, to Thursday, November 1, 1787. Pages 409-424. London: Sold by T......

Price: $20,000.00

VON HARBOU, Thea.

Metropolis.

Berlin: August Scherl, 1926. First edition, in original dust jacket with cover art by W. Reimann. Octavo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 184 x 126 mm). [1]-273, [274], [1, blank], [5, publisher's advertisements] pp. With half-title. Publisher's full green cloth. Front board double ruled and lettered in gilt. Back board.....

Price: $4,500.00