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Cincinnati : Press of Johnson & Hardin, 1907.
First edition of this rare baseball work. One of 500 numbered examples, this copy is 309. Octavo, original cloth. Rubbing to the cloth extremities, one page has an old tape repair, in very good condition.
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New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1958.
First edition of the author’s masterpiece and one of the most widely used college textbooks on comparative religion. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Huston Smith on the half title page. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Rare and desirable signed by Huston Smith.
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New York : Herzyl Press, 1959.
Second enlarged edition. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily Inscribed by Mordecai Kaplan to a noted Zionist on the half-title page. In near fine condition.
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New York : Random House, 1969.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by Lionel Tiger on the front free endpaper.
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Silver Gelatin Print of Nelson Mandela, Dr. Moroka, and Yusuf Dadoo during the Defiance Campaign Trial of 1952. Signed by both Mandela on the image and the photographer, Jurgen Schadeberg (signed and stamped on the verso by Schadeberg and also signed on the front). Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 18.5 inches by 19Continue reading "Nelson Mandela Silver Gelatin Print."
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New York : Scalo, 1998.
First edition of this moving record of the atrocites that befell the Balkans in the 1990’s. Thick octavo, original illustrated boards. Signed by all three contributors: photographer Gilles Peress; Eric Stover, who contributed the text and Justice Richard Goldstone, who contributed the foreword. In fine condition.
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New York : New York University Press, 1996.
First edition of this memorial to the French children of the Holocaust with over 2,500 photographic images of the children. Thick quarto, original illustrated boards. Warmly inscribed by Serge Klarsfeld. Edited by Susan Cohen, Howard M. Epstein and Serge Klarsfeld. Translated by Glorianne Depondt and Howard M. Epstein. In fine condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
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New York : Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1991.
First illustrated edition of this classic work. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free end paper in the year of publication of both volumes. Volume one’s inscription reads “For Hope and Sam- good friends, good neighbors- with affection from Dan Oct. 14, 1991.” Volume two’s inscription reads, “For HopeContinue reading "The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to know his World and Himself."
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London : Downey & Company, 1899.
Quarto, bound in full read leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels. Twenty colour illustrations with tissue guard, by Henry Alken, all present. In excellent condition.
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London : Paul & Isaac Vaillant, 1738.
Quarto, 3 volume complete set. Attractive contemporary calf, gilt tooling to the spine, raised bands. Marbled endpapers. In good condition with some rubbing to the boards.
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: Paris, Armand Colin & Cie, 1896-1906..
First edition. Folio, 5 volumes. Three quarters leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. Top edge gilt. In very good condition.
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London : George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1891.
Octavo, 6 volumes, bound in three quarters red morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, illustrated with portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds. In near fine condition. An attractively bound set.
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Amsterdam : J. Wetstein et G. Smith, 1751.
Two volumes, original leather, gilt tooling to the spine. In good condition. Text in French.
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c. 1900.
Original oil painting, measuring 18 by 22 inches, handsomely gilt framed, entire piece measures 24 by 28 inches. In very good condition.
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New York : Baker & Godwin Publishers, 1863.
First edition of the best contemporary account of the New York City Draft Week Riots, the largest civil urban disturbance in American history. Octavo, full cloth, all edges gilt, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel. In very good condition. Embossed name of Erastus Clark on the front panel. Clark was an American attorney,Continue reading "The Draft Riots in New York July, 1863."
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: Chez P. Husson, J. Swart, H. Scheurleer, J. Vand Duren, R. Alberts, C. Le Vier, 1727-1731.
Rare 18th century set of French philosopher Pierre Bayle’s magnum opus, a historical and critical dictionary. Folio, 5 volumes, bound in full contemporary calf, raised bands, marbled endpapers. In very good condition. An attractive set.
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London : Faber & Faber, 1968.
First British edition of the author’s second volume in the acclaimed Pax Britannica Trilogy. Boldly signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
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London : The Fine Art Society, Ltd.:, 1916.
First edition. Folio, original cloth backed marbled boards. Leather spine labels, top edge gilt. 100 tipped in plates. Limited to 1,050 copies, of which 1,000 were for sale. Signed by the author, Louis Raemaekers. In near fine condition with some light rubbing.
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Bombay : Thacker & Co., 1947.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, “Mr. William Bullitt with best compliments from the author Kewal Motwani”.
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: Halae Magdebvrgicae, 1774.
First edition. Octavo, three quarters leather over marbled boards. In very good condition.
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: Venetiis, 1753.
Folio, 2 volumes. Rebound, in excellent condition. Text in Latin.
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Venezia : Pecora, 1744.
First edition. Large Quarto. Tome Quatrieme (Volume 4), contemporary vellum. Thirty-six finely engraved plates printed in sepia. Text in parallel columns of Italian and French. Some shelfwear and soiling, generally clean and sound internally.
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Coloniae : Iohannem Gymnicum, 1529.
Rare edition, a sound, complete copy, lacking only the final blank. Title within pictorial woodcut border. Octavo, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, dated 1534 in blind, brass clasps, minor statins and soiling and some early penned marginalia. Also bound in are three additional works, De Civilitate Morum Puerilium; Plutarch. De Liberis Educandis; and HoratiusContinue reading "Opus de Conscribendis Epistolis."
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Venice : Paolo Baglioni, 1642.
Thick octavo, bound in contemporary vellum, 1056 pages. Woodcut title vignette. In excellent condition.
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