ATLAS GEOGRAPHICUS PORTATILIS
[circa 1750]
Exquisite fully engraved portable atlas, featuring 29 hand-colored maps and 3 additional engraved spreads, in a blind-stamped contemporary German binding.
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DAS KLEINE DAVIDISCHE PSALTERSPIEL DER KINDER ZIONS [with:] DIE KLEINE HARFE
1797, 1792
18th-century collection of two important hymnals printed by Samuel Saur in German: the rare 1792 first edition of DIE KLEINE HARFE, with the 1797 second edition of DAS KLEINE DAVIDSCHE PSALTERSPIEL (lacking two leaves) – including four leaves of manuscript material by an early owner.
"H. L. OPERATION" [Rear Cover Title]
[ca. 1960s]
Stirring series of photographs captured by a skilled photographer documenting the many diverse aspects of an operation involving a probable heart-lung ("H.L.") bypass.
Original Flyer Announcing a Protest Against the Film CRUISING
[1979]
"IT'S NOT OVER! 'Cruising' will be filmed tonight at 14th and 9th Ave., just below our NYC MCC! DEMONSTRATE 7:30 p.m., Sheridan Sq."
Original Photograph Album of Children with Polio
[ca. 1930-1959]
Original photograph album of family of Chicago, focusing on their daughter (b. 1936) who had polio, and covering primarily the 1940s, in the years just before the vaccine.
有職玩具 五 [Yūsoku Gangu Go - Traditional Toys 5]
Shōwa 11 [1936]
Deluxe production of color woodblock prints, the final volume in a series on the theme of traditional Japanese folk toys.
THE DIALECT OF CRAVEN, IN THE WEST-RIDING OF THE COUNTY OF YORK, WITH A COPIOUS GLOSSARY
1828
Second enlarged edition of this dialect and glossary of the Deanery of Craven, by a native of that region and champion of its linguistic features.
JONATHAN TROY
(1954)
First printing – and only edition – of Abbey's hated first book.
THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES
1964
First edition in English of the visceral existentialist novel, one of the greatest Japanese novels of the 1960s.
SCRIPTORES RERUM GERMANICUM
1706, 1679, 1694, 1676
First collected edition, featuring Adam of Bremen's chronicle of peoples from the Old North and the earliest known mention of the Vikings discovery of North America, of three key works in the history of Hamburg, within a larger sammelband of six works total.
THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
(1980)
Signed first American edition of the sequel to THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
1962
Inscribed first printing of Albee's greatest work, the Tony award-winning play and the basis for the film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
MEG
(1997)
Inscribed first printing of the science-fiction horror novel about Megalodons – giant prehistoric sharks.
COLONEL BOGEY'S SKETCH BOOK
1897
First edition of this tongue-in-cheek history of golf, beginning with the prehistoric Golfosaurian, moving onto the missing "link" Golfolinkius Anthropomorphus, and so on.
Pre-war manuscript of commercial drawings with Western and Japanese fashions
[circa 1920s]
Skillfully executed series of vignettes featuring Japanese moga ("modern girls") in Western dress next to men and women in traditional Japanese dress – likely a sketchbook or lookbook of designs by a professional to pitch their work in the heavily illustrated magazine culture of the pre-war era.
ECCENTRICO
(2013)
Uncommon exhibition catalogue featuring retrospective works from the legendary designer from 1985 through 2012.
Fall-Winter '02-'03 Boxed Lookbook Set
(2002)
Boxed set of original lookbooks from Armani's sumptuous Fall-Winter collections of 2002-3.
TAMBOURS ET TROMPETTES
[1918]
Stunning limited first edition portfolio of large plates hand-colored in pochoir, one of only 500 numbered copies, issued triumphantly at the end of World War I.
THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR
(1980)
Inscribed first printing of the intensively researched, massive bestseller about a young woman growing up in prehistoric times.
MANSFIELD PARK
1833
First illustrated edition, and first single-volume edition, of Austen's third published novel, centering on the comedic neighborhood drama caused by the amateur production of a play, with the inferred specter of the slave trade hovering beneath the plot.
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
1846
Victorian edition in beautiful original cloth of Austen's first novel, in which one Dashwood sister shows too much stoicism, and the other too much passion – with a lovely inscription by an 1849 buyer to "My dearest Frances... with most true love."
LETTRES SUR L'ORIGINE DES SCIENCES, ET SUR CELLE DES PEUPLES DE L'ASIE
1777
First state of this provocative thesis written by a French astronomer in response to Voltaire, arguing that modern civilization owes its scientific roots to Asia rather than Europe.
LES MÉMOIRES DE JOSÉPHINE BAKER
(1949)
Limited first edition, one of only 50 copies, of Baker's first post-World War II autobiography, including her account of her wartime intelligence activities aiding the Free French government-in-exile.
AIROPAIDIA
1786
First edition of the first ballooning book to contain illustrations that depict the overhead aerial view from within the balloon.
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
(1965)
First printing of the first mystery introducing Virgil Tibbs, a Black police detective who helps solve a murder case in a racist community in South Carolina.
