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London: Printed For Hatchard And Son, Piccadilly, And J. And A. Arch, Cornhill, 1823. Full Description: [MACAULAY, Zachary]. Negro Slavery; Or, A View Of Some Of The More Prominent Features Of That State Of Society, As It Exists In The United States Of America And In The Colonies Of The West Indies, Especially In Jamaica. London: Printed For Hatchard And Son, Piccadilly, And J. And A. Arch, Cornhill, 1823. First Edition, published anonymously. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 5/16 inches; 207 x 130 mm). [4], 118, [1, publisher's advertisements], [1, blank] pp. Bound in contemporary drab wrappers. A bit of light toning, mainly to title-page. Some minor dampstaining to blank margin. Overall very good. "Zachary Macaulay was a Scottish statistician, one of the founders of London University and of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, an antislavery activist, and governor of Sierra Leone, the British colony for freed slaves. He worked endlessly to end the slave trade and to Christianize and improve the world."… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First edition. Octavo. 248 pp. Original orange and white patterned paper over boards, price-clipped dust jacket. Minor rubbing to spine and rear panel of jacket, else fine. A condensed version of this novel appeared in Cosmopolitan under the title of The Dying Animal. HBS 67409. $1,250.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First edition. Original black cloth backstrip over blue paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. Minor browning to jacket edges and book edges, small previous bookstore label on rear flap, else fine. HBS 67405. $200.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition of "The Three Roads" by Ross Macdonald MILLAR, Kenneth. [MACDONALD, Ross, pseudonym]. The Three Roads. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First edition. Octavo. 223, [3] pp. Full brown cloth, lettered in blue on front cover and spine, dust jacket. The tiniest of wear on top and bottom of spine. Otherwise, a fine and early Ross Macdonald title in the Daliesque Arthur Hawkins dust jacket. This was Millar's fourth novel, and the final one published using his real name. HBS 67416. $850.

New York: George Routledge & Sons, 1871. First American "copyright" edition. Small octavo 6 15/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 175 x 125 mm). viii, 378, [2, blank] pp. Seventy-six wood-engraved text illustrations after Arthur Hughes. This edition pre-dates that recorded by Sadleir as the first American edition and is almost certainly one of a few copies printed in England at the same time as the first English edition and sent over to the United States to secure American copyrights. The title-page has been re-set to include the American imprint and date, along with the list of other titles by MacDonald, but without mention of the illustrations, as in Sadleir's first American edition. The pagination matches that of Sadleir's American edition (undated, though he cites a presentation copy inscribed 1873), with the initial blank here wrongly bound in at the end. Original publisher's variant burgundy pebble-grained cloth. Front cover and spine lettered and stamped in black and gilt according to the primary stamping… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First edition. Octavo. [244, 1 pp]. Decorative colored patterned paper boards, dust jacket. Extremities worn and somewhat sunned. Front hinge cracked, tape remnants on endpapers. Book store stamp on front free endpaper. Jacket spine chipped, flaps with old tape, else very good. HBS 67403. $200.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First edition. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Octavo. [viii], 247, [1, colophon] pp. Green cloth backstrip over grey paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. Some minor rubbing to jacket spine, else fine. HBS 67408. $850.

London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1863. First edition. Three octavo volumes "triple decker." (7 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 195 x 125 mm). viii, [1]-325, [1, blank]; vi, [1]-335, [1, blank]; vi, [1]-398 pp. Half-titles in each volume. Publisher's original brick-red cloth. Boards ruled in blind. Spines lettered in gilt. Top edge untrimmed. Gray coated endpapers. Some staining and shelfwear to volumes. Spines a bit darkened. Volume I with cloth on back outer hinge cracking but firm. Some minor repairs to bottom of the spine, with no new cloth added. Watermark half-ring to front board. Volume III with cloth on back hinge and bottom of spine cracked. Inner hinges of volume III cracked buy firm. One-inch closed tear to top margin of leaf Y of volume III, not affecting text. Some minor foxing to volumes, mainly to preliminaries. Previous owner's ink signature to front pastedown of volumes I and III. Books housed in a custom cloth slipcase. A very good set. "Encouraged by George Murray Smith, the publisher… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First edition. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Small octavo. [vi], 215, [1, colophon] pp. Patterned paper over boards, original dust jacket. Some rubbing to jacket, very tiny chip on rear of jacket at top, with two small creases nearby, some rubbing to book. Still, near fine. HBS 67411. $3,000.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Octavo. 212, [2], pp. Original yellow and red patterned paper over boards, dust jacket. Some rubbing and scuffing to jacket, a few tape repairs to verso. Very good. HBS 67413. $850.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First edition. Octavo. [iv], 251, [1, note on the type, note on the author] pp. Printed paper over boards, dust jacket. Jacket with some light rubbing to top and bottom of spine and edges. Still, a fine copy of this well-known Lew Archer title. HBS 67410. $1,000.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First edition. Octavo. [2, blank], [viii], 238, [1, blank], [1, Note on the Type], [1, Note About the Author], [5, blank] pp. Original burgundy cloth backstrip over blue paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. Minor rubbing to spine, front flap creased. Still, a fine copy of this Lew Archer novel. HBS 67421. $400.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First edition. Octavo. Orange cloth backstrip over black paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. An old light ink price on the bottom corner of the front flap. Still, near fine. HBS 67419. $300.

London: Henry Colburn, 1829. First edition. Two octavo volumes (8 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches; 215 x 130 mm). xvi, 401, [1, errata], [2, blank]; viii, 398, [2, ads], [2, blank] pp. With half-title for volume I, but not volume II as usual. (According to Sotheby's, half-title called for in vol.2 by Blackmer, but probably in error). With 2 pages of publisher's ads at the end of volume II, but without the six pages of ads at the end of volume I. With full color frontispiece in volume I of "The Author in his Syrian Costume." Bound by Clarke & Bedford in full tan calf. Boards double ruled in gilt with central armorial device. Spines elaborately stamped in gilt. Two green Morocco spine labels on each volume, lettered in gilt. Board edges gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Some minor rubbing along hinges. Top of boards of volume II a bit sunned. Some foxing and toning. Still a very good copy. "Madden writes in this epistolary work of harems, slave markets, religion, crime and punishment,… Read More

Milan: Mediolani Rechs Typis, 1819. Milan]: Mediolani Rechs Typis, 1819. First edition. Presentation copy to William VII, the Duke of Devonshire. Large folio. (Measures 20 x 14 inches). Text in Greek and Latin. Contemporary half brown calf over blue pebbled cloth, decoratively gilt-stamped on spine. Illustrated with 3 headpieces and 58 engravings. Bookplate belonging to William the VII, Duke of Devonshire, previous owner's inscription, edges bumped. Very good. HBS 66948. $2,000.

London: Printed by L. Lichfield, for Thomas Bennet at the Half-Moon, 1694. TAYLOR, T.. . Father Malebranche's Treatise Concerning the Search after Truth. The Whole Work Compleat. To which is added the author's treatise of Nature and Grace. Being a consequence of the principles contain'd in the search. London: Printed by L. Lichfield, for Thomas Bennet at the Half-Moon, 1694. First edition in English. Folio (12 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches; 327 x 196 mm). [xiv], 172, 10, 203, [1], 42 pp. Eighteenth-century half brown calf over marbled boards, gilt spine lettering. Front joint cracked but still strong. Some browning throughout (especially to signature Ll). Overall, a very good copy. Malebranche is now recognized as a major figure in the history of philosophy, occupying a crucial place in the Rationalist tradition of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. The Search after Truth is his first, longest and most important work. As a leading Cartesian, Malebranche argued in The Search after Truth (1675) and the Dialogues… Read More

London: Printed for James Knapton, 1699. Nicolas. A Treatise of Morality. In Two Parts. Written in French by F. Malbranch, author of The Search after Truth. And Translated into English, by James Shipton, M.A. London: Printed for James Knapton, 1699. First English edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches; 190 x 117 mm). [12], 126, 114, [4, publisher's advertisements] pp. Each part with separate pagination. With two final advertisement leaves. We could not find any other copies at auction in the past 50 years. Contemporary full calf. Boards ruled and stamped in blind. Spine with red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Edges stained red. Some light and mostly marginal toning and dampstaining throughout. Head of the spine repaired. Corners a bit bumped.Leaf B8 is trimmed a half-inch along the fore-edge, not affecting text. Previous owners old ink notes on front endpapers. Overall a very good copy. This is the first English translation of the Traité de Morale. Malebranche is now recognized as a major… Read More

London: Printed for J. Johnson...by T. Bensley, 1803. The Economics of Population MALTHUS, T[homas] R[obert]. An Essay on the Principle of Population; Or, a view of its past and present effects on Human Happiness; With an Inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occasions. A new edition, very much enlarged. London: Printed for J. Johnson... by T. Bensley, 1803. Second edition, enlarged and revised. Quarto. viii, [4], 610 pp. Contemporary calf, skillfully rebacked to style and with corners renewed. Spine decoratively tooled in gilt compartments with burgundy morocco gilt lettering label. Endpapers renewed. Occasional light foxing. Title-page with publisher's diagonal paper flaw crease. Overall very good. A completely revised and greatly expanded edition of the most influential work on population ever written. Malthus published the first edition of his Essay in 1798, and was apparently unprepared for the torrent of controversy that his ideas… Read More

London: John Murray, 1820. If Only Malthus, Instead of Ricardo, Had Been the Parent Stem From Which Nineteenth-Century Economics Proceeded, What a Much Wiser and Richer Place the World Would be Today" MALTHUS, T[homas] R[obert]. Principles of Political Economy. Considered with a View to Their Practical Application. London: John Murray, 1820. First edition. Octavo. vi, [1]2-601[602]. Original boards, uncut. With original paper label on spine. Hinges expertly and almost invisibly repaired. Old bookplate from "The Library of Victoria" with no other library markings. A very clean copy, internally fine. Very scarce in original boards. Housed in a custom quarter black morocco clamshell, gilt-stamped. First edition of Malthus' principal contribution to economic theory. Schumpeter describes Malthus' work in relation to that of his predecessors, Adam Smith and Ricardo, as follows: "Ricardo's work...started with the Wealth of Nations and recoined the latter's theoretical contents by a method that… Read More

Bruges: Colard Mansion, 1484. MANSION, Colard; CAXTON, William. CAXTON, William, [contributor]. An Original leaf from the Ovide Moralisé. Bruges 1484. With an Introduction by Wytze & Lotte Hellinga. Bruges: Colard Mansion, 1484. Full Description: [CAXTON, William, contributor]. [MANSION, Colard]. An Original leaf from the Ovide Moralisé, Bruges 1484. With an Introduction by Wytze & Lotte Hellinga. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger & Co., 1963. One folio leaf (13 13/16 x 9 15/16 inches; 351 x 256 mm), printed on recto and verso of the Ovide Moralisé. Rubricated initials. Printed in two columns in "large bastarda" type, also know as "Mansion Type 1" It has been noted by many scholars that this Type 1 is very similar to Caxton Type 1. According to Norman's History of Information in regards to Caxton's Troy, "The printed book, entitled The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye was the first book printed in English. Caxton published the book with scribe, bookseller and printer, Colard Mansion from whom… Read More