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[New Preston:] 1922 Author's edition. First printing, limited to fifty copies, signed by both Speyer and Wal. Quarter cloth over decorative boards, printed paper label on front cover. . Octavo. With seventeen etchings, most including text and image, printed on rectos. Boards partially faded, a little very light foxing. A very good, clean copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author: "To John L. Huber from his friends Leonora Speyer. Edgar Speyer. 1924. Leonora Speyer (1872-1956) was an American poet and violinist. She was the daughter of Count Ferdinand von Stosch of Mantze in Silesia, who fought for the Union army, and Julia Schayer, a short story writer. She studied music in Brussels, Paris, and Leipzig. She married the banker Edgar Speyer, and lived with him in London until 1915, and then in New York, where she began writing poetry. She won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her book of poetry "Fiddler's Farewell." The subject of the present book is the Oberammergau Passion Play, which has… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1932 First trade edition. Cloth. Octavo. Spine faded. Very good in like dust jacket. Spine of jacket browned, with chip at top of spine.

Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson.. 1797 One of three Philadelphia editions printed in the same year. Disbound. . Twelvemo. Very good. Purves (1734-1795) was a Universalist preacher who held an Arian position that Christ, with a pre-existent human soul, was first born of all creation. He was troubled by Joseph Priestley's writings on free will and the nature of the soul. In 1790 he came outwith the book, Some Observations on Socinian Arguments, which attacks the ideas of Priestley and his followers. In the present work, he attacks Priestley more directly, and especially Priestley's 1777 book, The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity.

Amsterdam: J.F. Rosart & Co., 1784 Contemporary calf. Gilt spine with black and burgundy morocco labels, edges stained red. Twelvemo. Joints tender, old ink signature on title-page, modern bookplate. A very pretty copy. Mably (1709-1785), elder brother of Condillac and influential political theorist, prophesied in this, the last book published in his lifetime, the downfall of America. His criticism of the United States Constitution is voiced in four letters directed to John Adams, then American embassador to the Netherlands.

Amsterdam: Chez D. J. Changuion, 1770 First edition in French of Allgemeine Betrachtungen über die Triebe der Thiere (1760), one of the earliest texts on instinct theory. In what may be his most important work, Reimarus (1694-1768) discusses animal psychology and attempts to classify the instincts of animals. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines with burgundy and black labels, edges stained red. Two volumes, twelvemo. . Engraved title-page vignettes; titles printed in black and red. Half-titles preserved. Corners rubbed. A very good set. Reimarus studied philosophy and theology at Jena. His philosophical outlook was based upon the ideas of Christian Wolff, though he dissented from Wolff in his views of philosophical methodology, stressing the moral aim of philosophy. His best known work, Wolfenbuttel Fragments, was published posthumously by Lessing in 1777.

London: W. and J. Richardson for John Murray 1773 Second edition, enlarged, of an important sociological and anthropological study by John Millar (1735-1801), Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow and friend of Hume, Adam Smith and other members of the Scottish enlightenment. The first edition, in quarto format, appeeared two years earlier.. Contemporary polished calf. Gilt-ruled spine with red morocco label. Octavo. One inch split along front joint near head of spine. Offsetting to first and last couple of leaves from binding. Overall a very good, clean copy. The present work "contains a number of ingenious, progressive and penetrating ideas. It begins with the history of the station of women. Millar was by no means a primitivist, but he points out the equal and qualified station of women in primitive societies, thus making him a precursor of Bachofen. The advancement of civilization or the progress of labour and wealth, had formerly served to reduce the station of women, but since feudal… Read More

New York: Printed and Sold by Mahlon Day, 1827 Second edition, expanded with the appendices by James Mott (1788 – 1868). First published by Mahlon Day in 1825. All editions are rare in commerce. . Publisher's dark brown cloth. . Twelvemo. With two appendices by James Mott: "Brief Hints to Parents & General Principles" and "Hints to Young People." The former appendix has its own half-title, but the latter does not (as issued). Despite odd pagination, work is complete. Cloth chipped away at head of spine. Some soiling to cloth and rubbing to extremities. Foxing throughout. A good copy of a book by Abigail Mott Moore and James Mott, the sister-in-law and husband of Lucretia Mott, respectively. Abigail Mott Moore (1795 – 1846) and her brother James Mott were Quaker abolitionists and activists. Both Moore and Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793 – 1880), James' wife, were crucial figures in the suffrage movement of their day, with Lucretia serving as the lead speaker at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, [1982] First edition. Boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

New York: Creative Age, 1950 First edition. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Some discoloration to endpapers. Very good + in lightly chipped, very good d.j.

New York: Dutton, [1936] First edition. Cloth. . Octavo. Very good in dust defective jacket. Jacket lacks 1" square piece on front cover and is edgeworn, but bright and has the $2.00 price intact.

This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details.[Vancouver, British Columbia:] Heavenly Monkey, 2011 First edition. One of thirty copies, signed by Westergard. Out of print upon publication. Bound by Claudia Cohen in dark blue Japanese cloth with gilt black morocco spine onlay. . Small folio. Forty mounted engravings. A fine copy. A delightful book, featuring darkly humorous illustrations of notable oddballs, including Salvador Dali, Aimee Semple McPherson, Howard Hughes, Gelett Burgess, Rasputin, Timothy Leary, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lizzie Borden, and others. Afterword by Rollin Milroy.

[Flansham, Bognor Regis The Pear Tree Press, 1937] Number 17 of a purported 100 copies. OCLC notes seven copies only worldwide: Columbia, Stanford, Boston Atheneum, Trinithy College Dublin, Cambridge, the National Library of Scotland, and the British Library. Publisher's quarter oatmeal cloth over cream boards, illustrated paper label on front cover. Light blue paper ust jacket, featuring a variant version of the frontispiece illustration. . 8 bifoliate leaves, printed on recotos only, comprising the half-title, frontispiece, title, three pages of the poem, the colophon (which is signed by James Guthrie), and the tailpiece. The text and illustrations are printed in purple and gold. A hint of foxing, but a lovely copy of a scarce work. With three proof sheets: the title, page 2 of the poem, and the colophon, printed in green and gold, the first two signed by Guthrie at the foot. The Pear Tree Press was founded in 1899. Its proprietor, James Guthrie, named it after his residence at the time, Par… Read More

Amsterdam: Chez Jean Schreuder , 1765 First collected edition of Leibniz's works and first edition of his "Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain" (pp. [1]-496). Contemporary quarter sheep over sprinkled boards with vellum tips. Spine ruled in gilt in compartments with two olive morocco gilt labels. Edges stained red. . Quarto. Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette by O. de Fries. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Occasional light foxing, marginal dampstain to final two leaves, short tear in the upper margin of the final leaf. Small circular ownership stamp on title. A superb copy. "Leibniz was moved by the publication in 1704 of Coste's French translation of Locke's Essay on Human Understanding to lay his thoughts in detail alongside those of Locke. Leibniz' New Essays (Nouveaux Essais sur l'entendement humain) was not a systematic criticism of Locke's philosophy. It contains occasional discussions of Locke's views, but in general Leibniz expounded his own… Read More

Oxford: At the Theatre Ann, 1673 Contemporary mottled calf, burgundy morocco spine label. . Twelvemo. Large engraving of the University arms on title-page, partly colored in a contemporary hand. With the errata leaf. Joints a bit worn. Armorial bookplate of genealogist and antiquary Evelyn Philip Shirley (1812-1882). A very good copy, clean and crisp. Obadiah Walker (1616-1699), a noted bibliophile, was the senior fellow and later the Master at University College, Oxford. Of Education is a distillation of his teaching experiences at Oxford. It was very popular, going to six editions by the turn of the century. Madan 2994 notes that "The first edition must have sold off well. The present edition is a reprint in a smaller size and type, with revisions and additions, and some ornaments. The last section of the whole book is a fair example of the changes.

NY: Knopf, 1987 Quarter burgundy cloth over terra cotta boards, front cover and spine stamped in copper. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j. Signed by the author. The author's second novel.

Los Angeles: The Plantin Press, 1967 One of 250 copies printed for friends of Saul and Lillian Marks in honor of the 1967 holiday season. Cream-colored printed wrappers, stitched at spine. Octavo. Fine. A very handsome printing of these sonnets in italic type--and a bit reminiscent of the Plantin edition of Shakespeare's sonnets, which came out in 1974.

Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, [1980] One of 1,500 copies. Original tan cloth with burgundy label on spine. Small folio. Numerous text illustrations and facsimiles, some in color. Fine in publisher's slipcase.

Full maroon morocco by L. de Palhares of Lisbon. Covers and spine decoratively stamped in gilt and blind. Bookplate of the author on front pastedown. . About thirty-five items, bound in one volume, the author's own copy set of his offprints, with a few abstracts and news articles taped in. Light shelfwear. A very good copy. Savitsch (1902-?) was a doctor and sexologist. Born in St. Petersburg, his family fled to Japan on the outbreak of the Russian Revolution. He later moved to America, where he struggled with poverty and tuberculosis, but became a doctor. After graduating from the University of Chicago, he studied at the Pasteur Institute and the Bunge Institute in Antwerp. At the latter, he did field work on sleeping sickness in the Belgian Congo. Much of his early work was done in the area of tuberculosis, and many of the articles here are on that subject. He later distinguished himself in the are of transgender studies, publishing Homosexuality, Transvestism and Change of Sex in (1958). He… Read More

Los Angeles: [Printed for the friends of Fay and Lawrence Clark Powell by the Ward Ritchie Press], 1945 First edition, limited to 200 copies. Designed by Joseph Simon. Cream colored wrappers, stitched at spine. Twelvemo. Woodcut title-page illustration in reddish-brown. A fine copy.

Slains House, Collieston, Aberdeenshire, Scotland: Aberdeen Rare Books, 1978 Facsimile one-volume reprint of 'The Old English Farming Books,' 1947, and 'More Old English Farming Books,' 1950. Cloth. Two volumes in one, octavo. Fine in lightly soiled, near fine d.j.