Rare books from Dennis Holzman Antiques

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1815. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/None Issued. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Full leather, gilt stamped spine, xv + 238 pp., includes history and symptoms of the disease, cases and methods of cure. Leather is worn and chipped at corners, spine ends and along edges, two pieces of leather missing on spine, each about ¾", leather scuffed in general, some light foxing on end papers, two previous owner's names on title page, otherwise, interior is quite clean, no writing, underlining or markings, and binding is sound, and pages are bright. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 5 oz. Category: Medical; Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 005711. .

Andreae Poleti, Venice, 1705. Second Latin Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/None Issued. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text is in Latin. This is the Second Latin edition published in 1705. Full vellum, [28] + 659 pages. Jean Mapillon (1632-1707), famous French Benedictine scholar and historiographer, is considered the founder of paleography and diplomatics. He became famous for his "De Re Diplomatica" where he gives a detailed history of the Latin script and demonstrates the way in which the handwriting of his day developed out of the capital Roman letters. Following universal acclaim for this work, he was invited to draw up a plan of studies for persons leading a monastic life. This worked first appeared in French in 1691, was translated into Latin in 1702 and in 1705 by Josepho Porta Astensi and was an enormous success. The first part sketches out a course of study for monks, the second part discusses the difficulties of deciphering ancient manuscripts, and the third part, provides… Read More

Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/None Issued. The is the First American Edition. Size: 12mo. This is a mixed set of the First American Edition with Volume I being three quarters gilt stamped leather and black pebbled cloth over boards, and the second volume green gilt stamped and blind stamped cloth over boards. Volume I has marbled end papers, XII, 13-365pages; Volume II has yellow glossy end papers, XII, 9-387 pages, 8 pages advertisements. Leather along side of spine of Volume I is worn, pages lightly toned; otherwise interior is clean with no writing, marks or foxing, and the binding is sound. Volume II is bumped with some wear at head of the spine, foxing on end papers, interior pages lightly toned; otherwise, interior is clean with no writing, marks or foxing, and the binding is sound. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 1 oz. Category: Fiction; Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.… Read More

Ro Allot, London, 1632. Third Edition. Hardcover. Poor Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 4to. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's book-plate laid in on front end paper. Stated third edition. Full leather, engraved title page, fold-out two-page map, 309 pages, 45 engravings in the text. Bookplate of William Wakeling Boreham on front end paper. Lacks the fold-out panorama. Leather is worn, back strip missing except for about a 2 inch piece, boards taped together with tape that is worn and soiled, text block still connected to back cover, but separated from front cover except for a tiny strip of original binding; lacks front free end paper, interior has some staining mostly in blank margins, some pages loose, but all hanging together. One of the most interesting and important travel books of the English Renaissance, this influential 17th century travel account of southern Europe… Read More

G. W. Bromley & Co, New York, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 4to, oblong. Text contains minor marks/notes in pencil. Previous owner's name in pencil on front paste down. Black cloth over boards, includes 191 highly detailed maps of Manhattan broken down into sections, shows streets, railroads, parks, buildings in incredible detail. It even indicates whether the buildings are brick or iron etc. Useful indexes and keys help read maps. Binding loose, hinges and text block cracked, some plates are loose but all are present, Covers worn, especially at spine ends and corners, staining on cloth, colors on plates faded, tears on some plates, a few repairs have been made, some toning and staining, notes/marks in pencil on several plates. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 15 lbs 15 oz. Category: Geography & Maps; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 012370. .

Printed by B. Alsop & T. Fawcet, London, 1639. Fifth English Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket (as issued). Size: 24mo. Text contains minor marks/notes in pen. Binding is sound. Previous owners' names in ink . Rebacked, original spine and board leather with gilt-stamped spine label, 305 pages, 5 1/2" x 3 1/4". Engraved title page by W. Marshall cut down, mounted, and inserted, a little toned with some paper loss to image on lower left edge; page 100 mistakenly printed as 110. The fifth and last English edition translated by Ralph Robinson, includes the dedication to More's grandson, Cresacre, that first appeared in the 1624 edition. Edges, corners and spine ends bumped and worn, scattered staining, pencil notes in blank margins. Includes 1992 receipt from Vanbrugh Rare Books. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Fiction; Politics & Government. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No:… Read More

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 25-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All volumes bound in gilt-stamped maroon leather and marbled paper over boards, marbled end papers, top edges gilt, illustrated with plates. Volumes I-II: Scenes of Clerical Life; III-IV: Adam Bede; V-VI: The Mill on the Floss; VII: Silas Marner, Brother Jacob; VIII-IX: Romola; X-XI: Felix Holt; XII-XIV: Middlemarch; XV-XVII: Daniel Deronda; XVIII: The Spanish Gypsy; XIX: The Poems; XX: Theophrastus Such; XXI-XXII: Essays; XXIII-XXV: Life Letters Journals. Volumes have nicks to the leather, otherwise in very good condition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 40 lbs 0 oz. Category: Literature & Literary;… Read More

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. First Edition with Scribner's A and seal on colophon. Gilt-stamped burnt-orange cloth over boards, fore-edge deckled, 241 pages. Corners and spine ends bumped and lightly worn, offsetting from previously inserted paper on front end papers, final three end papers in back of book have bent corners, otherwise very good condition. In original dust jacket that is bumped and worn at corners and spine ends, has chipping along top edge on back flap, lightly toned and rubbed at fore-edges, preserved in a Brodart jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 0 oz. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 014204. .

Carleton, New York, 1862. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Rebound, gilt-stamped dark green leather over boards with previous owner's name stamped on front board, all edges gilt, marbled end papers, divided into five parts: Fantine, Cosette, Marius, Saint Denis, Jean Valjean, each separately paginated, (iv), [7]-171, (iv), [7]-164, (iv), [7]-150, (iv), [7]-184, (iv), [7]-165, approximately 825 pages total. Light wear to corners, spine ends and edges, toning along spine, covers stained, gilt-stamped text block scratched, label on front paste-down indicating this was rebound by South Bend Tribune Book-Bindery, scattered staining in text. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 2 oz. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 014742. .

Printed by Order of the Corporation of New York by W. A. Davis, New York, 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 10" x 8 1/4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Full gilt-stamped leather over boards, marbled end papers and text block edges, pp. (v), [2], 408, [2], with all listed illustrations plus two additional, unlisted plates: the scarce Baker's Benefit Society Engraving and a plate with three small, separate engravings: one for the Boat Builder's Association, a second with an encircled top hat, and a third titled "Ball Badge Canal Celebratoin The Meeting of the Waters". Covers heavily worn at extremities, tender hinges, both hinges cracked but still attached, scattered instances of staining, some short tears and additional, haphazard folds on some of the fold-out plates and maps. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 12 oz. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Pictures of… Read More

John Murray, London, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 7 5/8" x 5 1/2". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. G. [Gift binding] Full leather with gilt decoration along the edges of the boards and along the spine, five raised bands, a black leather and a red leather spine label, marbled end papers, gilt inner dentelles, 352 pages. Wear at corners and spine ends, boards have light scratches, previous owner's name label (Erastus Corning 2nd (1909-1983), Mayor of Albany, NY) on front paste down, several pages uncut. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 11 oz. Category: Science & Technology; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015021. .

A. O. P. Nicholson, Washington, 1856. First Edition, House of Representatives Issue. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 11 3/4" x 9 3/4". 3-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Three volumes bound with blind-stamped cloth over boards, Vols. I & III in brown, Vol. II in black, all three have gilt -stamping on spines with "House Reps." at the head of the spines and "Navy Department" at the foot. Vol. I: pp. xvii, [1], 537; extensively illustrated with 82 color lithographs (includes the suppressed nude bathing litho), 6 engraved maps, 2 of which are folding, 4 tinted engravings of a waterwheel and ships, and 3 color plates of reproduced Japanese art, 2 of which are folding, also includes numerous in-text illustrations. Vol. II: pp. [8], 414, [4], 14 (this section is numbered backwards because it is a facsimile of the treaty in Japanese), xi, [1]; illustrated with 9 color… Read More

John Murray, London, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8" x 5 1/2". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Green cloth over boards, gilt-stamping along spine, 592 pages plus 32 pages of ads dated May, 1878, two lines of errata on p. x, presentation in publisher's clerk's hand on front free flyleaf. Corners and spine ends bumped, covers have minor stains/signs of rubbing, small divot on spine with fraying cloth, front board loosening but still attached. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 5 lbs 0 oz. Category: Science & Technology; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015379. .

The Noonday Press, New York, 1954. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Picasso, Pablo. Size: 17 1/4" x 11 1/4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Black cloth over boards with cream-colored printed title label on front board, pages deckled and composed of alternating pages of terra cotta, blue, gray, black, and cream-colored paper, unpaginated, approximately 35 pages, illustrated with four lithographs by Pablo Picasso. This book is unnumbered, though is one of an edition of 64. Covers rubbed, sun-fading along spine and top edges of boards, bottom right corner of frontispiece lithograph is creased. Illustrator: Picasso, Pablo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 0 oz. Category: Art & Design; Poetry. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015383. .

E. P. Little, Pittsfield, MA, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 6 1/4" x 4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Professionally reinforced spine, original embossed brown cloth with gilt-stamped title on spine, 100 pages. A rare book, this is the first publication to focus exclusively on the Adirondacks. Covers worn at extremities with some professional repairs made, notes in ink and pencil on end papers as well as some newspaper clippings, tear repaired on front free end paper, scattered foxing/staining throughout. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015469. .