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Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible.

Ethiopia:, C. 18th Century.

Rare illustrated Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible. Small octavo, bound in full leather, parchment manuscript in black and red ink, illustrated with full-page hand-painted miniatures. Some writings and age...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149160

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Golding, William

Lord of the Flies.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1955.

First American edition of Golding’s classic first book, one of the best-known works in modern literature. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to th...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150004

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Young, George Frederic, Col. [Medici]

The Medici.

London: John Murray, 1909.

First editions of Young’s authoritative history of the Medici, extra-illustrated with 91 plates, 20 in color. Octavo, four volumes bound in full contemporary crushed levant morocco with gilt tit...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150704

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Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro

Viage al Estrecho de Magallanes Por el Capitan Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa En los anos de 1579. y 1580.

Madrid: En la Imprenta Real de la Gazeta, 1768.

Rare first edition of Sarmiento’s account of his 1579–1580 survey of the Straits of Magellan. Octavo, bound in full contemporary marbled calf with gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine label...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149745

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Cervantes, Miguel de

Vida Y Hechos del Ingeniso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.

Tarragona: Joseph Barber, 1757.

Eighteenth century finely bound example of Cervantes’ masterpiece “which is to Spanish literature what Shakespeare is to English” (Bloom). Duodecimo, four volumes, bound in full uniform contemporary l...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149186

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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches: And the Form or Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.

London: Printed by Thomas Baskett, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1751.

Elegantly bound 18th century English Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, printed by Thomas Baskett and from the library of John Bird Sumner (1780-1862), Archbishop of Canterbur...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149524

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Malcolm X. with the assistance of Alex Haley

The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1965.

First edition of one of TIME Magazine’s ten most important nonfiction books of the twentieth century. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with 22 karat gilt titles and tooling...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150961

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Livy

The Roman History Written in Latine by Titus Livius. With the Supplements Of the Learned John Freinshemius, and John Dujatius. From the Foundation of Rome to the middle of the Reign of Augustus. Faithfully done into English.

London: Awnsham Churchill, 1686.

An exceptional early English edition of Livy’s classic Roman History. Folio, bound in period calf, illustrated with four plates, including frontispiece woodcut portraits of emperors and Hannibal...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133257

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Ebülgâzî Bahadir Han, Khan of Khorezm

A General History of the Turks, Moguls, and Tatars, Vulgarly called Tartars. Together With a Description of the Countries They Inhabit.

London: Printed for J. and J. Knapton, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, et. al., 1729-1730.

Rare first edition in English of one of the earliest sources on the Turks, Moguls, and Tartars. Octavos, two volumes. Bound in full polished calf with red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt t...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-109632

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship.

London: Oliver & Boyd, 1824.

First edition in English of Goethe’s masterpiece. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in original boards, pages uncut. In near fine condition. Exceptionally rare in the original boards, we have not seen an...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-126782

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Trollope, Anthony

The Last Chronicle of Barset.

London: Smith, Elder, 1867.

First edition in original 32 weekly parts of the final novel in Trollope’s acclaimed Barsetshire series. Octavo, original color pictorial wrappers. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. In ve...

$4,600.00 Item Number: RRB-140447

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Wallace, David Foster

The Broom of the System.

New York: Penguin Books, 1987.

First edition of the author’s classic first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling a...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146609

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Carroll, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.

London: MacMillan and Co, 1872.

Octavo, two volumes, uniformly bound in full red morocco, all edges gilt, gilt titles and tooling to the spines, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, original cloth bindings tipped i...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-130848

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Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Louis Antoine [Napoleon]

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. By M. de Bourrienne, his Private Secretary.

London: Richard Bentley, 1836.

Finely bound extra-illustrated edition set of de Bourrienne’s Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. Octavos, eight volumes, bound in full 19th century crimson morocco by Riviere and Son with gilt title...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-109608

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Lindbergh, Charles A

We.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927.

Signed limited edition of Lindbergh’s autobiography, which provides the account of the life of one of the century’s greatest adventurers, the first man to complete a solo non-stop transatl...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133274

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Thackeray, William Makepeace

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.

First edition, first issue of Thackeray’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full green morocco elaborately bound by Bayntun in Cosway-style with a portrait of Thackeray inset on the front cover, ela...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150809

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Austen, Jane

The Novels of Jane Austen [Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma].

London: Grant Richards, 1898.

The Winchester edition of the novels of Jane Austen containing each of her major works. Octavo, 10 volumes bound in three quarters crushed levant morocco with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, ti...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-141674

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Dickens, Charles

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850.

First edition of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt m...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-130508

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Norton, Thomas. [John Calvin]

The Institution Of Christian Religion, Written In Latin By M. John Calvine, Translated Into English According To The Authors Last Edition; With Sundry Tables To Finde The Principall Matters Intreated Of In This Booke.

London: John Norton, 1611.

Rare 1611 edition of Calvin’s seminal work on systematic theology, regarded as one of the most influential works of Protestant theology. Quarto, bound in three quarter calf with five raised band...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132719

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Austen, Jane

Emma: A Novel. By the Author of “Pride and Prejudice.”

London: Richard Bentley, 1836.

Early separate issue from Bentley‘s Standard Novels series of the final novel published during Austen’s lifetime, a re-issue of the 1833 edition which was the first one-volume edition and...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145588

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Spratt, Capt. Thomas Abel Bremage

Travels and Researches in Crete.

London: John van Voorst, 1865.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, hand colored folding engraved maps, 14 tinted lithographed plates, 3 further plates (of inscriptions and coins), lithographed pla...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135308

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Poe, Edgar Allan

The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe.

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902.

The Annabel edition of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe. Octavo, ten volumes, bound in three quarters crushed levant morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raise...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-141684

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Columbus, Christopher

The Spanish Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant’ Angel: Escribano de Racion of the Kingdom of Aragon Dated 15 February 1493.

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1891.

First edition of the facsimile edition of Christopher Columbus’ letter to Luis de Santángel about his initial voyage to the Americas. Folio, half morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spin...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147790

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