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Reftelius, Johannes Martinus; Carl Linnaeus

Reformatio Botanices. [Reformation of Botany].

Uppsala: Uppsala University, December 18, 1762.

First edition of this academic dissertation presented under the supervision of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsala University, Sweden. Square octavo, written in Latin, bound in three quarters morocco over speckl...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149466

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Stanley, Henry M

In Darkest Africa or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.

First edition of Stanley’s classic work. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in the original publishers three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, marbled edges and endpapers. Tw...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-102433

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Conrad, Joseph

The Collected Works of Joseph Conrad. [Almayer’s Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of “Narcissus”, Tales of Unrest, Lord Jim, The Inheritors, Youth: and Two Other Stories, Romance, Typhoon and Other Stories, Nostromo, The Mirror of the Sea, The Secret Agent, A Set of Six, Under Western Eyes, Some Reminiscences, ‘Twist Land & Sea Tales, Chance, Victory, Within the Tides, The Shadow Line, The Arrow of Gold, On Day More, The Rescue].

London: William Heinemann, 1921.

Signed limited edition of the complete works of the writings of Joseph Conrad, one of 780 copies. Octavo, 20 volumes, original cloth. Signed by Joseph Conrad on the limitation page of volume one. In n...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-129488

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Dickens, Charles

Bleak House.

London: Bradbury Evans, 1853.

First edition of this Dickens’ classic. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge g...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-141572

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Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Idylls of the King [Fore-Edge Painting].

London: Edward Moxon & Co, 1869.

Finely bound example with a fore-edge painting of Tennyson’s “long-meditated great task” which brought him to fame (Baugh, 1388). Octavo, bound in full red pebbled morocco, spine sta...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-123739

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Farrell, James T. [William Safire]

Studs Lonigan. A Trilogy Containing Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day.

New York: The Modern Library, [1938].

First edition, early printing of Farrell’s well-regarded trilogy. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and raised bands to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Associa...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-127643

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French Book of Prayer.

Paris:, c. 1697.

Rare late 17th century Book of Prayer. Octavo, bound in one quarter vellum over speckled red boards with a hand painted coat of arms to the front panel, all edges red, illustrated with two engravings,...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-116083

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Dickens, Charles

Master Humphrey’s Clock.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841.

First edition of this collection of short stories. Large octavo, 3 volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartme...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-132470

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Hall, Radclyffe

The Well of Loneliness.

New York: Covici-Friede Publishers, 1929.

Signed limited edition of this classic work, one of only 225 copies. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, frontispiece to volume one. Signed by Radclyffe Hall. In fine condition. An exceptional example...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-141326

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James, Henry

Roderick Hudson.

New York: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876.

First edition of one of James’ earliest novels. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. An exceptional presentation.

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-142180

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Estienne, Robert and Henri

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae.

Basel: E. & J.R. Thurnis, 1740.

Folios, 4 volumes. Bound in contemporary vellum. In very good condition. Presents nicely.

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-3016

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Bellow, Saul

Dangling Man.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised gi...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-146618

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Giles, Herbert A

A Chinese-English Dictionary.

Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, & Yokahama: Kelly & Walsh, Limited and London: Bernard Quaritch, 1912.

Finley bound second revised and enlarged edition of Giles’ monumental work, the first Chinese–English encyclopedic dictionary published. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-138229

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Tarbell, Ida M

The Life of Abraham Lincoln.

New York: Lincoln History Society, 1909.

Bound set of Tarbell’s classic biography of President Lincoln. Octavo, 4 volumes, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt facsimile signature of Lincoln to the front pa...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-129092

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Cooper, James Fenimore

The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper.

New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1856.

Octavo, 17 volumes. Bound in full tan leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, tooling to board edges. Raised bands, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. In near fine condition.

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-3663

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Zola, Emile

Le Capitaine Burle: Comment on Meurt pour une Nuit d’Amour aux Champs la Fete a Coqueville L’Inondation.

Paris: G. Charpentier, 1883.

Rare first edition of Zola’s novel exploring human weakness and desire, written at the height of his career. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-95884

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[Armenian Bible]

Girkr Astuatsashunchʿi hin ew nor Ktakaranatsʿ. [The Books of the Old and New Testaments in Armenian].

Venice: Printed at the Mekhitarist Monastery of Saint Lazarus, 1860.

Later edition of the Bible in classical Armenian. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles to the spine, title page vignette. In good condition with rubbing to the spine and extremitie...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-149517

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Fourcroy, Antoine-Francois De

Systeme des Connaissances Chimiques, et de leurs applications aux phénomènes de la nature et de l’art..

: Paris, An IX-X, 1800-01..

First Octavo edition, published simultaneously with an edition in quarto format. Contemporary vellum, gilt lettered spine-labels, 10 volumes in 5. With the stamped signatures of Fourcroy and the publi...

$1,700.00 Item Number: RRB-1835

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Rainsford, Marcus

An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti: Comprehending a View of The Principal Transactions in the Revolution of Saint Domingo; With Its Antient and Modern State.

[London]: Albion Press Printed: Published by James Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row, 1805.

First edition of this important turn-of-the-19th century work on the inhabitants of Haiti and St. Domingo which discusses at length the struggle for independence among the black colonies, slavery, and...

$1,650.00 Item Number: RRB-151802

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Woolf, Virginia

The Years.

London: Hogarth Press, 1937.

First edition of the most successful of Woolf’s later novels, often viewed as her masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised...

$1,650.00 Item Number: RRB-140038

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Bunyan, John

Bunyan’s Choice Works: The Pilgrim’s Progress, The Holy War, The Barren Fig-Tree, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and Heart’s Ease in Heart Trouble.

Glasgow: James Semple, c.1880.

Finely bound edition of one of the most significant works of religious English literature. Quarto, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gil...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-148101

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Ellis, Havelock

Studies in the Psychology of Sex.

Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company, 1905-1910.

Finely bound set of Havelock Ellis’ landmark work Studies in the Psychology of Sex. Octavo, 6 volumes. Bound in three quarters levant morocco by Stikeman and Company, gilt titles and tooling to...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-28043

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.}

The Collected Writing of John Maynard Keynes.

London: Macmillan University Press for the Royal Economic Society, 1971.

The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes. Octavo, 30 volumes, original cloth. Volumes XI, XII, XVI-XXX are first editions. Each volume is near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-144916

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Wright, Richard

Native Son.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940.

First edition, first issue with “A – P” on the copyright page. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-145947

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