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The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1904.

First edition of Wells’ satiric utopian novel. Octavo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and c...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-95220

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Lawrence, T.E

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.

Finely bound edition of Lawrence’s classic account of his role in the Arab rebellion against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Brentano’s, frontispi...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144546

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Loti, Pierre. [Louis Marie-Julien Viaud]

Oeuvres de Pierre Loti: Aziyadé, Le Mariage de Loti, Le Roman D’Un Enfant, Mon Frère Yves, Pêcheur d’Islande, Madame Chrysanthème, Les Désenchantées, La Troisième Jeunesse de Madame Prune, Un Pèlerin d’Angkor, Ramuntcho. [The Works of Pierre Loti].

Paris: Calman-Levy, 1936 -1937.

The Calmann-Lévy limited illustrated edition of the works of Pierre Loti. Octavo, thirteen volumes uniformly bound in three quarter pebbled blue morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149542

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Welty, Eudora

One Writer’s Beginnings.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1984.

First edition, early printing of this reflective memoir. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151399

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Hamilton, Edward

The River-Side Naturalist: Notes of the Various Forms of Life Met With Either In, On, or By The Water, or In Its Immediate Vicinity.

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Limited, 1890.

First edition of Hamilton’s work on riverside flora and fauna. Octavo, bound in full polished calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-129542

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Report From The Secretary of War, Transmitting, In Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate, the Report of the Commissioner to Investigate Claims Against the Miami Indians, with a Statement of Expense of Said Commission, &c. March 2, 1839.

:, 1839-1886.

Rare sammelband collection of three Congressional Reports regarding the Miami Indian Treaties. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt to the...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-135438

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McGuffey, William

The Eclectic Fourth Reader: Containing Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry, From the Best American and English Writers. With Copious Rules for Reading, and Directions for Avoiding Common Errors.

Cincinnati: Published by Truman and Smith, 1838.

Finely bound sixth edition of the fourth McGuffey Reader. Octavo, bound in full contemporary mottled calf with gilt ruling to the spine, morocco spine label lettered in gilt. In very good condition.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-140352

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Loeb, Marshall and William Safire

Plunging into Politics: How to Become or Support a Candidate of the National, State, of Local Level.

New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1964.

First edition of Safire and Loeb’s classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the f...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-128605

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Eliot, George

Felix Holt: The Radical.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866.

First editions of this classic work. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth, half-title to each volume, 4 pp publisher’s ads at rear of volume 3. Publisher’s orange-brown cloth, spines lettered...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148184

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Dumas, Alexandre (Alexander)

Henri III et sa Cour.

Paris: Vezard et Cie, 1829.

Rare first edition of Dumas’ first play. Octavo, contemporary half calf over marbled boards. This work also includes Maximes et Pensées Du Prisonnier De Sainte-Hélène. In near fine condition wit...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-87497

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Meredith, George

The Works of George Meredith.

Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co, 1897.

Finely bound set of the works of George Meredith. Octavo, 18 volumes bound by Maclehose in three quarters crushed morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-124159

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Campbell, George

Log-Letters From “The Challenger.” [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Macmillan and Co, 1881.

Finely bound example of Campbell’s account of the cruise of The Challenger. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138428

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Apcar, Amy

Melodies of the Holy Apostolic Church of Armenia: The Liturgy as Sung in Ordinary, During Lent, and on Festivals.

Leipzig: Printed by Breitkopf & Haertel, 1920.

Second and enlarged edition of these rich chant traditions of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Octavo, three volumes, written in English and Armenian, bound in three-quarters morocco with gilt titles to...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149490

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Dickens, Charles

Dombey and Son.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.

First edition in of Dickens’ novel of “Pride,” with 40 etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne (“Phiz”). Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, m...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-136227

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Blacker, William

Blacker’s Art of Fly Making.

London: Rewritten and Revised By the Author, 1855.

Second edition of this classic work on the art of fly fishing and fly tying. Duodecimo, bound in three-quarters morocco over boards with gilt titles and floral detailing stamped in blind to the spine...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150426

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Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle

Les Quatre Claudine.

Paris: Pierre de Tartas, 1972-73.

Deluxe illustrated edition of Colette’s four Claudine books with the original lithographic frontispiece portrait by Jean Cocteau. Quartos, 4 volumes, bound in full gilt-decorated pebbled morocco...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-94691

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Merrihew, Stephen Wallis

The Quest of the Davis Cup: Volume VI of The Lawn Tennis Library.

New York: American Lawn Tennis, Inc, 1928.

First signed limited edition de luxe of Merrihew’s classic work on the “World Cup of Tennis.” Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-105106

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Milne, A. A. Decorations by Ernest Shepard

Now We Are Six.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1960.

Finely bound example of the third book in Milne’s beloved Pooh series. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine i...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-129436

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Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton

The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man’s Recreation, being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and Fishing.

London: Henry Washbourne, 1842.

The Washbourne edition of this classic of English literature, being a reprint of the 5th Major edition and including a facsimile reproduction of title page of the first edition of 1653. Octavo, bound...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149781

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Gogol, Nikolai V

Dead Souls.

London: Vizetelly & Co., n.d..

Finely bound example of Gogol’s masterwork, “the first novel from which the world began to form its ideas of 19th-century Russia” (Hornstein, 139). Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over m...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-132581

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Oliphant, Margaret

The Makers of Venice: Doges, Conquerors, Painters and Men of Letters. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Macmillan and Co, 1893.

Finely bound example of the Scottish historian’s classic work on the foundation of Venice. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138708

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Wilde, Oscar

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime. A Study of Duty.

[London]: Privately Printed, 1904.

First separate edition of Wilde’s classic collection of of mystery tales; a pirated edition produced by Leonard Smithers. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt tit...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-140581

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Johnstone, James [Translator]

The Norwegian Account of Haco’s Expedition Against Scotland.

Copenhagen: Printed for the author, 1782.

Rare first edition of this classic account of Haco’s campaign against Alexander III of Scotland in 1263, a campaign that culminated in the Battle of Largs and resulted in Håkon’s death. Sm...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146130

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Davis, John K

With the “Aurora” in the Antarctic 1911-1914.

London: Andrew Melrose, 1919.

First edition of Captain John Davis’ expedition to Antarctica. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt titles and gilt illustration of the titular steamship, illustrated throughout, tipped-in rear map...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-111886

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