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Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.

First limited edition De Luxe of the definitive collection of Kipling’s verse. Royal octavo, bound in full limp vellum with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt, d...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-150966

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Barton, Lucy

Historic Costume for the Stage.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1957.

First edition of Barton’s best-known work. Quarto, bound in full morocco by Asprey with gilt titles and raised gilt bands to the spine, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, m...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-101509

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Voltaire [AROUET, Francois-Marie]

Candide.

New York: Hermitage House, 1949.

Hermitage House limited edition of Voltaire’s satirical masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six com...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-148560

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Lanfrey, Pierre [Napoleon]

The History of Napoleon the First.

London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1871-1879.

First English edition of this critical biography that attempts to demythologize Napoleon Bonaparte. Octavo, four volumes, bound in early twentieth century three-quarters morocco over marble covered bo...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-151123

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Carl Strauss [Illustrator]

The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni.

Zurich: Fretz Brothers, 1931.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Hawthorne’s last major work of fiction. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within r...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-148391

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Van Evrie, John H

Negroes and Negro “Slavery:” The First an Inferior Race: The Latter its Normal Condition.

New York: Van Evrie, Horton & Co, 1861.

First edition of this vehemently proslavery work by the New York physician who attacks the “great ‘Anti-Slavery’ delusion'” of Wilberforce and others, published the year the na...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-152038

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Boswell, James

The Life of Samuel Johnson.

London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1891.

Octavo, 6 volumes, bound in three quarters red morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, illustrated with portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds. In near fine condition. An attractively...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-2542

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Thiers, Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe

Histoire de la Revolution Francaise. [History of the French Revolution].

Societe Typographique Belge: Bruxelles, 1840.

Finely bound example of the first major work on the French Revolution. Quarto, two volumes bound in full contemporary polished and diced calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated, ti...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-137208

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Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus.

London: Gulielmus Pickering, 1824.

Rare second Pickering Diamond edition, large paper issue, with an additional engraved title page. 12 mo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the front panel, raised bands, marbled endpapers. In very...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-82315

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Facsimiles of Declaration of Independence and the Treaty of Waitangi.

New Zealand: R.E. Owen, Government Printer, 1960.

Finely bound example of this compilation of documents related to the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand and the Treaty of Waitangi. Quarter, bound in full pebbled leatherette with gilt tit...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-114073

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Campan, Jeanne Louise Henriette [Marie Antoinette]

Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette to Which Are Added Personal Recollections Illustravtive of the Reigns of Louis XIV, XV, XVI.

New York: Brentano's, 1917.

Finely bound example of this personal firsthand account of the French queen’s domestic world written by her first lady-in-waiting. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full dark blue morocco with gilt titles...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-149367

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Bourget, Paul

Le Disciple.

Paris: Collection Française, 1925.

Limited Collection Française edition of Bourget’s most notable work. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine in three compartments within raised g...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-115687

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Chamich, Father Michael; Johannes Avdall [Translator]

History of Armenia.

Calcutta: Printed at Bishop's College Press, 1827.

First edition of the English translation of the history of Armenia from B.C. 2247 to A.D. 1780. Octavo, volume one only out of two, bound in full tree calf with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to th...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-151169

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Peixotto, Ernest

Romantic California.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912.

Finely bound edition of this classic in travel and tourism for the state of California. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands with a desig...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-147696

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Roberts, Lord Frederick Sleigh

Forty-One Years in India: From Subaltern to Commander in Chief.

London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1898.

First edition of Commander-in-Chief of the British Army Lord Robert’s memoirs. Octavo, 2 volumes bound in full vellum with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt and gilt tooling to the spines, d...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-111058

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Jackson, James

Cases of Cholera Collected at Paris, in the Month of April, 1832, in the Wards of MM. Andral and Louis at the Hospital La Pitie.

Boston: Carter, Hendee, and Co, 1832.

First edition of Jackson’s work detailing six cases of Cholera collected at the Hospital de la Pitie at Paris. Octavo, original publisher’s boards and paper spine label. In very good condi...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-137121

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Burton, Captain Sir Richard F

A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome.

London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893.

Memorial edition of this mid-19th-century travel narrative by British explorer Richard Burton. Octavo, two volumes, bound in three-quarters morocco over cloth with gilt titles and ruling to the spine...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-148409

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Apollinaire, Guillaume

Oeuvres Poétiques de Guillaume Apollinaire.

Paris: André Sauret , 1965.

Deluxe illustrated Sauret edition of the works of Guillaume Apollinaire. Quartos, 5 volumes, bound in full black pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, top edge gil...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-94694

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Hardy, Thomas

Tess of the d’Urbervilles. [and] The Woodlanders. [and] The Well-Beloved.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, c. 1904-1905.

Finely bound editions of Thomas Hardy’s famous works. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, tissue-guarded frontispieces, with black and white illustrations in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, and a...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-148159

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Blanford, W.T

Observations on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia: Made During the Progress of the British Expedition to That Country in 1867-68.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1870.

First edition of this work dedicated to the geology and zoology of Northern Abyssinia. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments w...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-145447

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Douglas, Norman

South Wind.

London: Martin Secker, 1917.

First edition of the author’s classic work based on the island of Capri. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-142093

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Edwards, Jonathan

Twenty Sermons, on Various Subjects.

Edinburgh: Printed for M. Gray, 1789.

Rare early Edinburgh printing of Jonathan Edwards theological collection of sermons. Octodecimo, bound in full contemporary calf. In good condition.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-147927

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Bacon, Francis

The Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Lord Verulam Viscount St Alban.

London: Cresset Press/ Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1928.

The Shakespeare Head Press limited edition of this collection of Francis Bacon’s reflective writings. Folio, printed on Batchelor’s Kelmscott hand-made paper, bound in the original publisher...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-148453

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West, Nathanael

The Day of the Locust.

New York: Random House, 1939.

First edition of West’s masterpiece. Octavo, original bound in full leather, raised bands, title to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-140694

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