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Andreas Vesalius. De humani corporis libri septem. [Basile: Johannes Oporinus, June, 1543]. First edition of what is possibly the most famous medical book and certainly the most important anatomical work; it is also considered to be the most beautiful anatomical book of all time.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36101 | Oct 4, 2012

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Rockwell Kent. Rockwell Kent's Personal Photograph Archive of His Home at Asgaard, Excursions to Denmark, Greenland, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and Monhegan Island, Circa 1931-1953.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36125 | Oct 4, 2012

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[Book of Hours]. Artois [St.-Omer] France. [n.d., ca. sixteenth-century]. Small quarto. Approximately 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Seventy-six leaves. Lacking one leaf after fol. 31, otherwise complete.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36064 | Oct 4, 2012

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Thomas L McKenney. and James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36025 | Oct 4, 2012

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[Hartmann Schedel. Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493].
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36058 | Oct 4, 2012

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Isaac Asimov. The Foundation Trilogy, including: Foundation; Foundation and Empire; Second Foundation. Garden City: Gnome Press, [1951-1953]. All volumes are first editions, in Currey's binding priority (A). (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36226 | Oct 4, 2012

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Ian Fleming. Diamonds Are Forever. London: Jonathan Cape, [1956]. First edition, first printing. Inscribed and signed by the author, "To / Lionel / from / Ian / with affection"
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36243 | Oct 4, 2012

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William Shakespeare. Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685. The Fourth Folio edition of Shakespeare's Plays.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36313 | Oct 4, 2012

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[John James Audubon]. Birds of America. New York and Amsterdam: Johnson Reprint Corporation and Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1971-1972. One of only two full-sized facsimile reprint editions ever published of Audubon's Birds of America, this title is issued as one of 250 numbered copies, this being copy number 217. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36105 | Oct 4, 2012

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[Nicolaus Copernicus. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, Libri VI...Item, De libris revolutionum Nicolai Copernici Narratio prima, per M. Georgium Joachimum Rheticum ad D. Joan. Schonerum scripta. Basel: Ex Officina Henricpetrina, 1566].
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36088 | Oct 4, 2012

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[Bill Wilson]. Alcoholics Anonymous. The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism. New York City: Works Publishing, Inc., 1939. The very rare first edition, first printing of Alcoholics Anonymous' famous "Big Red Book".
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36102 | Oct 4, 2012

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Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. First edition. Octavo.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36310 | Oct 4, 2012

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[Americana]. The Constitution of the Several Independent States of America; the Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation Between the Said States; the Treaties Between His Most Christian Majesty and the United States of America. Published by Order of Congress. Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Bailey, 1781. The first authoritative collected edition of the state constitutions of the United States and the Articles of Confederation, one of only 200 copies printed.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36003 | Oct 4, 2012

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Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay]. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. New-York: Printed and Sold by J. and A. M'Lean, M,DCC,LXXXVIII [1788].
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36015 | Oct 4, 2012

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[Arion Press]. [Barry Moser, illustrator]. Herman Melville. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1979. Limited to 265 copies on Barcham Green handmade paper, of which 250 are for sale. Folio. xv, 576 pages.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36160 | Oct 4, 2012

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William Faulkner. Go Down, Moses and Other Stories. New York: Random House, [1942]. First edition, first printing, and number 82 of 100 copies signed by Faulkner.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36278 | Oct 4, 2012

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George and Ira Gershwin, Du Bose Heyward and Rouben Mamoulian. Porgy and Bess. An Opera in Three Acts. New York: Random House, 1935. First edition, number 129 of 250 copies signed by all authors.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36014 | Oct 4, 2012

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D. H. Lawrence. The Rainbow. London: Methuen, 1915. First edition, first printing. Signed by Lawrence on title page. ALS from 1915 laid in. Octavo. 463 pages and with 2 additional leaves of advertisements. Publisher's cloth with bright gilt titles to spine and blind stamping to front. Softly bumped corners. Front hinge starting. Stamp washed from imprint on title page. Likely a library copy, but with no other indications. Faint toning to leaves with an occasional small spot of soiling. One leaf with smoothed corner crease. An about fine copy housed in a custom silk chemise and morocco, book-backed, pull-off top box.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36296 | Oct 4, 2012

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Isaac Asimov. I, Robot. New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1950]. First edition of this science fiction classic. Presentation copy, inscribed by Asimov on the front free endpaper: "For:/Martin Greenberg/who actually got this/book out, by God/Love!/Isaac Asimov/12/2/50".
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36227 | Oct 4, 2012

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Edgar Allan Poe. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36311 | Oct 4, 2012

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[Major Stephen H. Long]. Edwin James. An Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. John C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. Philadelphia: H. C. Carey & I. Lea, 1822-23. First edition. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36024 | Oct 4, 2012

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C. S. Lewis. The Ransom Trilogy, including: Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra; That Hideous Strength. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, [1938, 1943, 1945]. First editions. Together, three octavo volumes. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36256 | Oct 4, 2012

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[Kees Van Dongen, illustrator] Victor Margueritte. La garçonne. avec 28 hors texte de Van Dongen. [Paris]: Ernest Flammarion, [1926]. First illustrated edition, copy number "1," one of only four copies printed on Old Japon and with a suite of color deconstruction plates of the twenty-eight illustrations in the text. Out of a total edition of 778 copies printed. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36298 | Oct 4, 2012

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Amelia Earhart. 20 hrs. 40 min.; Our Flight in the Friendship. The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36011 | Oct 4, 2012

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[Maps]. Abraham Ortelius. Maris Pacifici, (quod volgò Mar del Zur) cum regionibus circumiacentibus, insulisque in eodem passim sparsis, novissima descriptio. [Antwerp, Plantin Press], 1589 [actually, 1590 or 1592].
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36081 | Oct 4, 2012

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Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. First edition, number 130 of 200 copies signed by Bradbury and bound in "an asbestos material with exceptional resistance to pyrolysis." Additionally inscribed and signed "For Roger - / Looking for bigger / and better phoenixes / to rise from the / ashes of the coming / years - / From / Ray Bradbury / Jan. 27, 1959" on the front free endpaper. Octavo. 199 pages. Publisher's white asbestos boards with red titles on the spine and front cover. Moderate rubbing, dust-soiling and a few light abrasions to the covers. Minor edge wear. Slight darkening of the spine. Internally, a very clean copy in a tight, square binding. A very good copy, with a rare additional inscription by the author.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36230 | Oct 4, 2012

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Edward E. ("Doc") Smith. The History of Civilization, including: Triplanetary, First Lensman, Galactic Patrol, Gray Lensman, Second Stage Lensman, Children of the Lens. Reading: Fantasy Press, 1955. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36261 | Oct 4, 2012

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[Arion Press]. [Robert Motherwell, illustrator]. James Joyce. Ulysses. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1988. Limited to 175 copies on French mouldmade Johannot paper, of which 150 are for sale. Folio. 835 pages. With 40 etchings by Robert Motherwell, of which 20 are in color. White, alum-tawed pigskin on the spine and fore-edges of the boards, which are covered in blue cloth with white flecks. Matching cloth slipcase. Only the faintest toning to white leather. Publisher's prospectus and original shipping box included. A fine copy.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36161 | Oct 4, 2012

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Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First edition. Octavo. [viii], [1]-277, [1, colophon], [2, blank] pages. Publisher's original orange cloth, front board and spine stamped in blue. Original full-color dust jacket. Very minor edge and corner wear to the cloth, with very slight fading to the spine. Some discoloration along the hinges of the endpapers from binder's glue. Dark blue topstain slightly rubbed. A few tiny chips and areas of loss to the jacket edges and the spine ends. One very short closed tear to top edge of jacket. Light rubbing and minimal dust-soiling to the jacket, with the spine lightly faded. Minor toning to the verso of the jacket panels. A very attractive copy of Chandler's seminal work, rarely encountered in an unrestored dust jacket of this caliber. This novel introduced Philip Marlowe, and established the primacy of the hard-boiled detective novel as a genre during the 30's and 40's. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Bruccoli, Chandler, A1.1a.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36240 | Oct 4, 2012

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John Grisham. Twenty-Three Signed Limited Editions of Books by John Grisham, including: A Time to Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Partner, The Street Lawyer, The Testament, The Brethren, A Painted House, Skipping Christmas, The Summons, The King of Torts, The Last Juror, The Broker, The Innocent Man, Playing for Pizza, The Appeal, The Associate, Ford County, The Confession. New York: Doubleday, 1993-2010. All are signed, limited first editions (except for A Time to Kill, which is a signed limited edition, but was originally published in a trade edition by Wynwood Press in 1989), in editions of 350 copies. (Total: 24 Items)
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36246 | Oct 4, 2012

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Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36326 | Oct 4, 2012

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Thomas L. McKenney, and James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington. Philadelphia: Published by D. Rice & A.N. Hart, 1855. Third octavo edition. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36026 | Oct 4, 2012

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Reginald Scot [Scott]. The Discovery of Witchcraft: Proving, That the Compacts and Contracts of Witches with Devils and all Infernal Spirits or Familiars, are but Erroneous Novelties and Imaginary Conceptions. Also discovering, How far their Power extendeth in Killing, Tormenting, Consuming, or Curing the bodies of Men, Women, Children, or Animals, by Charms Philtres, Periapts, Pentacles, Curses, and Conjurations. Wherein Likewise The Unchristian Practices and inhumane Dealings of Searchers, and Witch-Tryers upon Aged, Melancholly, and Superstitious people in extorting Confessions by Terrors and Tortures and in devising false Marks and Symptoms, are notably Detected...
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36060 | Oct 4, 2012

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Saint Augustine. Of the Citie of God. With the Learned Comments of Jo. Lod. Vives. Englished by J. H. [London]: Printed by George Eld, 1610. First edition in English of Saint Augustine's De civitate Dei (first published in Subiaco in 1467).
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36061 | Oct 4, 2012

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Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition, limited to 525 copies signed by Hemingway, this being copy number 446.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36290 | Oct 4, 2012

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[Art]. Verve. An Artistic and Literary Quarterly Appearing in December, March, June and October. [Paris]: E. Teriade, 1937-1960]. First editions, mixed English and French issues. [With]: The Intimate Sketchbooks of G. Braque. [Paris: Verve, 1955]. Together, twenty-three issues (of twenty-six), in thirty-five (of thirty-eight parts), in twenty-nine quarto volumes (some issues of Verve were issued with multiple parts in a single issue; the number of volumes given includes the Intimate Sketchbooks of G. Braque). (Total: 29 Items)
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36134 | Oct 4, 2012

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Ray Bradbury. The October Country. Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini. New York: Ballantine, [1955]. First edition. One of fifty copies specially bound for Bradbury to be given as gifts to friends.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36238 | Oct 4, 2012

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Margaret Mitchell. Gone With the Wind. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first issue ("Published May, 1936" on the copyright page), a special pre-publication copy signed by Mitchell on an inserted leaf at front. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36306 | Oct 4, 2012

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Ben Shahn. Rainer M. Rilke. For the Sake of a Single Verse. New York: Atelier Mourlot, 1968. First edition, one of 200 numbered copies with lithographs on Richard de Bas hand-made paper, each signed by Shahn (this being copy number 18), out of a total edition of 950.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36132 | Oct 4, 2012

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Carson McCullers. Inscribed Typed Outline for "The Mute". [N.p., n.d., ca. 1930's]. Thirty-seven quarto hand-typed pages (rectos only) on plain paper. Inscribed by McCullers on the first leaf in black ink: "Outline for/Heart is a Lonely Hunter/1940/Carson McCullers".
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36300 | Oct 4, 2012

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[Bible in English]. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments: And other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England. Cambridge: Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, 1638.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36063 | Oct 4, 2012

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William Faulkner. Sanctuary. With a New Introduction by the Author. New York: The Modern Library, [1932, actually 1940 as per Peterson]. Later edition of the Modern Library edition, in a new binding format and dust jacket.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36282 | Oct 4, 2012

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[Maps]. Rumoldus Mercator. Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio. [Duisburg: Albert Buys for the author's heirs], 1587 [actually 1595].
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36078 | Oct 4, 2012

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Jesse L. Livermore. How to Trade in Stocks. The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, [1940]. First edition. One of 500 special copies printed on all rag paper.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36023 | Oct 4, 2012

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[Silvia Rennie, art binder]. Marc Chagall. The Lithographs of Chagall. Introduction by Marc Chagall. Notes and Catalogue by Fernand Mourlot. New York and Boston: George Braziller, Crown Publishers, and Boston Book and Art Shop, [1960-1984].
(Total: 11 Items)
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36148 | Oct 4, 2012

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[Fore-Edge Painting]. Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments: and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England: with the Psalter, or Psalmes of David.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36174 | Oct 4, 2012

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Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873. The true first American edition.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36266 | Oct 4, 2012

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John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, [1939]. First edition. Octavo. [vi], 619, [3, blank] pages.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36317 | Oct 4, 2012

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