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J. Calvin Smith. A New Guide for Travelers Through the United States of America, Containing All the Railroad, Stage, and Steamboat Routes, With the Distances from Place to Place.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36026 | Apr 11, 2012

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[New York City]. Certified Copies of Original Maps of Property in New York City, Filed in the Register's Office and elsewhere, Together with the Register's Index to Maps and Important Notes Regarding the Same. Hoboken: Spielmann & Brush, 1881. First edition.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36028 | Apr 11, 2012

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Compte de Saint-Cyr. [Alexis Frédéric Léonard]. Notes sur le Génie, la Discipline Militair et la Tactique des Égyptiens, des Grecs, des Rois d'Asie, des Carthaginois & des Romains; avec la Relation raisonnée des Principales Expéditions Militaires de ces Peuples Guerriers; Enrichies d'une Table Chronologique, & de 48 Planches. Paris: Lottin/Cellot, 1783.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36032 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Missal]. Missale sacri ordinis Prædicatorvm auct. apost. approbatum Rmi. P. F. Joan Thomae de Boxadors: eiusdem ordinis generalis magistri iussu editum. Rome: in typographia Octvii Puccinelli, 1768.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36035 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Maps]. Peter Apianus. Tipus Orbis Universalis Ivxta Ptolomei Cosmpgraphi Traditionem et Americi Vespucii... 1520. ["Delineation of the Entire World Prepared According to the Teaching of Ptolemy the Cosmographer, and the Voyages of Americus Vespuccius and others by Peter Apian of Leissig"]. [Vienna: 1520].
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36038 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Maps] Andrew Ellicott, Plan of the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland to the United States, and by them established as the Seat of their Government after the year 1800.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36042 | Apr 11, 2012

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Jan Huygen van Linschoten. Itinerarium; Ofte Schip-Vaert Naer Doost Ofte Portugaels Indien... [bound with:] Reys-Gheschrift Van De Navigatien Der Portugaloysers In Orienten... [bound with:] Beschrijvinge Vande Gantsche Custe Van Guinea... Amsterdam. 1644. Three parts bound in one volume. A later edition of one of the great classics of early travel literature (originally issued in 1596). Folio (approximately 12.5 x 7.5 inches). [8],160, [8],13-147, [90] pages. Three engraved title pages, portrait of Linschoten, and thirty (of thirty-six) double-page plates (several folding), all in handsome original color. Folio. Old boards, skillfully rebacked in calf, retaining original leather labels. Some marginal waterstaining, some browning to text leaves, plates clean, one plate trimmed. Overall very good. Lacks the maps.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36043 | Apr 11, 2012

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Thomas Stamford Raffles. The History of Java. London: Black, Parbury, and Allen; and John Murray, 1817. First edition, standard issue. Two quarto volumes. Approximately 10.5 x 8.25 inches. [i-v], vi-xlviii, 479, [1, blank]; [i-v], vi-viii, 288, [289-292], cclx, [4, ads] pages. Includes half-title in Volume II, bound without half-title in Volume I. Large engraved folding map of Java, colored in outline. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36045 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Albert Einstein, contributor]. Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 17. Leipzig: Verlag Von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905. First edition of this extremely important scientific journal, which contains the first appearance of three landmark articles by Albert Einstein.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36049 | Apr 11, 2012

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L. Ron Hubbard. Science of Survival Simplified, Faster Dianetic Techniques. Wichita: The Hubbard Dianetic Foundation, [1951].
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36050 | Apr 11, 2012

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James D. Watson and Francis H. C. Crick. Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids. Offprint from: Nature, Vol. 171, p. 737. [London: Fisher, Knight & Co., April 25, 1953]. First edition of the very rare three-paper author's offprint issue of this landmark discovery, and the first published description of the molecular structure of DNA.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36053 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Bill Wilson]. Alcoholics Anonymous. The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism. New York City: Works Publishing Company, 1939. The rare first edition, first printing, of the "Big Red Book," inscribed by A. A. co-founder Bill Wilson on the title-page: "Dear Cracker - / For your help in / making AA what it / is all my gratitude. / Ever Yours / Bill Wilson / NY [underlined] / 6/27/67". Additionally inscribed to "Cracker" at the top of page 274, (the first page of the chapter entitled "Home Brewmeister") about the struggles of Clarence H. Snyder, by Snyder himself: "With best wishes to Cracker S- / Clarence H. Snyder / "The Brewmeister".
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36054 | Apr 11, 2012

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Leonid Gorban. The Book of Esther. Brooklyn: Gorban Press, 2000. First edition, limited to 50 numbered copies of which this is number 9. Signed by Gorban. Octavo. Publisher's full cloth with vibrant, hand-painted designs to boards and spine. Decorative endpapers. Illustrated with woodblock engravings. Housed in publisher's pasteboard slipcase. Text in Hebrew. Fine. An amazing production by the Russian artist.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36063 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Art Periodicals]. [Lithographs]. G. di San Lazarro, editor. XXe Siècle (Twentieth Century). Paris: 1938-1980. Fifty-eight quarto volumes. Beautifully illustrated with many examples in each volume, both in color and black-and-white, with original color lithography in almost every issue. Publisher's original wrappers or illustrated paper over boards. Some wear to covers and spine with some small tears, abrasions, and minor loss or repair. Light toning or fading with occasional offsetting. A few instances of minor markings, stamps, or stickers. Some belly-bands and prospectuses laid-in. Interiors clean and colors bright. A wonderful run of this influential and boldly produced magazine, all in generally very good condition. (Total: 58 Items)
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36066 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Graphic Arts]. El Lissitzky. [Lazar Markovich Lissitzky, illustrator]. Six Issues of ЖУРНАЛИСТ [The Journalist] Magazine. Moscow: January 1-March 15, 1929. Six quarto issues. 1-[32]; 33-[64]; 65-[96]; 97-[128]; 129-[160]; 161-[192]. Uniform covers illustrated by El Lissitzky, with various illustrations by others inside. Illustrated paper wrappers. Spines reinforced with folded-over rear plain paper covers. Slightly trimmed at bottom edges. Pages have very mild toning and foxing with a touch of dampstaining to page edges and margins. Minor chip at lower right corner of most issues. Text in Russian. Generally very good copies of this rare Soviet-era journal exploring literature, poetry, and photography. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36067 | Apr 11, 2012

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Fernand Mourlot. Souvenirs et Portraits D'Artistes. Jacques Prevert. Le Coeur a l'ouvrage. Paris: Leon Amiel, 1972. One of 800 numbered copies, this being number 690. Thick quarto. 247 pages, index, limitation. With twenty-five original lithographs, many of them in color, from such artists as Matisse, Braque, Picasso, Miro, Chagall, Giacometti, and others. Printed on uncut Velin d'Arches. Portfolio of loose folded sheets in printed paper wrappers as issued. Housed in a cloth-backed folding case. Some toning to covers and some edges with occasional minor offsetting of images. Illustrations are clean and bright. Overall, generally a near fine set of this beautifully-produced book.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36071 | Apr 11, 2012

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Jacob A. Riis. How the Other Half Lives. Studies Among the Tenements of New York. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First edition. The author's copy, signed by him and dated the year of publication on the first blank, and with two later inscriptions by members of Riis' family on the recto of the frontispiece.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36073 | Apr 11, 2012

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Two Books of Ed Ruscha, including: Edward Ruscha. Twentysix Gasoline Stations. [Alhambra: Cunningham Press], 1969. Third edition, one of 3,000 unnumbered copies. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36074 | Apr 11, 2012

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Jean Toomer. Cane. Woodcuts by Martin Puryear. Afterword by Leon F. Litwack. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2000. First edition, number 30 of 400 copies signed and numbered by Puryear. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36076 | Apr 11, 2012

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Terry Winters, etchings. Jean Starobinski, text. Perfection, Way, Origin. Translated by Richard Pevear. [Bay Shore, New York: Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc., 2001]. First edition, number 16 of 38 limited edition copies signed by Terry Winters and (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36079 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Illuminated Manuscript]. Illuminated Historiated Initial of St. Andrew. [Rhineland, ca. 1480].
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36081 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Illuminated Manuscript]. Illuminated Miniature of The Presentation in the Temple from a Book of Hours. [Central or Northern France, probably Bourges, early sixteenth century].
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36083 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Illuminated Manuscript]. Illuminated Miniature of St. Luke. [Central or Northern France, probably Bourges, ca. early sixteenth century].
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36084 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Illuminated Manuscript]. Illuminated Miniature of St. Mark. [Central or Northern France, probably Bourges, early sixteenth century].
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36085 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Illuminated Manuscript]. Pair of Illuminated Leaves from a Flemish Book of Hours featuring St. Nicholas, Mary Magdalene, and St. John of Patmos. [Flanders, ca., 1460]. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36086 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Illuminated Manuscript]. Illuminated Miniature of the Visitation from a Book of Hours. [Central or Northern France, probably Bourges, early sixteenth century].
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36087 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Illuminated Manuscript]. Illuminated Miniature of The Plague of Flies. [Northern Italy, probably Venice, c. 1540].
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36089 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Illuminated Manuscript]. Illuminated Manuscript featuring a Historiated Initial of King David. [Ferrara, ca. 1480].
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36092 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Baldus de Ubaldis. Lectura super I parte Digesti veteris. Milan: Leonhard Pachel and Ulrich Scinzenzeller, 17 November 1488].
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36096 | Apr 11, 2012

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Qur'an. [Western Iran or Ottoman Turkey, circa 13th -18th century].
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36097 | Apr 11, 2012

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Persian manuscript of Ferdowsi's Shahnama or Book of Kings [and other works?]. [Circa 15th-18th century].
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36098 | Apr 11, 2012

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A. A. Milne. Now We Are Six. Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. First edition. Small octavo. 103, [1, printer's imprint] pages. Publisher's deluxe "gift" binding of flexible gilt-pictorial red leather,
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36101 | Apr 11, 2012

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A. A. Milne. Once On a Time. London New York Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917. First edition. Inscribed by Milne, most likely to his mother-in-law, "To Mabel / with love from / A A M"
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36102 | Apr 11, 2012

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Arthur Rackham, [illustrator]. C. S. Evans. Sleeping Beauty. London: Heinemann, [1920]. First edition, limited to 625 numbered copies of which this is number 578. Signed by Rackham on limitation page. Quarto. 110 pages. Illustrated in silhouettes, some with color, and with one mounted full-color plate.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36104 | Apr 11, 2012

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Dr. Seuss. The Cat in the Hat. [New York]: Random House, [1957]. First edition, first printing, with "200/200" on front flap of dust jacket, flat rather than glazed boards, and no mention of the Beginner's Books series on back cover. Octavo. 61 pages.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36107 | Apr 11, 2012

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Dr. Seuss [Theodore Geisel]. Green Eggs and Ham. New York: Beginner Books/Random House, 1960. First edition, first printing with 195/195 on front inner flap. Octavo. [62] pages. Publisher's glossy paper over boards and dust jacket. Mild rubbing to board extremities with soft bumping to head of spine. A bit of soiling to inside margins of rear board. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a one-inch chip in tail of spine. One-inch tears along bottom edge of front panel and inner flap. 50 word vocabulary label affixed to front panel.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36108 | Apr 11, 2012

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N. C. Wyeth, illustrator]. Kenneth Roberts. Trending Into Maine. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1938. First edition, limited to 1,075 copies, of which this is number 965, signed by both N. C. Wyeth and Kenneth Roberts. Also with laid-in envelope containing a suite of individual plates of all fourteen of Wyeth's illustrations that appear in the book.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36110 | Apr 11, 2012

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Isaac Asimov. The Foundation Trilogy, including: Foundation. Garden City: Gnome Press, [1951]. Currey binding priority (A). [and:] Foundation and Empire. Garden City: Gnome Press, [1952]. Currey binding priority (A). [and:] Second Foundation. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36111 | Apr 11, 2012

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Terry Pratchett. The Light Fantastic. Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire: Colin Smythe, 1986. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36124 | Apr 11, 2012

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Zane Grey. Four Autograph Letters Signed to His Wife, Dolly, All Signed "Zane," including: Three pages, small bifolia leaf, Nov. 19, [ca. 1915-1920], Oceanic Line stationery, 5 x 6.5 inches, black ink. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36151 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Zane Grey]. Group of Forty Photographs Relating to Zane Grey, including: 8.5 x 6.25 reproduction, signed by Zane Grey. [and:] (Total: 5 Items)
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36153 | Apr 11, 2012

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Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition, one of 510 copies signed by the author. Octavo. [viii], 355 pages. With signed limitation leaf inserted at front.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36157 | Apr 11, 2012

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Ernest Hemingway. Green Hills of Africa. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Uniform edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Hemingway on the front free endpaper: "To Clara [Spiegel] who has / seen and been to Africa / this attempt to do the same / with love / Papa [underlined]." Octavo. [viii], [295], [1, blank] pages.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36160 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Ernest Hemingway, contributor]. Ken [Magazine]. Chicago: Ken, April 7, 1938. Volume I, Number I. First edition of the first issue of this progressive, anti-fascist magazine. Approximately 13.25 x 10.5 inches. Original publisher's wrappers. Mild wear, some toning and a few tears to wrappers and text. Overall, very good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36161 | Apr 11, 2012

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Ernest Hemingway. The Torrents of Spring. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition. Octavo. [viii], [1]-143 pages. Publisher's smooth dark green cloth with red titles stamped on the front cover and spine. Original pictorial dust jacket printed in orange, black, and tan, with the front cover drawing by "M. F."
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36162 | Apr 11, 2012

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[Homer]. [George Chapman, translator]. The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts. In his Iliads, and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke, By Geo: Chapman. London: Printed for Nathaniell Butter, [1616?]. First collected edition of Chapman's celebrated translation of Homer, first issue, with "HOMERS" in recto headlines. A reissue of both the twenty-four books of the Iliad of ca. 1611, and the twenty-four books of the Odyssey of ca. 1615.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36163 | Apr 11, 2012

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Langston Hughes. Simple Takes a Wife. [New York]: Simon and Schuster, 1953. First edition, first printing. Inscribed and signed by Langston Hughes
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36164 | Apr 11, 2012

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Aldous Huxley. The Burning Wheel. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1916. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author. 51 pages. Woodcut frontispiece and title page. Original wrappers with front paper label and spine paper title. Covers and extremities somewhat worn. Minor soiling and toning. Very minimal separation at the spine ends. Spine title slightly torn but complete and attached. Housed in a matching cloth chemise and slipcase with black morocco label and gilt titles. This volume is inscribed by Huxley to "Elbridge Adams his book, Aldous Huxley 1929," on the half-title. "Printed in Great Britain" is written in pencil below. A better than very good copy of the author's first book.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36166 | Apr 11, 2012

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