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(JAZZ.) Cotton Club Menu - Lenox Ave and 142 St.New York : c.1930
Highly appealing menu for the legendary original Harlem Cotton Club. Inevitable stereotypical artwork of the period, "bamboo" lettering, and a sharply dressed minstrel-like figure in a high hat accompanied by four scantily-clad "high yellow"chorines. The menu offers Chinese or American options, while only non-alcoholic beverages are offered, so a date... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 133607
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CANTILLON, Richard. Saggio sulla natura del commercio in generale. Autore Inglese.Venice : 1767
First edition in Italian of Cantillon's Essai sur la nature du commerce en général, first published in French in 1755. This translation, attributed to F. Scottoni who signs the dedication, is extremely scarce, OCLC locating only the British Library copy.
Richard Cantillon (c.1680-1734) was an Irish-born banker and economist, forced to emigrate... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 118599
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CANTILLON, Richard. Essai sur la nature du commerce en général.London Fletcher Gyles [but Paris : 1755
First edition. This copy is one of a very small number to contain at the end a copy of Barrois's catalogue of publications for sale, which lists Cantillon's work with his initial.
Richard Cantillon (c.1680-1734) was an Irish-born banker and economist, forced to emigrate to continental Europe by the Williamite confiscations. He honed his financial... Learn More£57,500.00Stock Code: 137110
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PANASSIÉ, Hugues. Histoire du vrai jazz, original holograph manuscript.[Paris? : 1950s]
The original holograph manuscript of Histoire du vrai jazz (History of true jazz, published Paris, Éditions Robert Laffont, 1959) by the influential French jazz critic, historian and record producer Hugues Pannasié (1912-1974), here very attractively and imaginatively presented, the spine of the box labelled "La vraie histoire du jazz" ("The real... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 123995
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(FLORENCE PRESS.) KEATS, John. The Poems.London : 1915
First edition thus, number one of 250 copies on unbleached Arnold paper, this in the most deluxe issue. Purchasers had the option of the edition bound by the publishers either in vellum, as here, for 45s, or in japon for 31s 6d; a further 1,500 ordinary paper copies were released bound by the publishers in either boards or buckram. The handsomely produced... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 139533
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(DISNEY, Walt.) BROWN, Margaret Wise. The Ugly Duckling.Boston : 1939
First edition, first printing. A fantastic group of original Disney Studio celluloids. Due to accurate representations being distorted with some license holders, Disney decided that in-house illustrators were their best option in accurate representations of their characters, which resulted in stories such as this one having its illustrations as celluloid... Learn More£5,550.00Stock Code: 98003
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NAPIER, William Francis Patrick. History of the War in the PeninsulaLondon : 1828-40
First editions of the first volume and last three; the other two being second editions. The first volume was published by Murray, who decided not to exercise his option on the next three having made a considerable loss, Napier therefore published the rest of the history through Boone having raised the money by subscriptions. Napier's work certainly... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 135880
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MARX, Karl. El Capital.Madrid : 1886[-7]
Exceptionally rare first edition in Spanish, an abridged translation of volume one of Marx's Das Kapital (Capital). Its scarcity is explained by the brittle, poor quality of the paper stock - the same used for printing Zafrilla's newspaper - and its very small print run, thought to number no more than a thousand copies in total.
Pablo Correa y Zafrilla... Learn More£125,000.00Stock Code: 130328
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ORWELL, George. Archive of retained correspondence from the files of his first publisher, Victor Gollancz, relating to the publication of Inside the Whale.1 Jan 1940-13 Oct 1966
Victor Gollancz's archived correspondence relating to their publication of George Orwell's first collection of essays, Inside the Whale, including the original contract. Orwell began work on the essays in May 1939. The outbreak of the war led to an unproductive period, but by mid-December he had finished the book and sent the manuscript to Gollancz.... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 131758
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ORWELL, George. Archive of retained correspondence from the files of his first publisher, Victor Gollancz, relating to the publication of Keep the Aspidistra Flying.16 Jan 1936-23 June 1944
Victor Gollancz's archived correspondence regarding the publication of George Orwell's second novel, Keep the Aspidistra Flying. The correspondence, often bitter, shows how far concerns with libel altered the final text of the novel, and how unhappy Orwell was about this; it contains two typed letters, two autograph notes, and one full autograph letter,... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 131753
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(NEWTON, Isaac.) ALGAROTTI, Francesco. Il Newtonianismo per le dame ovvero dialoghi sopra la luce e i colori.Naples [but Venice] : 1737
First edition of the Italian polymath's enormously successful work, here in a well-preserved contemporary vellum binding, arguably the most famous example of a Newtonian text aimed at a female readership and "a landmark in the popularisation of Newtonian philosophy" (Mazzotti, p. 119).
In this important contribution to the emerging literary genre... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 126501
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GALTON, Francis. Finger Prints; Decipherment of Blurred Finger Prints; Finger Print Directories.London : 1892, 1893, 1895
First editions of Galton's three publications on fingerprints, this a very scarce presentation set with the first work inscribed by Galton to his brother, "Erasmus Galton, from F.G.", on the half-title, the second work with Erasmus's ownership inscription "E. Galton, Oct 9 1893" to verso of front free endpaper. Erasmus (1815-1909) was presumably named... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 134448
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BERTHELOT, Claude-François. Le Mécanique appliquée aux arts, aux manufactures, à l'agriculture et à la guerre;Paris : 1782
First edition. Described on the title as "Ingénieur-Mécanicien du Roi", Berthelot (1718-1800) rose from humble origins to the professorship of mathematics in the Military School in Paris, where in 1763 he invented a famous gun carriage for use in coastal artillery, though the invention was generally credited to Gribeauval who was largely responsible... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 108958
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(MEMOIR.) DRAWBELL, James Wedgwood. Experiment in Adoption.London : 1935
First edition, first impression. An account of the author's experience of adopting a child. The publisher's retained copy with their stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket and the front pastedown. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 94292
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SHAW, Nellie. Whiteway.London : 1935
First edition, first impression. Whiteway was a Tolstoyan anarchist community established by Quaker journalist Samuel Veale Bracher near the Gloucestershire village of Miserden in 1898. "Vegetarianism was obligatory, nudism optional An early visitor remarked that prosperity sapped some of the primitive rigour from the venture. However, the sexual... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 113477
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TUPINIER, Jean Marguerite, Baron. Observations on the Dimensions of the Ships of the Line and Frigates in the French Navy.London : 1830
First edition in English of a French study which first appeared in the Annales Maritimes in 1822, "it was also printed by order of the French Government at the Royal press, for distribution among its own functionaries" (translator's preface). In emulation of this principle of limited distribution, a note verso of the title reads, "It is requested that... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 102411
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NIEBUHR, Carsten. Beschreibung von Arabien.Copenhagen : 1772
First edition. Niebuhr trained as a surveyor in order to support himself into his majority, then receiving a small inheritance. He next studied mathematics at Göttingen before joining the Hanoverian corps of engineers. In 1760 he was invited to join the scientific expedition being sent out by Frederick V of Denmark. Originally intended for the purpose... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 46821
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PRINCE, William. A Short Treatise on Horticulture.New York : 1828
First and sole edition. Despite Prince's objective being to simply "give a few brief remarks as to the Culture of Fruit Trees, &c. by throwing together some of the leading rules, whose adoption has proved most successful" (Preface), A Short Treatise on Horticulture was immensely popular and influential, becoming one of the most important early... Learn More£1,125.00Stock Code: 116896
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(CHINA.) Photograph album of service in China with the US 15th Infantry Regiment, 1929-32.China : 1929-32
Wonderfully engaging, wide-ranging and extensively-captioned visual record of China as seen through the eyes of a soldier in the US 15th Infantry Regiment ("The Old China Hands"), based in Tientsin (Tianjin) between 1929 and 1932, a period of bloody turbulence in China.
This enthralling album encompasses many aspects of China, from the well-documented... Learn More£9,250.00Stock Code: 120117
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DESCARTES, René. Discours de la Methode Pour bien conduire sa raison, & chercher la verité dans les sciences.Leiden : 1637
First edition of Descartes's fundamental work in philosophy and on the method of science. "It is no exaggeration to say that Descartes was the first of modern philosophers and one of the first of modern scientists The revolution he caused can be most easily found in his reassertion of the principle (lost in the Middle Ages) that knowledge, if it is... Learn More£150,000.00Stock Code: 134577
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PANKHURST, E. Sylvia. Typed letter signed.14 March 1939
A typed letter signed by Sylvia Pankhurst on New Times and Ethiopia News headed paper. In the letter Pankhurst thanks Edward Philip Ockey for his help with her Esperanto, and notes that she hopes he "will be able to bring our paper to the notice of others". Ockey (1913-2006) was editor of the British Esperantist and a port officer who served... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 137160
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ANDERSON, Aeneas. A Journal of the Forces which sailed from the Downs, in April 1800. on a Secret Expedition under the Command of Lieut.-Gen. Pigot,London : 1802
First and only edition of this uncommon personal account of the operations against the French in the Mediterranean concluding with the Egyptian Expedition and the surrender at Alexandria, particularly prized for the account of Malta and views of the island after Anderson's own drawings. In June 1798 the French occupied Malta with ease, largely due to... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 70550
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ELLIOTT, Henry Wood, & Andrew F. Gallagher. Report of the Special Agents of the House Committee of Expenditures in the Department of Commerce, upon the Condition of the Fur-Seal Herd of Alaska and the Conduct of the Public Business on the Pribilof Islands…Washington : 1913
First and only edition. Seemingly the author's copy, with added documentation and his own original illustrated wrappers, subsequently inscribed on the title page, "For Judge Cooper with the warm personal regards of the author, Henry W. Elliott, Oct. 25, 1913." Laid in is a memorandum in Elliott's hand, on Department of Commerce stationery, denouncing... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 131367
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TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of Scientific Management.New York : 1911
First trade edition, first printing, preceded only by the privately distributed edition in the same year. "F. W. Taylor, an engineer in the Bethlehem Steel Works in Philadelphia, was the originator of what he called 'scientific management', now known as 'time and motion study'. His system was based on what he estimated to be a fair day's work and the... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 124840
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TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of Scientific Management.New York : 1911
First edition, the scarce privately printed issue, of the first and most influential book on business and industrial management. "This special edition was printed in February 1911 for confidential circulation among the members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers with the compliments of the author" (title page statement). The first trade... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 134761
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(KENNEDY, John F.) The David Powers collection of John F. Kennedy's speeches and manuscripts.c.1945-63
The David Powers collection of John F. Kennedy's speeches and manuscripts spans the statesman's political career up to the presidency, from his first primary race in the 11th District in 1946 to the eve of nomination as president in the summer of 1960, encompassing three Congressional campaigns, two runs for the Senate, and a bid for the vice presidency.
David... Learn More£375,000.00Stock Code: 120955
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(RUSSIAN WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.) Golosuite za spisok #7.[Petrograd : 1917]
A remarkable survival of a flyer printed by the All-Russian League of Equal Rights for Women for their political campaign for the election to the Constituent Assembly in November 1917. The League participated in elections as its own party under the number 7.
In English the flyer text reads: ''Female Citizens and male citizens! The League of Equality... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 134554
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MALHERBE, Oscar. Des mitrailleurs.Liege : 1871
First and sole edition of this important and notably scarce work, published in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War: OCLC locates only four copies (Bibliothek der Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum, Het Legermuseum Delft, National Library of Sweden, Royal Danish Library). Malherbe, described on the title page as ingénieur-mécanicien, gives an account... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 127071
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[CHRISTIE, Agatha; as] WESTMACOTT, Mary. Unfinished Portrait.London : 1934
First edition, first impression, of Agatha Christie's semi-autobiographical novel, the second written under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott. Christie's adoption of a pseudonym was an interesting psychological manoeuvre that allowed her license for self-revelation not to be found in her detective fiction or even in her autobiography. Christie even adopted... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 108135
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(MEMOIR.) DRAWBELL, James Wedgwood. Experiment in Adoption.London : 1935
First edition, first impression. An account of the author's experience of adopting a child. From the publisher's archive with their stamp to the half-title. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 94294
