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Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women: Unique, Eccentric and Amazing Entertainersby Ricky JayFarrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. Third printing. Many illustrations, some in color. 343 pages. 4to-over 9-12" tall pictorial wrappers. Wonderfully-illustrated account of "unique, eccentric and amazing entertainers: stone eaters, mind readers, poison resisters, daredevils, singing mice, etc., etc., etc., etc." Unmarked and in very good condition.

Seurat. Gallery of Art series with text by Hermann Jedding
The Uffici Press, Milan (Milano), Italy. Stiff, folio sized. undated (c1960s), 26 pages including 10 tipped in full color reproductions of paintings the span the artist's life. In excellent unmarked condition, all plates present (plus a tipped in paste down on the cover.)

Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas JeffersonPrinted by David Carlisle for Thomas & Andrews [et al], Boston, 1801. Eighth American Edition. In original calfskin morocco label, gilt. 364pp. folding map, and folding table - lacking the frontis. portrait of Jefferson. The map by Samuel Lewis is dated 1794. It is the same map as that issued with the Philadelphia 1794 edition. Condition: The map is torn and so is the fold-out table (please see the photos) This edition is lacking the engraved frontis. portrait of Jefferson that usually accompanies the Eighth Edition. About the Notes: Notes on the State of Virginia, by Thomas Jefferson, is at once a compendium of information about the state and a sweeping commentary on natural history, society, politics, education, religion, slavery, liberty, and law. Many consider it the most important American book written before 1800. Jefferson originally composed the work in 1781 in answer to queries posed by a French diplomat, and then revised and expanded it into… Read More