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La Historia di Italia

La Historia di Italia

by GUICCIARDINI, FRANCESCO

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FIRST EDITION. A "masterpiece of scientific history," Guicciardini's History of Italy was "undoubtedly the greatest historical work that had appeared since the beginning of the modern era. It remains the most solid monument of Italian reason in the 16th century, the final triumph of that Florentine school of philosophical historians which included Machiavelli …" (Britannica, 11th ed.).

Born in Florence, Francesco Guicciardini's colleagues and contemporaries included Niccolò Machiavelli, Girolamo Savonarola, Lorenzo the Magnificent, and popes Leo X, Clement VII, and Paul III. Oliver Goldsmith wrote of him: "He was at once (what seldom happens to be united in the same person) a scholar, a soldier, and a politician." This lent him a unique perspective on the history of the powerful nation-state of Florence and the role of Italy in Europe at the turning of the sixteenth century. The Historia d'Italia was the first to discuss the Italian peninsula as a unified entity among the other nation-states in… Read More
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Le Conquête de l’Air

Le Conquête de l’Air

by (AVIATION.)

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This spectacular color lithograph commemorates the Grande Semaine d'Aviation of 1909, the first international public flying event and a turning point in aviation history. The powered aircraft featured at the event dominate the center. Surrounding it are portraits of pioneering figures in flight (including Wright, Curtiss, Latham, Fournier, and Blériot) and vignettes from aviation history.

The event, held at Reims, France in August 1909, attracted more than 500,000 spectators to watch famous aviators compete in contests of distance, altitude, and speed, all from the massive grandstands constructed for the event. The meeting signified a transition in the public perception of flight. Once an experimental curiosity practiced by a few, it came to be seen as a viable technology with the potential for practical application.

This print, a supplement to Parisian newspaper Le Petit Journal, highlights technological advances in aviation history. The fall of Icarus is depicted in the upper right corner, next… Read More
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Le Conquête de l’Air

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This spectacular color lithograph commemorates the Grande Semaine d'Aviation of 1909, the first international public flying event and a turning point in aviation history. The powered aircraft featured at the event dominate the center. Surrounding it are portraits of pioneering figures in flight (including Wright, Curtiss, Latham, Fournier, and Blériot) and vignettes from aviation history.

The event, held at Reims, France in August 1909, attracted more than 500,000 spectators to watch famous aviators compete in contests of distance, altitude, and speed, all from the massive grandstands constructed for the event. The meeting signified a transition in the public perception of flight. Once an experimental curiosity practiced by a few, it came to be seen as a viable technology with the potential for practical application.

This print, a supplement to Parisian newspaper Le Petit Journal, highlights technological advances in aviation history. The fall of Icarus is depicted in the upper right corner, next… Read More
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Le Deuxieme Sexe [The Second Sex]

Le Deuxieme Sexe [The Second Sex]

by BEAUVOIR, SIMONE DE

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Two volumes. Original decorated cloth designed by Mario Prassinos. Fine.
FIRST EDITIONS. The two volumes were published months apart in 1949, each in an edition of 2000 numbered copies (from a total edition of 2,150).
This landmark of feminism presents a scathing analysis of the history and treatment of women in the patriarchal West. Beauvoir begins by asking, "What is woman?" She argues that man is the default, while woman is Other: "Thus humanity is male and man defines woman not herself but as relative to him."
"To state the question is, to me, to suggest, at once, a preliminary answer. The fact that I ask it is in itself significant. A man would never set out to write a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. But if I wish to define myself, I must first of all say: 'I am a woman'; on this truth must be based all further discussion. A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man …"
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Le Deuxieme Sexe [The Second Sex]

Le Deuxieme Sexe [The Second Sex]

by BEAUVOIR, SIMONE DE

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Two volumes. Original decorated cloth designed by Mario Prassinos. Fine.FIRST EDITIONS. The two volumes were published months apart in 1949, each in an edition of 2000 numbered copies (from a total edition of 2,150).
This landmark of feminism presents a scathing analysis of the history and treatment of women in the patriarchal West. Beauvoir begins by asking, "What is woman?" She argues that man is the default, while woman is Other: "Thus humanity is male and man defines woman not herself but as relative to him."
"To state the question is, to me, to suggest, at once, a preliminary answer. The fact that I ask it is in itself significant. A man would never set out to write a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. But if I wish to define myself, I must first of all say: 'I am a woman'; on this truth must be based all further discussion. A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man …"
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Le Juif Errant [The Wandering Jew]
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Le Juif Errant [The Wandering Jew]

by SUE, EUGENE

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Ten volumes in five. Complete with half-titles. Contemporary half calf. Light rubbing, some foxing. A very good, untouched set.
First edition of Sue's The Wandering Jew. This is the rare first edition in book form, preceding the far more common illustrated and popular editions that soon followed.Sue's Le Juif Errant, a classic of French nineteenth-century popular fiction, was written at the height of the age of Balzac, Dumas, and Hugo.
According to Sue's novel the Huguenot Rennepont family lost its wealth during the French Catholic persecution. What little remained was entrusted to the Jewish banker Samuel who, with his heirs, turned the money into a fortune over 150 years. The terms of the arrangement called for the descendants to meet at a certain address in Paris in 1832 to divide the inheritance. This book is the story of the seven remaining members of the family and the efforts of the Jesuits to eliminate them and claim the fortune for themselves. The old Jewish banker appears at the novel's end… Read More
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Leaves of Grass [with] Whitman’s own copy of his 1860 portrait
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Leaves of Grass [with] Whitman’s own copy of his 1860 portrait

by WHITMAN, WALT

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Small folio. Engraved portrait of Whitman (state A, printed on heavy paper). Original gilt decorated green cloth, all edges gilt (binding A), inner hinges expertly repaired. Copyright notice printed in two lines as usual, "cities and" correctly printed on p. iv. Very minor wear, several leaves neatly repaired at gutter. Morocco case. A very handsome copy.
First edition, first issue, one of only 337 copies of the first issue, distinguished by its elaborately gilt-stamped cloth binding prepared in June/July 1855. Whitman reported that only 800 copies were printed; this copy is from the first group to be bound. The copies bound later did not have the extensive gilt stamping. Whitman paid for the book, supervised its production, and even set a number of pages in type.
"If one attempts to list the artistic achievements of our nation against the background of Western tradition, our accomplishments in music, painting, sculpture, architecture tend to be somewhat dwarfed. … The exception is in literature. No… Read More
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Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass

by WHITMAN, WALT

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Original mustard cloth. Second state of title-page with "-82" not "-2" in date. Original mustard cloth. Light fraying to spine ends. Very good.First printing of the 7th edition of Leaves of Grass
James Osgood was successor to Ticknor and Reed, the great Boston publisher that had published Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, and the other leading New England authors of the mid-19th century. When Osgood approached Whitman to bring out a new edition of Leaves of Grass, Whitman must have welcomed the mainstream approbation. Still, he reminded Osgood that "the old pieces, the sexuality ones, about which the original row was started & kept up so long, are all remained, & must go in the same as ever." Osgood proceeded with publication, but on 1 May 1882, the Massachusetts District Attorney labeled Leaves of Grass "obscene" and asked for its "withdrawal … from circulation" (Myerson).
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Letter Signed to Gov. Levi P. Morton of New York

Letter Signed to Gov. Levi P. Morton of New York

by Morgan, John Pierpont

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One page. Engraved stationery of J. P. Morgan & Co., New York. Fine condition. Archivally framed with a portrait of Morgan. In this letter on J. P. Morgan & Co. letterhead, Morgan writes to his friend financier Levi P. Morton, the governor of New York, "I enclose a bill in which I am greatly interested. Can you let me know through your Secretary or by wire its present condition and prospects. With much love, Yours always J. Pierpont Morgan." J. Pierpont Morgan dominated American finance and business for years, overseeing the formation of General Electric and United States Steel, among many others. Levi P. Morton, whose "banking activities [were] generally regarded as second only to J. P. Morgan" (ANB), was one of the wealthiest men in America. After his term as governor of New York, he formed the Morton Trust Company, which became part of Morgan Guaranty Trust in 1910. Drexel, Morgan & Co. was renamed J. P. Morgan & Co. in 1895, the year Morgan wrote this letter. The month before writing this letter… Read More
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Letter from Hawthorne  in The Weal-Reaf. A Record of the Essex Institute Fair, Held at Salem.

Letter from Hawthorne in The Weal-Reaf. A Record of the Essex Institute Fair, Held at Salem.

by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Seven parts. Unopened. Title leaf, adverts, and numbers 1-7. Title repaired with tape. Cloth case.
The Zimbalist copy of The Weal Reaf, printing "Letter from Hawthorne" for the first time, from the 1860 Essex Institute Fair at Salem. "Letter from Hawthorne" appears in nos. 2 & 3 (5 & 6 September 1860). Framed as a letter to "My Dear Cousin" who has requested a story, he explains that since writing Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse, "my mind seems to lost the plan and measure of those little narratives, in which it was once so unprofitably fertile. I can write no story, therefore; but (rather than be entirely wanting to the occasion,) I will endeavor to describe a spot near Salem, on which it was once my purpose to locate such a dream fiction as you now demand of me." He goes on to describe "that conspicuous hill" which once known by Browne's Folly and a nearby mansion with a haunted closet. He recounts the tale of schoolboys who succeeded in opening its door one day: "As it flew open,… Read More
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Liberty Tree: with the Last Words of Grandfather’s Chair
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Liberty Tree: with the Last Words of Grandfather’s Chair

by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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32mo. Original green cloth, black paper label lettered in gold. Small hole at spine, label rubbed, front hinge cracked but holding. Half morocco case.
First edition. A rare presentation copy inscribed by Hawthorne to his uncle on the title-page: "To John Dike with the author's remembrance" and additionally signed by Hawthorne at the end of the preface.
The narrator of Hawthorne's Liberty Tree is Grandfather, who regales the listening children with historical tales, assisted by the prop of an old chair that, he imagines, once held a variety of great figures. Grandfather speaks proudly of the American Revolution—"The world has seen no grander movement that that of our Revolution, from first to last"—and focuses on events of the Revolution in and near Boston, including the Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the coming of General George Washington.
This book was published by Hawthorne's future sister-in-law, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. Hawthorne was close to the recipient of this… Read More
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Liberty’s Torch in Madison Square Park

Liberty’s Torch in Madison Square Park

by (STATUE OF LIBERTY)

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Gelatin silver print. 11 x 14 in. Tear and crease at upper right. Newly and handsomely framed using archival materials.


The torch of the Statue of Liberty was exhibited in Madison Square Park, New York to raise funds for the statue's completion. The torch remained in the park from 1876 through 1882.
"Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. He may have been minded to honor the Union victory in the American Civil War and the end of slavery. Due to the troubled political situation in France, work on the statue did not commence until the early 1870s. In 1875, Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the Americans provide the site and build the pedestal. Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were… Read More
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Life of Franklin Pierce
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Life of Franklin Pierce

by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Original brown cloth. Some chipping to spine ends and joints. Cloth case.
First edition. A fine presentation copy linking three Bowdoin friends, inscribed by Hawthorne: "For Dr William Mason, with the regards of Nath. Hawthorne."
Pierce, Hawthorne, and Mason had attended Bowdoin College together, with Pierce and Mason in the class of 1824 and Hawthorne in the class of 1825. All three were members of the Democratic Athenaean Society, a literary group chaired by Pierce. In an 1832 letter to Pierce, Hawthorne had reflected: "You cannot imagine how proud I feel, when I recollect that I myself was once in office with you, on the standing committee of the Athenaean Society." Hawthorne also intimated to Pierce—then speaker of the New Hampshire legislature and candidate for Congress—that he might one day become president. In 1852, Hawthorne wrote this presidential campaign biography for his oldest and closest friend.
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Lionel Lincoln; or, The Leaguer of Boston

Lionel Lincoln; or, The Leaguer of Boston

by Cooper, James Fenimore

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Two volumes. Original drab boards, printed paper labels, untrimmed. Wear to boards, browning, inner hinges repaired, losses to paper labels. A rare survival in original boards.
First American edition, fine and untrimmed in original boards, of Cooper's historical novel of the American Revolution. Cooper conceived of Lionel Lincoln as the first in a series of thirteen historical novels—the "Legends of the Thirteen Republics," as the often-lacking half-titles style it.
Writing to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the beginnings of the American Revolution, Cooper visited Boston in 1824 to study buildings and terrain, visit battlefields, and consult primary sources. George Bancroft declared that in Lionel Lincoln Cooper had "described the battle of Bunker Hill better than it is described in any other work."
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Little Annie’s Ramble” in Youth’s Keepsake. A Christmas and New Year’s Gift for Young People

Little Annie’s Ramble” in Youth’s Keepsake. A Christmas and New Year’s Gift for Young People

by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Original quarter morocco over yellow boards, spine gilt, all edges gilt. Rubbed.
The first printing of Hawthorne's "Little Annie's Ramble," Hawthorne's fable of childhood innocence. After the main character's "ramble" through town with young Annie, he reflects: "Sweet has been the charm of childhood on my spirit, throughout my ramble with Little Annie! Say not that it has been a waste of precious moments, an idle manner, a babble of childish talk, and a reverie of childish imaginations, about topics unworthy of a grown man's notice. Has it been merely this? Not so; not so. … As the pure breath of children revives the life of aged men, so is our moral nature revived by their free and simple thoughts, their native feeling, their airy mirth, for little cause or none, their grief, soon roused and soon allayed. Their influence on us is at least reciprocal with ours on them." The story is unsigned in the present volume, credited only to "The Author of 'The Gentle Boy.'"
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The Lord of the Rings
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The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

by Tolkien, J.R.R.

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Three volumes. Folding map in each volume. Return of the King is second state with sig. 4 and slipped type on p. 49 (this was formerly Hammond's first state, but the bibliographer has revised his opinion). Original red cloth and printed dust jackets. Show-through staining from old removed tape repairs to jackets of vols. 1-2, some wear, spines tanned. A good set.
FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST PRINTINGS. This is a very attractive set of the celebrated Lord of the Rings trilogy. The size of the edition was small: The Fellowship of the Ring (3000 copies), The Two Towers (3250 copies), and The Return of the King (7000 copies).
WITH AN INSCRIPTION BY TOLKIEN. Mounted at the front of the first volume is a small leaf inscribed by Tolkien: "For Mr Hal Coomer in memory of a pleasant meeting & suffering shared, on Whitsunday, 1958. J. R. R. Tolkien."
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The Lord of the Rings
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The Lord of the Rings

by Tolkien, J.R.R.

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Three volumes. Folding map in each volume. Return of the King is second state with sig. 4 and slipped type on p. 49 (this was formerly Hammond's first state, but the bibliographer has revised his opinion). Original red cloth and printed dust jackets. Show-through staining from old removed tape repairs to jackets of vols. 1-2, some wear, spines tanned. A good set.
FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST PRINTINGS. This is a very attractive set of the celebrated Lord of the Rings trilogy. The size of the edition was small: The Fellowship of the Ring (3000 copies), The Two Towers (3250 copies), and The Return of the King (7000 copies).
WITH AN INSCRIPTION BY TOLKIEN. Mounted at the front of the first volume is a small leaf inscribed by Tolkien: "For Mr Hal Coomer in memory of a pleasant meeting & suffering shared, on Whitsunday, 1958. J. R. R. Tolkien."
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Lover’s Leap from Foochow and the River Min

Lover’s Leap from Foochow and the River Min

by THOMSON, JOHN

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Carbon print, mounted. 9 3/8 x 12 in. Marginal stain far from image. A brilliant print with deep contrast.
This is a magnificent photograph from John Thomson's legendary Foochow and the River Min. Thomson is the greatest single figure in nineteenth-century photography in China.
The Scottish photographer spent four years photographing the people and places of China beginning in 1868. "By the time his travels brought him to the thriving city of Fuzhou, a little way up the River Min from the south China coast, John Thomson had developed and tuned his photographic aesthetic to respond to the magnificence of the landscape more acutely. … The attitude of reverence and contemplation which man should properly direct towards the great waterways of nature, whilst forming a central part of the Chinese landscape aesthetic, seems to have interlocked with Thomson's own response" (Ovenden, John Thomson Photographer).
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Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

by (GRANT, U. S.) Gutekunst, Frederick

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Albumen print (13 x 7 ½ in.). Gutenkunst mount (worn with abrasion at foot). A very good print, signed by the photographer in the negative.This impressive full-length portrait of Grant in uniform was made at war's end to capture the triumphal hero at the height of his powers. Grant wears a black mourning ribbon, tied to his left arm and hanging down, in honor of the recently assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
This portrait shows Grant emulating the pose of Napoleon in David's famous Napoleon in his Study (1812), a pose favored in military portraits of the time.
Gutekunst was known as the "dean of American photographers," and only Gardner and Brady could equal the quality of his Civil War portraits. Leading politicians and generals flocked to his Philadelphia studio.
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