A list of books and manuscripts we’ll be exhibiting at Booth D19 of the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, April 21-24, 2022.
![Anna's Whim [in] The Independent. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT](/pictures/thumb/28640.jpg?v=1640991422)
New York: The Independent, August 28, 1873. First appearance in print. Volume XXV, Number 1291 of New York's Independent newspaper, which contains, beginning on page one, the complete story by Louisa May Alcott entitled "Anna's Whim," which was later collected in Silver Pictures (1876). It was written following the publication..... More
Madrid: Imprenta de Sancha, 1790-93. A mixed set of later printings or editions; the first editions of the five volumes were originally published over a six-year period beginning in 1786. Cf. Palau 12207. The popular and influential account of Italy by Juan Andrés y Morell (1740-1817), the Spanish Jesuit priest..... More
London: Printed in the Year, 1689. First edition. ESTC R10117; Wing S5329; NCBEL I, 1223 (A. Marvell). 28 tracts on English affairs during the reign of Charles II, written mostly as anonymous pamphlets during the decade 1671-1681 and compiled here as an act of preservation "for the sole use of..... More
London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1781. First edition. ESTC T32385 records eight locations in the British Isles and three in the US (Getty, Texas & Yale). A satirical review of an imaginary exhibition by real artists at the Royal Academy, dedicated to Joshua Reynolds, a founder and the first president..... More
London: Printed for Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy, 1824. First edition; there was a second edition in 1826 with a slightly different title. A well written and thorough cultural guide that begins in France and Switzerland en route to Italy, where the majority of the 42 chapters deal entertainingly with its..... More
London: Printed by J. Applebee, for J. Hazard, J. Brindley, J. Worrall, J. Jolliffe, C. Corbet, Ward and Chandler, E. Withers, R. Dodsley, and W. Warner, 1737. First edition, second issue with a cancel title; first published earlier the same year under the title Gallick Reports. This second issue retains..... More
London: MDCCLCIII. First and only edition. ESTC T99774 (BL, Cambridge, Congregational Library, National Library of Scotland, Bodleian, Huntington, Chicago, Penn, Texas-HRC, Yale, National Library of Australia). An interesting and unusual nonsectarian tract on natural philosophy, which examines the mechanisms of nature, animal existence and the structure of the earth as..... More
En Leon: Mathias Bonhomme, 1556. An early Lyons edition by publisher Macè Bonhomme of the Spanish translation by Jerónimo Jiménez de Urrea. USTC 342675; this imprint not found in Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe 1501-1600. Ariosto's masterpiece in an early edition of its important translation..... More
London: Printed for D. Browne, A. Bell, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, J. Pemberton, [et al.], 1717. The eighth edition in English, preceded by editions beginning in 1691; all the 17th century English editions are scarce. ESTC T79450. This English edition is a testament to the success and resiliency of Countess..... More
La Haye: Chez Henri van Bulderen, Marchand Libraire, dansle Pooten, à l'Enseigne de Mezeray, 1692. Second edition; first published in 1691, also in The Hague. The popular and colorful Relation du Voyage d’Espagne by Marie-Catherine Aulnoy (1650-1705), also known as Countess d'Aulnoy, the prolific French author of fairy tales, stories..... More
London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. Colbert; Robinson, page 275; Pine-Coffin, page 175; ODNB. The first of two travel narratives by English poet Marianne Baillie (1775-1831), written with a "ladylike attitude to touring" (Robinson), in which she extols the beautiful, but is easily uncomfortable with surroundings to which she is..... More
London: Printed for Joseph Johnson, 1773. First edition. ESTC T236; NCBEL II, 639; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Barbauld, 1(a). The first book by poet, essayist and educator Anna Laetitia Aikin (1743-1825), a collection of 23 poems that reflect the range of her interests (zoology, industry, treatment of animals, and..... More
London: Printed for Humfrey Lownes, 1595. The first edition as edited by Gervase Markham; revised from the first edition of 1486. STC 3314; ESTC S103621; NCBEL I, 689 (Berners) & 2011 (Markham). A famous 15th-century courtesy book and instructional manual on hunting, hawking and coats of arms, traditionally attributed to..... More
London: Printed by J. Plymsell; for T. N. Longman, 1797. First edition. Colbert; ESTC N12984. Rachel Charlotte Biggs was acquainted with France when she traveled by herself there in 1792 to aid an aristocratic lady friend, during which time she witnessed the Revolution during its grim climax. Out of concern..... More
London: Printed for J. Wilkie, 1767. First edition. Pottle 22; NCBEL II, 1211. One of many books and pamphlets about the "Douglas Cause," a major cause célèbre in Scotland in the 1760s. Boswell served as a journalist and chronicler of the legal proceedings and wrote several works about the case..... More
Edinburgh: Printed by James Donaldson, for Alexander Donaldson, and sold at his Shops [sic], and by all the Booksellers in Scotland, 1774. First edition with "Shops" in the imprint, second issue with the catchword "Lord" on page iv; "comparatively" on page 34; etc. Pottle 50 and see pages 98-101; Rothschild..... More
[Hellgate, East River, New York, circa 1835.], A remarkable holograph manuscript by New York writer and man of letters Charles Astor Bristed (1820-1874), written when he was a teenager and under the supervision and care of his famous grandfather, John Jacob Astor - many years prior to his first published..... More
London: Printed for John Murray by W. Bulmer, 1816. First edition, first issue. Randolph, page 56; NCBEL III, 282. Eleven poems by Byron, several of which are on departures and separations, including his famous “Fare thee well,” written to Lady Byron just after she had left him and before he..... More
[Venice: Aldus Manutius, January 1502]. (Colophon: Venetiis in Aedibus Aldi. Mense Ianuario m.d.ii). First Aldine edition, first issue with the misprint of "Propetius" for Propertius on the title-page and the cancellan of the corrected title-page on the final leaf. Renouard 1502-16; Adams C1137; Clemons and Fletcher 32. The first Aldine..... More
Birmingham: Typis Johannis Baskerville, 1772. First Baskerville edition, duodecimo issue. Gaskell 45; ESTC T4788. The handsome edition of Catullus, together with fellow Roman poets Tibullus and Propetius, by John Baskerville, who published a series of select titles of the Latin classics, several of which were issued in both quarto and..... More
Playa Vista, California: Two Hands Press, 2018. First Two Hands Press edition, a facsimile - or “recreation” as the press prefers to describe it - of the first edition of 1913, letter "J" of 30 lettered copies hors de commerce; there are also 150 numbered copies, for a total edition..... More
Paris: E. Typographia Regia [Colophon: Curante Sebastiano Cramoisy], 1651. The first printed edition of the complete text. The first work of history written by a Western woman, Anna Comnena (1083-1153), the 12th century Byzantine princess. She wrote The Alexiad to chronicle the achievements of the reign of her father, emperor..... More
![Darwin on Trial at the Old Bailey [&] Judicial Scandals and Errors. FREDERICK RAYMOND AND GEORGE...](/pictures/thumb/24219.jpg?v=1649713221)
London: The University Press, 19 . . [sic]. First edition, but probably a later printing with the title-page dated “19 . .”. A fictional trial by Frederick Raymond Coulson about the prosecution of a bookseller for distributing a book entitled Sexual Selection and Human Marriage, followed by Singer's Judicial Scandals..... More
Amsterdam: Apud Ludovicus Elzevirium, 1642. Second edition; the first Elzevier edition and the first to contain the famous Objectiones Septimæ. Willems, Les Elzevier, 985. The first edition of René Descartes' principle work on metaphysics and the existence of God was published in Paris in 1641, followed by this edition, handsomely..... More
London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1778. First edition, all published. ESTC P2575; NCBEL II, 1305. A complete run of 42 issues of an illustrated magazine published by George Kearsly between 1774 and 1777, intended to display and celebrate the art of copperplate engraving. Each of the 123 examples is accompanied..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2019. First edition. A bio-history of the engaging San Francisco bookseller and botanical printmaker Henry Evans (1918-1990), who founded the Porpoise Bookshop and Peregrine Press in San Francisco in the early 1950s with the assistance of wife Patricia and daughter Judith. Evans later..... More
Dallas: Still Point Press, 1985. First Still Point Press edition, number 31 of 300 numbered copies, printed by the Bird & Bull Press. A handsome fine press edition of John Evelyn's treatise on the making of salads, first published in 1699. "Evelyn's message in Acetaria was that vegetables were a...... More
![Title Page [underscore] A False Step [double underscore] A Tale of the Channel Islands...](/pictures/thumb/28754.jpg?v=1649713566)
No place, no date, but circa 1880, unpublished. ¶ An extraordinary manuscript of an unpublished novel of seafaring life and adventure, involving, among other things, a shipwreck, murder, cannibalism and a life spent on the run from fear of revenge. The author was Captain Robert W. Grace, a Commodore of..... More
[Venice: Aldus Manutius & Andrea Socer, January 1515]. (Colophon: Venetiis in Aedibus Aldi, et an Dreae Soce ri Mense Ianuario M.D.XV.). Second Aldine edition, variant issue with pages 99 and 101 incorrectly numbered 98 and 107. Renouard 1515-11; Gordon, Bibliography of Lucretius, 6; Adams L1651. A fine 16th century edition..... More
London, Liverpool and Boston: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, 1921. First Medici Society edition, number 705 of 1,000 numbered copies printed at the Riccardi Press. Purdy, page 178, Subsequent Editions; NCBEL III, 981. A fine, handsome edition of Hardy's poems. Two extra printed paper labels tipped in..... More
London: Printed by W. B. for A. Millar; Cambridge: W. Thurlbourn and J. Woodyer, 1764. Second edition, published the same year as the first. ESTC N3140; not found in NCBEL. An entertaining imaginary conversation between Anthony Ashley, the third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) and the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) on..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1826. Second edition, published the same year as the first, but under a different title. Colbert; ODNB; NCBEL III, 1288; not in Wolff, Block or Garside, Raven and Schöwerling. A novel in the form of a travel diary by Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860) which she states in..... More
Lvgd. Batavorum: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1640. One of two Elzevier editions published in 1640; as noted by Willems, one contains summaries at the head of each chapter; the other did not; this copy does not have the summaries and is described first in Willems. Willems, Les Elzevier, 502; Brunet III..... More
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Reese and Orme, 1805. First edition. Pine-Coffin 778-7; Colbert; ODNB. Novelist and poet Cornelia Knight (1757-1837) lived for several years in the 1790s in Rome and other parts of Italy, where she mastered numerous languages, drawing, painting and writing, the latter which she put to..... More
![Janet Delille. By E. N. Leigh Fry [pseud]. ISABELLA NAPIER LEFROY](/pictures/thumb/28733.jpg?v=1649200802)
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1894. First edition. Wolff 4032; OCLC records seven copies (Wayne State, Texas-HRC [Wolff copy] Wisconsin, Cambridge, Scotland, BL, Liverpool). One of a few novels and works of fiction by Ella Napier Lefroy (1854-1919), who wrote her first two works under the playful pseudonym E. N. Leigh..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1877. First edition. Sadleir 1527; NCBEL III, 1066; cf. Wolff 4415, who had the third edition. The first novel by William Hurrell Mallock, a famous Peacockian roman à clef, written while Mallock was an undergraduate at Oxford, which brings together under one roof several poets, philosophers..... More
![His Vanished Star. By Charles Egbert Craddock [pseud]. MARY NOAILLES MURFREE](/pictures/thumb/27747.jpg?v=1649713221)
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894. First edition. BAL 14808, first printing; Wright III, 3888. A local color novel set in the moutains of Tennessee by the prolific and popular middle Tennessee author, Mary Noailles Murfree (1850-1922), who wrote the majority of her work under the pseudonym Charles Egbert..... More
![Elegant Extracts from the Most Celebrated British Prose Writers . . . [with:] Elegant Extracts...](/pictures/thumb/27815.jpg?v=1649713221)
Paris: Marie-Nyon, 1832. Second edition; the first was published in 1830. OCLC records four editions between 1830 and 1847, with scattered but not plentiful holdings in Europe and three in North America: Montreal, Quebec and the Free Library of Philadelphia. An anthology-text book of English literature for the French student..... More
London: Printed for John Starkey and Thomas Basset, 1669. Second edition in English, preceded by the edition of 1662. ESTC R30756; Wing O270; Cox, Literature of Travel, I, page 249. In 1634 Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp (present day Denmark and Germany), sent an expedition, with Adam Olearus (1603-1671) as its..... More
Printed MDC.XXVI, First edition. ESTC S113538; STC 18903. In 1609 courtier and poet Thomas Overbury (1581-1613) traveled through the Low Countries and France and wrote this essay about the equilibrium of power between France, Spain and England that would guarantee their mutual preservation. This would become known as the "balance..... More
London: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Dodsley and P. Emsley, 1780. First edition. ESTC T54025; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, 3. The uncommon second of two collections of poems by Anne Penny (1731-1784). This one reprints 27 of the 39 poems from her first collection (Poems, with a...... More
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832. First and only edition. Letters from France, Belgium and Germany between 1814 and 1816 by a highly cultivated and connected young lady who writes to various friends about adventures and intrigue in high places. The author of the letters is perhaps autobiographical or..... More
London: Printed for J. Mawman, J. Ridgeway, J. Clarke, B. Crosby, and Constable, 1810. First and only edition. Not in Robinson, Wayward Women; but see Colbert, Women's Travel Writing, 1780-1840, and the ODNB. In 1802 novelist and translator Anne Plumptre (1760-1818) traveled to France with her friend Amelia Opie for..... More
Sold by the Print-sellers of London and Westminster, [1729]. An early state. Wimsatt, Portraits of Alexander Pope, 7.10 (pages 69-70); and see the British Museum Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, 1812-1814. A rare satirical portrait of Alexander Pope and his recently published Dunciad, Variorum, in which the poet is..... More
Patavii [Padua, Italy]: Typographia Seminaria, 1698. First edition. The famous work of Quranic scholarship by Ludovico Marracci. Marracci's Quran was the first to publish the entire Arabic text with a Latin translation, to which Marracci added extensive notes. In the second volume, Refutatio Alcorani, Marracci systematically refutes the tenets of..... More
London: Printed at the Oriental Press for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, 16a. ¶ An anthology of almost 100 poems, compiled by Maria Riddell (1772-1808), a young Scottish woman who grew up in the Leeward Islands, which she wrote about in her..... More
London: Printed for R. Triphood, 1810. First complete edition, preceded by the first edition of 1784; in 1795 there was a second edition that both added and subtracted material; this 1810 edition restores the original text of 1784, the additions of 1795 and adds two parts with new material. NCBEL..... More
London: Printed for E. Symon, J. Roberts and A. Dodd, 1723. First edition. ESTC N9868. A translation and adaptation of Racine's La Thébaide. The anonymous dedication states "This tragedy was writ by a young lady, and entrusted to my management . . . The four first acts are taken chiefly..... More
Paris: Chez Nyon I'ainé, Libraire, 1787. First edition. Gerritsen Collection of Women's History, 2429; Brunet 23212. A study of the social and legal status of women in Europe from the Roman period through the 18th century. In 22 brief chapters, Barthélemy-Gabriel Rolland D'Erceville writes about the education of women, their..... More
![Vida del Principe D[o]n Carlos, Espana Escrita por el Abad de S[a]n Real. CESAR VICHARD DE...](/pictures/thumb/21846.jpg?v=1613418877)
[N.p., n.d., circa 1750]. A fair copy manuscript of a Spanish translation of the famous French novel by César Vichard de Saint-Réal (1639-1692). First published in French in 1672, Don Carlos – a novella about the forbidden passion between Don Carlos, the son of Philip II of Spain, and his..... More
Circa 1820. Apparently not published in this form. ¶ A traditional Scottish song, a shorter version of which Scott included in The Fortunes of Nigel (1822), page 476. James Hogg also had a version of this song in his The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (1819-1821). Scott collected his own renderings..... More
London: Printed and Sold by H. Herringman, D. Newman, T. Cockerel, S. Heyrick, W. Cadman, S. Loundes, G. Marriot, W. Crook and C. Smith, 1678. First complete translation in English of the five parts, preceded by their separate publications beginning in 1655. ESTC R19972; Wing S2156. One of the famous..... More
Lichfield: Printed and Sold by J. Jackson and G. Robinson, 1784. First edition, second issue (stated Second Edition), a reissue of the first edition with a cancel title; there were four "editions" in 1784 and one in 1785. ESTC T95509; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Seward 5(c); NCBEL II, 682..... More
Lichfield: Printed and Sold by J. Jackson, for the Author; Sold also by Robinson, Cadell and Evans, [et al.], 1781. First edition. Sabin 79477; Adams, American Controversy, 81-65a; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 291; NCBEL II, 682. The second published work by poet and writer Anna Seward (1742-1809), a.k.a...... More
(London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1799). ESTC N60288 (Lincoln's Inn Library and Wellcome Institute). An act passed by Parliament in the summer of 1799, delineated in 39 paragraphs, that regulated the slave trade beginning in August, 1800 - an act..... More
(New York, 1941-42). The Moon is Down was John Steinbeck's second attempt at converting one of his novels into a play (Of Mice and Men was the first). It was originally written while Steinbeck was on assignment from the Foreign Information Service, a division of the Office of Strategic Services..... More
N.p., n.d. [but circa 1960]. A photographic portrait of John Steinbeck taken by artist William Ward Beecher (1921-2006), a descendant of the famous New England Beechers. How many portraits were produced from this one sitting is not recorded, but there were at least two: this one and a similar one..... More
[San Francisco: William Dassonville], 1915. A rare and fine photographic portrait of the prominent California poet George Sterling (1869-1926), taken by the prominent California photographer, William Dassonville (1879-1957) and inscribed to Dassonville by Sterling in the lower left corner of the image: "Dear Dassonville: This is the best picture ever..... More
Fair copy manuscript, no place, circa 1806. There are six fair copy manuscripts of Psyche held in institutions that have been found: National Library of Wales, Morgan Library, Beinecke Library, two at the British Library (one incomplete), Wilson Library at North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and one is listed in OCLC..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1864-1865. First edition, parts issue. Sadleir, Trollope, 19; Wolff 6769; NCBEL III, 882; see Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, page 103. The second of Trollope’s “Palliser” novels, which chronicles the history of Plantagenet Palliser and his wife, Lady Glencora. This is only the second work by Trollope to..... More
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. First edition. ESTC T64790; Robinson, pages 249-50; ODNB. Like Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Ward (1699-1783) became a traveler when she accompanied her husband Thomas Ward on a diplomatic mission, this one to Russia between 1730 and 1739. Also like Montagu she did not intend..... More
[Rouen: Machuel?], 1764. Second edition, according to Bengesco, but this is one of several continental editions without an imprint that were published in 1764, soon after the first edition of 1763. Several catalogue records record the place of publication as Rouen and the printer/publisher as Machuel. Bengesco II, 1693.2. An..... More
York: Printed by W. Blanchard and sold by R. Faulder, London, [etc.], 1791. First edition. NCBEL III, 772; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 365; ESTC T68679. The scarce third book by poet and novelist Jane West (1758-1852) - and her first substantial book - which brings together 22 poems..... More
London: Printed for John Murray, 1815. First edition. Colbert; NCBEL II, 694. The final work on France by Helen Maria Williams, first English woman to write about the upheavals of the French Revolution when she traveled there in 1790. She later became repulsed by Robespierre and the reign of terror..... More
London: Printed by A. Rivington and J. Marshall, for Thomas Cadell, 1786. First edition. ESTC T70027; NCBEL II, 693; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Williams 4(a); Sabin 104230. The first collection of poetry by Helen Maria Williams (1762-1827). "The success of Williams' Poems secured her position as a prominent poet..... More
Paris: Fr. Cocheris Fils, Libraire, 1808. First and only edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Williams 8(c); OCLC records 15 copies. A French translation of more than 30 poems by Helen Maria Williams, including ones on her real and imaginary travels: "Sonnet sur la ligne équinoxiale”; “Sonnet sur l’oiseau du..... More
New York: Privately Printed, 1933. Second edition, considerably rewritten. OCLC 20222941 records three copies (Harvard, La Salle and Brown). A three-act operetta by American author Owen Wister (1860-1938) on the follies of prohibition. Macmillan published the first edition in 1923, as it had been performed at the Tavern Club in..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First edition. Colbert; ODNB; Sabin 18640; Clark, Travels in the Old South, vol. 2, 16. Frances Wright (1785-1852), also known as Fanny Wright and later as Frances D’Arusmont, traveled to America in 1818 with the intention of observing and writing about the..... More
[New Castle on Tyne:] Leo Wyatt, 1970. Leo Wyatt (1909-1991) was a British engraver famous for his calligraphic wood engravings, particularly of alphabets, like this one. He was also highly regarded as a designer of bookplates. Wyatt produced many similar wood engravings, and this one is likely from one of..... More