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A
magnificent set in original wrappers,
complete with 186 stunning pochoir plates
(BARBIER, GEORGE).
Journal des Dames et des Modes
The
Journal des Dames et des Modes was an expression "of the most refined
Parisian elegance, and illustrated by the most gifted designers and
illustrators of the time." -Christina Nuzzi
FIRST EDITION OF ALL 79 ISSUES, WITH 186 HAND-COLORED PLATES by some of
the most famous artists of the era. Number 884 (each issue from the same
set) of only 1250 sets on Holland paper (out of a total edition of
1279). IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS IN FINE CONDITION. $28,000.
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One of
the most celebrated art books of the century:
signed by Jasper Johns and Samuel Beckett
(JOHNS,
JASPER). BECKETT, SAMUEL.
Foirades / Fizzles
SIGNED
LIMITED FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES SIGNED BY JASPER JOHNS AND
SAMUEL BECKETT.
Magnificently illustrated with original prints by Johns including: 26
lift ground aquatints and 5 etchings with mixed media, 1 soft-ground
etching, and one aquatint; plus 2 color lithographs as endpapers. A FINE
COPY. $30,000.
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First
issue of Maxwell's Treatise
MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK.
A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
“Maxwell
was the greatest theoretical physicist of the nineteenth century…
Einstein’s work on relativity was founded directly upon Maxwell’s
electromagnetic theory; it was this that led him to equate Faraday with
Galileo and Maxwell with Newton.” -Printing and the Mind of Man, 355
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of one of the most
influential works in the history of science. A fine copy with
interesting provenance. $9000.
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New
Vision Photography
GRÄFF, WERNER.
Es kommt der neue Fotograf [Here Comes the New Photographer!]
Published
(along with Roh and Tschichold’s
Foto-Auge) around the famous Stuttgart
“Film und Foto” exhibition of 1929, generally considered the greatest
photography exhibition ever held: “not since the great international
exhibitions of the 1850s and 1860s had there been such a broad display
of the photographic arts, intended not just to show photography but to
examine its place in society."
-The Photobook
FIRST EDITION
IN RARE DUST JACKET of one of the cornerstones of New Vision
Photography, illustrated with 148 black and white photographs.
$8000.
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"The most
famous novel in the English language"
MITCHELL, MARGARET. Gone
With the Wind
“As
God is my witness, as God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to
lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never
going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or
kill -- as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again."
FIRST EDITION IN FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET of Mitchell's
Pulitzer-Prize winning epic of Scarlett O'Hara's near-mythic love affair
with Rhett Butler, one of the most popular and enduring novels in
American literature. $7800.
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"We shall
fight on the beaches... we shall fight in the hills; we shall never
surrender"
CHURCHILL, WINSTON. Address
by the Prime Minister Mr. Winston Churchill Delivered in the House of
Commons, Tuesday, June 4, 1940
"We
shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the
seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing
strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may
be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing
grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight
in the hills; we shall never surrender…”
FIRST EDITION of one of the most influential speeches of the century:
Winston Churchill's triumphant "we shall not fail" speech of June 4,
1940. $2200.
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Signed
and inscribed by Man Ray
MAN RAY. Photographs
1920-1934
FIRST
EDITION OF MAN RAY’S FIRST MONOGRAPH, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY MAN RAY:
“For Hana Mackler / man Ray Paris 1962”. With a portrait by Picasso and
illustrated throughout with gravure reproductions of Man Ray’s
photographs, rayograms, and potraits. With additional portraits of James
Joyce, Salvador Dali, Matisse, Le Corvusier, DuChamp, Picasso, Braque,
Derain, and many other of the leading artists of the century. Texts by
Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Rrose Selavy, and Tristan Tzara. $17,000.
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One of
Faulkner's finest
FAULKNER, WILLIAM. Light
in August
"Light
in August is vintage Faulkner: Faulkner at his most luxuriant and,
arguably, at his most characteristic." -Ryūichi Yamaguchi
FIRST EDITION. Light in August, "Faulkner's grave
meditation on race, violence and all the fraught legacies of the South,
is the first in which he confronted head-on the poisons of racism... The
force of Faulkner's genius is in entirely in play" (Time Magazine
All-Time 100 novels). $6500.
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Signed
and inscribed by Winogrand
WINOGRAND, GARRY. Women
are Beautiful
"His
deceptively casual framing and subject matter influenced a whole
generation of American photographers, including Robert Adams, Lewis
Baltz, and William Eggleston.” –American National Biography
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY WINOGRAND on the half-title: “To
Lights best intern / Garry Winogrand”. The preferred hardcover issue of
the first edition. $3300.
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The
foundation for the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics
BOHR, NIELS.
The Quantum Postulate and the Recent Development of Atomic Theory
"It
is hard to overestimate was Bohr has done... The principle of
complementarity... is possibly one of the greatest discoveries in the
scientific history of mankind, with ramifications on many other levels
of science." -Josef Jauch
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Bohr’s statement of his
‘complementarity’ principle, the basis of what became known as the
‘Copenhagen interpretation’ of quantum mechanics. $4800.
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With an
original watercolor signed and inscribed by Braque
BRAQUE, GEORGES. Cahier
de Braque 1917-1947 [Notebooks]
“In
art there is only one thing that matters: what cannot be explained.” –
Braque, Cahier
LIMITED FIRST EDITION, WITH AN ADDITIONAL ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR BY BRAQUE.
The original watercolor on the front blank is of an artist’s palette and
brushes; signed and inscribed next to the watercolor: “Pour Madame Hant
/ 1952 / G Braque”. One of only 845 copies of this edition. $3900.
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"The
Classic American Treatment of the Civil War"
CRANE, STEPHEN. The
Red Badge of Courage
"In
'The Red Badge of Courage' [Crane] has surely contrived a masterpiece...
I think that his picture of war is more complete than Tolstoi's, more
true than Zola's." -Geroge Wyndman, New Review
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of one of the most influential
works of American literature. $8500.
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Signed
twice by Andy Warhol
WARHOL, ANDY.
America
“Everybody
has their own America,… a fantasy that they think is out there [but it
is] pieced… together from scenes in movies and music and lines from
books. And you live in your dream America that you’ve custom-made from
art and schmaltz and emotions as much as you live in your real one.”
–Warhol
FIRST EDITON, the scarce preferred hard-cover issue, SIGNED TWICE BY
ANDY WARHOL: signed on the dust jacket and additionally inscribed:
“Brooke / Andy Warhol”.
$4500.
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A fine
copy
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.
Winner Take Nothing
"Unlike
all other forms of lutte or combat the conditions are that the winner
shall take nothing; neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notions
of glory; nor, if he win far enough, shall there be any reward within
himself."
FIRST EDITION of one of Hemingway's most accomplished collections of
short stories. $4600.
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Important
modernist work
CATHER, WILLA.
The Professor's House
“The
most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost
as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us." -Rebecca
West
FIRST EDITON of one of Cather's most accomplished and influential
novels; a touchstone modernist work. With her stylistic and thematic
daring, Cather, in The Professor's House, "places herself in
the company of Proust, Lawrence, Eliot, and Virginia Woolf" in her
influence on the modern movement (Hermione Lee, Willa Cather: Double
Lives).
$2000.
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Special
double issue of Verve dedicated to Pablo Picasso
(PICASSO, PABLO).
Verve. Vol VIII, No. 29/30. Vallauris-Mil Neuf Cent Cinquante Quatre.
Suite de 180 Dessins de Picasso. 28 Novembre 1953 au 3 Fevrier 1954
"Last
winter, from mid-December to the end of January 1954 Picasso was working
indefatigably on this series of drawings, which rank among the finest,
boldest, most poignantly human of all he has produced in the course of
his long and brilliant career..." -Teriade
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE
(French-language), of the special double issue of Verve
dedicated to the drawings of Pablo Picasso, focusing on the works
composed during his stay at Vallauris in 1954. With 180 plates including
16 color lithographs after Picasso printed by Mourlot. $3200.
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"No
individual has had a greater influence upon the Western American art,
literature, and history of our country than George Catlin"
CATLIN,
GEORGE.
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North
American Indians
"These
tribes... to whose lands we have succeeded, and who have no written
memorials of their laws, their habits, and their manners, are all
passing away to the world of forgetfulness. Their likeness, manners, and
customs, are portrayed with more accuracy and truth in this collection
by Catlin than in all the other drawings and representations on the face
of the earth." -Daniel Webster
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Catlin's
monumental work on the North American Indians. $5700.
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Classic
work of the Beat Generation
BURROUGHS, WILLIAM. The
Naked Lunch
“A
book of great beauty and maniacally exquisite insight with a wild and
deadly humor… The only American novelist who may conceivably be
possessed by genius.” –Norman Mailer
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Burroughs’s masterpiece, one of only 5000
copies printed. $4200.
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"It would
be difficult to overestimate the influence"
SANDER, AUGUST.
Antlitz der Zeit: 60 Fotos Deutscher Menschen [Face of Our Time]
"One
of the great documentary works of all times... it would be difficult to
overestimate the influence of this work on later photography,
documentary, and otherwise." -Roth, 101 Books
FIRST EDITION of Sander’s classic, one of the most
influential photobooks of the early twentieth-century. $5600.
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Artificial radioactivity
CURIE, IRÈNE; JOLIOT, F.
Un nouveau type
de radioactivité
“One of the most
important discoveries of the century... The consequences of the
discovery of artificial radioactivity are immense" (Segrè, From X-rays
to Quarks, 198-199).
FIRST EDITION IN
ORIGINAL WRAPPERS announcing the discovery
of artificial radioactivity. Curie and Joliot were awarded the 1935
Nobel Prize in chemistry for "their synthesis of new radioactive
elements." $4200.
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Signed
and inscribed by Thornton Wilder
WILDER, THORNTON.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
"Thornton
Wilder's Bridge of San Luis Rey is as close to perfect a moral fable as
we are ever likely to get in American literature." -Russell Banks
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THORNTON WILDER on
front free endpaper: "For Ida Freedman / Thornton Wilder".
$5000.
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One of
only 350 copies with an original photograph
WESTON, EDWARD.
Edward Weston, His Life and Photographs
"My
brothers Chan, Neil, Brett, and I believe this book does honor to our
father's work. It is the greatest collection of photographs by Edward
Weston ever published." –Cole Weston
SIGNED LIMITED DELUXE EDITION, ONE OF 350 COPIES SIGNED BY COLE
WESTON WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH BY COLE WESTON FROM EDWARD
WESTON'S ORIGINAL NEGATIVE.
$4000.
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E=mc2
EINSTEIN, ALBERT.
Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig? [Does
The inertia of a body depend upon its energy-content?]
“The
mass of a body is a measure of its energy-content..."
FIRST PRINTING of Albert
Einstein's groundbreaking 1905 paper, the introduction and derivation of
the most famous equation in modern physics: E=mc2. $6500.
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Children's classic, in rare dust jacket
SALTEN, FELIX.
Bambi: A Life in the Woods
"Don't
follow me any further, Bambi," he began with a calm voice, "my time is
up. Now I have to look for a resting place." Bambi tried to speak.
"Don't," said the old stag cutting him short, "don't. In the hour which
I am approaching we are all alone. Good-by, my son. I loved you dearly."
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH IN
RARE DUST JACKET. Originally published in
German in 1923, Bambi was first translated into English by the
young Whittaker Chambers and became an immediate success in the
English-speaking world. $2400.
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Robert E.
Lee appointed "General in Chief"
LEE, ROBERT E. An
Act to provide the appointment of a General in Chief of the Armies of
the Confederate States. General Orders No. 3; Richmond, February 6, 1865
"Providence
raises up the man for the time, and a man for this occasion, we believe,
has been raised up in Robert E. Lee, the Washington of the second
American Revolution." —The Richmond Dispatch, Feb.7, 1865
OFFICIAL BROADSIDE CONFEDERATE PRINTING
with seal on top left corner appointing Robert E. Lee "General in Chief"
of the Confederate forces. $8000.
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The first
machine to perform calculations at superhuman speed
JEVONS, W. STANLEY.
On the
Mechanical Performance of Logical Inference
"To
the reader of the preceding paper it will be evident that mechanism is
capable of replacing for the most part the action of thought required in
the performance of logical deduction... The machine is thus the
embodiment of a true symbolic method or Calculus..."
FIRST EDITION of Jevons's explanation of
his "logical piano"; a landmark in computer science.
$2300.
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Wilkie
Collins's masterpiece
COLLINS, WILKIE.
The Woman in White
"There
is no contemporary novelist who could not learn something from Collins
in the art of interesting and exciting the reader... The resources of
Wilkie Collins are inexhaustible."-T.S. Eliot
RARE FIRST APPEARANCE OF COLLINS'S CLASSIC,
published in 40 volumes of All The Year Round.
$8700.
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One of
only 375 copies, with an original Renoir etching
[RENOIR, PIERRE-AUGUSTE]. VOLLARD, AMBROISE.
La vie et l'oeuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir
FIRST
EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, with original glassine, one of 375 copies
on velin d’arches (from a total edition of 1000). Magnificently
illustrated with ONE ORIGINAL ETCHING by Renoir and 51 FULL-PAGE
ENGRAVED PLATES after Renoir and numerous illustrations of Renoir’s work
throughout the text.
RARE. $14,000.
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One of
only 170 copies
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.
in our time
"In
the dry compressed little vignettes of In Our Time, [he] has almost
invented a form of his own... I am inclined to think that this little
book has more artistic dignity than anything else about the period of
the war that has yet been written by an American." -Edmund Wilson, 1924
FIRST EDITION, one of only 170 numbered copies, printed on Rives
hand-made paper, of Hemingway's second book. With woodcut portrait
frontispiece after Henry Strater.
$36,500.
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Milestones in the development of the laser, with two major Einstein
papers
EINSTEIN,
ALBERT; TOWNES, CHARLES H.; SCHAWLOW, A.L.; MAIMAN, T.H.; et al.
First editions of the major discoveries in the development of the laser;
including two major Einstein papers, one in scarce original wrappers
Includes
first editions announcing the theoretical basis for the laser, the
maser, the blueprint for the laser, and the first successful laser.
The 1916 Einstein paper in original wrappers is one of his most
celebrated works. $12,500.
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Essential
part of American culture
PUZO, MARIO.
The Godfather
"Behind
every great fortune, there is a crime..."
FIRST EDITION. “One of the most successful novels
ever—selling some 21 million copies worldwide, spawning three critically
and financially successful motion pictures, and placing its characters
into the contemporary American cultural mythology” (Britannica).
$1650.
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Evocative
images of the Jewish ghetto
[VER, MOÏ].
AVOROBEICHIC, MOSHÉ.
Ein Ghetto im Osten - Wilna [A Ghetto in the East]
“His
use of the book format as a progression of pictures to be leafed through
is unique with regard to the reportage style that was just carving a
niche for itself at the time." -Open Book
"Moï Ver remains a singular figure
in photobook history..." -The Photobook
FIRST EDITION, illustrated with 65
images of the Jewish ghetto in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. With
preface by poet Zalman Chneour in Hebrew and German. $1900.
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One of the most influential approaches to quantum theory
BOHM,
DAVID.
Suggested
Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of "Hidden" Variables
"In
1952 I saw the impossible done. It was in papers by David Bohm." -John
S. Bell
FIRST EDITION of David Bohm's
deterministic "hidden variables" approach to quantum theory.
$2100.
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Signed by
Irving Penn
PENN,
IRVING.
A Notebook at Random
"Leafing
through these images of his daily obsessions and seductions... is like
seeing ideas wind their way through his mind. It is a tantalizing
shuffle, not in the least because of the portrait it reveals of the
master photographer himself, now 87, still stealing glimpses of the
universe and tenderly tripping up time." -Jay
Fielden, Vogue
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY IRVING PENN. An
unconventional retrospective, illustrated throughout with reproductions
of Penn's photographs and drawings. $650.
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"The first comprehensive celebration of the entire continental nation"
BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN, ed.
Picturesque America
“It
is the design of the publication entitled ‘PICTURESQUE AMERICA’ to
present full descriptions and elaborate pictorial delineations of the
scenery characteristic of all the different parts of our country. The
wealth of material for this purpose is almost boundless..."
FIRST BOOK EDITION, in deluxe publisher’s full morocco binding, of the
most famous and influential early pictorial representation of the United
States. Beautifully illustrated with over 900 wood engravings and fifty
steel engravings. $1500.
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Autograph letters signed by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis
TOLKIEN, J.R.R.; LEWIS, C.S.; BURCHFIELD, R.W.
Archive
of letters with two related books
Letters
and books- including an autograph letter by J.R.R. Tolkien and two
autograph letters and an autograph note by C.S. Lewis- from the
collection of Robert W. Burchfield.
$5800.
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With 45 large Modigliani matted plates
(MODIGLIANI, AMADEO).
Forty-Five Drawings
LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF
ONLY 250 COPIES printed for the Grove Press (with text in English), out
of a total edition of 1000. An extensive collection of reproductions of
Modigliani's work in various media. With 45 large matted plates. New
York: Grove Press, 1959. Large folio, plates loose as issued. Original
cloth drop back box. $2100.
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A beautiful copy
[NEWTON, ISAAC]. PEMBERTON, HENRY.
A View of Sir Isaac
Newton's Philosophy
“My
admiration at the surprising inventions of this great man, carries me to
conceive of him as a person who has done honour to human nature, by
having extended the greatest and most noble of our faculties, reason, to
subjects, which, till he attempted them, appeared to be wholly beyond
the reach of our limited capacities.” -Henry Pemberton
FIRST EDITION, complete with 12 engraved plates (11
folding), of Pemberton's influential study of Isaac Newton. $3000.
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Signed and inscribed by Robert Frost
FROST, ROBERT.
A Boy's Will
"The
poems combine, with a rare sufficiency, the essential qualities of
inevitability and surprise. We have read every line with that amazement
and delight which are too seldom evoked by books of modern verse.
Without need of qualification or a trimming of epithets, it is
undoubtedly the work of a true poet..." -Review of A Boy's Will in The
Academy, September 20, 1913
SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ROBERT FROST, "with friendly regards / Robert
Frost / Jefferson, NH / August 22 1916". First American edition (second
state) of Frost's first book. $1700.
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Kimura's Paris
KIMURA, IHEI.
Pari (Paris)
“Paris
is notable for two things. Firstly, it has a distinctive colour palette,
composed of cool blues, greys, browns and purples. Secondly, there is
Kimura’s view of the city itself, which teeters between conventional
travel photography and something much more original…"—Parr/Badger, The
Photobook: A History
FIRST EDITION of one the major works by one of the
most celebrated Japanese photographers. $2000.
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Signed
and inscribed by Marc Chagall
CHAGALL,
MARC. The
Lithographs of Chagall. Volumes I-VI (complete)
First editionS
of all six
volumes (English-language issues) of Chagall’s catalogue raisonèe,
Signed
and inscribed by chagall in volume I.
Complete
with 28 original lithographs, including original lithograph dust jackets
for volumes I-IV.
An interesting association copy: inscribed by Chagall to
the highly accomplished Polish-American artist Manfred Schwartz.
A superb set in fine
condition. $14,500.
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Inscribed by Faraday to Avogadro
FARADAY, MICHAEL.
On a Peculiar
Class of Acoustical Figures; and on certain Forms assumed by groups of
particles upon vibrating elastic Surfaces
PRESENTATION
COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE, of one of Faraday's important
works documenting his quest to understand the nature of electricity.
Presentation inscription ("Le Chevalier Avogadro... from the author") on
title-page in Faraday’s hand to Count Amadeo Avogadro, Italian physicist
and chemist (inscription cropped at fore-margin due to the work being
previously bound as part of a pamphlet volume). $5000.
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With 45 large Giacometti plates
(GIACOMETTI, ALBERTO).
Quarantacinque disegni di
Alberto Giacometti
FIRST EDITION,
ONE OF 1,145 COPIES (out of a total edition of 1245), finely illustrated
with 45 large folio reproductions of the artist's drawings (two in
color). Folio. Text (in French and Italian) bound (as issued), plates
inside original wove paper folder, original tan cloth-covered portfolio
box with brown printed artist's signature on the front and text on the
spine and original grey cardboard box with white label with printed
artist's signature. $2200.
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"A landmark event in American Poetry"
GINSBERG, ALLEN.
Howl and
Other Poems
"I
saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness..."
FIRST EDITION, one of only 1000 copies, of one of the most influential
works of modern poetry.
$2800.
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