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Voluptés de Paris [Pleasures of Paris]

BRASSAÏ.

FIRST EDITION, THE PRESUMED FIRST ISSUE, COMPLETE WITH THE EIGHT SUPPRESSED PLATES AND ORIGINAL SPIRAL BINDING. More

Price: $9,500 .

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The War Speeches: Into Battle, The Unrelenting Struggle, The End of the Beginning, Onwards to Victory, The Dawn of Liberation, Victory, and Secret Session Speeches

CHURCHILL, WINSTON.

COMPLETE FIRST EDITION seven-volume set of Churchill's War Speeches. More

Price: $3,900 .

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Music as an Aspect of the Human Spirit

Copland, Aaron.

Typescript Signed, an essay titled Music as an Aspect of the Human Spirit, written by the composer for Columbia University's bicentennial celebration. More

Price: $4,000 .

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Autograph Letter Signed

Davis, Jefferson.

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, to Reverend J. T. Freeman. Davis writes to Reverend Freeman thanking him for a proposed endowment to support the former President of the Confederacy. The letter provides a poignant glimpse of the former leader's post-war plight. He tells of his personal loss and hardship, but at the..... More

Price: $4,800 .

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Illuminated Manuscript: Prayer to God, the Father

[illuminated Manuscript].

Large illuminated manuscript leaf (c1480) with a miniature of God. More

Price: $4,100 .

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Typed Letter Signed [TLS]

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE.

ROOSEVELT’S HISTORIC LETTER INVITING MAUD NATHAN TO LEAD THE SUFFRAGE COMMITTEE OF THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY. More

Price: $9,000 .

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The First and second volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland... WITH: The Third volume of Chronicles... [The Chronicles]

[SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM]. HOLINSHED, RAPHAEL.

THE SECOND EDITION (1587) OF HOLINSHED’S “CHRONICLES”: THE BOOK AND THE EDITION USED BY SHAKESPEARE AS A SOURCE FOR A DOZEN OF HIS PLAYS. More

Price: $25,000 .

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Danorum historiae libri XVI [Hamlet Source]

[SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM]. SAXO GRAMMATICUS.

THE SECOND EDITION (1534) OF SAXO’S HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL DENMARK, CONTAINING THE STORY THAT BECAME SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET. More

Price: $7,000 .

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Le vite de’ piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori [The Lives of the Artists]

VASARI, GIORGIO.

FIRST COMPLETE, FIRST ILLUSTRATED, AND MOST SOUGHT AFTER EDITION OF THE FIRST MODERN HISTORY OF ART. [The Second Edition overall.] An exceptional copy, very handsomely bound. More

Price: $50,000 .

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The New Frontier Broadacre City. Taliesin, No. 1, October 1940.

WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD; NOTT, CHARLES STANLEY.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY WRIGHT. More

Price: $2,900 .

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