State Tryals for High Treason and Other Crimes with Proceedings on Bills of Attainder and Impeachments for Three Hundred Years Past: "By the same hand that prepared the folio edition for the press." Browne, Strahan, et al., London, 1720. Full leather with new lettering pieces, six volumes. Very scarce. $2,400

Art Law - The Guide for Collectors, Investors, Dealers and Artists: Ralph Lerner, Judith Bresler. PLI, NY, 1997, second edition. Red cloth with gilt titling, dust jackets, two volumes. $75

The History of the Lawyers Club: William Allen Butler. The Lawyers Club [n.d.]. Inscribed by the author to "Louise Tracy Butler from her affectionate Father January 1914." Scarce. $75

Anti-Duhring: Friedrich Engels. Charles Kerr, Chicago, 1935. Green cloth. $35

My Life - The Rise and Fall of a Dictator: Leon Trotsky. Thornton Butterworth, London, 1930. First English edition. Red cloth. $50

A Handbook of Marxism: edited by Emile Burns. Left Book Club Edition, Victor Gollancz, London, 1936. Soft-cover. $30

The Principle of Population: Francis Place. Longman, Hurst et al., London, 1822. First edition, three-quarter calf with red lettering piece. Scarce. $250

Paleopathological Diagnoses and Interpretation - Bone Diseases in Ancient Human Populations: R. Ted Steinbock. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, 1976. Maroon cloth. $95

Art, Music, Nature & Illustrated

Vincent Van Gogh's Great Period (Complete Catalog): W. Scherjon and Jos. De Gruyter. "Der Spiegel" Ltd., Amsterdam, 1937. Folio, with dust jacket and Mylar cover. $85

Development of Christian Architecture in Italy: W. Sebastian Okely. Longman, Green, et al., London, 1860. Brown cloth, no dust jacket. Ex-library, with few markings. $150

Development & Character of Gothic Architecture: MacMillan, London and NY, 1899. Blue cloth, no dust jacket. Ex-library, few markings. $55

George Caleb Bingham - A Catalogue Raisonne: E. Maurice Bloch. U. California Press. Two volumes with dust jackets. Still in shrink-wrap. Unopened. $200

The Practical Book of Tapestries: George Leland Hunter. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1925. Color paste-down on front board. Eight color plates and 220 in Doubletone. $95

Oriental Rugs - Antique and Modern: Walter A. Hawley. Dodd, Mead, NY, 1925. Orange cloth with border design on front board. Eleven full-page color plates, eighty half-tone plates and four maps. $100

The Way They Play - Illustrated Discussions with Famous Artists and Teachers, Books 1 and 2: Samuel & Sada Applebaum. Paganiniana Publications, NJ, 1972, 1973. First edition of each volume. Volume 2 inscribed: "Oct. 1977 To Mr. & Mrs. Field in admiration for the wonderful work you are doing in the cause of great music. Sam." $250

Anton von Webern - Sketches (1925-1945): Carl Fischer, NY, 1968. Facsimile reproductions from the composer's autograph sketchbooks in the Moldenhauer Archive. Beige and brown cloth, oblong, in brown slip case. $500

Familiar Wild Birds; W. Swaysland, illustrated by A. Thornburn, et al. Cassell and Co., London, 1902-1903. Four volumes in two, forty color plates in each volume (160 total.) Half-leather with marbled endpapers. $185

The Compleat Angler: Izaak Walton, edited by John Major. Illustrated with seventeen wood engravings by E. Fitch Daglish. E.P. Dutton, NY, 1927. Beige cloth with paste-down wood engraving on front board. $225

The Compleat Angler: Izaak Walton, illustrated by Arthur Rackham (reprint.) Weathervane Books, NY, ca. 1975. Hardcover with dust jacket. $45

Angling in British Art - Throughout Five Centuries, Prints, Pictures, Books: W. Shaw Sparrow. John Lane, London, 1923. Blue cloth, 39 color plates. $225

Familiar Trees: G.S. Boulger. Cassell, London. "Entirely New Edition Revised Throughout and Enlarged." Half-leather. Three volumes, 38 color plates and 38 black-and-white plates in each volume. $135

Familiar Wild Flowers; F. Edward Hulme. Cassell, London, n.d., ca. 1900. First through Seventh Series. Unusual seven volume set. Green cloth with forty color plates per volume. $425

Wild America: Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher. "The record of a 30,000 mile journey around the North American Continent by an American Naturalist and his British colleague." First edition. Collins, London, 1956. Orange cloth with dust jacket in Mylar cover. $65

The Arcturus Adventure - An Account of the New York Zoological Society's First Oceanographic Expedition: William Beebe. G.P. Putnam, NY, 1927. With seventy-seven illustrations from colored plates, photographs and maps. Seventh edition. $75

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Edward Fitzgerald. Thomas Crowell, NY [n.d.]. Brown cloth, with color illustrations by Willy Pogany. $50

Africa from the Point of View of American Negro Scholars: Rayford Logan. Soft cover with front cover missing. Printed in France. Inscribed by Rayford Logan. $25

Invisible Empire: The Story of the Ku Klux Klan 1866-1871: Stanley F. Horn. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1939. Scarce first edition. Brown cloth, with design on front board. Ex-library. $65

The Book of American Negro Poetry: James Weldon Johnson. Harcourt Brace & Co., NY, 1922. Brown cloth with paper label; first edition. $65

Harlemitta Dreams: Benito Luciano Tomas. NY, 1934. $35

North to the Orient: Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Harcourt, Brace, NY, 1935. First edition, first issue in first state dust jacket of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's account of her journey to Alaska and along the Arctic Circle to Russia, China and Japan. $195

The Story of the Polar Conquest - The Complete History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration: edited by Logan Marshall. L.T. Myers, 1913. Red cloth decorated with white and black lettering and cover paste-down of Scott's ship. Many black and white photographs. $45

The Panama Canal: Frederic Haskin. Doubleday, Garden City, 1913. Many photographs taken by E. Allen, the Official Photographer of the Isthmian Canal Commission. Maroon cloth. $50

Arctic Journeys: Edward Shackleton. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1937. Blue cloth, faded. First edition. $75

Northward Over the "Great Ice": Robert E. Peary. Stokes, NY, 1898. "A Narrative of Life and Work Along the Shores and Upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-1897." With maps, diagrams, and eight hundred illustrations. Two volumes, spines faded. $225

Flashlights in the Jungle - A Record of Hunting Adventures and of Studies in Wild Life in Equatorial East Africa: C.G. Schillings. Doubleday, Page, NY, 1905. Green cloth. First American edition. $85

Livingstone's Travels and Researches in South Africa: David Livingstone, LL.D., D.C.L. Bradley, Philadelphia, 1859. Numerous engravings. $100

On Our Way: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. John Day Co., NY, 1934. Hard cover with dust jacket protected by Mylar cover. Inscribed by Frederick Delano "To Jane Howland from her Friend & Kinsman Frederick Delano." Franklin Delano was the uncle of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. $125

Life of Napoleon: Baron Jomini. Translation and notes by H. W. Halleck. D. Van Nostrand, NY, 1864. Red cloth. First American edition. Five volumes including the scarce Atlas. Inscribed by Gen. William Vandever, Civil War General. $1,250

An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages - Containing an Examination of M. Raynouard's Theory on the Relation of the Italian, Spanish, Provencal, and French to Latin: Sir George Cornewall Lewis. Parker and Son, London, 1862, second edition. Beautiful prize binding, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. $150

Great Captains Series: A History of the Art of War from the beginning of the French Revolution to the end of the Eighteenth Century, with a Detailed Account of the Wars of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars: Theodore Aryault Dodge, Brevet Lieut. Col. USA. Houghton Mifflin, Boston,1904. Burgundy cloth with gilt titling, first edition, four volumes with "202 charts, maps, plans of battles and tactical manoeuvers, portraits, cuts of uniforms, Arms and Weapons." From the library of the Commandery of the State of Illinois. $600

Decisive Battles Since Waterloo - The Most Important Military Events From 1815-1887: Thomas W. Knox. G.P. Putnam, NY, 1887. Orange cloth, illustrated, including six foldout maps. $50

The Reign of Queen Anne: Mrs. Oliphant. The Century Co., NY, 1894. Thirty-three illustrations; beautifully ornate book. Front and rear boards elaborately decorated with gilt design, gilt spine, deckled edges, top edge gilt. $95

The Private Journal of Aaron Burr; "Reprinted in full from the original manuscript in the library of Mr. William K. Bixby of St. Louis, MO." New York, 1903. Presentation copy from William K. Bixby to Darwin P. Kingsley; No. 52 of 250 copies "printed for private distribution only" and initialed by Bixby. Two volumes, blue cloth, paper spine labels torn. $300

Historical Tracts: Sir John Davies, Attorney General and Speaker of the House of Commons in Ireland: William Porter, Dublin, 1787. Recently rebound in half-leather. Ex-library with gilt numbers on spine. $225

The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan: Alexander William Kinglake. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Eight volumes, three-quarter red leather, raised bands, gilt design in compartments on spines: Vol. 1, 3rd. ed., 1863; Vol.2, 3rd ed., 1863; Vol. 3, 2nd ed., 1868; Vol. 4 2nd ed., 1868; Vol. 5, 1st ed,. 1875; Vol. 6, 1st ed., 1880; Vol. 7, 1st ed. 1887; Vol. 8, 1st ed. 1887. $1,250

Tactics of Cavalry: Count [Friedrich] von Bismark. William H. Ainsworth, London, 1827. Three-quarter leather over marbled boards, with marbled endpapers (binding matches binding of previous book on cavalry), with all twenty-three plates present. $300

The History of British India: James Mill (father of John Stuart Mill.) Baldwin, Cradock, London, 1826, third edition. Original publisher's boards with printed labels, deckled edges, uncut. Six volumes, including Index, with foldout maps in volumes 1 and 3. $600

Our Friend John Burroughs: Clara Barrus. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston & NY, 1914. Green-black boards with gilt titling. Signed "Your Old friend John Burroughs and your New Friend Clara Barrus. 'Riverby,' West Park, N.Y. April 1915." Also includes a cut out portion of a manuscript letter, presumably written by Burroughs, which says " I am now trying to write up my trip to the Yellowstone with the President" and some newspapers articles and post card photographs of Burroughs and Woodchuck Lodge. $295

The Art of the Comeback: Times Books, NY, 1997.Inscribed by Donald Trump "To Stone what a great interview - you are a real Pro Best Wishes Donald Trump." First edition, with dust jacket. $95

New York Observed - Artists and Writers Look at the City 1650 to the Present: Edited by Barbara Cohen, Seymour Chwast, Steven Heller. Harry N. Abrams, NY, 1987. This book was published only in soft-cover. However, a binder had 20 copies which have been bound and have never before been sold on the public market. We have all 20. Each one is bound in linen cloth with a pasted-in label stating that the volume is a Limited Bound Edition, numbered (e.g. "No. 11 of 20") and signed by the binder. $100 each

Best Seat in the House - A Basketball Memoir: Spike Lee. Crown Pub., NY, 1997. First edition with dust jacket and inscribed by Spike Lee: "To Arthur Kugelman Wait 'til next year We Wuz Robbed!!! Spike Lee." $100

Mark Twain; American Publishing Co., Hartford. Black cloth with gilt design and titling:

The Gilded Age; 1888

Roughing It; 1888

A Tramp Abroad; 1888

The Innocents Abroad; 1889

The Kit Book for Soldiers, Sailors and Marines. Consolidated Book Publishers, Chicago, 1943. Second issue (first published in 1942.) In paper-covered boards without dust jacket, as issued. Contains the first appearance in a book of a story by J.D. Salinger: "The Hang of It." $300

The Works of George Eliot: Holly Lodge edition: Dana Estes, Boston, 1898. Also entitled "The Illustrated Cabinet Edition." Twenty four volumes, three-quarter brown morocco over green cloth boards, with gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt spine with raised bands, top edges gilt. A beautiful set. $1,500

The Waverley Novels: Sir Walter Scott. The Centenary Edition, Charles Black, Edinburgh and Putnam, NY, [n.d., ca. 1870]. Twenty-five volumes in three-quarter red leather over marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers. $1,250

Poems of Heinrich Heine: Selected and translated by Louis Untermeyer and illustrated by Fritz Kredel. Limited Editions Club, NY, 1957. Copy No. 716 of 1,500 and signed by Fritz Kredel. $100

The Idiot: Fyodor Dostoevsky. Limited Editions Club, NY, 1956. Illustrated with wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Decorated maroon cloth in marbled slip case. Copy No.1,477 of 1,500 and signed by Fritz Eichenberg. $125

The Croquet Player: H.G. Wells. Viking Press, NY, 1937. Grey cloth with dust jacket in Mylar cover. First American edition. $65

Desire - A Play: Pablo Picasso. Philosophical Society, NY, 1948. Blue cloth with dust jacket in Mylar cover.First American edition. $75

The Charterhouse of Parma: Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendahl). Limited Editions Club, NY, 1955. Illustrations by Rafaello Busoni. Copy No. 696 of 1,500 and signed by Rafaello Busoni. $85

The Last Days of Pompeii: Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, with illustrations by Kurt Craemer. The Limited Editions Club, NY, 1956. Copy No. 534 of 1,500 and signed by the illustrator (Craemer) and the printer (Maroersteig). $100

The Cambridge History of English Literature: edited by A. W. Ward. Macmillan Co., NY, 1932. Beige cloth with top edges gilt, fifteen volumes including Index. $300

Nicholas Nickleby: Charles Dickens. Chapman and Hall, London, 1839. First edition, first issue, in book form. Half burgundy calf with burgundy boards, raised bands, gilt spine with gilt lettering pieces, with rare half-title. Thirty-nine engraved plates by Phiz. $600.

Epistolarum libri x, De viris illustribus: Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus. Robert Estienne, Paris, 1529. Blind-tooled calf, full leather, recently rebacked, raised bands. First Estienne edition. $1,250

Exemplorum Memorabilium libri ix: Valerius Maximus. Leiden, 1660. First Hackius edition. Half-leather with paper-covered boards. Russian library stamp and fore-edge drawing. $600

Lives and Doctrines of Eminent Philosophers: Diogenes Laertius. Henri Estienne, Geneva, 1570. Two parts in one volume. Modern calf preserving the gold-tooled backstrip, edges stained red and comb-marbled. Renouard 134.6; Schreiber 178; Hoffman 1, 565; Adams D-482. An important edition with Book 10 being the only source for the text of several works of Epicurus, including his letter to Herodotus. An unusual volume complete with the Greek text separately paginated from the Latin translation which is often lacking. See cover photograph. $2,000

The Measures of the Imagination: Mark Akenside. Cadell and Davies, London, 1803. Contemporary full leather, all edges gilt, with fore-edge painting. $250

The Complete Works of John Locke: Tegg et al., London, 1823. Ten volumes; library binding with usual markings. Hard to find. $950

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Samuel Johnson. C. Bathurst, et al., London, 1781. First London edition. Full leather with raised bands, four volumes. $650

Naturalis Historiae: Gaius Plinius Secundus. Sommeri, Leipzig, 1778. Ten volumes, contemporary bindings, half-vellum with inked titles on the spines. $900

In Libros Mosis de Mundi Opificio, Historicos, de Legibus: Philo Judaeus. A. Turnebus, Paris, 1552. Folio, wide margins, with a lovely Greek font. Binding is 18th C leather spine with marbled paper on the boards. This is apparently the editio princeps of the majority of Philo's works, edited by Turnebus, Royal Typographer and Professor of Greek at Paris, and it includes an exposition of the Pentateuch. $3,500

Hippocratis Coi medici vetustissimi, et omnium aliorum principis, libri omnes ad vetustos codices summo studio collati et restaurati: Hippocrates. Froben, Basel, 1538. This is one of the earliest editions of the collected works of Hippocrates and, having been edited by Cornarius, is said to be much more complete and more correct that the Aldine editio princeps of 1526. This is the rare Greek edition by Cornarius. $2,200

Epitome Graecae Palaeographiae: Bernard de Montfaucon, with editing by Placentinio. Salvione, Rome, 1735. First edition rare abridgement of the 1708 Palaeographiae Graecae, with many examples of various Greek alphabets in different scripts. The French scholar Montfaucon is credited with initiating the scientific study of ancient Greek texts. $850

Eighteen Horatio Alger books including

Strive and Succeed; 1872, Hurst & Co.

Only an Irish Boy; 1894, Winston & Co.

Frank and Fearless; 1897, Winston & Co.

Rupert's Ambition; 1899, Winston & Co.

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A Heroine of the Wilderness: The Story of Lincoln's Mother: Hezekiah Butterworth, with illustrations by Clare Victor Dwiggins. John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia, 1906. Decorated cloth cover. Scarce. $250

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen. Geo. Doran, NY, 1924. Front cover is art-deco design of orange and black on silver paper, spine faded. Twelve tipped in color illustrations by Nielsen plus many black and white illustrations $195

Boy Bird House Architecture: Leon H. Baxter. Bruce Pub. Co., Wisconsin, 1923. Twenty plates of designs for bird houses. $25

The Haggadah: Illustrated by Arthur Szyk. Massadah & Magen, Jerusalem, 1956. Printed in multiple colors on double-folded leaves; text in English and Hebrew; purple velvet boards with gilt design and blue velvet lining to slip case. $350

Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Funk & Wagnalls, NY, 1891. Four volumes complete; full leather. $125

The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament: Eberhard Schrader. Williams and Norgate, London, 1888. Brown cloth, two volumes, with a map in vol. 1. $100

A History of Israel: Oesterley and Robinson. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1934. Blue cloth, two volumes. $65

History of the Jews: H. Graetz. Jewish Publ. Soc. Of America, Philadelphia, 1891-1898. Decorated green cloth, six volumes, first American edition. $200

Famous Musicians of a Wandering Race: Gdal Saleski. Bloch Publ. Co., NY, 1927. Blue cloth. $65

Primitive Devotion in the Feasts and Fasts of the Church of England: Edward Sparke. William Battersby, London, 1700, eighth edition. Full leather, with engraved plates. $300

Illuminated manuscript leaves of music: Spanish, fifteenth century. Two framed leaves, five line staves with both large red and Gothic script capitals, Latin manuscript on both sides of folio-size vellum. $350 each, the pair for $600

Map: Amerique Septentrionale: From Atlas Universal Illustre, compiled by French cartographer, V. Levasseur, and published in 1847, showing Alaska as "Amerique Russe;" beautiful borders engraved by Raimond Bonheur. Matted and framed. $295

A pair of hand-colored engravings of coral from the famous "Deliciae Naturae Selectae" of G.W. Knorr. Nuremberg, 1770. Matted and framed. $350 each, $600 the pair