UPDATED:   September 28, 2008

TRUE 1ST EDITION 1ST STATE OF MARK TWAIN'S LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI; Boston, Osgood, 1883.  With over 300 illustrations; 3/4 leather with marbled endpapers.  $1,000.00.

1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING OF WASHINGTON IRVING'S BOOK OF THE HUDSON; New York, Putnam, 1849. Contains, among other stories, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."  Green embossed cloth.  $250.00.

Tryals for High-Treason, and Other Crimes with Proceedings on Bills of Attainder, and Impeachments for Three Hundred Years Past to Which are Pre-fixed A Preface Giving an Account of the Nature and Usefulness of the Work and an Alphabetical Table of the Respective Persons Try'd, and the Points of Law Debated and Adjudg'd"  "By the Same Hand that Prepared the Folio Edition for the Press."  London; Browne, Strahan, Mears, Gosling & Clay, 1720.  6 volumes, full leather.  $2,400.00.

Lures - The Guide to Sport Fishing; Keith S, Schuyler; The Stackpole Co, PA., 1955.  Three-quarter leather; raised bands.  $50.00

The Fly-Fishers Entomology -  Trout and Grayling Fishing;  Alfred Ronalds; London, Longmans, Green; 1877; either edition; with 20 color plates (all present).  $375.00

A Handbook of the Order Lepidoptera; Lloyd's natural History; W.F. Kirby, F.L.S.; London, Edward Lloyd, Ltd. 1896; 5 volumes with 158 color plates (all present); spines sunned.  $595.00

Heinrich Schliemann; TIRYNS; TROY AND ITS REMAINS; TROJA; ILIOS; MYCENAE.  Arno Press, NY, reprinted in 1976.  All 5 volumes in matching orange-brown cloth covers with black & gilt print on spines.  All 5 volumes $200.00.  We hate to sell this one - it will be hard to replace!

P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves & Wooster In The Great Sermon Handicap in 91 languages in 6 volumes.  Heineman, Inc., NY, 1993; illustrated by William Hewison.  All 6 volumes with dust jackets and al in near perfect condition.  All 6 volumes for $100.00.  This is an unusual set too - for the Jeeves fan who thinks he already has seen it all!  SOLD

God Is My Co-Pilot by Col. Robert L. Scott. Inscribed by Scott:  "To:  Alice and Di Gates - We were happy to have Colonel Whitney with us on our Bomb Tokio Mission.  Sincerely Robert L. Scott, Jr."  Scribner's, NY, 1943.  $275.00  SOLD

FIRST EDITION OF JOHN BROWN'S BODY - NO. 66 OF 201;  SIGNED BY STEPHEN  VINCENT BENET; Doubleday Doran, 1928, with slip case.   $1,000.00

Rollin's Ancient History:  The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaganinians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians; Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1869.  4 volumes; three-quarter leather with marbled boards and endpapers.  $200.00  SOLD

Souvenirs Entomologiques; J.-H. Fabre; "Edition Illustre"  10 volumes complete; three-quarter leather with marbled boards and endpapers; Paris, Delagrave, 1925.  Does not include the Supplemental volume on the Life of Fabre.  $1,000.00.

The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha; Cervantes; translated by Thomas Shelton.  Reprinted from the First Edition, 1612-1620, with a new preface by F.J. Harvey Darton.  Limited edition printed by the Navarre Society, 1923.  Two volumes; illustrated with two portraits and 20 plates; all plates present with tissue guards, top edges gilt.  $200.00.

The Writings of George Washington; edited by Jared Sparkes, Little, Brown & Co., 1858.  12 volumes, 3/4 leather with marbled boards, endpapers and edges.  A lovely and unusual set.  $500.00.

The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge; New York, Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1929.  Green cloth.  Inscribed by Calvin Coolidge:  "To the Grandson of Mrs. Al. C. Blodget With Best Wishes Calvin Coolidge."  $1,000.00

In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria  by Henry M. Stanley.  New York, Scribner's and Toronto, Presbyterian News Co., 1890.  Printed and bound by James Murray and Co., Toronto.  Three-quarter calf with marbled boards, endpapers and edges.  Two volumes with all three color maps present in pockets in the rear of each volume.    $375.00

Platonis Dialogi [Plato]; Reimer, Oxford or Berlin, 1816-1823; Edited by Bekker; 10 volumes in Latin and Greek; consisting of 8 volumes of Plato's Work and 2 volumes of commentaries.  Half leather, spine gilt, with red and black lettering pieces, marbled boards, newly rebacked preserving original backstrips.  $750.00.

Aelian; Variae Historiae Libri XIII; Johannes Tornaesium, Frankfort, 1604; Greek and Latin.  Newly recovered in half-calf with paper boards, raised bands, 2 lettering pieces, gilt spine.  $500.00.

SYRIAC BIBLE - New Testament in Syrian (1663) plus Syriac Lexicon (1667).  Hamburg, 1663, 1667.  Vellum with all edges gilt. $1,000.00.

EUSEBIUS; Ecclesiastical History  and The Life of Constantine in 6 Books; Henry Valesius.  Greek and Latin.  Folio, Mainz, 1672. 18th Century tree-calf; gilt emblem of the City of Delft on both front and rear boards; 6 raised bands.  $500.00.

LUCRETIUS - The nature of Things; edited by John Mason Good.  London, Longman, et al., 1804.  Two volumes, large Quarto, half-leather, marbled boards and endpapers.  $450.00.

JOSEPHUS- Opera Omnia.  Edited by Havercamp.  Schwickert, 1782, 1783, 1784.  Three volumes, half calf, blue lettering pieces.  In Greek and Latin.  $400.00.

The Works of Tobias Smollett, 8 volumes, London, Law, Johnson,  and Dilly, et al., 1797.  Zaehnsdorf binding, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.  Two boards re-attached.  Beautiful binding.  $750.00

Baron Jomini's Life of Napoleon; D. Van Nostrand, N. Y., 1864. Hard Bound.  First American Edition. 10" x 6.75". Five volumes: Translation & notes by H. W. Halleck.  Scarce with Atlas; from the Library of The Commandery of the State of Illinois; Inscribed by Gen. William Vandever, Civil War General.  $1,250.00

THE HAGGADAH; ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR SZYK; 1956; Massadah & Magen, Jerusalem. Printed in multiple colors on double-folded leaves; text in English and Hebrew; purple velvet boards with gilt design and blue velvet lining to book case.  $350.00  SOLD

 More than 200 Classics Published by the LIMITED EDITIONS AND HERITAGE PRESS.  From the Library of Esther Brautman, Queens, New York, who worked for the Press for 25 years.

Stoddard's Lectures; Boston, Balch Brothers, 1907; 10 volumes + 4 supplementary volumes. All edges gilt, gilt decoration to spines and covers.  John L. Stoddard was one of the greatest American travelers of the late 19th century. In 1898, his popular lectures were published in ten volumes each containing unbiased stories and hundreds of his photographs. Their popularity was so great, multiple printings were made (up into the 1920's) and sold by door-to-door salesmen as if they were encyclopedias. In a way, Stoddard's Lectures were an encyclopedic source of stories and images of countries he visited, giving Americans a glimpse of the world beyond the oceans.  $200.00

Euripides Fabulae; Sophoclis Fabulae; 3 volumes uniformly bound in half-leather with marbled endpapers; Clarendon Press, Oxford, ca. 1950.  Two volumes of Euripides,  by Gilbert Murray; one volume of Sophoclis by A.C. Pearson; top edges gilt.  Text in Greek with Latin notes.  All 3 volumes $175.00

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; 2nd edition; 1862, Parker and on, London.  Beautiful prize binding, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.  $150.00