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Alexander Calder: Fables, first edition with an original Calder portrait

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The Manhattan Rare Book Company. 1050 Second Ave, Gallery 50E. New York, NY 10022. Tel: 212.326.8907 fax: 212.355.4403. WITH ORIGINAL SELF-PORTRAIT DRAWING BY CALDER. Illus) LA FONTAINE, JEAN. FIRST TRADE EDITION,. With a FULL-PAGE INK SELF-PORTRAIT BY CALDER on front flyleaf; initialed by Calder at the top of portrait. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Calder; translation by Eunice Clark.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett: Little Lord Fauntleroy, first edition

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The Manhattan Rare Book Company. 1050 Second Ave, Gallery 50E. New York, NY 10022. Tel: 212.326.8907 fax: 212.355.4403. Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic Little Lord Fauntleroy. First edition in exceptional condition. BURNETT, Frances Hodgson. Little Lord Fauntleroy. Illustrated by Reginald Birch. New York: Scribner, 1886. Octavo, original gilt-decorated cloth. $1450. First edition, first issue (with DeVinne Press imprint) of Burnett's classic,.

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Sigmund Freud: first edition of his first published paper

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The Manhattan Rare Book Company. 1050 Second Ave, Gallery 50E. New York, NY 10022. Tel: 212.326.8907 fax: 212.355.4403. The beginning of an illustrious career:. Sigmund Freud's first paper,. Rare first edition in original wrappers. Published when he was just 21 years old, Freud's second piece of student research, on the function of the large Reissner cells in the spinal cord of primitive fish Petromyzon. III, p.228). First edition in original wrappers of Freud's first published paper.

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Willem Rontgen ( Roentgen ): The discovery of the X-Ray, first edition

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The Manhattan Rare Book Company. 1050 Second Ave, Gallery 50E. New York, NY 10022. Tel: 212.326.8907 fax: 212.355.4403. WC Rontgen's Discovery of the X-Ray:. Heralded the age of modern physics and revolutionized diagnostic medicine. In 1901 Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize awarded in physics in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him. Additional information from the Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

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Le Radjah de Mazulipatam, illustrated by Umberto Brunelleschi

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The Manhattan Rare Book Company. 1050 Second Ave, Gallery 50E. New York, NY 10022. Tel: 212.326.8907 fax: 212.355.4403. Le Radjah de Mazulipatam. Sumptuously illustrated by Umberto Brunelleschi. BRUNELLESCHI, Umberto). Miomandre, Francis de. Le Radjah de Mazulipatam. (Paris): Mornay, 1926. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers; glassine. $1900. Additional images, please click to enlarge:.

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Winston Churchill: The Second World War, first edition

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The Manhattan Rare Book Company. 1050 Second Ave, Gallery 50E. New York, NY 10022. Tel: 212.326.8907 fax: 212.355.4403. CHURCHILL, WINSTON S. The Second World War. History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it. -Churchill. FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS of Churchill's most important work, handsomely bound in full morocco. Fine condition.

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churchill peoples

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The Manhattan Rare Book Company. 1050 Second Ave, Gallery 50E. New York, NY 10022. Tel: 212.326.8907 fax: 212.355.4403. Winston Churchill’s The People’s Rights,. Rare 1910 first edition, original wrappers. CHURCHILL, Winston S. The People’s Rights. London: Hodder and Stoughton (1910). Octavo, original yellow wrappers. $3400.

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Pierre Alechinsky: First edition of La Vie Comme Elle Tourne et par Example

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The Manhattan Rare Book Company. 1050 Second Ave, Gallery 50E. New York, NY 10022. Tel: 212.326.8907 fax: 212.355.4403. WITH THREE SIGNED ALECHINSKY ETCHINGS. ALECHINSKY, PIERRE). Frenaud, Andre. La Vie Comme Elle Tourne et par Example. First edition, one of only 90 copies signed by Alechinsky and Frenaud.

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Winston Churchil: First edition of August 20, 1940 speech

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The Manhattan Rare Book Company. 1050 Second Ave, Gallery 50E. New York, NY 10022. Tel: 212.326.8907 fax: 212.355.4403. NEVER IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN CONFLICT WAS SO MUCH OWED BY SO MANY TO SO FEW. A Speech by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons. FIRST EDITION of Winston Churchill's historic speech before the House of Commons, August 20, 1940. PMM 424. Printing and the Mind of Man. Custom boxes available. Cloth: $150. Half-leather: $300.

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Giovanni Morgagni: The Seats and Causes of Diseases, first edition

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The Manhattan Rare Book Company. 1050 Second Ave, Gallery 50E. New York, NY 10022. Tel: 212.326.8907 fax: 212.355.4403. Beginning with Morgagni and resulting from his work, the dogmatism of the old schools was completely shattered, and that with him the new medicine begins. The foundation of pathological anatomy,. One of the most fundamentally important works in the history of medicine :. Morgagni’s Seats and Causes of Diseases. Rare 1769 first edition in English. MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista.