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THE FEDERALIST, ON THE NEW CONSTITUTION. BY PUBLIUS. WRITTEN IN 1788. TO WHICH IS ADDED, PACIFICUS, ON THE PROCLAMATION OF NEUTRALITY. WRITTEN IN 1793. LIKEWISE, THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, WITH ALL THE AMENDMENTS New York: Printed and sold by George F. Hopkins, 1802. Second Edition. Octavos, 2 volumes; VG; bound in full contemporary calf, black spine labels wih gilt lettering; boards with moderate rubbing, including some wear to hinges, scraping to leather; newspaper clipping tipped onto verso of title page, staining to first page of preface. $15,000 |
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THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM London: G. Routledge & Sns, Ltd. n.d. [Circa 1903]. Octavo, 159 pages; VG; bound in full green French morocco by Bayntun, with elaborate gilt, blind tooling, and inlays, doublure and end leaves of moire, broad morocco inside borders with gilt tooling and corner ornaments, gilt edges; The front cover has an elaborate border of leaves and clusters of grapes in natural colors on a gilt background and gilt corner ornaments. In the center is a landscape in blind tooling with a female figure inlaid in different colored leathers and tooled in gilt and blind. The spine is paneled with gilt lettering, compartments with grapes or leaves matching the front cover. The back cover is plain with simple line borders in gilt. The back is tooled in the same design as the border on the front cover.; Housed in a cloth covered slipcase lines with fleece; Two ribbons bound in; Printed on Japan paper. With twelve hand-colored illustrations. $4,000 |
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Fanny Maitland 16 WATERCOLORS OF BUTTERFLIES, MOTHS, AND INSECTS.
c. mid 19th century. Oblong Folio, 21" x 12"; VG; bound in full red leather. $7,500 |
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Featured This Month at the Dupont Circle Store:
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Abdon Daoud Ackad PHOTOGRAPH OF FELIX FRANKFURTER [SIGNED] Washington, D.C. Abdon Daoud Ackad, 1957. One mounted photograph, measuring 11" x 13". $500 |
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Tom Clancy [Signed] THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1984. First Edition, Fifteenth Printing. $100 |
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Ernest Hemingway IN OUR TIME Paris: Crosby Continental Editions, 1932. First Crosby Edition. $100 |
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Ernest Hemingway DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON New York: Halcyon House, 1932. Reprint. $225 |
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Free Appraisal Days at the Rockville Warehouse Store:
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