New York Book Fair 2025 – Maggs Bros. Ltd – Rare Books & Manuscripts

New York Book Fair 2025

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New York Book Fair 2025

Please find below a selection of books from our stand at the 65^th New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, which took place at the Park Avenue Armory in April 2025.

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New York Book Fair 2025

Vitae imperatorum, sive De vita illustrium virorum.
Venice, Nicolaus Jenson, 8 March

CORNELIUS NEPOS

Vitae imperatorum, sive De vita illustrium virorum. Venice, Nicolaus… 1471.

EDITIO PRINCEPS - THE PEMBROKE COPY

Price Theory. A Provisional Text.

FRIEDMAN (Milton).

Price Theory. A Provisional Text, 1962.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

Narrative of the Loss of the Esk and Lively, Greenland Whalers, by which Sixty-five Persons Perished;

SCORESBY (Rev. William).

Narrative of the Loss of the Esk and… 1826.

A VERY RARE SCORESBY NARRATIVE

Principles of Political Economy with some of their Application to Social Philosophy.

MILL (John Stuart).

Principles of Political Economy with some of their… 1848.

THE UNDISPUTED BIBLE OF ECONOMIC DOCTRINE - UNRESTORED IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH

Handcuff Secrets

HOUDINI (Harry). & [HARDEEN (Theo).]

Handcuff Secrets, 1910.

WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF HOUDINI & EPHEMERA

Lali et Sainval drame en trois actes en vers libres, représenté pour la premieré fois par les Comediens François de S. M . l'Imperatrice de toutes les Russies. Le 20 de Juin

Lali et Sainval drame en trois actes en… 1784.

WRITTEN & PERFORMED FOR CATHERINE THE GREAT

Décret de la Convention Nationale [...] relatif aux citoyens de Saint-Domingue, de la Martinique & de la Guadeloupe, qui se sont réfugiés à Sainte-Lucie & autres contrées de l'Amérique.

[HAITIAN REVOLUTION] & LOUIS XVI.

Décret de la Convention Nationale [...] relatif aux… 1793.

REPATRIATION AMIDST REVOLUTION

Lady Harriet Ackland [sic] ...

[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] & POLLARD (Robert).

Lady Harriet Ackland [sic] , 1794.

A HEROINE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Poetica astronomica. (Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes Lucilius Santritter).
Venice, Erhard Ratdolt, 14 October 1482.

HYGINUS (Gaius Julius)

Poetica astronomica. (Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes… 1482.

THE FIRST DEPICTIONS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS IN A PRINTED BOOK

Collectanea Adagiorum

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

Collectanea Adagiorum, 1515.

WITH CONTEMPORARY JUVENILE NOTES & DRAWINGS

Histoires prodigieuses... extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs & Latins, sacrez & prophanes: mises en nostre langue par P. Boaistuau, surnomé Launay, natif de Bretagne: avec les pourtraicts & figures.
Paris,

BOAISTUAU (Pierre)

Histoires prodigieuses... extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs… 1560.

MONSTERS AND PORTENTS, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION

Alberti Durer Noriberg. German. Icones sacrae. In historiam salutis humanae per redemptorem nostrum Iesum Christum Dei & Marium filium instauratae... nunc primum è tenebris in lucem editae...

[Hamburg, G.L. Frobenius], 1604

ALTDORFER (Albrecht)

Alberti Durer Noriberg. German. Icones sacrae. In historiam… 1604.

ALTDORFER'S WOODCUTS DISGUISED AS DÜRER'S WORK

Reflections on Gaming Annuities, and Usurious Contracts.

[ERSKINE (Thomas)].

Reflections on Gaming Annuities, and Usurious Contracts, 1777.

ANNOTATED BY FRANCIS MASERES

Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum vita.
Strasbourg: Reinhard Beck, 1513.

GAUTIER DE CHATILLON (Philippe)

Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum vita. Strasbourg: Reinhard Beck, 1513, 1513.

A FASCINATING SAMMELBAND, WITH THE RARE ALEXANDREIS

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. With an Introduction by Bertrand Russell, F.R.S.

WITTGENSTEIN (Ludwig).

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. With an Introduction by Bertrand Russell,… 1922.

ONE OF THE GREAT PHILOSOPHICAL MASTERPIECES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, A View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry into our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions. A New Edition, Very Much Enlarged.

MALTHUS (Thomas Robert).

An Essay on the Principle of Population; or,… 1803.

THE 'GREAT QUARTO' IN A STRIKING CONTEMPORARY BINDING

The Sexagenary, or Reminiscences of the American Revolution.

BECKER (John P.) & [BLOODGOOD (S. DeWitt), editor.]

The Sexagenary, or Reminiscences of the American Revolution, 1833.

THE RARE FIRST EDITION

Wood Engravings From the Fables of Esope, with Wood Engravings from XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales.

GREGYNOG PRESS & MILLER PARKER (Agnes)

Wood Engravings From the Fables of Esope, with… 1996.

A SURVEY OF AGNES MILLER PARKER'S ENGRAVINGS

Ben Jonson His Volpone: Or The Foxe.

[DOWSON, Ernest, ed.]

Ben Jonson His Volpone: Or The Foxe, 1898.

ILLUSTRATED BY AUBREY BEARDSLEY

A Cruising Voyage Round the World

ROGERS (Woodes).

A Cruising Voyage Round the World, 1712.

SELKIRK'S RESCUER

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