New York: E. & G. W. Blunt, 1839. Eleventh Edition. Diagrams, plates, tables. Leather over boards. Quarto. xvi, 317, [1], 447, 4 pages. An 1839 working copy of the most authoritative, error-corrected, and universally trusted navigation manual. First published in 1799 after Bowditch recomputed, rearranged, and expanded the then standard..... More

London: Hamish Hamilton, (1963). First English Edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hardcover. Octavo. 164 pages. First English edition of the memoirs of Enzo Ferrari, signed by him on Dedication page simply "Ferrari." Accompanied by a 1981 letter on Ferrari letterhead responding to the request to have this book..... More

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1924. First Edition. Black and white photographic plates, illustrations. Hardcover. Octavo. xxiv, 294 pages. This is Houdini's memoir of his nearly 30-year investigation of Spiritualism and its purported ability to communicate with the dead. Houdini, as a young magician, studied the mechanical..... More

[New York]: McClure's Magazine, (1912). Full cloth. Octavo. [vi], 243 pages. A signed copy of the well-known but scarce novel that foreshadowed the tragedy of the Titanic. Morgan Robertston's novel, "Futility," was originally published in 1898, and tells the story of a gigantic, "unsinkable" luxury liner called the..... More

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, (1939). First Edition, Limited, #398 of 525 sets. Black and white plates, cuts. Cloth over boards. Quartos. Sandburg's classic four-volume history of Abraham Lincoln's Presidency and the Civil War, told largely through the words of Lincoln and his contemporaries. This is the..... More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1932). Drawings by Edwin Tunis. Full cloth. Octavo. xxiv, 326 pages. The classic collection of old Maryland recipes for everything from oysters, crabs, terrapin and fowl, to breads, cakes, puddings, beverages and desserts. Each of the 500 plus recipes in Frederick Stieff's collection was..... More