Featured December Items
In recent times we have acquired some spectacular gems for our collection.
Below is just a small sampling of collectible items.
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Anatomia, ex Caspari Bartholini…
Revised Edition
by Thomas Bartholini
Revised and expanded version of the Casper Bartholini (Thomas’ father) original text of 1611. This 1666 edition is yet another expanded edition from the 1651 revision, which had 576 numbered pages plus index. This rare edition has 594 pages plus index. 66 graphic and detailed anatomical plates plus 8 folding anatomical plates, illustrated half title page, and portrait frontispiece. The Hague, 1666.
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No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
First edition, signed by McCarthy on second preliminary (a tipped-in leaf).
1 of reported 300 copies issued as such. Otherwise, as new.
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The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
First softcover edition, third edition overall. Specks of foxing to fore edge. Faber and Faber, 1963.
