Washington City: Printed by Samuel H. Smith, 1806. First edition. Unbound, removed from a larger volume. 44 p. Early and unusually comprehensive 1806 proposal for a federally centered national university, reviewed by Thomas Jefferson and introduced in the U.S. Senate. Joel Barlow’s Prospectus of a National Institution, dated 24..... More

Barcelona: Lib. de Sauri y Comp. C, de Escudellers, 1832. Illustrated with several choreographic diagrams. First edition. With a printed copyright statement on the verso of the title-page, declaring that only copies bearing the author’s signature are authorized; this copy signed by the author as issued. In later marbled paper..... More

Parisiis [Paris]: apud Ludovicum Cyaneum sub duobus Gallis in via Jacobaea [Louis Blauwbloem], 1532. First edition. In near-contemporary black calf binding with double gilt fillet border on the covers, each board gilt-stamped with the bachelor supralibros of Jacques-Auguste de Thou—an oval laurel wreath enclosing his family arms (a chevron and..... More

Paris: apud Simon de Colines, 1523. First edition. Contemporary French blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, panelled with intersecting fillets and lozenge tools; remains of clasps present, metal attachments preserved; spine with raised bands. ff. 373 [22]. A rare example of early educational use of Erasmus’s Adagia, in its contemporary French..... More

Paris: de l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1807. First edition. In publisher’s blue blank wrappers. [4] 85 [1] p. A rare first edition of Itard’s 1807 Rapport, detailing the educational progress of the "wild boy" of Aveyron and pioneering insights into child development. This rare first edition pamphlet is the second of..... More