Imprints and Impressions

Item Set

Items

• Zevach Pesach
  Image of a Zevach Pesach (1505, Constantinople; first edition of Abrabanel's commentary; earliest obtainable edition)
• Woolf: 'A Room of One's Own'
  Image of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own (1929; first trade edition; presentation copy)
• Wollstonecraft: 'A Vindication on the Rights of Woman'
  Image of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792; first edition; original publisher boards)
• Wheatley: 'Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral'
  mage of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773, London; first book published by an African American; frontispiece illustration of author is by African American slave artist Scipio Moorhead)
• Twain: 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'
  Image of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (first British edition, 1884; first American edition, 1885)
• Tolkien: 'The Lord of the Rings'
  Image of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (ca. 1953-1955, London; page proofs of the first edition with author’s final revisions; binding by Don Glaister)
• Shakespeare: 'Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies'
  Image of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (1632; Second Folio)
• Remarque: 'All Quiet on the Western Front'
  Image of Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) (first edition, 1929)
• Qur'an
  Image of the Qur'an (1864, Kashmir; illuminated manuscript, copied by Aziz Khan Kashmiri et al.)
• Ptolemy: 'Geographiae universae'
  Image of Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)’s Geographiae universae (Geography) (1597; from the library of Robert Burton)
• Polyglot Bible: Psalter
  Image of a Polyglot Bible (Psalter) (1516; first edition; printed in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and Arabic)
• Pascal: 'Pensées'
  Image of Blaise Pascal’s Pensées (1670, Paris; first edition)
• O'Connor: 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'
  Image of Flannery O'Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find (ca. 1955; first edition)
• Newton: 'Opticks'
  Image of Isaac Newton’s Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light (1704, London; first edition)
• Montessori: 'The Montessori Method'
  Image of Maria Montessori’s Il metodo della pedagogia scientifica applicato all'educazione infantile nelle Case dei Bambini (The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in “the Children's Houses”) (1909; first edition)
• Marx: 'Das Kapital'
  Image of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Oekonomie (Capital: A Critique of Political Economy) (1867, Hamburg; volume 1, first edition).
• Malcolm X: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X'
  Image of the original typed draft of Malcolm X’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1963; written with Alex Haley)
• Maimonides: 'The Guide of the Perplexed'
  Image of Moses Maimonides’s Moreh Nebukhim (The Guide of the Perplexed) (ca. 1469, possibly Rome; first edition; translated from Judeo-Arabic into Hebrew by Samuel Ibn Tibbon)
• Mahayana Sutra of the Buddha: Boundless Life
  Image of the Mahayana Sutra of the Buddha: Boundless Life (early 8th century, China; scroll from the Dunhuang caves; written in the Tibetan language)
• Linnaeus: 'A General System of Nature'
  Image of Carl Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae (A General System of Nature) (1735, Leiden; first edition)
• Lincoln: 'Political Debates … 1858'
  Image of Abraham Lincoln’s Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois (1860, Columbus, Ohio; first edition; first issue; presentation copy)
• La Biblia (Spanish Bible)
  Image of La Biblia, que es, Los Sacros Libros del Viejo y Nuevo Testamento (Spanish Bible) (1569, Basel; first complete Spanish-language translation of the Bible)
• Kepler: 'New Astronomy'
  Image of Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) (1609, Heidelberg or Prague; first edition)
• Homer: 'Works in Greek'
  Image of Homer’s Works in Greek (1488, Florence; editio princeps; bookplates of Labouchère and Duke of Sussex)
• Hippocrates: 'The Hippocratic Corpus'
  Image of Hippocrates’s Octoginta volumina (The Hippocratic Corpus) (1525, Rome; first edition of the first complete Latin edition)