HS Rare Books

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Founded in 2014, HS Rare Books deals in fine books and manuscripts across many collecting areas, including early print, religion, travel and exploration, literature, Americana, and cartography. The gallery maintains particular strength in materials from the Hispanic world and in early illustrated books and works on paper, with meticulous standards for quality and rarity. HS Rare Books is located at 23 East 73rd Street along Madison Avenue in New York City. The gallery is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), and exhibits at major international book fairs throughout the year, including the ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory.

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Highlights
The Chinese original drawings which served as model for Amiot’s Vie de Confucius
$395000
[Amiot, Joseph-Marie] [Vie de Confucius] [Anonymous Chinese artist]. Album of 107 brush drawings, collected by Amiot in China and partly used as models for the copperplate illustrations of his “Vie de Confucius” of 1785, . S.a. [ca. 1780]. [China]. The original, long-lost Chinese drawings last seen by Cordier, the visual source for one of the most influential Enlightenment biographies of Confucius.
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Two of the most influential and early English works on cookery, preserving, and candying, in a contemporary binding
$14000
[Plat, Sir Hugh]. A Closet for ladies and gentlewomen, or the art of preserving, conserving, and candying... 1644. London. Charles Green. [bound with] [Plat, Sir Hugh]. Delights for ladies, to adorn their person, tables, closets, and distillatories, 1644. London. James Young. A rare contemporary bound sammelband of two scarce 17th century English works (rarely found together) on cookery, household management, and domestic arts, encompassing preserving, candying, distillation, banqueting dishes, medicinal recipes, perfumes and cosmetics.
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Goes’ definitive Humanist Chronicle validates the Portuguese Empire in India
$190000
Goes, Damião de. Chronica do felicissimo rei dom Emanuel, 1566-67. Lisbon. F. Correa. First edition, one of the rarest and most important Chronicles of the Portuguese expansion and discoveries in India, Asia, and Brazil, a fine copy preserving all title pages; this history of King Manuel, written by Portugal’s eminent humanist and chronicler Damian de Goes, is a monumental work, much of what we today know of his reign, arguably Portugal’s Golden Age of expansion, is based on this Chronica. A beautiful copy, bearing the author's signature on title-pages.
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The rarest of the 15th century editions
$950000
Polo, Marco. De le maraveliose cose del Mondo, 20 December 1500. Brescia. Battista da Farfengo. Second Italian edition, the rarest of the 15th century editions, this being one of only five known copies, and the only realistically obtainable incunable edition in a century. This is the only copy of this edition, as well as the only complete copy of any incunable edition, recorded at auction in the past 30 years.
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Nostradamus’ Propheties, one of the earliest obtainable editions
$63000
Nostradamus, Michel de. Les Propheties de M. Michel Nostradamus. Dont il y en a trois cens qui n’ont encores iamais esté imprimées. Adioustées de nouueau par ledict Autheur, 1568. Lyon. Benoist Rigaud. The exceedingly rare complete edition of the Prophéties bearing the Benoist Rigaud imprint, this is the second complete edition of Nostradamus's Prophéties, of the utmost rarity, here in a fine copy in a contemporary binding.
A work at the forefront of Renaissance ethnography, with woodcuts by Burgkmair
$44000
Botero, Giovanni Le relationi universali [...], divise in sette parti. Quinta impressione stampate & ricorrette. (With:) Aggiunta alla quarta parte dell'Indie [...], 1622-1623. Venice. Alessandro Vecchi. A pioneering work of Renaissance ethnography, in its rarer revised and augmented form, including the "Aggiunta" and additional woodcuts by the great German printmaker Hans Burgkmair, depicting fantastical and legendary creatures believed to inhabit the far reaches of the world, as well as indigenous peoples of Africa, Arabia, etc. Arabia.
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Edward Clifford’s Bible, with inscription by Saint Damien of Molokai, the Apostle of the Lepers
$135000
[Biblia anglica] Clifford, Edward, British artist (1844-1907) / Saint Damien de Veuster, Belgian priest (1840-1889). The English Version of the Polyglot Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments: With a Copious and Original Selection of References to Parallel and Illustrative Passages, London, Samuel Bagster, [ca. 1865]. The British artist Edward Clifford’s Bible with an inscription by Saint Damien of Molokai: a heavily worked and extraordinarily personal copy of Bagster’s English Polyglot Bible.
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Sammelband of works on the trials of two renowned women: Mary Blandy and Elizabeth Jeffries, for murder in mid 18th century Britain
$10000
Blandy, Mary; Jeffries, Elizabeth. Bound collection of six 18th century pamphlets relating to the trials of Mary Blandy and Elizabeth Jeffries, published in Oxford and London, between c.1751-1752. A fascinating collection of works on the famous trials of Mary Blandy for the murder of her father and Elizabeth Jeffries for that of her uncle by her lover, John Swann. Both trials generated a great amount of public interest in mid-18th century Britain and sensationalised accounts such as these provide a valuable insight into the manner in which women who committed crimes were perceived.
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Complete first English collected Böhme, with overlays
$44000
Böhme, Jakob. The Works of Jacob Behmen, the Teutonic Theosopher, 1764 (Vols. I-II) [Vol. IIwith additional title-page: printed for Joseph Richardson, 1763]; for G. Robinson, 1772 (Vol. III) and 1781 (Vol. IV). London. Printed for M. Richardson. A rare example of a complete set: the first collected English edition of Jacob Böhme’s visionary theology, assembled under the aegis of William Law and edited after his death by George Ward and Thomas Langcake, with earlier translations by Sparrow, Ellistone and Blunden, here preserved as a full four-volume set in contemporary calf.
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Remarkable Spanish illustrated pedagogical treatise on music, ‘perhaps the most widely dispersed’ instructional manual of the period
$22000
Minguet e Yrol, Pablo. Reglas, y advertencias generales que enseñan el modo de tañer todos los instrumentos mejores y mas usuales como son la guitarra, tiple, vandola, cythara, clavicordio, órgano, harpa, psalterio, bandurria, 1752-1754. Madrid. Joachim Ibarra. First edition, first issue, one of the most important (if not the most) pedagogical treatise of the 18th century of Spanish musical instruments, namely string instruments, wonderfully illustrated and exceptionally rare, peculiar namely because of its aim to teach students to play music without the assistance of a tutor or teacher.
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