Philadelphia: printed by John Bioren, for John Conrad, & Co. (successors to R. Campbell), 1801. Thick 8vo, pp. l, 673, [7] index and ads; contemporary full calf, red morocco label on spine; joints starting, extremities worn; good. Translation of Elémens de chimie, originally published in Montpellier in 1790. Nicholson's translation..... More
Gravenhage: 1869-95. First edition, 48 original fascicles, 8vo, comprising all that had been completed up to the time of Stephens' death, i.e. parts of the letters A, B, G, and O, all in original wrappers, chipped, but generally good or better throughout. The work was not completed until 1955. A...... More
Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, [1994]. First edition, 4to, pp. 458; photographic illustrations in color, drawings in the text, contains appendix, bibliography, and index; full brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy. More
Taipei: Literature House Ltd., 1963. Facsimile edition, 2 vols. in 1, 10.25 x 7 in., pp. [6] (reading viii), 595, [3]; text illustrations, folding plate; bound Chinese style with folded edges and stab stiched spine; blue cloth covers, title label on upper cover; about fine in original clasped case. Originally..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1909. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 106, [2]; original red cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover and spine; spine soiled, spine ends chipped; good and sound. This copy with a presentation "To James S. Whitney from..... More
Paris: Payot, 1926. First edition in French, translated by A. Brule, 8vo, pp. [9], 12- 430, [2]; uncut and largely unopened; frontispiece portrait; original gray wrappers printed in blue; very good and sound. Bookplate of Alanson Bigelow Houghton, president of Corning Glass Works, and later a U.S. Representative from New..... More
Boston: privately printed, 1893. Edition limited to 80 copies printed at the Riverside Press "from designs by D. B. Updike," 16mo, pp. [16]; original gray printed wrappers, spine partially split; all else very good. A native of Bristol, R.I., Howe served in many editorial capacities. In 1925 he won the..... More
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N.p., n.d. [1908]. Oblong 8vo, 7 leaves (the first and last blank); printed from typescript; string-bound into hand-lettered tan paper wrappers. Possibly a unique book. The author is known only by an inscription on the front wrapper: "To E. W. H. on her eighty-second birthday, January 25th, 1908. / M...... More
Amsterdam & Paris: Hardouin, 1784. Second edition, 12mo, 180pp., full contemporary mottled calf, double gilt-ruled border, gilt-paneled spine, red morocco label; spine extremities chipped, upper joint cracked, spine darkened and with old library sticker at the base; internally quite clean; a good copy. The texts of four letters addressed to..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1870. 12mo, pp. 397, [1]; publisher's green cloth; gilt title on spine; text cocked, spine worn, a couple leaves with short closed tears, text otherwise clean and sound, very good. A fictional tale of Agrippina. Wright II, 2158a. More
London: Trubner & Co.; New York: Charles Scribner, 1872. First edition, British issue; 8vo, pp. [2], 685; spine sunned, else a very good copy in original maroon cloth. The author emigrated to Boston from Prussia in 1843 and on Longfellow's recommendation was elected professor of modern languages at the University..... More
New York: Charles Scribner, 1872. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 685; spine ends chipped, front cover stained; orig. maroon cloth; good copy of a scarce book; review of the book on two pages extracted from The Nation laid in. The author emigrated to Boston from Prussia in 1843 and on..... More
London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. Edition limited to 1500 copies, 12mo, pp. [6], 156, [2]; original parchment-backed marbled paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt on spine, t.e.g., publisher's slipcase (with copy number '854' and stamped with the title); generally fine. Dreyfus 48. More
Groningen: J. B. Wolters, [1967]. 8vo, pp. [12], 142, [2]; text in Dutch with English summary; yellow printed paper wrappers; wrappers lightly toned, first leaf creased, near fine. On Aristophanes, views of peace and the position of Athenian women and obscenity. More
