Chicago: S.P. Rounds, 1864. First edition of Minnesota's first literary anthology, 8vo, pp. [4], 336; engraved portrait of Stephen Miller, governor of Minnesota, one of the contributors, and to whom the book is dedicated, plus contributions from 22 Minnesota poets (each with a brief biographical sketch appended), including Ignatius Donnelly..... More
London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1863. 8vo, pp. xvi, 351, [1], 32 (Murray catalogue); frontispiece and 4 wood-engraved plates; original purple cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Notes on rear endpaper and rear endpaper partially torn, two ink ownership inscriptions on front flyleaf, spine darkened, spine ends rubbed and cracked;..... More
Boston: printed for the author, 1847. First edition, 12mo, pp. 144; original brown moiré cloth lettered in gilt and ruled in blind on front cover; extremities rubbed and worn with spine ends chipped away and corners revealed; tear to spine cloth at approx. midway point; endpapers browned and negligible scattered..... More
London: Henry Colburn, publisher, Greater Marlborough Street, 1840. First edition, 3 volumes, 12mo, pp. [4], 258, [2]; [4], 268; [4], 288; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines; bindings a little skewed, labels darkened and rubbed, several small cracks at the joints; a couple of gatherings sprung, evidence..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1880. Early American edition (first Am. ed. appeared 1878), 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 479; frontispiece, illustrations in text throughout, and one folding map with oceans handcolored in blue; light to moderate foxing to prelim and terminal pages, some wear to extremities with spine ends just beginning..... More
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Shanghai: Christian Literature Society, 128 Museum Road, 1934-37. 2 volumes, 7½" x 5¼", pp. [66]; [54]; text in Chinese except for English title and publishing information inside the covers; original printed wrappers; text toned, otherwise very good, sound copies. "Margaret Brown (1887–1978) was a Canadian nurse, missionary, and author who..... More
London: The Scholartis Press, 1929. Edition limited to 960 copies, 8vo, pp. 308, [4]; orange cloth; edges and endpapers spotted, textblock cocked but sound, very good in a very good dust jacket with one small tear and a smudge on the front panel. More
London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1786. First edition, 8vo in 4s, pp. xi, [1], 74, [2]; bound with: Holcroft, Thomas, Seduction, London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787, third edition, pp. xii, 81, [3]; bound with: Pilon, Frederick, He Would Be a Soldier, London: G. G. J...... More
Cleveland: Arthur Westbrook Co., [ca. 1911]. 12mo, pp. [2], 224, [4] ads; original pictorial wrappers; very good. Issued as no. 175 in the publisher's Hart Series. More
London: London Missionary Society, 1899. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 216; numerous illustrations throughout including halftone, wood engravings, and drawings; original pictorial red cloth stamped in black and gilt; binding slight soiled, spine a touch sunned; all else very good, sound and clean. With a large London Missionary Society presentation..... More
Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1909. 5½" x 4½", pp. [2], viii, 184; English entries with Chinese equivalents; original quarter black goat, gilt-stamped on upper cover, gilt fillets on spine; corners bumped, some rubbing along the bottom of the upper cover, but on the whole a very good, sound, and..... More
Buffalo: Derby, Orton, & Mulligan; Auburn: Derby & Miller, 1853. 12mo, pp. [9], 14-315, [1]; engraved frontispiece, several small wood engravings in the text; original red cloth, gilt-stamped spine; lightly foxed, a gathering or two extended; good. Wright II, 2587 for the first edition of the previous year, published by..... More
Boston: T. H. Carter & Co., and Benjamin B. Mussey, 1844. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 9-216; original olive-green cloth; decorative blind-stamping on covers; faded gilt lettering on spine; spine extremities a bit chipped; front hinge cracked; corners scuffed; otherwise good and sound. A collection of vignettes intended to educate..... More
New York & London: Macmillan & Co., 1894. First edition, 8vo, 2 vols., fine set in orig. blue cloth. More
London: Morgan & Scott ... China Inland Mission, Newton Green, N., 1904. 12mo, pp. xii, 196, 8 (ads); title page printed in red and black; frontispiece and 15 plates; original green cloth stamped in red and gilt on upper cover and spine; front free endpaper excised, else very good, clean..... More
Pawtucket: Lower Blackstone River Valley District Committee of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Tercentenary Committee, 1936. First edition, 8vo, pp. 169, [1]; 45 illustrations on rectos and versos of 18 plates; near fine in original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. More
London: How & Parsons, 1842. 8vo, pp. viii, 384; engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved title-p., 4 engraved plates, wood-engraved illustrations throughout; full contemporary green morocco, double gilt ruled borders on covers enclosing a blindstamped cross-hatched central panel with double gilt border and foliated border, smooth gilt-decorated spine, a.e.g.; library accession stamp on..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1870. Large 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 340; 31 plates, including 10 mounted Autotypes; original pictorial red cloth printed in black and gilt; t.e.g.; bookplates of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian, and Joseph C. Rush, binder's ticket of Burn & Co.; spine..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1898. First English edition, pp xvi, 520; with illustrations, index, folding map. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped and rubbed, mild wear to bottom edge, very good. Hourst explored the Niger from Timbuktu to the sea on behalf of the French government, adding much..... More
Kandy, [Ceylon]: Queen's Hotel, [1932]. First edition, 12mo, pp. 64, xxviii; frontispiece map, 2 other maps (1 folding), 25 illustrations from photographs, and 6 pages of advertisements; original green cloth stamped in black on upper cover and spine; extremities faded, else very good, sound, and clean. This remains a useful..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co.; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Compy. 1899. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 615, [1]; 120 text illustrations; full gilt decorated red cloth, partially unopened, t.e.g.; edges rubbed and sunned, corners bumped, spine cocked, hinges cracked textblock clean save one page with pencil in the margins..... More
Concord, N.H. Rufus Merrill, 1847. 12mo, pp. 24; from the Merrill's Pictorial Gallery series; engraved endpapers, 24 engravings; pictorial yellow wrappers, sewn; extremities creased and worn, p. 16 has green ink hand-tracing the image on verso, occasional foxing, a good copy. Contains brief and disdainful sketches of people and customs..... More
Boston: S. G. Goodrich, 1827. 8vo, pp. 228; 240; American Imprints 30126; bound with: [Sprague, William Buell], Letters from Europe, in 1828; first published in the New York Observer, New York: Jonathan Leavitt, 1828, pp. 135, [1]; together 2 titles in 1 volume, contemporary quarter brown calf, a little scuffed..... More
Chicago: H. M. Higgins, n.d., [ca. 1856]. Approx. 13¼" x 10¼", 6 pages, self-wrappers; removed from binding; a few short tears and leaves loose, otherwise very good. Engraved throughout. At the top of the first leaf in type: "Respectfully dedicated to her sister, Mrs. J. A. Montgomery, by the author."..... More
