Cambridge: The University Press, 1935. First edition, 8vo, pp. 57, [1]; illustrated title page; very good in original cloth-backed, paper-covered boards. Printed by Walter Lewis. More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1880. First edition, 12mo, pp. 113, [1]; original mustard yellow cloth stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine; some wear to extremities with covers a little scuffed and scraped, otherwise a very good copy. The first book by Roberts (1860-1943), who is considered the father..... More
Salem: Wm. Ives & Geo. W. Pease [from the Proceedings of the Essex Institute], 1856. 8vo, pp. 16; association copy, with a presentation on the title from Roberts to Wm. H. Whitman, publisher of the Genealogical Register, and a 2 p. 4to ALS (Salem, Aug., 1856) to Whitman from Roberts..... More
London: Richard Bentley and Sons, 1897. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xx, 511, [1]; title pages printed in red and black, frontispiece portrait, vignette title page, 26 views, plans and portraits (6 folding), and a folding map; contemporary half red calf over marbled boards, gilt-decorated spines in 6 compartments..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. First edition, 8vo, pp. 158; bookplate of Charles L. Calkins on front pastedown with his signature in pen on front free endpaper; top edge slightly defective, extremities lightly worn and spotted else good in original maroon cloth with gilt-lettered spine. More
London: printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1824. 24mo, pp. 72; enrgraved frontispiece and title page; printed paper wrappers with manuscript paper label on spine; wrappers lightly soiled with some wear to spine, plates foxed, very good. Early ownership signature of Evelyn Pitcher. Issued in Pinnock's Catechisms series, ads..... More
Boston and Chicago: The Pilgrim Press, [1903]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 402; frontispiece illustration, text illustrations from photographs of the missionary caravan in its retreat; publisher's red cloth gilt, t.e.g.; ex-United Christian Missionary Schools, with call numbers on spine and their stamp on pastedown, donor's inscription of O. W. Richardson..... More
New York: Dutton, 1903. First edition, 8vo, pp. liii-[liv], 647; illus. in text; very good, sound copy in orig. red cloth; ex-MHS. More
London and Newcastle: Adam & Co., n.d., [ca. 1875 or after]. 4to, pp. viii, 632; lithograph frontispiece and title page, color map, plus 22 tinted lithographs on 20 sheets; publisher's quarter brown morocco, stamped in gilt on spine; front free endpaper miscreased, occasional foxing, modest wear; generally, very good and..... More
London: William Pickering, 1843. First edition, small 8vo, pp. iv, [2], 170; Pickering device on title-p.; later three-quarters blue morocco over blue cloth, gilt spine in 6 compartments, gilt lettered in 3; very slight rubbing of the front joint, else fine. Not in Kelly or Keynes. 3 in OCLC (2..... More
Washington: Library of Congress, 1982. First edition, 4to, pp. x, 296, [1]; drawings by Margaret R. Brown, very good in original maroon cloth, stamped in gilt. Foreword by Frederick R. Goff. Bookplate of Jake Chernofsky affixed to front pastedown. More
Manchester, NH: The Clarke Press, 1944. 8vo, pp. xvi, 528, [8]; illustrated throughout, many full page; original red cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; gilt slightly dull, else very good. More
Bradford, Yorks: T. Throup, [c. late 1800s]. Improved edition, small 12mo, pp. 24; green paper wrappers; a list of place names, their pronuncation, and meaning. Near fine with lightly toned covers. More
[London]: Frank Cass & Co., Ltd., 1963. 8vo, pp. xvi, 741; 6 folding maps; very good copy in a soiled and chipped dust jacket. First printed in 1929. More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, [1936]. Second edition, revised; 2 volumes, 4to, pp. [iii]-xxvi, [2], 718; [iii]-xvii, [3], 850; 92 color plates after paintings and watercolors by Allan Brooks, Francis Lee Jacques, Walter John Breckenridge, plus others, and including 1 by Louis Agassiz Fuertes; original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt..... More
New York: Jonathan A. Hill, [c1991]. First regular edition (1000 copies), folio, pp. xiv, [2], 391; frontispiece portrait and illustrations throughout text; a fine copy in original tan cloth over gray paper-covered boards and unprinted cardstock jacket now somewhat smudged. More
Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill, [1942]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 335; frontispiece portrait, 8 plates; a fine copy in a dust-jacket that has a slightly faded spine and a 2" x 1" piece missing from the top panel of the back panel. The author was a Jamaican-born novelist, poet, historian..... More
London: Elliot Stock, 1896. First edition, small 8vo, pp. xl, 213, [2]; a bit shaken, hinges cracked, endpapers darkened, overall a good, sound copy in original green cloth, spine and upper cover gilt, beveled edges. More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963. First edition; 8vo; pp. 399; 10 plates; very good in chipped jacket, tear along 2/3 of upper joint; bookplate. The Soho Bibliographies XII. More
Worcester: Printed by Isaiah Thomas, Jun. 1798. First edition, 12mo, pp. x, [1], 12-156; minor foxing, small tears at the top margin of the title and leaf A3, tear entering margin of A5 and B1, otherwise very good in contemporary tree calf, red morocco label lettered in gilt on gilt-paneled..... More
Cambridge: printed at the University Press, 1917. 8vo, pp. [8], 79, [1]; original gray printed wrappers; spine with small chips out, the binding loosening; text clean. With contributions by Rhys as well as George William Butterworth; Robert Seymour Conway; Alice Mary Croft (a schoolteacher at Leeds); John Rickards Mozley; Kate..... More
Philadelphia: James P. Parke, 1817. First edition, 12mo, pp. v, [3], 136; engraved frontispiece; contemporary black morocco-backed boards; spine ends chipped level with text block, some scuffing, but otherwise generally very good and sound. Sabin 98704; American Imprints 42769. More
