New York: Neale Watson Academic Publications, Inc, 1981. Second revised edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 347; 13 text illustrations and 12 plates, including portrait frontispiece; blue cloth boards in cream dust jacket; light soiling to top edge, jacket toned with small closed tear at bottom of spine. Inscribed by Thomson to..... More
Glasgow: Andrew Foulis, 1784. Demy folio, 2 volumes, pp. [2], [v]-xxxiv, 256, [4]; [2], 326; later quarter green morocco over green pebble cloth boards, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, title gilt-direct in 1, red stained edges, marbled endpapers; the leather is rubbedand scuffed, but the textblock is very nice and..... More
Parma: Giambattista Bodoni, 1794. Edition probably limited to 250 copies, large 4to, pp. [6], xii, 248 (leaf 29-3 is a cancel); uncut copy in original orange paper-covered boards, paper label on spine; extremities rubbed, corners worn, text a little shaken; a good copy in its original binding. Ebert notes that..... More
London: printed for P.W. Tomkins ... the letter-press by T. Bensley. The types by V. Figgins, 1797. Large folio (18½" x 14¾"), pp. [12], 244; engraved title and dedication pages, 21 engravings throughout (6 full-page), contemporary full red straight-grain paneled morocco by Kalthoeber, with his ticket, 4 elaborate gilt borders..... More
London: printed for Baynes and Son; A. B. Dulau and Co.; Otridge and Rackham; J. F. Setchel; Westley and Parrish; Whitmore and Fenn; W. Mason; C. Smith; Gossling and Egley; Smith and Elder; W. Wright; T. and W. Boone; B. Iley; C. Rice; J. Hearne; J. Bain; Lawler and Quick;..... More
London: Tilt and Bogue, 1841. 8vo, pp. [v]-lxx, [2], 271, [1], 4 (ads); 48 wood engravings in the text by Samuel Williams; publisher's full green morocco, decorative gilt lozenge on covers incorporating flowers and fruit, gilt decorated spine with gilt farm implements, floral wreath, title, etc., a.e.g.; lightly rubbed, very..... More
New York: Clark & Maynard. No. 5 Barclay Street, 1868. 16mo, pp. iv, 16, 3, [7] recommendations, [2] ads; original printed tan wrappers; small NY State Library stamp at the top of the upper wrapper; all else very good. The verso of the title page outlines Thomson's series of arithmetics..... More
![Item #20846 The poetical works of… [Edited by Sir H. Nicolas.]. JAMES THOMSON](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/20846_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1537901174)
London: William Pickering, 1830. First edition, small 8vo, 2 vols.; engraved frontispiece portrait, Pickering device on title-pages, pictorial head-pieces; original dark blue morocco stamped in gilt and blind by Hayday, a.e.g., some wear to extremities, especially at joints, with cracking to back upper joint of volume I, overall a very..... More
London: J. Walker and J. Harris, n.d., [ca. 1820]. 32mo, engraved vignette title page by C. Warren after T. Uwins, pp. x, [2], 152; contemporary green straight grain morocco, gilt lettering and fillets direct on spine, sprinkled edges; near fine. More
London: printed at the Stanhope Press by Charles Whittingham … for W. Suttaby, 1807. 24mo, pp. 174; engraved frontispiece; bound with, as issued, Poetical Works of James Thomson, vol. II., same imprint, 1808, pp. [4], 234; engraved frontispiece; 2 vols. in 1, contemporary full red morocco, gilt foliate border on..... More
London: Wilkie and Robinson, J. Walker; Cadell and Davies [et al.], 1811. 8vo, pp. [4], liii, 236; d1-2 bound out of order at the back, but the book is complete; 4 engraved plates; unsusal contemporary full calf in the style of Edwards of Halifiax, elaborate gilt border with a blindstamped..... More
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd and Longman, Rees, [et al.], 1826. First edition, 4to, pp. [4], 27, [1] plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; original cloth-backed paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; a nice, largely unopened copy. Early ownership inscription of "C. Shakespear, Langley Priory." In another copy of the..... More
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd and Longman, Rees, [et al.], 1826. First edition, 4to, pp. [4], 27, [1] plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; slightly later green cloth, gilt lettering on spine; some foxing but still a nice copy. In another copy of the book we sold some time ago was..... More
Port Moresby, Papua: Department of Education, Papua and New Guinea, 1952. 11" x 8½", pp. vii, [1], 88; printed from typescript; side-stapled in original printed yellow wrappers; very good, sound, and clean. Apparently, a review copy, with a UNESCO label laid in addressed to the Editor, University of Manila Journal..... More
London: Reeve and Co., 1852. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 501, [1]; wood-engraved vignette title page, 2 maps (1 folding), 2 tinted lithographs; later black cloth backed in black straight-grain morocco, gilt titled direct on spine; one plate with small wormhole in the margin and not touching any of the..... More
![Item #3738 [? See below]. 1 p. A.N.s. presumably to Alexander Dallas Bache. THOMAS THOMSON](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3738_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1637359507)
100 St. Vincent St., 21 Dec. 1836. I will take it as a favor if you will partake of a family dinner alone with me... 12mo, trimmed, 115 x 120mm., integral leaf detached. Although this could be Thomson the botanist (1817-1878), it is more likely his father (1773-1852), the chemist..... More
London: printed for the author; and sold by J. Murray, 1788. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 512; [2], 304; 2 engraved folding plans; contemporary tree calf, smooth spines with gilt decorations and red and black morocco labels; upper joint starting on vol. I, extremities lightly rubbed; a...... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. First edition, demy 4to, pp. xvi, [2], 506; 78 plates (4 folding and in color); light foxing in the margins, but generally a very good, sound copy or better in original gilt-stamped decorative red cloth, t.e.g. More
Beyrout: [publisher not identified], 1893. Second edition, revised and enlarged, 8vo, unpaginated; original black morocco backed pebbled cloth, spine gilt, covers blind stamped; covers a bit worn, hinges cracked; a good, sound copy. Still considered a standard tool for students of Arabic. More
