New York: Brown and Duer, 1867. First edition, 12mo, pp. [4], [7]-72; original printed front wrapper, rear wrapper wanting; very good. A fantasy novella for young adults in ten chapters. Wright II, 386. More
![Item #64239 Navigation [workbook]. William Collingwood Bruce, attributed to](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/64239_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690230227)
[Newcastle? n.d., likely ca. 1821-26]. 4to, approx. 200 manuscript pages with entries covering the standard lessons and examples format found in other navigation manuscripts of this period. Bound in full polished calf, spine perished, inner hinges repaired, but the text clean and legible. Two old bookseller catalogue slips are pasted..... More
Boston: published by John P. Jewett and Company. Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1854. 12mo, pp. 24; wrappers wanting; very good. Long narrative poem, being the author’s contribution to the burning political question of the day, the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Also attributed to Samuel R. Phillips. Afro-Americana 1795; Sabin 52196..... More
![Item #48967 [Title in Greek:] Ho tou Kebetos Pinax. Accedit interpretatio Latina, ex editione...](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48967_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1468016937)
Glasguae: in aedibus academicis, excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1771. 8vo in 4s, pp. 91, [1]; contemporary full mottled calf, red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine; edges worn, very good. Latin text and notes follow the Greek. Engraved armorial bookplate of John Cowper, M.D. The dialogue, of unknown authorship, has..... More
New York: Geo. A. Leavitt, n.d. Only edition (?), 16mo, pp. 36; integral wood-engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved vignette title page, and 32 wood engravings throughout; original purple cloth (similar to the RH cloth as illustrated in BAL, volume I); light rubbing, small loss at fore-edge of rear pastedown; very good. Produced..... More
[London: 1704]. Broadsheet, small folio (315 x 152 mm); left-hand margin trimmed close in lower half of sheet, touching a few letters, minor tears from previous fold, uniformly toned. A rare broadsheet sometimes attributed to Defoe (although more likely written by his agent in Scotland John Pierce), praising the Lords..... More
[London]: Albion Press: printed by James Cundee for Thomas Hurst, J. Harris [et al.], 1804. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, [10], 542, [2]; engraved title page, 16 engraved plates; original pink paper-covered boards (soiled, worn at edges), rebacked without spine label, uncut; a good, sound and clean copy. Huth, 71;..... More
Philadelphia: printed for Robert Campbell, 1795. 12mo, pp. [4], xii, 13-283, [13] index; contemporary full mottled calf, gilt-paneled spine laid out in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1; early ownership signatures of Levi Bartlett (likely the eldest son of Josiah Bartlett, the signer of the Declaration of Independence from..... More
Boston: Frederic S. Hill, 1831. First edition, 12mo, pp. [2], 285, [1]; vignette title page, 3 engraved plates; original green muslin, paper label on spine (chipped); worn, the text lightly dampstained; good and sound. A second enlarged edition appeared later the same year with 18 additional plates. American Imprints 7069..... More
London: printed by Dean & Munday, Threadneedle-street; for S. Knights, Sweetings-Alley, Royal exchange, n.d., [1820]]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [18]; title-page vignette and 10 woodcuts in the text; removed from binding; very good. Goldsmiths'-Kress 23014. More
Stockholm: Lars Wennberg, 1773. Only edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 400, 72; contemporary limp calf; spine a little worn and slightly chipped, bookplate removed, else very good. The book appeared anonymously, but it is attributed to Ch. Knöppel. BL and National Library of Sweden only in OCLC; not in Vancil or..... More
[Providence? publisher not identified, 1842.]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 8; original pictorial wrappers torn, with about one-quarter missing, affecting 2 letters in the title and the typographic border; front wrapper soiled, moderate foxing. "This book is dedicated to the three tail bashaw of Tripoli, and all the Barbary powers, by..... More
![Item #58120 The record of the Democratic Party 1860-1865 [wrapper title and drop title]. Henry...](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/58120_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1616773427)
[New York: The Loyal Publication Society, 1865]. 8vo, pp. 39, [1]; original yellow printed wrappers; wrappers worn and loose, old fold, all else good and sound. “Our repulsive task has been to show, upon Democratic evidence ... the doom earned for itself by the Democratic Party.” An attack on the..... More
London: John Murray, 32, Fleet-Street, 1806. First edition, 12mo, 3 volumes, pp. [2], xx, 362; xiv, 311, [1]; xix, [1], 316; with the final leaf of advertisements in volume III; a fine copy in original blue paper-covered boards, pink paper shelfback, printed paper spine labels on each volume; lightly rubbed..... More
Paris: Francois Clousier, 1667. Second edition (first edition was 1665), sm. 4to, pp. [8], 212 plus 90 copper-engraved plates of palms; old limp vellum; good and sound. Jean Taisnier (1508-1562) was a musician, mathematician and astrologer. His greatest work was his Opus Mathematicum octo libros complectens (1562), an astrological work..... More
London: T. C. Hansard, printer, 32, Paternoster Row, 1829-30. Three parts being offprints from the Westminster Review, 8vo, pp. 16, 12, 16; large woodcut headpiece by George Cruikshank repeated in each part; modern mauve wrappers; near fine. An article on John Stuart Mill's Essays on government, jurisprudence, liberty of the..... More
London: printed for M. Smith, and sold by the Booksellers in the Strand, at Temple-Bar, Fleet-Street, and Pater-noster-Row, 1778. 4to, pp. 32; uncut; self-wrappers; stitched, as issued; some soiling, wrinkling and creases on the first and last leaves, old horizontal fold; all else good or better. A satirical poem, first..... More
