[Washington, D.C. [Buell & Blanchard, printers, n.d.], [ca. 1852]. 12mo, 12pp., stitched, as issued; 1 folding lithograph plate; fine. A proposal for making approaches to harbors safe in foul weather, by submerging a cable of considerable length sufficiently below the surface of the water that a ship might purposely snag..... More
Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, [1980]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xx, 207; illustrated throughout; fine in original cloth, about fine jacket. Review copy with slip laid in. More
Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs, 1940. First edition, China. The Maritime Customs. III.--Miscellaneous Series: No. 51; 4to, pp. [xii], 97, [1]; map and 45 plates, some folding; original green calf-backed boards, green moire cloth sides, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine; evidence of label removal..... More
Anapolis: Naval Institute Press, [1988]. Fourth printing, 4to, pp. [20], 626; extensively illustrated throughout; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Worcester was an officer of the River Inspectorate, and knew whereof he wrote. The illustrations are primarily lines drawings, with scales. Indispensable for the model builder and naval..... More
Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs, 1947-48. First edition, China. The Maritime Customs. III.--Miscellaneous Series: Nos. 53 & 54. 2 volumes, 4to, pp. xxviii, 245, [1]; xv, [1], [247]-506; 199 plates plus illustrations and tables in the text; original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover..... More
Boston: Timothy Swan, 1819. 8vo, pp. 323, [1]; pages browned, occasional pencilled marginalia, corners worn and rubbed, else a good, firm copy in contemporary half calf, red morocco label on spine. Lacks the atlas. The third in a series of school texts and gazetteers by the school teacher turned lexicographer..... More
Andover: Flagg and Gould, 1817. First edition of the author's first book, Andover issue, 2 volumes, thick 8vo; lexicon in double column; full contemporary sheep, red and black gilt-lettered spine labels; edges and boards rather scuffed and rubbed, spine heads chipped, preliminaries browned and rather loose, Vol. I front flyleaf..... More
Boston: Hickling, Swan and Brewer, 1859. 8vo, pp. 180; some rubbing at extremities but otherwise an attractive copy in original pictorial printed paper-covered boards backed in brown cloth. First published in 18578. Like his Dictionaries, this speller emphasizes pronunciation. There are several interesting sections at the back, including diacritical marks..... More
Boston: Jenks, Palmer, & Co., 1848. Revised and enlarged, "and made substantially an abridgment of the author's 'Universal and critical dictionary,'" 12mo, pp. 491, [1], [12] (ads); lexicon in double column; full contemporary sheep (some faint dampstaing), black gilt-lettered morocco spine label; edges quite scuffed and rubbed, joints cracked but..... More
Boston: Hickling, Swan, and Brewer, 1860. First edition of Worcester's greatest dictionary, large, thick 4to, pp. lxvii, [1], 1786; text in triple column, illustrations in text; previous owner's bookplate on upper pastedown; a very good, sound copy in publisher's full black morocco, neatly rebacked with old spine laid down, gilt-lettered..... More
Andover: Flagg and Gould, 1817. First edition of the author's first book, Andover issue, 2 volumes, thick 8vo; lexicon in double column; full contemporary sheep, red and black gilt-lettered spine labels; front cover of vol. II a bit warped; all else very good. A respected geographer and historian, Worcester (1784-1865)..... More
Boston: Hickling, Swan, and Brown, 1856. Thick 8vo, pp. 565; lexicon in double column; 20th-century black cloth, gilt-lettered spine, new endpapers; contemporary ownership inscription on p. [3]; very good and sound. See Kennedy 6476 for the first (1855) edition thus; Vancil, p. 279. Trinity, Massachusetts Historical Society, Pennsylvania State, and..... More
Boston: Hickling, Swan, and Brown, 1855. First edition, 8vo, pp. 565, publisher's black morocco-backed cloth, blind-tooled spine lettered in gilt; edges quite rubbed and worn, cloth discolored from damp; front free endpaper loose but present, front hinge cracked; contemporary ownership rubber stamp to front endpapers; a fair copy. Although issued..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1855, but later]. 8vo, pp. [8], [41]-491, [1], [4] ads; original olive pictorial cloth (soiling) stamped in black and gilt, all edges marbled; edges quite rubbed and worn, front hinge broken, binding shaken; a fair copy only. Reprint of the original Boston, 1855 edition, lacking (as..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1855, but later]. 8vo, pp. [8], [41]-491, [1], [4] ads; original olive pictorial cloth (minor soiling) stamped in black, blue, and gilt, all edges marbled, fore-edge thumb index; edges rubbed and worn, front hinge cracked, pages uniformly toned, else textblock mostly very good and sound. Reprint..... More
Boston: Jenks, Hickling and Swan, 1854. First and only edition, 8vo, pp. 48; stitched as issued; edges a little curled; good or better. The Dictionary Wars continued. This is Worcester's publisher's vehement rebuttal to a pamphlet circulated in the Midwest by the Merriams accusing Worcester of appropriating Webster's orthography. Includes..... More
Boston: Jenks, Hickling and Swan, 1854. First and only edition, 8vo, pp. 48; stitched as issued; very good. The Dictionary Wars continued. This is Worcester's publisher's vehement rebuttal to a pamphlet circulated in the Midwest by the Merriams accusing Worcester of appropriating Webster's orthography. Includes interesting statements from the publisher..... More
Boston: Timothy Swan, 1819. 12mo, pp. viii, [1], 10-322, [2]; atlas not present, lacking front free endpaper; 2 plates, tables, toned and foxed, notations on rear fly leaf dated 1825, front hinge starting, else good in contemporary full sheep with gilt-lettered red morocco label on spine. The third in a...... More
Concord: printed by George Hough, 1810. 8vo, pp. 177, [3]; contemporary marbled wrappers; front flyleaf with tape repair, spine partially perished, text toned; otherwise, good and sound. With a separately printed copyright slip pasted to the verso of the title page. "For some time, he had been making a thorough..... More
Boston: West & Richardson; Joseph T. Buckingham; & Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf, 1817-1821. Ten issues in all, 8vo, the first two issues with some worming; all else generally very good in original printed blue wrappers. Worcester (1758-1837) was a fifer in the Revolution and later a clergyman who "came to..... More
Boston: published by Joseph T. Buckingham; [and] Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf, [1819]-1821. 2 volumes, 8vo, containing 24 issues for the first two years, each separately paginated; contemporary and likely original quarter sheep over marbled boards, red morocco label on gilt-paneled spines; ex-Pepperell Public Library with their rubberstamps on the endpaper..... More
