[London]: printed by command of His Majesty King William IV, 1837. First edition, folio, pp. [4], xxxiv, 516, [26]; ex-Philadelphia Mercantile Library with a few small, innocuous rubber stamps, the title-page trimmed and mounted and the first 5 leaves with gutter margins guarded, but all else clean and bright; a.... More about General report to the king in council from the Honourable Board of Commissioners on the Public...

London: Designer Bookbinders, 1981-85. Small folio, 5 volumes, illustrated throughout, much in color; fine. In a custom tan cloth clamshell box, printed paper label on spine. Articles by Bernard Middleton, James Brockman, Trevor Jones, Marianne Tidcombe, Daniel Kelm, Nicholas Pickwoad, Daniel Knoderer, et al. These early issues are not common. More about The new bookbinder: journal of designer bookbinders. Volumes 1 - 5

Springfield: printed by G. and C. Merriam, 1836. Pamphlet, approx 4.50" x 7.5", pp. 16; original printed paper wrappers; vertical fold, a touch of soiling, very good. A list of students and teachers, plus rates for room, board, and courses, textbooks, term schedule, and an inventory of "aparatuses" for scientific... More about Wesleyan Academy. Catalogue of the corporation, officers, and students, winter and spring terms,...

London: E. Bell, J. Darby [et al.], 1724. 8vo, pp. [16], unpaginated lexicon in double column; Alston V, 95; Kennedy 6215; Vancil, p. 12; together with Bailey, N[athan], The universal etymological dictionary ... Vol. II ... The second edition with many additions, London: Thomas Cox, 1731; first edition, pp. [8]... More about An universal etymological English dictionary...The second edition, with large additions

London: Richard Bentley, 1852. Fifth edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, orig. blue cloth, gilt decorated spines; a fine, bright set, with engraved title-pp. and 19 engraved plates after George Cruikshank and John Leech. See Cohn 50 for a description of the first edition of each series, issued in 1840, 1842, and... More about The Ingoldsby legends. By Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1869. 2 parts in 1; 8vo, pp. 378; 200; original brown cloth, spine faded and rather chipped at the top; ex-Northern Pacific Railway Co. with small rubberstamp on the flyleaf, but no other markings; good and sound. This copy inscribed to "Thomas H. Canfield... More about Resources of the Pacific Slope. A statistical and descriptive summary of the mines and minerals,...

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1876. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 261, [1]; vi, [2], 255 (i.e. 355), [1]; largely unopened; 4 wood-engraved plates and 2 folding maps, plus other wood-engraved illustrations in the text; a very good copy in a secondary (unrecorded?) binding of... More about Two trips to gorilla land and the cataracts of the Congo

[Shandygraft Farm, Charles River, Mass.]: Sign of the George, [1924]. Limited edition of an unknown quantity, approx. 6½" x 5", pp. [16]; original plain green paper wrappers; generally fine. This copy initialed by the printer, George Parker Winship at the end of his prefatory note. The text prints for the... More about An American note never intended for general circulation although issued at the seat of government...

Basel: Petri Pernae typographi, 1578-77. Folio, 2 volumes in 1, pp. [12], 427, [1]; [8], 176, [26] index; 177-225; title page within elaborate woodcut border; index appears at p. 176 of the second volume, before the final section on the lives of the Turkish emperors, which first appears in this... More about Pauli Iovii Novocomensis episcopi nucerini Vitae illustrium virorum. Tomis duobus comprehensae,...

Chicago: Northeastern Illinois University, 1974. 4to, pp. [2], viii, 61, [1]; original color pictorial wrappers, side-stapled; generally fine. Also with essays by Andrei Codrescu, Tom Clark, Neil Hackman, and Peter Kostakis. The Poetry Foundation notes that Alice Notley is "one of America’s greatest living poets. She has long written in... More about Out there 4 featuring the poems of Alice Notley

Warrington: printed by William Eyres, and sold by T. Cadell [et al.], 1784. 4to, pp. [6], 492, [14]; half-title wanting; 22 engraved plates (19 folding); contemporary full calf, red morocco label on spine; spine scuffed and rubbed with repair at top and bottom, also with repair at joints; newspaper shadow... More about The state of the prisons in England and Wales, with preliminary observations, and an account of...

Japan: ca. 1796. Large 8vo, pp. [108]; old Japanese "grass" script with Chinese elements, 18 extraordinary double-page watercolor illustrations; sewn and bound in the oriental style (fukurotoji) in original speckled beige wrappers; very slightly worn, preserving the original manuscript label label; a very good, attractive example, beautifully illustrated. An account... More about Shima Nikki [i.e. Island diary

St. Louis: William Marion Reedy, 1913. First edition, 8vo, [v] & 319pp.; original gray pictorial cloth blocked in black and orange, light wear at edges, darkened spine, else very good. More about Graphics