London: W. J. and J. Richardson, 1803. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [8], 139, [1] errata; 6 folding lithograph plates; original green floral wrappers, paper label on the upper cover; the binding is split and the front cover and 2 of the plates are loose; spine partially perished; all else..... More
New York: John C. Riker, 1853. 8vo, pp. 304; inserted chromolithograph presentation page and list of illustrations page, engraved title page and frontispiece, 6 steel-engraved plates; white moire-patterned endpapers embossed in gilt, publisher's elaborate black pictorial morocco stamped in gilt, blue, red, and green, a.e.g.; rebacked with two-thirds of old..... More
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
Oxford: Oxford Historical Society, 1898. First edition, 8vo, 2 vols., pp. xlix, [3], 336; [6], [337]-725, [1]; 15 facsimiles (some double-page) bound in at the back; fine set in orig. blue cloth. More
London: for T. Cox, 1736. Folio, 4 preliminary leaves plus unpaginated lexicon in double column, illus. in the text (largely heraldic); title-p. printed in red and black and neatly mounted, but with the loss of three letters; recent half calf over marbled boards, old black morocco label on gilt-paneled spine;..... More
London: T. Cadell, 1825. 2 volumes, folio, pp. [iii]-xiv, [2], 272, xxxiv; [iii]-vi, [2], [273]-671, [1], [xxxv]-cxxviii, [18]; 27 engraved plates including one folding plan of the Tower; contemporary half pebble-grain green morocco, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spines; occasional spotting of the text, minor rubbing; very good or better. This..... More
London: J. Dodsley ... B. Whiston and T. White ... and G. Kearsly, 1766. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, [1], 8-189; engraved vignette of an eagle feeding her young on title page, 6-line errata on verso of title page, but without the extra errata slip pasted in at the back..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, [1972]. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 70; fine copy in jacket. Berryman's posthumous collection of poetry. Stefanik, A 22.I.a. More
[Mount Vernon, New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928-1934]. Edition limited to 570 copies designed by Bruce Rogers (this 290), complete set in 18 volumes, plus the separately published, but uniformly bound Boswell's tour of the Hebrides,1936 by the Viking Press, and Oxford University Press's Index (limited to 1250 copies); 20..... More
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
Philadelphia: McCalla, & Stevely, printers, 1870. First edition, 8vo, pp. 56; original printed front wrapper bound in later red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; very good. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with a small Newberry sticker at the base of the front cover, a small Newberry rubberstamp on the front wrapper, a small..... More
Philadelphia: printed for the author, 1856. 8vo, pp. 46; original printed drab wrappers; old library duplicate stamp on upper wrapper, edges slightly chipped; all else very good. "The reciprocal action of these two classes of fanatics [in the North and the South], with passions far outweighing their judgments, has now..... More
Burlington, N.J. published by D. Allinson & Co., 1813. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xiv, 84, & unpaginated lexicon in double column, plus chronological tables and errata; minor spotting and staining, full original reversed calf, red gilt-lettered morocco spine label; hinges cracked, extremities rubbed and worn, else good; contemporary ownership..... More
New Bedford: Capt. Thomas Crapo, publisher, 1893. First edition, first issue (without Joanna Crapo's appended note on the death of her husband), small 8vo, pp. 154; 7 illustrations in the text (6 full-p.); original pictorial wrappers; small chip out of the bottom margin on the front wrapper, slight insect damage..... More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, [1986]. Broadside 7.75" x 11.25" mission statement of the Dayton Hudson corporate staff. More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1884. 12mo, pp. [18] (maps), [1]-314, 5-7 (ads); preface by Dickens of this 'revised' edition, endpaper ads (including one for Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne medicine, a remedy for Cholera, known for it's highly addictive opiate contents); extremities lightly soiled with minor bubbling, else a very..... More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. First edition, American issue; 8vo, pp. [2], 93, [3]; folding color map of the world, 5 charts (1 folding, 2 double-p.), 15 plates; fine, bright copy in a very slightly chipped jacket. Account of the exploits of the British Navy in World War..... More
London: William Pickering, 1847. First edition, small 8vo, pp. xviii, 265-[266]; engraved frontispiece portrait, title-page with Pickering device, title-page and text throughout within ruled borders; somewhat later full polished black calf gilt, some wear to extremities, spine ends chipped, joints rubbed and beginning to crack, overall very good and firm..... More
Madrid: Antonio Marin, 1765. 8vo, pp. [40], 432; text in double column; engraved vignette title page, engraved genealogical plate, woodcut initials and ornaments; very good, sound copy in contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine. Henrique Florez (1702-1773) was a Spanish historian. He was professor of theology at the University..... More
Lvgd. Batav. [i.e., Leiden]: apud Elzeverios, 1638. First Elzevir edition, second issue; 12mo, pp. [8], 336, [16]p. index; handsome engraved title page showing Romulus and Remus nursed by the wolf by C. C. Duysend, decortive initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout; late 18th-century red straight-grain morocco, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-decorated spine..... More
Alexandria, VA & Milwaukee: 1978. 14 issues in 13, 4to, issues range from 10-20 pages each; included is a typed letter from the executive secretary of the museum to Greg Campbell, 2 membership directories, 2 pamphlets detailing the annual meetings of 1987 and 1988, a commerative keepsake limited to 500..... More
London: Ackermann, 1820. First edition in English, first issue, with the plates watermarked 1818 and 1819, and without numbering in the corners; large 4to, pp. xiv, [2], 178; folding map and 24 colored aquatints from drawings by M. Schuetz, engraved by Sutherland and Havell; contemporary maroon diced morocco, gilt paneled..... More
New York: William Wood, 1885. First American edition (London edition first published in 1881), 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 255, [1], plus pp. 46, [18] illustrated publisher's catalogue; original dec. brown cloth stamped in black, titled in gilt on spine, moderate wear to extremities with spine ends chipped and fraying, with..... More
London: C. Hitch, and L. Hawes, 1752. Twelfth edition, corrected, with additions, 24mo, pp. viii, 123, [1]; 26 woodcuts in the text, including title page; modern lavender boards, black gilt-lettered reverse calf spine label; small loss at bottom of p. [1] slightly affecting text without loss of meaning, else fine..... More
New York & Boston: George H. Holden, n.d., 1895. Large 8vo, pp. [2], 309, [1], v, [1]; 14 chromolithograph plates (appearing for the first time in this edition), numerous other illustrations in the text (some full-page), including many of bird cages; original pictorial army green cloth stamped in gilt and..... More
