London: James Knapton, 1704. First edition, 8vo, 8 preliminary leaves and unpaginated lexicon in double column; slightly later full paneled calf neatly rebacked to match, red morocco label on spine; a gathering extended, worm track in bottom margin has been repaired and the imprint on the title page has been... More
Boston: C. A. Faxon, 1872. Folio broadsheet approx. 14" x 18" designed to fold to a 12mo brochure; contains a large map (approx. 12" x 10" of the Fitchberg, Cheshire and Rensselear & Saratoga Railroads with a key to all the routes, timetables, steamer bookings, etc.; previous folds, a couple... More
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Chicago: Ezra A. Cook & Co., 1873. Cynosure Edition, 16mo, pp. iv, [2], [8]-95; original pale blue printed wrappers chipped at the top of the front wrapper, and with a couple of very shallow tears (no loss), else very good. Pages [84]-95 contain A Supplementary report of the Committee Appointed... More
Washington: House Exec. Doc. No. 58, 39th Congress, 2d Session, [1867]. 8vo, 116pp., 5 maps and a number of tables in the text; disbound. Includes much on the Falls of St. Anthony and the Mississippi River above Lake Pepin, the St. Croix Minnesota, and Zumbro Rivers, as well as the... More
Omaha City, N.T. printed at the "Republican" office, 1863. 8vo, pp. 48; tipped inside the back wrapper is a slip announcing the general master and grand secretary, and the date and place (Plattsmouth) of the next annual communication; original glazed midnight blue wrappers printed in gilt; some wear at the... More
Boston: Light & Stearns, 1836. First edition, 12mo, pp. 336 (the last 2 leaves being Light & Stearns ads); added engraved title page; original brown floral-patterned cloth, gilt-lettered direct on spine; light dampstaining in the bottom margins of the last 20 leaves or so, spine lightly sunned; otherwise near fine... More
Paris: Perrotin, 1832. 8vo, pp. viii, 396; 12 plates; half red calf over marbled boards, spine in 5 compartments with gilt and blind stamped designs, black leather spine label with title in gilt; light foxing throughout, corners bumped, joints lightly rubbed. Barthelemy was a satirical poet who supported the revolution... More
Cleveland: The Bird Research Foundation, 1951. Small, thick 4to, pp. xvi, 723, [2]; color frontispiece, profusely illustrated throughout;original green pebbled cloth, spine and upper cover pictorially gilt, photographic endpapers; spine ends a bit rubbed, old name in ink on front free endpaper, very few ink notations in the margins, still... More
[New York ? Fredrika Brillembourg, 1995]. Edition limited to 750 copies, 8vo, pp. 89, [7]; 2 tipped-in color photographs; full green cloth over boards, spine and front cover stamped in silver; fine. Designed by Leslie Miller and Linda Josefowicz. A graduate of Harvard where he studied under Seamus Heaney, Brillembourg... More
London: John Murray, 1859. 8vo, pp. ccxxiv, 464, 6 (ads); large folding map; original blue printed wrappers bound in at the back, later half brown morocco, gilt lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine, t.e.g.; some scuffing, but very good. After the preliminaries, the entire text is devoted to Burton's account. Penzer... More
Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1911. First edition, 4to, pp. xix, [1], 431, [1]; 97 plates (18 photogravures), 3 plans (2 colored and folding), numerous text figures, appendix, index, subscribers' list; extremities rubbed, else a very good copy in original maroon cloth lettered in gilt on spine. More
Woburn: published and sold by S. Dodd, 1818. First edition, 12mo, pp. 140, [2] ads; 1 plate showing "Woburn Abbey," hand-colored crest on title page; recently rebound in quarter tan cloth and gray paper-covered boards with printed paper label on spine; professional repairs to upper forecorners of title and dedication... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. First edition, large, thick 8vo, pp. xii, 1392, [1]; text in double column; original cloth in black dust jacket lettered in white and yellow; jacket spine a bit toned, general minor edge wear, else very good and sound. More
n.p. n.d. [ca. late 1983]. Written on a bifolium with a signed Eichenberg wood engraving on the integral leaf. "Always glad to hear from you and I shall try to answer your questions: working on an autobiography which won't be out before next year. An engraving on Dorothy Day is..... More
Pesaro: Jacobus Chriegher German, 1572. Folio in sixes, pp. [24] plus 255 leaves; title within an architectural woodcut border, historiated woodcut initials, numerous woodcut geometric diagrams and illustrations in the text; a clean, crisp copy in 19th century quarter vellum over marbled boards, smooth gilt-decorated spine with 2 black calf... More
New York: NAL/World Publishing Company, [1969]. First edition, 8vo., fine in like jacket. More
Londres [i.e. The Hague]: Chez la Société typographique, 1773. 2 vols, 12mo, pp. [2], lxiv, 639; [2], 760, [2] errata; brown morocco-backed brown cloth boards, gilt lettering direct on spine; a good, solid copy. Edited by Alexander Gallitzin. Posthumously published. There are at least two separate editions, each with different... More
London: Hutchinson & Ci. 1906. First edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo, pp.xxviii, 519, [1]; xvi, 521-1183, [1]; 4 folding maps, 18 maps in the text, 28 color plates, 426 black & white illustrations (many full-page); original maroon cloth, gilt crest on upper covers, gilt-stamped spines; armorial bookplate on front pastedowns... More
Paris: J.B. Baillière, 1835-45. 11 volumes, 8vo, original pink printed wrappers; generally fine. First published in seven volumes 1815-22. Volume I: Introduction et Infusoires; II: Histoire des polypes; III: Radiaires, vers, insectes; IV: Histoire des insects; V: Arachnides, crustacés, annelides, cirrhipèdes; VI-X: Histoire des mollusques; XI: Histoire des mollusques et..... More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1849. First American edition. 8vo, pp. 270; translated by Francis A. Durivage and William S. Chase. De Lamartine's History, published almost simultaneously with the unfolding of events, portrays the Revolution of 1848 as a continuation of its 18th century counterpart, and calls it an ideological... More
New York: Sleight & Van Norden, print, 1833. 8vo, pp. 38; folding table in the pagination; original blue printed wrappers; small chip out of the lower corner of the front wrapper (no loss of letterpress); all else very good. Includes the report of the committee appointed by a resolution of... More
Albany: Joel Munsell, 1850. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 431; engraved frontis portrait, 4 lithograph maps; spine ends a little chipped, some spotting of prelims, else very good in orig. blindstamped brown cloth, gilt-lettering on spine. Lamb was attached to Montgomery's detachment during Arnold's attack of Quebec, served under Arnold... More
Flag Ship Osliabia, Road of Alexandria in the Potomac: December 5, 1863. 4to, 16 lines, approx. 90 words; integral leaf attached; generally very good. A rare letter from the Russian Rear-Admiral while on a diplomatic mission to the U.S. 1863-64. This expedition became a military demonstration by Russia during the... More
Germantown: Gedruckt und zu finden bey Christoph Saur, 1770. 12mo, pp. [14], 490, [15], 13, 82 [i.e. 83], [1]; woodcut frontispiece portrait; contemporary full calf, brass clasps and catches preserved; a nice copy. The fourth printing of Saur's edition of 1757, "the first Lutheran hymnbook printed in the United States" (Evans). Evans 11714; Bötte & Tannhof 384. More
Philadelphia: Griggs & Elliot, 1832. Folio, pp. [3] plus 40 full-page hand-colored maps (most a bit cockled but clean, with strong coloring); upper joint becoming tender, stitching loosening, but otherwise a good-looking copy in original half red straight-grain morocco, publisher's green printed paper label on upper cover, simple gilt lettering... More
