London: printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1700. 12mo, unpaginated; bound with: The Holy Bible, containing The Old and New Testaments… Oxford: printed by the University Printers, 1695, with sectional title for the N.T. (with 17th century family inscriptions on verso); bound with: The Whole Book..... More
Bourges: Ve Tardy-Pigelet and Sons, 1919. 3rd edition, 12mo, pp. 32; folding map at rear, black & white photographic illustrations; extremities lightly creased, small stain on rear cover, else very good in original blue pictorial wrappers. More
[Providence]: J. A. & R. A. Reid, city printers, Dyer and Pine Streets, 1893. First edition, issued as City Document, no. 24; 8vo, pp. 6, [2]; original printed blue wrappers, slightly chipped. Signed at the end by Chapin, and by Wm. E. Clarke of the Board of Aldermen. No tangible..... More
Avon, Connecticut: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Limited edition, this one of 15 out-of-series copies with out-of-series blindstamp on colophon and numbered. "G. C." (for the LEC owner, Gordon Carroll), signed by the artist Irving Amen; 4to, pp. xvii, [3], 105, [1]; woodcut illustrations (many in color), translated by William Ellery..... More
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1882. Pocket map of New York State, printed in colors, approx. 30" x 32" overall size. Map and 118 pages of index contained in the publisher's dark green textured cloth binding, approx. 4 1/4" x 7" size; cover titles brightly gilt. Light wear to the..... More
[Paris: Jean-Baptiste Croisey, n.d., 1764]. Engraved map hand-colored in outline, approx. 12¼" x 9¼" overall (image size 8" x 5¾"); very good. Map no. 98 from Tome I, extracted from Bellin's Le petit atlas maritime, 1764. Relief shown pictorially. More
Mansfield: Maurizio Martino, n.d., [2000]. Reprint limited to 150 copies of the privately printed catalogue of 1931; 3 vols., 8vo, frontispieces and a few facsimiles in the text; orig. green cloth, gilt lettered spines; fine set. The most important existing collection of historical and literary material relating to Georgia as..... More
Waterville, Maine: Colby College Library, 1946. Edition limited to 500 copies of which this is one of 100 bound in red cloth, slim 8vo, pp. 16; elaborately designed capital "B" printed in red and blue; original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; fine. More
London & New York: Harper & Bros. 1900. Second edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 464, [1]; frontispiece portrait, plates, illustrations in the text, 4 folding color maps; very good in original blue cloth gilt, slight wear to edges, two ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper, minimal foxing including some to..... More
[Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company], 1938. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 244; frontispiece portrait, 16 illustrations on 11 plates, one graph, and a charming folding map of Tanager Hill in rear pocket; a fine, bright copy in original red cloth. A diary documenting bird-banding activities from 1923 to 1930..... More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1891. First edition, first state of both the binding and the frontispiece (see BAL 10592), 8vo, [2] & 359pp. plus ads; illus. throughout by various artists; slightly shaken, spine ends rubbed, but a very good and reasonably bright copy in orig. blue cloth with gilt..... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925. Small folio, pp. [4], 251, [1], [4] ads; 278 illustrations in the text; original parchment-backed gray paper-covered boards stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; plain paper-dust-jacket split along the joints; all else near fine. With the ownership signature of Paul C. Nicholson (1888-1956) on..... More
[Easthampton]: Warwick Press, 2006. Edition limited to 65 copies signed by the poet and the printer; small 8vo, pp. [12]; title with ornamented stencil; Centaur type on Tovil paper; handmade paper wrappers from Nepal; fine. Original prospectus laid in. More
London: printed for T. Cadell, 1788. 8vo, pp. [2], vi, 360; contemporary sprinkled calf, red and black morocco labels, gilt-paneled spine; top of spine chipped, front joint starting, but still reasonably sound; good copy. Sarah Fielding, sister of Henry Fielding, first published this translation in Bath, 1762. More
Washington City: published by Roger C. Weightman, 1811. 8vo, pp. xxvii, [1], 319, [1]; 87 (appendix), [1]; 33 (index), [1]; [2] table of contents; recent full calf, red morocco label; endpapers renewed; clean tears in pp. 69-74 of the appendix (no loss of text); all else very good and sound..... More
London: printed and sold by John Nutt, 1700. 8vo, pp. [22], 96; contemporary full paneled calf, maroon morocco label on gilt-paneled spine, neatly rebacked; minor wear; good and sound, or better. With the engraved bookplate of Viscount Sydney, i.e. Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733 - 1800), a British politician..... More
Paris: Braun & Cie. [1932]. First edition, 4to, 66pp., photogravure frontispiece, 280 photogravure reproductions on 140 leaves, and 1 folding map; very good in original printed wrappers, photogravure reproduction on cover. Explanatory notes in Spanish, German, French, and English accompany this striking series of photographs. More
Detroit: A. S. Williams, printer, 1847. 8vo, pp. 189, [1]; a few leaves curled at the corners, else a very good copy in original printed blue wrappers. Clark Hist. Library only in OCLC. More
Cassel: Theodor Fischer, 1840. First edition, 8vo, pp. lviii, 181, [1]; folded insert facsimile of text of Andreas in Anglo-Saxon. These two poems from the late seventh/early eighth centuries are from the "Vercelli Codex," a book of Anglo-Saxon poetry preserved in the cathedral library at Vercelli, discovered in 1832. They..... More
Montreal: John Lovell, 1868. First edition, 16mo, pp. [2], iv, [2], [7]-170; hand-colored folding frontispiece plan of the gold field of Nova Scotia, 2 folding tables (1 split along 1 fold); some inconspicuous stains to both covers, else a very good copy in original brown cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1906. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo; 33 plates, 1 folding map, 1 double-page table inserted, numerous illustrations throughout text all after Carl Eytel; original beige cloth over blue cloth boards, gilt vignette on upper covers; the spines both a bit faded, and not quite uniform..... More
Vienna: Mkhitaryan Press, 1919. 8vo, pp. 6, [2], 147, [1]; printed paper wrappers; unopened and uncut; light wear to wrapper edges, near fine. No. 86 in the Azgayin matenadaran series. First published serially. The work covers the manuscripts of Belazori, Ibn Maskavay, Tabari, Eakʻubi and Ali ibn al-Athir. With bibliographic..... More
New York: Doubleday and McClure, 1899. 16mo, p. [6], 83; frontispiece portrait, title-p. printed in red and black; spine darkened and spine extremities rubbed, else very good in original pictorial cream cloth stamped in white and olive. See Livingston, p. 84. More
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Brothers, [1869-70]. First cloth-bound edition of vol. I, first edition of vol. II; 2 vols., thin 8vo, pp.118; 4, 7-9, [1], 173-292; engraved portrait and 1 plate in the first volume; vignette title-pp. in both; 2-page autograph letter signed from Leland tipped in, being a brief..... More
London: Dennis Dobson Limited, [1947]. First British edition of the author's first book, small 8vo, pp. 241, [1]; a fine copy in original dust jacket, with original glassine wrapper over it. Warmly inscribed by the author to his editor at Webb Publishing Company in St. Paul, Paul Hillestad: "To my..... More
