[Lake Fort Worth Lagoon, TX]: Red Wagon Bookworks, April 16, 2002. Edition limited to 195 copies (this, no. 29); broadside (approx. 12" x 7¾"), printed in blue, green and black, with a linocut of Groucho by Seth Thompson and presswork by John Cutrone; fine. Printed in connection with the Fontaneda..... More
[Japan]: [19th c.]. Horizontal scroll, 14 inches by approximately 14.5 feet; 10 handpainted panels measuring 14" x "19; headed by brocade; brocade lightly soiled, otherwise quite fine. Housed in a lightly worn cardbord box. The ten colorful and masterfully produced ox-herding images contain a series of short stanzas which serve..... More
[French: n.d., ca. 1840]. Copper engraving approx. 7¼" x 4¾" on a sheet of mold-made paper approx. 11" x 17¼"; (approx. 19 x 12 cm on a sheet approx. 28 x 44 cm). Scafferlaty Tobacco is a centuries-old firm, still in existence today. "From the time of the Sun King..... More
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xxxi, [1], 308; xii, 327, [1]; portrait, engraved folding map, 13 engraved or aquatint plates (3 hand-colored), 6 wood-engravings in the text; contemporary full speckled calf, early rebacking with red morocco labels lettered in gilt; tops of..... More
Hartford: printed by Peter B, Gleason & Co., 1825. 8vo, pp. 26, [2]; stitched, as issued; very good. Founded as Washington College in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in Connecticut, after Yale. It was renamed Trinity College in 1845. Like many of his Yale alumni, Baldwin declines to support..... More
Baltimore: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Edition limited to 1500 copies signed by the illustrator, tall 8vo, pp. xvi, 277, [3]; illustrations throughout the text; publisher's cloth with illustration on front board; fine in original glassine and publisher's slipcase. LEC Bibliography 313. More
London: Hunt and Clarke, 1828. First edition in English of the author's La decouverte des sources du Mississippi (1824), 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. lxxvi, 472-[473]; [ii], 545; portrait frontis., 2 engraved folding plans, large folding map of the length of the Mississippi, and 3 engraved plates for Indian ornaments; ex-library..... More
Groningen: Dijstra, 1959. 8vo, pp. 209, [3]; text in Dutch; portrait frontispiece, plates; creme cloth with title in brown and gilt on spine; vignette of the Gymnasium on upper cover; near fine. A commemorative book published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Willem Lodewijk Gymnasium in Groningen..... More
London: Bell and Daldy, ca. 1893. 3 volumes, 8vo; full contemporary blue gilt-ruled calf, tan gilt-lettered spine labels, t.e.g., marbled endpapers; spines a touch faded, else a fine, very attractive set. Forms part of the publisher's Aldine Edition of the British Poets. More
Verona: per Eredi Moroni, 1790. First edition, 12mo, pp. [2], 15, [1]; title-page vignette, 1 folding chart; removed. Accompanied by: Cagnoli, Antonio, Osservazioni meteorologiche fette nell' anno 1790 ed unitamente alle mediche ed agrarie nel 1791 (Verona: gli Eredi Moroni, 1792); first edition, 12mo, pp. 28, [2]; title-page vignette, 1..... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott; London: Wm. Heinemann, 1913. First edition, American issue; large 8vo, pp. [2], viii, 191, [1]; color frontispiece, with numerous plates, fold-out map; joints tender, some rubbing, otherwise a good copy or better in the second binding of original blue cloth, without the gilt decoration on the front cover..... More
New York: Burt Franklin, [1970]. Reprint of the 1935 edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 50; fine in original turquoise cloth, spine gilt. More
London: printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson [et al.], 1698. First edition in English, combining Hennepin's second and third books, the Nouvelle Decouverte and the Nouveau Voyages, (the latter the continuation of the former, the rest of the volume being extracts from the works of La Salle, Joliet, and Marquette);..... More
London: The Field, n.d., [1933]. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xvi, 376; 78 photographic illustrations on 76 plates; original pictorial orange cloth, gilt stamped on spine and upper cover; front endpaper map (slightly defective with 1" x 5" piece missing along the gutter), front board loose (but present), original spine..... More
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Providence: 1843. First edition, 8vo, pp. 26; original printed brown wrappers; fine. American Imprints 818; Bartlett, p. 58. More
San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, 1954. First edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 15-82, [2]; title page printed in red and black; brown cloth-backed paste-paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine, publisher's bellyband printed in red (wrinkled and with a tear along the spine); the book is fine throughout. From the library of..... More
Paris: Prault, 1762. Nouvelle édition, corrigée & augmentée de plusieurs pièces qui n'avoient point encore paru, 5 volumes bound in 3, 16mo; woodcut printer's devices, head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary mottled calf, elaborately gilt-tooled spines in 6 compartments, red morocco gilt spine labels, all edges red, marbled endpapers; general wear..... More
New York: Taylor & Dodd, 1840. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xvii, [2], 20-312; 336; engraved frontispiece portrait; original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine; text foxed, one gathering extended in volume II, good and sound. Ex-Linonian Library with their stamps and marks, with 5 different accession numbers crossed out on front pastedown..... More
London & New York: Macmillan, 1890. 2 vols., 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 219, 60 (ads); [6], 236, 60 (ads); small cracks at the spine heads but generally a very good, bright and sound set. Of note at the two large publisher's catalogues bound in at the back. More
Philadelphia: Theodore Presser Company, 1918-1922. Mixed editions and printings, 6 volumes, 8vo; frontispieces, plates, and music in text; original red cloth (some soiling), gilt spines; a few spine heads quite worn, modern ownership signature on half title of vol. I, else a very good, sound set. Includes the sixth, supplemental..... More
New York: Trident Press, [1968]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 285, [3]; advance copy with publisher's announcement laid in; a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Mulder and Timmerman A18a. More
Minneapolis: James D. Thueson, 1987. First edition limited to 300 signed and numbered copies (this no. 10), 8vo, pp.56; fine in original quarter black morocco over maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine. Inscribed by the author, "Hello to Gregor Campbell from Frederick Manfred 1-8-1988." Mulder and..... More
London: Enitharmon Press, 1972. First edition limited to 500 copies, 8vo, pp. 30-[33]; a fine copy in original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, white dust jacket printed in black with some scattered brown spotting and rubbing . Shifreen A63. More
[Philadelphia]: published by "the Religious Tract Society of Philadelphia," and sold at their depository, no. 8, South Front-Street. Wm. Bradford, agent, 1819. First American edition, 12mo, pp. 12; removed from binding; wrappers perished; light foxing; very good. Early ownership inscription at the top of the first leaf, "Miss Hunkle." A...... More
New York: Charles Scribner, 1860. First edition, thick 8vo, pp. viii, 697; original dark brown pebble-grained cloth, spine ends slightly cracked and spine a bit sunned; all else very good and sound. Marsh was one of the early associates of J. A. H. Murray working on the great Oxford English..... More
