New Haven: painted by B. L. Hamlen, 1852. First edition, 8vo, pp. 31, [1]; original printed green wrappers; generally very good. Inscribed at the top of the front wrapper: "Union College Library / gift of John Edwards, Esq." and with an old NY State Library stamp on the title page..... More

Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1821. 8vo, pp. [3] plus 4 large folding tables and one smaller folding table; removed. Includes an early mention on the second table of "Cantonment Leavenworth, on the river St. Peter's," under the command of Colonel Snelling, with other particulars given with regard to its detachment..... More

[Bennington]: printed bye A. P. Childs at hys Printing Shoppe where he also prints ye "Vermont Gazette" [1874]. Quarto broadside (approx. 10" x 8"); text in double and single column; previous folds and wrinkles; good. OCLC records four similar broadsides, all beginning "A lyste of sacred hymns and tunes..." announching..... More

Londini: W. Bowyer, 1719. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], xiv, [4], 277, [27]; engraved frontis portrait, typographical embellishments throughout, profusion of fonts, including black letter, Greek, Hebrew, Saxon and Roman; Lhwyd's appendix on the signification of British place names; and an 8-p. list of subscribers, including Sir Isaac Newton, Edmund..... More

[Sevilla: imp. Molviedro, n.d., ca. 1920.]. First edition, 16mo, pp. 8; original pink printed wrappers bound in; full blue Spanish calf, gilt-lettered spine; near fine. Bullfighting bookplate of James J. Nieto. Belmonte (1892-1962) was among the greatest bullfighters of all time. He began his bullfighting career in 1908, "touring around..... More

New York: Fowlers & Wells, 1847. 12mo, pp. viii, [1], 10-72, [12] ads; 44 wood-engraved figures in the text; original pictorial green wrappers; slight split along the upper joint, else very good. John Burdell was a popular New York dentist. He was known for advocating against the use of tobacco..... More

London: printed for John Clark, at the Bible and Crown, in the Poultry, 1719. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 38, [2]; later brown paper wrappers with pencil title on upper cover; title leaf split from textblock but still attached to wrapper, small wormhole through text, without loss to meaning, very..... More

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1862. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 384; title-page within decorative border, dec. initials and head- and tail-pieces throughout; handsomely bound by Ringer in full brown morocco, spine with raised bands in 6 compartments, lettered in gilt direct on spine in 2, covers and..... More

London: for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., 1880. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 109, [1], [2] blank, 21 (Seventh Annual Report of the English Dialect Society for the year 1879), [1]; original blue printed wrappers, worn along the edges, but generally very good. This copy with the ownership..... More

Colchester, [Connecticut]: April 7, 1777. Receipt of payment on a slip of paper approx. 3" x 6". "Received of Amasa Brown a soldier in the late Capt. Rowley's Company one gun and bayonet No. 25 £3.12.0" signed by "Jonth. Deming, Selectman." More

London: James Cochrane, 1845. 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 530; engraved frontispiece and vignette title-p., plus 10 engraved plates; orig. brown cloth covers bound in at the back; a very good to fine copy in later full polished tan calf by Morrell, gilt spine, red and green morocco labels, t.e.g., slipcase..... More

[Port Townsend, Washington]: Graywolf Press, [1977]. First edition; 8vo, pp. 42; illustrations by Gue Walker; edition limited to 1000 copies hand-set in Palatino types and fed through a treadle-operated, 1904 letterpress; cream decorated wrappers. A fine copy. More

Hope Valley, R.I. L. W. A. Cole, job printer, 1877. 12mo, pp. iv, [1], 6-96; original limp brown pebble-grain cloth, unadorned; near fine. This Sketch was delivered as a lecture July 4th, 1876, at Wood River Grove. Includes a genealogical supplement on first families of Richmond. Parks 3765... More