[Cincinnati]: W. Conclin, printer, 1831. 8vo, pp. 22, [2]; plain tan paper wrappers, the front wrap detached, but present. An act to incorporate and establish the Commercial Bank of Cincinnati. Not found in Sabin or American Imprints; Harvard and Cincinnati Historical Library only in OCLC. More
London: printed: and sold by J. Roberts, 1729. First edition, 8vo, pp. 61; modern brown cloth-backed boards, printed paper label on spine. James Ford Bell Catalogue: "A defence of Sir Robert Walpole against charges of willfully neglecting England’s West Indian commerce." European Americana 729/161: "Sometimes attributed to Nicholas Amhurst. Refers... More
Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]: apud Johannem & Danielem Elsevier, 1653. Second Elzevir edition; 4to, pp. [16], 387, [15]; title page printed in red and black, printer's woodcut device, Greek and Latin in parallel columns; the Proverbs of Gregory, Patriarch of Cyprus, are given in Greek only; contemporary full parchment, covers... More
![The consolation of philosophy. Translation of H.R. James. [With]: Dante's "New life." With a commentary by Henry Howard Harper, including echos and love laments of the early Italian Renaissance. Boethius, Dante Alighieri.](/pictures/thumb/24773_1.jpg?v=1491257827)
Boston: Bibliophile Soc. 1930. Edition limited to 433 copies for subscribers, 2 vols., 4to, pp. 208; 148; each vol. with engraved limitation-p. and frontispiece, each with a vignette title-p., orig. vellum-backed blue paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered direct on spine. Bookplates of Justin S. Bemis. Generally fine. More
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, [1843]. Third edition, sm 8vo, pp. xx, [1]-555; 2 folding maps, 3 plates, numerous illustrations within text, endpapers lightly soiled, extremities a bit rubbed, corners bumped, else very good in original green cloth decorated in blind with gilt vignette on upper cover and gilt lettering on spine. More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1875. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 407; frontispiece, plates, illustrations in the text; original green cloth, spine gilt-lettered; light general wear, slightly shaken; overall a very good copy. A collection of articles by naturalist Frank Buckland (1826-80), most of which were first published in his... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1939. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [3], 276; cartoon text illustrations, illustrated endpapers; peach cloth with red and black decoraded spine, fine, in a lightly worn dustjacket with faded spine. Inscribed to George Matthew Adams, head of a syndicated comic strip service... More
Oxonii: e typographeo Clarendonioano, 1783. 10 volumes, 4to, portrait frontispiece and a medallion portrait, index and inventory in back; contemporary diced calf, elaborate gilt and blindstamped ruled boards, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt title direct on spines, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers and edges, gilt supralibros of the Camperdown Library... More
San Francisco: John J. Newbegin, 1927. First edition limited to 250 numbered copies printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, with a frontispiece and initials by Valenti Angelo, small 4to, pp. [4], v, [3], 86, [1]; original quarteer calf over marbled boards, black morocco label on spine; a little scuffing, else... More
New York: Random House, [1961]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. x, 149, [3]; very good copy in jacket. A collection of stories about Africa by the author of Out of Africa. More
New York: Knopf, 1928. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. xvi-[xviii], 433-[434]; frontis and 50 illus. on rectos and versos of 19 plates; very good copy in a chipped jacket, the rear panel of which has a larger tear, with some loss. ""Probably the most important exposition that has yet... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, [1946, 1955]. Second American impression, 8vo, pp. viii, 424; original cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket lettered in white; minor shelf wear, else about fine. Higginson & Williams A59c. More
Brest: chez Ve J.-B. Lefournier, 1839. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [12], 531; [4], 564, [2]; 1 engraved folding plate (with an early rebacking and a bit wormed); contemporary and likely original brown roan-backed marbled boards, rubbed, worn, and scuffed, but sound. Ex- St. Paul Seminary, with their 19th century rubberstamps... More
London: John Murray, 1817. 8vo, pp. viii, 194, [2], c (appendix), 12 (ads dated June 1817); folding map (split along 2 folds); later green cloth, green morocco label (faded to brown) on spine; very good, sound copy. Enlarged edition of the author's Statement respecting the Earl of Selkirk's settlement of Kildonan, London, 1817. Lande 1206; TPL 1093; Sabin 20704. More
Glasgow: printed by Andrew Foulis, 1783. 12mo in sixes, pp. [2], 34, [2], 63, [1], 32; contemporary tree calf; gilt spiral border on covers, smooth gilt spine with birdbath designs, red morocco label, marbled endpapers; corners bumped, tail of spine worn, very good. Includes "Hammond's love elegies, Stillingfleet's Essay on... More
![Books of biographical and historical interest [cover title]. Harper, Brothers.](/pictures/thumb/45854_1.jpg?v=1468014167)
[New York: ca. 1926. Bifolium, 16mo; printed on orange stock; fine. Short list of newly published historical works, including Hilaire Belloc's Napoleon's Campaign of 1812. Advertisement for Harper's Magazine and integral order blank on p. [4]. More
San Francisco: John Howell, 1926. First trade edition being one of 2000 copies on wove paper; 8vo, pp. xvi, [6], 221, [1]; mounted frontispiece facsimile of The Californian, and 3 other facsimiles in the text; title-p. designed by Edwin Grabhorn; dust jacket slightly soiled, else generally a fine, largely unopened copy. BAL 3539 (Clemens) and 7410 (Harte). More
Warrington: printed by William Eyres, and sold by T. Cadell [et al.], 1784. 4to, pp. [6], 492, [14]; half-title wanting; 22 engraved plates (19 folding); contemporary full calf, red morocco label on spine; spine scuffed and rubbed with repair at top and bottom, also with repair at joints; newspaper shadow... More
London & Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate, 1863. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 259, 8 (ads); frontispiece and 32 figures in the text; orig. green cloth, recased and rebacked, old spine laid down; rear free endpaper bound in upside down; ex-Balfour Library, Cambridge, with bookplate and stamps; good and sound. Garrison-Morton... More
Washington [D.C.]: House of Representatives, 1821. 8vo, pp. 293, [1]; 4 folding tables; p. 293 misnumbered 193; bound in recent quarter black leather over green cloth; gilt title on spine; some gatherings toned, else near fine. Col. Johnson tried, and failed, to provide supplies to U.S. forces along the Mississipi and Missouri rivers. More
Boston: Charles Ewer & T. Harrington Carter, 1828. Boston Stereotype Edition, thick 8vo, portrait frontispiece, pp. xxxii, 1156, modern full calf, black morocco label lettered in gilt on spine; frontispiece a bit foxed, else generally fine. Edited by Joseph Worcester who published this version of Johnson originally in 1827, just... More
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1840. First edition, 12mo, pp. xxiv, 350 [i.e. 250]; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; text foxed, slight spotting to lower board, else very good. "A humorous political satire [which targeted Democrats and] delighted many, especially the Whigs, of which the author was one" (DAB). Kennedy, a.... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 310, [1]; fine copy in jacket. More
London: Methuen and Co. [1919]. First edition, small 8vo, pp. xii, 159, [1], 32-p. publisher's catalogue; very good copy in original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., red cloth chemise. Livingston, 442. More
New York: Henry Holt, [1945]. Second printing, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 599; frontis and 19 illus. on 13 plates; fine copy in the jacket. More
