Japan: [c. 1870s]. 6 sheets, each 9.5" x 13.5" with 10 hand-painted images on each of figures used in illustrating the card game Hyakunin isshu karuta. The images of lords and ladies, warriors, monks and nuns each represent one of the 100 poets who contributed a single poem to the..... More
Boston: [Leonard Deming, c. 1829-1831]. Broadside, 9.5" x 7"; text printed in two columns, "Sold wholesale and retail, at the corner of Merchant's Row, & Market square Boston" printed in the inner margin; light foxing, old folds in 8 parts, light edgewear, good. Two poems; one of a crossdressing princess..... More
London: J. Baker, 1715. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 130 [i.e. 138], [2] ads; bound without the half-title in later calf-backed paper-covered boards, rebacked, with old gilt spine neatly laid down; some spotting throughout, but still a very good copy. An uncommon account of France by a British traveler. ESTC..... More
London & New York: Nonesuch Press & Random House, 1932-1963. Four separate prospectuses in a terracotta cloth-covered clamshell box: 1) Prospectus & Retrospectus, 1932, a 16-page catalogue of upcoming books and books in print, with attractive pink pictorial wrappers; 2) 3 new Nonesuch books for the summer of 1934, 8-page..... More
London: printed by Eliz. Rumball for Thomas Crouch, 1723. 12mo, pp. xi, [1], 197, [3] Crouch ads; wood-engraved initials, tail-, and headpieces; contemporary full calf rather artlessly rebacked; good and sound. Many editions were published, a 20th edition was reached by 1760. Of this "seventh edition," there are no copies..... More
[Burma: US Army, 1944]. Bifolium leaflet, 5" x 6.75"; printed in red and black in Japanese, with instructions in English and Chinese on the last page stating that the bearer of the leaflet should be treated courteously and conducted to Allied headquarters. One prior fold, small chip to one corner..... More
London: William Pickering, 1847. First Pickering edition of the 1845 first edition of 25 copies; pp. iv, 296; original brown pebbled cloth, spine gilt, a.e.g., binding scuffed and rubbed at joints and edges, hinge cracked at second signature, else a good, sound copy. Keynes p. 49. More
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855-56. First edition, 8vo, 3 volumes, 3 folding maps, 13 lithograph plates (9 tinted, 5 chromos), plus 1 wood-engraved plate; original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, black ornamental borders on covers; spines a bit soiled and spine ends cracked with minor loss..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1941. First edition, 8vo., jacket clipped and slightly chipped; about near fine. More
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Amstelodami: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1665. 8vo, pp. [32], 917, [15]; engraved title page, woodcut ornaments and initials; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, maroon morocco label in 1; upper joint starting, old repair to top of spine; generally good and sound. Dibdin, Introduction to the Greek and Latin..... More
Lvgdvni Batavorvm [i.e. Leiden]: ex officia Elzeviriana, 1632. 8vo, pp. [8], 375, [1]; printer's woodcut device on title page, woodcut initials; contemporary sheep, blind double-ruled borders on cover, red speckled edges; boards, spine and corners rubbed, contemporary signatures on endpaper, front endpaper partially perished, back endpaper is printer's scrap, joints..... More
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1847. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [iii]-xvi, [17]-184; engraved folding map; bound without the half-title or terminal ads in recent quarter tan calf over marbled boards; slight spotting throughout, otherwise a nice copy. Graff 1210; Howes (aa) E-52; Streeter Sale 164; Wagner-Camp 132;. More
New York: Viking, [1972]. First edition, 8vo., small price sticker on rear jacket panel, else fine. More
1809 and 1828. Both documents tied together with silk ribbon at the bottom, to which is attached a ceramic Georgia state seal. The first is a survey of land, approx. 9½" x 7½" with a small manuscript plat map at the top showing a parcel of 202 acres of John..... More
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1894. First edition, 8vo, pp. 272; double-paged hand-colored lithograph frontispiece bound upside down, numerous lithograph plates (2 of which are colored) and illustrations within text, there are 3 additional plates not included in the table, pages toned, some light foxing, hinges cracked; a sound but..... More
Romae: Bartholomaeum Zannettum, 1607. First edition, small 4to, pp. 54, [1]; woodcut device on title-p.; Bibliotheque Nationale only in OCLC; bound with: Germoni, Anastasio, Anastasii Germonii I. C. Archidiac. Tavrinen. et S. D. N. Papae V. S. Referendarii Assertio libertas immunitatisque ecclesiasticae, Romae: Haeredes Aloysij Zanetti, 1607; pp. [4],118, [1];..... More
London: Ward & Co., 1853. First and apparently only edition, square 12mo, pp. [2], 174, 16 (ads); 8 plates, each showing 6 illustrations; orig. brown cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; minor rubbing else very good. Remarkably, this title is not to be found in either NUC..... More
London: Martin Secker, [1921]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 53, [1], [10] (ads); portrait frontispiece, acidic tissue guard excised; original off-white decorative paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label; dust jacket with a faded spine and with a few short breaks, else good or better. Higginson & Williams A6a. More
New York: W. C. Bryant & Co., printers, 1852. 8vo, pp. 18, [2]; original tan printed wrappers, soiled, else very good. AAS, Kentucky, Hagley Museum & Library, Chicago and Wisconsin only in OCLC; AAS and Kentucky copies both without wrappers. More
London: printed for Lackington, Allen & Co.; Longman, Hurst [et al.], 1806. 4 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece portrait, folding plan of Jerusalem plus a folding map; contemporary mottled calf neatly rebacked, brown and black morocco labels on gilt-paneled spines. Josephus' works provide a comprehensive history of the Jews from Creation to..... More
Birminghamiae: Johannis Baskerville, 1761. 4to, pp. 240, collating as in Gaskell; with suppressed leaves at E2, K4, U4, and Z3 rather than cancels; later full polished tan calf, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, gilt-decorated spine, red morocco label; with gilt prize medallion on upper cover (College of Fort William, Canada, and..... More
Lipsiae: cum gratia & privilegio ad decennium [in officina M. Ernesti Voegelini Constantiensis], 1560. First edition of Melanchthon's last work, published just three months before his death; folio, pp. [20], 982; large woodcut vignette on title-p., 8-, 7-, and 6-line historiated woodcut initials, dampstains in the fore-margins of the first..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, [1984]. Edition limited to 1500 copies signed by Miller and the illustrator, Leonard Baskin (this, no. 727); 4to, pp. [8], 164, [4]; 5 etchings by Baskin; bound in full maroon niger, gilt-lettered spine, publisher's slipcase. Fine. Contains a new Preface by Arthur Miller. Accompanied by..... More
[New York]: Stock, [1974]. First edition, 4to, pp. [2], 37-[38], plus 8-page "Cadenza"; 4 full-page b&w illus. after photographs of Henry and Hoki and 12 color plates reproducing watercolors by Miller; a fine copy in slightly scuffed and nicked dust jacket with 1/2" tear at upper edge, adhesive remnants on..... More
Dublin: Cuala Press, 1929. Edition limited to 130 copies, 8vo, pp. [14], 51, [3]; printed in red and black; vignette title page, 5 illustrations by Hilda Roberts; blue cloth-backed pattered boards, printed paper label on the upper cover. Near fine. More
