New York: Bryant Literary Union, 1902. Square 12mo, pp. [32] on stiff card stock; 15 full-page illustrations from mostly photographs; plus a large folding color strip map of the Hudson River, "from New York Bay to the head of tide water," extending nearly 9 feet in length (by 5½" wide);..... More
Hudson: Alexander N. Webb, 1865. 8vo, pp. 16; original pale yellow wrappers, slightly stained, else very good. Minutes of the inaugural meeting of the trustees of the school, founded Oct. 16, 1865. Not in OCLC. More
Westminster: reprinted for Machell Stace, 1813. Fourth edition, slim 8vo, pp. [4], 27, [1]; title printed in red and black; an untrimmed copy in later 19th century half red morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine. The first edition appeared in 1565 and the third in 1603. These early editions are..... More
London: for T. Cox, 1736. Folio, 4 preliminary leaves plus unpaginated lexicon in double column, illustrations in the text (largely heraldic); 19th century half brown morocco over marbled boards; rubbed, corners bumped, mild dampstain pervades most of the foremargins and enters one column of the text, early erudite pencil markings..... More
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New York: printed for Gabriel Wells by Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922. Temple Bar Edition, limited to 785 copies (this, copy no. 577); 10 volumes, 8vo, many fine illustrations through; original art vellum backed brown paper-covered boards, paper labels on spine; fine set, retaining all the original brown paper dust..... More
Paris: L. Pelletier, an xi, [1803]. First edition thus, 8vo, pp. viii, 352; handsome stipple-engraved portrait; contemporary quarter calf over yellow speckled paper-covered boards, red morocco label; some wear and slight chipping at extremities but all in all very good. Boufflers was both a cavalry officer and a popular and..... More
London: L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1768. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 231, [1]; 19th century full green cloth, maroon morocco label on spine; a nice copy with occasional pencil underlinings and marginalia in pencil, presumably in the hand of W. W. Chynowerth Pope whose ownership signature is on the..... More
New York: Robert M. McBride, [1926] but actually after, 1930. 8vo, pp. [2], xiii, [3], 492; illustrated endpapers; a very good copy in the dust-jacket which is a little worn with small pieces missing at spine ends and reinforced with cellotape at spine ends on verso. Signed by the author..... More
London: privately printed, 1925. First edition, number 36 of 100 copies, 8vo, pp. [2], 41, [2]; frontispiece; original taupe cloth, printed paper spine label, glassine wrapper, housed in a blue cloth chemise and blue quarter calf over cloth slipcase lettered in gilt; near fine with ads; a few small blue..... More
Baltimore: 1899. 8vo, pp. 12; original printed wraps; some minor toning, wraps chipped and front panel detached but present; good. Reprinted from the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, nos. 101-102, August-September 1899. Cushing Bibliography 33. More
London: Seeley and Co.; New York: Macmillan, 1894. First edition, 8vo, pp. 88; 4 plates, 25 illustrations in the text, 15 extra illustrations tipped in; bound with: Cust, Lionel, The Paintings and Drawings of Albrecht Dürer, London & New York, 1897, pp. 104; 4 plates, 34 illustrations in the text..... More
London: for W. Davis, bookseller, 1821. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 96; late 19th century brown morocco-backed black pebble-grain cloth, gilt-lettered spine; front joint starting, else good or better. Approx. 125 bibliographical excursions by the famed bookseller: the best edition of Bacon's works, Bruno's Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast; the..... More
New York: Taylor & Dodd, 1839. First edition, 12mo, pp. 268; orig. brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine ends a little cracked and bare spots neatly inpainted; modest foxing; old library label removed from spine; old manuscript ex-libris on blank flyleaf reading "No. 159 David Whitcombs Apprentice Library, Templeton, 1848; a...... More
London: J. Dodsley, 1775. 2 vols., 8vo, pp. [2], l, [5]-414, [4] ads; [2], 560; engraved frontispiece in each volume, 6 hand-colored folding maps by Emanuel Bowen, (world, Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Africa), and 28 engraved folding plates; preliminary blanks in vol. 2 with dampstain; some wear..... More
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1873. First Tauchnitz edition, Todd & Bowden's third impression, 2 volumes in 1, 16mo, pp. 326, [2]; 319, [1]; contemporary amateur half brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2, floral ornaments in 2; leather ties, catches perished; very good. This..... More
Bungay: printed and published by G. Brightly & Co., [and] T. Kinnersley, 1812. 8vo, pp. viii, xl, 376; 54 hand-colored plates of plants and flowers; contemporary full calf, ruled spine with red morocco label; joints cracked, spine dry, last gathering shaken, some foxing, plates are generally clean;good and sound. More
New York: Knopf, 1923. Fourth printing, sm. 8vo, pp.222; numerous illus. throughout, some full-p.; fine copy in a very slightly chipped jacket. The story of a young boy in Argentina who gets lost, only to be discovered by the Queen of the Mirage. More
Newtown, Pa. Bird & Bull Press, 1998. Edition limited to 225 copies, this, the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery, and out-of-series; folio, pp. 152, [16]; specimens and facsimile leaves tipped in throughout, illustrated throughout; original quarter black morocco over red cloth-covered boards, red morocco spine label; fine in a...... More
Oxonii: impensis D. A. Talboys, 1840-41. 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary full vellum by Wheeler, triple rules in blue on covers, gilt decorated spines, black morocco labels, marbled edges and endpapers; very nice set of an esteemed edition. More
Clark Township, NJ: published by the editors, Autumn 1968. 8vo, pp. [2] 20 [2]; staplebound in pictorial paper wrappers; spine rubbed, overall very good. With contributions by George V. Avlon, P. Vollmuth, Alan Blaustein, Ronald Hobbs, Janet Redemann Sage, William J. Matthews, Harris Schiff, Geoffrey Unwin, Richard Kramer, Anne Waldman..... More
London: for the author by H.L. Galabin, 1800. First separate edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], [17]-458; folding copper-engraved frontispiece of Vishnu, Brahma, and Seva plus 5 other folding copperplates; contemporary and perhaps original brown cloth-backed paper-covered boards, paper label on spine; binding worn. Essentially an offprint from the author's larger..... More
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New York: Knopf, 1918. Second (Revised) Edition, 8vo, pp. 288; original dark blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt on front cover and spine; light wear to extremities, spine ends creased, the gilt a little dulled, and with small whitish stains on front cover near bottom of joint; overall near..... More
[Paris]: Obelisk Press, [1960]. Twentieth Obelisk edition, 8vo, pp. 305-[306]; original white wrappers printed in red and black, very faint smudge on front cover, the spine creased, the back cover with a few lines of handwriting impressed in blind, still a remarkably fresh, bright, and firm copy. Shifreen and Jackson..... More
Rome [i.e., Paris or Neuchatel]: de l'imprimerie du Vatican, 1783. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 192; title-page vignette (2 cupids); bound in modern dark brown morocco gilt, a.e.g., by Wood; light wear, a few contemporary manuscript notes, fine. A compendium of curiosities culled from ancient writings in an effort to..... More
