London: Illustrated London News, [1940]. Second edition, oblong folio, pp. [2], 40, [2]; profusely illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs; original pictorial blue wrappers stamped in gilt; a fine copy. Complete catalogue of the Royal Navy at the start of World War II, including submarines, aircraft carriers, mine sweepers, and..... More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1987. 11.5" x 15" broadside printed at the Science Museum of Minnnesota as part of the exhibition "Printing: From Craft to Technology," and published in the bicentennial year of the U. S. Constitution. More
Philadelphia: printed for the author by William Fry, and sold by Thomas Dobson, no. 41, South Second Street, 1817. 8vo in 4s, pp. 104; removed from binding; light tide stain, extremities soiled, early owner's signature on title page; good and sound. A title critical of Swedenborg, who had claimed to..... More
Providence: printed ... by Carter and Wilkinson, and sold at their book-store, 1798. Thick 8vo, pp. 652; contemporary full sheep, scuffed and rubbed, red morocco label on spine; front flyleaves loosening, small crack starting at the top of the upper joint; all else good and sound, or better. Ownership signature..... 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
Paris: Gabriel-François Quillau fils, 1727. 12mo, pp. [14], xxi, [3], 700, [2]; text in double column; full contemporary brown morocco gilt, gilt spine in 6 compartments, the bottom compartment with the initials CP (or CF?), a.e.g., marbled endpapers; edges very slightly scuffed, else fine. A beautiful copy. Cambridge only in..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1889. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xx, 192; 5 chromolithographs, 6 etchings, 6 wood-engraved plates, 2 maps printed in color (1 folding and with a short tear), other wood-engravings in the text; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover, beveled boards; 2..... More
London: T. Cadell, 1825. 2 volumes, folio, pp. [iii]-xiv, [2], 272, xxxiv; [iii]-vi, [2], [273]-671, [1], [xxxv]-cxxviii, [18]; 27 engraved plates including one folding plan of the Tower; contemporary half pebble-grain green morocco, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spines; occasional spotting of the text, minor rubbing; very good or better. This..... 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
Basileæ: Ludovici König, 1640. Folio, pp. [12], 2680 columns, [63]; collating: [*1-6], *1-[*6A], A-[4Y2] in fours, 4Z-8N4, 8O1-[8O6]; signature 4Y repeated; copper-engraved portrait and title page, text in double column; full contemporary vellum (considerably soiled), blind-tooled lozenges central on both covers, spine in 9 compartments (bottom one perished), manuscript spine..... More
London: John Snow, 1848. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [13]-548; contemporary half calf, black morocco label on spine; a bit scuffed; good and sound. More
Dublin: James Duffy, 1847. First illustrated edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xii, 468; 20 etched plates by Halbot K. Browne ("Phiz"); bound without the half-title in later half polished blue calf over marbled boards, red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine, a.e.g.; the frontis is rather browned, the other plates variously spotted; all..... More
Paris: Ruault, 1774. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 464, [4]; original red paper-covered boards, spine rubbed and with old manuscript label; small tide mark enters at the top margin for the last 50pp., but in all a good, sound copy. An essay submitted for a competition established by the..... 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
London: published for the Philogogical Society by Asher & Co., & Berlin, for the Early English Text Society and the Chaucer Society Society, by Trubner & Co. 1869-89, [i.e. New York: Haskell House, 1969]. Facsimile edition, 5 volumes in 6, 8vo, very good and sound in original blue-green cloth. Part..... More
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1860. First London, i.e. second "author's edition," with a slip noting "the author derives a pecuniary benefit" tipped in; 12mo, pp. [4]. 203, [1]; printed endpapers; original printed tan cloth boards; light staining, lower joint split, spine partially reglued; text clean and sound with the..... More
[Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, n.d., ca. 1986.]. 10" x 13" broadside announcement for Gioia's poetry reading at Graywolf Press. More
Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, 1826. 8vo, pp. iv, 602, [2], 207, index; engraved folding map; contemporary sheep, red leather spine label lettered in gilt; binding worn with small chips at rear joint, hinges cracked, light sporadic foxing, overall a sound, tight, good or better copy. Gould (1787-1859), was one of the..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1877. 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 763; with appendix by George Rolleston ("General Remarks upon the Series of Prehistoric Crania"), index, wood-engraved illustrations throughout; original red cloth, gilt stamped spine; spine slightly sunned, else very good. Contemporary relevant clippings laid in. Called a "perfect treasure of information for..... More
London: Seeley, Service & Co., n.d., [1938]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [3]-187, [4] ads; color frontispiece, 16 photographic plates, plus illustrations in the text, some full-p.; unclipped dust-jacket with spine rubbed, causing loss to 2 or 3 letters, a little soiled, and with 2 or 3 small chips out; fore-margin..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam & Son, 1869. First edition, squarish 8vo, pp. 58; wood-engraved frontispiece and title page, 1 wood-engraved plate; spine and upper cover slightly sunned otherwise near fine and bright in original maroon cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover, beveled edges, a.e.g. BAL 9552. More
London: George G. Harrap, 1915. First British edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 242; 16 color plates; publisher's (?) full limp reverse calf, embossed with a portrait bust of Napoleon on the upper cover within an inset panel, the spine lettered in sliver, t.e.g., yapp edges; very good. More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., [et al], 1866. First edition of Latham's edition of Johnson's Dictionary, 4to, 2 volumes in 4 (as issued); text in triple column; slightly later half green morocco over green pebble-grain cloth, gilt decorated spines, t.e.g.; joints rubbed (that on v. 3 cracked), extremities worn, but..... More
Dublin: Luke White, 1793. Second Dublin edition, 8vo, pp. xxix, [1], 378; frontispiece portrait, 14 engraved plates (1 folding), 2 maps (1 folding); contemporary full calf, red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine; spine scuffed, extremities rubbed; a good, sound copy. Hill, Pacific Voyages, p. 160, citing the first edition of..... More
Eton: Ingleton and Drake; London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1868. First edition of the first ornithological book illustrated with photographs, and published when the author was a mere sixteen years old; small 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 232; four orig. hand-colored albumen prints of birds (stuffed specimens); orig. green cloth, gilt vignette on..... More
