Boston: printed by Chester Stebbins, 1814. First edition, 12mo, pp. vi, 112, [2]; uncut in original plain blue wrappers, spine perished, front wrap loosening. Not in OCLC or American Imprints, both of which locate a Philadelphia edition of the same year. With the1813 ownership signature on the rear flyleaf of..... More
London: G.W. Bacon & Co. Ltd., [n.d.] (c.1922). 12mo, pp. 24; large folding map of London in color (29.5 " x 39.25"), 2-page large scale map of central London; front free endpaper offset; upper edge of rear cover sunned, else very good and sound in original green cloth, lettered in..... More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1988. 15" x 6" commemorative broadside celebrating CHP's move to its new home at 27 North Fourth Street, printed on white paper. "The display types appearing above ("Books, Books, Books, Books...) "represent sixteen years of quixotic acquisition." More
[Montreal, Quebec: Wm. Vondenvelden, 1795.]. Contains the full text of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between his Britannic Majesty and the United States of America [i.e., the Jay Treaty] which was conditionally ratified by the U.S. Senate June 24, 1795. 4to, pp.[439]-444 (i.e. three single leaves); printed in..... More
Philadelphia, New York, et al. J. P. Trimble, Skinner and Dewey, et al. 1830. First edition, 8vo, removed from binding, wrappers wanting; light foxing; very good. In addition to a pagination of 164 pages in the gutter, a secondary pagination varies by by address and program: pp. [4], 10, 18..... More
Glasgow: printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1771. Small 12mo in sixes, pp. vii, [1], 103, [1]; contemporary calf; red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine; very good and sound. The first of three Foulis Press editions of this poem. Gaskell 519 showing this to be a variant issue with daggers..... More
New York: William Sloane Associates, [1950]. Second printing, 8vo, pp. [2], xv, [3], 347; frontispiece, very good copy in jacket, slightly torn at top and bottom edge. Berryman's contribution to the American Men of Letters Series. Stefanik, A 6.I.b. More
New York: Viking Press, 1936. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii,435; folding map; 4 plates of facsimiles and 1 illus. in the text; spine of jacket slightly darkened, else fine. The full version of Boswell's journal of his memorable trip with Johnson, here published for the first time. More
Decatur, GA: Wisteria Press, 1997. Edition limited to 297 copies signed by the author and illustrator; this, the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery and out-of-series; 8vo, pp. [8], 40, [4]; frontispiece and full-page text illustration by Barry Moser; bound in a lap case style binding using black and white..... More
Walpole, NH: Isaiah Thomas & Co., 1813. 12mo, pp. xvi, 17-280; contemporary calf; pages browned and foxed, covers and joints rubbed, top of spine chipped level with textblock; in contemporary calf. Howes C-215: "Carver penetrated farther into the West than any other English explorer before the Revolution." Sabin 11185. More
Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1968. Edition limited to 110 copies, 8vo, pp. [4], 19, [1]; unopened; original brown printed wrappers; fine. Printed on Shadwell, a paper handmade by Hamady. This copy out-of-series, but with a note on the wrapper flap: "This is a final proof copy. It is the..... More
Macon, IL: published by the author, 1891. First edition, 12mo, pp. [2], vi, 275 [2] ads; original brown cloth; cloth slightly rubbed at edges, a near fine copy inscribed by the author to Prof. H.B. Henkel and dated December 25, 1896. More
Chicago: American Medical Association, 1923. 8vo, pp. 10; original printed wraps; some very minor edgewear; near fine. Reprinted from the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, October 1923. Cushing Bibliography 218. More
London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1914. Second edition, 8vo, pp. 317, [1], [2] ads; folding map printed in color, 1 other full-page map in the text, 32 plates; a near fine copy in original pictorial green cloth stamped in green. Czech, Africa, p. 51: "Dracopoli explored the region from Kismayu..... More
Lund: C.W.K. Gleerups, 1853. First edition, 8vo, 11 & 656 & civ pp., red cloth gilt; very good. A handbook in the French language and literature for scholars, academics, and the home. Author's inscription to Stephens. From the library of George Stephens. More
New York: Scribners, 1939. First American edition, lg. 8vo, pp. xx, 348; map endpapers, 122 illus. on rectos and versos of 32 plates; fine copy in the dust-jacket which has a slight abrasion in the top outer corner, not affecting any letterpress. Author was the guest of the native king..... More
London: printed for the author, 1742. 4to, pp. [6], 14, [226]; a short preface on mathematical concepts followed by mathematical tables; contemporary full calf recently rebacked to style, gilt title direct on spine, red speckled edges, errata slip tipped in; boards rubbed and bumped, very good. More
Toronto: The House of Anansi, 1968. First edition, wrapper issue; 8vo, pp. [8], 38; blue and white pictorial wrappers, stained, dampstain through top corner of last few pages, not affecting text. This copy inscribed by Ginsberg to Israel "Izzy" Young, former owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, New..... More
[London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 1864.]. Folio, pp. 8, [2]; folding hand-colored map of Western Tasmania and Macquarie Harbour; lacks wrappers; near fine. Four in OCLC as of 12/16, all in Australia. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1926. Thin 8vo, pp. 19, [1]; a transcript of a talk given for the Eighth Earl Grey Memorial Lecture, 1926, on the Cretan periods up to the Second Late Minoan. Blue and tan paper wrappers, inscribed by the author on upper cover; a few creases to..... More
Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co., 1847. First edition, 8vo, pp. 38; original printed front wrapper loose, but present; back wrapper perished; all else very good. BAL 8746 showing the front wrapper to be either second or third state; the back wrapper for both states is either blank or contains..... More
Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville, 1758. First edition, 4to, pp. 78, collating as in Gaskell (without the first blank and with the final leaf signed 2K); contemporary three-quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine with two raised bands; margins trimmed, bookplate of Lord Stanley of Alderley on front pastedown..... More
Amstelodami: ex officina Elseviriana, 1658. 12mo, pp. [24], 643, [1]; engraved title page, printer's woodcut device on printed title, several woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1; spine worn, but generally good and sound. This is the third Elzevier edition. Copinger..... More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1849. First American edition. 8vo, pp. 270; translated by Francis A. Durivage and William S. Chase. De Lamartine's History, published almost simultaneously with the unfolding of events, portrays the Revolution of 1848 as a continuation of its 18th century counterpart, and calls it an ideological..... More
Leeds: D. Banks, n.d., [ca. 1880's]. 6 volumes, 4to, 6 chromolithograph title-pp. and 234 chromolithograph plates of English castles, mansions, and estates; publisher's full pictorial maroon morocco stamped elaborately in gilt; extremities rubbed, some joints weak, occasional foxing, but largely a good, sound set, or better. Apparently lacking the final..... More
