New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago: Benzigner Brothers, printers to the Holy Apostolic See, [1884]. 2 vols. in 1 (as issued), 24mo, (approx. 98 mm), pp. [3]-324, 155; frontispiece; publisher's binding of full celluloid with a color stencil (?) image of Christ and a chalice on the upper cover, brass and..... More
Boston: Alfred Mudge & Sons, 1876. 8vo, parts I and II (complete) in 1 vol., pp. x, [3]575 (continuous), engraved frontis portrait, 2 ""special notice"" slips printed on blue paper tipped in; very good in contemporary half pebble-grain morocco over marbled boards; ex-MHS. Over 10,000 lots from the famed bookseller's..... More
Newburyport, [Mass.]: entered according to Act of Congress by Thomas & Whipple, booksellers, 1805. First edition, narrow oblong 8vo, pp. [32], 16 unnumbered engraved plates; contemporary blue wrappers, worn and chipped; scattered ink stains; various calligraphic inscriptions on both wrappers; pages toned and bent; rear pages loosening. Plates with calligraphic..... More
London: Spicer Brothers, wholesale stationers; W. Clowes and Sons, printers, 1851. Large 8vo, pp. cxcii, 508, 465*-478*, 76 (ads); [4], [479]-1002; [4], [1003-1470]; lithograph presentation leaf in volume I, inscribed in ink "To Thomas Battam, Esq. from his most obedient servants Spicer Brothers & Wm. Clowes & Sons," added engraved..... More
![Title in Greek.] Aeliani De natura animalium libri XVII. Cum animadversionibus Conradi Gesneri,...](/pictures/thumb/27536_1.jpg?v=1491860133)
Londini: excudit G. Bowyer, sumptibus Societatis ad Literas Promovendas Institutae, 1744. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. xiv, xxvii, [36], 603, [1]; [605]-1128, [86]; engraved vignette on title-p. and on last page of text; woodcut ornaments; parallel text in Greek and Latin throughout; contemporary full calf, red and citron morocco..... 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
Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1849. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], vi, 407; a few small illus. in the text; orig. brown printed wrappers; curled at edges and very slightly chipped, else very good. "Ouvrage couronné par l'Institut de France." An early work by the prolific French medical doctor. More
Vienna: Gestochen von J. Stenger, [1788]. One sheet (of 4), approx. 23" x 26½", lightly hand-colored in outline; fine. This is the upper left part of the 4-sheet map of North America (sheet no. 21), featuring the northwestern part of North America, and includes an inset map of Baffin and..... More
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, [1943]. First edition, 8vo., original printed wrappers; price clipped, very good. More
London: Heinemann, 1913. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 585, [1], [14] ads; very good copy in contemporary half red crushed morocco gilt, t.e.g. Presentation copy inscribed "To Sewell Haggard, this early copy long before publication with many grateful memories from Hall Caine, 18 Aug 1913." On a blank rear..... More
[Montpelier, VT]: 1882. First edition, 8vo, p. 233, [3]; prospectus tipped in; frontispiece and 10 small wood-engravings in the text; original pictorial blue paper wrappers (lower wrap stained); very good. Twenty-eight letters from growing towns between Denver and El Paso, by the editor of the Vermont Union, in Lyndon. In..... More
London: [T.C. Hansard] for Longman, Hurst [et al]. 1813. First edition, 3 volumes, large 4to, contemporary full calf, triple gilt ruled borders on covers, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-decorated spines, a.e.g.; expertly restoration of the joints, now with very minor cracking, but all in all, a fine and most impressive copy..... More
Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1812. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 535; one plate after a drawing by the author; contemporary mottled calf, red morocco label on spine lettered in gilt, some wear to extremities, scattered light foxing, the plate browned, and contemporary ownership signature dated 1915 on title page, still..... More
Venetia: Apresso li Milochi, 1662. Two parts in one, large 8vo, pp. [6], 452; 288; title page printer's device, head-pieces, and initials; lexicon text in triple columns; full contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title; bottom 2 inches of front hinge cracked, else very good and sound. See Vancil, p. 74, for..... More
![The 1967 game calender [sic]. Drawings by Joe Brainard / Words by Kenward Elmslie. Kenward Elmslie](/pictures/thumb/54344_1.jpg?v=1565992447)
[New York? publisher not identified, ca. 1966-67.]. 4to, [12] leaves printed on rectos only; 12 full-page illustrations plus the cover art by Joe Brainard, each illustration matched with a 4-line poem; saddle-stitched; some toning along the fore-edge of the front wrap, all else near fine. Robert Duncan's copy, with his..... More
Altenburg: Gottfried Richter, 1684. Small, thick 8vo, pp. [38], 958, [42]; engraved frontispiece, woodcut initials and ornaments; and early owner has supplied 7 vellum tabs affixed to the fore-edge; OCLC locates only 3 copies, two in Germany and one in Sweden. Bound with an imperfect copy of: M. Jacob Daniel..... More
Wittenbergk: durch Wolffgang Meißnern/ In verlegung Clemen Bergers, 1610. 4to, pp. [8], 748 [i.e. 728]; title page printed in red and black, title within an elaborate woodcut border, woodcut initials, text within ruled borders; bound with: Symbolum Apostolicvm Das ist: Der Christliche Apostolische Glaube in dreissig Predigten nach der Richtschnur..... More
Philadelphia: printed for Robert Campbell, 1795. 12mo, pp. [4], xii, 13-283, [13] index; contemporary full mottled calf, gilt-paneled spine laid out in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1; early ownership signatures of Levi Bartlett (likely the eldest son of Josiah Bartlett, the signer of the Declaration of Independence from..... More
Los Angeles: Bieler Press, 1992. First edition limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the poet and the illustrator, 8vo, pp. [22]; title page with 4-color plexiglass engraving; original charcoal printed wrappers, bound by Robin Price; fine. Designed and printed by Gerald Lange. This is the first color engraving made..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, 1952. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 346; a fine copy in a very good jacket which shows some soiling on the rear panel, and some tiny chips out at the top of the spine. A novel of prison life based on the author's own experiences. More
[Saigon]: Quoc Hoa, [1959-1960]. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [12], [7]-236, [6]; [3]-444, [1]; 3 full-page maps, 40 plates (1 double-page, some printed on both sides); ca. 1968-74 native Vietnamese full blue calf, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-decorated spine. Vietnamese oral literature. Volume 2 has the imprint: Saigon, Van Hu’..... More
East Aurora: printed by the Roycrofters, [1915]. Slim 8vo, pp. 42, [2]; gravure portrait frontispiece; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped leather label affixed to the upper cover; fine. A New Jersey native, son of Christopher Colt and Theodora Goujaud DeWolf Colt of Bristol, Samuel Pomeroy adopted Bristol as his hometown. He..... More
Philadelphia: published by M. Carey and Son, 1820. First edition, 8vo, pp. 38; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; the whole rather browned, waterstain at the top of the title page; all else very good. Jackson was president of the Philadelphia Board of Health. He believed that Yellow Fever was associated..... More
West Branch, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, 1981. Limited edition of 1,150 copies, one of 100 copies bound in cloth and signed by the author, 7.75 x 4.75 in., pp. [48]; fine copy, green case binding, 5 illustrations by the author throughout the text; handset by Ellen Weiss, designed and printed..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1894. First edition, 12mo, pp. [4], 254, [12] ads; original pictorial wrappers; some cracking along the spine, else very good. Only the title story is by King. Dornbusch 27a. More
