[Plains, PA]: Boss Dog Press, 2012. Edition limited to 70 copies signed by the printer, this being one of 20 "special copies printed on handmade paper with the Haberly watermark," folio, pp. [8]; title page printed in blue and black, 5 tipped-in color photoreproductions, double-page folding plate of smoke proofs... More
Londres: Piestre and Delamolliere, 1786. 2 volumes, 4to, pp. [6], 624; [4], 491; slight cracking of the joints, wear at spine ends and corners, but all in all a good, handsome set in contemporary mottled (French or Spanish) calf, gilt spines, red morocco labels. Baretti's edition was first published in... More
London: printed by J. Macock, for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, Richard Marriot, 1679. First complete edition, folio, 2 parts in 1, as issued; pp. [10], 578; 557, [1]; engraved frontispiece portrait of Fletcher by William Marshall (mounted); title page soiled; Dd2, Dd3, Pp2, and Pp3 supplied, the latter with minor... More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin at The Riverside Press, 1916-[1920s]. 4 volumes, 8vo, color frontispieces in each volume, plus reproductions of photographs and photographic reproductions of paintings and documents throughhout; original green cloth, gilt lettered spines, each volume in a quarter blue morocco slipcase with gilt lettering on spine;... More
[Far Hills, NJ]: Meadow Run Press, [1997]. Deluxe edition, limited to 75 copies signed by author and artist on the colophon (there were another 5 lettered copies for presentation); 8vo, pp. [6], ix, [1], 573, [3]; frontispiece; original morocco-backed pastepaper boards, publisher's slipcase; fine. Laid in, as issued is a.... More
London: Henry S. King & Co. 1875. First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, pp. x, 376; [6], 340, [1], [3] ads; 2 mounted photographic frontispieces (one of the author, one of Richard Burton), 2 chromolithographs and a folding map; errata slip tipped in at p. 1 of volume II; original gray... More
London: John Murray, 1840. First complete edition, 8vo, pp. 14 (Prospectus of the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilization of Africa, instituted June, 1839, containing a list of members of the Provisional Committee listing Buxton as chairman), viii, [3]-273, [2], vi, [277]-582, [1]; engraved... More
Philadelphia: McCalla, & Stevely, printers, 1870. First edition, 8vo, pp. 56; original printed front wrapper bound in later red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; very good. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with a small Newberry sticker at the base of the front cover, a small Newberry rubberstamp on the front wrapper, a small... More
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1927. First edition, the Kalki edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [3], 364; original maroon cloth a bit rubbed and waterstained, else very good in very good jacket with slightly darkened edges and spine and small closed tear on spine. More
Mexico [City]: Fondo de Cultura Economica, [1942]. First edition in Spaniah, thick 8vo, pp. [iii]-xliv, 593, [3]; 2 leaves of facsimiles; original gray wrappers printed in red and black; near fine. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with a Newberry Library release stamp on the verso of the front free endpaper and... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1866. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, 264; viii, 265, [1]; 3 hand-colored maps (1 folding), plus 310 hand-colored engravings on 177 plates; publisher's half red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, glt-lettered direct in 2, a.e.g.; extremities rubbed, internally quite clean and bright;... More
Birminghamiae: Johannis Baskerville, 1772. First Baskerville edition, 4to, pp. [2], 372; full contemporary calf, neatly rebacked with most of original maroon morocco label preserved, corners repaired, gilt borders; covers worn and darkened at edges; in all, a very good copy. Gaskell 44. More
London: printed by A.C. for Richard Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in S. Paul's Church-yard, 1677. First edition, folio, pp. [36], xxxii, 335; copper-engraved pictorial title and 23 copper-engraved plates of the martyrs by M. Burghers, printed title in red and black, woodcut initials throughout, the whole in contemporary... More
London: The Scholartis Press, 1928. Edition limited to1600 copies, this no. 22 of 100 numbered and printed on hand-made paper, 8vo, pp. [2], xxiii, [1], 263, [1]; text in French; original full brown pigskin, gilt title direct on spine, t.e.g.; light rubbing to extremites, else fine. "The varied and penetrating... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition, fourth state of the engraved title-p. with Cupid carrying the scroll reading "A love story," and no publisher's imprint (Todd's state E1); 12mo, pp. [8], 175, [1], [2] ads; wood-engraved frontispiece and title-p., 11 wood-engravings throughout text by John Leech, Daniel Maclise, and... More
Paris: Augustin Challamel, 1908. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 184; pages browning else very good in original half red cloth over marbled boards, leather label on spine scuffed. The first 68pp. provide a good history of what is now Vietnam, and the balance is a summary of the active... More
Jamaica, New York: printed at the Marion Press, published by George D. Smith, 1903. Edition limited to 238 copies, this one of 200 on Holland hand-made paper and out-of-series; 8vo, pp. [16], 77, [1]; frontispiece and 38 chromolithograph plates with gilt details; half black pebbled morocco over blue cloth boards... More
London: Robert Hale Ltd. [1957]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 288; 42 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 15 plates; a fine copy in a very good dust jacket. An account of a woman doctor's 18 months in the Muslim society. More
London: T. Carnan and F. Newbery junr. 1774. Ninth edition, 4to, pp. [iii]-viii, [9]-30, [1]; engraved vignette title-p.; NCBEL II, col. 1197; bound with: Goldsmith, The deserted village. The fourth edition. London: W. Griffin, 1770, pp. vii, [1], 23; engraved vignette title-p.; dedication to Joshua Reynolds; NCBEL II, col. 1198;... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918. First edition, 8vo, pp. 6, 11-163; white cloth shelfback a bit darkened, printed blue paper covered boards; short closed tear to title, else a near fine copy. Four stories (Karma; A Ghost; The First Muezzin, Bilal; and China and the Western World) collected for... More
New York: Vanguard Press, (1964). First edition, 8vo., jacket very slightly rubbed, else fine. More
Dublin: printed by W.G. Jones for Thomas Ewing, 1768. 8vo, pp. [72] plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; 19th century black diced black calf very neatly rebacked, old spine laid down; title-page dirty, else a very good copy of a scarce edition. The first octavo was published in London, 1756... More
Florence: G. Orioli, 1930. First edition limited to 810 numbered copies, 8vo, pp. 216, [1]; some spotting of the text else fine or better in the jacket and in the publisher's slipcase (paper label on spine a little faded). Roberts A54, noting that the book was written "during the last... More
Liverpool: John Walker; London: David Bogue [et al.], [1849]. First edition printed in Britain, sm. 8vo, pp. 137, [1]; orig. green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; spine darkened and a little askew, small cracks at spine extremities, else very good. BAL 12851. The London edition published... More
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1970. First edition of 4,000 copies, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 383, [1]; original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket illustrated by cartoonist Gahan Wilson; a touch dust-soiled, else about fine. Signed and inscribed by Wilson to Robert Fagan with Fagan's bookplate on front pastedown. More
