n.p., n.d. 1859-63. Oblong 8vo, 65 leaves, each interleaved with pink blotting paper, each page containing 3 pro-forma receipts (6 to a leaf), the first 23 leaves accomplished, the balance blank. Original full reversed calf, red morocco label on spine; very good. Apparently for a concern operating under the name... More
Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1765. Eighth (first Baskerville) edition in English, (first published Aberdeen, 1676); 4to, pp. [14], [ii]-xiii, 504, [16]; with the errata leaf as part of the preliminaries which is "frequently missing" (Gaskell); original blue paper-covered boards, uncut and partially unopened; neat cream paper rebacking, preserving the original printed... More
Santa Rosa: Nawakum Press, 2010. Edition limited to 100 copies signed by Bly (this, no. 70); 8vo, pp. [32]; wood-engraved frontispiece; original quarter brown Italian cloth over burnt orange Cave Paper-covered boards, wood engraving of the bunting on upper cover, without publisher's slipcase. Fine. More
[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1965]. Uncorrected proof copy of the "revised and rewritten" edition, 8vo, pp. 239, [1]; original gray printed wrappers; very good. Originally published as The Songs and Slang of the British Soldier 1914-18 in 1930. More
London: W. H. Harrison, 1881. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 168; title-p. printed in red and black, pages ruled in red throughout; frontispiece, 3 illustrations in the text, a number of pages of printed music; spine slightly discolored and one small, unobtrusive stain, else very good and sound in original... More
London: printed by M. Bennet, for Dan. Brown [et al.], 1703. First edition in English, folio, pp. [34], 431, [1], [17]; full contemporary paneled calf, red morocco label; slight crack at the bottom of the lower joint, else a very good, sound copy. The Dedication is signed J. G. (i.e.... More
London: printed for private circulation only [by] J. L. Cox and Sons, 1839. 4to, pp. [8], 213; engraved frontispiece, 2 other engraved plates; original brown cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine; covers dampstained, and the yellow-coated endpapers possibly renewed; all else very good and sound. The... More
Sacramento: 1966. 4to, pp. 44; printed from typescript; staple-bound; original printed wrappers browned, the back wrapper loose, but present, slightly soiled; very good. Artwork by Linda Bandt. Contributions by Charles Bukowski, Harvey Tucker, Sam Cornish, and many others. Although not stated, this is from the library of Israel "Izzy" Young... More
London: John Major, 1836. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xxxii, [4], 556; [2], 557-892; 10 engraved plates, a number of illus. in the text; contemporary calf-backed boards, joints restored, old library pocket inside back cover of both vols.; generally a good, sound set, or better. Windle A62; Jackson, 86; Lowndes I, 642. More
London: H. K. Lewis & Co., Ltd, 1925. First edition, small 4to, pp. viii, 421; 354 text illustrations; red cloth with gilt title on spine; mild staining and bumping to covers and foredge, but a bright, sound copy. Elsberg was an internationally respected authority on neurology, and his work has... More
Gottingen: Dieterichschen buchhandlung, 1849-1852. 4 volumes in 2, 8vo; some pages slightly browned, stains at tops and bottoms of hinges, extremities and joints rubbed, spines a little scuffed, stain on spine of vol. I, else very good in contemporary half brown morocco gilt over maroon paper covered boards. Yearbooks of... More
San Francisco & New York: Pantheon Books, [1993]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 349, [2]; fine in original gray cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket. More
London: Lewis A. Lewis, 1835. First edition, 2 volumes, tall 8vo, pp. [8], xxiv, 198; [4], 207, [1]; portrait frontispiece and 87 engraved topographical views, architectural views, site plans, and scenes from antiquity (2 hand-colored), plus 30 engraved vignettes; light spotting to edges of the text but generally a very... More
New York: 1961. Edition limited to 150 copies printed for the Columbia University Press by The Stinehour Press, small 4to, pp. [8]; 1 folded leaf facsimile letter in color; a fine copy in original blue-gray wrappers printed in black and red. This copy inscribed by Halsband and dated January, 1975... More
Nairobi: East African Railways and Harbours, n.d., [1949]. First edition, 4to, pp. xii, 582; 2 folding color maps, 14 plates showing 20 portraits and illustrations; original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; small hole in cloth at top of spine, else a very good copy. More
London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 384, [1] errata; uncut; original blue paper-covered boards neatly rebacked to style, printed paper label on spine; edges rubbed, but generally a fine copy, contained in quarter brown morocco chemise and slipcase. Fleeman notes that 2000 copies were... More
Tokyo & Philadelphia: Orient / West Inc., [1967]. Only edition (?), 4to, pp. [6], 128, [16] ads; printed from typescript; disbound; half-title loose; very good. Alberta only in OCLC. Contained in a blue cloth Japanese-style folding box. More
Glasgow: Joseph Swan; London: Moon, Boys and Graves, 1830. First edition, 4to, pp. [4], iv, 168, [4] index, [4] subscribers; engraved vignette title-p., and 42 engraved plates; contemporary (Scottish?) straight-grain maroon morocco elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, gilt-lettering direct on gilt-decorated spine incorporating thistles; joints tender, the whole moderately... More
Dublin: William Curry Jun. and Co., 1839. First edition in book form of Lever's first book, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 344; inserted engraved title-p. and frontispiece plus 20 engraved plates by "Phiz." (Halbot K. Browne); original vertically-ribbed green cloth, spine decorated in gilt (officer in a busby), boards decorated in... More
Berne & Lausanne: Societe Typographique, 1777. 8vo, 2 vols. in 1, as issued; pp. xxxvii, [1], 254; [6], 310; engraved frontis and 10 plates after Moreau; contemporary full mottled calf, gilt spine, red morocco label. Historical romance of the Incas, told by Marmontel (1723-99) a friend of disciple of Voltaire... More
New York: E.P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence, [1986]. First edition, 8vo., fine in like jacket. More
Lipsiae: cum gratia & privilegio ad decennium [in officina M. Ernesti Voegelini Constantiensis], 1560. First edition of Melanchthon's last work, published just three months before his death; folio, pp. [20], 982; large woodcut vignette on title-p., 8-, 7-, and 6-line historiated woodcut initials, dampstains in the fore-margins of the first... More
London: Edward Churton, 1834. 8vo, pp. [iii]-vii, [1], 527; elaborately gilt-stamped contemporary black morocco, gilt decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1; extremities rubbed, upper joint just starting; else very good. With an early 20th century fore-edge painting showing a view of St. Giles. More
Philadelphia: S. August Mitchell, and Grigg & Elliot, 1837. First edition, second issue (with "animals" on title page correctly spelled), 8vo, pp. viii, [9]-143, [1], [8] Grigg & Elliot ads; fine folding map of Illinois (hand-colored in outline); late 19th- or early 20th-century half red morocco, gilt-paneled spine in 6... More
Amsterdam: J. Wetstein, 1746. 12mo, pp. 190; engraved frontispiece, title page printed in red and black; full contemporary calf (a couple of stains on back cover), spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label and 2 paper heart-shaped labels (one of which is torn) added later to top and bottom compartments... More
