V.p., v.d. 1819-1866. 19 volumes in 1, contemporary three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine in 5 compartments, marbled endpapers; almost all original front wrappers bound in; ex-Minnesota Historical Society bookplate marked withdrawn; extremities rubbed, else very good. Manuscript table of contents bound in at the front. 1) Norton..... More
Cambridge: E.W. Metcalf and Company, printers to the University, 1831. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii (misnumbered), 224; untrimmed, original paper-covered boards, cloth shelfback, original spine labels, ex-Providence Athenaeum, with their stamps and marks. Signed by Josiah Quincy, the president of Harvard, on flyleaf, and with a half page addendum by..... 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
Richmond: J.W. Randolph & English, 1874. 8vo, pp. 183, [2]; later black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, ALs on College letterhead from the College's president, Benjamin S. Ewell, dated Williamsburg, VA, Feb, 7th, 1885 bound in; title page starting to detach, else interior very good. Ewell..... More
Providence: H. H. Brown, 25 Market Square, 1835. 8vo, pp. 20; original printed green wrappers; soiled, else very good. Laws of admission, the library, bills and expenses, vacations and absence, lodging, discipline, commencement, etc. American Imprints 30693; Bartlett, p. 66. More
[New York: Sir I. Pitman and Sons], 1918. Small folio, pp. 35, [1]; 13 plates laid in; original printed green paper wrappers, relief portrait of Isaac Pitman on upper cover; edges frayed and sunned, cover starting, textblock clean and sound. An advertising vehicle for Pitman shorthand, with a brief history..... More
Idaho Springs: June 10 and July 21, 1861. Each a folio (approx. 12" x 7¼), each on integral leaves, each about 125 lines and 1000 words; previous folds, legible. Two wonderful letters from a hunter, prospector, and explorer. To his sister: "The letter rec. speaks of having been sent with..... More
[n.p. (China)]: n.d. Accordion Chinese binding, 18.9 x 12cm., 5 double page color images on cloth backed by thick card; tan sheep covered boards slightly worn, paper title label on upper board. Some staining at edges of images caused by application of paint to edges. Very good. This album of..... More
Bruxelles: Librairie Universelle de Rozez, 1851. First edition thus, 2 volumes, large thick 8vo, pp. [2], xxiv, 1152; 1244; lexicon in double column; contemporary calf-backed boards, green gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers; edges rubbed, Vol. I upper joint cracked in the middle, textblocks about fine; very good. OCLC does..... More
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, n.d. [ca. 1887]. Second edition, 8vo, pp. 405; original brown cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt and black, a fine, unopened copy. 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: John Murrary [for the] Royal Geographic Society, 1873. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 271, [1]; large folding frontispiece map; original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine; top of spine chipped, bottom of spine cracked; light general wear; all else very good. Burton's portion of the book ends on p. 164..... More
Chicago: The Bookfellows, 1921. Edition limited to 1000 copies on small paper (here were an additional 99 copies printed on large paper); 8vo, pp. 27; title ornament and initial letters printed in red; fine copy in orig. printed wrappers. The small paper copies have priority of issue over those printed..... More
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[Washington, D.C.? Smithsonian Institution? 1858?]. 8vo, pp. [5], 86-137, [1] (i.e. 58 pages); 21 figures in the text; original printed tan wrappers; fine. With an inscription on the front wrapper and the first leaf: "Providence Athenaeum with the respects of A. Caswell." Caswell (1799-1877) "was professor of mathematics and natural..... More
New York: Derrydale Press, 1937. First edition ltd to 1000 copies, this one of 950 of the regular edition, with signed etching by Roland Clark bound in as a frontispiece; 4to, pp. [10], 125; 19 plates (5 in color); orig. red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt; gilt a little..... More
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Bristol: Bristol Phoenix Job Department, n.d., [ca. 1917]. 12mo, pp. 52; frontispiece portrait of Col. Samuel P. Colt; numerous illustrations throughout including much livestock; fine in original embossed ivory wrappers printed in green. With 400 acres and 2 miles of waterfront on Narragansett Bay, Colt Farm, once actually a farm..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, The Riverside Press, n.d., [ca. 1953]. Tall 8vo, pp. [8], 184; over 230 illustrations from photographs; price-clipped dust jacket slightly chipped at the top of the spine and with a small piece missing on the blank portion of the rear panel; all else very good or better..... More
Leamington: C. Elston, ca. 1840s. Broadside (222 x 165 mm.) mounted to stiff card; steel engraved vignette at head of broadside titled "Beech Lawn, Leamington. The Residence of H. Jephson, Esqr. M.D." drawn and engraved by J. Brandard; text in double column within decorative border (quite badly affected by trimming);..... More
Boston: W.B. Clarke Co., 1900. 8vo, pp. 23; original tan staplebound printed wrappers, near fine. More
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, [1960]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 180; fine copy in original blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine; dust jacket with long tear repaired on the verso of the front panel. The book is dedicated by Franklyn to Eric Partridge, and Partridge has inscribed this..... More
London: Duckworth, [1929]. First edition, square 12mo, pp. 129; stage diagram; very fine copy in the jacket and scarce thus. More
Elgin, Ill. & Chicago: David C. Cook, [1901]. First edition; small 4to, pp. 96; text printed in double column; numerous illustrations from photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers; small piece missing from the top corner of the rear wrapper, text toned; all else very good. Issued as no. 11 in the..... More
Washington: printed by Gales and Seaton, 1844. First edition, 8vo, pp. 16; a bit of discoloration, overall very good, removed from a larger volume. Grinnell was opposed to the Walker Tariff of 1846, and presents here a good deal of statistical information on the whaling industry to buttress his case..... More
New York: Leavitt & Company, 1850. 16mo, pp. x, 288; occasional foxing, a.e.g.; edges lightly rubbed, else very good or better in full green calf with gilt diced pattern and double gilt rules on covers, gilt-decorated spine. Love poems from various authors such as Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley to name..... More
New York: Knopf, 1982. First edition, 8vo., fine in like jacket. More
