Hanoi: Éditions en langues étrangères, 1960. First edition in French, 16mo, pp. [3]-67; near fine in original decorative wrappers. Errata slip laid in. "Adoptée le 31 décembre 1959 à la 11e session de l'Assemblée nationale." More about Constitution de la République démocratique du Viet-nam
London: James Knapton, 1704. First edition, 8vo, 8 preliminary leaves and unpaginated lexicon in double column; slightly later full paneled calf neatly rebacked to match, red morocco label on spine; a gathering extended, worm track in bottom margin has been repaired and the imprint on the title page has been... More about DICTIONARIUM SACRUM seu religiosum. A dictionary of all religions, ancient and modern
Crestline, Calif. George Frederick Kolbe, 1999. Edition limited to 500 copies (this, the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery, and out of series), this one of 50 copies in the deluxe binding; 8vo, pp. [6], 11-163, [3]; printed in red and black; portrait frontispiece of the author, folding facsimile, double-page... More about The Indian peace medals of George III or His Majesty's sometime allies
[New York]: L A N G U A G E, [1980]. First edition, 4to, pp. 243, [1]; illustrated; near fine in original printed front wrapper by Betsi Brandfass, back wrapper unadorned; near fine. Published in association with the Segue Foundation. More about Legend. Bruce Andrews / Charles Bernstein / Ray Di Palma / Steve McCaffery / Ron Silliman
Madrid: por D. Joachin Ibarra, 1771. Small folio, pp. [4], lvi, 143, [1]; engraved vignette title page; bound with: Jordán de Assó y del Río, Ignacio, & Miguel Manuel y Rodríguez, El ordenamiento de leyes, que D. Alfonso XI hizo en las Cortes de Alcalá de Henares el año de..... More about El fuero viejo de Castilla, sacado, y comprobado con el exemplar de la misma obra, que exîste en...
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co, n.d.. [ca. 1880]. Single sheet folded to make 4 pages, small folio, printed in double column on blue paper; top and bottom edges a little ragged, else near fine. 200-odd titles listed alphabetically by author. Burndy Library and Winterthur only in OCLC. More about List of books on steam and the steam-engine, mechanics, machinery, & engineering
Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Co., The Edinburgh Geographical Institute, 1896. Folding map of the world approx. 20" x 29", linen-backed, as issued, and folding down to an octavo with blue labels on front and back printed in black and red. The map was available with or without the linen backing. Not in OCLC. More about Travellers' route chart of the world on Mercators projection
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., n.d. 8vo, pp. [4], li, [1], 3-384; inserted portrait frontispiece and title page printed in red and black; original puffy faux reptile skin lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; publisher's wood-grained cardboard box with lid; box a little rubbed, else fine... More about Poems ... with biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole
New York: Kirk and Mercein, 1817. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, 371, [1]; engraved frontispiece portrait; original paper-backed blue printed paper-covered boards, printed label on spine; extremities worn, spine with vertical cracks; in all, a good copy, unrestored. American Imprints 40508. More about The life of Robert Fulton
Quebeci: ex typis Tho. Cary & Socii, 1835. 8vo, 395pp., contemporary half calf rubbed, worn and chipped, but sound; spine with hairline cracks. First edition of this text book of moral philosophy, logic, and ethics. TPL 5048. More about INSTITUTIONES PHILOSOPHICAE ad usum studiosae juventutis
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 about Handbok i Franska spraket och Litteraturen for Skolan, Akademien och Hemmet
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 about Stay me, oh comfort me. Journals and stories, 1933-1941
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London: printed and sold by J. Isted, 1726. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 232; blindstamped contemporary paneled calf, unadorned spine; extremities rubbed, short tear in B1 entering from the top margin; a good, sound copy, unrestored. Early ownership signatures of Josiah Pomeroy on the flyleaf, and G. Harriot on... More about A comment on forty two histories discribed [sic] by Hippocrates in the first and third books of...
[New York]: published by the New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society for the Indian Commission of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1878. 8vo, pp. xxii, 664; publisher's full red morocco lettered in gilt on spine, a.e.g.; worn at edges, else very good and sound. Written in the Santee dialect... More about Okodakiciye wocekiye wowapi kin...America makoce kin en, United States en, Protestant Episcopal...
New York: Orville A. Roorbach, 1828. First American edition, 12mo, pp. x, 206; engraved frontispiece and 5 plates, each with 2 vignette illustrations; browned throughout;; orig. roan-backed glazed pictorial boards, the upper cover with the additional imprint of "New-York: published … and sold at his store in Charleston, S.C." More about The young cadet: or Henry Delamere's voyage to India, his travels in Hindostan, his account of...
Berlin: Konigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1836. 4to, pp. xxiv [2] ccccxxx; extremities rubbed; later blue buckram, paper labels on spine, university bookplate with discard stamp. Humboldt (1767-1835), the founder of the University of Berlin who showed the philological commonality of Spain with the north of Africa, was the older brother... More about Uber die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues und ihrem Einfluss auf die geistige...
London: T. Werner Laurie, [1907]. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 400, [8, ads]; frontispiece portrait; original green cloth stamped in gilt and green; binding rubbed and stained, overall good or better. More about Oscar Wilde
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 217, [3], [6] ads; fine copy in original pictorial blue cloth stamped in blue, gilt, and black, t.e.g.; preserving the uncommon dust jacket with darkened spine, old tape repairs on the verso, and loss of one inch at... More about Californians
New York & Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1893. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [3]-353; folding map printed in color, gravure frontispiece portrait, 50 gravure plates; hinges starting, spine a bit darkened, else very good in original pictorial brown cloth. More about Reality versus romance in central south Africa. Being an account of a journey across the...
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1840. First edition, 12mo, pp. xxiv, 350 [i.e. 250]; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; text foxed, slight spotting to lower board, else very good. "A humorous political satire [which targeted Democrats and] delighted many, especially the Whigs, of which the author was one" (DAB). Kennedy, a.... More about Quodlibet: containing some annals thereof, with an authentic account of the origin and growth of...
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1901. Edition limited to 224 copies on Amercan hand-made paper, 8vo, pp. [8], 299, [2]; original parchment-baciked paper-covered boards; spine a litt6le spotted, else very good. Bookplate of Edward Chenery Gale, and with 1925 gift inscription. Handsomely printed for the Caxton Club by R.R. Donnelley and Sons... More about Relation of the discoveries and voyages of Cavelier de La Salle from 1679 to 1681. The official...
Edinburgh: W. Creech; London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1781. First collected edition of the original 110 biweekly issues, 3 volumes, 12mo, contemporary full calf, red morocco labels (renewed); joints cracked, upper cover of vol. 1 detached; a good set. The "highly acclaimed and successful" literary periodical was issued in... More about The mirror. A periodical paper, published at Edinburgh in the years 1779 and 1780
Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1759. Second printing of "the first Lutheran hymnbook printed in the United States" (Evans), small 8vo, pp. [14], 527, [16], 14 (Luther's Der kleine Catechismus), 94 (Evangelia und Episteln. Germantown, 1760); without music, text in double column; relief portrait frontispiece of Martin Luther; contemporary and likely original... More about Vollständiges Marburger Gesang-Buch zur Uebung der Gottseligkeit, in 649 christlichen und...
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1924. First edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 155; quarter violet cloth in gray paper boards, paper title labels on upper board and spine; bookplate on front paste down, spine sunned, label stained, headband a little worn. Very good overall. A play on the last days of Jesus... More about The dark hours
Paris: La Maison Rustique, 1963. First edition, 8vo, pp. 105, [3]; map, 2 plates showing 4 photographic illustrations, tables throughout; very good in later quarter green morocco, gilt lettering on spine. Development of the cotton crop in Vietnam. More about Perspectives de développement de la culture cotonnière au Viet Nam après trois années...
