New York: [Limited Editions Club, 1985]. Edition limited to 800 copies (this, no. 547), folio, pp. [6], 182, [4]; original half brown goat over marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine, publisher's slipcase. Fine. More
Chelsea: Tilling and Hughes, printers, [1819]. 4to, pp. 12; self-wrappers; stitched, as issued; previous fold, some toning at the edges; all else very good. With an inscription at the top of the first leaf: "Presented to the Antiquarian Society by Jacob Porter of Plainfield, Massachusetts. J. Porter's from the American..... More
New Delhi: Department of Archaeology Government of India, 1961. First edition, 4to, pp. [6], 10; [20]; 20 full-color plates tipped-in; binding a bit shaken, hinges just starting, else very good in original blue cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt. More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1994. Edition limited to 150 copies (this, no. 39), small 4to, pp. 100; 10 two-color wood engravings by Schanilec, with an extra suite of engravings, each mounted in a printed dye-cut wrapper, and together with "A Companion to Five Short Stories by Marcel Aymé: Creating..... More
Paris: Gabriel-François Quillau fils, 1727. 12mo, pp. [14], xxi, [3], 700, [2]; text in double column; full contemporary brown morocco gilt, gilt spine in 6 compartments, the bottom compartment with the initials CP (or CF?), a.e.g., marbled endpapers; edges very slightly scuffed, else fine. A beautiful copy. Cambridge only in..... More
Providence: Miller & Hutchens, printers, 1818. 8vo, pp. 16; original printed blue wrappers; title page with large torn corner affecting 3 letters, one internal leaf with tear in the fore-margin (no loss); all else good or better. Ad on the back wrapper for Miller & Hutchens. Ira Moore Barton (1796-1867)..... More
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v.p. v.d., as below. Sur les proportions relatives du bras, de l'avant-bras, et de la clavicule chez les nègres et les européens, extract from the Bulletin de la Société d'Anthropologie, Paris, 1862, pp. 13, [2]; Sur les caractères physiques des mincopies ou habitants des isles Andaman [drop title], Paris, 1863..... More
Toledo: [privately printed], 1895. 8vo, pp. 90; frontispiece portrait and 7 plates; original brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; near fine. "The author, an obscure 70 year-old Ohio physician, identified himself on the title page as "Discoverer of the Circulation of the Nerves and Inventor of..... More
[New York]: University Settlement, 1908. Broadside advertisement, approx. 10" x 6"; listing the actors for two separate performances on Nov. 5th and 9th; near fine. The University Settlement was established in New York in 1886 to provide an all-around social resource for incoming immigrants, and was the first settlement house..... More
[Waltham Saint Lawrence]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1931. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies (this, no. 428); 8vo, pp. [4], 57, [3]; 4 natural history wood engravings by Gibbings; fine copy in original green morocco-bnacked decoartive paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered direct on spine. With a printed slip from the publisher laid in..... More
Amsterdam: C. G. Van der Post, 1857. 4to, pp. [4], 115, [1]; Bound with: De Haan, Over eenige nieuwe herleidingsformulen bij de theorie der bepaalde integralen. Amsterdam: C. G. Van der Post, 1870. Pp. 64, [2]. Bound with: De Haan, Over eenige gevallen bij de theorie van onstadige (discontinuë) functiën..... More
Stendaliae: Franzium et Grossium, 1785. Small 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 440; 19th-century marbled paper-covered boards, all edges red; small chips to spine paper, contemporary note at bottom right-hand corner of ffep; a very good, sound copy. Not in Vancil; BNF only in OCLC. More
Chicago: William Lewis and Son, 1945. First edition ltd. to 1400 numbered copies, 4to, pp. 379; errata slip tipped to flyleaf; numerous illustrations throughout; full brown morocco, gilt rules on covers, gilt-paneled spine, t.e.g.; fine. From the library of Lee Shelby, with his signature in gilt in the lower left..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Edition of 1500, 4to, pp. iii-x, [2], 556, [2]; illustrations within the text; near fine in publisher's cloth with some light soiling at spine ends in original slipcase that is edge worn. This edition is the last work of the illustrator, who died before..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. Edition limited to 325 copies (this, no. 130) printed and designed by David Holman at the Wind River Press; folio, pp. [iii]-xvi, [2], 67, [3]; title page printed in red and black; 18 photographic illustrations of the printers at work plus 8 tipped-in specimens; original..... More
New York: Scientific American, Inc., March, 1952. 4to, pp. 84; very good in original pictorial wrappers. Signed in ballpoint by Martin Gardner on p. 68, the first page of his article. More
Paris: Le Livre de Demain, Librairie Arthème Fayard, n.d., [1947]. Small 4to, pp. 125, [1]; 24 wood-engravings, several full-p.; orig. pictorial yellow wrappers; some browning but generally very good or better. First published 1909. More
New York: Edward P. Allen, 1855. First separate edition, (the text appeared in January 1856 in the Transactions of the American Medical Association); 8vo, pp. 42, [6]; original printed green wrappers (dated 1856); very good. Green was the first American physician to specialize in diseases of the throat, and his..... More
London: T. Osborne [et al.], 1754. 2 vols., 4to, 9 engraved folding maps, 19 engraved plates, a number of engraved vignettes in the text; recent handsome half brown morocco over olive linen sides, red and green morocco labels on gilt-paneled spines; very nice copy. Cox I, p. 255: "Hanway was..... More
New York: printed for William R. Scott, publisher, [1936]. 12mo, designed by Ted Gensamer, pp. [4]. 59, [1]; frontis. illus. printed in green and black, title-page vignette, decorative chapter vignettes printed in green throughout; very good in printed dustjacket with 1/2" curved tear at front, orig. green cloth browning at..... More
Bristol: Feb. 2, 1935. 8vo, approx. 37 lines and 220 words, to a Mr. Rigg comparing three Herreshoff-designed yachts. "I believe the three boats Flying Cloud, Haswell and Mary Rose ... to be very perfect models to combine good sailing qualities with cruising comfort. All are strongly built and fit..... More
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1863. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [3], 268; folding map and 20 illustrations, including 9 tinted lithographs; spine ends a bit chipped, slight rubbing, but generally a good copy in original brown cloth gilt. Sidney, Australia and return, via Aukland, Samoa, Feegee, New Caledonia, and Norfolk..... More
Kalamazoo: J. Jay Johnson, 1863. 8vo, pp. vi, [7]-14; vignette title-p., folding patent certificate, 5 small woodcuts of animals in the text; foxed; last 3 leaves and rear wrapper with a chunk missing from the top margin affecting the printed page borders but no lettering. More
New York: Random House, 1930. First edition limited to 900 copies signed by the author, this being copy 321; 4to, pp. 245, [3]; illustrated throughout, with woodcuts by Kent, each printed in gray, a number full-page; spine ends a bit darkened, else fine in original blue buckram stamped in silver..... More
St. Louis: published by James M. Crawford, 1862. 2 parts in 1, as issued; 8vo, pp. 132; 81, [1]; original brown cloth; pages a little toned, spine ends chipped; all else very good. Numerous essays on a variety of subjects including Philosophy of language, Varieties of races, Public morals, Political..... More
