Rangoon: American Mission Press. Published by the American and Foreign Bible Society, the Burmah Bible and Tract Society, and by the American Baptist Missionary Union, 1867. Large 8vo, pp. [810], [269]; text in double column throughout and printed in Karen characters throughout; title page in English with a Karen subtitle;... More
Providence: printed and sold by Brown and Danforth, [1822]. 19 cm, pp. [28]; self-wrappers; browned. some staining; good. American Imprints 6636; Drake, Almanacs, 13015. More
[Youngstown, OH: the author, 1921.]. Edition limited to 300 copies, 8vo, pp. [3]-141, [3]; 47 illustrations from photographs throughout, some full-p. and including the vignette of the author on the title-p.; spine a bit dull, else a very good copy in original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered on spine and upper cover... More
Francfort: chez Knoe & Elslinger, 1766. 2 vols. in 1, 8vo, pp. viii, 9-240; 276, [4]; contemporary full catspaw calf, red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine; very good copy. The second volume is largely devoted to Islam and Mahomet. More
Glasgow: printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1771. 12mo, 4 volumes; 4 engraved plates; contemporary calf; boards and spines worn, labels perished, upper board of volume 1 nearly loose, 1 page chipped, affecting text; good. Gaskell's inferior paper variant without dagger or * signatures. Gaskell notes three plates, in vol... More
Birmingham: John Baskerville for J. & R. Tonson, 1761. 3 volumes, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, 5 engraved plates; contemporary polished calf, red and green leather labels on gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers; spine toned, else a near fine copy in a fine set of red morocco slipcases. Gaskell 16. More
Boston: Charles Ewer, 1819. Thick 8vo, pp. 1006, [9] subscribers' list; text in double column; full contemporary calf, rebacked in inoffensive maroon leatherette, original morocco label preserved; a good, sound copy. Crabb (1778-1851) "commenced the study of medicine, but being unable to endure the dissecting room resigned his medical studies... More
London: printed for J. Buckland, W. Strahan [et al.], 1778. 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. 288; 275, [1]; engraved frontispiece in volume I, 11 engraved plates (4 folding) by J. Lodge; lacking the map in volume II; contemporary full calf, red morocco labels on gilt-paneled spines; upper joints on both volumes... More
Paris: Michel Levy, 1875. First edition, large 8vo, 4 p.l., pp. 311; frontispiece, vignette title-p., and 67 wood-engraved illus. throughout, several full-p.; publisher's red morocco-backed cloth, gilt lettering direct on gilt-decorated spine, a.e.g.; covers a bit spotted, moderate foxing throughout; otherwise a very good, sound copy. More
London: John Camden Hotten, 1859. First edition, 16mo, pp. xii, 152; colored frontispiece, vignette title-p., 6 plates and a few illus. in the text; front hinge cracked, otherwise a fine, bright, unopened copy in orig. pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. More
London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1878. First edition, first issue (without the quotation marks after A Pair of Blue Eyes on the title of volume I), 3 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece map of the scene of the story in volume I after Hardy; half blue morocco of the second half of... More
[Latrobe, Pennsylvania]: Typis Abbatiæ S. Vincentii, 1875. First edition thus, 8vo, pp. [8], 449, [1]; vignette woodcut title-p., occasional printed music; very good copy in contemporary, if not original, black morocco, gilt border on upper cover, gilt-paneled spine, a.e.g. Benedictine liturgy of the American Cassinese Congregation, printed at the Abbey... More
n.p., n.d. ca. 1910-15. The 14 photographs in this album were undoubtedly produced by a professional photographer, using a large format camera. The pictures are well composed, sharply focused, and unusual in their scale. They picture a family in leisure-time activities such as hunting, gathering leaves, and observing caged rabbits... More
Circus, 30th Octr. 1816. I must inform you that by long neglect of the Arabic language I do not now consider myself competent to give you satisfactory information respecting the Romish Arabic Edition of the Bible compared with the Hebrew text, but I shall be very happy to give you... More
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1921. Small folio, pp. xvii, [1], 246, [2]; 36 plates (13 in color), numerous textual illustrations throughout; original black cloth-backed boards with pictorial color onlay mounted on the front cover, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket with small neat paper repair on the verso at... More
Philadelphia: Johnson and Warner, 1813. 8vo, 2 parts in 1, as issued, pp. 40, 385, 341; text in double column; full contemporary sheep neatly rebacked, preserving the original red morocco spine label; some foxing and spotting of the text, but a nice copy. A reprint of the 1805 first American... More
Dublin: Luke White, 1793. Second Dublin edition, 8vo, pp. xxix, [1], 378; frontispiece portrait, 14 engraved plates (1 folding), 2 maps (1 folding); contemporary full calf, red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine; spine scuffed, extremities rubbed; a good, sound copy. Hill, Pacific Voyages, p. 160, citing the first edition of... More
[London]: Cobden-Sanderson, 1921. 8vo, pp. 221; contemporary blue half-calf over blue cloth, spine decoratively stamped in gilt, t.e.g., marbled endpapers; spine a bit faded, joints just starting, some discoloration to endpapers, small booksellers label on front pastedown, gift inscription on front free endpaper, else an about very good, attractive copy. More
[Minneapolis]: Milkweed Editions, 1984. First edition, 8vo, pp. 48; generally fine in original pictorial wrappers. Published in Milkweed's Mountains in Minnesota series. More
London: printed and sold by the author, [1791]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxxii, 344; engraved portrait (slightly offset onto title-p.), woodcut of the branch on p. 285; uncut; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine a little perished and with an early leather repair to the joints; a good, sound copy, with... More
Boston: Timothy Bedlington, 1828. 16mo., pp. 152; bound with BACON, FRANCIS. Essays, moral, economical, and political. Boston: T. Bedlington, 1828, pp. 218; contemporary full mottled sheep, elaborate gilt decorations on spine; a very good copy. The epitome of two great writers' works, nicely printed and in a particularly handsome example... More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1925. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xx, 631,[1]; viii, 662; 32 plates; spine alittle sunned; very good in original red cloth, gilt-lettered spines. Presentation copy inscribed in volume I by Lowell to "Grace, with much love from Amy... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co. [1920]. First edition, folio, pp. [10], xiv, 140 plates; orig. blue cloth lettered in gilt; a few minor spots and stains but generally a very good, sound copy; retaining the original printed dust-jacket which is waterstained and with a large piece missing from the... More
Saint Paul: The Itasca Press, 1945. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 338; signed by Manfred on title page; previous owner's signature in red biro on front free endpaper, a near fine copy in a slightly chipped, price-clipped dust jacket. Manfred's second novel and winner of American Academy Award 1945. Mulder and Timmerman A2. More
New York: Macmillan, 1920. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 396; signed by Masters on the title-page; fine in orig. black cloth lettered in gilt. ""... a poetic survey of American history. A few critics and Masters himself considered this his most profound work"" (DAB). More
