London: Thomas Baskett, 1749. Folio, title page (verso blank), pp. 1511-1564; extracted from the Acts of Parliament "begun and holden at Westminster the 18th day of May, Anno. Domini. 1784." Removed from binding; very good. More
Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1968. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 144, [2], color frontispiece, b&w plates; near fine in original light blue cloth, spine gilt. 240 entries with indexes. More
[Providence: 1903]. Oblong 12mo (approx. 4¾" x 5½"), pp. 24; 5 full-page illustrations from photographs; original gray wrappers printed in blue; near fine. Platinum was found and "the property has been examined by expert mining engineers who claim there is nothing like it east of the Rocky Mountains." We doubt..... More
Iowa City: Windhover Press, [1970]. Edition limited to 250 copies, 8vo, pp. [48]; original black cloth-backed blue paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on the upper cover; some fading at the bottom of the upper boards, else near fine. From the library of Kim Merker. The last paragraph of Murray's Foreword..... More
Washington D. C. Roger Chew Weightman, 1814. Bifolium, accompanying folding table disbound, details sums paid to the states and territories via the Army Pay Office. Tear neatly repaired to second leaf. Accompanied by: Letter from the Secretary of War to the Chairman of the Committtee of Ways and Means, transmitting..... More
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Buffalo: printed for the publisher, 1825. 8vo, pp. 15, [1]; self-wrappers with three coffins on the first page; slight toning, a few small breaks at the extremities, all else very good. "John Love, an itinerant who boarded with one of the Thayer brothers, aroused their cupidity by the money he..... More
St. Paul: H.M. Smyth & Co., printers, 1878. 8vo, pp. 88; without the folding map of Minnesota found in some copies; original gray printed wrappers, soiled, slight chipping at edges, remains of old label adhered at upper wrapper; generally a good copy of a promotional pamphlet for immigrants, addressed: "To..... More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1865. 8vo, pp. [iii]-xvi, 533, 2 (ads); large folding map (with short, neat tape repair on verso), 20 full-p. illustrations plus numerous wood-engraved illus. in text; slight cracking at spine extremities, edges worn, remains of a small, 19th century shelf label at base of spine..... More
Rotterdam: Michel Bohm, 1720. 4 volumes, folio, text largely in double column, woodcut ornaments and initials; engraved vignette title-pp. printed in red and black in each volume by W. De Gouwen after A. Vander Werf; 2 leaves of dedication printed in red and black (not in all copies) with a...... More
London: Chapman and Hall Limited, 1881. Thirty volumes in 60, edition de luxe limited to 1000 copies, this a slightly mixed set, with first two volumes number 482 and the rest numbered 14; large 8vo; facsimiles of original wrappers, vignette and engraved title pages illustrated by Cruikshank, plates throughout, four..... More
Chicago: The Bookfellows, 1924. First edition limited to 300 copies, 12mo, pp. 30; 6 photogravure plates of a series of mural decorations by Alexander in the Library of Congress; original brown cloth-backed marble boards, paper spine and cover labels; a fine copy. The Little Bookfellow Series no. 10, "printed by..... More
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1860. First London, i.e. second "author's edition," with a slip noting "the author derives a pecuniary benefit" tipped in; 12mo, pp. [4]. 203, [1]; printed endpapers; original printed tan cloth boards; light staining, lower joint split, spine partially reglued; text clean and sound with the..... More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1997. 7.5" x 11" prose broadside printed to celebrated the Spring 1997 publication of Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist. More
Boston: printed by Hosea Sprague, 1807. 16mo, pp. 96; disbound; small tear on the last leaf (no loss), all else very good. Originally published in 1774. An elderly and infirm doctor writes letters to his daughters on the conduct of life. American Imprints 12694; see Osborne, p. 712 and Rosenbach..... More
New York: Avenel Books, [1985]. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 404, [1]; fine copy in the dust jacket. Issued in the publisher's Myths and Legends series. More
New York: Coward-McCann, 1952. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 346; a fine copy in a very good jacket which shows some soiling on the rear panel, and some tiny chips out at the top of the spine. A novel of prison life based on the author's own experiences. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. 8vo, pp. x, 536; frontispiece, 19 plates, illus. in text; pencil annotations on rear pastedown, but otherwise a bright, near fine copy in orig. red cloth gilt-lettered direct on spine. More
London and New York: Curzon Press and Barnes & Noble Books, [1973]. Facsimile reprint edition (first published in London in 1875); 12mo, xix, [1], 212; full blue cloth; ownership stamp of William E. Davies on upper free endpaper, fine in sun-toned and slightly edge-worn dust jacket. An accounting of Deguignes'..... More
[Columbia, S.C.? no publisher given, 1839]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 33-62 (i.e. 32 pages); unopened; wrappers wanting; first leaf loose and with shallow chips in the fore-margin; text toned, stitching perished; good. American Imprints 56833; Sabin 40985. More
Chicago: Rand McNally, [1963]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 287, [1]; illustrations from photographs; a bit shaken, else very good in jacket with light edge wear. A history of Tristan da Cunha, "the loneliest isle on earth." More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1933]. 8vo, pp. [8], 303, [1]; original tan cloth, some staining on spine, else very good or better. More
London: for the author by H.L. Galabin, 1801. Second separate edition, 8vo, pp. [4], [17]-460; folding copper-engraved frontispiece of Vishnu, Brahma, and Seva plus 5 other folding copper-plates; contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards; very good and sound. Without the 2-leaf Advertisement in the first separate edition of the previous..... More
New York: W.H. Sadlier Inc., 1941. 12mo, pp. 61; illustrations throughout; original cream pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in red; small ink note at top fore-edge corner of front wrapper, else about fine. "Reprinted by Rural and Family Life Bureau, St. Cloud, Minn." - upper cover. OCLC no. 12547345 does not..... More
New York: Barnes and Noble, 1968. Second edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 176; full navy cloth, gilt title on spine, light rubbing and spotting to boards, remains of bookplate on pastedown, text clean and sound, very good. More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1835. 2 volumes, large 8vo, pp. [2], viii, [13]-562, [2]; iv, [5]-587, [1]; engraved frontispiece portrait and vignette title page in volume I, unusual publisher's ripple-grain green cloth stamped in gilt on spines; a bit of fading at the edges and spines, slight wear and..... More
