Marina del Rey: Bieler Press, 2000. Edition limited to 146 copies, this one of 26 lettered copies (copy 'I') signed by the author and the printer, Gerald Lange; small folio, pp. 41, [5]; text printed in double column; original green Japanese cloth-backed blue-gray linen-covered boards, the upper cover die-cut to...
London: John Murray, 1844. Small folio, pp. xx, 201, [3]; tables throughout; near fine copy in contemporary full calf, gilt rules on covers, gilt-decorated spine in 7 compartments, morocco labels in 2, a.e.g.
Woodstock, NY: published by the author, 1970. One of 500 copies, 4to, staple bound in yellow paper wrappers, text on rectos only, photoreproduction of Georgia O'Keefe on upper cover, light wear, overall very good. Featuring poetry by Fielding Dawson, George Bowering, Ray Johnson, James Mechem, and Jackson Mac Low, among...
Boston: R. P & C. Williams, 1824. First American edition, 12mo, pp. 80, [2] ads; original printed paper-covered boards; minor wear and cracks, mostly on tyhe spine; all else very good and sound. Although usually attributed to John Witherspoon, it is not included in his collected works, and the Dictionary...
Torino: Stamperia dell'unione Tip.-Editrice, 1858-1859. 3 vols, 12mo; pp. 407; 475; 432; offset to endpapers, minor foxing, corners bumped, lightly scuffed, else a very good set in quarter calf with marbled boards and gilt-decorated spine. A history of the American Revolution by the reputable Italian historian, Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta.
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First edition, first issue binding, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 503, [1]; vi, [2], 519, [1]; folding map highlighted in blue, 11 wood-engraved plates (including 2 frontispieces), 4 full-p. sketch maps; original chocolate brown cloth, gilt vignette on upper covers, both volumes neatly rebacked with...
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1876. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 261, [1]; vi, [2], 255 (i.e. 355), [1]; largely unopened; 4 wood-engraved plates and 2 folding maps, plus other wood-engraved illustrations in the text; a very good copy in a secondary (unrecorded?) binding of...
Patavii: Typis Seminarii...Apud Joannem Manfrè, 1758. Edition octava retractatior, 2 volumes in one, folio, pp. [8], 464, [2], 481, [1], 24, 86; Vol. I: [†]4 A-2P6 2Q4; Vol. II: [*]2 A-2R6 a-h6 i8; woodcut printer's marks and initials, Vol. I title page printed in red and black, text primarily in...
Hamburg: C.E. Bohn, 1780. First German edition and first edition in a foreign language, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 456; engraved folding map; nice copy of a scarce edition in 20th century 3/4 red morocco gilt by Stikeman. A seminal book in the history of the exploration of the American west, and...
Ipswich: E. Shalders, 1827. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 262; lithograph frontis and 101 lithograph plates drawn and engraved by Cobbold, plus 2 copper-engraved portraits; errata slip tipped in at the rear; 3pp. of index, apparently separately published, is laid in; nice copy in orig. green cloth-backed boards, paper...
Arlington, VA: Community Development Counselling Service, 1964. 8vo, pp. v, [1], 584; printed from typescript; numerous illustrations and tables throughout; very good in original pictorial wrappers.
[Big Sur, CA: Peeramid Press, c1991.]. Edition limited to 200 copies signed and numbered by the author on the front flyleaf, oblong 4to, pp. [2], viii, 87; 2-page title reproducing b&w photograph of the Seine, illustrations throughout the text; original brown leather-grained cloth, the title in gilt on spine and...
[London: 1704]. Broadsheet, small folio (315 x 152 mm); left-hand margin trimmed close in lower half of sheet, touching a few letters, minor tears from previous fold, uniformly toned. A rare broadsheet sometimes attributed to Defoe (although more likely written by his agent in Scotland John Pierce), praising the Lords...
New York: Random House, [1963]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [5], 111, [3]; very good copy in jacket with very small tears along head and tail of jacket. The last of Dinesen's work to be published in her lifetime.
New York: Random House, 1959. First edition, 8vo, xiii-[xiv] & 97-[98]pp., a very good copy in jacket.
Lvtetiae [i.e. Paris]: ex typographia Rob. Stephani, 1613. 12mo, 2 parts in 1; pp. [8], 227, [1], 69, [3]; woodcut device on title, notes by Joannes Rutgers; Renouard, 202.7; bound with: D. Iunii Iuuenalis Satirarum libri v. Sulpiciae Satira. Noua editio. Cura Nicolai Rigaltii. Lutetiae, Rob. Stephani, 1616, pp. [40]...
Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, University Press, 1886. First edition, large square 4to, pp. 26; 4 maps; light wear but a near fine, unopened copy in original cream wrappers printed in red. Plain salmon-colored outer wrappers (torn and detached) has the ownership stamp of American ethnologist and linguist James C....
London: John Camden Hotten, 1860. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. xxxvii, [3], 64; original calf-backed red paper-covered boards; some rubbing but generally very good and sound. Edited by Luther in 1528; here first translated into English with an historical introduction and scholarly notes by John Camden Hotten. The vocabulary...
London: Printed [by A. Islip] for the Companie of Stationers, 1614. 16mo, pp. 94; A-F8; woodcut initials, printer's ornaments; early 20th-century brown cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, new endpapers; title page mounted and laid down, pages brittle and chipped along edges, worming to upper fore-edge touching a few letters...
Leipsig: Johann Matroff, 1572. Folio, [24], ccclxviii, [86] leaves; ornamental initials; contemporary blindstamped pigskin, brass clasps and catches preserved, old brass bosses at the corners; very good and sound. Four copies of this edition in OCLC, all in Europe. BM-STC German, p. 489; VD16, L-782.
Tokyo & Philadelphia: Orient / West Inc., [1967]. Only edition (?), 4to, pp. [6], 128, [16] ads; printed from typescript; disbound; half-title loose; very good. Alberta only in OCLC. Contained in a blue cloth Japanese-style folding box.
New York: Macmillan, 1938. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, [2], 348; frontispiece portrait, 2 maps, plates from photographs; original red cloth; very good in dust-jacket with 2 x 1/3 inch chip to upper panel and some rubbing at edges. A comprehensive and detailed history of the Apaches from their earliest...
London: Longman, Green [et. al], 1865. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxi, [3], 574, [2] ads; wood-engraved frontispiece, 2 folding maps (both hand-colored in outline), 6 wood engravings in the text; original blue cloth, spine ends chipped, ex-Northern Pacific Railway Co. with small rubberstamp on the flyleaf and a small accession...
Lugduni: Ioannis Molin ... Jacobi Canier ... Florii Martin, 1668. Folio, pp. [20], 877, [9]; title printed in red & black; woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine, page edges with interesting leopard-spot decoration; vellum a bit soiled, but on the whole a....
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., [1933]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 288; original green cloth stamped in gilt and black; binding soiled and spine a little sunned; original printed dust jacket (supplied?) with a few minor breaks and chips at extremities, spine sunned. This copy with a warm...
