Melbourne: Egerton and Moore, 1889. First and only edition, 12mo, pp. 134; near fine copy in original brown cloth, gilt lettered on upper cover. At the head of the title: New Hebrides linguistics. Introductory. Includes a brief grammar and vocabulary for each of the languages. "Printed atthe expense of the... More
Storrs, CT: Wormwood Review Press, 1967. Edition limited to 600 copies, 8vo, pp. 44; orange paper wrappers; fine, with light wear to wrapper edges. Featuring poetry by Peter Wild, Gerald Locklin, Ellen Tifft, Toby Lurie, Norbert Blei, William R. Slaughter, and Oliver Haddo, among others. Although not stated, this is... More
[Hanoi]: Impr. d'Extrême-Orient, 1947. Small folio, pp. [3]-204, portrait, 2 maps, village plan; very good in later native half brown calf, gilt lettered direct on spine; very good. The writer The Phong's copy, signed and dated by him in 1952 on the title page and also p. [45], and p.... More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1847. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], [17]-389, [1], [xv]-xxiii (ads), [1], 16 (ads); integral frontispiece map; covers spotted, text lightly foxed as usual, top of spine a little chipped; a good, firm copy in orig. slate blindstamped cloth, gilt ship stamped central on... More
New York: Knopf, 1946. First edition, sq. 12mo, pp. 31, [1]; rear hinge starting else very good in the dust-jacket. More
Paris: Jean Terquem, 1926. Edition limited to 265 copies, this the issue of 223 with the 20 aquatints in 2 states (colored and uncolored); 4to, pp. [8], xi, [1], 293; title-p. in red and black; orig. cream wrappers printed in red and black, glassine jacket partially perished at spine and... More
Risbury, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, [2004]. Edition limited to 200 copies, this being no. LI of 55 special copies with an extra portfolio of artist's proofs, signed by O'Connor with initials on the colophon; 4to, pp. [34]; color wood-engraved frontispiece and 32 wood engravings on the rectos and versos of... More
Lyon: les frères Périsse & Pierre Cellier, 1768. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 484, [4]; [4], 585, [1]; full contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, spines rubbed and worn, joints a little cracked but otherwise a good, sound copy. The author is described on the title as being a.... More
New York: Century Co. 1901. Fourth impression, sq. 8vo, color frontis and 7 plates and many other illustrations in the margins after sketches or watercolors by the author; contemporary 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, t.e.g., gilt spine with floral motif; minor rubbing, else very good. More
Glasgow: printed and sold by R. and A. Foulis, 1753. 12mo, pp. 99, [1]; one volume of an 8-volume set, unadorned 20th-century black calf, Gaskell's variant on lesser quality paper; papers toned at edges, very good overall. Gaskell 460. More
Glasguae: exudebat Robertus Foulis, 1748. 12mo, pp. 52, 34; text in Greek followed by the Latin; contemporary calf, double gilt rules on covers enclosing a blind-decorated border, gilt turn-ins, spine decorated in blind and gilt, marbled endpapers, speckled edges; joints rubbed, very good. Gaskell 120. More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin and Co. [at the Riverside Press], 1906. Manuscript Edition, limited to 600 sets signed by the publisher in volume I, (this is set no. 339); 20 volumes, 8vo, 3 portraits of Thoreau, folding map, 101 photographic illustrations by Herbert W. Gleason, plus an additional... More
Tokio: Observatoire météorologique central du Japon, 1899. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], ii, [2], 69, [1]; 1 plates, 1 color plate of signal flags, 2 folding maps printed in color in rear cover pocket (pocket with splits at edges), plus a third folding "Weather Chart" printed on 2 sides, the... More
Glasgow: printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1752. 8vo, pp. [16], 293, [3]; contemporary maroon roan, gilt title direct on gilt-decorated spine; upper joint quite tender, lower starting, spine head and tail bands perished, boards toned, text clean; good. Gaskell 247. More
