Chautauqua, NY: August 16, 1905. Typescript transcript, pp. [1], 19 (ie pp. 40) typed on rectos only; bound with an incomplete transcript of a speech by Olivery Dyer on shorthand, pp. [4]; Printed gray limp cloth covers, spine sunned, near fine. A speech given at the Chautauqua Institution, focused primarily..... More
Pittsburgh: W.S. Haven, 1856. First edition, slim 4to, pp. xii, 13-127, [1]; 3 folding lithograph botanical plates by Wm. Schuchman & Bro.; generally a fine copy in orig. green cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover; spine slightly sunned. The plates are clean and crisp and represent Schuchman's finest work. 8 copies..... More
New York: Carleton, 1864. First American edition, 2 volumes in 1 (as issued), 12mo, pp. [3]-328; portrait frontispiece; original diaper-patterned green cloth, gilt title on spine; spine ends repaired, small crack in the cloth on the lower joint, one tiny hole in spine; occasional spotting; dampstain to frontispiece and title..... More
Philadelphia: from the press of Matthew Carey, 1792. 12mo, pp. x, [1], 12-167, [1] ads ("Books and pamphlets printed by Mathew Carey"); dampstaining to the prelims and terminals; original full sheep, covers dampstained and sheep peeling, spine with small chips out; all else good and sound. Bookplate of "E. C...... More
New York: Scribners, 1893. First American edition, and first edition under this title (published in the U.K. as Catriona); small 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 406, [2] ads; very good copy in original decorative brown cloth stamped in silver and maroon and upper cover and spine. Beinecke 590; Prideaux 39 (citing..... More
Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, 1840. First edition, thin 8vo, pp. [4], 88; handsomely bound in full black morocco stamped in gilt by the French binder Hippolite Duru, with a central crown and monogram (indecipherable to this cataloguer) surrounded by a restrained romantic style border on covers, the spine in six..... More
[Minneapolis: Coffee House Press], 1988. 11.5" x 17.5 event broadside, tricolor. More
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London: William Pickering, 1830. First edition, small 8vo, 2 vols.; engraved frontispiece portrait, Pickering device on title-pages, pictorial head-pieces; original dark blue morocco stamped in gilt and blind by Hayday, a.e.g., some wear to extremities, especially at joints, with cracking to back upper joint of volume I, overall a very..... More
Paris: Librairie philosophique de Ladrange, 1843. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 509, [1]; [4], 448; folding tables at pp. 365-68 and again at p. 387 in volume I; uncut and unopened in original tan printed wrappers; small cracks and chips at spine extremities; very good and sound..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1955]. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece, several b/w photos. Dust jacket price-clipped, some wear on both paste-downs, else near fine. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1928]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 211, [9] ads; spine of jacket a little soiled and with some minor wear at corners and edges, but generally a very good copy, or better. Illustrated with scenes from the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer picture starring Joan Crawford. More
London: Thomas Tegg; Glasgow: Richard Griffiths, 1831. 8vo, pp. x, [11]-593, [1]; engraved portrait frontispiece; contemporary and probably original black morocco label on gilt-paneled spine; joints rubbed, calf beginning to peel at the corners, but in all a good, sound copy. This edition not in Vancil. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1911. First edition, 8vo, pp. [14], 282, [1]; photographic frontispiece in color, 16 b&w photographic plates; a very good copy in the seldom-seen dust jacket with creasing and small tears to edges, the upper spine panel worn away, and some scrapes. The author..... More
London: Macmillan, 1921. 16mo, pp. xxxi, [1], 331; contemporary full polished brown calf by Riviere, raised floral panel in blind, lettered in blind, stained in orange, the spine lettered in gilt and with a similar floral motif, a.e.g.; some rubbing but very good. More
Indianapolis: Austin H. Brown & Co., printers, 1854. 8vo, pp. 20; large diagram on the verso of the last leaf of machinery for the manufacture of flax; wrappers wanting; removed from binding; very good. Informed notes in pencil on the verso of the first leaf. More
