Tokyo: [Published by the author], 1876-1880. First editions 7 volumes, oblong portfolios, approx 10.5" x 15.5"; text in Japanese; 125 chromolithographic plates and one rubbing illustrating 231 notable pieces of Japanese pottery, lacking the French translations in octavo, but with the 6th and 7th portfolio volumes which were published later..... More
[New York]: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, [1981]. Uncorrected proof, 8vo, pp. [8], 187, [1]; signed by the author on the title page; publisher's printed wraps; one corner slightly bumped, else fine. More
[Risby, Herefordshire]: The Whittington Press, [2018]. Edition limited to 235 copies, this being one of 40 'A' copies bound in full Oasis by the Fine Book Bindery, accompanied by 22 items (in this case, 26) of Weather Bird ephemera found in Vance's workshop after his death, "and mostly bound up..... More
New York: Random House, [2000]. First edition, 8vo, fine copy in original dust-jacket. Includes 25 profiles from The New Yorker magazine, including ones on Isadora Duncan, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ernest Hemingway, and Roseanne Barr, among others. More
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[London]: J. Sewell ... Murray and Highley ... J. Debrett, and the Editor, 1802. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], x, [9]-484 columns, [2]; text in Farsi and Roman character throughout; nice copy in mid-20th century quarter tan calf over marbled boards, red morocco labelon gilt-paneled spine. "Printed by [the author]..... More
London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1862. 12mo, pp. xvi, 191; later three-quarter green calf over marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine in 6 compartments, 2 red gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, t.e.g., marbled endpapers; spine faded to brown; edges, spine head and foot rubbed, interior fine. More
Oswego: May 26, 1837. Oblong pro-forma folio broadside (approx. 13½" x 17") accomplished in ink, outlining the sale of "those certain pieces or parcels of land described as blocks numbers seventy-two (72) and seventy-three (73) in the village of East Oswego ... and also block number thirty-six (36) ... reference..... More
Albany: B. D. Packard; Troy: the author, 1824. 8vo, pp. 620; text in double column, folding frontispiece map; last leaf with publisher's addenda slip pasted on; early owner's rubberstamp on flyleaf and verso of last leaf dated 1825; upper joint tender, else a good, sound copy in original full calf..... More
London: T. Hookham, 1838. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. [4], 44; publisher's embossed presentation blindstamp in the title page, original plain paper wrappers with paper label on upper cover, advertisement slip tipped in at the back. From the library of George Stephens, the runic archaeologist, with his accession sticker..... More
[Albany? NY: 1828?]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 16; self-wrappers, unopened and uncut, very light rubberstamp in the bottom margin of the first leaf, a few pencil marks, and edgewear, all else very good. A complaint that the erection of the Albany Pier was effectively a deprivation of property against the..... More
Bruxellis: J.L. De Boubers, n.d., [1800]. First Justice edition, 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary full straight-grain morocco, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spines; engraved throughout, and printed on rectos only, with title vignettes, head- and tail-pieces, and historiated initials by G.M. Pitteri after Fidance and C.F. de La Traverse; folding map in..... More
Tavoy: Karen Mission Press, C[ephas] Bennett, 1847-50. First and only edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, volume 1 with an English title-p. and a 2-p. English preface by Wade, the others with a title-p. in English; the text throughout is in Karen; full original calf in varying hues, each with gilt-stamped titles..... More
Northampton: William Butler, 1799. 8vo, pp. 233; title within woodcut border, text in double column; original full sheep, rubbed and worn, but sound. Early American bookplate of Lemuel Dady (partially peeled), and his ownership inscription on the front free endpaper. This version of Watts' Psalms of David was first published..... More
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London: Benjamin White, 1770. First edition of this translation; 4to, pp. iv [i.e. vi], 331, [5]; engraved folding map bound in as a frontispiece; full contemporary calf, rebacked, old red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine; engraved 18th century bookplate of John Cator; very good, sound copy. Preceded only by Newman's..... More
New York: Museum Books, 1964. First edition limited to 500 copies (this, no. 258) for the American market signed by Zapf, small folio, unpaginated; title page printed in red, blue and black, numerous facsimiles throughout, some tipped-in, printed in a variety of colors and in numerous fonts; fine copy in..... More
