Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 223; portrait frontispiece, two leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos, music in text throughout; original cloth in red pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; minor shelf wear, textblock rather cockled from damp; very good and sound. Probably the author's... More
London: printed by W. Stansby, for Robert Mylbourne, 1631. First edition, folio, pp. [20], 255, [1], 143, [16]; contemporary full speckled calf, covers ruled in blind, edges of covers with gilt rules, contemporary manuscript paper label on spine, sprinkled edges; minor rubbing; fine. Thomas Morton, at the time Bishop of... More
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1871. Stereotyped edition (first published in 1856), 8vo, pp. 318, 23 (ads); frontispiece, 7 samples of marbled paper inserted, as issued, 11 plates of binding designs and a few wood-engravings in the text; original black cloth, gilt title direct on spine, bookseller's ticket on front pastedown;... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1996. First edition limited to 160 copies, this, no. 41; 4to, pp. 79, [2]; vignette wood engraving on title page, 20 wood engravings in the text, a sequence of 9 progressive proofs, 2 linoleum cuts of the carp (one color, the other black and white)... More
Salisburgi: sumptibus & typis Melchioris Haan, 1676. 2 volumes in 1, 4to, pp. [14], 444, [24]; [12], 484, [20]; title pages printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait and title page in the first volume, woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full vellum, soiled and spotted, 2 old ink inscriptions... More
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1895. Fourth edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, [2], 455, [1]; frontispiece, vignette title page, folding map, 25 plates; a few illustrations in the text; original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt and black; very good, sound copy. Includes full notes on the natural history and distribution... More
London: Constable and Company, 1914. First edition, 8vo, pp. cxxi, [1], 234, [2]; with adverts; fine copy in the jacket. One separately printed leaf of adverts dated 1913 laid in. More
London: printed for J. Dodsley, C. Dilly and J. Wilkie, 1780. First edition, 4to, 2 vols., pp. [20], 64 plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; [4], unpaginated lexicon, [1]; complete with the half-titles and list of subscribers (among whom are James Boswell and David Garrick) and the list of works... More
Colorado Springs: The Press at Colorado College, [1982]. Edition limited to 190 copies (this, no. 76); large 8vo, [30] leaves; printed in red and black throughout; fine in original black cloth, printed paper label on spine. Handsomely designed, printed and bound by James Trissel. More
New York: D. Appleton, 1866-64. 2 volumes, thick 8vo, pp. xiv, 1118; [2], 998; together with A Supplement to Ure's Dictionary, pp. 1096; together 3 volumes, original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spines; a very good, tight copy. More
St. Louis: March 1, 1892. 12mo, pp. 7; self wrappers, saddle-stitched; fine. The author was a professor at Washington University. More
[San Francisco]: The Auerhahn Press, 1960. Edition limited to 500 copies, 8vo, pp. 6; illustration by R. LaVigne; original tan wrappers printed in brown and black; fine. The poet's first book. More
Big Sur, CA: edited and published by Emil White, 1961. De luxe edition, square 8vo, pp. 102; original photographic stiff paper wrappers bound in, 16 pages of b&w photographic illustrations at the back, mounted on p. 3 is a small (5/8" x 1-3/4") white paper label imprinted: "Cloth-bound de luxe... More
Chicago: Jas. Barnet, n.d., [1865]. Broadside (approx. 8½ x 5½"); adorned with an engraved portrait of Abraham Lincoln; slightly darkened along edges, else fine. Small advertisement of newly published works, "of Remembrance of Public and Private Worth." These include The Martyrs and Heroes of Illinois, edited by Barnet; Biographical Sketches..... More
[Philadelphia]: March 16, 1795. 4to, 10 leaves, the last blank; original drab blue paper wrappers, stitched, as issued; previous folds, and a couple of short splits at them entering from the fore-margin; all else very good. Docketed on the back wrapper: "An act passsed 1795 with forms accompanying." Following the... More
