New York: Grolier Club, 1995. First edition limited to 1500 copies, designed by Jerry Kelly and printed at the Stinehour Press; 4to, pp. xlii, 390, [4]; illustrated throughout, some in color; fine in original creme buckram, leather label on spine, publisher's slipcase with a small patch of wear. Documenting "the..... More
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1847. First edition, 12mo, pp. vii, [2], 10-204; inserted engraved frontispiece ("Entrance into Monterey") and title page (dated 1848) by Darley ("Guard House"), folding lithograph map "drawn by Lieut. Benjamin ... expressly for "Our Army at Monterey," plus 1 wood-engraved view of Monterey; contemporary cloth-backed marbled..... More
[Montreal]: John Lovell, printer, n.d., [ca. 1868]. Folio broadside printed on blue paper (approx. 16½" x 13¼"), text in quadruple column beneath the running head; previopus folds and a small break at the top of the central fold; all else very good. A seed catalogue in broadside form: "In presenting..... More
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1900. First edition, 8vo, pp. 321, [1]; frontispiece, 66 illustrations from photographs; original pictorial yellow cloth stamped in red and blue on upper cover and spine; front hinge a little tender, otherwise a very good, bright copy. This copy with a presentation from Parsons..... More
Richmond, Va. May 12, 1865. Small printed pro-forma broadside approx. 5" square accomplished in ink in several hands. Issued shortly affter the close of the Civil War when travel by civilians in formerly Confederate territory was still closely monitored by Union troops. This pass allows Schuyler "to pass from these..... More
London: John Murray, 1854. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [7], viii-xxvii, [5], 408, 32 ads (dated January 1854); [5], vi-xii; 487, [1]; 2 chromolithographic frontispieces; 2 engraved maps hand-colored in outline, colored folding maps; 79 wood engravings; 10 tinted lithographic plates, plus a single full-page wood engraving printed in..... More
Florence: printed by G. Barbera, 1887. 8vo, pp. 90, [2]; original full decorative vellum stamped in red with gilt decoration; red cloth chemise and slipcase; edges tinted red; extra-illustrated with 24 mounted albumen photographs; light foxing on title page; slipcase split at the top; otherwise near fine. Another edition appeared..... More
New York: A. A. Marks, 701 Broadway, 1901. 8vo, pp. [iii]-viii, [2], 11-530; hundreds of wood engravings throughout - 800 according to the title page; original blue wrappers printed in gitl on upper cover; lightly toned but generally very good. "This book is a treatise on prothesis, in contradistinction to..... More
Dublin: published and printed at the Office, 52, Henry-St., by J. Darling, Prospect House, Cullenswood Avenue, in the County of Dublin, October, 1866. Folio bifolium (approx. 18¼" x 12¼"), wood engraving at the masthead and several other small cuts in the text, text in quadruple column; previous folds, else very..... More
Leiden: Johannes Tangena, ca. 1689. Engraved etching approx. 19¼" x 23", central fold, old small repairs and traces of a previous mount on verso; a few small abrasions but on the whole a very good example. A composition of eleven scenes of Glorious Revolution events, centred around the reception of..... More
Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1870. 8vo, pp. x, [2], viii, 197, [1]; contemporary half black morocco, nearly rebacked, gilt-lettered direct on spine; very good and sound. Bookplate of the eminent American neurologist James Ramsay Hunt (1872-1937). Dedicated to Sir Thomas Raffles, this is the first edition printed in China..... More
Rome: de l'impr. de feu Mascardi, 1676. 8vo, pp. 189, [3]; title page printed in red and black, 1 double-pagewoodcut ofr St. Peter's Square, 53 half-page woodcuts (some repeated); bound with, as issued: Palladio, M. Andre, Les Antiquités de la ville de Rome..., 1672; 18 half-page woodcuts (some repeated); contemporary..... More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Street, n.d., [1839]. 16mo, pp. 23 [i.e. 231], [1]; frontispiece map included in the paginatgion; original blue cloth-backed marbled boards; near fine. "Revised by the Committee of Publication of the American Sunday-School Union." Eveteth passed away prior to the publication of the work. Forbes..... More
[London]: printed and published by G. Davis, at the Royal Jubilee Printing Office, in Hyde Park, 1814. Small folio broadside printed on silk (approx. 13" x 9½"); near fine. Monday, 1st August 1814 was both the anniversary of the Battle of the Nile and the centenary of the ascension to..... More
Augusta: March 21, 1862. Folio (approx. 12" x 9¾"), in ink throughout with occasional flourishes in red pen, and with a green wax seal depicting 2 settlers, a pine tree and a moose, laid down over a diecut red and white paper backing, and 3 silk ribbons (1 green and..... More
Paris: chez Moutard, 1782. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. 432; 272; 10 engraved folding charts and plates; a very nice copy in contemporary and likely original full French mottled calf, gilt decorated spines in 6 compartments, red and green morocco labels in 2 (one label faded); lightly rubbed but..... More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1933. Edition limited to 650 copies, 3 volumes, folio, tan buckram-backed paper-covered boards, printed paper spine labels; untrimmed fore-edge and tail; title page of volume I with shadow from past insert; otherwise near fine. Standard work, with over 500 entries and chronological index. More
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1792. 12mo, pp. 3-131 (pp.1, 2, & 132 pastedowns); original sheep-backed blue paper-covered wooden boards; leather rubbed; covers soiled; rear board split vertically, internally reinforced in the margins with surgical tape (not obscuring any lettering); pages toned and lightly soiled. Contemporary inscription on front pastedown: "Reumah..... More
Brattleborough, Vt. Holbrook & Fessenden, n.d., [1822?]. 8vo, pp. 168, including frontispiece, 8 woodcut illustrations in text, decorative woodcut border on title; original cloth-backed paper-covered boards; contemporary signature on front board of Silvester Barns; covers soiled, some water-staining; ink stain on rear board; pages toned; hinges starting; binding firm. Skeel..... More
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Burlington: C. Goodrich & S. B. Nichols, Wickware Building, 1848. 8vo, pp. 88; oiginal printed tan wrappers; back wrapper loosening, else very good. The story was first published in The New World in 1841, and appears here for the first time separately. "Thompson's short story ... joined a growing body..... More
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Buffalo: printed for the publisher, 1825. 8vo, pp. 15, [1]; self-wrappers with three coffins on the first page; slight toning, a few small breaks at the extremities, all else very good. "John Love, an itinerant who boarded with one of the Thayer brothers, aroused their cupidity by the money he..... More
[Chicago: 1863]. Quarto bifolium (approx. 10½" x 8½"), the first page with a cut of the firm's 5-storey building at 42-46 Wabash Ave., and a list of woolen and cotton goods with prices supplied in manuscript (carried over to p. 3); page 2 with a printed letter to prospective customers..... More
London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1857. First edition, 16mo, pp. 61, [3]; original blind-stamped brown cloth; gilt lettering on upper cover; a.e.g.; overlay frontispiece printed in blue; spine darkened and chipped; front joint cracked; title page starting; otherwise good. The frontispiece is a blue chromolithographic plate of a woman with artificial..... More
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. Unusual format with gatherings of 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 leaves, the pages approx. 10½" x 8"; pp. [2], viii, 462; title page printed in red and black, 81 color-printed wood-engraved illustrations in the text by Edmund Evans after James Doyle;..... More
London & Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack, [1910]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], vii-xx, 458; full pictorial parchment stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, t.e.g., the others uncut; fine, in a near fine dust jacket. Decorations by Byam Shaw. Issued in 3 bindings: decorated cloth gilt..... More
