London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First edition, likely the second issue; 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, [2], 412; vi, [2], engraved folding map hand colored in blue and green, 12 chromoxylographs, 22 woodcuts in the text; 20th century three-quarter green morocco, gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments, gilt lettered... More
New York: Captain James Riley, 1818. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xvi, [17]-332; from gathering 34 onwards there is a waterstain in the lower outer corners, with loss of paper on the last 2 leaves (no less of letterpress); all else very good in later red cloth, black morocco label... More
London: Elliot & Kay, and C. Elliot, Edinburgh, 1789. Second edition; first translated into English, by Johnson, in 1735 (his first book), 8vo, pp. [4], 500, [2] ads; bound without the half-title (as often) in contempoerary full mottled calf, red morocco label on spine; upper joint slightly cracked, else a.... More
Lisboa: 1962-75. 8 volumes, 8vo, fine in dust jackets. More
Edinburgh: J. Ruthvan for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, London, 1790. First edition (published later in London the same year); 5 volumes, 4to, engraved vignette title page in each volume, 58 engraved charts, battle plans, and plates, 3 engraved folding maps, 7 typographic pages of Ethiopic characters between pp... More
First edition, oblong 8vo, pp. [72]; original pictorial wrappers; full-page map; illustrated with photographic illustrations throughout; fine copy. "This illustrations in this book were selected from more than four thousand photographs taken by Reverend Bernard R. Hubbard, S.J. during eight years of exploration in little known parts of Alaska." More
Boston: for the subscribers, 1915. First edition limited to 1200 copies (this one of 600 on wove paper), printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, 8vo, pp. [2], xix, [3], 429, [3]; folding maps, 22 woodcut illustrations in the text by Ruzicka, (5 are full-page but outside the pagination);... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [2], iv, [1], 344, [2]; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine; small cracks at extremities, light tidemark pervades most of the text in the top outer corners; generally good and sound. More
Albany: Knickerbocker Publishing Co. 1871. 12mo, pp. 138; original brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; spine a little sunned; all else fine. More
Sevenoaks: printed and published by J. Salmon, 1906. First edition, small 4to, pp. [8], 107, [1]; 35 plates (22 in color); original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; spine slightly sunned; all else very good and bright. More
London: William Heinemann, 1921. Edition limited to 430 copies (this, no. 418); 4to, pp. [4], 4, vii-xiv, 93, [1]; vignette title within ruled borders and printed in red and black, 8 tipped-in color plates by Claud Lovat Fraser, woodcut decorations and music in the text; contemporary full red levant with... More
London & St. Ives: Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson, Ltd. 1951. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 122; laid in, as issued, is the publisher's large folding index map of the waterways o0f Holland printed in 3 colors; also laid in is the publisher's 4-leaf mimeo, "Supplement to the Inland Waterways... More
n.p., n.d. [Providence: the author, 1932.]. Only edition, 12mo, pp. 45, [1]; original blue stiff pictorial wrappers; generally fine. More
[Providence: the author, 1923.]. 8vo, pp. [30], 319, [5]; map, folding facsimile, numerous portraits and illustrations in the text, a number full-page; original blue cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; fine copy. Warm 1926 gift inscription on flyleaf. More
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., The Riverside Press, 1879. First edition, large, heavy 4to, pp. xi, [1], 457, [1]; 34 heliogravure plates, 37 gravure portraits, 10 wood engravings in the text, and a plan of the college grounds; original full hard-grain brown morocco, gilt seal on upper cover withing a.... More
Boston: Charles C. P. Moody, 1851. Sole edition, 16mo, pp. 39, [1]; original blindstamped brown cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover; fine. Shaw was among the earliest American composers. He was born in Newport and started his musical career in Boston and in Providence where he remained an important... More
New Haven: Charles C. Chatfield, 1870. First edition, 12mo, pp. 126, [2]; bookplate removed and slight traces of label removed from baseof spine; all else near fine in original decorative blue cloth gilt; printed music throughout. More
New York: Grfton Press, 1908. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 572; [10], 575-1197, [1]; 25 plates; near fine in original green cloth, gilt lettering on spine. More
Providence: 1874. First edition, oblong 4to, 15 leaves printed on rectos only, illustrated throughout in lithography; near fine in original pictorial blue cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt and black. More
Bangkok, Thailand: Department of Community Development Ministry of Interior and USOM, 1964. 4to, pp. vii, 107; charts & graphs; original white printed wrappers, light wear to extremities, else very good. More
Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, Ltd. 1939. 8vo, pp. [8], 148; orange paper boards backed in black cloth, orange dust jacket; inscription "with the compliments of the Consul General for China on endpaper; dust jacket toned and lightly chipped, else fine. Hsu strongly condemns Japanese military action in Canton, and challenges... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press, n.d. [ca. 1937]. 8vo, pp. [2], xi, [1], 255; endpapers and 10 color plates and illustrtions in the text by N. C. Wyeth; fine copy in the jacket. Excerpts from Thoreau's Journal, with descriptions of Emerson, Alcott, and Channing, as well as Minott, the poetical... More
London: Robert Jennings, 1835. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 288; steel-engraved frontispiece and title, 19 steel engraved-plates with tissue guards (one tissue guard lacking), 10 wood-engraved chapter headings; publisher's full green morocco, covers with blindstamped borders and panel, spine stamped in gilt; yellow-coated endpapers, a.e.g.; a bit of rubbing... More
Cottondale, Ala. Ex Ophidia, 1986. Edition limited to 90 press-numbered copies (this, no. 8, and printed for Susan Cheever); small folio, pp. 21, [3]; title page printed in red and black; original full Niger morocco by Craig Jensen, publisher's ochre clamshell box (a little soiled); fine. Prospectus laid in. Also... More
Boston: William Carter, 1860. 8vo, pp. xii, 104; portrait frontispiece; original gilt-stamped brown cloth, blindstamped borders on covers; small spot on front cover, else generally fine. With the ownership signature "De Wolf / 1860" on the front free endpaper. This edition includes material not found in the Appleton edition of... More
