Venetia: presso a Francesco Ziletti, 1585. First and only Italian edition (first published in Burgos, 1578, under the title Tractado de las drogas y medicinas de las Indias Orientales); 4to, pp. [52], 342 (i.e. 340); printer's woodcut device on title page; 45 full-page botanical woodcuts of medicinal plants and 2... More

London: John Murray, 1929. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxxviii, [4], 420; x, [2], 421-798; 51 maps (2 in color), 50 plates, largely from photographs; original pictorial brown cloth stamped in black on upper covers and in gilt on spines; generally a fine, sound copy. Czech, Africa, p. 139 (citing the... More

London & Edinburgh: Gurney and Jackson, 1921. First edition, 8vo, pp. xx, 452; frontispiece map, 248 ilustrations chiefly from sketches by the author, and from photographs; original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt on both covers and spine, t.e.g.; a fine copy. Walter Peterson bookplate. Czech, Africa, p. 35: "Chapman... More

Erfordiae: impensis authoris, typis Joh. Henrici Groschii, Acad. Typogr. 1715. First edition, 4to, pp. [36], 284; title page printed in red and black; text printed in double columns; engraved initials, decorative head- and tail-pieces; pictorial engraved title page, 27 engraved plates (1 folding), and 1 half-page engraving in the text... More

London: Horace Cox, 1913. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xii, 282, [10] ads; frontispiece, 8 plates, 25 illustrations in the text; fine copy in original green crocodile-skin patterned cloth stamped in black and gilt on upper cover and spine. Czech, Asia, p. 204: "The author provides information on how to... More

Padstow, Cornwall: Nov. 15, 1805. 4to (approx. 9½" x 7½"), approx. 20 lines and 150 words; prevous folds, mathmatical calculations and a note regarding Mr. Rawlings on the verso, likely by the recipient, Rev. William Sandys. Thomas Rawlings (d. 1820), provincial banker and wealthy Cornish merchant, addressed to “Dear Sir”... More

written for William Knight of Akron, N York, Feb. 28, 1863. Folio, approx. 12" x 7½", on recto and verso of a single sheet, 4 stanzas of 10 lines each; a personified muskrat laments the cold of winter, traps, dogs, and the perpetual want by humans of its fur. Atkins... More

London and New York: Trubner and Co., and D. Appleton and Co. 1888. Small 8vo, pp. [8], 120, [2]; loose in contemporary limp black leather cover, neat contemporary or slightly later annotations in pencil throughout, along with 48 pages of manuscript notes, the bulk of which have been sewn into... More

New York: 1924-25. Includes a bifolium prospectus for Leiderman's book, Muscle Building (illustrated and printed in red & black); an 8½" x 11" broadsheet for a contest to win a free trip to New York to learn from Leiderman ("And remember, the colored boy has just as much chance as... More

1932. Cardboard scrapbook, 12" x 9", pp. [58]; invitations, calling cards, 15 hand illustrated dinner place cards with the names of Chinese ladies, dinner menus (both handwritten and printed), 63 mounted photographs, and an assortment of postcards, all from 1931-1939, with the majority from 1932. The contents have been removed... More

Guanabacoa [i.e. Havana]: n.d. [1901]. 16mo, pp. 4 (approx. 6" x 4½"), original drab printed wrappers (toned); dedication slip tipped in prior to the first leaf and stating "edicion II." Accompanied by a printed bifolium containing the poem "Otro Lamento" by Orozco y Etienne, dated 1903, and with 2 (likley... More

Boston: privately printed, 1902. First edition limited to 3000 copies (this, copy no. 1029 with presentee's name neatly eradicated; folio, pp. xvi, 402, inserted red, gold and black presentation leaf, 88 plates (18 are chromolithographs), decorative initials and ornaments throughout; hinges slightly cracked, else a very good, bright copy in... More

Saigon: Public Administration Division USAID, 1966. 4to, pp. [4], vi, 26, [30] (appendices), [2], 18, [2], 23, [1]; printed from typescript; charts and graphs throughout, white printed wrappers; 1 miscut page, no loss of text, near fine. More