[Marshall, Minnesota: 1898]. First edition, 12mo, pp. 243, [1]; a number of illustrations in the text; bound without the wrappers in contemporary half red roan over purple pebble-grain cloth, gilt-stamped spine; front joint starting, top of spine slightly chipped; good and sound, or better. With the rubberstamp of Parker I...... More
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1898. Edition limited to 266 copies on hand-made paper, 8vo, pp. [8], 69, [3]; title page printed in red and black; original parchment-backed paper-covered boards; spine a litte spotted, else very good. Previous owner's bookplate. "Translation of account, contained in Margry's Découvertes..., of La Salle's discovery of..... More
Innsbruk: Universitatsverlag Wagner, 1964. 8vo, pp. 255, [1]; printed paper wrappers; light soiling to wrappers, corners bumped, text clean and sound, very good. More
Nijmegen: Dekker & van de Vegt N. V., 1949. 8vo, pp. xii, 158, [1]; printed paper wrappers; unopened, corner bumped, wrappers toned, very good. Part of the series Latinitas Christianorum Primaeva. Studia ad sermonem latinum Christianum pertinentia. No. 10. More
Rotterdam: W. L. & J. Brusse, 1913. 8vo, pp. [10], 44, [2]; gray printed paper wrappers; unopened, wrapper edges faded, text clean and sound, near fine. More
[Rome]: Edizioni Dell'ateneo, 1984. Square 8vo, pp. [3], 54-75, [1]; printed paper wrappers; the paper is creased in spots due to poor production but with text remaining legible, touch of soiling to covers, very good. Epitome #12. More
Freiburg in der Schweiz: Paulusdruckerei, 1942. 8vo, pp. xii, 126, [2]; printed brown paper wrappers; corner bumped, gift note to Dr. phil. E. Vischer from the author, near fine. More
Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, [1959]. 8vo, 2 vols, pp. 74, [2]; 132; printed paper wrappers, near fine. Abhandlungen der Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen klasse, jahrgang 1958, Nr. 9. On the tragedy of Hippolytus and Phaedra. More
Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, [1967]. 8vo, pp. 109, [3]; printed paper wrappers, wrappers lightly soiled, text clean and sound, very good. Abhandlungen der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen klasse jahrgang 1966. No. 6. Fauth was adjunct professor of classical philology at Max-Planck Gymnassium and focused on mythology and theology..... More
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1896. Edition limited to 203 copies on Amercan hand-made paper, 8vo, pp. [10], xxi, [9], 229, [3]; title page printed in red and black; folding map in back cover pocket; original parchment-backed paper-covered boards; spine a little spotted and dull, previous owner's bookplate, else very good. Handsomely..... More
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1901. Edition limited to 224 copies on Amercan hand-made paper, 8vo, pp. [8], 299, [2]; title page printed in red and black; original parchment-backed paper-covered boards; spine a little spotted and with evidence of the removal of an old sticker, previous owner's bookplate, else very good. Handsomely..... More
St. Paul: D.D. Merrill, 1863. First edition, 12mo, pp. vii, [1], [13]-304; 5 plates; original brown cloth, some cracking of the cloth at the joints, small cracks at spine extremities, but generally a good, sound copy of a scarce book - the first and historically one of the most accurate..... More
Baltimore: The Waverley Press / Williams & Wilkins Company, 1911. 8vo, pp. vi, 109, [1]; front wrapper wanting; textblock sound. "Compliments of the author" in ink at the top of the title page. More
Upsaliae: Almquist & Wiksell, 1901. 8vo, pp. [6], 90; original printed blue wrappers; neat repar at the top of the front wrapper, edges lightly chipped; all else very good or better. A study of the Greek mythological character, Io. More
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1948. 8vo, pp. [2], 429-457, [1] (i.e. 32 pages); 21 graphs and tables in the text; largely unopened; original gray printed wrappers; near fine. Reprinted from the Smithsonian Report for 1947. More
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution, 1963. 8vo, pp. 315-321, [1] (i.e. 8 pages); 8 illustrations on rectos and versos of 2 plates; original printed wrappers, side-stapled; fine. Reprinted from the Smithsonian Report for 1962. More
N.p. [possibly Rhode Island]: 1738. Single sheet (7½" x 6"), 35 lines, approx. 450 words. January 1, 1738 under the Julian calendar was a Sunday. Here, Mrs. Clark makes a full and public confession of her sins of "wickedness and neglect," makes a profession of her faith and was admitted..... More
Providence: C. W. Littell & Co., printers, 1892. Approx. 5 ¼" x 3¾", pp. 34; original printed blue wrappers; some pencil amendments in the text; generally very good. "The Order of United American Mechanics was an anti-Catholic American Nativist organization of the mid-19th century. It was founded in Philadelphia amid..... More
[England (?): privately printed, 1995]. Small folio (11¾" x 8½"), pp. [110] photocopied from typescript; original pink photocopied wrappers, later brown paper wrappers backed in black cloth; generally fine. "Alan Jules Weberman (born May 26, 1945), better known as A. J. Weberman, is an American writer, political activist, gadfly, and..... More
Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1991. 8vo, pp. [6], 140, [9]; text in German, yellow printed paper wrappers; small chip to lower corner, else fine. More
London: printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1761. First edition in English, 2 volumes, pp. viii, 382; viii, 380, [22] index; folding frontispiece map; very nice copy in contemporary (and probably original) full calf, simple gilt fillets on covers and spines, volume designation numbers in gilt on spines; joints barely..... More
London: printed for the editor; J. Ridgway [et al.], 1795. First edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece of George Washington, 9 folding maps (2 with tears repaired on verso), 25 engraved plates and portraits (1 hand-colored), 4 folding tables; subscriber list bound in at the back of volume IV; contemporary..... More
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo; pp. xx, 404, [2] ads; xvi, 472, [4] ads; 3 large folding maps hand-colored in outline, 5 other full-page maps and plans, each with hand-coloring, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, plus 20 rather spectacular chromoxylographic plates from..... More
Boston: The Prince Society, 1885. Edition limited to 250 copies, small square 4to, pp. vi, [2], 385, [1]; slightly later full green cloth, gilt title on spine, gift plate from the estate of Dr. Otto L Schmidt (president of the Illinois State Historical Society); touch of scuffing to boards and..... More
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1836. First UK edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. [2], xvi, 317, [1], [2] ads; ix, [1], 320; vii, [1], 294; original gray paper-covered boards, rebacked in blue cloth and preserving the original printed paper labels on spines; good and sound. Half-title in first volume..... More
