New York: Charles Wiley, 1823. First edition, 12mo, 2 volumes, pp. [5], viii-xi, [1], 275, [1]; 329, [3]; second state of vol. 1 and first of vol. 2 per BAL; original tan paper boards, paper labels on spine; boards starting on vol. 1, upper board loose on vol. 2 and..... More
[Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press], 1937. Edition limited to 100 copies; 12mo, 6.25" x 4.75", pp. [12]; self-wrappers printed in red and black printed; small circular waterstain on upper cover, near fine. Uncommon Ward Ritchie imprint. Eight copies in OCLC, all in California save for one at Sewanee in Tennessee..... More
[New England: 1919. Oblong 8vo (approx. 7" x 11"), 31 leaves and containing sixty-two 3.5" x 5.75" photographs; bound with: "1919 New York State. Some scenes in and around Beaver Spring Farm, Davenport, N.Y" [from a card pasted to the 32nd leaf], 6 leaves containing eleven 3.5" x 5.75" photographs..... More
N.p., n.d. [possibly Portsmouth, N.H. ca. 1830]. Composite oblong 4to, 33 leaves, paged 121-144, [1]-28, [1]-14; printed music throughout, with lyrics; contemporary and likely original red roan-backed marbled boards, printed paper label on upper cover; the text is toned, a few tears and edge curls, the upper hinge strengthed and..... More
[Providence: Hiram H. Thomas and Co., likely late December, 1865]. Folio broadside approx. 17½" x 12", text in double column beneath the running head, all within a decorative typographical border; previous folds in eighths, two folds neatly strengthened on verso; folds weak, 3" newspaper shadow extends across the broadside at..... More
Troy: press of Prescott & Wilson, ccxxv River-Street, 1849. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, [5]-328, 330-353, 353-392; original brown cloth; boards soiled and worn, spine mostly perished with waste-paper lining exposed, joints cracked, tidestains on upper corner and gutter; the binding rather a mess but the textblock is good and..... More
[Paris: 1937]. Bifolium, approx 8" x 5.25"; edges a touch soiled, near fine. Originally an insert in The Booster, a short lived magazine edited by Alfred Perles, Henry Miller, and Lawrence Durrell. The "letter" is declared in the footnotes to have been rescued by Miller from the waste paper basket..... More
[New York: Russell Maret, 2021]. Over the past five years, the content of my printing has steadily changed. Despite my past aversion to overtly political artists' books, the social and political upheavals that have riven this country into splinters have slowly seeped into my work. The outrage that has been..... More
New York: W. F. Burgess, 1850. 8vo. pp. 75, [1]; text in double column; with 7-page prologue advertisment for Dumas' The queen's necklace: or, the mysteries of the court of Louis XVI. in back, pp. [3]-7, [1]; with notice at end, "This great work will be published entire by the..... More
Boston: printed for the author by T. Rowe, 1818. 12mo, pp. 204, [4]; musical notation throughout; full speckled calf; upper board loose, spine label partially perished, contemporary gift inscription on free endpaper with signature excised, the ocassional spotting, some offsetting, good. Duets, glees, catches, cannons, hymns, odes, dirges, and choruses..... More
Boston: S. G. Goodrich, 1828. 18mo, pp. ix, [3], 104; illustrated back wrapper on blue paper (loose, but present), to which has been tipped the half-title; one vignette wood-engraving by Finn; half black roan over marbled boards, rebacked with fragement of old spine laid down, speckled edges, the end of..... More
Boston: Charles C. P. Moody, 1851. First edition, 12mo, pp. 113, [1]; photographic portrait frontispiece; full speckled sheep, recently rebacked with portions of old spine laid down; spine head and tail perished, gutter split, textblock clean; good and sound. Nathanael Emmons was the leading proponent of the New Divinity school..... More
Albany: Groswell, Van Benthuysen and Burt, 1833. 8vo, pp. iv, 179, [1]; text in double column, listing lots and their boundaries, measured from 1 to 1000 acres; green paper shelfback; title page soiled, corners dogeared; good and sound. All issues are scarce. This 1834 issue present in one copy in..... More
Paris: printed by Nicolas-Francis Valleyre, for the Author, 1768. By Royal Approbation & Privilege. First edition, likely the first of two issues; 4to, pp. [ii], xlvii, [1], vii, [1], 514, [6] errata and dedication; contemporary full calf neatly rebacked, new red morocco label; the occasional very mild waterstain, but in..... More
Providence: B. Cranston, 1824-6. 4to, pp. [4], 208; [4], 208; contemporary quarter sheep over paper covered boards; binding split into 2 loose segments, vol. 1 no. 48 loose, upper cover loose, text clean, good. Through the pro-Universalist Christian telescope Pickering sought to "emancipate the human mind" from "the unreasonable dogmas..... More
New York: Collins, Keese & Co., 1840. Oblong 4to, pp. vi, 159, [3]; lithograph frontispiece and 27 composite plates with 107 lithograph illustrations; original quarter calf over cloth, gilt title on upper cover; boards worn, stained, and fraying, cloth on lower board largely perished; textblock with mild dampstains and foxing;..... More
New York: published by the author at the Anatomical Museum, 1847. 8vo, pp. 212, [4]; hand-colored engraved frontispiece, 2 engravings of the skeleton, 2 colored prints of the circulatory system, and 23 hand-colored anatomical plates, text illustrations; original full sheep; boards worn, spine chipped, joints weak, text foxed, last gathering..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1882. 8vo, pp. [4], 228, [26]; portrait frontispiece and 28 text engravings, many full-page, by Marcus Waterman, Francis Davis Millet, William Ladd Taylor, etc., engraved by W. B. Closson, J. P. Davis, Frank French, and others; original pictorial gray wrappers; spine perished..... More
Boston: printed and sold by Adams and Nourse, in Court-Street; and Benjamin Russell, and Edmund Freeman, in State-Street, 1788. First edition, 12mo, pp. 216 (lacking the 2 leaves of the Minority Report on pp. 217-219); contemporary full sheep, morocco label on spine; boards worn, label chipped, ex-David Ames Wells Economic..... More
Boston: published by Peirce and Parker, no. 9 Cornhill, 1833. First edition, 12mo, pp. x, [12]-362; full brown cloth, paper label on spine; spine head and tail chipped away, boards soiled, front joint weak, back joint partially split; tide-stained and lightly spotted; good and sound. Inscribed by the author to..... More
Leicester: Samuel A. Whittemore, 1830. First edition, 12mo, pp. 216; contemporary full calf, gilt-ruled spine; lower joint starting and upper board nearly off, spine label half perished, dampstain in upper gutter mostly affecting first dozen pages; good. Bookseller's ticket of J. Cathers & Bro., Baltimore. American Imprints 1458. Cummings, Anti-Masonry..... More
New York: Prall Lewis & Co., 1851. Fourth edition, 12mo, 4, 141, [1]; engraved frontispiece and title page, 1 engraved plate, folding map of New York; bound with, as issued: New-York - as it is; being the counterpart of the metropolis of America, 1851. Pp. [4], 18, [2]; engraved plate..... More
Paris: Nicolas Le Clerc, 1749. First edition, 12mo, pp. xliii, [5], 480; folding plate of chayaver plant; contemporary full calf, gilt-ruled spine in 6 compartments, red stained edges; spine worn, upper joint starting, lower flyleaf loose, large tear to plate neatly mended on verso; ex-St. Stanislaus Novitiate House Library, Guelph..... More
Paris: Nicolas Le Clerc, 1722. First edition, 12mo, pp. xl, 418, [10]; folding map of the southern coast of India; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, red stained edges; small split on lower joint; ex-St. Stanislaus Novitiate House Library, Guelph, Ont. (closed in 1971) with labels and a...... More
Paris: Nicolas Le Clerc, 1731. First edition, 12mo, pp. xlviii, 449, [17]; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, red stained edges; spine label perished, boards rubbed and lower board starting, ex-St. Stanislaus Novitiate House Library, Guelph, Ont. (closed in 1971) with labels and a bookplate on upper pastedown..... More
