Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1928. Edition ltd. to 1250 copies (this, no. 1154), narrow octavo, pp. [5], 51, vi; ornamented title page; generally fine in original limp vellum, gilt-stamped on spine and front cover, publisher's slipcase. Beedome's poems, which in his Preface Meynell draws a casual comparison to John Donne's work... More

London, Paris, NY: The Hyperion Press, 1939. First edition, 4to, pp, 23, [1]; 40 color plates of costumes from various regions of France; tan pictorial stiff paper covers; covers toned and a little worn at extremities, most of the plates loose but present with only ocassional edgewear, internals clean and bright. More

White Bear Lake, MN: National Speleological Society, 1980. 4to, pp. v, [1], 190; illustrations and maps throughout 5 large folding charts in back of Mystery Cave, Carlin Caverns, Farmers and Mechanics Bank Cave, Cold Water Cave, and Boscobel Bear, Paradise Pit and Horseshoe Bay Caves. Yellow printed paper wrappers, offsetting... More

Vienna: Die Postmarke, 1929. 8vo, pp. 51, [1]; illustrations of cancels and covers throughout; paper wrappers detached but present, good. More

n.p., n.d. likely Italian in origin, late 18th or early 19th century. Faircopy of two titles of Joannes Damascenus, and likely a scribe's exercise in calligraphy; 12mo, approx. 5" x 3½" (125 x 90 mm), [1], 126 leaves; bound with: Suppliche Affettuose alla Beatissima Vergine Madre di Dio ... tradotta... More

Bath, [England]: for the British & Foreign Bible Society, by Isaac Pitman, 1863. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 140; original sprinkled sheep by Watkins, with binder's ticket; some cracks and small chips along the spine edges and joints, else a good copy or better. Printed in Isaac Pitman's phonetic characters... More

Saint Paul: printed by Brown and Olmsted, 1854. Small 8vo, pp. 22, [2]; orig. yellow printed wrappers, stitched, as issued; back wrap soiled, else fine. Martin 72, locating only the Minnesota Historical Society copy; not in Sabin; NUC locating only the MHS copy as well. I dare say rare: in... More

Philadelphia: Gihon, Fairchild & Co., 1841. 12mo, pp 142; original calf-backed boards, gilt title "Shanty" on spine; light foxing; very good and sound. The first edition was printed in London in 1839. A New York edition was also published in 1839 and a Utica edition in 1841. NCBEL notes an... More

New York: Thomas Greenleaf, 1790. First edition, 12mo, 163, [5]; old calf-covered boards, peeling, but the textblock is fine and the binding sound. On the title page at the top in ink: "Price 4p." Evans 22631. More

Torino: Giambista Fontana, 1761. 12mo, pp. 263, [1]; title within ruled border; printer's woodcut device on title; contemporary full calf, gilt rules on covers, gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments, red morocco label in 1, edges stained red; very good and sound. Latin and Italian in parallel translation. More

Germantown: Gedruckt und zu finden bey Christoph Saur, 1770. 12mo, pp. [14], 490, [15], 13, 82 [i.e. 83], [1]; woodcut frontispiece portrait; contemporary full calf, brass clasps and catches preserved; a nice copy. The fourth printing of Saur's edition of 1757, "the first Lutheran hymnbook printed in the United States" (Evans). Evans 11714; Bötte & Tannhof 384. More

South Hanover, Ia. [i.e. Indiana]: Morrow and Bayless, printers, 1834. First American edition, 12mo, pp. [7], 8-234; likely original black cloth, worn and fraying along the joints; last gathering loosening; good. With "An Explanation of Some Scots Words which are used in this Treatise" on pp. 20-32. Taken from the... More

Nürnberg: Johann Paul Krauss, 1739. 8vo, pp. [46], 720, [94]; engraved frontispiece of a scribe working in a library; old vellum-backed boards, the spine almost perished and revealing the binding structure underneath; the binding a bit skewed, but sound. Pliny the Younger wrote hundreds of letters, of which 247 survive... More