Boston: Marion Lowell, 1895. First edition, 8vo, pp. 368; original orange cloth; spine with small hole affecting 2 letters in the titling; mild toning, very good and sound. Quite a thesis, deserving of interpretation. "Harmonic gymnastics consist of a series of physical exercises, the aim of which is to perfectly..... More
London: R. Carlisle, 1819. 8vo, pp. 112; bound with: Rights of Man. Part the Second, Combining Principle and Practice. London: W. T. Sherwin, 1819. Pp. 118, iv; contemporary blue paper-covered boards worn at the edges and soiled, corners bumped, recent rebacking in cream paper, portions of old printed paper label..... More
Boston: T. B. Wait & Co., 1809. First American edition, [4], vi, [2], 118; original blue paper boards, tan spine, joints starting and ends of spine perished, a couple leaves folded, stain on upper cover; with an early bookplate of Daniel Cony and his signature on endpapers. American Imprints 16986..... More
Philadelphia: from the press of Sowden & McCorkle, 1796. First American edition, 12mo, pp. 160; full calf, gilt-ruled spine, tan label; joints cracked, library note on upper paste down, light foxing, good. Williams (1762-1827), the English author who resided for most of her life in France, wrote passionately, but ignorantly..... More
Wilmington (Del.): printed and sold by Peter Brynberg, 1803. 12mo, pp. 392, [4]; 4 full-page illustrations on rhetorical gesture; later half calf over cloth, gilt-ruled spine in five compartments, gilt title in one, marbled edges, ownership signature of Sanford C. Hill on title page with a manuscript note tipped in..... More
New York: Frank McElroy, 1864. 12mo, pp. 281, [1]; 7 plates and text illustrations throughout, many full-page; brown cloth, faded spine, worn corners, shallow tide stain on upper edge, flyleaves lacking. An instruction manual for boys, with question and answers on the basics of war, exercises, formations, and a 22-page..... More
Boston: T. Bedlington, 1826. 16mo, 2 vols., pp. 223; 218; frontispieces and engraved title pages; original marbled boards backed in cloth, paper labels; joints starting, boards rubbed, text clean, good. More
Boston and New York: Lee and Shepard, 1875. First edition, 8vo, pp. 271, [1]; original green cloth, gilt title on cover and spine, light rubbing, else near fine. A collection of articles and essays by this prolific pamphleteer and influential anarchist, inscribed to his friend Horatio Woodman, "from the author."..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1879. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [8], 86; later library buckram, library stamps and marks, tide stain on title page, very good. The Yale John A. Porter prize essay for 1878. More
London and New York: William Heinemann, Ltd. and the Viking Press, [1932]. Special edition limited to 525 copies, this copy #456; 8vo, pp. [2], xxxiv, [2], 889, [3]; printed on onionskin paper and bound in Japanese vellum, title printed in black on spine, vignette on upper cover; vellum split on..... More
Birmingham: printed by Sarah Baskerville; and sold by Joseph Johnson... 1775. Small 8vo (in 4s); pp. [4], 59, [3]; removed from binding, contemporary marginalia and corrections, marginalia trimmed; very good. The book was originally published by John Baskerville in 1764 (see Gaskell 28). This is one of just two books..... More
[New York]: Russell Maret, 2015. Edition limited to 75 copies (this being no. 49) signed by Maret; small folio, pp. [2], 7-55, [5]; tipped-in leaf on unsized paper at the back; original decorative paper wrappers; fine. Designed by Maret and printed by him in two new typefaces of his design..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1872. First edition, 8vo, pp. 296, [4]; blue publisher's cloth, gilt-decorated spine; boards lightly soiled, very good; with a gift inscription from Yellott to N. K. Chadwick. After a brief and fruitless stint as a gold prospector, Yellott spent his career as an appellate judge in..... More
New York: J. Tiebout & Sons, 1817. 8vo, pp. [2], vii, [1], 161, [1]; text in French and English, original printed paper boards, mostly unopened; spine label perished, joints split, binding sound. Includes the first American printing of the 1793 French Constitution along with a collection of important documents relating..... More
Sherman Oaks, CA: Ninja Press, 2019. First edition limited to 70 signed and numbered copies, large 8vo (11.75" x 7.50"), pp. 24; hand set Walbaum type designed by Justus Erich Walbaum circa 1803 in Germany. Baker is used for the display, designed by Russell Maret in Rome in 2010 and..... More
New York: C. S. Francis and Company, 1844. Second edition, 12vo, pp. 288; green cloth, gilt spine; corners bumped, text cocked, foxed, good and sound. An account of the author's time in New York. From the Poetry Foundation: "Lydia Maria Child ranks among the most influential of nineteenth-century American women..... More
London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, [1852]. 12mo, pp. xvi. 126, [2], [4]; 14 folding charts; brown cloth; spine sunned, very good; with some neat pencil annotation in the margins and ownership signature of J. D. Simanton. More
Belfast: printed for the author by J. and W. Magee, 1789. First edition, 8vo, pp. 16; stitched, as issued; uncut; a fine copy. A poem celebrating the fall of James II, "originally intended for recital at a festive meeting of the principal inhabitants of Derry, who assembled on the 7th..... More
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1888. First edition, pp. [2], 38; cartoon illustrations by Thomas Nast, original illustrated paper wrappers, wrappers toned, chipped, and separated from textblock, but present, good. The full text of a speech on tariffs, with accompanying satirical cartoons every other page lambasting the..... More
Boston: Josiah P. Mendum, 1866. 12mo, pp. 220, [6], black cloth, gilt title on spine; ends of spine rubbed, endpapers toned, else very good. A famous and popular text first published in 1793 in France, here "translated by Thomas Jefferson and Joel Barlow. Jefferson translated the invocation and not less..... More
London: Peter Parker, 1692. Fifth edition, 8vo, 4 p.l. plus unpaginated text in triple column; 20th century quarter brown calf over marbled boards, red morocco label on spine; a very good, sound copy. The first edition appeared in 1676 and nearly a dozen editions kept this book in print well..... More
Dublin: printed in the year, 1754. First Dublin edition, and second edition overall; 16mo, pp. xii, [204]; contemporary and likely original calf-backed boards, red morocco label; joints cracked, cords holding. First published in London the previous year and of that ESTC locates 10 copies - 6 in the U.S.). This..... More
Philadelphia: Friends Book Store, 1887. First edition, 12mo, pp. 12; original printed gray wrappers; lightly toned, else fine. More
Philadelphia: T. Ellwood Chapman, 1862. First edition, 12mo, pp. 12; original plain green paper wrappers; lowevr corner nibbled (no loss of any letterpress); otherwise near fine. The text issigned in tyype, "William Dorsey, clerk." More
Cambridge: University Press, 1922. First edition, large 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 804; original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; hinges starting; ex-Cambridge University library with their perforated stamp in the title page and a "withdrawn stamp at the bottom of the front free endpaper; no external markings; all else very good. "The..... More
