Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1890. First separate edition, 8vo, pp. 24; fine in original green printed wrappers. Originally collected in The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State and Other Essays (London,1885). A radical essay on individual rights (masquerading as a fictional sketch), from the English exponent of voluntaryism. More
Boston: Young & Minns, 1799. 8vo, pp. 14; engraved comnposite frontispiece showing 18 figures; modern calf-backed boards; plate slightly spotted, else fine. Peck was one of the most important American scientists of the period. Friends raised a subscription to have Peck elected professor in natural history at Harvard in 1805... More
[Boston? 1828-1838.]. 4to, pp. 84; lined notebook approx. 8" x 10", original marbled boards, calf spine; very good. One page loose. Zachariah Gardner Whitman (1789-1840), Justice of the Peace, is the scribe of these records. A son of Benjamin and Hannah (Gardner) Whitman he graduated from Harvard in 1807. The... More
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1868. 4to, pp. xi, [1], 250 pp. 23 double-page plates; contemporary three-quarter tan calf over marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, red and black morocco labels in 2; fine throughout. Prtesentation copy, inscribed by Francis in Lowell, November 1, 1891. This edition includes 6... More
Windsor: Printed by C. Knight, [23 October 1799]. Large folio broadside, letterpress text within type ornament border, with a central full-length etched portrait of Sir John in a frock coat and wig presenting his proposal, titled at the foot 'The Courteous Baronet or Windsor Advertiser' (dated 16 Feb 1799); woodcut... More
Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1788. First American edition, 16mo, (approx. 3¾" x 2½"), pp. viii, 112, [8] Thomas ads; 18 items on exhibition, each with woodcut illustration; recent marbled boards & paper label; a A fine copy in a cloth clamshell case with paper label. Welch 685. Rosenbach 134. Evans 21392. More
London: J. Osborn, 1741. 12mo, pp. [10], iv, xxxvi, 257, [1]; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1; slight cracking of the upper joint, but a very good, sound copy. Fundamentals of Christianity to be taught to the Indians of Georgia. De Renne I.... More
n.p., n.d. [1837]. 8vo, pp. 36; large folding lithograph frontispiece of the Iron Mountains of Missouri, one other full-page map; removed from binding; very good. American Imprints notes 3 editions in 1837: Hartford, Philadelphia, and Boston. The present edition is not located in American Imprints. Missouri Imprints, 197. More
St. Petersburg: Military Printing House, 1857. First edition, thin 8vo, pp. [4], 22; 5 folding engraved plates showing over 30 line illustrations; contemporary full blindstamped pebble-grain morocco, gilt-lettered on upper cover; very good. A rare Russian horsemanship manual. The illustrations show practice mounting and dismounting on a wooden horse, balance... More
Albany: reprinted from the London copy for James Cation, by Websters & Skinner, [1810]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [11], 12-80; 11 engraved plates of shorthand at the back; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback; spine partially perished but on the whole a very good, sound copy. See Alston... More
Bombay: King & Co. & Calcutta: King, Hamilton & Co., 1908. 16mo (approx. 5¾" x 4"), pp. 125 (including inside back wrapper); 51-page Telegram Code (with code words from the official vocabulary) tipped inside the front cover; folding color world map, 4 full-page maps on rectos and versos of 2... More
Worcester, [Mass.]: Charles Hamilton, printer, 1874. Large folio broadside approx. 43" x 28", previous folds, some toning, bottom fold rather split (but no detachment); all else very good. Mary Frances Scott-Siddons (1844-1896) was a British actor and dramatic reader. Presumably, Walker was a student at Worcester Technical Institute (now WPI)... More
New York: Cramoisy Press, 1862. Edition limited to 100 copies on large paper (this, out of series); large 4to, pp. [iii]-viii, [9]-59, [1]; original plain printed wrappers (soiled), spine perished, back wrapper with tears and chips out; front wrapper with shallow chips out. Issued as no. VI in Shea's Library... More
Denver: 1871-72. Large folio, over 60 individual issues, illustrated. Minor fraying, previous folds; very good. The paper went through several iterations: weekly editions, Rocky Mountain News (Cherry Creek, Kans. Terr., 1859), 1860-1864, and: Weekly Rocky Mountain News, 1864-1865; and Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colo., 1865), 1865-1872; and the Weekly Rocky... More
New York: Jan. 4, 1841. Folio broadside, approx. 19" x 13", text in triple column, to top half of the broadside announcing a series of lectures on English grammar in various locations in New York, and classes "for a term of years" on grammar at the Park Grammar School. Dates... More
ca. 1870s. 4to, pp. [214]; ruled, wove paper, occasionally interleaved with colored tissue, numerous calligraphic titles, decorations and borders, plus a few applied, hand-cut chromolithographic scraps; poetical manuscript in blue and occasionally red ink; some leaves with wear at edges; light soiling and marks of handling along the fore- and... More
London [?]: ca. late 1880s, colophon dated 1890. 4to, approx. 24 leaves including full color title page (incorporating 9 vignette portraits and 1 small albumen photograph portrait of a woman (Annie Wise? - see below) and 86 individual whimsical and humorous pen & ink sketches (mostly 5¼" x 4" but... More
Gardiner, [Maine]: printed for the author by A.M.C. Heath, 1856. Square 8vo, pp. 24; bound with, as issued: Criticisms in etymology and syntax: or, a supplemental English grammar..., Gardiner: printed for the author by Morrell & Heath, 1856, pp. 48 (cancel slip pasted at the bottom of the vero of... More
Washington: GPO, 1880. Second edition, "with charts," 4to, pp. xi, [1], 228; 4 charts in pocket (3 folding); original maroon cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover; minor wear; very good and sound. A workbook for field study of Indian languages. Introductory chapters on charting phonology and on grammar. Powell explains... More
n.p., n.d. [New York: 2017.]. Edition limited to 116 copies, folio, [28] leaves of translucent paper on which a title, 26 letters, and a colophon; original stab-sewn black printed wrappers, original frosted acrylic slipcase; fine. Original prospectus, which offers Maret's only text, is laid in. A geometric alphabet based on... More
New York: printed and sold by Collins and Perkins, 1809. First edition of the first Hebrew lexicon published in the Western Hemisphere, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xiv, blank leaf, 474, [1] errata; [2], 541, [1]; half tan calf antique, marbled boards, red and black morocco labels on gilt-paneled spines; nice... More
London: John Walker, 1794. 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. 444, [8]; 487, [6]; 423 [5]; each volume with an engraved title page, volume one contains a frontispiece portrait of Peter Pindar, Esq. Later half-calf over pebbled cloth with each spine in six compartments, containing a red morocco label and gilt tooling... More
n.p., n.d. [Britain: ca. 1800.]. Small 4to, pp. [114]; in a neat cursive hand throughout; very good in contemporary unadorned vellum; paper with a Brittannia watermark (likely Churchill 233) tentatively dated 1792. The Self-Tormentor (Heauton Timorumenos) is a play written in Greek by Menander, and later imitated by Terence. Likely... More
London: Charles Hitch, 1740. 12mo, pp. [4], 222, [2] ads; recent polished brown calf-backed boards, red morocco label on gilt paneled spine; some spotting of the text; overall appearance is fine. Clarke (1687-1734), a classical scholar, was head master of the Hull Grammar School, and later of the Gloucester Grammar... More
London: J. Parsons, 1793. 2 volumes, 18mo, pp. [8], 148; iv, 171; 4 nicely engraved plates; contemporary full tree calf, black morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; minor rubbing, but generally fine. Issued in the publisher's Select British Classics series. Fleeman 58.4Id/10. More
