The bitter end
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1928. First American edition, small 8vo, pp. [4], 252; dust jacket with several shallow chips and creases, spine lightly sunned; very good. A seventeen-year old volunteer in the trenches. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1928. First American edition, small 8vo, pp. [4], 252; dust jacket with several shallow chips and creases, spine lightly sunned; very good. A seventeen-year old volunteer in the trenches. More
London: Eric Partridge Ltd. at the Scholartis Press, 1930. First edition, 8vo, pp. 160; blue cloth, blue-stained top edge; corners rubbed, shadows on endpapers, light spotting on fore edge, very good in a toned and price-clipped dust jacket. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., [1929]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 301, [1]; fine copy in original orange cloth stamped in black on upper cover and spine, dust jacket with one or two short tears at the extremities and very shallow ships at the head and heel..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. First book edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xx, 196; 20 etched plates by Cruikshank plus a nearly full-page woodcut; later half brown morocco over brown cloth, gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1; frontispiece loose, but present; joints and extremities scuffed and..... More
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1862. First Ticknor & Fields edition, 12mo, p. 458, 16 (publisher's catalogue); title page printed in red and black; fine copy in origional green pebble-grain cloth, Ticknor & Fields device central on both covers, gilt-lettered spine. More
London: printed for W. Fisher, and R. Mount, 1688. Small 12mo (126 x 64 mm), pp. [204]; sectional title page for The Use of the Line of Numbers; engraved frontispiece (signed: R. Gaywood fecit.), 1 woodcut plate; contemporary if not original full sheep, gilt-decorated spine, red morocco label; extremities rubbed..... More
London: C. Davis, 1752. Third edition, 8vo, pp. [4], viii, 408; engraved vignette title-p. printed in red and black; 19th century half tan calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered direct on spine; very good. A criticism of the Earl of Shaftesbury's Characteristicks of Men Manners, Opinions, Times, and one of the..... More
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1927. The English Library edition, 3 vols., 8vo, pp. lv, [1], 351, [1]; x, 400; ix, [1], 601; 2 frontispieces, including 1 from a photograph of Browne's skull; original tan buckram over brown paper-covered boards, brown leather spine labels lettered in gilt; bookplates on front pastedowns, a...... More
Philadelphia: M. Carey; Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1816. First American edition, 12mo, pp. 201; very good in contemporary mottled calf, black morocco label on spine, some light wear to extremities, scattered browning of endpapers and text. Brown (1778-1820), a Scot, is best known as a philosopher. His Observations on the..... More
Liverpool: printed for G. F. Harris for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, London, 1808. First edition of the author's first book, published when she was just 14 years' old; 4to, pp. xxvii, [1], 111, [1]; engraved vignette title page, 12 other wood-engraved vignettes throughout; extremities rubbed and worn, label..... More
Londini: impensis J. & R. Tonson & S. Draper, 1754. 4to, pp. [4], 40; modern boards, gilt lettering on spine; some toning of the text and the textblock trimmed to 23.5 x 18.5 cm; all else very good. This is the variant with the price 1 s. 6 d. on..... More
Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co., 1867. Small 8vo, pp. xii, 124; additional engraved title page, portrait frontispiece, 3 plates; contemporary dark brown blind-tooled morocco, gilt-lettering to upper cover and spine, a.e.g., black endpapers; extremities rubbed, remnants of previous bookplate on ffep, contemporary ownership signature on flyleaf and engraved title page..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1932. 8vo, pp. vii, 44; contemporary orange marble boards, paper spine label, orange board slipcase, front, back, and spine paper labels; top and fore-edges of slipcase a bit toned, 1/2-inch tear to paper on top edge of slipcase; a very good, tight, attractive copy. "Set..... More
New York: James Miller, [n.d.] (circa. 1870's). 2 volumes in one, 8vo, pp. 433; engraved frontispiece portrait, owner's signature in pencil on preliminaries, marbled endpapers; hinges cracked, corners and spine a bit rubbed, else very good in contemporary brown morocco with gilt-lettered spine and raised bands. a.e.g. More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, The Riverside Press, n.d., [1895]. 8vo, pp. [2], xviii, 1033; inserted engraved frontispiece and vignette title-p.; text largely in double column; original full blue morocco "bound at The Riverside Press," gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments, gilt lettered direct in 2, a.e.g., ribbon bookmark; previous..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co, Ltd, [1939]. 8vo, pp. 36, [4]; color frontispiece, text illustrations, including four full-page; original pictorial printed paper wrappers; wrapper edges toned and rubbed, ownership signatures on flyleaf and bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian on front free endpaper;..... More
New York: Fred De Fau & Co., n.d., [ca. 1900]. Florentine Edition, limited to 1000 sets (this, no. 61), 12 volumes, 8vo, each volume with engraved color frontispiece and a handful of engraved plates; original three-quarter brown morocco over marbled sides and endpapers, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered in..... More
London: Oxford University Press, [1940]. 1949 printing, small 8vo, pp. xiv, 698, [2]; text in double column; full later dark navy gilt-ruled morocco, gilt spine in 6 compartments, a.e.g.; recent owner's ballpoint pen inscription on front free endpaper, else fine. More
New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, [1877]. 2 volumes, 4to, pp. lxxvii, [5], 430; [2], 431-950; steel engraved frontispieces, extensively illustrated with portraits, wood engravings, ornamental silhouettes, and facsimiles; title pages printed in red and black; original full dark brown morocco decorated in blind and gilt, gilt spines in 6..... More
London: J. Robson, 1792. First edition, 4to, pp. xx, [134], 44, 47-66, 4, [2]; 13 plates including the folding plan of Blackfriars (with old tape repair barely touching the image), genealogical tables in the text; recent calf-backed marbled boards, red gilt morocco spine label; all plates with moderate tidemark mostly..... More
London: John Lane; Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1896. First edition, 8vo, xxiv, 107, [1], 16-page publisher's catalogue; frontispiece etching and 5 etched plates by E. Philip Pimlott; original blue cloth stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, t. e. g.; light wear to extremities, the spine a...... More
London: printed for A. Strahan; T. Cadell, and J. Balfour, 1786. First edition, this being the issue with p. 5 paginated (no priority); 8vo, pp. 20; removed from binding; half title loose, but present. This copy with a presentation on the title page: "To Dr Vigarous / From the aut[hor]."..... More
London: Eric Partridge at the Scholartis Press, 1930. First edition limited to 700 copies, 8vo, pp. v, [3], 127, [1]; original blue cloth in a slightly spotted and toned dust jacket (unclipped). Very good. More
New-York: Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-Street, 1838. First American edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. [2] ads, iv, [3], 10-232; [5], 6-216, 24 (ads); original full green muslin, printed paper labels on spines; spines sunned, covers less so; all else near fine. Ownership signature of C. M. Barrell at the top..... More
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, 367; [6], 350, [2], 19 (ads), [1]; original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering on upper covers and spine; minor rubbing, very good. Sadlier 391; Wolff, 923. More