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
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
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
London: Richard Bentley, 1833. 2 volumes, large 12mo, pp. xii, 399; xi, [1], 355; contemporary half polished green calf over marbled boards, red morocco labels on spines; slight cracking along the point of vol. I, minor rubbing; very good. John Stuart Mill contributed the essay on Jeremy Bentham which is..... More
London: Longman, Brown [et al.], 1858. 12mo, pp. xii, 239; publisher's full brown divinity-style morocco with blindstamped geometric panels on covers enclosed by a triple blind-rule border, spine in 5 compartments, gilt-lettered in 1, black lozenges in 4, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.; some rubbing to the joints, otherwise very good. "Hymns..... More
London: printed for J. Hodges, W. Millar [et al.], 1791. 12mo, pp. 307, [1]; contemporary full sheep; both covers stitched back on with thread (an interesting, early repair), top inch of spine perished. Famous allegory by Bunyan first published in 1682. More
Philadelphia: Presley Blakiston, 1012 Walnut Street, 1880. Thick 8vo, pp. xxii, [2], 550, [6] opinions of the press of the 1877 edition and of the author's other works; frontispiece portrait of Albert Napper, founder of Cottage Hospitals (in the pagination), numerous illustrations, plans, engravings (some folding, some full-page), and including..... More
London: The Scholartis Press, 1929. First trade edition limited to 1960 copies, 8vo, pp. [8], 178, [6]; original green paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, top edge stained black; endpapers and fore-edge spotted, textblock clean and sound, very good. The first appearance in print of four..... More
[Chicago and Iowa City: Chicago Books / University of Iowa Center for the Book, 1988]. 4to, pp. [24]; original pictorial wrappers; illustrated in color throughout; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy signed by Byron Burford. The text is from a poem by W.B. Yeats. "This book..... More
