London: printed by M. Say, in Avemary-Lane, Lud-gate Street, Tuesday, January 3 to Saturday, December 30, 1786. Folio, 143 issues in all, bound in contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, the spine with a partial later paper repair, cracks starting at the joints, but the binding remains sound; no. 8140 with small..... More
[London]: printed by command of His Majesty King William IV, 1837. First edition, folio, pp. [4], xxxiv, 516, [26]; ex-Philadelphia Mercantile Library with a few small, innocuous rubber stamps, the title-page trimmed and mounted and the first 5 leaves with gutter margins guarded, but all else clean and bright; a...... More
London: printed for the Company of Stationers, by J. Nichols and Son ... and sold by George Greenhill, 1810. 12mo, pp. 48; bound with: The ladies' diary: or, woman's almanac ... designed for the use and diversion of the fair sex, n.d. [1810], 48pp.; bound with: Vox stellarum: or, a...... More
Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press [for private distribution], 1938. Edition limited to 110 copies, 16mo, pp. [10]; printed in red and black; fine in original printed green wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy signed on the colophon by Carroll Coleman. More
London: printed by George E. Eyre and WIlliam Spottiswoode, 1853. First edition, royal 8vo, pp. lxii, 482; folding chromolithograph plate; ex-library copy with usual markings, pages slightly browned, hinges cracked, spine faded with small cracks in ends, covers scuffed, else good or better in original purple cloth, gilt lettering on..... More
London: printed for J. Harris, corner of St. Paul’s, 1814. Small square 4to, pp. 16; engraved and hand-colored frontispiece and twenty-five hand-colored and engraved plates; original printed tan wrappers, light wear and soiling, expert restoration to the foot of the spine; generally a very good copy with extraordinary hand-coloring. Many..... More
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London: H. Such, printer & publisher, n.d. Broadside, approx. (9½" x 7½"), text in double column with the 2 poems side by side, with a metalcut border between the two, and each beneath a small woodcut vignette; fine. The number '3' at the bottom of the left column. Of the..... More
London: Sotheby & Co., 1927-28. 4 vols., 8vo; plates, many folding, several in color; original green wrappers; wrappers show some fading and light wear, especially to the spines, still a near very good copy. The first part contains illuminations on vellum, the second part choice and valuable books, principally from..... More
London: printed by C. Ackers...for J. Wilcox, 1734. First edition in English taken directly from the Arabic, and "remarkably accurate … the best in any language … a very poor English rendering by Alexander Ross appeared in 1649, but it was taken from the despicable French version" (DNB) of Andre..... More
[London]: Dean & Co., Threadneedle St., n.d., [1853 or before]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [16]; self-wrappers and wrappers included in the pagination; 9 hand-colored wood engravings; original pictorial wrappers; spine skillfully renewed. Wrappers and text somewhat dust-soiled with a few tiny marginal chips; all else very good and sound. Inscription..... More
Vineyard Haven, Mass. Salt Works Press, 1981. Edition limited to 600 copies, (this, no. 52 and one of 100 bound in boards, signed by the translator and illustrator); 8vo, pp. 61, [3]; 12 illustrations printed in color, most full-page; original pictorial gray cloth lettered in black on the spine, and..... More
Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1831-4. 8 (of 9) volumes, 8vo; contemporary blue-green cloth, paper spine labels (quite browned), spine of Vol. I toned, light uniform wear to edges and corners; endpages a bit spotted, else a very good set, albeit lacking Vol IV. Each volume with additional title page. Works..... More
New York: American Art Association. 1915. 8vo, pp. [4], 99, [1]; original cream paper covered limp boards, tape repair to upper joint, spine chipped; a good copy. More
Bangor: J. Brown, printer and book-binder, [1825]. Broadside, approx. 14" x 9¼" (35 cm x 24 cm), printed on one side within a typographical ornament border, wood-engraved illustration of the bridge at the top, text beneath in double column under the running head; margins trimmed to the outer edge of..... More
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1988. 8vo, pp. xiii, [3], i-[vi], 24 [i.e. 17], [4], 416-433; facsimile reprints; original pale grey printed wrappers, "Sexes, battle between" written in pencil at head of upper cover, else fine. The Augustan Reprint Society Publication no. 248. More
London: J. Baker, 1715. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 130 [i.e. 138], [2] ads; bound without the half-title in later calf-backed paper-covered boards, rebacked, with old gilt spine neatly laid down; some spotting throughout, but still a very good copy. An uncommon account of France by a British traveler. ESTC..... More
London: W. Clowes & Sons; Numadz: reprinted by W. N. & Co., 1870. 2 volumes, fukurotoji, pp. 344 (continuous); printed title in Japanese on front pastedown, as issued; original buff wrappers, printed paper labels on both upper covers; wrappers soiled, ink stamps on title page; a good copy. Contains 85..... More
Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1937. Large 8vo, pp. 128; text illustrations throughout; original blue cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine; fine in fine original glassine dust jacket and the original publisher's box. Prospectus and retrospectus divided into 4 sections (sectional titles on orange paper), including Arthur Waugh's "Charles Dickens and..... More
London: [various publishers], 1850-1913. Incomplete run of 79 volumes, small 4to, in fair to good condition, many with cracked bindings, with chips and other defects, all but a few generally sound, generally in original cloth, some in contemporary half calf; some are ex-library; consisting of 10 volumes November 1849-December 1854;..... 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
Holborn: J. Duncombe, Jun. [1812]. Broadside, approx. 36 x 22 cm; hand-colored engraving (approx. 10 x 14 cm), text in double column, original blank spaces in the text of poem have been identified and filled in by a contemporary hand, creased where previously folded, occasional spots, overall fine. A satire..... More
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Tuesday, February 27, 1827. 21¾" x13½", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding, early owner's initials. Pennsylvania legislature sketches of the senate debate; house of representatives petitions, resolutions, and bills; public notices, intelligence, orphans court declarations, receipts and expenditures of Dauphon county, lottery, book auction of..... More
Philadelphia: published by William M'Corkle, Friday Morning, March 18, 1814. 20½" x13", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding, partial split at central fold, early owner's signature. News from Congress and House of Representatives, marine journal; numerous ads (some with cuts) rum, wine, sugar, lottery, book auction of..... More
London: Charles Griffin and Company, [1860s]. First edition, 4to, pp. viii, 116; chromolithograph frontispiece and title page, printed title page in red and black, mounted half-page chromolithograph plates throughout; t.e.g., contemporary full red morocco, gilt panels on cover and spine; spine neatly and sympathetically rebacked, very good. Not in Faxon..... More
[Edinburgh: 1793.]. Small 8vo, p. 16; removed. Letters to the Edinburgh Evening Courant by Quid nunc, jun. on the reform of certain societies, among them the physicians, tanners, painters, musicians, brewers, gardeners, weavers, bakers, shipmasters, booksellers, glaziers, etc. , and another to the same signed Common Sense. Includes the resolutions..... More
