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... 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
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
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 vols., 8vo, pp. 344 (continuous); printed title in Japanese on front pastedown, as issued; original buff wrappers sewn in the Japanese manner, printed paper labels on both upper covers; wrappers soiled, ink stamps on title-p.; a.... 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
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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
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
London: R. Snagg, 1774. First edition, 12mo, pp. [4], viii, [4], 247; full contemporary blind-ruled calf, rubbed and worn with spine ends chipped away and corners showing; the spine in six compartments with raised bands, the leather flaking; the joints and hinges cracked and tender, with boards holding by threads... 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
[London: Punch Office], 1928. 4to, pp. liv; plain and color plates of cartoons and advertisements; original pictorial staplebound wrappers detached but present, edges toned, textblock about fine. A holiday-themed issue. More
Soho: Nonesuch Press, 1924. Edition ltd. to 1250 copies printed by the University Press, Edinburgh (this no. 1038); 8vo, pp. ix, [3], 128; title-page within ornamental borders; near fine in original quarter art vellum over gray paper-covered boards, and preserving the original printed dust jacket (slightly soiled). Ransom, Selective Checklists, p. 163. More
New York: Kende Galleries, 1949. 8vo., pp. 88; original light blue wrappers printed in red; wrappers a bit darkened, especially the spine, else very good. 844 lots including a fine copy of Alken's National Sports of Great Britain, a first edition of James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy, and important first... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 1885. Thick 8vo, pp. vi, 648; engraved frontispiece, 23 plates; contemporary full maroon morocco, gilt-lettered spine in 6 compartments, raised bands, a.e.g., decorative cloth endpapers; ffep detached, spine and front hinge loose from text block, edges and joints rubbed from shelf wear, interior... More
London: Longman, [et. al.], 1862-1866. 2 volumes, royal 8vo; 1 folding facsimile in color; ex-library copy with usual markings, pages slightly browned, hinges slightly cracked, extremities and spines rubbed, top of spine on vol. II chipped away with small loss of title, covers scuffed, else a good, sound copy in... More
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1993. Edition limited to 210 copies, 8vo, pp. [8], 320; original calf-backed decorative paper-covered boards, gilt lettered direct on spine; fine. This is the copy from the binder, Greg Campbell, Campbell-Logan Bindery, and is out of series. More
Los Angeles: Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California, 1984. 8vo, pp. 46, [1]; 12 illustrations; fine in original pictorial printed red wrappers. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies at the Castle Press, Pasadena. More
Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle, 1844. 3 volumes, 8vo, engraved titles in each volume; slight scuffing, but a handsome set in publisher's full black pebble-grain morocco with gilt stamped urns on upper and lower covers, elaborate gilt fillets on smooth spines in 5 panels, gilt lettered in 2. Designed as a continuation... More
New York: Charles S. Boesen, n.d. Four volumes bound together, 8vo; illus.; very good in original blue cloth stamped in gilt (a bit faded) with original wrappers bound in at the end. More
Ann Arbor: The Augustan Reprint Society, 1946-1947. Three volumes, 8vo; facsimile reprints, introductions printed from typescript; No. 1 in original grey printed wrappers (a bit soiled), Nos. 2 and 3 in original drab printed wrappers; edges browned, general light wear, else very good. Contents include Sir Richard Blackmore's "Essay upon... More
[Haarlem, printed by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, for]: The Pleiad, 1927. Edition limited to 550 copies printed under the typographic direction of Frederick Warde, slim 4to, pp. [8], 53, [1]; unopened; fine in original green linen lettered in gilt on spine. More
