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
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
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..... 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
