Providence: published by Hutchens & Cory, Miller & Hammond, printers. September, 1827. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 40; original printed tan wrappers; skillfully rebacked; near fine. More than 1600 taxpayers are listed, with columns for real estate taxes, personal taxes, and total taxes paid for each, including some non-residents. The..... More

Padstow, Cornwall: Nov. 15, 1805. 4to (approx. 9½" x 7½"), approx. 20 lines and 150 words; previous folds, mathematical calculations and a note regarding Mr. Rawlings on the verso, likely by the recipient, Rev. William Sandys. Thomas Rawlings (d. 1820), provincial banker and wealthy Cornish merchant, addressed to “Dear Sir”..... More

Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1953. First edition, 8vo, pp. 352pp., frontispiece and 5 graphs in the text; a very good copy or better in orig. blue cloth. Issued as Vol. 4 in the publisher's American Waterways Series. "Based on primary source material, Rector's study reveals the intimate details of..... More

Paris: Centre d'Études de Politique Étrangère, Paul Hartmann, 1939. 8vo, pp. 397; tables and diagrams throughout, color folding map in rear; original drab wrappers (soiled) printed in orange and black, spine badly rubbed, partially perished tape repair to foot, general heavy shelf wear; occasional pencil notes in margins, later (1951)..... More

London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1791. First edition, 4to, pp. xii, 364, [12]; 2 large engraved folding maps; recent quarter brown calf over marbled boards, red morocco label on spine; fore margin of one map miscreased. This copy with the ownership signature on the half-title of "C. Wm. Admiral..... More

Peoria: printed by Benjamin Foster, 1855. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, [5]-72; some foxing on the early leaves, else fine in original printed salmon wrappers. "Root was a former common-school teacher who moved to Peoria County from Ohio in the fall of 1830. He apparently became a farmer after moving..... More

No. 1, The Terrace, Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1907. Edition limited to 300 copies, small 4to, pp. [iii]-xiii, [1], 120, [2]; full original limp vellum; spine a little darkened, else fine. In a beige cloth slipcase. Essay I. The roots of honor; II: The veins of wealth; III: Qui judicatis..... More

Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliott, 1832. 8vo, pp. [4] ads, lvi, 455; contemporary full sheep, black morocco label on gilt-paneled spine; light foxing, spine darkened, sheep scuffed and with some peeling, historical society bookplate and with perforated stamp in bottom margin of the first leaf of ads and title page; 1837..... More

Bruxelles: Institut Belge des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, 1975. 8vo, pp. 288; 3 folding maps; olive printed paper wrappers; small stain on upper wrapper, text clean and bright, near fine. Melanges Chinois et Bouddhiques Volume XVII. More

Canberra: Australian National University Press, [1967]. 8vo, pp. xvi, 334; mapped endpapers, numerous tables and charts, extremities lightly soiled, otherwise a fine copy in original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pictorial dust jacket. More

Cambridge: The University Press, 1961. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 225, [1]; numerous tables and graphs, warmly inscribed to scholar Gwin J. Kolb by the author on front free endpaper; fine in original brown cloth with gilt-lettered spine, in a lightly soiled and spotted dust jacket. More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. First edition, 8vo, pp. xix, [3], 276; illustrations; original cloth in dust jacket; near fine. More

Edinburgh: John Bell and J. Murray, 1778. First edition, 4to, pp. xx, 431, [2]; contemporary sprinkled calf, red and green morocco labels on gilt decorated spine, edges stained yellow; upper joint starting, bottom of spine with a chip glued back on, fore-edge of labels also reglued; prelims a little browned..... More