London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1843. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, 8vo. 401, 299, ciii pp. The large folding map is present. Contemporary full purple leather in a finely executed binding featuring the Scottish Wheel motif on the boards, spines in 5 compartments with raised bans, gilt, all edges..... More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., (1973). First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. ix,(3),429,(1) pp. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not clipped. The spine is lightly darkened else it is in fine condition. The first printing of the US edition, with the full number line on the copyright page; cream-colored..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. (1924). Illustrated by Kay Nielsen. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Maroon watered-silk finish cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated by twelve full color tipped-in plates by Nielsen. A fine copy. In the scarce dustwrapper. The wrapper has been repaired..... More
London: Printed for John Fairburn, 1822. First edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. xxiv, 489pp. Illustrated throughout with wonderful full-page hand-colored plates by George Cruikshank. Full crimson morocco binding by Bayntum. Spine in six compartments,gilt. The boards with interlocking gilt frames reminiscent of Grolier, Inner dentelle gilt rules with floral tools at..... More
n.p. n.p., n.d. Hardcover. A magnificent binding incorporating panels by Margarete Seeler. The eight cloisonné panels and the cloisonné figure of Christ were commissioned by Chauncey Stillman in 1960. In 1983, Mr. Stillman caused the nine panels to be incorporated into hand-wrought metal covers and affixed to the leather binding..... More
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1818. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. pp. xviii, 642, cii. 2 folding engraved maps & 10 engraved plates after drawings by the author. Recent half lfather binding of red morocco. Spine in sic compartments with raised bands, gilt titles. Marbled paper covers in a on-pareil swirl pattern. Uncut..... More
Madrid: Real Academia Española, 1819. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 4 volumes, accompanied by the Vida de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra by Miguel Navarrette for a total of 5 volumes. 175, xxiv, 359; [iv], 410; xxii, 406; vi, [blank], 403pp. and 643, [1] pp. The four volumes of Don Quijote are illustrated..... More
London: Typis Richardi Hodgkinsonne, 1655-1673. First edition. Hardcover. Three volumes in 5. Folio. Full contemporary red morocco bindings, spines in 7 compartments, intricately gilt, gilt rules on the boards, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Profusely illustrated with full page copper plate engravings of monks and monasteries. Light..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2015. Illustrated by Jessie King. Limited edition. Very good. Facsimle of the first Jessie King edition of 1903. 8vo. cvii,(1),379,(1). Publisher's light blueleather imitating the orignal light bue cloth, blocked on the spine and upper board with illustrations by King in black and gilt. Top..... More
Venice (Venetiis): Apud Iuntas (Giunta), 1542. Hardcover. Small 8vo. (8),365,(1)pp. Fine printer's device to title and full page device to last page. Woodcut initials. Original limp vellum binding with the use of 15th Century manuscript for binding. With the commentary of the French physician Martin Akakia (1500-1551). Vellum lightly soiled..... More
London: G. M. for Andrew Crooke, 1641. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (vi), 46pp. Bound to style in full calf; red leather lettering piece, gilt; the boards tooled in blind. Title page remargined (no loss) else a fine copy. With the statement at the foot of the title page: "Published by..... More
London: Wm. S. Orr and Co., 1845. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (14), 152pp. Finely bound by BIrdsall of Northampton and London in full scarlet morocco. Spine in six compartments, gilt; gilt rules on the boards; gilt inner dentelles; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; original covers bound in at rear. Chromolithographed..... More
Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1954-1955. First editions, first printings. Hardcover. Volumes 1 to 3 of the Far West and Rockies Series. Green cloth, gilt spine titles. Fine, bright copies. Volumes 1 and 2 have been inscribed by LeRoy Hafen on the front free endpapers. Laid in is..... More
London: J. Okes (Oakes), 1641. First edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. (70)376pp. Contemporary leather boards, nicely rebacked to style with six compartments with raised bands, gilt title. Text lacks the dedication leaf and the 'To the Reader" leaf, otherwise complete. The frontispiece of Merlin is in an excellent facsimile. Original boards..... More
London: Richard Phillips, 1810. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxix,(i),984pp followed by 4pp. publisher's catalogue. Half-title present. Early binding of full polished calf; spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt. Gilt borders and inner dentelles to the boards. Nicely and nearly invisibly rebacked with the original backstrip laid on and..... More
London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. xx, 494; publisher's lists: (2); 24, dated 1859; xvi; 472pp. Illustrated with 20 chromoxylograph plates, 16 of which are in full color; 76 woodcut illustrations; 8 maps, hand-colored. Contemporary half polished tan colored calf, spines in six..... More
New-York: Hopkins & Morris, 1825. Wraps. 8vo. 40pp. Printed paper wraps, unsophisticated. Wraps well soiled and worn; binding nearly perished; pages rough and soiled along the edges but not affecting text. A fair copy only. Preserved in a custom clamshell case. Begins with a excerpt from Jefferson's Notes on Virginia..... More
London: Effingham WIlson, 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. vii,(1),100pp. Hand colored frontispiece, plus six lithographed plates. Modern quarter morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, leather lettering label, gilt; cloth boards; vellum corners; marbled endpapers. With the original wrappers bound in at the rear. Without the publisher' s...... More
Philadlephia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1814. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 2 volumes. (3), iv-xxviii, 1-470;(2), 522pp. Two plates in volume I, and another three in volume II, as called for. Sometime rebound in full calf, spines tooled with gilt lines and leather lettering pieces, gilt; pleasing paste paper endpapers. The map..... More
Holguin, Cuba: Cuadernos Papiro, 2018. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. 4to. 12 leaves of handmade paper bound by hand in a thick handmade paper covers made from water hyacinth with a branch incorporated into the upper cover, and with ties made with dried stems and jute. The final leaf gives..... More
Amstelodami: Henricum Wetstenium, 1692. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (16),384,(12),(8),397,(17) pp. Nine engraved plates. Contemporary vellum binding, leather lettering label, gilt. Title page printed in red and black, and with engraved vignette. Six of the engravings are full page plates, and three are double page (though two of the singles are..... More
Ithaca, NY: n.p., n.d. Apparently a unique copy, one of Fernando Llosa's beautiful one-of-a-kind artist books. Fourteen mounted Indian ink washes by the artist loose in case. The mounts are 8 inches square. The illustrations vary considerably in size. Each mount is initialed by the artist on the reverse, and..... More
New York: George G. Peck, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 117pp. Black cloth, gilt titles on spine and upper board, floral endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of Thomas Rogers. 47 full page plates of locomotives including specifications manufactured by this firm. Coal or wood fuels, standard and narrow gauges, 4 to 10..... More
Paris: Chez Jean Henault, 1671. Hardcover. Traduction novelle. 4to. (20, 480 pp. Recent full calf. Wood engraving to the title and at the beginning of the text, Spine in six compartments, red morocco lettering label, gilt, blind tooling, boards tooled in a blind diaper patterns marbled endpapers. Some occasional staining..... More
Dusseldorf: Vier-Turme-Verlag, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Large square 8vo. 133pp. Brick red cloth covers with a repeating "WIND" motif on the upper board in black; black spine titles; patterned endpapers. Illustrated throughout with photographs of Wind's work, mainly in black and white with a few in color. A fine copy..... More
