London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. 8vo. (xii),50;(viii),256pp. Brown ribbed cloth embossed in blind on the boards and spine and with gilt titles on the spine. Coated endpapers. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Neat ownership names on the front free endpapers. A fine set..... More
London: John Morphew, 1715. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (4),75,(1)pp. With half-title present Woodcut initial, and a woodcut tailpiece at the end. Bound to style in quarter calf, red leather lettering label, gilt; paper over boards. A near fine copy. ESTC T34889. Scarce. More
London: Richard Phillips, 1806. Hardcover. 4to. xiv,(2),530pp. plus (2)pp. publisher's ads. Illustrated with an engraved folding aquatint frontispiece, 16 engraved aquatint plates and an engraved hand-colored map (all plates with tissue guards). Contemporary speckled calf; red lettering label, gilt; spine tooled in gilt and with gilt rules on the boards... More
London: James Flesher for R. Royston, 1662. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Volume I (of 2). (16),120,(2),198,(2),199-458,(1)pp. Engraved title and frontispiece, 2 double-page engraved plates. Four early pages printed in blak with red rules; and several pages o the Trial transcript in black and red. Contemporary paneled calf in 'Cambridge' style... More
London: Longmans, Green, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xxv, 732pp. Illustrated throughout and with the two hand-colored folding maps present. Textblock in near fine condition. Recent artist binding by Þ (signed on reverse cover) in full teal morocco. Spine lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Golden endpapers. The upper board... More
Amsterdami: Henricum Wetstenium, 1685. Early Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. (Approx 3x5 inches). (viii),152pp. Engraved title showing a fool in the pulpit preaching. Dedicatory Preface to Thomas More. Bound to style in full brown calf, the spine in four compartments with three raised bands, and with the boards tooled in blind in... More
London: Edward Arnold, Essex House Press, 1901. Woodcuts by William Strang. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. 87pp. Finely printed in an edition of 250 numbered copies of which this is No. 82. The text is a translation by Sir Thomas Challoner form the Reign of Elizabeth and edited by Janet... More
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Three volumes. 12mo. Original sand-grain violet cloth, gilt titles. Line engraved title pages. Sheridan Le Fanu was unquestionably the Victorian master of ghost and supernatural stories. This collection of tales came to LeFanu at the inn in Golden Friars... More
Paris: Ch. Bosse, 1931. First edition. Wraps. 4to. One of only 800 copies. Publisher's printed wraps. 558pp. Illustrated and with an engraved forntispiece portrait. Light wear else a near fine copy and largely unopened. More
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxv,(1),27-84pp. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones' Third Issue. Half-title is present. The 'Extract', pp. 73-84, is present. Both Extracts are sometimes attributed to John Mitford. Nicely bound to style in quarter calf, spine gilt; leather lettering label, gilt; marbled..... More
Lipsiae: Laurentii Sigismundi Corneri, 1672. Hardcover. Bound with: M. Andreae Beyeri, Ad Joh. Seldeni De DIs Syris Syntagmata, Addimenta. 12mo (38),373.24;338,(18)pp. Engraved Title Page followed by typeset title page in red and black. Folding genealogical chart present at p. 151. Contemporary full calf, spine in five compartments with raised bands... More
Paris: Ioannis Petit, 1513. Editio Princeps. Hardcover. 4to. (42)pp, 164ff. Title page in black and red, and printed throughout in black and red. Extensive index at the beginning. Recent full deep blue morocco, spine in six compartments with gilt titles, handmade paper endpapers. A few notes in an old hand... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d. (1931). Photoplay Edition. Hardcover. Photoplay edition, with illustrations from the Universal Pictures produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. Red cloth printed in black on the spine and upper board. Four full page photographic illustrations. Closed marginal tear, affecting text, neatly repaired without loss on page... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Asbury edition. Hardcover. 8vo. li,(3),169,(1)pp. Yellow cloth printed in Aquatone by the Edward Stern Co. Top edge stained green. Illustrated. Index. This is the first cocktail recipe book published in the United States, first appearing in 1862. The 1928 edition is the... More
