Richmond, VA: Allen & Ginter, ca. 1890. Stiff card wraps. Twelve 8vo pages of cardstock, including the covers. Bound with cord. Each page is printed chromolithographically on one side in vibrant color. The interior pages reproduce cigarette cards issued by the tobacco company. Facing the pages with the illustrations is..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1940). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin 4to. (38)pp. Pictorial paper over boards, bright yellow cloth spine, decorated endpapers. Each page illustrated in either black & white or color with scenes from the Fantasia production. A near fine, with only the barest trace of soil..... More
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1691. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. (14),51,(1)pp. The half-title is present with its advertisement on the reverse. Also present are the Prologue and the Epilogue. The earliest copies lack these leaves, but an unsigned leaf was inserted after A4 headed "Prologue to the OPERA, Spoken by..... 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
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (8),63m(3)pp printed on handmade 'flower' paper in red and black using Kelmscott type designed by William Morris. One of 300 copies. The text is a rhymed version of the Penitential Psalms edited by F. S. Ellis from a manuscript of Horae Beatae..... More
London: Bernard Lintott, (1708). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (8), 160 pp. Half-title present. Contemporary paneled calf boards, nicely rebacked in polished calf with a red morocco lettering piece, gilt. Some browning to the text block, wear to the edges and corners and leather boards rubbed else this is a very..... More
London: John W. Parker, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. Black victorian cloth, paper label. Neatly rebacked in matching cloth (not quite as sunned as the original) with original spine laid-on. Original yellow endpapers retained. Label and original spine soiled and chipped else a very good copy in modern..... More
Lug. Batavorum (Leiden): Hackiana, 1670. Hardcover. 12mo. (8), 794pp. plus the Index. Engraved title page showing two satyrs. Contemporary speckled calf. Spine in six compartments, gilt, gilt title. Upper joint neatly strengthened, spine tips and parts of the spine mended, gilt rubbed and partially perished, else a good binding. The..... More
n.p. Bobbs-Merrill Company, c. 1913. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. (12),72pp. Pale purple cloth, white spine title and with a full color paste-on to the upper board. Illustrated end papers. Complete with 12 full page, full color illustrations by Fanny Cory. Two plates have creases and one has a short repaired..... 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
Boston: The American Humane Education Society, (1890). First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Buff colored boards printed in black. A fine copy with only a trace of wear. Housed in a custom morocco clamshell case with Beauty outlined in relief on the upper cover and the title tooled in blind. The..... More
London: Printed by M. Flesher for Henry Mortlock, 1685. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (ii),lxxiii,(ix),364pp. Bound to style in full calf. Spine in six compartments with raised bands; red leather lettering label, gil. Title page strengthened at the outer margin; light soil; some old ink names on the t.p. else a...... 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
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Thick 4to. xiv, 410pp. followed by a 6pp publisher's catalogue. Blue cloth, black lettering label on spine, gilt. Binding generally soiled with corner and edge wear, and the title page has light soil, else the textblock is very good, showing..... More
