London (Londini): Typis J. Flesher, 1650. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (6),418,(2),72,(12)pp. Contemporary full vellum; manuscript title; later (but still early) leather lettering pieces, gilt. One leaf with a chart of the Saxon alphabet. Also contains Somner's annotated version of Lipsius' glossary: "Guilielmi Somneri, Cantuariensis, ad verba vetera germanica, a v....
London: Tilt, 1836. First edition. Hardcover. Twenty-four subjects on a folding sheet enclosed by printed paper boards with the title design and date (1836) on the upper board and a portrait of Tilt with '1836' on the wall behind him, on the lower board. With contemporary handcolored plates. Cohn, p....
Tucson: DeGrazia Studios, (1962). First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. Twenty large 18 by 22 inch full color lithographs depicting the memorable events in the life of the popular, talented and heroic Eusebio Kino, SJ, sometimes called the most eminent and beloved Southwest pioneer. The images vary in size on the...
Boston: Christian Scientist Publishing Company, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. 456pp. Publisher's black patterned cloth; gilt spine title; plain endpapers. Errata page tipped-in at rear. One of 1000 copies of the first edition. A fine, bright copy, with only the barest traces of wear, notably at the head of...
New-York: Hopkins & Morris, 1825. Wraps. 8vo. 40pp. Printed paper wraps. 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...
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. First US edition. Hardcover. 4to. xvi,(4),335pp. Publisher's blue cloth, leather label, gilt. Illustrated with 18 illustrations plus a frontispiece, some in color. Folding map present at rear. Large paper edition: One of 250 numbered copies. The spine is lightly sunned and the lettering...
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...
London: J. M. Dent, 1893-94. Aubrey Beardelsy. First edition. Wraps. Twelve original parts in green wrappers. Parts 1-8 and 10-12 are the "Superior Issue" of 300 copies on Dutch handmade paper (this set unnumbered). Part 9 is from the "regular issue" and is slightly smaller in size. Full page and...
London: Dean & Son, 11 Ludgate Hill, 1859. Poor. 4to. Bound in thin card with covers printed in color. 16 pp., printed on one side only, with eight full page hand-colored illustrations showing Punch and Judy, et al., in the upper portion with text and drummer below. Each plate has...
New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1921. Frontispiece by Frank E. Schoonover. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth printed in dark green on the spine and upper board. A near fine copy with only a trace of wear. The dustwrapper has what appears to be old tape on the spine, is worn...
Matriti (Madrid): Ex Typographia Regia, 1683. Hardcover. Folio. xii, 835pp. Old calf, spine in seven comparments with raised bands, gilt. Title page in red and black. Entries in Latin and Spanish. Leather crfacked and rubbed, joints strengthened, lettering label (if there was one0 perished, leaving only a blind impression of...
Auburn: Derby and Miller, et al. 1853. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi,(17)-336pp. 4pp. publisher's ads inserted between the front endpapers. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards embossed in blind. Yellow coated endpapers. Illustrated with seven full page illustrations, including the frontispiece of the author. Significantly foxed, as...
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.....
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...
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. First English edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. xxii,424; iv, 452pp. Quarter calf. Spines tooled in gilt, leather lettering labels, gilt. Marbled paper boards. Illustrated with plates; a folding frontispiece; two folding maps. One map misfolded leaving a bit of the right margin ragged...
London: John Tanner, 1744. Hardcover. Folio. xliv, (10), 722 pp followed by the index and several pages of corrigenda. Frontispiece portrait of the author; engraved vignette on title page, repeated on last leaf; three plates depicting the arms of 213 monasteries described in the text. Contemporary full calf; spine in...
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...
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Two volumes in one. Each volume has its own typeset title page,, and the engraved title for both is present at the beginning. Sixty-four full page, tissue guarded plates are present (complete). Finely bound in full crimson morocco...
London: J. Robson, 1777. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First edition. xv,196pp. Contemporary full calf. Spine in 6 compartments with raised bands; simple gilt rules separate the compartments. Red leather lettering label, gilt. Plain endpapers. Old, nearly invisible, repair to the spine; light wear to edges; else a near fine copy...
