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 about 50 Decorations of the Principal Orders of Knighthood and Chivalry of the World
n.p. n.p., (1902). Stapled wraps. 8vo. Stapled printed wraps. 72pp. A calendar showing the matters to be tried by the courts: Pima County, April 6th and October 5th; Cochise County June 1st and December 7th; Santa Cruz County January 2nd and July 6th. The front wrapper lists the presiding officers;..... More about Calendar: District Court, First Judicial District, Territory of Arizona, Pima County. October...
London: Dean and Son, n.d. [ca. 1855]. Early Edition. Broadside. 8 leaves, printed on one side only. 7 large woodcut illustrations, and a small initial vignette, all hand-colored. Paper wrappers, included in the collation. Back wrapper lists Dean and Son's Sixpenny Toy Books; large closed tear in bottom margin with... More about Jack and the Bean-Stalk
London: J. Dodsley, 1774. First edition. Very good. First edition. Two volumes. 4to. [4], vii, [1], 568; [4], 606, [1]pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Second state (Type B) with text at I, 55, corrected. Contemporary full calf; spines in six compartments, gilt; gilt titles. Portrait lightly offset to title page. Both... More about Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His...
London: T. Rickaby for S & E Harding, 1795. Hardcover. 12mo. 119,(1)pp. Contemporary full marbled calf, boards and spine tooled in gilt, black lettering label, gilt. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated with engraved vignettes by Harding. Hinges and corners neatly mended else a very good copy. The first part, "A Letter from... More about The OEconomy of Human Life, Translated from an Indian Maniscrupt, Written by an Ancient Bramin
Potsdam: Muller & Co, 1920. Edmond Dulac. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (110)pp. With 10 tipped-in full color illustrations by Edmund Dulac. One of 150 copies on hand-made paper. Original half leather binding, spine decorated in blind and with a red lettering piece, gilt; decorated paper over boards. Boards yawning a.... More about Der Erwachte Schlafer; Die Geschichte von den Drei Derwischen
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 about Morias Enkomion (In Greek), Stultitiae Laus Desid, Erasmi Rot. Declamatio (Encomiun Moriae - In...
London: A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1767. Early Edition. Hardcover. The Second Edition, Corrected. 8vo. vi, 360pp. Full contemporary calf. Spine ruled in gilt; red leather lettering label, gilt. Page 296 misnumbered 299. Hinges neatly mended else a very good copy. ESTC T143431. More about Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates. With The Defence of Socrates, Before his Judges.; Translated from...
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 about De Ratione Curandi ad Glauconem Libri Duo, Interprete Martino Akakia Catalaunensi
London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. (1923). First English edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full gilt stamped red calf, t.e.g, Spine in five compartments, gilt; gilt tooling on the boards and board edges, with the title repeated in gold on the upper board. Inner dentelles tooled in gilt. Binding signed by Sangorski and..... More about Wanderer of the Wasteland
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 about Chronicles of Golden Friars
Paris: E. Jourdan, (1822). First edition. Hardcover. 19 x 27 mm. (about ¾' by 1"). 64pp. Eight tiny full-page illustrations. Contemporary full leather. Boards and spine tooled in gilt, the boards showing a bird returning to a tree. Small abrasion to the upper left corner of the title, affecting the... More about Valeur et Constance. Année 1823
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... More about The Bar-20 Three
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... More about Dictionarium, Aelii Antonii Nebrissensis Grammatici, Cronographi Regii:
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 about The Vampyre; A Tale
London: J. Heptinstall, 1705. Early Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (xl),252,(ii),2,257-397,(iii),397-529;(xix)pp. Frontispiece portrait by Maria Beale. Contemporary full sprinkled calf. Spine in 6 compartments with raised bands; the compartments with simple gilt tools; red leather lettering piece, gilt. In Latin. Old neat repairs to hinges and the tip of the spine, light..... More about Thomae Sydenham, M. D. Opera Universa
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 about The Bon Vivant's Companion, Or, How to Mix Drinks
Trenton, NJ: Privately Printed, 1935. First edition. Stapled wraps. 8vo. Green stiff printed wraps. 11pp plus (9)pp. with tipped-in 'decalomanias'. Also laid in are two additional decal sheets titled 'Novelty! Transfer Picture-Album' One of 50 copies; probable only edition. Inscribed by the author on the inside of the front cover... More about Penny Decalomanias and Other Transfer-Picture Lithographs for the Amusement of Children
