Vindobonae (Vienna): Josephi Nobilis de Kurzboeck, 1780. Hardcover. 8vo. 52,(iv)pp. Woodcut chapter heading and tailpiece. Folding hand-colored frontispiece entitled 'Prospectus Thermarum Gasteinensium.' Bound to style in quarter leather, gilt; vellum tips; marbled paper boards. A fine copy. Scarce early discussion on the healing powers of the Gastein waters, long before..... More about Dissertatio Inauguralis Chemico-medica de Thermis Gasteinensibus

In the Savoy: T.N. for Henry Harringman, 1678. Hardcover. The Second impression whereunto is added a Table. 4to. 734pp. followed by the Table (15pp.) Bound to style in quarter calf; spine in six compartments with raised bands, red leather lettering label, gilt. marbled paper sides, vellum tips. Fine copy. ESTC... More about The History of the Civil Wars of France; Written in Italian by H. C. Davila. Translated out of...

New-York: Printed and Sold by S. Wood at the Juvenile Book-store, 1812. First edition. Wraps. 16mo. (2½ x 4 inches.) 26,(2)pp. The final 2pp are publisher's advertisements. Printed wraps, string binding. Illustrated with woodcuts. Four alphabets printed inside front cover: Roman capitals and lower case; Italic capitals and lower case... More about Hymns for Little Children

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

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: Edward Moxon, 1857. Hardcover. First illustrated edition. 4to. (1-vi), vi-xiii, (xiv-xvi), (1), 2-375, (376) cardstock pages. Illustrated with 54 wood engravings by the Dalziels, W. J. Linton, etc., after D. G. Rossetti, J. E. Millais, W. Holman Hunt, etc. A lovely and pleasant binding by Zaehnsdorf of full purple... More about Poems

London: Printed for W. Wood, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 188, (2)pp. With 2300 Figures. Thirty-eight full page plates of shell in two states: One hand-colored followed by one uncolored. Contemporary full long grained red leather. Spine in five compartments with raised bands; two with gilt titles and the... More about Index Testaceologicus; Or A Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, Arranged According to The...