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Edinburgh: Fraser & Co., 1835. Hardcover. 12mo. x, 314pp. Half deep blue polished calf, spine in five compartments, gilt, marbled boards. Engraved frontispiece. Folding map of Park's travels in Africa by Richard & John Lander dated 1830. Neat paper repair to the gutter of the title, light foxing to the..... More
London: Whittaker & Co, 1839. Hardcover. 8vo. 296pp. Bound issues from January through December, 1839, comprising Volume VII , No. 71, through No. 82. Each issue but December is prefaced by a full page hand-colored plate, except for July and August, which each have two, plus there is a frontispiece..... More
London: Whittaker & Co, 1840. Hardcover. 8vo. 288pp. Bound issues from January through December, 1840, comprising Volume VIII , No. 82, through No. 94. Each issue is prefaced by a full page hand-colored plate, except for April, which has three, for a total of 14 plates. With an engraved title..... More
Boston and New York: H. M. Caldwell Co., (1906). Hardcover. Shape book, cut in the shape of a bottle of champagne in an ice bucket. (136)pp. Printed in green and black. A fine copy in original glassine, and in the publisher's box. The box has light soil, but the book..... More
London: Richard Phillips, 1810. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxix,(i),984pp followed by 4pp. publisher's catalogue. Half-title present. Early binding of full polished calf; spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt. Gilt borders and inner dentelles to the boards. Nicely and nearly invisibly rebacked with the original backstrip laid on and..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and CO., 1872. Hardcover. First edition after the privately printed edition of 1868. 8vo. viii, 346pp plus 2 page publisher's catalogue. Publsher's green cloth blocked in black and gilt on the spine and upper board; brown coated endpapers. Nearly imperceptibly rebacked; a very good copy. With an..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 605pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt spine title. Hand-colored double page map frontispiece. Illustrated. Cloth worn at edges and in spots, mainly on the read board, else this is a very good copy. The author traveled through New Granada (now..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. Drawings by Paul Woodroffe engraved on wood by Clemence Housman. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (4), 106pp. Gray linen spine, printed paper label, pale blue paper boards. Four full page woodcuts and several text vignettes. Printed by the Shakespeare Head Press on handmade paper. One of..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856. Hardcover. Two volumes. 8vo. (xiii), 528; xi, (1), 610 pp. Full polished calf. Spine in six compartments, gilt, with red and brown lettering labels, gilt; gilt rules on the boards; blind inner dentelles; marbled endpapers and edges. Text illustrations. Light rubbing and..... More
Venice: (1496?). Leaf. Leaf, approximately 11 by 18 inches, printed in black with red additions by hand, and with a large red manuscript 'A' beginning with "Hoc est reportorium iuris." Nine paragraphs defining canonical terms, each beginning paragraph with a space for a manuscript 'A' (not supplied). After the opening..... More
Venice? ca. 1482. Leaf. Single sheet approximately 10 by 14 inches from a Roman Martyrology or Breviary for September 27 and 28. Printed in red and black in textura type with one red manuscript initial supplied ('W'), Contains the collect and three lessons for the feast of Ss. Cosmas and..... More
New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xiii,(1),281pp. Red cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with photographs. Gilt darkened a bit, light rubbing to the hinges and corners, else this is a near fine copy. Signed..... More
New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1917. Hardcover. A Complete Practical Guide to the Taking and Projecting of Cinematograph Pictures. 8vo. 216pp. Orange cloth printed in black. Illustrated with eight half-tone plates and numerous line drawings in the text. Index. A very early movie manual, with diagrams and explanations..... More
Buenos Aires: Instituto Cultural Walter Owen, 1978. Bilingual Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 264pp. followed by an index. Illustrated. Bound in brown and cream cowhide with an illustration and the title impressed on the front board. Ribbon marker. In Spanish and English. Short gift inscription, and ownership initials and date else a...... More
London, et al. Cassell and Company,Limited, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. 4to. vi, (2) 392; vii, (1), 393-772Illustrated with photographs, as well as full page color plates from drawings by Norman Hardy. Quarter red leather, spines gilt, red cloth sides, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers in a Spanish wave..... More
Tokyo: The Sanseido Co., Ltd. 1933, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (18), 284,(2)pp. Cloth spine printed in black; pictorial cloth boards; pictorial end papers. Illustrated by Hiroshi Yoshida, Beisai Kubota and Shoshun Otake. Color frontispiece. Spine lightly sunned and with light wear on the sine tips, else this is a...... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1967). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine printed in red and gold; yellowpaper over boards; yellow endpapers, A fine copy. Stated first edition. The dustwrapper is price-clipped else fine. Laid in are two newspaper articles on King's march, as well as a...... More
New York: King's Handbooks, (1897). Hardcover. Folio. 96pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the Exchange, Wall Street, and prominent men of the era. Green ribbed cloth printed in black and gilt. First and last pages on brittle yellow paper. The tit is overprinted raising the number of portraits to 1961..... More
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1882. Hardcover. New edition. 12mo. 226pp plus 3pp of index, Publisher's cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and gilt vignette with black decoration on the upper board, the decoration motif repeated in blind on the lower board. Brown coated endpapers. Illustrated with engravings, many..... More
NY: Harper & Row, (1952) but later. Maurice Sendak. Early Edition. Hardcover. An early printing of the first edition, with 'Grr-r-r' on p. 23. Black cloth spine, printed paper boards. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Slight old staining affecting the page edges else in very good condition. Dustwrapper is price-clippd with..... More
Basel: Typis Emanuelis Thurneysen, 1758. First edition. Softcover. 4to. 18pp. Printer's device on title page, woodcut chapter heading and initial capital. Original binding of simple thread joining the two signatures without covers. Dissertation on the medical application for bitumen or asphalt of Como (Novum Comun), Italy. Later published in Leyden..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. Limited edition. Hardcover. Original blue buckram boards, dark blue pigskin spine gilt, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, Cockerel marbled endpapers. A fine copy in the publisher's printed box which has only a trace of soil. One of 2000 numbered copies, of which this is number..... More
London: John Murray, 1859. Illustrated by Owen Jones. Hardcover. 4to. Unpainted (approximately 300p). Half blue morocco gilt, blue cloth; armorial bookplate and bookseller stamp on the front pastedown. Frontispiece engraving of Lockhart. Chromolithographed title now mounted, chromolithographed publisher's imprint, contents, introduction and section pages, ornamental borders and vignettes in color..... More
New York: George G. Peck, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 117pp. Black cloth, gilt titles on spine and upper board, floral endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of Thomas Rogers. 47 full page plates of locomotives including specifications manufactured by this firm. Coal or wood fuels, standard and narrow gauges, 4 to 10..... More
Santa Fé: The Press at the Palace of the Governors, 2012. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. Unpaginated. (12pp.) One of 200 copies. Finely printed by letterpress at the Palace Press on Hahnmuhle paper. "Santa" s a local nickname for Santa Fé, which itself is a short form of "La Villa Real..... More
