- Small quarto [7 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide], printed self-wraps, removed by a previous owner from a larger collection of pamphlets. 11 pages plus 1 blank with a decorative rule above the first page of text. The edges of the title & the rear blank are slightly darkened & there is some light staining to the title. The bottom corners of the last 3 leaves are creased. Very good. An impassioned denunciation of the French for their execution of Louis XVI. The French king was killed in December 1792. The text is in Spanish. Jean Charles de Coucy [1746-1824] was a refugee in Spain during the F... View More...
ILLUSTRATED WITH A LARGE FOLDING PLATE OF AN EASTERN DIAMONDBACK RATTLESNAKE - Quarto, 11-7/8 inches high by 9-1/8 inches wide. Unbound signatures from the "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society". 25 deckle-edged pages in all, with large uncut & untrimmed margins, consisting of pages 362 to 386. Illustrated with a large 11-1/2 inch high by 17-3/4 inch wide folding plate engraved by R. Scot depicting 2 views of an Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus). The top right corner of the folding plate is dampstained. The front edges of a few leaves are lightly chipped. Very... View More...
ILLUSTRATED WITH A FULL-PAGE PLATE OF A SALAMANDER - Quarto, 11-1/2 inches high by 9 inches wide. Unbound signatures from the "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society". 6 deckle-edged pages in all, with large uncut & untrimmed margins, consisting of pages 277 to [282], the last page having been misnumbered as 288. Illustrated with a full-page plate engraved by R. Scot depicting several views of the salamander referred to as a Siren by the author. The edges of the plate and of the last leaf are chipped. Very good. Unbound sheets from volume 4 of the "Transactions of the American Phil... View More...
- Folio, 11-1/4 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcovers, bound in light green wrappers printed in darker green and bound with bronze clasps along the top. The edges of the covers are chipped. 12 pages, including an introductory text page titled Swatching Service, Issue Number 9, Spring and Summer 1934 and 74 swatches of cotton fabric mounted on 11 pages with descriptive text below each swatch. Very good. The swatches include Plaids and Stripes, Piques in Plain and Printed Versions, Seersuckers, All White...And All Corded... Bound for Success!,Active Sports Cottons. Coatings that Will be ... View More...
New York: Wm. A. Mercein, Printer, 1832.. 1832.. Very good. - sc Octavo, softcover disbound and removed. 87 deckle-edged pages. There is some scattered foxing thoughout and a tiny dampstain to the bottom edge of the title and another to the front edge of the last few leaves. There are stab marks along the left edge of the book. The contents are in very good condition.
First edition.
Albert Gallatin was the chairman of the committee. First Edition. View More...
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1835).. (1835).. Very good. - Small octavo, brown cloth. The spines are perished and thus lacking and the cloth is worn at the corners. 204 pages; and 196 pages respectively, illustrated with extra engraved pictorial title pages, 2 engraved frontispieces, and 5 plates. The hinges are cracked and there are glue stains to the pastedowns and damage to the endpapers of volume 2. Though a few signatures are slightly pulled and there is some slight darkening, the contents are in remarkably very good condition and this set would be well- worth rebacking. A wonderful juve... View More...
- Tricesimo-secondo (32mo), 5-3/4 inches high by 3-1/2 inches wide. Unbound, with remnants of a paper spine. 40 pages, including the title. The original price from the imprint following the publisher's name at the bottom of the title page reads: "Price 6 d." The edges of the pages are slightly darkened. There are a couple of minor light stains and a small paper remnant from a light blue wrapper adhering to the title page. Very good. First edition. RARE. ESTC locates only 3 copies. Hazlitt scholar Stephen Burley in his "A Bibliography of the Writings of William Hazlitt (1737-1820)" attributes a... View More...
Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1885.. 1885.. Very good. - Tall octavo, softcover bound in blue wrappers titled in gilt with vignettes in gilt on the front wrap. The wraps are rubbed, bumped & lightly creased with their edges darkened & chipped & with a piece out of the bottom corner of the rear wrap. vi, 32 & [2] pages, including black- and-white vignettes & caricatures. The contents are very good. Limited edition of 75 large paper and 275 small paper copies. This 25 cm. copy is presumed to be a small paper copy.Originally published London, 1750, with the printed signature Abraham Johnson. A f... View More...
[Washington, DC]: [Gales & Seaton, print.], etc., 1832-1834., 1832-1834.. Very good. - Octavo, 8-3/4 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Softcovers, being a collection of 43 pamphlets with various paginations on subjects relating to Andrew Jackson's actions in regard to the Second Bank of the United States. The pamphlets where removed at some previous time from a larger collection of bound pamphlets with the expected stab marks and occasional remnants of a leather spine along the left edge. Two of the pamphlets originated in the 1st Session of the 22nd Congress of 1832. The remainder originated ... View More...
[1945].. [1945].. Very good. - sc - A 12 inch high by 9 inch wide print on 14-1/2 inch high by 11-1/4 inch wide glossy stock. The image, reproduced from a line drawing by Fridolf Johnson, depicts Joan Bennett with her arms around producers Fritz Lang and Walter Wanger standing on a cloud. The three had recently formed Diana Productions. The lovely Joan Bennett is pictured barefoot in a skimpy dress with the monocled Fritz Lang casually attired with a bandana around his neck, standing with a foot raised to rest on his other knee. Walter Wanger, on the other side, is nattily dressed in a suit an... View More...
Farnborough, Hants, England: Gregg International Publishers Limited, (1970).. (1970).. Very good. - Folio, 12-1/2 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Rust brown cloth titled in gilt on the spines. The bottom front corners of the second volume are quite bumped. Profusely illustrated with full-page, double-page and folding plates, most of which are to be found in the first volume. Very good. A wonderful facsimile reprint of the 1761-1762 edition which was originally published in Vienna by Joannis Thomae Trattner. The original 2,776 plus pages of text from the original edition are here printed in t... View More...
Prague: Ceskoslovenske Filmove Nakladatelstvi, (1948).. (1948).. Very good. - Quarto, 12-1/8 inches high by 9-5/8 inches wide. Light green marbled boards backed with a tan cloth spine, titled in brown on the spine. The edges of the slightly warped covers are rubbed. Illustrated with 57 superb full-page and double-page photographs reproduced on 60 pages. There is minor rippling to the pages, possibly from humidity. Very good. First edition, limited to 5,000 copies, with text in Czechoslovak, Russian and English.RARE.The brief English introduction to this book of stunning photographs consists ma... View More...
Nashville, Tenn.: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1882.. 1882.. Very good. - Small octavo [6 inches high by 4 inches wide], blue cloth titled in gilt with decorations in gilt on the spine & with decorations stamped in blind on both covers. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped with a light stain to the front cover. The spine & extremities are a bit darkened. 152 pages. Very good.
First edition.
There is a long inscription from the author's daughter, signed J.D.M. on the title page.
London: Simms and M'Intyre, 1849.. 1849.. Very good. - 348 pages bound in with the floral-decorated series title for The Parlour Library XXVI. The Triumphs of Time by the Author of 'Two Old Men's Tales,' &c.First edition of the Third part.Parts 1 and 2 of The Previsions of Lady Evelyn by novelist Anne Marsh [1791-1874] were first published in 1844 as part of The Triumphs of Time. The third, and concluding, part was published here (in 1849) for the first time. [See Wolff #4557]. Together with: YEAST: A Problem. By the Author of Alton Locke. Copyright Edition. Leipzig: Bernh. Tauchnitz Jun., 185... View More...
New York: American Tract Society, circa [1850's]., [1850's].. Very good. - 32mo, 4-1/2 inches high by 3 inches wide. Blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt on the spine with a gilt vignette within a blind stamped decorative frame on the front cover. All edges are gilt. The covers are rubbed and slightly soiled. 141 pages, illustrated with a title page vignette and several half-page woodcuts. Very good. A Juvenile morality tale attributed to George Mogridge (1787-1854) who was best known by his pseudonym "Old Humphrey". View More...
London: Printed and Sold by E. Johnson, [c.1776-1784].. [c.1776-1784].. Very good. - Octavo, self-wraps, unbound and removed. 38 pages. There is some minor dampstaining along the left edge of the title page and some slight foxing to the title and last few leaves. Else, very good. Anonymously written by Arthur Murphy, this play was originally published and performed in 1764 as What We Must All Come To. According to ESTC, Niccoll's A History of English Drama lists 3 undated editions, published in 1776, 1778 and 1784 respectively, and further states that the edition at hand could be any of these ... View More...
- sc Octavo, printed self-wraps consisting of stitched signatures. 88 untrimmed deckle-edged pages with a woodcut vignette illustration of the attactive pictorial state seal decorating the title page. The half-title which serves as front wrap is slightly darkened with a couple of light dampstains. Else only minor flaws detract from this otherwise near fine unopened copy of this rare book. First edition. Rare. [Evans 24582]. Christopher Toppan was the elected chairman for this session of the proceedings covering the votes and details of the many issues which came before New Hampshire's House of... View More...
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1834., 1834.. Very good. - Octavo, 9-1/8 inches high by 5-5/8 inches wide. Bound in modern marbled boards backed with green calf spine with a gilt-titled brown leather label and gilt-ruled raised bands on the spine. xi, [2], 10-441, [1] p, with a half-title. There is scattered foxing throughout. Very good. First edition. [Sabin 74195]. Identified on the copyright page as "Printed by Lydia R. Baily, No. 26 North Fifth Street". First Edition. View More...
- Quarto, 15-1/2 inches high by 12-1/4 inches wide. A portfolio of 39 tipped-in plates, including 20 in color, mounted onto heavy green stock and laid loose with a 54-page text booklet, printed in Russian, French and English, into a red leatherette folding clamshell portfolio titled with floral gilt decorations on the front cover. The portfolio's black endpapers are each illustrated with an oval vignette. The white front cover of the booklet, which is titled in red, gilt and black, is very slightly soiled and bumped at the corners. The corners of the leatherette portfolio are also bumped and t... View More...
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. (1931).. (1931).. Very good. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The binding is very lightly rubbed & bumped & the spine is sunned. xiii, [ii] & 519 pages. 12 color plates, including a frontispiece, by Wildrake, Heath and Jellicoe. The rear hinge is starting, else very good.
Number 647 of an edition of 1,000 copies for England. The introduction is by Siegfried Sassoon. View More...
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