Philadelphia [i.e. Paris]. 1778. [12],370pp. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, leather label. Hinges lightly worn, corners rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Very minor scattered foxing. Very good. The earliest collection of the constitutions of the constituent American states published in France, and the predecessor for the more generally known translation...

Mexico: Maria de Benavides, Viuda de Juan de Ribera, 1697. [12],84 leaves, plus engraved frontispiece portrait and an extra plate not called for tipped to the inside front cover. Small quarto. Contemporary limp vellum, ties lacking. Moderate shelfwear. Without endpapers, front hinge detached from textblock, disinfection tag on inside of...

Madrid: Por D. Joachin Ibarra... 1782. [4],lii,315pp. Half title. Late 19th-century mottled calf, spine gilt, gilt leather spine label. Moderate shelfwear and some scuffing to edges, chipped at head of spine and with remnants of shelf sticker. Endpapers splitting along hinges, inked number on half title, otherwise internally clean. Very...

New Haven: Wequetecock Cove, [2018]. Oblong quarto (24.5 x 25 cm). Loose triptychs, laid into decorated printed stiff wrapper. Three original color engravings and three original prints of photographs bound in. Very fine. First edition thus, the French text printed in parallel with the English translations by Joshua Watsky. The...

[New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, 1966]. Oblong 12mo. Japanese paper wrappers, printed label. First edition. One of five hundred copies. About fine.

[New Haven]: Bibliographical Press Poetry Broadside, 1977. Narrow folio broadside (45.5 x 21 cm). Printed on recto only. Fine. First printing in this format. An unnumbered, out of series copy, signed by the poet. "Handset in Caslon types and printed on the Vandercook Press in the Sterling Memorial Library" on...

[New Haven]: Bibliographical Press Poetry Broadside, 1977. Narrow folio broadside (45.5 x 21 cm). Printed on recto only. Fine. First printing in this format. Copy #33 of fifty numbered copies, signed by the poet. "Handset in Caslon types and printed on the Vandercook Press in the Sterling Memorial Library" on...

[New Haven]: Bibliographical Press Poetry Broadside, 1977. Narrow folio broadside (45.5 x 21 cm). Printed on recto only. Lower right corner bumped, otherwise fine. First printing in this format. An unnumbered, out of series copy. Inscribed and signed by the author to Rebecca Newth Harrison and John Harrison, the ND...

[New Haven]: Bibliographical Press Poetry Broadside, 2 March 1978. Narrow small folio broadside (46 x 21.5 cm). Blockprint in medium blue. About fine, First edition in this format. One of an unknown number of copies, in addition to 70 numbered and signed copies, printed on the Vandercook Press in the...

New Haven: Éditions Wequetequock Cove, [2006]. Small quarto (22.5 x 17.5 cm). Loose bifolia laid into two examples of the printed stiff wrapper. Illustrated with five full-page lithographs. Fine. First edition. The French text is printed in parallel with translations into English by Joshua Warsky. Copy #14 of 45 numbered...

[New Haven: Printed at the Bibliographical Press ... Yale University, ca. 1980]. [12]pp. Folio (35.5 x 22cm). Printed wrapper over sewn wrapper. Illustrations and layout based on the format of the 1499 edition. Short creased snag at top extended edge of outer wrapper, otherwise about fine. A translation into English...

[New Haven]: Bibliographical Press Poetry Broadside, 1978. Narrow folio broadside (46 X 20.5 cm). Printed on recto only. Pictorial vignette (unsigned). Fine, laid into series folder. First printing in this format. One of an unknown number of unsigned copies, in addition to 80 numbered copies (and a few o.s. copies)...

London. 1795. Two volumes. [4],iv,552; [4],ii,574pp. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, leather labels. Minor chipping to spine ends, corners worn. Light foxing. Very good. The rare first edition of William Tooke's translation of Shelekhov's famous 1783 voyage narrative. Tooke was a Russian historian and chaplain of the Anglican Church in...