San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1986. Two volumes. Large folio (63.5 x 48 cm) and thick quarto. 156 color plates (and one b&w) laid into folding cloth portfolio, accompanied by the companion volume of text, cloth, gilt labels, in slipcase. Bookplate on each front pastedown, otherwise fine. First edition. One.....

Seattle: University of Washington Book Store, 1930. 40pp. Small octavo. Printed green laid paper wrapper over stiff wrapper. Spine faintly sunstruck, otherwise fine, untrimmed and unopened. First edition of this essay by the Scottish- American mathematician and fantasy fiction writer (the latter works written under his pseudonym, "John Taine"). Published.....

London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1732. [10],[1]-350;[6],358pp. Two volumes. Octavo. Contemporary calf. Engraved title vignettes. Ownership signature "J. Payne Jan. 24 1732/3" in each volume on front pastedown, with authorship ascription in same hand in first, as well as careful correction of the errata. Hinges cracked, one board detached, occasional.....

Bordeaux: Imp. G. Gounouilhou, [nd but ca. 1880-90s]. 16pp. Printed wrapper. Illustrations. Early manuscript notation on upper wrapper repeated on label on upper wrapper, vertical crease, but a very good copy. A promotional on the modes of creating carbonated soft drinks, distributed by a firm d.b.a. "A la Carbonique Liquide.".....

Dublin: Printed for William Wilson...and John Exshaw, 1784. [8],xxviii,307,[1]pp. plus folding plate. Octavo. Extracted from old binding. Faint old stamps of a defunct mercantile library, short snag in upper corner of terminal leaf, otherwise a very good, fresh copy. Third edition, but the second Dublin edition recorded in ESTC. The.....

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. viii,[8],[1]-184pp. Small octavo. Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt labels. Half-title bound in. Neatly and properly released institutional duplicate, with tiny, faint stamp and release stamp on verso of title and in one gutter, several corners creased, some scattered light.....

[Princeton, NJ]: Bollingen Foundation / Princeton University Press, [1974]. 552,[4]pp. Large, thick quarto (31 x 23 cm). Gilt lettered black cloth, t.e.g. Heavily illustrated in black & white and occasional color. A fine copy, in acetate wrapper (moderate chip at one top forecorner) in publisher's cloth slipcase (a couple of.....

Paris: L. Bouchard-Huzard, 1839. xv,[1],384pp. plus two folding plates bound at end. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Extremities rubbed, foxing and occasional spots throughout, but a good copy, with the half-title bound in. With the pencil ownership signature and scattered marginal annotations of a member of the Du Vivier.....

Leipzig: Verlag von Veit & Comp, 1903. Two volumes. xiv,752 plus four color chromolithographed plates and one leaf of preliminary ads; xii,648pp. plus eight color chromolithographed plates. Large, thick octavos. Recent half medium brown goatskin, and original marbled boards, gilt labels to style. Fore-tips a bit shelfworn, small collector's bookplate.....

[Boston. 1849]. 18pp. Sewn self-wrappers. Sewing partially absent, externally dusty, transparent but significant tidemark affects upper third of textblock, a few creased nicks along spine; a sound copy of a fragile item. First separate printing, as an offprint (according to OCLC) from the MASS. QUARTERLY REVIEW, June, 1849. Inscribed faintly.....

Jena: Typis Johannis Beithmanni ... 1620. [16],164,[9]pp. Small octavo. Contemporary gilt vellum. Printed on extremely poor paper, so consequently foxed, and with signatures G-L very heavily browned, early ink name and underscore on title partially tranferred to following leaf and with ink erosion from the underscore; occasional marginal discolorations, short.....

London: Geo. Standring, 1892. 94pp. Printed pale rose-tan wrapper. Some dust tanning to wrapper edges, but a very good copy. A new edition of this text first published in 1879, accompanied by a new Preface treating, in part, the prosecution of booksellers for distribution of works on the population question.....

Cambridge & Cambridge: At the University Press / University of Chicago Press, 1913. 245pp. plus plates. Folio. Half publisher's morocco and gilt cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Spine worn, with slight cracking of the upper joint and old shelf labels, foretips bumped, institutional bookplate on front pastedown and tiny acquisition note.....