New York: Printed and published by J. & J. Harper, 1834. 376pp. 12mo. Publisher's printed muslin. Early ink gift inscription on pastedown, trace of inevitable minor foxing, and almost negligible soiling to muslin, but for the format, an unusually nice copy. An early impression of the Harper's Family Library (No.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1851. vi,260pp. Small octavo. Brown cloth, decorated in blind, spine elaborately decorated in gilt. Ink name, lower fore-tip of upper board skinned, still a good, bright, tight copy. The 28th thousand, revised and enlarged, with a "Preface to the Twenty-Sixth Edition." The first edition appeared.....
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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.....
London: Exculum typis Edwardi Griffini .... 1638. [14],176,179-386,[16],475,[1]pp. (with occasional misnumbering as per Gibson). Large quarto. Contemporary gilt armorial calf, rebacked and recornered to style at some point in the 20th century, with the original label (chipped) laid down. Lacks the portrait frontis, marginal repairs and discolorations to title leaf.....
[Los Angeles: Lake Mojave Press, 1986]. Printed wrappers. Facsimile plates. Fine. First edition in this format. One of 200 copies printed for the joint meeting of the Zamorano Club and Roxburghe Club. An offset facsimile reprinting of the then second known copy of the 18th century ballooning rarity, with an.....
[Princeton, NJ]: Princeton Univ. Press, [1991]. xxix,[3],471pp. Small quarto. Green cloth, gilt spine. Black & white illustrations and site maps throughout. Appendices, bibliography, and index. Fine in dust jacket with a hint of sunning to spine panel. First edition. A pioneering work revises our notions of the origins and early.....
Rochester, NY: Post-Express Book and Job Printing House [for:] Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., 1885. 96,[10]pp. 12mo. Cloth backed printed boards. Neatly ex- library (bookplate and blindstamps), upper forecorner of rear board cracked, surface erosion and some loss at crown and toe of spine; still, a good, sound, relatively clean.....
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: Macmillan, 1911. Cloth. First edition in English, translated by Arthur Mitchell. Ink name on front free endpaper, spine tanned, several small chips at the head of the spine, corners bumped, else a good, tight copy.
Dublin Printed, London Re-printed: For W. Innys, C. Hitch, and M. Cooper ... 1746. 174,[2]; [4],[5]-88pp. Octavo. Modern half-calf and marbled boards. Faint blindstamp and ink shelf number (the latter on verso of title) of The Library of the Society for the Home Study of Holy Scripture and Church History.....
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.....
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1732. [14],[1]-356;[8],218,[12],[215]-351pp. Two volumes. Octavo. Contemporary calf. Engraved title vignettes. Three bookplates in each volume, along with a faint old seminary stamp on each title, scattered foxing, joints a bit worn and cracked (but cords sound); a good set. Second London edition of Berkeley's attempt.....
Garden City: Hanover House / Doubleday, [ 1955]. 251pp. Cloth. Black & white photographs. First U.S. edition, translated from the French by James Cleugh. Edges a little dust-dulled, else a near very good copy in a faded, pictorial dust jacket with ¾ x 1" loss and a long internally mended.....
København: Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri, 1929. 160pp. Large octavo. Stiff printed wrappers, edges untrimmed. Small collector's label inside front wrapper, soft crease across lower corner of upper wrapper, otherwise near fine. First edition. Published as the November number of the FESTKRIFT UDGIVET AF KØBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET .... An elaboration upon, and updating.....
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.".....
Norwich: Printed by Richard Beatniffe, 1775. [48],xxi,[1],264,[2]pp. plus three plates. Engraved dedication leaf. Octavo. Contemporary calf, newly rebacked in ruled calf with gilt label. Binding a bit darkened at edges, old tidemark in lower gutter quarter of dedication leaf and plates, early ink name on title of A. Wickham and.....
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: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983. 128pp. Small quarto. Medium blue cloth, lettered in black. First edition, published as MEDICAL HISTORY, Supplement No. 3, 1983. Minor rubs at spine ends, otherwise fine, without dust jacket.
[New York & Stuttgart: Editions Medicina Rara Ltd., 1970]. Small folio. Half parchment and rag paper. Spine slightly darkened, else fine in lightly soiled slipcase with scrapes and cracks at tips. Facsimile reprint of the 1497 Strasbourg edition. Edition limited to 2500 copies (including 300 deluxe copies) printed by Holzer.....
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1759. ix,[7],342pp. Small octavo. Period calf and marbled boards, rebacked to style, gilt label. Old tidemark to binder's endsheets, early ink authorship attribution, light foxing and occasional light spotting (noticeable in the upper fore- corner of X1-Z3), lacking terminal blank. A good, sound.....
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.....
London: Trübner & Co., 1878. [12],308pp. Brown cloth, ruled in black, lettered in gilt. Cloth a bit rubbed and handsoiled, inner hinges cracking (with early amateur repairs to those up front), bookplate; just a good copy. First edition, first issue, with the original setting of the prelims. Somewhat later copies.....
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[Np]. [nd. but ca. 1900]. 12pp. Printed wrapper. Extracted from pamphlet volume. Corner creases to final leaf, some tanning, vertical crease, but near very good. A separate printing of this paper, possibly done for Carreda Hermanos or Septimus Parsonage & Co, who share an advert inside the front wrapper. Cameron.....
New York: Holt, [ 1947]. Cloth. Photographs and illustrations. First edition of the first (slightly off-genre) clothbound book by the superb science fiction editor/anthologist/author. Ink name on endsheet, pastedowns a trifle darkened from binding, else a very good copy in spine sunned, price-clipped dust jacket with small nicks and fraying.....
[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.....
