Copenhagen. 1815. xxxvi,[2],126pp. Extra engraved titlepage plus engraved frontispiece. Later old plain boards. Clean, very good copy. Contains a eulogy for Captain Verner Hans Fredrik Abrahamson (1744-1812) and his son, Ludvig August Abrahamson. The latter spent the years 1783-1810 in the United States. Includes brief biographies of the two men.....
Providence & New York. 1980. Two volumes. xxx,536; [8],[537]-1102pp. Original cloth. Fine. A fundamentally important and exhaustive reference on British pamphlets of the American Revolution era, with collations and notes on first and subsequent editions. With useful appendices on disputes and exchanges, and indices.
[Frankfurt am Main-Schwanheim: Printed by Franz Jos. Henrich, November 1945]. 114pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs. Front board and titlepage printed in blue, black and red. Quarto. Original printed paper-covered boards, tan cloth backstrip. Front board and titlepage printed in blue, black and red. Some staining, moderate edge wear to boards.....
Lisbon: Miguel Rodrigues, 1764. [2],17,[1]pp. Folio. Dbd. Except for the lightest fore-edge dampstaining, a near fine copy. A rare work, describing the trial and verdicts in the case of nineteen men accused of the 1762 murder of Portugal's local auditor/councilor, Joao Vieira de Andrade, in the Cape Verde Islands off.....
New York. 1980-1997. Six volumes. Thick quarto. Cloth. As new. The complete set of this essential reference, finally completed after more than two decades of toil by the staff of the John Carter Brown Library, led by John Alden and Dennis Landis. This is the starting point for researching any.....
Boston: Haskell & Post, 1886. Two volumes. [1],vii,152; [1],[3],[153]- 308pp., plus 130 plates including frontispieces. Half titles. Folio. Contemporary three- quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands, a.e.g. Boards and morocco scuffed. Dampstain in lower margin of rear eight leaves in first volume, not affecting images or text.....
Mexico: Imprenta de Ignacio Cumplido, 1852. 31pp. plus folding map; 12pp. PROYECTOS: Original printed green wrappers. Wrappers slightly edgeworn, glue residue on spine. Text and map detached from wrappers and loosely laid in. Light soiling along lower margin of text throughout, very good overall. DICTAMEN: Original printed blue wrappers. Near.....
[N.p., likely New York: American Defense Society, ca. 1919]. 20,[2]pp. printed on a continuous accordion- fold strip, each panel 3 x 4 inches, eleven of the pages containing full-page illustrations. Light soiling and wear. Near fine. A small, unrecorded propaganda booklet produced by the nationalistic American Defense Society (ADS) in.....
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[Primarily at sea, especially in the Mediterranean]. 1870-1873. [68]pp., plus a 1½ x 3-inch contact-print and a few notes. Approximately 9500 words. Red pebbled cloth with decorative red paper boards. Boards rubbed, tears in paper. Binding loose, text block separating from boards. Text clean. Four leaves cut from back of.....
[On board the U.S.S. Trenton, European Station]. [ca. 1878-1881]. Two pamphlets. 12; 16pp. 12mo. Fastened with bronze tack. Slight staining, else good. A curious little pair of imprints, printed on a U.S. Navy shipboard press sometime not long after the Civil War. The first, the INSPECTION... pamphlet, describes what an.....
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Aix: Joseph David, 1783. 3pp. Quarto. Later marbled paper wrappers. Moderate edge wear, slight browning to edges. Very good. Regional printing at Aix of the official proclamation of peace between France and Great Britain, originally printed by the Imprimerie Royale. This version contains an additional paragraph of official authorization for.....
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Paris: P.G. Simon & N.H. Nyon, 1783. 4pp. Quarto. Modern marbled boards. Slight browning, else very good. City of Paris edition of the official proclamation of peace between France and Great Britain, ending the war in the American colonies, and originally printed by the Imprimerie Royale. This Parisian reprint, in.....
London: Published by His Majesty’s Royal License and Authority. For John Fielding...and John Jarvis, 1785-1786. Four volumes. [2],448; [2],449 [i.e. 447]; [2],445; [2],416,[59],[v]-xiv pp., plus twenty-four plates, six folding maps, and one single-page map (maps partially handcolored). Engraved titlepages. Contemporary tree calf, gilt-tooled border, spines gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled.....
Madrid: Joaquín Ibarra, 1783; 1788. Four volumes. NOVA: [12],xxiii,[1],830; [4],xxii,669,[1]pp., plus engraved frontispiece portrait of King Carlos III in first volume; VETUS: [4],xxvii,[1],556,viii; [4],467pp., plus engraved frontispiece portrait of Antonio and plate entitled "Membranae" in first volume. Complete, but with the twenty-two-page section of preliminaries in the second volume of.....
Rome: Antonio de Rossi, 1696. Two volumes. xl,[8],410; [20],286,[62]pp. Half titles. Folio. Contemporary limp vellum, spine titles in ink. Occasional tanning; marginal dampstaining and tanning throughout the second volume, monastic ownership inscription on half titles. Very good. First edition of a bibliography of Spanish authors to the year 1500, following.....
London. 1795. 68pp. Dbd. Some soiling, else very good. Auckland, a close associate and friend of William Pitt, presents his views on the French Revolution and war, supposedly incorporating the ideals of Pitt as well.
London. 1795. 68pp. Dbd. Some soiling, else very good. Second edition. Auckland, a close associate and friend of William Pitt, presents his views on the French Revolution and war, supposedly incorporating the ideals of Pitt as well.
Madrid: Bernardino de Guzman, [ 1626]. [4]pp. In Spanish. Woodcut illustration of ship and boats landing near a castle on first page. Small folio. Dbd. Contemporary manuscript docketing on fourth page. Early folds. Large chip (approximately 2 3/4 x 2 inches) in lower outer corner of second leaf, touching a......
New York: John Bleecker, 1808. 104pp. Printed self-wrappers, stitched. Upper outer margins of three rear leaves eaten away, not affecting text. Outer leaves lightly soiled, scattered foxing in text. Early ink signatures on front and rear leaves. Good, untrimmed. Reprinted from the London edition. This work saw wide circulation in.....
[Washington]. 1850. Broadsheet, 21 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Woodcut illustration on recto, text in double columns on verso. Old folds. Minimal foxing, a few small edge chips, tear in lower left corner not touching text. Very good. Encapsulated between mylar sheets. A very scarce broadside advertisement for an exhibition.....
New York. 1982. xlviii,954pp. Thick quarto. Cloth. As new. A continuation of this indispensable resource, describing books about the Americas printed in Europe in the first half of the seventeenth century.
London. 1729. [4],28pp. Half title. Later plain paper boards, paper spine, manuscript spine label. Minor foxing. Ex-Huntington Library. Very good. The present pamphlet is written in the form of a letter to the publisher Nicolas Amhurst, the famous political writer, who disguised his identity under the pseudonym of "Caleb D'Anvers.".....
Venice: Nicolo Zoppino, 1528. [10],73 leaves, including four double-page maps and two single-page maps, and numerous woodcut maps and plans in the text. A few leaves misnumbered. Small folio. 18th-century vellum, spine gilt, leather label. Boards and spine moderately soiled, leather label abraded. Titlepage printed in red and black with.....
London. 1738. 7pp. Woodcut frontispiece. Folio. Later wrappers. Minor tears at folds of leaves, else good. First edition, first issue. An extremely attractive 18th-century British ballad critical of Walpole's dealing with Spain. The full-page woodcut shows the Spanish king pulling the tale of the British lion, which is about to.....
London. 1710/1713. Two volumes. 35,[13],448; xxii,[2],560,23pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt morocco labels. Bookplate on verso of each titlepage, old signature and small ink stamp on each titlepage. Some foxing and light tanning. Overall, good plus. The first collected English treaties. The first volume covers material from 1648.....
