London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1775. [12],464pp. plus folding frontispiece map. Half title. Quarto. Contemporary half green calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands. Boards rubbed and shelfworn, spine sunned. Offsetting from map to half title, occasional pencil annotations, but quite bright and clean.....

New York. 1826. 32pp., including 6 pages of illustrated appendices. Dbd. Top right corner dampstained, not affecting text, else very good. A description and explanation of an early American Sign Language, from the second school in the United States organized to teach deaf children. This pamphlet was meant as an.....

Lahainaluna: Press of the High School, 1836. iv,132pp. printed in double columns. Modern three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Closed tear in upper inner corner of titlepage (not affecting text, and no paper loss), shallow chip in foredge of titlepage and following nine leaves. Moderate foxing, faint stain.....

Chicago: Skandinavens Boghandel, 1884. 158pp. plus frontispiece. Original publisher's morocco, gilt, a.e.g. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean. Near fine. First edition of a contemporary account of the Chile-Peruvian War (1879-1884), a war in which Chile was victorious, written by Holger Birkedal (1848-1908), a Danish national spying on behalf of Chile. The.....

Llanrwst, Wales: John Jones, 1840. 48pp. Original printed wrappers. Isolated instances of scattered foxing, otherwise very good. Unopened. A scarce travel guide in Welsh with practical advice for would-be immigrants travelling to Ohio from Wales. The title translates to English as The American, which Includes a Notable Journey from the.....

[San Francisco]: The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1940. 36pp, printed in two columns, almost entirely in Chinese. Original printed green wrappers, stapled, hole punched in upper left corner to hang near a phone. Wrappers a bit stained. Light dampstain to fore margin throughout, and to bottom of last few.....

Oahu: Mei Pai Palapala a na Misionari, 1836. 152pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine tooled in gilt, leather label. Hinges lightly rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Near fine. The second edition, with a printing of only 3,000 copies. The title translates as: "The inquiry, questions illustrating the meaning of the Holy.....

[Yokohama: Yokohama Boueki Kyoukai, 1932]. [6],4,5,115,[3]pp., including in-text photographic illustrations. Printed entirely in Japanese. Original textured paper boards, front board and spine lettered in gilt. Boards slightly bowed, minor loss along upper and lower portion of spine, light shelf wear. Tiny wormholes to blank lower margin of first few pages.....

Amsterdam: Cornille Nicolas, 1609. Two volumes bound in one. Described in greater detail below. Folio. Contemporary boards, rebacked in calf, spine gilt, leather label. Very good. From the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, with engraved 1860 bookplate on front pastedown and blind pressure stamp on first two printed leaves.....

Boston: Charles Ewer, 1820. 461pp., including printed music, plus folding map and frontispiece portrait with original tissue guard. 19th-century half calf and blue paper boards. Title and author inscribed in ink (largely rubbed away) on spine. Calf and boards scuffed and worn, corners bumped. Scattered foxing and light soiling, some.....

Copenhagen: Godiche, 1775. [8],xxxii,318,[81]pp. plus two folding plates. Illustrations in text. Quarto. Original drab paper boards, printed paper label. Spine cracked and chipped. Minor foxing to first and last few leaves. Most of second half of text unopened; untrimmed. Just about very good. A scholarly edition of Gunnlaugi's Saga, "A.....

New York: Collins, Keese, & Co., 1837. viii,[4],[9]-740pp. Later calf, original gilt label. Corner and spine extremities lightly worn. Light foxing. Very good. An expansive dictionary for the understanding of the Hebrew Old Testament, printed in both Hebrew and English. "Containing all the words in the Holy Bible, both Hebrew.....

Northfield, Minnesota: Published by the Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1927. 60pp. Original wrappers. Fine. Peter Testman, a tinner, emgirated from Norway in 1838 and settled in Shelby County, Missouri after traveling through much of the eastern part of the United States. His journey was ill-timed, though, and he returned to Norway.....