Ansel Adams: Classic Images.
Boston: New York Graphic Society, Little, Brown, [1986]. First edition. With 76 duotone illustrations. Fine in dust jacket that is lightly rubbed in a few places. Cloth. Quarto.
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Boswell for the Defence 1769-1774. Edited by William K. Wimsatt, Jr.…and Frederick A. Pottle...
New York: McGraw-Hill, [1959]. First edition. Spine slightly cocked. Very good+ in very good dust jacket with light chipping at head and foot of spine. Clothbacked boards. Octavo.
Boswell in Holland 1763-1764 Including his Correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (Zelide). Edited by Frederick A. Pottle...
New York: McGraw-Hill, [1952]. First edition. Light dampstain at foot of spine, not extending to text. Else very good in good jacket. Jacket also has light dampstain at foot of spine, and has a 2" x 4" piece lacking from the front covering. Clothbacked boards. Octavo.
The Correspondence of James Boswell and John Johnston of Grange.
London: Heinemann, []1966]. First edition. Fine in price-clipped d.j. Cloth. Octavo.
The Correspondence of James Boswell and John Johnston of Grange.; Edited by Ralph S. Walker.
New York: McGraw-Hill, [1969]. First U.S. edition. Small bump at foot of spine. Else fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket is lightly soiled and is browned at spine. Cloth. Octavo.
James Boswell: The Earlier Years 1740-1769.
New York: McGraw-Hill, [1966]. First edition. Spine cocked, review copy with publisher's slip and attached newspaper article laid in. Offsetting from newspaper article. Otherwise very good in very good d.j. Cloth. Octavo.
James Boswell’s Book of Company at Auchinleck 1782-1795. Edited by the Viscountess [Mary Hyde] Eccles [and] Gordon Turnbull.
[London:]: Presented to Members of the Roxburghe Club, 1995. Published in a small edition for Roxburghe Club members, with a small overrun. With sixty-eight pages of manuscript facsimiles, plus seventeen additional illustrations. Printed at the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont. A fine copy. Quarter burgundy morocco over burgundy cloth boards.....
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, In Chronological Order; A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations With Many Eminent Persons; And Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published...In Three Volumes.
Dublin: Printed by John Chambers, For R. Cross, W. Wilson, P. Byrne, A. Grueber, J. Moore, J. Jones, W. McKenzie, W. Jones, R. McAllister, R. White, J. Rice, and G. Draper; Volume II Printed by John Ershaw; Volume III Printed by Robert Rhames, 1792. First Dublin edition. The first English.....
On Thrones Of Gold: Three Javanese Shadow Plays
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard Univ. Press, 1970. First edition. Edges lightly foxed. Very good in very good dust jacket. Jacket chipped at foot of spine. Cloth. Octavo.
Plant, Animal & Anatomical Illustration in Art & Science: a bibliographical guide from the 16th century to the present day.
Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies in association with Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Detroit, 1990. First edition. Fine in fine d.j. Boards. Quarto. 450 pp.
A Morning for Flamingos.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1990. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author: "...With best wishes and appreciation for your help and support of my work--I'm sure a fine picture will be made of this material...your friend, Jim Burke." Minor rubbing at foot of spine and bottom corners. Rubberstamp of the.....
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Narrative of the Events of His Life.; Second Edition, with a memoir of the author by Leslie Stephen.
London: Macmillan, 1896. Front joint cracking, light shelfwear. A very good, clean copy. Cloth. Octavo.
Bibliography of the Writings of Charles Dickens, with many curious and interesting particulars relating to his works.
London: Frank Kerslake, 1879. First edition. Frontispiece, title-page vignette. Minor wear to binding extremities. Two old bookplates. A very good copy. Original wrappers bound in. Half crimson morocco over marbled boards, by Riviere and Son. Gilt spine, tooled in compartments. Octavo. 88 pp.
Materialism and Sensations.
New Haven: Yale University Press, [1971]. First edition. Light shelfwear. near fine in like dust jacket. Jacket a little soiled. Cloth. Octavo.
The Gipsies' Advocate; or, Observations on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits of The English gipsies.; To which are added, many interesting anecdotes, on the success that has attended the plans of several benevolent individuals, who anxiously desire their conversion to God.
London: Sold by Lindsay and Co....[et al.], 1831. Second edition. Binding extremities rubbed, lacks front free endpaper, some light foxing.Still, a decent copy of an uncommon book. Contemporary cloth, crudely rebacked in a soft leather. The author (1774-1851) was a Wesleyan Methodist preacher and schoolmaster from the Southampton area of.....
This long, heavily illustrated article, takes up more than a third of this issue of the periodical. Of particular interest is Part III, subtitled "Seven Giants Who Led the Way." It profiles Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Hunt Morgan, and James Watson and Francis Crick.....
Prize Essay on the Laws for the Protection of Women
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854. First edition. Rubbing to corners and cracking to joints. Publisher’s stamp on front free endpaper and title-page. Pencil signature dated 1891 on front free endpaper and a bit of light pencil marginalia on a few pages. A bit of foxing and toning but.....
Notes on California and the Placers: How to Get There, and What to Do Afterwards. Foreword by Jos. A. Sullivan.
Oakland: Biobooks, 1956. Fine. One of 700 copies. First published in 1850. Large octavo. 156 pp.
Buckdancer's Choice.
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, [1965]. First edition. Minor soiling. Near fine. Wrappers. Octavo. [80] pp.
Head-Deep in Strange Sounds: Free-Flight Improvisations from the unEnglish
[Winston-Salem:]: Palaemon Press Limited, [1979]. One of fifty hors commerce copies out of a total edition of 525 copies. Signed by the author. A fine copy. Gray cloth with printed paper label on front cover. Quarto. 26, [2, blank], [1] pp.
A Dictionary of the biloxi and Ofo Languages Accompanied with Thirty-One biloxi Texts and Numerous Biloxi Phrases.; Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 47.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912. Library stamp on front pastedown. Otherwise a good, tight copy. Original tan cloth, soiled. Octavo.
The Revival of Realism.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1946. First edition. Former owner's rubberstamp. Very good in partially discolored d.j. Cloth. Octavo.
Astronomien, uppå Sir Isaac Newtons Grundsatser lått och begriplig gjord för dem, some j studerat Mathemtiken. Ofwersatt ifran andra Engelska Uplagan, af år 1757
Strengnäs: tryckt af Lars Arvids,. Collin, 1771. First Swedish translation of Ferguson’s popular AstronomyExplained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles, first published in 1756. This work was revised and reprinted dozens of times in England and America and translated into German. Ten folding engraved plats, some shaved along upper rule border.....
Tables and Tracts, Relative to Several Arts and Sciences.
London: A. Millar & T. Cadell, 1767. First edition. With a large folding plate of an orrery, a folding plate of a "magic square of squares" done by Benjamin Franklin, and a folding plate of a "magic circle of circles" done by Benjamin Franklin. Throughout the text are numerous charts.....
Modern Power Generators: Present-Day Requirements. With many Diagrams and Pictorial Illustrations and a Series of Composite Sectional Models.
London: Gresham Publishing Co., 1908. First edition. With eleven colored lithographed sectional plates and 500 text illustrations. Binding extremities slightly worn, a bit of rubbing and slight fraying to corners. Boards of both volumes have a few small bumps and scuffs. Minor soiling to front board of Vol. I. Scattered.....