Paris: Chez Marcilly [Imprimerie de A. Firmin Didot], [n.d., ca. 1820-1840]. First edition. With 11 engraved plates of animals including a lion, a deer, a peacock, a swan, and a goldfinch. Also with an engraving of a bear climbing a tree on title-page. Extremities rubbed and some cracking to hinges.....
[Boston? 1908]. In February 1903, Oregon enacted a law that prohibited women from working in “any mechanical establishment or factory or laundry” for more than ten hours a day. Curt Muller, a laundry owner, was charged in 1905 with requiring his employee, Mrs. E. Gotcher, to work a ten-hour day.....
London: Susan Allix, 1999. One of twenty-two copies, numbered and signed by the author on the colophon. With nineteen intaglio prints (including one two-page print), which are the result of four years of sketch book observation and drawing, platemaking, and reworking the plates. Many have extra hand-coloring on the.....
New York: Published for the Benefit of the Orphan Asylum... 1821. First edition of a work recording the history of the Orphan Asylum Society, New York City’s first private orphanage, in the fifteen years after its founding by Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757 – 1854), Isabella Graham, and Joanna Bethune. By.....
London: John Murray, 1836. Third edition, revised by Somerville to “incorporate the most recent research findings” since the publication of the first two editions in 1834 and 1835, respectively (Oxford DNB). One such finding was Somerville’s hypothesis that unexpected changes in the orbit of Uranus may point to the existence.....
[Philadelphia: 1881 ]. First edition. The petition was presented to the Department of Education of the City of Philadelphia on March 8, 1881. Wrappers worn away at spine, though binding holds firm. Dust soiling to wrappers. Contemporary color pencil signature at top margin of front cover. Small open tear to.....
[London:]: Nonesuch Press, 1929. One of 1,200 copies for sale by the Nonesuch Press. Another 400 copies were sold in the United States by Random House. Designed by Francis Meynell and composed by T.W. Hay. The text is taken from the first known edition of Glanvill’s translation (1688). With a......
[Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1975]. One of about fifty copies printed. The first book of Ward Ritchie’s Laguna Verde Imprenta, printed in memory of Saul Marks, who died in November, 1974, for Jacob Zeitlin, who also contributed the Gill wood engraving. Woodcut illustration from an Eric Gill design.....
Los Angeles: The Plantin Press, 1972. One of 140 copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks. Presentation copy, inscribed by Marks on the colophon. Woodcut device of a compass in brown on the title-page, decorative initial letters in blue-green, second compass device in black on the colophon. Full-page portrait of.....
London: Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Caddel [sic.], 1773. First edition. The present work collects over a hundred letters by the fictional Lady Hariet Morley, who recounts didactic vignettes and opines on virtue, gambling, politics, poverty, and class. Without the list of subscribers present in some copies. Hinges cracking.....
Philadelphia: Lemuel Howell, 1836. First collected edition. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler and Essays, Philanthropic and Moral were also issued separately. Later printings of the collected edition include a notice that “the publisher soon ascertained…that the disposition to encourage [The Poetical Works] far exceeded his calculations, and in consequence he concluded to have it stereotyped.....
Edinburgh: James Taylor, 1862. First edition. Ink inscription to front flyleaf reads: “Ellen Morris with kindest wishes from her teacher. November 1866.” Uniform toning due to paper quality. Foxing to title page and few leaves throughout. Some light creasing to leaves. A good, tight copy of this rare social history.....
Los Angeles: [Printed by Will Cheney at the Press in the Gatehouse,], 1964. First edition. Based on Cheney’s usual limitations for similar items, he probably printed around 100 or 150 copies. He printed a second edition in 1968 (Los Angeles Typesticker, 71). The note included in the present item has.....
Boston: .K. Wiggin and Wm. Parsons Lunt, 1866/. One of thirty-five royal quarto (large paper) copies, numbered and signed “Wiggin and Lunt” in ink above edition statement. 250 small quarto copies were also issued. The account of Deborah Sampson, reprinted here, was written by Herman Mann and originally published as.....
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1959. First publication of these two stories and illustrations. One of 450 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Colt Press. Designed by Jane Grabhorn. With a frontisportrait of Twain; a reproduced photo of his daughters; and two reproduced illustrations of cats.....
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1972. One of about 200 copies printed by Will Cheney in December 1972. With errata leaf laid in before colophon. A fine copy. Quarter brown calf over marbled paper boards. Miniature book (1 ” x 2 ”). 57 pp. In Fleecestreet’s Greek in a Nutshell.....
Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin, 1929. One of 500 copies printed for Jake Zetilin by the Mayers Company in Los Angeles. The present work is the first book authored and designed by Armitage, Jake Zeitlin’s first imprint, and one of the first books to feature Grant Dahlstrom’s name. Note that Zeitlin.....
London: Printed for James Rivington and James Fletcher, 1759. First edition in English of the first history of California, which “gave the English-speaking world its earliest thorough account of the little-known areas of the west coast of North America,” (Hill). The original Spanish edition was published in 1757. With four.....
London: Published by Cadell and Davis, Strand, 1808. First edition. The Cayley translation of Utopia is the third translation of that work. [iii]-viii, 342; [4], 356 pp. Copper engraved frontisportraits of Sir Thomas More and Erasmus. Binding extremities lightly worn. Intermittent light foxing and offsetting from frontisportraits. Occasional light browning.....
[Seattle:]: Holburne Press, [2004]. One of fifty copies designed and letterpress printed by Margery S. Hellman at the Holburne Press. Bonnie Thompson Norman, proprietor of Windowpane Press, assisted. The colophon also credits the Cooper Hewitt National Museum of Design for guidance on embroidery styles. Double-page title and colophon printed in.....
London: R. Bowyer, 1795. This Bible is remembered by many as the “Killer Bible” for its typographical error in Mark VII, verse 27: “Let the children be killed” rather than “filled.” However, it is more exemplary for its artistic design by some of England’s most skilled book artists of the.....
London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1830. First edition. With a lithograph frontispiece and twenty-one plates. Joints somewhat tender and some rubbing to calf. Twentieth century armorial bookplate to front pastedown, 1960 ink signature to recto of front flyleaf, and 1871 ink signature to verso of front flyleaf. A few plates.....
Derby: Henry Mozley and Son, 1830. Second British edition. There was also a Boston edition published in 1829 by Munroe and Francis. All editions are scarce. OCLC locates two copies of the present edition (British Library; Heinz Historical Center in Pennsylvania) and no copies of either the first British edition.....
[ London: T. Becket, 1761 ]. First edition.The present work is a conduct guide written specifically for young men — though the ownership signatures in this copy indicate girls’ interest in this work as well — to instruct them in becoming the right kind of gentlemen. The “approved” authors include.....
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[ London?:]: 1924. The classic nursery rhymes included here are “Jack and Jill,” “Little Miss Muffet,” “Simple Simon,” “Little Jack Horner,” and “Hey Diddle Diddle. Richly illustrated throughout in ink and watercolor with accompanying manuscript nursery rhymes and musical scores in ink. Some dust soiling and light foxing. In the.....
