London: Joseph Masters, 1852. First edition. Binding extremities lightly rubbed and worn. Light offsetting to terminal blank. Some minor pen and pencil notations on front fly leaf. A very good, bright copy of a scarce book. Contemporary calf stamped in blind and ruled in gilt. Five paneled spine with gilt-lettered.....
Cambridge: Printed for the Committee at the University Press and sold by Macmillan and Bowes, 1897. With Greek and English texts on facing pages. Spine lightly faded, some light discoloration to portions of covers. A very good copy. Later bookplate. Finely bound by Elsé Hoffman for the Guild of Women.....
Philadelphia: Budd and Bartram, 1801. First edition. This seems to be the first book on logic to be both written and published in the United States (earlier books on logic had been published at the end of the eighteenth century, but they were reprints of British authors). Slight edgewear. Toning.....
![Item #17501 The Philosophy of Manner. By [Asteios]. Glasgow: John Symington & Co., 1837. [Bound...](https://mrtbooksla.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17501.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691185594)
First editions of all these works aside from The Philosophy of Courtship and Marriage, which is the “second thousand.”. Corners worn, but clean and fresh throughout. A very good copy of this unusual collection of rare works on conduct and propriety. Contemporary half brown calf over marbled boards, rebacked in.....
Dublin: A Stewart, 1801. First edition. The present work “was first intended for the instruction of young ladies [the author] had the honor to educate. The questions on scripture, astronomy, heathen mythology, and heraldry, are all taken from the best authors; and an attempt made by some alterations, to reduce.....
London: Printed for William Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's, 1729. Some foxing and toning, mostly to first and last few leaves, but otherwise fresh throughout. Modern bookplate (Christopher Clark Geest [1936-2023]) to front pastedown. A very good copy. Modern full period-style paneled calf. New endpapers. Octavo. [2].....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. First edition in English. Translated from the first edition, published in French in 1835. Some foxing and marginal toning. Light pencil marginalia on a couple pages. A very good copy. Rebound in twentieth century polished calf over marbled boards. Gilt spine. Octavo. 260, [12.....
Troy, New York: A.W. Scribner & Co., 1870. First edition. The author originally wrote these satirical pieces for the Troy Whig. Dustsoiling and some foxing. Front cover loose. Toning and some dustsoiling to leaves. A good copy of a fragile and uncommon item. Light blue printed paper wrappers. 5 x......
New York: Charles Scribner, 1852. First edition of one of the earliest anti-Uncle Tom novels, published in the same year as Stowe’s book. Frontispiece and five plates. Edgewear and sunning to spine. Modern century bookplate to front pastedown. Modern paper slip (with title of book) tipped in on front flyleaf.....
[New York: Superior Court of New York, 1833.]. First edition. Toning to first and last leaf at spine. Splitting at spine. Contemporary ink ownership signature to top margin of first page. Some foxing and dustsoiling. A good copy of a fragile and uncommon item. Printed paper self-wrappers. 5 x 8.....
New York: McLoughlin Bros. [n.d., ca. 1870]. First edition. The illustrations seem to be the same as those that appear in the McLoughlin children’s book Major’s Alphabet (1870). Scroll is color-printed with twenty-six vignettes, one for each letter of the alphabet, with accompanying verse (“B is for Benjamin, making a......
London: Printed for Francis Tyton…, 1671. Second edition, corrected and slightly expanded. Front joint with 1 ” split, corners lightly worn. A very good, unsophisticated copy. Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), T692. Contemporary calf, gilt-ruled spine. Octavo. [24], 263, [1. errata] pp. Thomas Tenison (1636–1715) was a prominent English churchman who became.....
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1898. First edition. No subsequent volumes were published. Spine extremities lightly worn, front endpapers and edges lightly foxed, as usual. A near fine copy, bright and tight. Publisher's navy blue cloth ruled stamped in blind with gilt-lettered spine. Large octavo. xxvi, 586 pp. Whitehead's prelude.....
Priestley published three sets of Discourses, the first in London (1794), and the second and third in Philadelphia (1796 and 1797), after his emigration to the United States in 1794. The two Philadelphia sets were in turn reprinted in London, but to create the appearance of a three-volume set, the.....
Leipzig: bey Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, 1781. First edition of this uncommon German philosophical grammar by Johann Werner Meiner, written in opposition to the more rationalist grammars, such as the Port Royal. Meiner stressed the communicative rather than the logical and cognitive side of grammar, and saw the study of.....
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1912. Second edition. A fine copy, wkitht he original wrappers bound in. Contemporary half calf. Spine richly gilt-decorated, red label. Octavo. 333 pp. Henry Poincaré (1854-1912) was one of the most versatile mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers of the pre-modern era. He came extremely close to announcing the special.....
A very good copy. Quarter calf over marbled boards, uncut. Legendre’s treatise “contains a beautiful demonstration of the impossibility of an integral solution of the equation x^5 + y^5=z^5, followed by an examination of more complicated cases of the theorem” (DSB).
London: Printed for J. Nourse... 1763. First edition. Contemporary ink ownership signature on title-page, another ownership signature dated 1904. Old bookseller’s label on front pastedown. Marginal tear in Mm1, just a hint of foxing. A very good, clean copy. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Small quarto. viii, 147, [1] pp.....
![Item #17480 A Woman in Berlin. With an Introduction by C.W. Ceram [Kurt W. Marek]. Translated...](https://mrtbooksla.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17480.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686954789)
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1954]. First edition, which precedes the British edition by a year. The German edition (Ein Frau in Berlin) was not published until 1959, and was the last edition published in Marta Hillers’ (1911 – 2001) lifetime. After the vitriolic response to the book’s German.....
London: Printed for the Author and Sold by Leigh and Sotheby…and G. Kearsley, 1797. First edition. With seventeen plates illustrating astronomical principles and equipment, plus mathematical diagrams. Lacking the frontispiece. Upper hinge fragile, as usual. Minor toning to some leaves, and toning to versos of plates, but largely clean throughout.....
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., March 18, 1939. First edition. With figures, tables, and photographic reproductions. Former owner's blue ink stamps and small manuscript :"A" at head and upper outer margin of front wrapper. A very good copy, in custom-made clamshell box. Former owner's leather bookplate on box. Printed wrappers.....
London: Printed for J. Walthoe, J. Knapton, D. Midwinter...[et al.]. 1729. Fifth edition of Evelyn's most celebrated. The first edition (Sylva) was published in 1664, and has the distinction of being the first official publication of the Royal Society. Later editions contain additional material. Title page printed in red and.....
Piedmont [California]: The Nova Press, 1958. Original gray paper covered boards lettered in black. Title page in black and green. A double-sided leaf from the German Koran (Der Koran, Bielefeld, 1865) is tipped-in at the back. Some minor soiling. A near fine copy. Only edition. "A moderate number of copies.....
London: John Murray, 1849. First Milman/Jones edition. Eight chromolithographed pages by Owen Jones with tissue guards; hundreds of woodcuts (statues, bas-reliefs, coins, gems, people, etc.) by George Scharf, Jun.; initial letters. Title page printed in black and red. Binding extremities lightly scuffed and rubbed. A few tissue guards lacking. Very.....
Paris: L. Curmer, Éditeur, 1855. First edition thus. With eleven plates, ten of which are beautifully chromolithographed, including three plates with richly illustrated ornamental borders and hand-drawn gilt accents. The eleventh plate is printed in brown with a floral frame for an ownership signature. That plate is attractively hand-illustrated in.....
