London: The Religious Tract Society, [1867]. With three early reprints of the same work. First edition of a work that originated the genre of ‘Arab fiction’ – sentimental stories about poverty stricken young persons on the streets of Victorian cities. Frontispiece, six full-page engravings, and three textual illustrations. Binding extremities.....
London: Printed and Sold by T. Sowle, 1706. First edition of the works of George Fox (1624-1691), founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers). This is an important collection of over 150 key writings by Fox, published nearly fifty years after his death. With the ink signature of Irish Quaker.....
Dublin: Printed by W. Porter, 1800. First Dublin edition. Previous editions were published in London in 1798 and 1799. The first American edition was published in Hartford, Connecticut in 1799. With head- and tail-pieces sometimes attributed to Thomas Bewick. Some rubbing to spine and extremities. Some light foxing to endpapers.....
[ Chicago: ]: Dorothy A. Bond, 1945. First edition. OCLC records no copies. Illustrated with comic strips, printed in black, on every page. All illustrations by Dorothy Bond. Binding is bright and clean. Toning to title-page and final page. Two signatures on title-page: one ink signature, dated 1945, of “Annie.....
New York: G.W. Dillingham, [1904]. First edition. With illustrated title-page in orange and black and sixteen full-color printed plates. Also with elaborate half-page illustrations at the beginning and end of each chapter and additional illustrations on roughly every other page, all printed in orange and black. Illustrations by the Wonderful.....
New York: Max N. Maisel, 1916. Fourth edition. Copies of this edition were also issued in matte pink wrappers. All previous editions are scarce. OCLC records only six copies of the 1913 edition, six copies of the 1914 edition, and three of the 1915 edition. OCLC records thirteen copies of.....
Paris: Lewis de la Fosse, 1658. First edition (and only early edition). The present work was published posthumously and includes both her Spiritual Exercises and her Confessiones Amantis, based on St. Augustine’s Confessions. Caption title after page 112 (Confessiones Amantis) begins new pagination. Lacking the frontisportrait of the author and.....
London: Printed for E. Curll, 1717. First edition, third issue. The work was originally published in 1714 as The Adventures of Rivella and reissued in 1715 under the same title. The title-page incorrectly identifies this as the third edition, but the only differences from the first and second issues are.....
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863. First edition. With a hand-colored lithograph frontispiece by Noel Humphreys. Includes commentary by Humphreys on his frontispiece design (p. viii). Some cracking to cloth along lower joint. Brick red coated endpapers with binder’s ticket on lower pastedown. Some soiling to endpapers. Small.....
Edinburgh: McLachlan and Stewart.... 1823. First edition. Wolff describes a binding identical to this one: “Mauve patterned sand-grained cloth, labels (price one guinea), white endpapers,” (Nineteenth Century Fiction, 4178). The Wolff entry does not note the binding as a remainder, though it clearly is. Spines uniformly faded; some fading to.....
London: Griffith and Farran, 1861. Fourth London edition. The title-page states that this is the third edition, though earlier editions were published by Griffith and Farran in 1852, 1853, and 1856. Note that the first edition did not contain the additional information on dogs, cats, and bears that was added.....
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Springfield, Mass: The King-Richardson Co., 1901. With a frontispiece of Martha Washington and 40 full-page illustrations of some of the notable women described in the work. Also with color borders around most illustrations and accent color backgrounds on front matter. Rubbing to leather and some chipping to head and tail.....
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First edition. Volume one begins at September 9, 1829 and volume two ends at August 24, 1831. There were two more volumes published before the Journal of Health went defunct in 1833. An “improved” edition of the set was later published. OCLC records only four physical copies of the first.....
Hailsham, [England]: G. Breads, 1828. First edition. With the two leaves of subscribers and errata slip pasted down on otherwise blank page [xvi]. Dedicated to Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773 – 1843). Spine sunned. Some rubbing to extremities and to calf on lower board. Red coated edges. Marbled.....
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[Birmingham, England: Stratnoid (later Stratton & Co.), n.d., ca. 1910.]. Folding triptych display (8” x 11”). With thirteen original Stratnoid silver hatpins (nickel-plated), eight with attached printed paper labels (“Stratnoid Untarnishable heads”). Also with three mounted illustrated advertisements for hatpin stands and sets of pins: the Collapsible Junior Stand, the.....
Cambridge [Mass.}: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1875. First edition. With the supplement The ‘Romance of the Association’ for the Last Time (paginated continuously with the rest of the work). The supplement was written a few months after the death of Whitman’s last surviving family member on July 30.....
[Washington, DC: Federal Suffrage Association, 1917]. First edition of Olympia Brown’s biographical sketch of her colleague and personal friend. Brown served as the president of the Federal Suffrage Association when Colby worked with the organization during her later years. With frontisportrait of Colby and title-page vignette map showing which areas.....
![Elizabeth Jane. [Manuscript polar projection map of the Northern Hemisphere.] Esholt Hall...](/pictures/thumb/16875.jpeg?v=1605218970)
These are unique items, most likely based on the maps of contemporary English cartographers. A possible source is James Wyld the Elder (1790 – 1836), who was known for his prompt publications of newly updated maps. Also note that, while the polar projection of the Southern Hemisphere is signed with.....
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[ n.p. ]: 1878. Text on versos only. 117 leaves, each illustrated in pen, ink, color wash, and other graphic processes with crests, arms, or flags in gold and color. Color and gilt title-page. Binding extremities lightly worn, two very small 2” cracks on lower front board. A few small.....
[ North Hollywood:]: The Window Pane Press, 1993. One of 75 copies, numbered and signed in ink by the author and artist on the colophon. Designed and printed by Bonnie Thompson Norman. This is copy no. 40. Five illustrations with tissue guards, titles, and initial letters drawn by Michael Woodcock.....
[Los Angeles: Printed for Dawson's Book Shop at Laguna Verde Imprenta by the author, 1989]. One of fifty copies. Illustrated with seventeen wood engravings by Paul Landacre, fifteen of them in black & white, one printed in red, and one in green. Miniature printed bookplate on front pastedown. A fine.....
![Manuscript notebook recording folktales, legends, and axioms.]. John Underhill](/pictures/thumb/16860.jpeg?v=1601588535)
[ Manchester, England: 1826 – 1833]. [Bound with:] [Pollard, , John.] [Manuscript poetry and family history of the Underhill lineage by Pollard, the great-grandson of John Underhill.] [Manchester, England?: 1899 – 1900.] 2 inches by 4 inches. 1-64, 66, 66-69, 69-188, [5] pp. Despite inconsistencies in manuscript pagination, the various.....
![The Lady’s Dressing-Room. Translated from the French…by Lady [Gertrude Elizabeth] Campbell....](/pictures/thumb/16859.jpeg?v=1601588412)
London: Cassell, 1893. First London edition, second printing. First printed in 1892. A New York edition with a different translator was also published in 1892. The original French version was published as Le Cabinet de toilette in 1891. Spine a bit darkened. Some rubbing to extremities. Spine slightly cocked. Ads.....
![Riding for Ladies. The Common Sense of Riding. With hints on the stable. Illustrated by A[lfred]...](/pictures/thumb/16857.jpeg?v=1601587982)
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. First American edition. A London edition was published in the same year. The present edition is uncommon with only eight copies on OCLC (seven in the Northeast and one in Ohio). With frontispiece of the author, 13 plates, and 55 illustrations (most half-page). Pages 346 to.....
London: John Murray, 1849. First Milman/Jones edition. Eight chromolithographed pages by Owen Jones, each with a tissue guard; hundreds of woodcuts (statues, bas-reliefs, coins, gems, people, etc.) by George Scharf, Jun.; initial letters. Title page printed in black and red. A bit of wear to joints, but sound. Small stains.....
