New York: G. & C. Carvill, 1827. First edition in English. Translated from the German of 1800. Light wear to joints and edges. Edges untrimmed. Marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate (E. Turner) to front pastedown. Some foxing. A very good, tight copy. Late nineteenth century half brown leather over marbled.....
New York: M.L. Holbrook, 1878. First edition. Binding is clean and bright despite minor rubbing to extremities. Endpapers toned at edges. Light foxing to edges. A very good, overall clean copy. Publisher’s green cloth stamped in in blind and titled in gilt. Twelvemo. 261 pp. A health manual for young.....
London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1909. First edition. Some stains, likely paint, to front cover. Contemporary bookplate to front pastedown and four contemporary ink ownership stamps of the National Council of Women (two to front flyleaf, one to half-tile, one to title-page). Toning to endpapers. A very good, tight, internally.....
London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1887. First edition. Some sunning and soiling to cloth. Light rubbing to extremities. Dark brown coated endpapers. Light toning inside. A very good copy of a book that is scarce in commerce. Publisher’s blue cloth titled in gilt and ruled in black. Octavo. vii, 170.....
[Petaluma, California:]: Mixolydian Editions, 2017. One of sixty copies, signed by both Edwin Dobb and Richard Wagener. This is one of the twenty-six deluxe copies, featuring the extra signed prints. Printed letterpress on two types of Zerkall-Bütten paper from the Kall River Valley in Germany. Engravings printed directly from the.....
Paris: Nyon l’aîné, 1787. Quarter mottled calf, edges stained red. Binding extremities rubbed, small tear at head of spine, endpapers slightly foxed. A very good, clean copy. First edition of an interesting work on the place of women in France at the end of the eighteenth century. Includes chapters on.....
New-York: W. Gowan, 1833. First edition of the first printing of Plato in the United States. This has the later state of the spine label (with the one-dollar value as opposed to seventy-five cents). Spine label chipped and boards somewhat rubbed at extremities. Light foxing. Contemporary ink signature to upper.....
London: John Camden Hotten, [1867]. First edition. Fifty beautifully chromolithographed plates with facing text printed in gold on rectos only. India paper interleaves. Plates attributed to Heinrich Knöfler. Joints a bit tender. Some rubbing to extremities. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary ink signature of a “Sister Ida” to preliminary.....
London: Gye & Balne, [1814], First edition. With three large folding tables of probabilties (on two plates) and tables throughout. Engraved title-page vignette. Clean throughout aside from some foxing to first and last few leaves and to plates. Creases on plates reinforced with document tape. Reference library stamp to verso.....
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1868. First edition. Only two hundred copies were printed. Chromolithograph title-page and section title, plus fifty-three chromolithograph facsimile plates. Beautifully chromolithographed in more than twelve colors by W.R. Tymms from the original copies drawn by J.O. Westwood. Text by Westwood. Wear to calf; hinges tender. Marbled endpapers.....
. Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 2001. One of 175 copies. With twenty-two color plates and fifty-eight illustrations, many of them John DePol’s wood engravings. Printed on Zerkall paper in Eric Gill’s Perpetua. A fine copy with the prospectus in a black cloth clamshell case. Quarter black Oasis goatskin.....
New York: Grolier Cklub, 1995. One of 225 copies printed by Daniel Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress. The first book in the new Grolier Fine Printing Series. This copy unnumbered. With a mounted frontisportrait of Keats and two other mounted plates (a facsimile of a Keats letter and a map.....
L[os Angeles:]: Historical Society of Southern California, June 1947. Five full-page illustrations including a collection of bookplates of early Los Angeles booksellers, portraits of booksellers, and a map of southern California. Spine rubbed. Blue marbled endpapers. With an issue of Hoja Volante (February 1995) laid in. A very good, clean.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. First edition of the author’s first publication, which was drawn from the letters that Bray wrote to her mother and brother while on her honeymoon to France with her first husband. Twenty-two plates (including frontispiece), some beautifully hand colored. Plates.....
Kentfield, California: Allen Press, 1964. One of 139 copies, printed letterpress on handmade paper, in Romanée type. Hand-colored initial letters, and thirty-three woodcut illustrations from the original work by Caxton. Light spot on front of box. Otherwise a fine copy. Three sections of unsewn signatures in the French style, each.....
London: Printed for A. Millar.... 1766/. First edition. Some rubbing to boards. Ink ownership signature of an Elizabeth Marton to title-page of volume one, as well as an ink notation (probably by Marton) reading “By Miss Scott sister of Mrs. Montague.” Some foxing to leaves. Ink mark to front free.....
[ Memphis: Memphis City Courthouse, ], February 25, 1854.]. Printed on one side and completed in manuscript. Some chipping to one edge and some toning. Document tape reinforcing a few folds on verso. A very good original document recording the legal history of slavery in the last years leading up.....
[ London: ]: The Primrose Academy, 1998. One of 225 copies designed and printed at the Rampant Lions Press for the Primrose Academy. Signed on the colophon by the illustrator. Fifty or so engravings (mostly of cats). Printed on Zerkall mold-made paper with text in black, light brown, and light.....
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. Second edition. With a new preface by Shirreff in which she defends her strategy for the education of girls from the criticism that the recommended lessons (in Greek, Latin, arithmetic, history, and more) were too challenging for the average girl (pp. iii-v). The work.....
[Harting, Petersfield, Hampshire: The Pear Tree Press, 1905]. Published in a small edition, though the exact number of copes is unknown. This is a presentation copy from the compiler. Title page printed in green and red; colophon printed in red. Illustrated with small green vignettes. Binding extremities lightly rubbed and.....
Omaha: Abattoir Editions, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1977. One of 253 copes printed at the University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Fine Arts. With engraved title-page vignette and twelve other striking engravings by Barry Moser. Printed from hand-set Bembo type and Moser’s original wood blocks in Gutenberg.....
London: Printed by William and John Innys, 1718. First edition of this collection that compiles Ray’s letters on natural history, philology, chemistry, and more with figures including Martin Lister, Hans Sloane, Henry Oldenburg, and Edward Lhywyd. Decorative headbands, tailpieces, initial letters, and two figures in text. Title-page attractively ruled in.....
Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press, 1998. One of two hundred copies designed, printed by letterpress, and hand-bound by Carol J. Blinn at Warwick Press. Signed on the colophon by Baskin, Blinn, and Perry Smith, and initialed by Harold McGrath. With eight wood engravings by Leonard Baskin, printed from the original blocks.....
London: Field & Tuer, [1884]. First edition of this attractive Leadenhall Press production covering the fashion of the period following the French Revolution (1798 – 1827). Twenty-four hand-colored plates by Halkett, 10 ff. catalogue printed on recto only. Spine sunned and cloth lightly soiled. With the original cloth ties. Two.....
London: Printed by J. Bettenham for R. Francklin... 1720. First edition, first issue, with engraved vignette of a seated muse with cherubs. Includes “The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina,” which Sabin notes is “the first instrument ever digested and written out, for the entire and perfect government of a political body.”.....
