London: Dean & Son, [1855]. With 22 hand-colored engravings of children at play. First and last leaves pasted down to insides of wrappers, as issued. Some toning to wrappers. Small piece missing from rear wrapper, just slightly touching the text of the ad. Some toning and dust-soiling throughout, as well.....

London: Willoughby and Co., [1849]. First edition. Etched frontispiece, full-page etched title, and 2 etched plates (between pp. 50-51 and 88-89), all finely hand colored. With wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces throughout, some by Edward Townsend Hartshorn (1828 - 1900) and some signed “S. White.”. Some rubbing to gilt. Also lettered.....

London: Grant Richards, 1902. First edition. The ad for the Dumpy Books for Children series in the present item notes nineteen titles so far, which date from 1897 to 1902. Twenty-one additional books were also published by Grant Richards and then, later, by Chatto & Windus and Sampson Low. The.....

Gainsborough: Printed by H. Mozley, 1809. Second edition. Both the first edition and the present edition are very scarce. OCLC lists only two copies of the first edition (one at the British Library and one at the Morgan Library) and two copies of the present edition (one at UCLA and.....

London: John Harris, 1824. Fourth edition (based on the date on the title-page), though there is no edition specified anywhere in the present item. OCLC lists previous editions with publication dates of 1819, 1820, and 1822. Note that the list of titles pasted down on the inside of the wrappers.....

Paris: A la Librairi e d’Education d’ A. Eymery, 1818. First edition of a scarce book by Madame Dufrénoy, intended as an aid to mothers educating their children, especially young adolescents, at home. Twelve engraved plates. Labels with minor chipping, some offsetting to edges of endpapers. A very good, attractive.....

Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 19 April, 1494. Fourth incunable and first Koberger edition. Also first quarto edition, notable for being small and easier for scholars to take with them. The Repertorium in postillam is not an edition of the Postilla but rather a subject index to it, organized in dictionary (A.....

Antwerp: Ex Architypographia Plantiniana, 1796. First published in 1614. Title-page in black and red, with engraved vignette. Full-page engraving of Christ's Crucifixion. Engraved initial letters and tail pieces. Text in black with headlines, capitals, and section headings in red. Includes liturgical chants for "Officium sepulturae" and "Benedictio aquae," with music.....

London: Macmillan, 1888. First edition of an uncommon title. OCLC lists twelve copies in North America. Spines cocked, binding extremities lightly rubbed, but still a fine, bright copy. Publisher's taupe cloth with spine and covers stamped in gilt. Three volumes, twelvemo. 4], 313, [1], [2, ads]; [4], 316; [4], 306.....

[Portland, Oregon: For the author, 1916 ]. Revised edition. One of 1,000 copies printed for Sanger by an Oregon union organizer, possibly with funds provided by Marie Equi (Helquist, p. 274). The Portland edition is unique because it was revised by Equi and includes a statement by her specifying that.....

New York: A.C. Armstrong and Sons, 1889. Later edition. The first edition was published in a two-volume set in Edinburgh in 1881. The title-page of the present item states that it is the second edition, though it seems that several earlier single-volume editions, published in both New York and Edinburgh.....

London: Leadenhall Press, 1891. First edition. With 32 facsimiles of nautical song broadsides mounted on brown paper stubs. With a total of 200 half-page illustrations, initials, headpieces, and tailpieces (some by Joseph Crawhall). Some yellowing to vellum, as usual. Some wear to seam where vellum meets paper on front board.....

[ Cambridge: Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, 1914]. First edition. This article was published in 1914 but is often misdated because it was later reissued featuring a title-page dated 1916. It is also often misattributed to Edward C. Pickering, though the text of the present work explains that it was.....