London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1877. Sixth Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED by Nightingale, all in pencil, on the half-title page. xxxi, [1 (blank)], 517, [3] pp. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-1/2". Modern binding of full brown calf, stamped in blind. Nightingale presents the book to "Nurse Webb", adding "delivered from..... More
London: Printed for J. Debrett, Opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly, 1796. 1st Printing (ESTC T17465). iv, 28 pp. 8vo. 7-13/16" x 5". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A verse satire of Edmund Burke. More
(n. p.): For Private Distribution, 1856. 1st Edition. The Author's copy, SIGNED. 4 pp. Binder's blanks. Tipped-in mss descriptive note to rfep. Lithograph plate, showing 3 views of the helmet. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/8". Tan half-calf binding with marbled paper boards. Red speckled edges. Matthew Holbeche Bloxam was a native..... More
Paris: Moderne Imprimerie, 1913. 1st Printing. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy ["with thanks for a very happy afternoon"] from Sarah S. Stein to Ray Sullavin (?). Unpaginated, though 12 pages. Illustrated. 6" x 4-5/8". Original orange paper covers printed in black, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Sarah Stein..... More
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Innsbruck: C A Czichna, (n. d.). 1st printing presumed, ca 1886. 11 panel accordion-fold strip, of red cloth. 11 mounted, and captioned, albumen photographs of divers Innsbruck scenes, each with photographer imprint. Portfolio: 6-5/8" x 4-1/2". Photographs: 3-3/4" x 5-7/16". Red cloth portfolio with gilt stamping. No copies found on..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918. 1st Edition. viii, [2], 231, [15] pp. 5 pages of publisher adverts follow text. Frontispiece of the author, in her nurse's uniform, from her 1917 passport photograph. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-1/8". Original publisher's green cloth binding with black & gilt stamping. "These letters were..... More
London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1791. 1st edition thus, i.e., by this publisher, and according to an ESTC search, one of 3 editions issued in 1791. Cf. PMM 207, for the 1762 first edition. [8], 387, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 7" x 4-1/4". Later tan half-calf..... More
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. 1st printing (BAL 2100). [6], 129, [1] pp. Frontispiece and 7 inserted plates, with color drawings by Jesse Wilcox Smith. 8vo. Bespoke full green morocco binding with elaborate gilt decorations, & red heart inlays to the four corners of each board. TEG. Gilt..... More
Posonni: Impensis S. Ludovici Weber, 1826. 3rd Edition. 92, [2 (Index)] pp. Publisher device to t.p. 6-1/2" x 4". Original publisher's printed drab paper wrappers. More
London: Published for the Author by Messrs. Phipps & Co. at their Music Warerooms, No. 25 Dulce Street Grosvenor Square, (n. d.). Ca mid 1810s. [2], 5, [1 (blank)] pp. 12-3/4" x 9-1/4". Half-bound brown leather spine with marbled paper-covered boards. Gilt lyres stamped five times between gilt rules to..... More
Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard, 1835. 1st edition (American Imprints 32316; Field 764; Graff 2157; Howes I79; Rader 2026; Sabin 35116; Wagner Camp 55:1). 1-4, 9-272; [3] - 296 pp 12mo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1838 [1839]. 1st edition thus (Gimbel A31; cf Smith AMERICAN 3, pp. 88 - 98). [vi] - xii, 13 - 212 pp. Text double column, and from the 1839 edition. 24 inserted plates. 9-3/8" x 6". Recently rebound in quarter-bound brown leather spine with gilt..... More
Boston: Alexander Moore, 1871. 1st edition (Cowan II, p. 333 [incorrectly stating the 1st published in 1872]; Currey & Kruska 225; Farquhar 10a; Kurutz CA PHOTO BOOKS, 84). xii, [13] - 71, [1 (blank)] pp. Each page of text with a red-rule perimeter border. Illustrated with 10 albumen photographs taken..... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo & Co., 1851. 1st edition (Clark III, 434; Graff 4687; New Howes W-487). iv, [5] - 216, [20] pp. Publisher catalogue last 20 pages. Fold-out map [24-3/4" x 29-1/2"] at rear, entitled "A New Map of the United States (© 1851), upon which are Delineated its Vast..... More
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Heidelbergae [Heidelberg]: Excudebat Iacobus Mylius, impensis Matthaei Harnisch. 1576. 1st edition thus. Not in Adams, nor in Darlow & Moule [though see 6162, for a 1574 edition of this translation]. [5], 302, [1 (blank)] ll. Printer's device to t.p. Tailpieces. Printer's device to last page. 8vo: A - 2Q^8 [2Q8..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1865. 1st US edition (Gimbel B289). 48 pp (including wrappers). Text double column. Untrimmed. 8vo. 9-3/4" x 6-1/4". Original publisher's printed buff paper wrappers, sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Dickens wrote Parts I & VII; for the contributions of the other..... More
Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Ioannem Roigny vi Iacobea, sub insigni Basilisci, & Quatuor Elementorum. 1550. Early edition, 1st published in 1522. Not in Adams, though see entry 721 for a 1549 edition by Roigny. 76], 370 pp. T.p. woodcut device, "Prelum Ascensianum". Folio: a - e^6 f^8 A - 2H^6 [-..... More
Philadelphia: Printed for R. T. Rawle, Second-Street, by John Thompson. 1802. 1st US edition thus (American Imprints 2633). Two volumes in 1 (vii, [1], 321, [1] pp). Divisional t.p. to 2C4r. 8vo, signed in 4s. Period full brown sheep with a red leather title label to spine. Gilt dentelles to..... More
New York: H V & H W Poor, 1894. 27th edition (cf. Sabin 64056). 126, xvi, [80], 1392, 135 pp. Indices. Adverts begin & end the volume. Engraved title page with vignette [inserted between pp. 40-41]. Adverts illustrated with cuts. Inserted lithographic trade card for Homer Lee Bank Note Company..... More
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Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. 1st volume edition. BFTP. iv, 772 pp [for entire volume]. Chromolithographed t.p.; 2 other chromo frontises (Nov & Dec issues). Frontis plates to Sept & Oct issues. Cuts throughout, including one Winslow Homer piece on p. 396. 8vo. Original publisher's black half leather with marbled..... More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1870. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 828). viii, [9] - 147 pp (double column). 2 pp publisher advert prior to text, and 4 pp publisher advert at rear (dated July 1870). Wood engraving frontispiece of Dickens. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 5-7/8". Original green publisher's cloth with gilt..... More
(n. p.): The Bibliophile Society of Mills College, 1939. 1st edition (Blasdale 50; Myerson A33). Limited to 175 cc; this copy #11. "Compliments of The Bibliophile Society of Mills College" slip laid-in. 21 pp. Mss facsimile as frontis. 8vo. 9-5/8" x 7-1/8". Gold qtr cloth with brown & orange marbled..... More
London: Punch Office, 1850s. Ltr prtg. 3 volumes. Illustrations by John Leech. 8vo. Modern half calf with marbled boards. Each volume contains 10 hand-coloured steel engravings, as well as a large number of woodcuts. A beautiful set. More
