London and New York: Printed and Published by The London Printing and Publishing Company - Limited, (n. d.). Ca 1862. 3 volumes in 9. Text printed in double columns, occasionally unopened. Prelims to the 3 volumes conclude Vol IX. Illustrated with steel plate engravings. Royal 8vo. 11-1/4" x 7-5/8". Original..... More
New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, 261 Pearl Street. R. Craighead, Printer. 53 Vesey street, 1855. 1st US Edition. vi, [7] - 69, [3] pp. Last 2 pages publisher advert. 12mo. 6-1/4" x 4". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with title gilt stamped to front board. Pale yellow eps..... More
New York: Chas. D. Durkee & Co., (Incorporated.) Ship Stores and Chandlery, ... 2 & 3 South Street. Ca 1905 - 1907. Printed t.p. Volume unpaginated, though ~ 200 leaves [12 blank at rear]. Manuscript entries for every day, of varying length, in a 'matter of fact' style. We note..... More
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Paris: (n. d.). Ca 1890s. 24 leaves of hinged mouting stock, each image outline with a red rule & captioned underneath. Complete list of captions supplied on request. Images with "B K Edit" imprint. Horizontal format: 7-1/4" x 10-1/8". Original publisher's red cloth album, blocked in black. AEG. Block a...... More
London: Printed for the Author, and may be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country, 1747. 1st Edition thus. [2], 182 pp. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-1/2". Period tan half-leather binding with marbled paper boards. Black leather spine label. Red edgestain. From ESTC, we find this "an expanded version of..... More
Cape Town: Published by J. C. Juta, Wale-Street. Printed at G. J. Pike's Machine Printing Office. 1857. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, "With the Author's compliments" viii, 140 pp. 3 plates at rear [2 double page]. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-5/8". Publisher's drab boards over cloth spine, printed paper title label..... More
Paris: Furne, Libraire Editeur, 1832 - 1833. 1st edition thus, i.e., by this publisher. 10 volumes. Text in French. Frontispiece engraving of Delille to Volume I. 8vo. Period green quarter-morocco bindings with green & black marbled paper boards. Marble eps. More
Worcester: 1953. 1st Edition. 14 single sheets, with type-written double-space text to recto of each, staple upper left. Text contains 4 different "pitches": "A Wind That Kindled A Spirit" [3 pp], Untitled [2 pp], "Our Lady Of The Tornado [noted at top: 'For a Catholic Audience', 4 pp], "A Revisit..... More
[International Center, San Francisco]: Northern California Association of Scientists, (n. d.). Circa 1947 (?). Folliated: [5 (1st leaf blank)], 16, [3 (Constituion)] ll. Text recto only. Laid-in, a typescript form letter requesting the new NCAS member give the booklet wide circulation "among your friends and associates ... and encourage them..... More
London: Edward Portwine, 1835. 1st Edition in English (cf. Garrison & Morton 3221 for the 1st edition of 1825). 388 pp + 4 pp publisher advert at rear. 8vo [ approx 5.75" x 9"]. Original publishers green cloth spine over drab boards with printed paper title label to spine... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1984. 1st edition thus (Newman & Wiche 538). SIGNED by Singer & Rivers. LIMITED to 1500 copies, of which this is no. 1310. x, 220 pp. Monthly letter laid-in (Errata slip regarding binding laid-in before Colophon). Frontis + other color lithographs by Rivers. 4to..... More
Boston: Black & Batchelder, (1859). 1st printing thus. Facsimile signature of Brown underneath the portrait. Salt print: 7-1/2" x 5-1/4" (oval). Mount: 12-7/8" x 11" (oval). Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Brown infamous for the Harper's Ferry raid, ultimately resulting in his capture & execution by hanging, December..... More
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1938. 1st edition thus. Limited to 877 cc. xiii, [1], 857, [3] pp. Illustrated with the original wood block illustrations. Royal 8vo. 10-1/4" x 6-1/2". Blue cloth binding with black leather spine label. TEG. Besides the 31 'Reprinted Pieces' & The Uncommercial Traveller, the volume also..... More
New York: The Stillson Press, [1928]. 1st printing. [3] - 18, [4] pp. Text double column. 4 pages of adverts conclude booklet. 16 Illustrations from b/w photographs. 2 page map at center, depicting the "Route of the Collyer - Mears Record Breaking Flight Around the World." 11" x 8-1/2". Color..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1867. 1st edition (Nevins II, p. 128). [2 (blank)], vii, [1 (blank)], [9] - 131, [3 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Per Nevins, "Perceptive remniscences of a woman who saw the..... More
(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca late 1890s. 12 ll of grey mounting paper. Illustrated with 12 mounted albumen photographs. Oblong format. 5-11/16" x 7-11/16". Photographs: 3-1/8" x 4". Black cloth album, with silver stamped title lettering to front board. More
London: Strahan and Co., 1869 - 1870. 6 volumes. 6-3/4" x 4-1/8". Full vellum bindings with green morocco title labels to spine. Gilt dentelles. Red edgestain. Marbled eps. More
Nurnberg: Wolffgang Endter, 1640. 1st edition. [16], 246 pp. Engraved title leaf. Folding map. Head- Tailpiece. 24mo, in 12s. 4-5/8" x 2-1/4". Period full vellum binding with yapp edges; 2 cloth-tie stubs to each cover. Title hand-inked to spine. Light blue edgestain. This volume bound with Emmius' GRAECORVM RESPVBLICAE [Elzevir..... More
Chicago: Arthur H. Day & Co., Publishers. 1888. 1st edition thus. Not in Howes. 254, [4] pp. Fold-out map, printed by Rand-McNally, at front. Depicts all major & minor tours in red. Frontis wood engraving. Text profusely illustrated with cuts, 6 double page. 9-1/8" x 4-3/4". Publisher's original blue-green fine-weave..... More
Iowa City, Iowa: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1911. 1st edition (Broadfoot, p. 486; Nevins I, p. 41; Seagreave, p. 563). 134 pp (including Index). Frontis. Maps. 8vo. Bound in red broad-weave cloth with gilt stamping to spine & front board. TEG. Per Nevins, "A brief, terse, documented study..... More
London: Published by Robert Bent, 1839. 1st edition thus. iv, 415, [1] pp. Cut of Bagster's Bible, p. 412. Printer's device, last page. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-1/2" Original publisher's brown vertically-ribbed cloth with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Pale yellow eps. More
London: Printed by T. B. for Henry Brome, at the Gun in S. Paul's Church-Yard, 1681. Second edition, first published in 1679. Wing L-1198. [2], 38 pp. Printed glosses. 4to: A - E4. 7-5/8" x 5-5/8". Disbound. More
New York: Published by E. Brown Junr. Printed by N. Currier, New York. 1839. Cf. Conningham 643. Image - 11-3/4" x 8-7/8". Framed: 25" x 19-1/2". Housed in an attractive gilt frame. Image of a young Dickens [bust aspect, after the "Nickleby Portrait" by Maclise] lithographed on proof paper &..... More
London: John Murray, 1816. 1st edition, 2nd issue (Wise Vol I, pg 56). 79 pp + Poem List + 4 pp advert dated November 1816. 8vo. Original drab paper wrappers. More
