London: The Botolph Press, (n. d.). 1st edition (presumed), ca 1890s. xxiii, [1 (blank)], 704 pp (including Index at rear). Text double column. With 350 Illustrations [per the t.p.], including 6 color lithographic plates. Thick 8vo. Original publishers brown decorative cloth. Bevelled edges. Pale yellow eps. Fairly uncommon book on..... More

Berkeley: University of California Regional Oral History Office The Bancroft Library, (1993). 1st Printing. Copy #6. [14], vii, [1 (blank)], viii, [1 (blank)], 309, [5] pp. Half-tone photographic portrait of Luna Leopold. 11-1/4" x 8-5/8". Bright blue buckram binding with silver stamped spine lettering. More

Paris / Mejico: Libreria de Ch. Bouret, 1888. Later edition, a substantially revised, enlarged and illustrated version of Cocinero Mejicano, originally published in 1831. [6], 966, [2 (blank)] pp. Hlaf-title leaf present. Text double column. Text in Spanish. Lithographed title leaf, frontis, and 5 inserted plates at rear. 8vo. 9-5/8"..... More

Madrid: Enda Imprenta de Don Antonia Perez de Soto, de la Real Biblioteca. A costa de la Real Compania de Impresores, y Libreros del Reyne. (n. d.). Early edition, ca mid-18th C. Cf. Palau 8977 for the 1st edition of 1745; Cagle 1208 & 1209 for 1767 & 1788 editions..... More

London: Kent and Richards, Paternoster Row. 1849. x, 182, [2] pp. Page of press notices/reviews follows conclusion of text. 16mo. 5-1/2" x 3-5/8". Flexible brown cloth binding with gilt stamping to front cover. "This work possesses advantages over every other of the kind submitted to public notice." [United Service Gazette..... More

London: Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yar; and C. Elliot, Edinburgh. 1787. 1st Edition. ix, [3], 77, [3] pp. Last 3 pages a publisher list for "Books in Medicine, Surgery, &c." 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5". Modern tan quarter calf over marbled paper boards. NB. FWIW, this author..... More

London: Printed for T. Wotton, at the Three Daggers in Fleet-street. 1723. 1st edition (Axford, p. 103 [for the 2nd edition]; Bitting, p. 440 [for the 2nd edition]; Cagle 1001; Maclean, p. 137; Oxford, pp 55-56; Vicaire, columns 794-795 [for the 1794 Dublin edition]. [4], 112, [8 (Index)], 82, [14]..... More

London: Aurun Press, (1983). 1st Edition. 255, [1 (blank)] pp. Profusely illustrated, primarily with b/w half-tone photographic images. 9-3/4" x 7-1/2". Red cloth binding with gilt title lettering stamped to spine. Red dust jacket with gold title lettering printed to front panel and spine. More

New York: W. W. Norton & Co., (2008). 1st edition. 380 pp (including Index). llustrated. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More

Framingham Centre MA: Published by the Author, (1933). 10th edition. 683 pp (including index). Illustrated, primarily from photographs. 8vo. Blue cloth binding. Dust jacket. More

Hong Kong: Printed by Ye Olde Printerie, Ltd., [1937]. 1st printing. xiv, [2], 91, [1 (blank)] pp. Photographic frontis of the ship. 51 b/w captioned images from photographs, on 13 inserted leaves [usually 2 per page]. Folding map with track listing underneath, inserted after p. 48. Chart of the 1936..... More

London: Martin Secker, 1930. 1st edition. [2 (blank)], 43, [3] pp. 7-5/8" x 4-3/4". Brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. TEG. Dust jacket. More

New York: Touchstone, (2105). 1st Edition. [6], 233, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated by the author. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 7-5/8" Red cloth spine over green paper-wrapped boards. Dust jacket. More