London: John Murray, 1820. First Edition. Hardcover. Full dark brown leather with elaborate decorations on the covers and spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Sixty-three engraved plates by John Pye, George Cooke, George Hollis, J. Landseer and others. Heavy wear to corners and edges, rodent damage to upper half of... More
New York: Chautauqua Press, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. 312pp. Original brown decorated cloth stamped in gold and black on the front and the spine. Foldout map and several illustrations. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper, a touch of wear to extremities. A near fine copy. ; Octavo. More
Washington, DC: Buell & Blanchard, Printers, 1853. First Edition. Pamphlet. 15pp. Folded sheets. Light toning to pages, smudge on title page, light chipping. A very good- copy. Sabin 29640. ; Octavo. More
New York: The New York Times, 1899. First Edition. Printed wrappers. 122pp. Original gray wrappers lettered in black. With an introduction by Francis Withing Halsey that explains how the correspondence started with a letter sent by Helen Church, a reader of The New York Times Saturday Review of Books and... More
Chicago: Our Possessions Publishing, Co., 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. 452pp. Original tan pictorial binding stamped in gold, red, black, and white on the front panel and the spine panel. Frontispiece and twenty-seven half-tone engravings made from photographs taken especially for this book. A few tiny spots to cloth on the... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. 352pp. Maroon cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine, brown endpapers. Frontispiece and two plates with photographs. Inscription on the front free endpaper by John Pierce from Company G of Lowell, Mass, in the year of publication (his name... More
Lowell, MA: Milton Bonney, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. 164pp. Brown cloth decorated in gold and stamped in blind on the front panel and lettered and decorated in gold on the spine, all edges gilt, tissued color frontispiece. Mild chipping to spine, some pencil annotations in text, light foxing. A very... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883. Hardcover. vii, 378pp. Original publisher's brown pictorial cloth stamped in black and gold on the front panel and the spine panel, all edges gilt. Portrait frontispiece and several inserted plates with engravings. Light edge wear, contemporary owner's name on the front free endpaper. A.... More
Boston: W. P. Fetridge & Co., 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. 329pp + 16pp of publisher's advertisements. Blue cloth stamped in blind on the sides and in gold on the spine. Light rubbing to covers, mild wear to extremities, light foxing to endpapers. A very good copy. Wright II.647. ; Octavo. More
Hardcover. Brown half calf and marbled boards. A collection of several pamphlets pertaining mostly to politics. Three of them bear the signature of Sir William Jolliffe, one was inscribed to him by the author, and one includes an autograph letter signed by the author. Includes the following titles: 1) Character... More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1872. Hardcover. 511pp. Contemporary full green morocco with triple gilt fillets and gold floral decorations on the sides, spine in compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettering and decorations, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Sections on the geology of the Missouri valley; observations on... More
Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. 21pp. Green cloth lettered in gold on the front panel. Portrait frontispiece. With the armorial bookplate of noted geologist and educator William Phipps Blake on the front pastedown endpaper. Old inscription on the front free endpaper, frontispiece tissue detached, mild scattered... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1872. Hardcover. 334pp. Original brown cloth stamped in blind on the sides and lettered in gold on the spine panel. Double wood engraved frontispiece with views of the old prison, built in 1805 and of the same in 1868. Wear to spine ends, short inscription... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second edition, revised and enlarged. xvii, 256pp. Original decorated cloth stamped in gold and pale green on the front panel, lettered and decorated in gold on the spine panel. Light soiling to cloth, mild toning to spine panel. ; Octavo. More
Venezia: Presso Francesco Pitteri, 1770. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second edition in Italian. Two volumes. xx, 447pp; 400pp. There are several misnumbered pages. Recent half mottled calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, decorated and lettered in gold, edges sprinkled red. Engraved frontispiece, twenty copper-engraved foldout plates, initials and tail-pieces... More
New York: A. B. Burdick, 1860. Hardcover. Enlarged edition. xvi, [1], 18-438pp + [2]pp of publisher's advertisements. Recent brown half morocco over marbled boards, spine with four raised bands, lettered and decorated in gold. Engraved frontispiece. Signed and inscribed by Hinton Rowan Helper on the flyleaf: "Andreas Willmann, / with... More
New York: The A. B. Benesch Co., (1904). Pictorial wrappers. Designed and published for the Illustrated Press Syndicate, New York. Unpaginated. Original pictorial wrappers. Compliments of The Baltimore Car Wheel Company. Previous owner's name in pencil on the front cover, spine partially split, a few smudges and light foxing to... More
London: Printed for A. Moore, 1730. First Edition. Self-wraps. 32pp. Stitched. Light toning to pages. A near fine copy. ; Octavo. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. In two volumes. 220pp; 239pp + 8pp ads numbered 17-24. Brown figured cloth, paper label lettered and ruled in black on the spines. Wear to extremities, cloth is faded; volume one has a stain to front panel, a tear along the... More
New York: Oliver Dodd, Publisher, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. 200pp. Quarter brick red cloth over paper covered boards, spine lettered in gold. An anti-black novel set in Memphis, Tennessee. Wear to corners and cloth, numerous numbers in pencil on endpapers and last page, lacks rear free endpaper. Wright III.2636. ; 12mo. More
New York: Charles Scribner, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. 343pp + 4 pp of advertisements. Brown cloth stamped in gold and blind on the front and the spine. Frontispiece and nineteen inserted plates. Plates state B. Fairly heavy wear to spine and extremities, cloth is faded, scattered foxing throughout. A good-... More
New York: Stringer & Townsend (Late Burgess, Stringer & Co), 1849. First US Edition. Hardcover. In two volumes. x, [11]-360pp; vi, [7]-367pp + note. Green cloth stamped in blind on the sides, gold vignette on the front, spine decorated and lettered in gold. Frontispiece and five inserted plates in each... More
Lisboa: Em Casa da Viuva Bertrand e Filhos, 1846-53. First Edition. Hardcover. Eight books in four volumes. xiv, 518, [1]p; 514, [1]p; 455pp; xix, 488pp. Contemporary red quarter calf, spines lettered and decorated in gold, all edges marbled. Neat bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper of volume 1. A few... More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. 96pp. Original blue cloth stamped in gold on the front panel. With eight inserted photographic plates and forty-seven foldout plates, some of which are very large. They represent plans of dockyards (Portsmouth, Cherbourg, Dumbarton, Belfast, London, etc.), ships (Riachuelo, Naniwa Kan... More
