Venetiis (Venice): Apud Nicolaum Pezzana, 1691. First Edition. Hardcover. 408, [21]pp. Contemporary vellum, titles in ink on the spine panel. Engraved title page. Minor insect damage to front endpapers and title, front pastedown endpaper is partially detached, a few small worm holes to the lower margin of some of the... More about D. Aurelii Augustini Hippon. episcopi Libri XIII Confessionum ad 3 M. S. S. exemp. emendati opera...

Middletown, CT: Printed by T. & J. B. Dunning, 1804. First Edition. Printed wrappers. v, 34pp. Self-wrappers, stitched. Published in response to an oration delivered in Wallingford, CT, by Abraham Bishop upholding the ideals of secular republicanism, which Backus disputed. Name on title, chipping to edges, soiling and some scattered... More about A Dissertation on the Right and Obligation of the Civil Magistrate to Take Care of the Interest...

St. Louis: G. I. Jones and Company, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. viii, 271pp. Blue cloth decorated and lettered in gold on the front and the spine. Frontispiece and three inserted plates. Some dampstains to covers, endpapers and top edge, previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. A good copy. The... More about A Private Chapter of the War. (1861-5

[No place given]: No Publisher, N.D. Hardcover. Circa 1840s. 190pp. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gold. Text in two columns. The life and times of Dante Alighieri. Initials stamped on the front free endpaper and on the verso of the title page, some wear..... More about Vita di Dante scritta da Cesare Balbo

Bangor, ME: Burrill & Pray, 1846. First Edition. Self-wraps. 16pp. Light edge wear, some minor foxing, some folding creases. A good+ copy. ; Octavo. More about Bangor Gazette. Extra. Public Laws of the State of Maine, Passed by the Twenty-Sixth Legislature,...

London: A. K. Newman and Co., 1813. First Edition. Wrappers. 176pp. Recent blue wrappers with paper label on the front cover. Foldout frontispiece copper engraving of the view of an iron mine. Mild foxing throughout, small stain affecting the upper corner of the last few leaves. A very good copy... More about The Young Northern Traveller, Being a Series of Letters from Frederic to Charles, during a Tour...

Firenze: Passigli, Borghi e Comp. 1830. Hardcover. Twenty-six volumes bound in thirteen. Brown half leather over marbled boards, gilt lettering and decorations on the spines. Engraved frontispieces to volumes 2, 4, 7, 9, 10, 13, 16, 17, 21, and 25. Mild scattered foxing, light wear to extremities. A near fine set. In the Italian language. ; 32mo. More about Viaggio di Anacarsi il giovine nella Grecia

Venezia: Nel priv. stabilimento nazionale di G. Antonelli Ed. 1853. Hardcover. xv, 272pp. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gold. Few tiny wormholes to spine barely affecting the gutter of some of the leaves. Light rubbing to covers and mild foxing to text block. A.... More about L'uomo di lettere difeso ed emendato

Troy, NY: Printed by O. Penniman and Co., 1803. First US Edition. Hardcover. 162pp + 2pp of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary full calf with leather label on the spine. Engraved frontispiece. Wear to extremities, front board partially split at spine, soiling to rear board, foxing to text block. A good copy. ; Octavo. More about Observations on the Medical and Domestic Management of the Consumptive; on the Powers of...

Sacramento: Solomon Alter, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. 261pp. Purple cloth lettered in gold on the spine. With six inserted plates, four of which are on green paper. Cloth is faded along the edges and on the spine panel, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, faint stain affecting the lower... More about The California Pilgrim: A Series of Lectures

Roma: Voghera Carlo, Tipografo di S. M., 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. 371pp. Original pictorial cloth, elaborately decorated in gold and black and with a portrait of Cavour on the front panel, decorated in black on the rear panel, lettered and decorated in gold on the spine panel. Binding signed by... More about Il Conte di Cavour avanti il 1848

Stockholm: Teosofiska Bokförlaget, 1898. Pamphlet. 12pp. Self-wrappers. With foldout plate. Previous owner's name and faint stain to upper edge. A very good copy. ; Octavo. More about Ockult Kemi

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Precedes the British edition. 244pp. Original brown decorated cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. Previous owner's name in pencil on the front free endpaper, light wear to extremities. A near fine copy. ; Octavo. More about Slain by the Doones and Other Stories