1789. Pamphlet. 16pp. Folded sheet. One of Brissot’s many pamphlets composed in the years and months leading up to the July 1789 storming of the Bastille that launched the French Revolution. Brissot supported many of the ideals of the Enlightenment philosophes, such as Rousseau and Voltaire, and was committed to..... More

Philadelphia: J. Magee, 1864. Broadside. Single sheet, folded. Printed in blue and red on the first page only. Thirteen verses with chorus, red and blue ornamental border with American flags and the words Liberty and Union Forever. Blindstamp of the Southworth Co. paper company of Massachusetts on the top left..... More

San Francisco: Bell & Company, General Publishers of Songs and Ballads. Broadside. Circa 1870s. Composed by T. S. Lonsdale. Four verses, chorus, and spoken parts with an ornamental border. Measures 9 x 26.5 cm (3.5 x 10.5"). Trimmed. Minor foxing and a tiny closed tear to the edge. Very good..... More

New York: J. Wrigley. Broadside. Circa 1864. No. 1188. Also published by Henry De Marsan as Isabella, with the Gingham Umbrella, or, The Barber's Daughter of Weehawken. Six stanzas with an ornamental border. Measures 16 x 24 cm (6 x 9.5"). A few light stains, minor closed tears along the..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. xv, 102pp + 2pp of publisher's advertisements. Cloth backed pictorial boards, edges stained red. Light soiling to covers, wear to extremities. Internally very clean. A good+ copy. In Bitting, p. 64. ; Oblong octavo. More

London: John C. Nimmo, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to 500 copies, this being #107. xxx, 200pp. Brown buckram lettered in gold on the spine, top edge gilt others uncut. Title page printed in red and black. A very good copy. ; Octavo. More

Roma: Nella stamparia di Domenico Antonio Ercole, 1698. First Edition. Hardcover. xxviii, 495pp. Contemporary full calf, spine and edges decorated in gold, leather label lettered in gold, marbled pastedowns, edges sprinkled in red. Engraved title, title vignette, thirty engraved plates (mostly of coins and medallions), three engraved foldout plates, several..... More

New York: Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. [4], 270pp + [3]pp of publisher's advertisements. Brown decorated cloth stamped in black and gold on the front and the spine, brown endpapers. Collects eight stories originally published in Scribner's Monthly and Lippincott's Magazine. Contemporary inscription in pencil and small..... More

Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1862. First French Edition. Hardcover. 719pp. Contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gold decorations and lettering, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. The elegant binding is signed by Ch. de Haas of Paris. Map, foldout map, and thirty-seven woodcut..... More

London: Published by Ackermann and Co., 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. 15, [1]p. Original (or contemporary) green cloth stamped in blind on the sides and lettered in gold on the front panel and the spine panel, glazed yellow endpapers. Frontispiece and fifteen numbered plates with sixteen hand-colored illustrations and fourteen in..... More

Manchester: Printed by Joseph Harrop, 1767. First Edition. Hardcover. ix, [1], [3]-92pp. There are two minor pagination errors: page 69 is erroneously numbered 68; the page number 76 is missing. The text is complete. Recent dark brown patterned paper over boards, spine lettered in gold. One engraved table and twelve..... More

London: Printed for and Sold by the Compiler, 1796. First Edition. Hardcover. iv, 416pp. Bound in light brown cloth stamped in gold and red on the spine, illustrated frontispiece. A note on the front pastedown endpaper informs us that the binding was done by George A. Simonds in Washington in..... More

Hartford, CT: A. S. Hale & Co., 1869. Hardcover. 484pp. Original brown cloth stamped in gold and blind on the front panel and decorated in gold on the spine panel. Frontispiece and five inserted plates. The somewhat fictionalized autobiography of Enrichetta Caracciolo, a former Benedictine nun, Italian patriot and feminist..... More