New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. Hardcover. Circa 1890s. 371pp. Original green cloth over white celluloid hand painted with floral decorations in gold and lilac, all edges gilt. Portrait frontispiece. Contemporary inscription on the front free endpaper. Corner tips worn. A bright, near fine copy. ; Octavo. More about The Pilgrim's Progress, from This World to That Which Is to Come, Delivered Under the Similitude...

Firenze: Nella Stamperia di S. A. R. Per Gio: Gaetano Tartini, e Santi Franchi, 1718. Hardcover. Edizione di Crusca. xii, 208pp. Half vellum stamped in blue and gold over marbled boards, deckle edges. With title vignette, ornamental initial and four tail-pieces. Some wear to extremities, some small stains and mild... More about Fioretti di S. Francesco

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 about Voyage aux Grand Lacs de l'Afrique orientale. Ouvrage traduit de l'anglais avec l'autorisation de...

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 about South African Sketches: Illustrative of the Wild Life of a Hunter on the Frontier of the Cape Colony

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 about The Universal English Short-Hand; or, The Way of Writing English, in the Most Easy, concise,...

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 about A Select Collection of Ancient and Modern Epitaphs, and Inscriptions: To Which Are Added Some on...

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 about The Mysteries of the Neapolitan Convents: With a Brief Sketch of the Early Life of the Authoress....

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. 304pp. Modern dark red half calf over marbled boards, spine with four raised bands, lettered and decorated in gold, marbled edges. Signed and inscribed by Thomas G. Cary on the title page: "Mrs. T. G. Cary / with the author's love."... More about Memoir of Thomas Handasyd Perkins; Containing Extracts from His Diaries and Letters. With an...

[Montefiascone]: Ex Typographia Ejusdem Seminarii et Collegii, 1790-91. First Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes in one. 153pp; 108pp; 224pp. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, spine decorated in gold, with brown calf label lettered in gold. Title vignettes, one in-text illustration. Old dampstain to the upper edge of the front board... More about C. Valerii Catulli Veronensis carmina in usum studiosae juventutis in seminario et collegio...

New York: John Wurtele Lovell, 1880. Hardcover. 255pp. Original brick red pictorial cloth stamped in black and gold on the front panel and the spine panel. Title printed in black and red. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations in black and red. Very mild fading to the spine panel and light edge... More about The Laws and Principles of Whist, Stated and Explained, and the Practice Illustrated On an...

Philadelphia: Published by Lemuel Howell, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. 180pp; 129pp. Contemporary full tree calf. Engraved tissued frontispieces. Covers are rubbed, edges worn, spine ends frayed, scattered foxing, corner of rear free endpaper torn. A good+ copy. Sabin 11855-6. ; 12mo. More about The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler: with a Memoir of Her Life and Character, by...

New York: National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1887. Hardcover. 381pp. Original green decorated cloth stamped in blind on the front panel, and in black and gold on the spine panel. Frontispiece. Slight slant to spine, light wear and soiling, contemporary inscription on the front free endpaper, front hinge a.... More about Bread and Beer

New York: W. B. Smith & Co., (1881). First Edition. Hardcover. 136pp + 8pp ads. Brown cloth stamped in black and gold on the front and the spine. Mild edge wear, spine slant and crease on the spine panel. A very good copy. Wright III.1041.; Twelvemo. More about Horatio Plodgers: A Story of To-Day