Paris: Briasson, 1771. First Edition. 9pp + 35 plates. Disbound. Includes thirty-five engraved plates on fishing by Benard and Groussier. Originally contained in one of the volumes of plates, which was part of the Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. One tiny wormhole to inner..... More
Virginia, NE: F. Boegle, 1889. First Edition. Printed wrappers. x, 158pp. Original grey wrappers. Bookplate of James A. Guilfoil and date on the inside of the front cover. Chipping to spine and edges, front cover partially split, two faint spots to back cover. Internally clean. A very good copy. Howes..... More
London: Chapman and Hall. Hardcover. The Charles Dickens Edition. Half blue calf over marbled boards, spine elaborately decorated in gold and with red leather labels lettered in gold, marbled edges and endpapers. Frontispiece and seven isnerted plates. Dickens commemorative stamp affixed to one page. Light fading and wear to leather..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Illustrated by Eytinge, Jr., Sol. First Edition. Hardcover. [6], 241pp. Red pictorial cloth stamped in gold on the front, spine lettered in gold. Frontispiece and six (out of seven) inserted plates with illustrations by Sol Eytinge, Jr.. Short preface by the author. Includes Little Nell..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, N.D. Hardcover. The Charles Dickens Edition. Half blue calf over marbled boards, spine elaborately decorated in gold and with red leather labels lettered in gold, marbled edges and endpapers. Frontispiece and seven isnerted plates. Previous owner's name and date (1878) on the flyleaf, Dickens commemorative stamp..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. Illustrated by Browne, H. K. First Edition. Hardcover. xiv, 625pp. Contemporary brown half calf, spine with five raised bands, gilt decorations and titles, marbled endpapers and marbled edges. Tissued frontispiece, engraved title, and thirty-eight plates by H. K. Browne (Phiz). First edition with the errata..... More
Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 1857. Hardcover. 159pp; 160pp. Brown cloth stamped in blind on the sides, spine lettered and decorated in gold. Yellow endpapers. Complete with fifteen plates with hand-colored illustrations (seven in the first book, eight in the second). Translated from the German. Contemporary inscription and small bookstore label..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. 182pp + 10pp of publisher's advertisements. Original green cloth stamped in gold on the front panel and the spine panel. Mild slant to spine, light wear to extremities, name in pencil on the flyleaf, some faint spots to cloth. A...... More
Genova: Presso Bernardo Tarigo, N.D. Hardcover. Mid to late 1700s. xxxvi, 156pp. Contemporary full calf, edges decorated in gold, spine decorated in gold and with leather label lettered in gold, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. A collection of aphorisms on morality with sections on the obligations of man, passions, women, differences..... More
London: Published by the Author and by Bell and Daldy, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 41pp + plates. Contemporary green half calf, red leather label lettered in gold on the spine. With forty-two leaves of plates of the St. John's Hospital, Northampton; Ford's Hospital, Coventry; St. Mary's Hospital, Chichester; the..... More
New York: The Mershon Company Publishers. Hardcover. Unauthorized edition from 1897 (as per Christmas inscription on the front free endpaper). Predates the editions by this publisher mentioned in Green and Gibson by two years. Blue pictorial cloth stamped in red on the front, and in red and gold on the..... More
Cincinnati, OH: Printed by Morgan, Lodge, and Fisher, 1827. First Edition. Hardcover. 100pp. Contemporary full black leather lettered in gold on the front and the spine, edges stained yellow. Engraved frontispiece and one inserted plate. With the bookplate of noted collector Otto Orren Fisher to front pastedown endpaper. Wear to..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1870. Hardcover. 260pp + 4pp of publisher's advertisements. Brown pictorial cloth stamped in gold on the front panel and the spine panel, brown endpapers. Frontispiece and thirty illustrations (some are full page). Contemporary name on the flyleaf. Small bookstore label of Louis Lewin &..... More
Philadelphia: James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. 136pp. Contemporary full calf with red leather label lettered in gold on the spine. Previous owner's name on title, covers are almost completely detached, some foxing to endpapers. A good- copy. Uncommon. ; Octavo. More
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1858. First US Edition. Hardcover. 408pp. Original brown cloth stamped in blind on the sides and lettered in gold on the spine. Collects letters related to the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (also known as the First War of Indian Independence) and addressed to the..... More
Cahors: J.-P. Cambarieu, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. 318pp. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. A history of the town of Cahors during the Middle Ages. Rubbing and stains to covers, wear to extremities, scattered foxing, stain to fore edge of the last several leaves. A solid good+ copy..... More
New York: National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. 248pp + 12pp of publisher's adverstisements. Original green decorated cloth stamped in black on the front and black and gold on the spine, yellow endpapers. Frontispiece. Light wear to extremities. A near fine copy. ; Octavo. More
Milano: Giuseppe Bernardoni, 1853. Second Edition. Hardcover. Dark red half-morocco, leather label stamped in gilt to front cover, ornate gilt spine, marbled edges and marbled endpapers. A description of the architecture of the Carthusian monastery of Pavia. Seventy copper engravings, eight of which are double spreads. Heavy wear to corners..... More
Paris: F. Kellerhoven, [1860]. First Edition. Hardcover. 218pp + index. Finely bound by Belz-Niedree (signed on the turn-ins) of Paris in full red morocco tooled in blind and gold on the front and rear panel, edges ruled in gold, spine with five raised bands, gilt lettering and decorations, gorgeous gilt..... More
London: Hippolyte Bailliere, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Part of The Ethnographical Library. 6pp of advertisements, xiv, [4], 239pp. Modern brown half calf over marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gold. Four color plates, two folding maps (one of the seats of the Papuan Race in the Indian Archipelago; the..... More
Boston / New York: Andrew F. Graves / Sheldon and Company, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. The first book in the Percy Family series. 255pp. Red cloth stamped in blind on the sides, spine lettered and decorated in gold. Frontispiece and illustrations. Chips to spine ends, name and bookstore label residue..... More
New York: J. & J. Harper, 1830. First US Edition. Hardcover. 117pp + 9pp of advertisements. In reality 97 pages as pages 114 to 117 are numbered incorrectly. The author's first novel. Original cloth backed boards, paper label lettered in black on the spine. Light scattered foxing, some pencil markings..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by F. & R. Bailey, 1795. First Edition. Hardcover. 88pp. Original boards. With the bookplate of the Brown University on the front pastedown endpaper. Old name and date on title, another name on the verso of the Advertisement leaf, newer paper label applied to the spine. A good..... More
Philadelphia: Times Printing House, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. 30pp. Original brown stiff wrappers lettered in gold on the front cover. Mild rubbing and wear to covers. A near fine copy. ; Octavo. More
Boston, New York, and London: Lamson, Wolffe and Company, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Compliments of Olmsted Brothers card tipped-in. 23, [114]pp. Green cloth stamped in gold on the front panel. Fifty-one photographs, six lithographs and three large folding maps of the Stony Brook Reservation, Middlesex Fells and Blue Hills at..... More