Diary of Charles Francis Adams
Cambridge: Harvard Univ.Press, 1964-1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, Indexes in Vols. 2 and 4. The first four volumes cover the years January 1820 - December 1832.Bookplates. More
Cambridge: Harvard Univ.Press, 1964-1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, Indexes in Vols. 2 and 4. The first four volumes cover the years January 1820 - December 1832.Bookplates. More
Boston: Privately Printed, 1903. Hardcover. 48 pages. 12.5 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 175 copies printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. Seven illustrations with tissue guards, most are maps from original engravings. Addenda. Index, covers slightly dusty. More
London: Cresset Press, 1928. Hardcover. 198 pages. Folio, 39.5 x 26. Limited edition, copy 17 of 250 on Batchelor's Kelmscott paper, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. Printed in red and black with wide text margins. Titles and initial letters designed by Joscelyne Gaskin. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, book-label..... More
Paris: Chez la Veuve Maubry Cramoysi, 1693. leather_bound. 322 pp. 12mo, 15 cm, this edition "Reduite en abrege," the fuller and first edition of this work published 1691. Copper engraved frontispiece. The author, an erudite and assiduous compiler was born a year prior to Descartes death, and this work is..... More
London: George Sawbridge, 1679. Seventh Impression. leather_bound. 750 pages, Index 38pp. Large 4to, 35 1/2 x 22 cm. Portrait, extra engraved title. This popular history first published 1643 with a catalogue of apologies for the improprieties or misinformation of past editions tells you this last edition is now a worthy..... More
NY: Doubleday Page, 1906. First edition. leather_bound. 467 pages. 29 x 19 cm. More than fifty black and white illustrations with lettered tissue guards. Limited edition, copy 34 of 100 printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper by the De Vinne Press. Clean, bright copy, covers slightly splayed. More
Paris: Alexis Emery, 1825. Second edition. Hardcover. 139 pages. Landscape octavo, 13 x 22 cm. 28 hand-colored plates, all with multiple images per plate, depicts the history of the French monarchy in costume, beginning with the reign of Pharamond through to Louis XVIII. Chronological Table of the Monarchy -- the..... More
Paris: Boiste, 1797-1799. First edition. leather_bound. 102, 104 pages. 26.5 x 20 cm. With additional engraved titles, and 36 sanguine plates [with tissue guards] by Francois Anne after Charles Monnet, an historical and portrait painter born in Paris about 1730, admitted into the Academy in 1765. Chronological Table of Illustrations..... More
La Haye: Arnout Leers & Andrian Moetjens, 1681. First edition. leather_bound. 497 pp. 12mo, the first forty letters relate to correspondence with ministries in Germany and Denmarkf rom 1589 to 1610. The next group of 184 are to Monsieur Camerarius, date from May 1588 to October 1598. Covers a tumultuous..... More
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1962. First edition. Paperback. More
London: T. Jefferys, 1761. First edition. leather_bound. 275 [15] [48] [XIX] pages. 26 x 20 cm. With 13 engraved maps (12 folding) and 6 plates (3 folding). Directions for placing the plates at rear. LOWNDES: “valuable for its accuracy and authenticity” “a contribution to the chronicles of India only superseded..... More
London: F. Collins. for A.Swalle & A. & F. Churchil, 1695. leather_bound. 1116, (18), (26) pages.[*1, A2, a-g2, B-Fff4, Ggg4,*Ggg2, Hhh4, *Hhh2, Iii-Mmm4,Nnn-Nnnn2, a-l2]. Frontispiece, fifty double-paged maps by Robert Morden, nine plates of maps, and a host of engravings in the text -- most notable, that of Stonehenge, Rolle-rich..... More
Np: Np, ca 1753. 30.3 x 24 cm. (plate size) with image 19 x 15 cm. Portrait of Elizabeth Canning in the witness box during her abduction trial which divided London during the 18th century, and remains an unsolved mystery. She was eventually convicted of perjury, transported to America, married..... More
Westminster: Machell Stace, 1810. First edition. leather_bound. 196 pages. Folio, 31 x 19 cm. Five engraved plates; extra-illustrated with insertion of forty engraved portraits, views and historical scenes. LOWNDES 560, attributes this work to Machell Stace. Rubbing to covers and extremities, raised bands; generally a sound and firm copy. More
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 31 pages. 25 x 19 cm. Eight full-page color lithographs of heraldic [escutcheons] shields with multiple examples per page, printed recto only. Toning to endpapers. More
Paris: Aux Editions De L'Ibis, 1945. Valade, Pierre. Paperback. 138 pages. 25 x 17 cm. Host of colored wood block engravings -- full page, initial letters, and vignettes -- by Pierre Valade. Limited edition, copy 612 of 945. First published 1533. Almost as new copy, More
London: Bailey, Brothers, 1845. First edition. Hardcover. 477 pages, 21.5 x 14 cm. COHN 541. "Twenty-seven plates, of which twenty-one are by George Cruikshank. The remaining six are portraits." The latter engraved portraits are chiefly by P. Lightfoot. Originally issued in fifteen parts in twelve. Toning to a few plates..... More
Shanghai: North China Daily News & Herald Ltd, (1917). Second edition. leather_bound. Elephant folio, 53.5 x 38.7 cm. 18 colored graphs and diagrams ; 26 colored maps and two half page colored maps -- all are color lithographs. The largest, most comprehensive atlas of China in English so far published..... More
Hague: Adriani Viac, 1652. First edition. 189 pages. 12 x 7 cm. [A12-I11]. A response to John Milton's "Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio," published 1651 in which the author defends Charles II, and denounces Milton's attack. "Milton's Latin works when they are taken as a whole, their interest is considerable; and..... More
NY: J.H. Sears, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 705 pp. 24 x 16 cm. Introduction by James John Davis, Secretary of Labor for Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Index. Bookplates. More
Paris: Didot L'Aine, 1786. leather_bound. 240, 269 pages, 12mo, 13 x 7 1/2 cm. Engraved plates, publisher adverts end of Vol.II. Text and engravings clean, gilt cover border fillets, spine decorated in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt., inner dentilles, marbled endpapers, backstrips worn at head, corners rubbed..... More
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrations. Glossary. Genealogyof the Li Family of Ho-fei. Bibliography. Index. An unofficial institution which personalized the bureaucratic central administration and eventually helped China to modernize, especially in the late 19th century. More
Paris: Bulletin De La Convention Nationale, (1794). Original Wraps. 8 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Another announcement from the "sans culots." The last page notes individuals: "Dusaulx, president; Bourgain, Rudel, Blanc (de la Marne); Dumont (du Calvades), Lefebvre (de las Seine-Inferieure), secretaire. Ex-library stamps first page, slight paper crinkling, text..... More
Paris: Bulletin De La Convention Nationale, (1794). Original Wraps. 8 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Partly unopened. Lettres Des Representans Du Peuple En Mission Dans Les Departemens, A Nice, le 25 ventose, l'an troisieme de la Republique une et indivisible. Turreau, representant du peuple, envoye pres les armees d'Italie et..... More
York & London: Thomas Hammond & A. Bettesworth, 1730. First edition. leather_bound. 264 pages. [A3,B8-R8,S3], 17 1/2 x 11 cm. Two fold-out engraved plates -- A Plan of the City of York and A View of the City of York., plus text ornaments and vignettes. Complete with addenda, subscribers' lists..... More