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 about Diary of Charles Francis Adams
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 about Boston Common in Colonial and Provincial Days
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 about The Essayes Or Counsels Civill And Morall of Francis Lord Verulam Viscount St Alban
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 about La Vie de Mr. Des-Cartes Contenant L'histoire de la Philosophie & de les autres Oevrages: Et...
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 about A Chronicle Of the Kings of England. From the Times of the Roman Governments, unto the Death of...
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 about Glimpses of Italian Court Life; Happy Days in Italia Adorata
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 about Les Rois Et Reines De France En Estampes, Ou Abrege Historique Et Chronologique De Chaque Regne,...
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 about Histoire De Russie, Representee Par Figures, Accompagnees D'Un Precis Historique.; Les Figures...
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 about Lettres De Monsieur De Bongars Resident & Ambassadeur sous Le Roy Henry IV. endiverses...
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1962. First edition. Paperback. More about The Stillborn Panama Congress Power Politics and Chilian-Colombian Relations During the War of...
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 about Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English: With Large Additions And Improvements
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 about Canning Abduction Trial Hand-Colored Engraving
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 about Cromwelliana. A Chronological Detail Of Events In Which Oliver Cromwell Was Engaged; From The...
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 about John Philipot's Roll Of The Constables Of Dover Castle And Lord Wardens Of The Cinque Ports 1627
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 about La Fleur Des Antiquitez De Paris
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 about History Of The Irish Rebellion in 1798; With Memoirs Of The Union And Emmet's Insurrection In...
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 about The New Atlas And Commercial Gazetteer Of China; A Work Devoted To Its Geography & Resources...
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 about Regii Sanguinis Clamor Ad Coelum Adversus Parricidas Anglicanos
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 about David Lloyd George The Man and the Statesman
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 about Numa Pompilius Second Roi De Rome
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 helpedChina to modernize, especially in the late 19th century. Orig. yellow cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. More about Friends, Guests, and Colleagues The MU-FU System in the Late Ch'ing Period
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 clean. More about Bulletin De La Convention Nationale. Seance du 4 Germinal, l'an troiseme de la Republique...
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 about Seance du 5 germinal, l'an III de la Republique Francaise une et indivisible; 5 Egalite, Liberte
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 about The Ancient and Modern History Of The famous City of York; And in a particular Manner Of its...
London: Lackington, Allen & Co. et al, 1815. New edition. leather_bound. 22 x 14 cm. Engraved portrait and folding maps. Generally acclaimed as the greatest historical work in the English language, first edition published, 1776-1788, to immediate public regard, and to supply its continuing demand, New Editions were published. "Gibbon's... More about The History Of The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire