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
History
Boston Common in Colonial and Provincial Days
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
The Essayes Or Counsels Civill And Morall of Francis Lord Verulam Viscount St Alban
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
La Vie de Mr. Des-Cartes Contenant L'histoire de la Philosophie & de les autres Oevrages: Et aussi ce qui luy est arrive de plus, etc...
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
Glimpses of Italian Court Life; Happy Days in Italia Adorata
New York: 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
Les Rois Et Reines De France En Estampes, Ou Abrege Historique Et Chronologique De Chaque Regne, Suivi Du Tableau Des Moeurs Et Usages Des Francais Sous Chaque Race
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
Histoire De Russie, Representee Par Figures, Accompagnees D'Un Precis Historique.; Les Figures Gravees Par F.A. David, Associe Libre De L'Academie De Peinture Et De Sculpture De Berlin, D'Apres Les Dessins De Monnet
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
Lettres De Monsieur De Bongars Resident & Ambassadeur sous Le Roy Henry IV. endiverses Negociations importantes
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 Denmark from 1589 to 1610. The next group of 184 are to Monsieur Camerarius, date from May 1588 to October 1598. Covers a tumultuous..... More
The Stillborn Panama Congress Power Politics and Chilian-Colombian Relations During the War of the Pacific
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1962. First edition. Paperback. More
An Account Of The War in India Between The English and French, On The Coast of Coromandel, From the Year 1750 to the Year 1760.; Together With A Relation of the late Remarkable Events On The Malabar Coast, And the Expeditions to Golconda and Surat; With the Operations of the Fleet.
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
Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English: With Large Additions And Improvements
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
Canning Abduction Trial Hand-Colored Engraving
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
Cromwelliana. A Chronological Detail Of Events In Which Oliver Cromwell Was Engaged; From The Year 1642 To His Death 1658: With A Continuation of other Transactions, To The Restoration
Westminster: Machell Stace, 1810. First edition. Hardcover. 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
John Philipot's Roll Of The Constables Of Dover Castle And Lord Wardens Of The Cinque Ports 1627
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
La Fleur Des Antiquitez De Paris
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
History Of The Irish Rebellion in 1798; With Memoirs Of The Union And Emmet's Insurrection In 1803 by William Hamilton Maxwell
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
The New Atlas And Commercial Gazetteer Of China; A Work Devoted To Its Geography & Resources And Economic & Commercial Development. Containing 25 Bi-Lingual Maps, With Complete Indexes, And Many Coloured Graphs. Compiled and Translated from the latest and most authoritative surveys and records by the staff of the Far Eastern Geographical Establishment, Shanghai, China
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
Regii Sanguinis Clamor Ad Coelum Adversus Parricidas Anglicanos
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
Numa Pompilius Second Roi De Rome
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
Friends, Guests, and Colleagues The MU-FU System in the Late Ch'ing Period
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
Bulletin De La Convention Nationale. Seance du 4 Germinal, l'an troiseme de la Republique francaise une et indivisible; 4 Egalite, Liberte
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
Seance du 5 germinal, l'an III de la Republique Francaise une et indivisible; 5 Egalite, Liberte
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
The Antient and Modern History Of The famous City of York; And in a particular Manner Of its Magnificent Cathedral, commonly call'd York-Minster
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
The History Of The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire,
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
Sidney Webb and East Africa Labour's Experiment With the Doctrine of Native Paramountcy
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1962. First edition. Original Wraps. More