Paris: Chez la Veuve Maubry Cramoysi, 1693. leather_bound. 322 pages.16 x 9 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: Seeley, 1893. Hardcover. 314 pp. Index. Explores the history of the beautiful countess who inspired Waller to write his greatest poems. More
New York: Crowell-Colllier, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 134 pages. Photographs by Leo Stashin. Index. Ex-library. More
Paris: Privately Printed, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 107 pages. 28 x 19 cm. Frontispiece of Caylus who was a French journalist during his days in America. Ernest Caylus (1813-1878) was a young Frenchman forced to flee political unrest at home, coming to America in 1835. Most of the letters are..... More
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 151 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Limited edition, one of 850 copies. Typography by Bruce Rogers, printed by William Edwin Rudge. Three corners rubbed, clean and fresh copy. More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1904. Second edition. Hardcover. 277 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Signed presentation copy. "In remembrance of my one night stand in Yoho Valley" from Clarence S. Darrow to my friends JW Barker/Gladys Barker. Yoho Valley situated in British Columbia, Canada. In a later biography Darrow..... More
Boston: Merrymount Press, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. 103 pages. 24. x 15.5 cm. 10 photographic plates with tissue guards, and 2 facsimiles, one folding. Printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press, another tribute to an industrialist which later became Avery-Dennison, a major paper product company. More
New York: Charles Scribners & Sons, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 293 pages. 21 x 14 cm. 49 Illustrations. Index. Clean, fresh copy. More
London & New York: Blackmore Press & Horace Liverwright, 1949. First English language edition. Hardcover. 128 pages. 19.5 x 15 cm. Signed in ink by Andre Gide -- copy 390 of 800. Small owner signature front free endpaper. Wide text margins, interior fresh, backstrip slightly faded. More
London: Cape, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 283 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Eight full page illustrations. Barry Moser's copy with his bookplate. Early owner inscription free front endpaper. More
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 167 pages. illustrated. Bibliography.Index. University of California Publications in Librarianship: 7. Lovely, crisp copy. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 313 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. Frontispiece of Nell Gwyn from an engraving of the painting by Sir Peter Lely. Based on the life of Nell Gwyn, the Drury Lane favorite during the English Restoration. Printed by The Merrymount Press by..... More
Detroit: Robert Bruna Powers, 1933. First edition. Boards. 119 pages. 21 x 16 cm. Hearn's letters to Annetta Halliday [Countess Annetta Halliday Antona] beginning in 1871 when Halliday then a child was fascinated by the half-blind book agent who knew all about ghosts. Twenty-eight letters remain of this correspondence. Limited..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 475 & 754 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Bibliography and extensive Index. More
Lewes: Baxter, 1835. First edition. leather_bound. 592 [15] & 274 [90] [XV] [VIII]. 33 x 26 cm. The Subscriber's Copy with label, priced at 4 pounds, 4 shillings, inside front cover paste down of Vol.I. Profusely illustrated: fifty-six copperplate engravings with tissue guards, eighty wood engravings, plus two folding maps..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. Cruikshank, George. First edition. leather_bound. 284 & 280 pages.19 x 13.5 cm. Extra-illustrated, 55 plates from other works, some tinted, most inlaid to size. This, in addition to the eighty-four text vignettes and full-page plates of the standard edition. FREITAG 1974. Fresh, bright set bound..... More
London: The Useful Knowledge Company, 1871. First edition. leather_bound. 62 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Original yellow wrappers in fine condition bound-in, with Knife and Fork Advertisement,[devoted to the art of eating healthily] and sample of Dicken's handwriting. Bound by Birdsall, raised bands, spine richly gilt, triple gilt cover border..... More
Cambridge: Corn. Crownfield, 1726. First edition. leather_bound. 8vo, 23 x 14cm, (*4),A-Z8,Aa-Bb2,A1-K4, twenty copper-engraved plates, some are fold-outs. Appendix. Index. DIBDIN LIBRARY COMPANION p. 517. "Of the same class is Dr. Knight; whose`Lives of Colet and Erasmus' are in every well appointed library, and bring considerable prices; merely because they..... More
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 900 pages. 23.5 x 16.5 cm. Lovely gift copy of reference classic in a fine binding, or Wikipedia between two covers. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, marbled endpapers. More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. [4] 14 pages. 29 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 250 copies privately printed for Samuel L. Wormser in Goudy Modern type. GRABHORN 349. Front cover faded at head. More
London: A. Strahan, For T. Cadell, 1792-1811. First edition. leather_bound. 28 x 23 cm. Vol. I, 593 pp. [Index of Names. General Index]. Vol. II, 598 pp. [Index of Arms]. Vol. III, 706 pp. [General Index]. Vol. IV, 724 pp. [General Table of Errata]. Vol. V, 316 pp. [Index of..... More
Np: 1903. First edition. Hardcover. 42 pages. 26.5 x 18 cm. Engraved frontispiece of Farmer. The first women to become president of a major educational institution, Wellesley College at age 26. In the early 1890's she became the first president of the new University of Chicago. Throughout her academic career..... More
New York: Mason Brothers, 1855. First edition. Hardcover. 442 pages. 12mo, two illustrations. First edition of Parton's first book. SABIN 58954. Worn covers, tight binding, interior clean and firm. More
London: Henry Colburn, 1825. First edition. leather_bound. 498 [49], 309 pages. 30.5 x 24 cm. Eight engraved portraits, and six plates ( one a facsimile of Pepy's handwriting and short-hand cypher, one double page (folding map,) This diary, written in a very small hand in six volumes, was included among..... More
London: Jacob Tonson, 1703. leather_bound. 633, 624, 600, 750, 736 pages. 20 x 13 cm. With 53 engraved plates (including 5 frontispieces), tables, and ads. At the end of Vol. IV page of Tonson ads. Early ownership signatures of John and Anne Amson. Raised bands, spine labels decorated in gilt..... More