Paris: Chez l’Auteur et Amable Costes, 1829. First edition. 8vo. (4), xxxiv, 526 pp. Paris police officials, 17th to early 19th centuries. Le Clere Bibliog. Critique de la police 889: “Fait etat longuement des travaux parlementaires qui aboutirent a la creation du Ministrere de la Police en 1796. Interessant par..... More
New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1836. First American edition. 8vo. (2), (xv)-xvi, 410 pp. Engraved title-page and plates on yellow paper. Contemporary brown sheep (spine and edges faded, rubbed, skinned in places), gilt rules and spine title. Owner’s name on title page, but a very good copy. More
Londres: np, 1799. Troisieme edition (same year as the first), revue, corrigee et augmentee de la letter de Ramel au Directoire, et de douze notes qui ne se trouvoient point dans la premiere. [Bound with his:] Anecdotes Secretes sur le 18 Fructidor, et Nouveaux memoires des Deportes a la Guiane..... More
Oxford: Oxford U. Press, (c1991). First edition. 8vo. xlii, 444 pp. illustrated from photographs, old art, portraits, etc., plates, Paris street maps. Inscribed by the editor to his brother, Stuart Schimmel, in the year of publication. Navy cloth, gilt spine title, color illustrated dust jacket. Fine. More
Paris: Chez Duchesne, 1753. First edition (enlarged editions were published in 1755 and 1757). 12mo. (12), 343, (1), 48 (“Le Commentateur amusant”), 20 (“Justes plaints”) pp. OCLC seems to locate but one copy in the United States (Harvard), through 11 records; none of the records seem to describe the two..... More
NP: Printed for Private Circulation, 1898. First edition. Small 4to. (8), 95, (2), 13 pp. 30 photogravure plates, primarily interior and exterior views of the chateau. “Alphabetical catalogue of plants and trees growing in the open air in the garden of Chateau Malt near Monaco,” compiled by Lady Ermyntrude Malet..... More
Paris: Chez Laurent Prault, 1768. 16mo in eights. 2 volumes: (4), xii, 379; (4), 440 pp. La Bruyere (1645-1696), a French philosopher, is best known for his Caracteres, “sketches, combining literary and ethical criticism, of individuals baptized with names taken from the plays and romances of the times.” Contemporary mottled..... More
Liege: Chez C. Plomteux. 1787. Second edition (first published in 1785 in a small edition ). 8vo. 2 volumes bound in one: (2), viii, 230; (6), 231 pp. Half-title to each volume. Each volume with the title page from the first edition bound behind the one above: Essais d’ans le..... More
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1932. First edition. 8vo. (8), 285 pp. Laid in is a typed letter, signed by the author’s father, Anthony D. Sayre, February 1, 1924, on his Supreme Court of Alabama letterhead, to former Alabama Attorney General, J.Q. Smith (1881-1947), informing him that he would be..... More
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920. Third printing, the special issue for the American Booksellers Association, with the extra leaf, The Author’s Apology, signed by Fitzgerald, bound in. 8vo. (8), 305 pp. The extra leaf, a plate illustrated with Fitzgerlad’s portrait bound ahead of the title page. Ink ownership signature..... More
London: Reeves and Turner, 1880. First edition, author’s first book. 12mo. (8), 184 pp. Errata slip tipped in. Original blue-green cloth (crease to front endpaper, front joint chipped). Still very good. More
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878. 4to. iv, 665, (1, publisher’s ad leaf) pp. [printed double column]. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Inscribed by the author on the title page “G. B. Buckton / from / A. Tennyson / I am sorry to say that there are a great many mistakes..... More
London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1676. Small 8vo. (6), 3-135 [Fragmenta Aurea, 1648, but lacking title page, Letters to Diverse Eminent Personages, 1658, and An Account of Religion by Reason, 1658], 82 [Aglaura, 1658], 190 [The Goblings, 1658, and Brennoralt, 1658], (4), 37 [The Last Remains of Sir John Suckling..... More
NY: 1895. First edition with the Edwards illustrations, 1/450 unnumbered copies. 8vo. (56) pp. Original cloth-backed tan boards (rubbed and scraped, spine ends somewhat frayed), floral endpapers, gilt spine title. Bookplate of Fitzroy Carrington and his inscription on front pastedown, but a good copy only. More
New York: Printed & Sold by J. Baldwin [false imprint, actually printed in London], 1821. First edition with an American imprint. 12mo in sixes (16 cm). (12), 181, (1, publisher’s ad leaf) pp. Engraved title leaf on thicker paper. American Imprints 6784. Grannis 22. Wise Shelley Library, p. 92. OCLC..... More
London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886. First edition thus (with several issues of varying size printed), this 1/300 copies, Shelley Society’s Publications, Second Series, No. 5. 8vo. lviii, xi, 60 pp. 7-page Shelley Society publications catalogue at rear. Original printed blue-green boards (rubbed, some soiling..... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jennings and Chaplin, and E. Moxon (Poems, by Cadell and Moxon), 1830 and 1834. First illustrated editions (first issue of Italy with transposed plates on pp. 88 and 91). 8vo in fours. vii, 284; viii, 295, (1, ad leaf) pp. Illustrated with in-text steel engravings..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): E. L. Carey; Baltimore , (MD): Carey & Hart, 1835. First American edition (first published London, 1834). 12mo in sixes. 3 volumes: 180; 192; 192 pp. Publisher’s 24-page catalogue dated January, 1835, at rear of volume one. OCLC locates two copies (Library of Congress, Athenaeum of Philadelphia). Original..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): John Grigg, 1831. 8vo. (2), [John Milton:] xxxii, 170, [Dr. Edward Young:] viii, 208, [Thomas Gray:] x, 47, [James Beattie:] ix, 23, [William Collins:] iv, 19, (3, publisher’s ad) pp. [printed double-column]. Ownership signature of A. Cleveland Cox (1818-1896, second Episcopal Bishop of Western new York) at the..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1854. First edition with the Milnes memoir and these illustrations. 8vo. xii, xl, 375 pp. Frontispiece portrait, in-text illustrations and vignettes, head and tail-pieces. Contemporary (publisher’s?) green pebbled leather, boards framed with a wide ornamental rule between a pair of gilt double-rules and an inner small ornamental..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1928. First edition. 8vo. xi, 202 pp. Armorial bookplate of Ian Maxwell Campbell on verso of front endpaper. Contemporary polished calf, boards framed by a thin triple-rule, spine richly gilt with ornaments, rules and leather labels between raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, by Riviere..... More
Eton, England: Printed at the Eton College Press, 1894. 4to. xiv, 164 pp. Frontispiece portrait and three engraved plates mounted on thick stock. Prize-binding leaf completed in ink for Herbert Ivo de Keaton Bond (1879-1953) and signed by Eton’s headmaster, Edmond Warre in 1897. Publisher’s tan calf, boards framed with..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co., 1892. First edition, with the printed slip: “This copy of BEAU BROCADE is part of the English Edition. In deference to the wishes of collectors it is issued with the English imprint solely, but it is published in United States by arrangement with..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. First edition thus, an abridgement of Dombey and Son, arranged for public readings. 16mo in eights. (2), 121 pp. Lacks half-title and ad leaf. Eckel, p. 215. Later brown morocco, boards framed with a thin gilt double-rule, gilt title between raised bands on spine, marbled..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. First edition, six parts (all published, unfinished at the author's death) issued April -- September, 1970. 8vo. vii, (1), 190, (2) total pages. Engraved frontispiece and extra engraved title-page, 12 plates. With all advertising matter, as called for by Hatton & Cleaver, present, with the..... More
