London: Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the Kings Excellent Majesty, 1686. Small 8vo. 271pp. Full leather (crackled and rubbed) over boards, recently rebacked, and with a recent red leather spine label. Signature of Griffith Boynton 3rd Baronet of Barmston (1664-1695) on front flyleaf. Bookplate..... More
[England?]: nd [1790s]. 12mo. 4 pp. Self-wrappers, untrimmed; several ink marks on the first leaf, else a very good copy. One of at least four editions published in the 1790s (two others in London, one in Portland, Maine). Relates a conversation between a religious slave in the "province" of New-York..... More
Edinburgh: Printed by James Watson, 1720. Narrow 12mo. 204 unnumbered leaves. OCLC locates four copies of this edition (Claremont, Emory, Cambridge, National Library of Wales). Contemporary morocco (rubbed), gilt ornaments on spine faded), gilt-stamped ornamented leather pastedowns, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. (mostly rubbed away). Solid copy of a handy edition. More
London: Printed by Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1743. 8vo. [152pp.] with THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS, Collected into English Metre, By Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..... London: Printed by A. Wilde, for the Company of Stationers, 1740. [52pp.]. Closed tear in..... More
London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820. Stereotype edition. 14 cm. Full contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers paneled and decorated in gilt, spine richly gilt, with raised bands and gilt title, gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt, with a colored..... More
London: Published for John Reeves, Sold by George and William Nicol and Scatcherd and Letterman, 1812. 25 cm. Full contemporary black straight-grained morocco, covers panelled and decorated in gilt and blind, spine richly gilt, with raised bands and gilt title. All edges gilt, with a colored painting of a mother..... More
Oxford: Printed at Clarendon Press by W. Dawson, T. Bensley, J. Cooke, 1798. 22 cm. Full contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers panelled and decorated with gilt tooling, flat spine panelled and richly gilt, with gilt title, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, with a colored painting of Henley Bridge, on Thames..... More
London: Printed by John Jarvis, 1792. 23 cm. Full contemporary red straight-grained morocco, gilt rules, gilt decorations and blind tooling on boards, flat spine with gilt rules, ornaments, and title, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers (split to front endpaper). All edges gilt, with a colored painting of the “Priory, Christchurch..... More
London: Published for John Reeves, Sold by George and William Nicol and Scatcherd and Letterman, 1807. 24 cm. Full contemporary red straight-grained morocco, single gilt rules on covers and flat spine, gilt title on spine, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, with a colored painting of “Durham Cathedral”..... More
(London): Printed by order of the trustees (by Woodfall & Kinder, London), 1870. First edition. 12mo. 48 pp. More than 200 items described. Frank W. Hackett's copy, with his ownership signature, dated 14 October 1872, at the head of the front wrapper, his annotations filling the verso of the front..... More
London: Printed for the editor and sold by G. Kearsley, 1786. Published the same year as the first edition. 8vo. 68 pp.; with the half-title (soiled, laid down on thicker paper). Folding frontispiece. Bookplate on verso of front wrapper, else very good. Later plain wrappers, housed in a custom cloth..... More
Small blue-green cloth album, 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in., some old staining and fading to edges of front cover, "Kodak" stamped in black on front board. Stiff card album pages, with cut out frames, one 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. photo per page (one frame empty). The images..... More
London: printed by W. Marchant, 1823. Disbound pamphlet. 8vo. 32pp. Among the members of the committee were Mr. [John] Gladstone and Mr. [David] Ricardo. They were charged with the business of inquiring into the "state of the Law relating to Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, intrusted to Merchants, Agents, or Factors;..... More
London: for the Booksellers, 1821. Disbound pamphlet. 8vo. 122pp., errata slip. The leaf containing text pages 7 & 8 has been bound in in reverse. Letters regarding the trial of Queen Caroline, wife of George IV, who had been accused of an adulterous affair with an Italian man named Bartolomeo..... More
Liverpool: G. Cruickshank, n.d. (ca.1820). Disbound pamphlet. 8vo. 24pp. No listings found on OCLC. More
London: For Private Circulation Only, nd [1893]. 8vo.; 12pp. Original printed light blue wrappers (somewhat foxed). Very good copy. Offered with DR. G.H. JONES' IMPROVED TORPEDO GUARD FOR SHIPS OF WAR [caption title]. (London: np, 1894). Folio (3) pp. Self-wrappers; folded as for filing. Very good copy. Two publications endorsing..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., [1900-1902]. First edition. 4to. Three volumes: xix, 124; iv, 297; xiv, 161, viii, 92, 11 pp. Illustrated from photographs and line drawings and designs, plates, some engraved, some in color, facsimiles, etc., patterned endpapers. Bookplate on front pastedown of volume one, else very good..... More
nd [c.1941-44]. One smaller map, 15 1/2 x 18 1/2 in., and two larger, 27 x 27 3/4 and 27 1/2 x 28 1/4 in. The smaller map, designated "A.D.I. (Maps) Air Ministry, no. 7330" in the lower left corner, with the number "9U" in the lower right corner, is..... More
Bradbury, Evans, and Co., 11, Bouverie Street, [1850's]. 2 volumes. 22cm. xviii, 304 pp. two hundred woodcuts in text, 20 colored etchings; xii, 308pp. with numerous woodcuts within the text and ten colored engravings. Three quarter brown leather with marbled boards, all edges gilt. Spine with raised bands, gilt stamped..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1905. (Originally printed 1876). 23cm. xii, 392pp. Maroon cloth, gilt stamped on spine. Some wear to edges else very good. More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1938. 8vo. Frontis. portrait, vi, 387 pp. Extra-illustrated with portraits, letters, notes and autographs. Rebound in tan leather, black-lettered red cloth labels (clipped from the original binding) laid down on spine. Hinges cracked, pictorial endpapers (offsetting to rear endpaper); previous catalog description tipped in to front..... More
Excusam Londini: Pro Francisco Coldocko, 1577. First edition. Small 8vo (14 cm.). (12), 296 pp. Title framed within a wide ornamental border. Colophon: "Londini, Ex typographia Henrici Middletoni, 1577." Written in 1547 but unpublished during Ascham's life, this anti-clerical work, an attack of the mass and the priesthood, appeared a...... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. First edition. 8vo. 352pp. Burgundy cloth with gilt stamped spine. Previous owner's name on pastedown. Very good. More
[Moseley, Worcestershire]: 1886-1887. Manuscript of local travels. 4to. (114) pp. Sectional title pages for the several excursions. Illustrated with 17 pen-and-ink sketches and vignettes, 3 nicely finished in watercolor, 5 pen-and-ink maps, with walking routes highlighted in red, 13 mounted photographs, with captions, mounted clippings, and a few pieces of..... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1978. First edition. 4to. xiii, 69 pp. 332 plates, including portraits, title pages, bindings, views, facsimile pages, etc. Laid in are two related pieces of ephemera from the exhibition opening. Inscribed by the author on a front endpaper. Recipient's bookplate, else very good. Gilt-stamped decorated..... More
