[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 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 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 slipcase. (7222). 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 Bergami. 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
[Nov. 4, 1920 - Nov. 20, 1921]. Small plain black cloth-bound diary of lined paper, with 105 pages of entries in ink, written on rectos only, approximately 14,000 words. Baker's signature and caption title appear on the front free endpaper, surrounded by several small drawings of people in native dress... More
[London?]: nd [ca.1832-37?]. Printed broadside, 15 x 10 inches, employing numerous sizes and styles of type. The proprietor pokes fun at the tendencies of His Majesty's liege subjects to be persuaded to "try the various delicacies which present themselves under the names of Highly Rectified Geneva Liqueur! Cream of the... More
London: Printed for the author, and published by C. Chapple, 1810. First edition. 12mo in sixes. 2 volumes: xi, 216; (2), 307 pp. Engraved portrait of the author as frontispiece to volume one, signed by her in the lower margin (as usual); ad leaf at end of volume two. Later... More
Paris: Chez Arthus Bertrand, 1819. First edition in French (first published in English, London, 1816). 8vo. 4 volumes: (4), lxxiv, 309; (4), 346; (4), 432; (4), 517 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait to volume one. This work contains a portion of the king's autobiography, the original of which is now lost... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. First edition. Small 4to. xxvi, (2), 340 pp. Illustrated with wood engraved tail-pieces. A collection of Elizabethan-era broadside ballads. Introduction: "The main purpose of the ensuing collection, is to shew, in their most genuine state, the character and quality of productions, written expressly... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1852. First edition. Small 8vo. xi, 212 pp. Illustrated, portraits; half-title. Original brown cloth, spine gilt with title, rules, and ornaments. Fine. Housed in a custom red quarter morocco and cloth slipcase (spine rubbed), with chemise. More
London: Macmillan, 1895. First edition. 8vo. xii, 300 pp. Illustrated with ten plates and a frontispiece, folding map, extra-illustrated with the insertion of 48 plates, portraits, views and autographs (secondary figures from the early nineteenth century). Joints cracking, but a presentable copy. Somewhat later calf, gilt, spine richly gilt with... More
London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament Street, 1842. First edition. 12mo. viii, 267 pp. Original dark blue embossed cloth with gilt stamping. Some paper remains (from an old dust jacket?) on front and rear pastedowns, otherwise a very good copy. Bequests range from providing food, alcohol to ship-wrecked... More
Aberdeen: D. Wyllie & Son, 1888. 1st ed. 8vo.; ix, (3), portraits, 162pp. Frontis. (lightly foxed) & illus. Gilt illus. cloth. Very good. More
(New York: Ollivier, Photographer), nd [ca. 1875]. First edition. Small 4to. 13 photographs, eleven 7 1/4 x 4 3/8 inches, the other two 5 1/8 x 3 7/8 inches, mounted on seven leaves of cad stock, the first a portrait of Flockton, the other 12 presenting him dressed for some... More
New York: Oxford at the Clarendon Press for Macmillan and Co. 1873. Revised American edition. 6 volumes. 8vo. Illus. with folding maps. Green cloth with gilt stamping on spine bearing Dodd, Mead & Co. imprint. Given as a Christmas gift in 1883 and bearing signatures of nine people on flyleaf... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1882. First edition. 8vo. Two volumes. Bound in full brown leather with gilt borders and Eton College coat of arms on boards. Spine with five raised bands with Eton College coat of arms and two tan leather labels title/author stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers and... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, Strand, 1798. 23 cm. xvi, 359, (1) pp. With 18 aquatint plates. Full contemporary red straight-grain morocco, single gilt filet on covers and flat spine, gilt title on spine, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, with a colored painting... More
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