Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1842. 3 volumes. Large 8vo. cxvii, 455 pp.; viii, 589 pp.; xv, 584 pp. Publisher's original brown blind stamped cloth, with gilt stamping on spine, interior with scattered foxing. Previous owner's signature on pastedown and title. Slight variations of color in binding caused by fading, uncommonly..... More
Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press; London: Trübner and Co., 1874. First edition thus. 8vo. xviii, 161, (1). Errata. Chinese and English texts on facing pages. M'Clatchie was serving as Canon of St. John's Cathedral in Hong Kong at the time of publication. Later tan half-leather and cloth, gilt title on..... More
Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1950. First edition. 8vo. [iv], 211pp. Burgundy cloth stamped in silver, in black dust jacket with type in silver, with few edge tears to top. Very good. More
Hartford, [CT]: Cooke and Company, 1834. First American and first edition in English. 8vo. 23.5cm. xxxiv, 355pp. Original brown pebbled cloth, leather label faded and worn, spine faded, spine ends chipped, chipping to front pastedown, foxing and toning to text. Cousin exerted a strong influence upon the American Transcendentalists. AMERICAN..... More
Chillicothe [OH]: 17 April 1859. Single sheet, folded, 25 cm. 2-1/2 pp., nearly 600 words, with integral address and postmark. Grimke's letter from Chillicothe, Ohio, is addressed to Alexander St. Clair Boys of Hillsborough, Ohio. Small hole at wax seal, affecting a couple of words, legible. Grimke thanks St. Clair..... More
Cambridge, [MA]: Published By Hilliard and Brown, 1827. Two volumes. First edition. 8vo. 23 cm. xi, (blank), 454; vi, errata, (blank), 379pp. Contemporary three quarter brown calf and marbled boards, rebacked with two gilt stamped leather spine labels on each volume. Printed booksellers ticket of Hilliard & Brown, Booksellers to..... More
München: Verlag F. Bruckmann A.-G. 1927. First German edition of French philosopher Lucien Levy-Bruhl's "La Mentalite Primitive." 24cm. (6), 353pp. Cream colored cloth, spine stamped in decorative black illustrations and title, front board title stamped in black. More
Lexington, KY: Printed, published and sold by Thomas T. Skillman, 1824. Second Kentucky edition (also published by Skillman in Lexington the previous year, following many 18th and early 19th century editions from London and the eastern United States cities). 12mo. 250 pp. The author was a Presbyterian minister at Dorking..... More
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873. First edition, second issue, with the erratum leaf. 8vo. vi, 313, (5) pp. Erratum leaf; ad leaf. Cf. Printing and the Mind of Man 345: "[His father's educational] regime, as recorded in [Mill's] 'Autobiography,' has excited universal astonishment. At the age of three..... More
Translated from the French by Thomas Nugent: Cincinnati, (OH), Robert Clarke. 1886. New edition, carefully revised and compared with the best Paris edition, to which are prefixed a memoir of the life and writings of the author and an analysis of the work by M. D'Alembert. 8vo. 2 volumes: xlvii..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. First edition with the Bank illustrations, 1/1500 copies (this #192) printed at the Thistle Press. 4to. xv, (5), 316 pp. Printed in blue and black. LEC Monthly Letter tipped in at rear. Bookplate on front pastedown, else very good. Parchment-backed gilt-stamped decorated boards, top..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by William Pritchard, 1797. 12mo. 244pp. Full flame calf. Gilt ruled spine was gilt stamped tan spine label (chipped). Joints rubbed, slight chip to tip of spine. Old tidelines particularly notable on page edges and endpapers, overall toning to text. SHIPTON AND MOONEY 32732; ESTC - W21312... More
[Philadelphia? Printed by T. Dodson? 1796? or after]. First edition. 12mo. xxxv, 156 pp. With the printing note on the title page "Printed in the Fifth Year of intellectual life, or the Publication of the Apocalypse of Nature [his title, published in London, 1791], in the 7,000th year of Astronomical..... More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. First edition thus, the "Manuscript Edition," This is no. 86 of 600 numbered sets, "signed" by the publisher and with a leaf of autograph manuscript by Thoreau bound in. 8vo. 20 volumes. Illustrated, photographs, plates, some colored, folding map of Concord in the final volume..... More
Boston: Gould, Kendall and Lincoln. Press of Knowles, Vose & Co., 1838. 16mo, pp. (4), 188. Brown embossed cloth with gilt stamping on cover. Scattered foxing and a light stain in margin. Francis Wayland was a Baptist minister, President of Brown University for 30 years. Chancellor Kent gave this book..... More
