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THE UNCLE'S PRESENT, A NEW BATTLEDOOR.
Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, [c.1810]. Four leaves, the first and last pasted down to the covers, the 2 inner ones pasted together making 4 pages in all, containing 24 letters of alphabet cries in six compartments to a page; in the original covers with a flap reading COME, READ and LEARN;..... More
INTRODUCTION A LA CONNOISSANCE DE LA NATURE.
Paris: Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1803. Small 8vo. (ii), 296p, (ii, contents). Illustrated with 20 engraved plates, each with tissue guard. Bound in period leather with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spine with gilt titles with rules and small ornaments. With a FORE-EDGE painting of Noah's Ark with the procession of the..... More
THE NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY BIBLE. THE HOLY BIBLE WITH THE COMMENTARIES OF SCOTT AND HENRY, AND CONTAINING ALSO MANY THOUSAND CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTE SELECTED FROM THE GREAT STANDARD AUTHORS OF EUROPE AND AMERICA.
London: Lewis & C0. n.d. (c. 1880's). Folio. xv, 1215p., 34p (Concise Biblical Cyclopaedia). Extra title page illustrated in chromolithography and with many full page plates in chromolithography and in black and white. Bound in heavily embossed full black crushed morocco over beveled boards, a.e.g., the spine with gilt title..... More
ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JAMES BRUCE, OF KINNAIRD, ESQ. F.R.S. AUTHOR OF TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, IN THE YEARS 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773.
Edinburgh: George Ramsey for Archibald Constable, Manner and Miller, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. Quarto. xiii, 504p. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait and 22 engraved plates, including two folding maps. Bound in quarter tan calf over green cloth, the spine with gilt title on a green leather label..... More
YORKSHIRE ETCHINGS WITH SONNETS AND DESCRIPTIONS.
Leeds: Richard Jackson, 1885. No. 1 of 20 copies with the plates on parchment and signed by the artist (total edition 622). Folio. (x), followed by the 21 plates, each signed in pencil by the artist with descriptions en face. Bound in full vellum over beveled boards, t.e.g., the spine..... More
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS FROM THIS WORLD TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME.
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1861. "A New Edition" Tall 8vo. xxii, [ii], 408p. Edited by George Offor. Illustrated with 110 designs by John Dawson Watson (1832-1892), engraved on wood by the Brothers Dalziel. Bound by Hayday in full brown pebbled morocco over beveled boards with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the..... More
IN CONNECTION WITH THE DE WILLOUGHBY CLAIM.
New York: Scribner's, 1899. First edition, sheets bulk 1 1/16", dust jacket states "55th Thousand" (iv) 445p, (viii, ads). Tan cloth with titles in red on spine and upper cover, upper cover with central floral design in red and gilt surrounded with red squares. Very rare with the dust jacket. BAL..... More
A COLLECTION OF NATIONAL ENGLISH AIRS, CONSISTING OF ANCIENT SONG, BALLAD, & DANCE TUNES... AND PRECEDED BY AN ESSAY ON ENGLISH MINSTRELSY.
London: Chappell and Simpkin, Marshall, 1840. v, 118p, vi; [iv], 198p. 4to. Bound in half green morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with fancy panel ornaments including s flower in the center of each. More
GALERIE DU PALAIS ROYAL, GRAVEE D'APRES LES TABLEAUX DES DIFFERENTES ECOLES QUI LA COMPOSENT :
Paris: J. Couche et Bouilliard, 1786. First edition. Atlas folio (19 3/4"). Illustrated with 111 excellent copper-engravings (including title and dedication pages). Each of the plates with the image in the upper half and explanatory material below, all surrounded by a small decorative border. Bound in full dark green morocco..... More
HISTOIRE DES CONNESTABLES: CHANCELIERS, ET GARDES DES SEAVX MARESCHAUX: ADMIRAUX, SUR-INTENDANS DE LA NAVIGATION, ET GENERAUX DES GALERES DE FRANCE: DES HRENDS-MAISTRES DE LA MAISON DU ROY, ET DES PREVOSTS DE PARIS: DEPUIS LEUR ORIGINE: AVEC LE LEURS ARMES ET BLASONS.
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1658. Folio. [xviii], 75p, [xii], 192p [i.e. 194, additional pages numbered 29a and 30a], [viii], 132p [i.e. 134, additional pages numbered 91a and 92a], [x], 103p, [viii], 54p, [viii], 46p. Engraved title page with pictorial vignettes and designs, head-piece and historiated initial. Illustrated with 587 large..... More
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THE GREVILLE MEMOIRS. A JOURNAL OF THE REIGNS OF KING GEORGE IV AND KING WILLIAM IV [with] A JOURNAL OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA FROM 1837 to 1860.
London: Longmans, Green, 1875-87. Third, sdecond edition. Eight volumes. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full purple calf with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spines with green title labels gilt , the panels with decorative frames and ornaments of crowns, lions, harp, the covers with decorative ruled borders. More
BRITISH ETCHERS 1850 - 1940.
Portland, OR: George Prior Company and Robin Garton, London, 1977. First American edition. Folio. 87p +81 plates with multiple images on each, and three original etchings by Robin Tanner, each pencil signed. A scholarly work with brief biographies on the major etchers. Bound in quarter blue morocco over tan boards..... More
AN ACCOUNT OF THE YELLOW FEVER, WHICH OCCURRED IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, IN THE YEAR 1822...
New York: Samuel Marks, 1822. First edition. Small octavo. iv, 120p. Newly rebound with leather spine and speckled paper boards, the original paper cover panel mount on upper cover. Sabin 30316; Cordasco 20-067. More
MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND DURING THE REIGN THE STUARTS, INCLUDING THE PROTECTORATE.
London: Richard Bentley, 1840. First edition. Four volumes. xix, 390p; xvi, 496p; xv, 512p; xix, 525p. Illustrated with four hand-colored frontispiece scenes, and Extra-Illustrated with forty-six plates and a few scenes, a few from the 18th century. Bound by Bayntun in half green crushed morocco with marbled sides and endpapers..... More
ANTHONY & CLEOPATRA.
Guilford, England: Circle Press, 1979. Limited to 300 copies signed by the artist, this no. 182. Portfolio (16") . Three-page essay by Keith Please 'The Elusive Absolute'. Text printed throughout in black and blue with the silk screen or lithographed illustrations beside and interspersed in the text. The opening act..... More
THE NOVELS, POEMS AND LIFE OF CHARLES KINGSLEY.
New York: J. F. Taylor, 1898-1900. The Author's Autograph Edition Limited to 10 copies, this the Publisher's Proof Copy. 14 volumes. Printed on Japanese vellum. Illustrated with 85 plates in two states, black & white and colored (a few frontispieces in single colored state). Extra-Illustrated with 10 original pen and..... More
TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE... Edited with an Introduction by Alfred Ainger.
New York: Brentanos, n.d. [c. 1906]. Two volumes. xxv (iii), 172p: (viii), 173-394p. Two mezzotint portrait frontispieces, 20 engraved plates. Bound by Trow in full red crushed morocco with marbled endpapers, t.e.g. the spine with gilt titles and panel ornaments, the covers with large central device and large cornerpieces... More
RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.
London: George G. Harrap, (1930). Tall octavo. 173p. Illustrated by Willy Pogany with 12 mounted color plates and 45 small mounted illustrated labels in black on gold paper. Bound in full brown morocco, t.e.g. the spine with stylized gilt titles on a black ground, remainder of spine with gilt designs..... More
MATRIX 8.
Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1988. No. xvii of 100 copies with an extra set of the broadsheets (total edition 900). Imperial 8vo. (vi), 191p. Illustrated: Eight original wood-engravings, four pochoir illustrations, and a silk-screen illustration by Gloria Stuart; line-block reproductions of seven drawings, three title-pages, a linocut and a wood-engraving;..... More
THE BLUE BIRD, A FAIRY PLAY IN SIX ACTS.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1911. First American edition. Quarto. xvi, 211p. Illustrated by F. Caley Robinson with frontispiece and 24 enchanting tipped-in color plates. Bound in blue cloth with gilt titles and elaborate designs of birds in gilt on spine and upper cover, t.e.g. Quite scarce thus. More
SHAKESPEARE'S PREDECESSORS IN THE ENGLISH DRAMA.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1884. First edition. Two volumes. xix, 316p; 317-668p. Bound in half black morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles, the panels densely gilt with designs of clover leaves and built up dots. More
THE SEASONS.
New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d. [ad dated 1842]. xlviii, 320p. Bound in publisher's full black pebbled morocco, a.e.g., the covers with overall period gilt designs. Illustrated with wood engravings after E. Bookhout by John Bell, C. W. Cook, Thomas Creswick, J. C. Horsley, J. P. Knight, R. Redgrave, Frank..... More
TOWARD OMEGA.
S. Denis, MA: Steven Albahari [21st editions], [2005]. No. 22 of 60 copies signed by the artist, poet, editor & publisher (only 40 copies for sale). Large format (14 3/8" x 11 1/2"). Edited and with an introduction by John Wood. Photographs by Vincent Serbin, typography and presswork by Michael..... More