New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1862. 12mo. 90 pp. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece. Original stiff pebbled wrappers, decorated in blind, gilt stamped, top wrapper as well as first few gatherings detached. First edition. “Three of these sermons were written for, and (shall I say?) preached some years ago, in..... More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1907. 8vo. xi, [iii], 368 pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece plus 11 plates. Blue cloth, worn at head and foot of spine; some foxing to preliminaries and last few leaves. Unidentified bookplate (name of owner scratched out). First edition, second printing. Edited by his son and..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [n.d.]. 8vo. 48 pp. Frontispiece portrait of author. Soft red morocco, title in gilt on front cover, marbled endpapers, hinges starting. Later American edition of an essay on Marjory Fleming (1803-11), the Scottish infant prodigy who was a favorite of Sir Walter Scott’s..... More
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1878. 4to. 34, [1] pp. Frontispiece portrait plus 7 engraved plates, vignette of “Rab” on title. Publisher’s original beveled green cloth, decorated in blind and gilt, a bit worn at head and foot of spine; a few leaves loose. Bookseller’s label, “Roffey & Clark, CROYDON,” on front..... More
London: Percival & Co., 1893. 8vo. xii, 197 pp. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece portrait plus text illustrations and photographs. Original brown cloth; some very light foxing on first few leaves. First edition of this biography of the well-known Scottish surgeon and author. More
London: Richard Taylor, 1833. 4to. pp. 685-743. FIRST EDITION. With 3 engraved plates by James de Carle Sowerby, plus 4 preliminary and 2 final leaves for Vol. XVI of the Transactions bound in the back (consisting of the general title, volume title, contents, errata and plate register). Modern gray boards..... More
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1869. Two volumes. 8vo. 317; 331 pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary half blue polished calf over marbled boards with gilt ruled borders, five raised bands with gilt tooled compartments and two morocco spine labels, marbled end-papers, top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature. Light scuffing, spines slightly sunned..Very..... More
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., [1940]. 8vo. 192 pp. Red cloth. With booksellers label “J. J. Waterfall.”. Edited, with an introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. More
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., [1947]. 8vo. xvi, [ii], 296, 4 pp. Blue cloth, decorated in blind; minor browning. With contemporary annotations, and inscription in same hand “to make appear that doesn’t take any effort; Pretzatonia-to cover art with all; non-chalente” on front fly leaf, as well as “Milton..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. 8vo. lvi, 392 pp. Title page with engraved portrait of author. Blue cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed at head and foot of spine; some foxing to preliminaries and last few leaves. With inscription, “June 7, 1974. With love, Mother.” Ownership stamp of San Diego Public Library..... More
London: Faber & Gwyer Ltd., 1928-1931. Six volumes. 8vo. xvi, 189; xvi, [i], 317; [viii], 368; xi, [i], 130, [1]; xxiv, 473, [1]; xv, [i], 440 pp. Each volume with frontispiece, 12 plates total. Original blue boards, sunned, gilt tops; a fine, uncut set. Limited edition (number 57 of 210)..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1971. 4to. [ii], 41 pp., including half-title. Black calf-backed boards in matching slip-case, gilt lettering on spine and marbled end-papers. An excellent copy. Limited edition, number 7 of 750 copies printed at the University Press, Oxford, by Vivian Ridler. Written about a young man who died..... More
Eugene: John Henry Nash, 1939. 8vo. xix, [i], 114 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 2 plates, including frontispiece. Linen-backed marbled boards with paper label. Bookplate of Terence Cavanagh. First edition. Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by John Henry Nash. This copy is numbered 1007 of 1500, and..... More
London: Edward Dod, 1646. Folio. [xx], 386 pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary calf, rebacked, corners renewed. Imprimatur leaf repaired on fore-edge, occasional foxing and browning. Presented to the library of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Edward Wilson, with the Academy's bookplate on the front paste-down. First edition. In..... More
London: J.R. for Nath. Ekins, 1672. 2 vols. in 1. 4to. [xxii], 440, [12 ]; [viii], 144 pp. With engraved portrait of author opposite title page by F.H. Van Houe. Half-leather and marbled boards; first 6 leaves loose, otherwise, interior good with numerous contemporary annotations. Sixth edition, the last to..... More
[London]: The Clarendon Press, 1909. 8vo. [xiv], 183, [3], 44 pp. Original stiff-paper wrappers. Inscription on fly-leaf, “Bought @ auction 12-4-54. Mme. A. Maynferal. This is an absolute facsimile of the copy owned by Sir Wil. Osler.” A fine uncut copy. “This edition of Religio medici and Digby’s Observations is..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1944. 8vo. xii, 698, [2] pp. Full green morocco by Maurin, gilt spine and dentelles. More
St. Louis: Thompson, [1899]. Two volumes. Folio. 784 pp. FIRST EDITION. With over 1200 illustrations, maps and photographs, including many in color. Green cloth titled in gilt on front cover and spine, patterned end-papers, all edges marbled. Boards soiled and rubbed, very good. Introduction by Major General Joseph Wheeler. Includes..... More
London: Rowland Ward, 1899. large 4to. xx, 612, [9] pp., which includes the half-title, the Supplement on the giraffe and okapi and the 2-page appendix on Ward’s. FIRST EDITION. With 15 colored plates, each with explanatory tissue guard, after J. Smit and numerous text illustrations. half title. Half morocco over..... More
Burlington: Stephen C. Ustick, 1812. 12mo. 266 pp. Later edition. Contemporary brown calf, gilt tooling on spine, edges and spine worn; tear to upper corner of p. 11 (one word of text missing), text leaves browned with some foxing, stain through last 40 leaves. Ownership inscription on fly-leaf. Rare edition..... More
Leipzig: Théodore Thomas, 1869. 8vo. xvi, 281, [2] pp. FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. Printer wrappers, uncut, foxing on preliminaries and browning throughout. First French translation by Auguste Jacquot, originally printed in German the prior year. "Buchner justifiably conceived the works of Darwin, for the dissemination of which he is especially to..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1855. Two volumes. 8vo. xv, [i], 400; xii, 424 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 24-page publisher’s catalogue in Volume I. Frontispiece portrait, leaf with text illustrations in Volume II. Later cloth with the original publisher’s front cover on both volumes; new endpapers, text very clean..... More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1837. Two volumes. 12mo. xv, [i], 13-443, [9]; [iv], vii, [i], 131 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Complete with advertisements and excerpt from Irving’s Astoria (containing an extra 2 pages of its table of contents not found in all copies). Volume 2 contains 87 plates (6..... More
London: Pickering, 1836. 2 vols. 8vo. xvi, 599, [1]; vii, [3], 128 pp., plus the advertisements at the beginning of vol. 2. FIRST EDITION. With 87 plates (69 full-page and many folding), including 1 very large coloured by hand. Old cloth-backed boards, somewhat scuffed, interiors excellent. Inscribed by the author..... More
Paris: Chez Deterville, 1802-1813. 80 volumes. 12mo. New Edition. Frontispiece portrait of Buffon engraved by Gaucher after Drouais, plus around 800 full-page hand-colored illustrations. Original boards, some in great shape, some with front and/or back boards nearly or fully detached; interiors excellent. A new edition of Buffon’s natural history, classified..... More
