Myselves when young.
London, New York, and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1970. 8vo. [x], 212 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original black cloth, dust jacket in good condition with some stains and wear to extremities but no loss. More
London, New York, and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1970. 8vo. [x], 212 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original black cloth, dust jacket in good condition with some stains and wear to extremities but no loss. More
London: Richard Smith for Samuel Bridge, 1703. Six parts in one. Folio. [xviii], 296, [6]; [ii], 83; [ii], 44; [vi], 120, [4]; [iv], 108; 84, [12] pp. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Contemporary blind-stamped calf, rebacked, edges worn; marginal dampstaining to the final few leaves. Lacks frontispiece portrait, otherwise complete. More
Paris: A.J. Dugour et Durand, An VII [1798]. 8vo. [iv], lii, 228, [16] pp. With 20 engraved plates (19 folding). Contemporary pasteboards, worn at corners and spine; interior with occasional browning and spotting. From the library of Jerry Stannard. Second octavo edition. More
New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., [1881]. 8vo. [iv], 274 pp. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece portrait, numerous text illustrations (many full-page), including map of the western reserve. Original publisher’s cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine, head and foot a bit worn, a.e.g.; interior in fine condition. Originally..... More
London: Walton & Maberley, 1857. 8vo. xii, 298, [2] pp. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. With numerous text illustrations, tables, and errata. Original cloth (rebacked), some soiling throughout; bookplate, inscription, and stamp, otherwise a good copy. First English edition, published the same year as the original German, of one of the author's..... More
Philadelphia: Lea Bros. 1898. 8vo. 587, [1] pp., plus 16 pp. of publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Title in red and black. Numerous text illustrations. Contemporary full calf, somewhat worn, labels on spine; interior fine. First edition. This text represents data from every available source, and includes an unbelievable amount of..... More
London; Cambridge: Roger Daniels;Joan.. Field, 1651; 1663. Two works in one. 8vo. [xviii], 288, [62]; [viii], 311 pp. . Contemporary calf; early manuscript endpapers, occasional browning in second work. An excellent copy from the library of Erwin Tomash with his bookplate. I: First published in 1626, Institutionum logicarum was widely used..... More
London: Printed for J.S. Jordan, 1796. 8vo. [iv], 68 pp. FIRST EDITION. Disbound; edges untrimmed, other than a few minimal spots, an excellent copy. First edition of this attack against Edmund Burke’s Letters on a regicide peace, published the same year. Burke opposed ending the war with the Republican government..... More
Philadelphia: J.W. Moore, 1849. 8vo. 240 pp. Publisher’s cloth, a bit worn, author and title in gilt on spine; some minor browning, otherwise a very good copy. Ownership inscription of Kate G. Wilbor of Little Compton, R.I. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1920]. 8vo. [vi], 309 pp. Illustration on title. Red illustrated publisher’s cloth, map of Africa and Arabia on both endpapers; interior very good. More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [c.1898]. 8vo. xxx, [3]-299 pp., including half-title. First American Edition. Complete with frontispiece portrait and numerous full-page and text illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, front cover decorated, gilt lettering on spine, boards worn and faded; new endpapers, interior good. First American edition. The author documents..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1828. Four volumes. 8vo. [viii], cxcii, 423; [ii], 543; viii, 596; [ii], 549, [1] pp., including errata, plus 2 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispieces in first three volumes. Beautifully bound in half-morocco and cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, blind tooling, red stained fore-edge..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1932. 8vo. xl, 357 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Publisher’s cloth; very clean throughout, with writing on the final end papers concerning “Spanish musik.” With the bookplate of Arnold Thackray (founder of the Chemical Heritage Foundation), and an illegible signature on the first free end paper dated..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. 8vo. xxii, [ii], 155, [1] pp. With 17 pages of photographs, including frontispiece. Linen-backed boards, chipped at head and foot of spine. With flyer tipped-in. Second edition. Complete with the AFAS Fund appeal flyer on rear endpaper. Buswell, who was not accepted..... More
Arlington: Collegiate Press, [1945]. Three volumes. 8vo. x, [iv], 159, [1]; xi, [iii], 153, [1]; xiii, [iii], 276 pp. FIRST EDITION. Red cloth. First edition. Butka (b.1894) a medical doctor, was in charge of the laboratory at the Loma Linda hospital. The present work is a collection of poems on..... More
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1886. 8vo. x, [ii], 260 pp. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece and illustrations. Publisher’s cloth with elaborate gilt cover design and gilt spine, hinges loose but intact; spotting to preliminary and final leaves. Occasional library stamps scattered throughout the book. First edition. Written from the perspective..... More
Hull and London: Brumby and Clarke, 1899. 4to. [vi], viii, 317 pp., including half-title. SECOND EDITION. Complete with 60 hand-colored plates after Frederick William Frohawk, including the beautiful frontispiece. Contemporary half-cloth and buckram, gilt lettering on spine; other than some wearing to head of spine and corners, an excellent uncut..... More
Concorde, Mass: The Erudite Press, 1902. 8vo. 142 pp. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. With 3 full-page illustrations, 2 of which are photographic. Contemporary boards, re-backed and re-cornered; interior with minor staining and browning, repair to a tear in pp. 13-14. More
London: Grant Richards, 1903. 8vo. v, [i], 424 pp., plus 12 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Original red cloth with title in gilt on front board and spine, top edge gilt; minor soiling to bottom edge, otherwise an excellent copy preserved in a slipcase. More
London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1926. 4to. 171 pp. With 1 folding map. Illustrated. Quarter green cloth over patterned boards with gilt title on spine; boards bumped, soiled and rubbed, light toning to text. Bookplate and previous owner's inscription. Number 193 of 525 copies of this reprint edition published..... More
London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1929. 4to. [88] pp. Vellum-backed purple satin, gilt design on cover. Fly-leaf browned, otherwise in excellent condition, uncut. No. 96 of a limited edition of 550 copies. With the original prospectus and subscription form laid in. More
London: John Murray, 1823, 1816, 1813, 1816, 1816. Four volumes in one. 8vo. viii,188; [iv], 60; [iv], 41, [2]; [iv]. 89, [3] pp. FIRST EDITIONS. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, spine worn and front hinge starting; generally in very good condition, the exception being the last part of Parisina which..... More
Paris: Librairie E. Le François, [1922]. 8vo. [viii], 291, [9] pp., including 12 full-page illustrations, plus 1 page publisher’s advertisements. Original printed wrappers, bound in half-morocco and marbled boards. Second edition. In the previous edition (1909), Witkowski’s name appeared first on the title page, with the slightly different title Gayetez..... More
Paris: Bechet Jeune, 1824. 2 vols., 8vo. [iv], c, 477, [1]; [iv], 526, [2] pp. With half-titles. Quarter morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spine; sporadic foxing, minor worming and chipping to spine. Contemporary hand-written note tipped in before title of Volume I, pencil annotations on first leaves of each volume and..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. 8vo. [vii], 232 [2] pp. FIRST EDITION. Original red cloth boards with gilt stamped title on the spine and author’s initials embossed on the front cover; dust jacket slightly worn along the edges with a small chip to the front top right corner, neat..... More