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: Tho. Milbourn for Andrew Crook, 1659. 2 works in 1. 8vo. [xvi], 297, [5]; [ii], 75, [2] pp. I: FIFTH EDITION; II: THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED. Engraved title to vol. I, separate titles to Annotations upon Religio medici and Digby’s Observations. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Signature of T.C. Goldingham of Oxford..... More
London: A. Miller for Edw. Dod and Nath. Ekins, 1650. 4to. [xvi], 329, [10] pp. SECOND EDITION. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Text within double-lined borders Contemporary calf, worn, author, title and date in gilt on spine; interior with some waterstaining. Signature of Lewis Fry, Bristol, 1854 and another signature..... 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: Andrew Cooke, 1642. 8vo. [ii], 159 pp. FIRST EDITION. Engraved title by William Marshall. Beautiful nineteenth-century maroon straight-grain gilt-ruled morocco by the English bookbinder Francis Bedford (1799-1883), spine in compartments with elaborate gilt design, marbled paste-downs and endpapers. From the library of the author George Walter Steeves 1845-1915) with..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1944. 8vo. xii, 698, [2] pp. Full green morocco by Maurin, gilt spine and dentelles. More
London: J. Wallis, 1799. 8vo. xxxviii, [ii], 415 pp. SECOND EDITION. With frontispiece plus 16 full-page plates (3 folding), text illustrations and tables. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, marbled endpapers; interior a bit browned and spotted throughout. From the library of Richard Townsend (of the Marquess Townshend family) with..... 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, etc. Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1913. Two volumes. 8vo. clxxviii, [ii], 614; xxv, [I], 804 pp. (The printed facsimile of the manuscript is in Syriac and paginated from back to front.). FIRST EDITION. Titles in red and black. Publisher’s red cloth, titles in gilt on spine. A fine..... 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
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
