History of the bench and bar of California.
San Francisco: Bench and Bar Publishing Company, 1912. Thick 8vo. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Full maroon calf, gilt lettering to top cover and spine. First edition in book form. More
San Francisco: Bench and Bar Publishing Company, 1912. Thick 8vo. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Full maroon calf, gilt lettering to top cover and spine. First edition in book form. More
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922. Folio. 21, [4] pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. Tipped in frontispiece portrait and engraved title preceding 116 plates (6 in color). Original publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering, some rubbing on corners; interior excellent. More
Berlin: Typis Academicis, 1839. 4to. xl, 248 pp. FIRST EDITION. Blue wrappers, printed spine label; a few leaves foxed. An uncut copy in good condition. More
Paris: La Veuve DeSaint, 1788. 4to. xii, 512 pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary polished calf, spine with morocco label and gilt floriated compartmental designs, covers with gilt borders, gilt dentelles and marbled edges; a3 with small stain in paper, and other than some occasional soiling and browning, interior clean. From the..... More
Springfield, IL: [Privately Printed], 1872. 8vo. [ii], 205 pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of Lincoln and 11 text illustrations. Complete with the fold-out map. Blue cloth with blind-ruled boards, very lightly rubbed. Generally a fresh and bright copy inscribed in the year of publication to Newton Bateman, a well known..... More
Springfield, IL: [Privately Printed], 1872. 8vo. Brown cloth with blind-stamped boards and gilt spine, light shelf-wear and soiling to boards; gutter splitting after title page, which is partially detached. Monumental edition. It describes the life, and then the public mourning of the assassinated President. The author details the funeral, funeral..... More
Springfield, IL: [Privately Printed], 1872. 8vo. 205 pp. Blue cloth with gilt vignette to front cover; some light rubbing and soiling. Frontispiece lightly foxed, otherwise interior is clean. First edition. Inscribed in the year of publication to Newton Bateman, a well known Illinois educator. Monaghan, 928. More
Chicago and Springfield, IL: H.W. Rokker, 1889. 8vo. 458 pp. Monumental edition. With fold-out map. Illustrated. Brown cloth with blindstamped boards and gilt spine, light shelfwear and soiling to boards; gutter splitting after title-page, which is partially detached. Monumental edition. It describes the life, and then the public mourning of..... More
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1881. Two volumes. 8vo. xxxii, 464, [2]; xxiv, 456, [2] pp. SECOND EDITION. Complete with both half-titles and all blanks. With 33 plates, 36 page-publisher’s advertisements dated Sept., 1881, plus another 8 pages of publisher advertisements. Original cloth, rebacked with the original spine laid down; interior..... More
London: C. Dilly, 1793. 8vo. xvi, 179 pp. SECOND EDITION. Half calf and marbled boards; spine rubbed and both inner hinges cracked but otherwise in very good condition. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. 12mo. xvii, [i], [19]-355 pp., plus 4 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Complete with frontispiece and tissue guard, map, and 6 text illustrations. Publisher’s brown cloth with gold stamping on spine, slightly worn on corners and head and foot of spine, slightly soiled..... More
Paris & Montpellier: Gabon/ Bruxelles: Chez Gabon, 1829. Two volumes. 8vo. 12, xviii, [19]-560; [iv], 731 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 7 folding plates. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine labels; text leaves toned, some browning and spotting. Laid in is a folded piece of paper with contemporary annotations containing a recipe..... More