Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1877. 8vo. 12 pp. First separately printed edition. Original printed wrappers, top wrapper serves as title. Wrappers slightly browned at edges and slightly split at foot of spine. Interior very lightly browned. First printing of Holmes’ address on microscopy. C&T, pp. 158, 433; OCLC locates no copies..... More

Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. 12mo. 39 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original yellow printed boards, cover soiled; a few occasional spots to interior, otherwise a clean uncut copy housed in a cloth folding case. Inscription to verso of title. First edition, first printing, state A, without the advertisement between front..... More

Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1894. Two volumes. 8vo. xvi, 219, [1]; vi, 221-474 pp. Half-title and title in red and black, frontispiece in each volume. With 13 plates. Full vellum, decorated in gilt, top edges gilt. A bright, clean and uncut copy with the bookplates of Carroll Atwood Wilson and Edwin..... More

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891. 8vo. [ii], ix, [i], 321 pp. With engraved frontispiece. Original green illustrated publisher’s cloth. Contemporary ownership inscription on fly-leaf; an excellent copy. Fourth edition. More

Boston: Philips, Sampson and Company, 1857-58. Two volumes. Large 8vo. iv, 892; iv, 900 pp. FIRST EDITION. Half-morocco and pebbled boards, spine decorated in blind, slightly rubbed at corners and edges of spine. Both volumes inscribed on front paste-down by William Prince, Vol. 2 with his large engraved bookplate. First..... More

Boston: Rand, Avery & Co., [March] 1872. 8vo. 16 pp. Posthumous re-print. Original stiff gray printed wrappers; stamp of the College of Dentistry, University of Minnesota to top wrapper. Browned. Posthumous re-print, which was printed by the University of Minnesota’s dental school, with the permission of the Dental school of..... More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. 8vo. ix, [i], 406, [2] pp., plus 16 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Original brown pebbled cloth, decorated in blind. Bookplate of Alfred Sutro. An exquisite copy with a note from Sutro laid in. First edition, first issue. The first collection of Holmes’..... More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 8vo. 48 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, soiled. A fantastic copy from the library of Carroll Atwood Wilson, with his bookplate. Preserved in a slip-case. Second edition, a great deal more scarce than the first, with seven additional pages. This edition includes the obituaries..... More

Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. 8vo. viii, 848 pp. FIRST PRINTING. With 8 plates. Half-calf and speckled boards, worn at corners and edges of spine; interior very good. First printing. The entire volume is offered here. Though the address was delivered on December 3, 1878, it was not printed..... More

Boston: The Welch Bibliophilic Society, 1937. 18mo. 39 pp. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Title in red and black. Original cream-coloured paper boards; an uncut copy with a letter on Welch Bibliophilic Society letterhead tipped onto front paste-down. First edition, first printing of Holmes’ medical school dissertation, taken from the original..... More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. Two volumes. 8vo. 288; 312 pp., plus 16 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Original brown cloth, decorated in blind, title in gilt to spines, chipped at head and foot of spine, some spotting on covers. First edition, probable fourth printing. More

Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1842. 12mo. v, [iii], 72 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original calf-backed tan boards, title printed on spine, stained, joints cracked; very light scattered foxing. Preserved in a half-morocco slip-case. First edition. One of three lectures delivered by Holmes before the Boston Society for Useful Knowledge, on the..... More

Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1847. 8vo. 38 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, spine chipped, top wrapper detached. Ink stamp of the Rhode Island Historical Society to top wrapper and title. Presentation inscription from Usher Parsons on wrapper. First edition, second or third state of wrapper, with the..... More