London: Taylor and Hessey, 1818. 8vo. xv, [i], 114 pp., plus leaf of publisher’s advertisements. SECOND ENGLISH EDITION. Original boards, rebacked; interior excellent. Ownership signature of Ralph R. Ritzman on the fly-leaf. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1967. 8vo. [xiv], 482 pp. FIRST EDITION. Photographic reproductions throughout. Blue cloth with title and author in gilt on cover and spine. More
Leiden and London: Brill & Porter, 1897. Folio. viii, 64, [3] pp. FIRST EDITION. With 22 chromo-lithographed plates. Original publisher’s pictorial green cloth, title in gilt to spine and top cover, with patterned end-papers; edges stained green. Label pasted on to the front paste-down indicating that this copy is No..... More
London: Sampson Low Marston Company, 1893. 8vo. xv, [i], 144 pp. including half-title and index. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s cloth, spine label; interior fine. Signed by the author. More
Boston: 1933. 8vo. [ii], 62 pp. Offpring. Numerous graphs in the text. Blue Cloth, authors and title in gilt on front board. Presentation copy from Blackfan and ownership signature of David D. Rutstein on the fly-leaf. More
London: E. Curll & J. Pemberton, 1716. 8vo. lvii, [vii], 448 pp. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut head- and tailpieces. An excellent copy in period-style full calf. First edition. Published by “the unspeakable Curll.” The compositions include Blackmore’s essays on epic poetry, wit, false virtue, immortality of the soul, laws of nature..... More
London: Trianon Press for William Blake Trust, 1963. Folio. With 18 full-page plates in colour. Half morocco with gilt lettering on the spine. Preserved in a slipcase matching the boards. Number 374 of an edition limited to 480 copies printed on Arches pure rag paper made to match that used..... More
London: Published by the Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1969. 4to. (350 x 260 mm). With 17 colour plates reproduced from the original edition of 1794, each watermarked with Blake’s initials. Illustrated with water-colour washes added to partial colour printing. Original quarter brown morocco over marbled boards in..... More
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1925; 1927. 4 vols. 8vo. Limited editions. I. The writings of William Blake in 3 volumes, with 60 colotype plates of the author's drawings and paintings. II. With 24 illustrations in colotype. Both works bound in quarter-white parchment with marbled boards. Printed at the Chiswick Press..... More
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. Lg. 8vo. 24 colortype illustr., printed at the Chiswick Press. Quarter-white parchment with marbled boards. Limited to 1480 copies. 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
London: John Murray, 1825. 8vo. xxxvi, [iv], 284 pp. FIRST EDITION. Facsimile letters. Contemporary tan calf, gilt-ruled boards, spine decorated in gilt, morocco spine label; light scattered foxing. Bookplate of Charles Tyler Prouty. First edition. An interesting and accurate glimpse into English history and politics during the mid-seventeenth century. More
Breslau: Weber, November, 1833. 4to. 12 pp. FIRST EDITION. With a very large folding plate of the Neesia Altissima, hand-coloured by Henry Cohen in Bonn. Disbound. First edition. This monograph was part of a series published by the journal Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum, Volume XVII..... More
Göttingen: Heinrich Dieterich, 1805. 8vo. xvi, 549 pp. FIRST EDITION. Complete with half-title, engraved title depicting a bust of Democritus and 8 engraved plates; Original boards, an excellent copy with the large bookplate of H.A. and a contemporary signature on title. First edition of this monumental work in the history..... More
London: Horace Cox, 1881. 4to. vi, 91, [1] pp., including half-title (with publisher’s advertisements on the verso). FIRST EDITION. With tinted lithographed frontispiece, 6 plates (1 hand-colored, 1 wood-engraved and double-page). Red cloth, title in gilt on spine; interior excellent. First edition, originally written by Blyth and enlarged by W.B.Tegetmeier..... More
Paris: Andreas Wechel, 1555. 4to. 56 ff. FIRST EDITIONS. One nearly full-page woodcut astronomical chart and 57 half-page letterpress star charts, letterpress diagram. Modern wrappers. Contemporary manuscript highlighting and annotations throughout. More
Amsterdam: Wetstenios & Smith, 1732. 8vo. [xiv], 296, [8] pp. FOURTH EDITION. Contemporary stiff vellum, yapp edges, manuscript spine title, red edges. Somewhat browned, but a good copy. More
Paris: Leon Chaillet, 1895. 8vo. xxvii, 427 pp. FIRST EDITION. 23 full-page plates, numerous smaller illustrations in the text. Contemporary boards, gilt morocco label, original wrappers bound in. Ownership stamp of Michel Collée. Title wrapper foxed, paper lightly toned. An excellent copy. More
London: R. Francklin, 1729. 8vo. 28 pp. FIRST EDITION. Disbound; a splendid copy. First edition. Bolingbroke (1678-1751), an English statesmen, published this pamphlet under the pseudonym of W. Raleigh in response to a pamphlet by the anonymous D'Anvers (the government). Besides discussing his opposition to the government's foreign policies and..... More
London: Walton and Maberly, 1854. 8vo. [xii], 424, 6 pp. FIRST EDITION. The errata leaf is at the beginning following the Contents with the note and 6 pages of advertisements at the end of the book. Finely rebound in full morocco with gilt decorated spine. From the Tomash collection of..... More
London: Taylor & Francis, 1858. 4to. [iv], vi, [iv], 621-906, 19 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 6 plates (1 extra large folding). Original printed wrappers; uncut and unopened. First edition. Boole states his intention to demonstrate "a fundamental theorem for the summation of integrals whose limits are determined by the roots..... More
Cambridge and London: Macmillan and Co., 1865. 8vo. xv, [i], 496 pp. Second edition. With 1 folding plate. Original publisher's cloth, spine expertly repaired, an almost fine copy from the library of George Howard Darwin (1845-1912) with his signature dated Oct., 1865 on the paste-down. More
Paris: Louis Lucas, 1689. 12mo. [xxii], 147, [9] pp. FIRST EDITION. Nineteenth-century half-Russian morocco over marbled boards. A fine copy with the Lindhurst bookplates of railroad tycoon Jay Gould (1836-1892) which pictures the gothic estate on the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York. More
Paris: Chez Pierre Franç. Didot le Jeune, 1767. 12mo. x, [xi-xii], 226 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original leather with gilt spine and marbled paste downs; light foxing throughout, but overall a clean, good copy. . First edition. Considered one of the most important works in the history of cell theory, Bordeu..... More
Neapoli: Typis Felicis Mosca, 1734. Two parts in one. 4to. [xvi], 186 pp.; [ii], 187-494, [2]. Half-title to first work, title in red and black, separate title to Bernoulli’s dissertation. With 19 plates, woodcut printer’s device and initials. Modern 3/4 calf; new endpapers, interior lightly browned. Contemporary ownership inscription on..... More
