Bombay: Bombay Natural History Society, 1898-1900; 1908. Two works offered together. 8vo. I: Ten parts bound together. 222 pp.; II: xi, 292 pp., including half-title. I: First printings; II: First edition in book form. I: Half burgundy morocco on black cloth boards. With 10 chromolithograph plates by J.G. Keulemans. Despite..... More
Poitiers: J. Thoreau & A. Mesnier, 1638. 4to. [xviii], 624, [18]. FIRST EDITION. Complete with approbation, Privilege du Roi, and index with errata on verso. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary original binding of richly gilt morocco, rebacked with the original spine laid down, spine gilt in compartments with..... More
London: 1850. 4to. 170 leaves. Written on blue paper. Original vellum. More
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808. 8vo. 236 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original boards. An excellent uncut copy. First edition of a significant political pamphlet supporting Wellesley in connection with efforts to impeach him from Parliament for actions taken when he was Governor General of India. The impeachment motion was..... More
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1907. 4to. xl, 158 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 21 plates of birds by Keulemans and 23 photographic landscape illustrations, including the frontispiece, plus a coloured map of the region. Contemporary morocco-backed cloth boards, a bit worn and spine a bit sunned; generally a good copy with the..... More
London: John Murray, 1860. 8vo. viii, 519 pp., plus inserted 32-page publisher’s catalogue dated October, 1866. Third edition, 1st printing, 10th Thousand. With 14 text woodcuts. Original publisher’s cloth, front cover a bit worn; interior very good. More
Jermyn St. n.p., 1849. 4to. 150 pp. Printed on both sides in a neat small hand in brown ink. This manuscript contains alphabetized selection of books and authors that Fortescue apparently read, and includes his critical notes on each. It would seem that Fortescue might have been planning to write..... More
Munich: Rütten + Loening, 1969. 4to. 23, [1] pp. Numerous colored illustrations on each page. Original illustrated front board illustrating a “modern” Peter dressed in uniform holding a cracked egg and rotten tomatoes, and standing on a platform with an image of Mao’s red book and a uniform. More
Italy: n.p., n.d. 8vo. 46 pp. Ruled manuscript notebook with engraved frontispiece. Preface and discourse in two parts. Contemporary black roan, and preserved in a black roan-backed box. The text is very clean. A handsome copy. With the bookplate of Roberto Gabbani engraved by Costante Costantini. 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
Various: Various, 1851 - 1959. DOCUMENTS relating to the organization of the Illinois Central Rail-Road Company. New York: Geo. S. Roe, 1851. 4to. [iv], 146 pages printed on blue paper. Original half-calf. FIRST EDITION of this great rarity containing the Act of congress donating lands to the States of Illinois..... More
Leyden: Ex Officina Platiniana, 1613. 8vo. [iv], 106, [1] pp. Later edition. With the Plantin printer’s device on the title. Later full calf; in superb condition. From the Lehmann library of mathematics and logic. More
London: for the Society, 1900. Two parts in one. Folio (12.5 x 10 in). pp. 109-290. FIRST EDITION. Complete with 18 hand-colored lithographed plates of birds by Keulemans, 2 hand-colored lithographed maps, 4 duo-tone osteological plates, and 10 text illustrations. Half morocco, with the original blue printed rear wrapper bound..... More
London: Institute of Northumberland, 1895. 4to. clv, [i], 543 pp. Half-calf over blue cloth, title and supra libros in gilt on cover. From the library of Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford (see below), with his engraved bookplate. More
London: Thomas & George Underwood, etc. 1821. 8vo. xix, [i], [752] pp. FIRST EDITION. With 15 engraved plates. Contemporary tree calf; the first bland is partially torn at the gutter, otherwise a very nice copy with a presentation bookplate of the Essex Institute, Library of Francis Peabody, from Mrs. Martha..... More
London: 1857-1862. Two books. 4to. 150 pp. Original green cloth. Original account book of 150 pages, 22 lines each, on blue lined paper. Original green cloth, somewhat soiled; the interior in excellent condition. Walpole lived at Strawberry Hill for about fifty years until his death in March, 1797. When he..... More
