Aristophanes I: Clouds, Wasps, Birds (Aristophanes)
Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1999. Later printing. Paperback. 1999 Softcover, in Fine condition, showing the very lightest shelf wear.
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Practical Illustrations of Typhus Fever, of the Common Continued Fever, and of Inflammatory Diseases...(1821)
Philadelphia: James Webster, 1821. Hardcover. First American from the third London edition, and the first with Potter's notes and additions (1821). 8vo, old sheep, 468 pp plus tipped in errata half sheet at rear, good copy with general rubbing and dryness to leather, top of spine moderately chipped, light toning.....
The 1826 Journal of John James Audubon
New York: Abbeville Press, 1987. Reprint. Cream cloth boards in dust jacket, 447pp.
Western Apache Raiding and Warfare
Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 1973. Second printing. Hardcover. octavo, illustrated boards, no DJ, book is in very good + condition with wear to boards, corner rounding and mild soiling to the text block, 330pp.
Doctor Wespe
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895. Hardcover. Hardcover. c.1895. Dark green cloth, gilt spine titles. 16mo. 208pp. Text in German, introduction and notes in English. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, mild speckling to spine, tanning to endpapers, a few pencil notes to text.
Jamaica Labrish, Dialect Poems -- signed by Bennett and Nettleford
Jamaica: Sangster's Bookstores, 1966. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's red boards stamped in gilt, in dust jacket. Signed by Bennett and Nettleford to some local Pittsburghers when the two came to town to read work from this book under the auspices of the International Poetry Forum. Rarely found signed. Very.....
The Arte of Angling 1577
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1958. Second facsimile edition. Hardcover. Second facsimile edition, 1958, hardcover with brown stamped beige paper boards in dust jacket, octavo, 92pp. + facsimile in b&w. Book fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG+ with mild rubbing and toning, front.....
Hoy es Fiesta -- inscribed by Halsey
Salamanca: Ediciones Almar, 1978. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, inscribed by Halsey to her colleague Robert Lima. 120 (8) pp.
The Genuine Poetical Remains of Samuel Butler
London: Booker, 1827. Hardcover. Published 1827, very good in somewhat later half morocco and marbled boards, by Macdonald of NY, 301 (1) pp, illustrated with plates. Light rubbing to binding. Bookplate of Richard Douglass Fisher of Baltimore (1834-1910) a banker and after retirement in 1903, devoted himself to scholarly, literary.....
Hudibras, 2 volumes, 1835, finely bound, extra-illustrated
London: John Murray, 1835. Hardcover. 2 volumes, 8vo, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, full crushed warm brown morocco, handsome gilt decorated spines, very good, some light wear, rubbing and surface soil to covers, neat strengthening of inner hinges, occasional blindstamp of the Edison Institute, Dearborn MI; extra-illustrated with perhaps two dozen.....
Catalogue of the Edward Clark Library, Volumes 1 and 2
Edinburgh: Napier College Of Commerce and Technology, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Complete in 2 volumes. 1976. First edition. Hardcover, 330 pp., 355 pp. Illustrated with 74 plates. Ex-library with bookplates to front endpapers, stamp to last pages. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
Ominous Hush: The Thunderstorm Paintings of Martin Johnson Heade
Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1994. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, oblong quarto, 88pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book as new, feels unread. No DJ. Exhibition catalog.
Ominous Hush: The Thunderstorm Paintings of Martin Johnson Heade
Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1994. Paperback. New, still in publisher's shrinkwrap! Printed paper wrap, oblong quarto, 88pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book as new, feels unread. No DJ. Exhibition catalog.
The British Essayists, 45 volumes, complete, 1817
London: Nichols and Son, and Bentley, et al. 1817. Hardcover. 45 volumes, published 1817, small 8vo, contemporary full calf, gilt spines, deep red spine labels, boards with hand-done pattern of daub marks, very good, light rubbing, a few spine labels chipped or missing, all hinges and joints sturdy and sound.....
Oeuvres Completes
Paris: Seuil, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Gilt stamped red cloth boards in original plastic wrapper, octavo, 1124pp., frontispiece in b&w, otherwise not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked but gently toned throughout, foxing to rear pastedown. DJ has rubbing. Text in French...
Rosamond: or, A Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of an American Female under the Popish Priests, in the Island of Cuba. With a Full Disclosure of Their Manners and Customs, Written by Herself
New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., 1836. Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's blocked light brown cloth, very good, general light wear and soil to covers, spine darkened, with small printed paper spine title label darkened and with corner loss, contents very good but with foxing throughout, some corner loss to.....
First Lines of the Practice of Physic, two volumes in one book
New York: L. Nichols, 1805. Later edition. Hardcover. 1805. One of the many American imprints of this classic text-book. Two volumes in one, 582 pp. total + index. Hardcover, 8vo. Original full calf, gilt bands and leather title label on spine. Some soil to contents; text unmarked and readable. Leather.....
Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I from the original office books of the masters and yeomen
London: Shakespeare Society, 1842. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 1842. Original brown cloth embossed vertically ribbed, gilt titled on spine, 228 pp., good+ copy, some wear and loss to spine ends and along outer joints, contents very good, endpapers tanned and soiled, a few smudges here and there, minor straining.....
Le Medecin de Campagne
Paris: Le Livre de Poche, 1966. Hardcover. Gilt stamped red cloth boards in plastic wrapper, octavo, not illustrated. Book has hint of wear to edges of boards, binding tight, honorary plate to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean and unmarked but toned throughout. Plastic DJ gently rubbed and soiled. Text in.....
Un Debut Dans la Vie Suivi de Un Prince de la Boheme et de Un Homme d'Affaires
Paris: Le Livre de Poche, 1969. Hardcover. Gilt stamped red cloth boards in plastic protector, octavo, not illustrated. Book has hint of shelfwear to edges of boards and spine, binding tight, honorary plate to front flyleaf, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout. DJ has hint of rubbing. Text in.....
From Centaur to Cross, the Unpublished Correspondence & The Centaur
New York: Covici Friede, 1929. First English language edition. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good plus with minor spottiness or offsetting to endpapers, jacket very good with light soil and fading.
The Olynthiac and other Public Orations (Bohn's Classical Library edition)
London: Bell & Daldy, 1865. Hardcover. 8vo, embossed river blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine, very good. 312 pp, ads. Nicer than usually found for one of these Bohn classical editions. Text in English.
Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino (3 vols) - extra-illustrated edition - illustrating the arms, arts & literature of Italy, 1440-1630
London: John Lane, 1909. First Printing. Hardcover. 3 volumes, 8vo, publisher's decorated blue cloth, light wear, spines a little darkened and with minor edgewear, sporadic foxing throughout texts. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 25 extra illustrations, mainly early 20th century but a handful from the 19th century.
The Poetical Works of John Dryden (4 volumes, 1811), containing original poems, tales, and translations
London: Printed for P. C. and J. Rivington, et al. 1811. Hardcover. 4 volumes, published 1811, 8vo, contemporar full straight-grained morocco with gilt Grecian-style borders, leather turn-ins with gilt designs, gilt decorated spine compartments, black morocco title and volume labels on spines that look to be 20th century replacements. Very.....
The Faerie Queene. The Second Booke contayning, The Legend of Sir Guyon, or Of Temperaunce. (INSCRIBED)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY GEORGE R. POTTER. Hardcover. c.1929. Black cloth spine. 8vo. 300pp. Good. Boards darkened, soiling to text block edgesPaper spine label heavily worn with considerable loss and heavy rubbing, light dampstaining to last thirty pages.