Paris: Hippolyte Souverain, 1842. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the title page. 1842, First Edition. French text. 38 pp., 2 illustrations. Hardcover, bound in contemporary 3/4 leather with elaborate gilt spine; original front wrap bound-in. There are about 100 blank leaves bound-in after the text. Rare. OCLC.....
New York: John Lane Company, 1920. First printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by Barney on the half-title page. First edition, 1920. Cloth-backed boards, 100 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, soiling and age-toning to the pages, light wear to the edges of some pages, soiling and discoloration to the covers, rubbing.....
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1857. First American edition. Hardcover. Volume 3 only. 1857, First American edition, printed for distribution in the US from the British sheets of Longman. Hardcover, in original green cloth. 635 pp. Illustrated -- complete with 3 fold-out maps and 16 chromolithograph plates and 6.....
New York: E. B. Benjamin, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. 1872, trade catalog. 266 pp. Includes listings for 3,670 items, with approximately 150shown in b&w illustration. Hardcover, original brown cloth. Very Good+. Spine faded and light bumping to the spine ends and corners. Bright, clean contents. From the medical quackery collection.....
London and Paris: Chelsea Book Club for X. M. Boulestin, (1921). First Printing. Hardcover. No. 300 of 550 copies on velin a la cuve. 8vo, publisher's beveled yellow cloth, very good, light wear and faint soil and stains to covers, contents very good to fine; all plates present, gift inscription.....
London: 1747. Map measures approximately 16 x 13.25 inches with original color, double-matted and framed, not examined outside of frame. Map is very good with lightest surface soil; mat shows light soil, frame measures 24 x 21 inches. Shows England and Wales, with lovely cartouche. First published in Bowen's "A.....
Paris: Francis Salabert, 1918. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, very good, wraps bound into quarter green morocco gilt and marbled boards, handsome art deco gilding and red inlays on spine, which is slightly rubbed and mellowed. Inscribed to Jeanne Roze in May 1918 with pencil inscription on half title, signed.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, cloth backed boards in dust jacket, very good copy with light water damage to bottom of spine and some bleeding of spine cloth color onto verso of jacket, inscribed to Douglas Mauldin, publisher of the reconstituted Derrydale Press (which.....
New York: Morrow, Hyperion, Villard, Random House, 1988-2002. First edition. Hardcover. Group of 6 books all inscribed in the year of publication either to Jay Dantry, the owner of Jay's Book Stall, who employed Chabon while he was in college in Pittsburgh and was an early reader and commenter on.....
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1864. Hardcover. Published 1864, 8vo, original green pebbled cloth, xix, 282 pp, 122 plates. Good copy, tightly bound, gilt lettering on spine almost completely effaced, some glue stains to front pastedown, small ink stain to bottom outer corner up to p. 13, other ink stains.....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, finely bound in quarter green niger, gilt titled, over marbled boards, by the Athene Bindery, Wootton, Woodstock, Oxon. Fine copy. Either bound specially by the publisher for the editor or commissioned by Robinson himself, purchased in a lot of.....
Paris: Aux Armes de France, 1942. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1942, one of 3220 numbered copies on Ivoirine paper, tall 8vo, reversed calf spine, marbled boards, sea green labels, engraved portrait frontispiece (unsigned), very good plus with mild soil to leather.
London: Publisher Not Identified, 1669. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 1669. Small 8vo, bound in early 19th century half leather and marbled boards, pp. (16) 303, with full title page and title pages for each treatise. Early handwriting identifying author as John Collinges on the title page of The Excellent.....
London: John Murray, 1850. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1850, 2 volumes, very good in half crushed morocco, marbled boards, gilt spines, black title labels, light rubbing to corners and joints but a very good or better set. Frontispieces and engraved title pages as well as letter press ones, slight.....
Boston: W. Wells and T. B. Wait, 1813. First American edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, period dark brown calf with dark red leather gilt spine labels, very good, mild general rubbing and wear, light cracqueleur, bookplates of the Aldis family and note from M. M. Aldis saying this was a legacy.....
New York: Thames & Hudson, 1978. Hardcover. Hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, 1978, large quarto, 270pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book near fine with handsome boards showing hint of rubbing to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with toning, mild rubbing. THIS.....
Toronto: Copp, Clark & Co., 1881. First printing. Hardcover. 12mo (6.5 inches tall), green cloth stamped in gilt on cover, very good, light wear, ownership signature of Aleck Saunders and more faintly, of "Bro. Thos. Perrott...1884." There are also numerous annotations and amendments in ink to the By-Laws section. 56.....
Paisley: Printed by J. Neilson for the Author, 1794. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 1794. Original paper covered boards, 140 pp., fair to good with front cover detached, general wear and soil to binding, contents VG. Old inscription in purple pencil on pastedown of a James Crookston, Dennistoun, Glasgow. RARE.....
Cologne: Taschen, 2004 and 2005. Hardcover. Six volume complete set! Illustrated paper covered boards, quartos, heavily illustrated in color. Books have hint of rubbing to spines, volume one has hint of wear to spine foot, bindings tight, texts clean bright and unmarked. No DJs. THIS LARGE, HEAVY SET WILL REQUIRE.....
Hamburg & Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1896. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second revised edition. Large 8vo, 9 x 6.5 inches, in half leather and boards covered with paper with snakeskin pattern; good copy, spine recently covered with cloth and paper spine label, neat and workmanlike. 1334 pp, illustrated, with cloth pocket to.....
Philadelphia: G. M. Hopkins, 1872. First printing. Hardcover. Original cloth boards, 17.75 x 15.5 inches, good condition, recent cloth over the spine, corners of boards look like they have some old black cloth tape on them, flyleaves lacking and replaced with recent flyleaves, contents very good, some edgewear and wrinkling.....
London: Printed by and for C. and R. Baldwin, 1809. Hardcover. Volume III (3) only. Quarto (11.25 x 9.25 inches), original buff gray-green boards, paper covered spine, original spine label, ex-lib Case Library of Electricity and Chemistry (bookplate, small blindstamp on title page, no other marks), good copy with wear.....
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New York: The Modern Library, 1998. Hardcover. First Modern Library edition. Cloth in dust jacket, inscribed by Irving on the titlepage, clean unmarked text, a bit of soiling or discoloration to the page-edges, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket, light soiling and edgewear to the dust jacket...
London: J. Johnson, 1788. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. 8vo. in worn full leather. 308, 346pp. plus index. Ex defunct institutional library, with spine labels, ink number on pastedown, and stamp on title page. Fair otherwise. Heavy rubbing and surface loss to boards and spine, boards detaching from spine. Light.....
Tokyo: T y T ji Kenky jo / Ceramics Research Institute, 1941. First Printing. Hardcover. Published in Showa 16. Small quarto, 12 inches tall, cloth in worn plain unprinted dust jacket and in original printed cardboard slipcase (somewhat worn and soiled). The book itself is very good, light soil and.....