London: 1784-1785. Visible area of sheet measures 20 x 13 inches; double matted, framed and glazed to high archival standards; frame measures approx. 27 x 21 inches. A rare image from the atlas of Cook's Third Voyage.
London: Macmillan, 1884. Second edition. Hardcover. 1884. Second edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in burnt orange cloth. 304pp. with frontis. Very good . Soil, faint discoloration to boards, shallow chipping to cloth corners, spine ends. Front inner hinge neatly repaired. Internally clean and unmarked. Digital images available upon request.
Paris: Hachette, 1880s-1890s. Hardcover. 20 volumes, bound in bright blue cloth spines, printed paper covered boards, Each is small 8vo, ca. 75-100 pp., illustrated, with folding map. Very good condition, some foxing, light rubbing to spines. All are provinces within France with the exception of Algeria. Various publication dates from.....
Madrid: Imprenta española, de D.F.G. de Bedoya, 1850. `. Hardcover. Appears to be first edition, 1850. 8vo, contemporary calf with gilt spine, good copy with some wear to endpapers, some staining, wrinkling and marginal old patching to p. 16, rest of text shows sporadic foxing and damp staining. Binding solid.....
Boston: Manning and Loring for S. Hall, W. Spotswood, et al. 1796. Later edition. Hardcover. 1796, later edition. Hardcover, small 8vo., full contemporary calf, with gilt bands and leather and gilt title label. 264 pp. Very Good. Shallow loss to leather at crown of spine; leather label chipped; minimal signs.....
Winchester, VA: Samuel H. Davis, 1833. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1833, 8vo, original speckled sheep, good plus to very good copy, binding very good, light wear to rear joint, some leather missing from top of spine, contents good plus, old inscriptions from 1860s-90s on front endpapers, binding intact and.....
Berlin: Verlag R. Eisenschmidt, 1929. First printing. Hardcover. Inscription in ink by Kluck on the front flyleaf. First edition, 1929. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine and gilt ruling on the front cover, 232 pp., fold-out map, clean unmarked text, Very Good book, light rubbing or wear.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 2009. First printing. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, signed, 983pp.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint, 2005. Hardcover, 712 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, no dust jacket. Uncommon.
Large hardback scrapbook kept by Arthur Wells of Newell, West Virginia (his family ran the Homer Laughlin ceramics factory that produced Fiesta Wear) with approximately 30 pp. of clippings, memorabilia, etc. from the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, including issues of the school literary magazine, The Lit, featuring the first.....
Lexington: Stamperia del Santuccio; Anvil Press; Victor and Carolyn Hammer, 1962-1978. First Printing. Hardcover. One of 50 copies. Small quarto, 11 x 7.5 inches, cloth backed marbled boards with printed paper spine label, very good. With short inscription on small slip of folded hand-made paper loosely inserted: "for Loraine /.....
New York: James Miller, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1865, hardcover with embossed black cloth boards, octavo, 277pp., illustrated with fold out map of the oil region of Pennsylvania, otherwise not illustrated. Book VG with spine ends worn away, cloth at corners split, mild sun to spine, rubbing and.....
Paris: Octave Doin et Fils, 1913. Hardcover. 1913,12mo, 222pp + 4pp ads. Flexible boards housed in plain glassine folding wrapper. This copy is inscribed by the author on the half title page: "A ma chere amie R. Maury, Hommage de l'auteur". In VG+ condition with light shelfwear, tanning to the.....
NP: 1954. 12 x 9, plain pinkish-orange wraps with title typed and "September 1954" at top, Anna Appel in pencil on cover, carbon typescript within, about 100 sheets, good with some wear, and passages involving Mrs. Cohen heavily marked in pen, pencil and colored conte pencil. Clearly used by Appel.....
Pittsburgh: Frick Art & Historical Center, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 2004, hardcover with silver stamped black paper boards in dust jacket, quarto, 206pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book near fine with hint of shelfwear to boards, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ near fine with.....
Almost all small weekly schedule sheets, mostly from the Wheeling & Steubenville to Pittsburgh line, plus a few others. The main group is 1948-52 but there are a handful from 1941-1947 and a few from 1953. The three time tables in this group are from 1941, 1948 and 1952. The.....
Madrid: Pedro Marin, 1771. Hardcover. Tercera Edicion, 1771. 8vo, vellum, 332 pp, index, 5 folding engraved plates: a laboratory scene, plates of fossils and sea creatures, and a final plate showing the earth's orbit around the sun and how the tilt of its axis is what causes the seasons. This.....
New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation with Random House, 1993. Limited ed. Stiff Wraps. Limited Edition. c.1993. Set in monotype Bembo and printed by Letterpress and duotone offset lithography on arches text paper at the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont. Designed by Dimitri Levas.....
Chicago: Low's Incorporated, 1964. First printing. No. 111 of 500. 24 x 16, stiff card covers, spiral bound with 12 images of Sinsabaugh's iconic cityscapes and landscapes in low panoramas, beautifully printed and designed in a calendar format, fine copy, housed in original mailing cardboard. Designed by Sinsabaugh and Howard.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1892. Hardcover. Eight volumes, complete. First edition thus, 1892. Green cloth hardcovers with gilt lettering on spines, gilt top edges, illustrated, clean unmarked text, Good to Very Good volumes, straining to the inner hinges of some vols., soiling or discoloration to some pages, wear to.....
Mooresville, Indiana: Jenny Wren Press, 1989. First printing. Oblong 4to. in spiral bound pictorial wraps. Unpaginated, illustrated. Very good. Light toning and edge wear to boards. Internally unmarked.
London: J. Johnson, 1804. First printing. Hardcover. First edition in English, 1804. 8vo, rebound in late 19th century half leather and marbled boards (brown leather, black spine label, flat spine), 503 (1) pp., including errata, two folding maps and two plates. Leather a little rubbed and discolored, modern bookplate on.....
A map from Drayton's "Poly-Olbion" published in 1612, with presumably contemporary hand coloring, 13 x 10 inches visible, handsomely double-matted, framed and glaze, to archival standards; not examined outside of frame. Shows the NW of Wales. Frame measures 20 x 17 inches.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1848-1852. Hardcover. 12 volumes, complete. 9 x 5.75 inches, half brown calf and marbled boards. Good to very good set, all solidly bound, general minor rubbing and wear, about half of the spine labels have been replaced by recent paper facsimiles but they rather blend.....
Norfolk: New Directions, 1945. First Printing. Hardcover. First combined edition of White Mule and In the Money, published in an edition of 445 copies that employed the original first edition sheets for both novels. Ownership signature on flyleaf, some offsetting from the dust jacket to the endpapers, light tanning to.....