Cincinnati: Jacob Ernst & Co., 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9 in. 27–356 +[8] list of subscribers pp. Black & white frontispiece of Ernst, colored title page, and occasionally illustrated in black & white. Twenty chapters of lectures with intermittent chapters on Degrees. More
London: Reeves and Turner, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 9.25 in. xxvi, 484 +[16] pp. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. xxiv, 236 pp. Illustrated with a suite of black & white reproductions of photographs. More
Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. 194 +[4] pp. Frontispiece black & white illustration of Blair Coat of Arms. Very scarce. Title page signifies that Leavitt compiled this book for Mr. William Blair, who had studied family lines for some twenty-years with..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 5.25 x 7.75 in. x, 339 pp. Color frontispiece and singular black & white reproduction illustration. Scarce in First Edition. Includes thirty-one stories by thirty-one authors including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Eugene Field, George Eliot and Nathaniel Hawthorne..... More
Basel: Birkhäuser, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 5 x 8 in. xxxiii, 423; 327 pp. Volumes 23 & 24 of the Birkhäuser-Klassiker series. Translated by Johann Heinrich Voss. Text in German. Text in German. Layout and cover design by Jan Tschichold, who was a key player in 20th century..... More
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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 7.5 x 10.25 in. xv, 413 pp. Illustrated with thirteen black & white reproductions of artworks by Barry Moser. With laid-in publisher's review copy slip and photograph of two Moser illustrations. New edition winner of the 1973 National Book..... More
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 6.75 x 9.5 in. xiv, 564 pp. Text in Greek with English introduction and annotations. More
New York: Random House, 1930. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Thick duodecimo. 5.75 x 7.25 inches. xxxi + 822 pp. Illustrated throughout with black and white reproductions of some of Kent's finest work. A nice copy of one of the very best American illustrated books, an icon. More
Philadelphia, PA: Macrae-Smith, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Small thin quarto. 7.25 x 8.5 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with color reproductions of artworks by Kurt Wiese. "...Dobbin was curious; Daisy was timid. Dobbin wanted to discover what was on the other side of the great chasm...." More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. First Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.75 in. 581 pp. Wilson's is the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman. "This engrossing translation matches the number of lines in the Greek original, thus striding at Homer's sprightly pace and singing with..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. 312 pp. Includes thirty-five contemporary poet translations, including nine winners of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry as well as four former U.S. poet Laureates, featuring Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Mark Doty, Donald Hall, Heather McHugh, Charles..... More
London: Rodwell and Martin, 1819. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Quarto. 8.125 x 11 in. 587, [10]; vii, 537, [5] pp. Illustrated with one map fold out in Vol.1 and 67 copper engravings and 48 wood engravings across both volumes; volume two expects the copper engraving of "Corinth" on p.189..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Early printing. Hardcover. Small quarto. 7 x 10 in. xxii, 204 pp. Illustrated with black and white reproductions of photographs of furnishings and interiors. An attractive early printing of Wharton's first regularly published book with C. Hartman Kuhn's ownership signature on the front free..... More
Venetiis (Venice): Aldus [Paulus Manutius], 1558. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 5.75 x 8 in. 37, 28 ff. Illustrated with aldine device on both titles and final pages, woodcut diagrams within text. More
[Chicago]: The Duodecimos, 1894. First Thus. Hardcover. Small octavo. 5.5 x 7.75 in. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of portraits of Dr. Franklin. Limited edition. #43 of 144 copies printed on hand-made paper (the first twelve were on vellum). A handsome copy of a wonderful and uncommon piece of..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1987. First Edition. Leather bound. Octavo. 6.25 x 8.25 inches. 353 pp. Illustrated throughout with black and white reproductions of sixteenth-century etchings by Marcus Gheeraerts. One of 425 copies printed letterpress in Garamont on Ingres, mould-made in France. Bound by the Schuberth Bookbindery in a...... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912. First Thus. Hardcover. Wide duodecimo. 5.5 x 7.5 inches. 254 +4 of ads. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color by Bransom. A beautiful copy of a beautiful early edition of this great work. More
Lugduni Batavorum: Ex Officina Plantiniana [Plantin], apud Franciscum Raphelengium, 1591. First Thus. Hardcover. 12mo. Contains Pseudo-Aristotle's work De Mundo ('On the Universe') in its original Greek, along with translations into Latin by Apuleius and French scholar & humanist Guillaume Budé (1467-1540), in turn; includes also Scholia and critical notes &..... More
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Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1966. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Quarto. 6.875 x 9.5 in. 277; 259 pp. Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences series. Graphic design by Jirí Ledr. A handsome set that belonged to Bernard Knox, whose neat signature can be found on the front free endpaper of..... More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, (1986). First Thus. Hardcover. Large octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. xviii, 402 pp. Latin text with critical apparatus and English translation with notes. More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1850. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Small octavo. 5 x 7.5 inches. 285 pp, no terminal ads. The correct first printing with text bulking to 11/16'' and in the primary binding with hour glass ornament stamped in blind on the upper and lower covers. BAL..... More
New York: Knopf, 1925. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 7.75 inches. 283 pp. A superior copy of one of the author's major books. More
New York: Viking Press, 1932. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. [xii] + 304 pp. A nice copy of the uncommon American edition of this delightful travel account in the scarce dust jacket. Praise from David Garnett, J.B. Priestly, Carl Van Vechten, and Evelyn Waugh..... More
(Sauk City): Arkham House, 1944. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. xii + 394 pp. One of only 1559 copies printed. More
