The Home Book of the Picturesque
New York: George P. Putnam, 1852. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 8.75 x 11.75 in. Illustrated with 16 plates, with tissue guards—complete. More
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London Almanack for the Year of Christ, 1790
London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1789. Miniature book. Unpaginated. More
The Nightingale.
Franklin, NH: The Hillside Press, 1964. First edition, first printing. 64mo. 67 pages. With a couple of black-and-white illustrations. More
The Manuscripts of Robert Louis Stevenson's Records of a Family of Engineers; The Unfinished Chapters
Chicago: Walter M. Hill, 1929. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 8.25 x 11.25 in. 94 pp. One of 300 copies printed on Rives hand made paper at the Torch Press. Scarce in dust jacket. More
Body of this Death; Poems
New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Thin octavo. 5.25 x 8 in. [x], 30 pp. Text printed in red and black. Louise Borgan's first book, signed by her on front free endpaper. More
Meletema Historico Philosophicum de Monade Pythagorica
Londini [London]: Caroli Gustavi Berling, 1751. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Small, square quarto. 19 pp. More
Helps to the Study of Presbyterianism or, An Unsophisticated Exposition of Calvinism, with Hopkinsian Modifications and Policy, with a View to a More Easy Interpretation of the Same. [Together with]: A Brief Account of the Life and Travels of the Author.
Knoxville, TN: F. S. Heiskell, 1834. First edition. Howes B882. Octavo. 299 pages. More
Relation that Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca gave of what befel the armament in the Indias...Printed from the Buckingham Smith translation of 1871
(San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1929). First Thus. Tall quarto. 23 x 33 cm. 122 pp. With hand-colored decorations by Valenti Angelo. Beautifully printed Grabhorn Press book. Number 244 of 300 copies. More
Three Poems of Passion
Verona: Plain Wrapper Press, 1975. Ger Van Dijk. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Thin narrow quarto. Unpaginated. Published as Plain Wrapper Keepsake: Four. With two illustrations by Ger Van Dijck. Translated by Edmund Keeley and George Savidis. More
Dissertatio Historico-Litteraria de Pythagora
Londoni [London]: Caroli Gustavi Berling, 1766. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Small, square quarto. 22 pp. More
All This and Bevin Too
London: The Mervyn Peake Society, 1978. Mervyn Peake. Second Edition. Paperback. Thin octavo. 5.75 x 8.25 in. 28 + [3] pp. Illustrated with several reproductions of black & white drawings by Mervyn Peake. More
Études sur la Marine
Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1859. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. [viii], 385 + [3] pp. Decorative endpapers. More
Aunty Dot and the Christmas Tree
New York: Shortstop Press, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Tall narrow octavo. 4.25 x 11 in. 4 pp. One of 550 copies. Signed by Dawson. Scarce. More
A Late Discourse Made in a Solemne Assembly of Nobles and Learned Men at Montpellier in France, By Sr. Kenelme Digby, Knight, &c. Touching the Cure of Wounds by the Powder of Sympathy; with Instructions how to make the said Powder; whereby many other Secrets of Nature are unfolded
London: R. Lowndes and T. Davies, 1658. Second Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 9 x 15 cm. x; 152 pp. + index and adverts. Second edition, corrected and augmented. Translated from the French by R. White. More
The Unsung Journalist and the Origin of the Telescope
Los Angeles: Zeitlin and Ver Brugge, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Thin octavo. 5.625 x 8.75 in. 19 + [1] pp. Includes small stapled facsimile reprint of Ambassades du Roy de Siam Envoye a L'Excellence du Prince Maurice etc. One of 70 copies printed for the Rounce & Coffin..... More
Tycho Brahe; A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1890. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6 x 9 in. xvi, 405 pp. + adverts. Frontispiece and 4 plates—complete. More
The Discovery of Florida, Being a True Relation of the Vicissitudes that Attended the Governor Don Hernando De Soto and Some Nobles of Portugal in the Discovery of Florida
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1946. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Folio. 106 pp. Decorated initial letters designed by Mallette Dean. More
Of Memoirs and Magpies
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Thin octavo. 6.125 x 8.5 in. [12] pp. Limited edition, numbered 165 of 174 copies sewn into paper covers (200 copies in total). More
The Bamboo Garden
London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. Alfred Parsons. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6 x 9 in. xi + [i], 224 pp. + adverts. Illustrated with several black & white plates by Alfred Parsons. Note, errata, and addenda leaves tipped in. Many pages uncut. More
Anaxagoras und Die Israeliten: Eine Historische Untersuchung.
Leipzig: J. C. Hinriches'sche Buchhandlung, 1864. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Thin octavo. 5.75 x 8.25 in. xxiv, 175 pp. Text in German. Uncommon. More
The Builder; An Illustrated Weekly Magazine, for the Architect, Engineer, Archaeologist, Constructor, & Artist
London: 1854. Hardcover. Small folio. 9.25 x 13.25 in. Nicely rebound. With black & white illustrations throughout. Somewhat heavy—may require additional postage. More
Preliminary Report on the Geology and Agriculture of the State of Mississippi
Jackson: E. Barksdale State Printer, 1857. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. 350 pp. + errata & tables. All maps present. More
Hawthorne; Poems Adapted from the American Notebooks by Robert Peters
Poet-Skin / Red Hill Press, 1977. Carol Yeh. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.125 x 9.25 in. Unpaginated. Red Hill 46. Designed by John McBride. Illustrated with reproductions of several etchings by Carol Yeh. Limited edition, numbered 40 of 50 copies and signed by poet Robert Peters and Illustrator..... More
Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch and Other Stories
London: Methuen, 1949. Mervyn Peake. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.5 x 8 in. vii + [i], 200 pp. Illustrated throghout with reproductions of black & white drawings by Mervyn Peake. More