Boston: American Humane Education Society, 1893. First Edition, Cloth Issue. Slim 12mo; publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; [2],91pp.; photo-illustrated title page. Some rubbing to spine ends and corners, textblock a bit shaken with occasional ink annotations, later manuscript inscription on front pastedown, "Property of Dover School... Gift of Iowa Co. Humane..... More
Torino: Giacinto Marietti Librajo, 1829. Octavo (21cm.); contemporary roan over marbled paper-covered boards, black gilt spine label, all edges stained yellow; 196,63pp. Boards gently scuffed and corners bumped, contemporary ownership signature crossed out on front free endpaper, else a Very Good, fresh and sound copy. More
Boston: Fowle and Draper, 1762. First Edition. Slim octavo; 19th century glazed boards, gilt calf spine label, later endpapers; 12,36pp. ([A]4 B-F4, collated and presumed complete); decorative head- and tail-pieces. Boards scuffed at extremities with exposure at corners, spine partly perished, some soil to rear board and textblock, else a...... More
New-York: Printed for E. Sargeant, No. 39 Wall-Street, opposite the United-States Bank, 1806. First American Edition. 12mo (18cm.); full contemporary sheep, green gilt-lettered spine label; xxvi,190,[4]pp. (collated complete with half title, errata, and table of contents in rear). Leather quite dried with subsequent flaking along spine, margins rather scuffed, small..... More
London: David Nutt, 1893. First Thus. Duodecimo. 209 pages. Blue cloth stamped in decorative gilt. Worn at extremities and cracked at top of front joint. Binding and interior are sound. A sensation upon its publication in 1669, this epistolary work of fiction has had its authorship disputed over the..... More
Paris: Chez la Veuve Dutillet, 1775. Nouvelle Édition, revue, corrigée, & augmentée par l'Auteur. Two volumes; quarto (26cm.); full contemporary mottled sheep, marbled spines in six compartments with red and tan onlays, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; [2],xxxviii,558; [2],602pp.; woodcut title page vignettes, head- and tail-pieces. Leather dried and scuffed..... More
[New York]: [Pierre and Granville Pullis?], 1901-2. Collection of thirty-seven (37) silver gelatin photographs (chiefly 19x24cm or the inverse) affixed to original grey card mounts (28x35.5cm), all either captioned in image or in pencil along bottom margin of mounts, all initialed in pencil on verso. Two images starting to curl..... More
Philadelphia: A. Winch, [1867]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown gilt-lettered cloth, brown glazed endpapers; 136pp.; text in double columns. Margins quite rubbed at extremities, top quarter of spine cloth missing with additional smaller loss at spine foot and rather extensive exposure at corners, textblock uniformly toned, ownership signature of a...... More