Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1955. First Edition. Quarto (11.75" x 8.75"); 67pp. Eight plates, including fold-out frontis. Printed paper dust jacket; bound in gray paper-covered boards and white cloth spine with red lettering and decoration. Jacket lightly edgeworn with some stray smudges and a bit of toning. Boards are sturdy..... More
Madrid: Revista Geografica Española, 1958. Octavo; unpaginated [220pp in this copy, see full description]. Tipped-in sepia frontispiece; 38 full-color tipped-in plates; 56 full-page B&W photogravure reproductions of paintings; 24 full-page B&W reproductions of drawings; 67 smaller B&W drawing reproductions (1/4, 1/2, or 3/4 page) embedded within text. Entirely in Spanish..... More
New-Haven: Joseph Barber, 1812. 12mo (18cm.); full contemporary sheep, maroon gilt spine label; 312pp. (collated complete); engraved portrait frontispiece. Leather rather rubbed and starting to peel at fore-edge margins of both covers, small loss at spine crown, textblock toned and occasionally soiled, contemporary ownership signature of a Cynthia Painter to..... More
Andover: Flagg and Gould, 1820. First Edition. Small 12mo; full modern calf; xii,[13]-159,[3]pp. (collated complete). Old dampstain to textblock, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else Very Good in a fine new binding. Compilation of contemporary sermons by John Witherspoon and Gardiner Spring, including the latter's oration on..... More
Ulleungdo: Dokdo Museum, 2006. First Editions. Octavo; Vol I 28 + xii pp in English, 1132pp in Japanese; Vol II 24 + xii pp in English, 1118pp in Japanese; Vol III 24 + xi pp in English, 1017pp in Japanese; Vol IV 40 + vi pp in English, 769pp in..... More
Paris: P. Jannet, 1858. 2 volumes; 12mo; original red blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spines with "Bibliothèque Elzeverienne" at spine crowns and "P. Daffis, Éditeur," at feet; yellow glazed endpapers. Spines a bit darkened, else Near Fine. Later edition of the earliest work of French literary prose (ca. 1461), compiled by the..... More