Napoli: A spese di Giuseppe Ponzelli, 1746. Six volumes in five; folio (42.5cm.); uniformly bound in full contemporary vellum, gilt spine lettering, all edges speckled grey and orange; collated and complete (collation available upon request); engraved illus., head- and tail-pieces, and initials throughout. Minor wear, chiefly at corners, textblock occasionally..... More

Newark & New York: Benjamin Olds / John C. Totten, 1828. First Edition. 12mo (14.5cm.); publisher's black morocco-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine; xxxvi,[37]-178pp.; woodcut frontispiece. Boards a bit rubbed with some brief exposure, chiefly at corners, faint tide mark along bottom half of both boards bleeding into text block, contemporary pencil..... More

Cincinnati, OH: Phonographic Institute, 1883. First Edition. Octavo. 231 pp. + 2 pp. publisher's advertisements. Brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt; brown endpapers. Boards rather worn with brief short splits to spine ends, brief exposure to corners, general scuffing, and a scrape to front. Cracked at hinges but..... More

Shanghai: Kwang Hsueh Publishing House, 1933. "Fifteenth Thousand" printing. 16mo (14x11x1.5cm); viii + 237pp + "Radical Index" of 70pp. Brown-black pebbled leatherette with gilt spine lettering and rules. Cover shows one white paint-like spot (1 cm) and several white speckles. Joints and hinges solid; textblock unmarred and unmarked. Chauncey..... More

Seattle, WA: Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation / University of Washington Press, [2014]. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; xi,[1],622pp.; illus. throughout. Corners bumped, boards a bit dust-soiled, price sticker to rear cover, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. More

New York: Printed for the Author by Houel and Macoy, 1844. First Edition. Octavo. 197 pp.; iv pp.; [38] tables. Frontis portrait; 4 large fold-outs at rear. Publisher's blind-stamped dark brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Boards edgeworn with exposure at corners and some general smudging and scuffing to..... More

Paris: Le Normant, 1814. Seconde Édition, revue et corrigée. Thick octavo; full contemporary mottled sheep, gilt-ruled spine with red onlay, pale blue laid endpapers; [2],lvi,919pp. Binding rather scuffed, leather cracked along spine edges, contemporary ownership inscription with old remnants of wax seal to front and rear endpapers, very occasional marginalia..... More

Boston: Charles Ewer, 1819. First American Edition, from the Second London Edition, Greatly Enlarged and Corrected. Thick Octavo. 1006 pages; text in double columns. Rebacked with original calf retained. Red spine label with gilt lettering. Boards a bit warped, with some shallow chipping to original leather along seams with..... More

New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1909. New Edition. Two volumes; quarto (25.5cm.); publisher's half linen over blue paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt; xxxii,576; xv,[1],[577]-1172pp.; photogravure frontispieces and ten leaves of plates (tissue guards), additional illus. throughout text, many full-paged. General shelf wear, spines both rather toned, front..... More

Hardcover. London: T. Pote and T. Payne, 1762. Octavo (20.5x13cm); xxxiii, [1], 231, [7], 27, [1] pp. Page 91 misnumbered 19. Brown calf binding on spine with blue marbled paper over boards. Letter F stamped in gold on spine. Boards rubbed on edges. Top of spine is chipped..... More

Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1816. First Separate Edition, "with corrections and additions." Octavo; publisher's plain paper over blue paper-covered boards, titling printed directly to spine ("Pickering's Vocabulary"); vii,[8]-206pp. Extremities scuffed with small loss to bottom fore-edge of upper cover, two small dampspots to the same, small loss mid-spine affecting the..... More

London: Henry Brome, Thomas Bassett, and John Wright, 1677. Second Edition. Small octavo; contemporary gilt-tooled calf, elaborately gilt-tooled spine in six compartments, all edges stained red, supplied endpapers; [32],639,[1]pp.; A8 a8 B-2S8 (collated complete); engraved frontispiece printed on leaf [A1]. Boards sympathetically reattached though hairline crack along joints remain, extremities..... More

Philadelphia: Hogan & Thompson, 1835. 16mo; vi, 164pp. Full sheep with red title card to spine. Printed in two columns after preface. Boards lightly warping, with scuffs to leather and some general smudging and soiling. Previous owner, a young J. Agnew Crawford, has written his October 1835 ownership name and..... More