London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d. [1882]. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's olive cloth over pictorial glazed cream paper-covered boards, all edges stained blue, bright yellow glazed endpapers; 64pp.; illus. throughout printed in color by Edmund Evans. Boards a bit scuffed and paper rather discolored from dust soil, corners bumped..... More
Paris: Garnier Freres, [1870s]. Five Volumes of a seven volume set. Octavo; V1: cxxix, 368 pp, 4 plates; V2: [vi], 507 pp., 4 plates; V4: [vi], 425 pp., 4 plates; V5:[vi], i-xliv, 516 pp., 2 plates; V7: cxiv, 488 pp., 2 plates. Mustard marbled paper-covered boards with brown leather spine..... More
Paris: Librairie Istra, 1963. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's white printed card wrappers; xvi,637pp. Wrappers rather rubbed and foxed, thought contents remain clean and unopened; Very Good overall. Inscribed and signed by the author on p. [i]: "To Dorothy R. Ward / who helped rake [?] together what it took..... More
Halle: Johann Friedrich Lippert, 1843. Zweite, verbesserte Auflage ("Second, Improved Edition"). Octavo; contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, manuscript spine label; xiv,178pp. Ex-Philip Schiff Library of Lancaster Theological Seminary with their rather extensive markings, additional attractive contemporary (ca. 1840s) library bookplate to front pastedown, boards rather scuffed with exposure at corners, textblock..... More
Paris: F. Patris, 1805. First Thus. Four volumes; 12mo (17cm.); contemporary full mottled sheep, gilt spines with red gilt onlays. Leather rather scuffed with significant worm-holing (not affecting text); neat and legible ownership annotations to rear flyleaf of Vol. I; though externally less than ideal, internally quite clean and sound;..... More
Leipzig: Karl Tauchnitz, 1830. Octavo. 657 pages + 4 pages sheet music. Contemporary mottled calf with brown leather spine label lettered in gilt. Two brass clasps. Marbled endpapers and edges. Text in blackletter German. Some wear and flaking to edges and spine ends and cracked at top of front..... More
Boston, MA: E.B. Stillings & Co., Printers, 1896. First Edition. Octavo. 512 pp. Black and white photographs including frontispiece with tissue guard, complete. Navy blue beveled boards decorated in gilt; dark topstain. Lacking front free endpaper and rear free endpaper detached but present. Light wear to edges with..... More
Old Castle, County Meath, Ireland: Gallery Books, 2005. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; 78pp. Just About Fine condition. Signed by the author on title page. One of a series of three adaptations penned by Irish author John Banville based on the tragedies of..... More
New York: Johnson, Fry and Company, [1859]. Folio (16.5" x 11.5"); xvii, 743, 1-122 (Apocrypha), 747-1026. 37 plates with tissue guards including engraved title, vignette frontis for New Testament, and two pages engraved family register (blank). Elaborately blindstamped leather covers with gilt title lettering and gilt to all page edges..... More
Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1827. Small octavo; contemporary gilt-ruled rainbow calf, red gilt spine label; xiv,[15]-360pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece and added title page with printed signature in image by J.B. Longacre, six (6) leaves of plates. Leather a bit dried and scuffed, brief peeling to rear cover, textblock toned and foxed..... More
![Item #25696 Institutes of the Christian Religion [Two volumes]. John Calvin, John Allen, trans](/pictures/thumb/25696.jpg?v=1677076336)
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, ca. 1850s. Sixth American Edition, Revised and Corrected. Two octavo volumes. 688 pp.; 668 pp. Full contemporary sheep; black leather labels lettered in gilt to spine. Boards show brief exposure to extremities, general scuffing and flaking, a bit more heavily along spine. Binding..... More
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, 1879. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt, grey glazed endpapers; [2],19-350,[18](ads)pp.; pictorial publisher's ads bound in rear. Light wear to cloth extremities, corners bumped and spine a bit dulled, hinges cracked and a bit shaky, contemporary ownership ex libris..... More
New York: Garland Publishing, 1979. First Edition. Three volumes; octavo (23.5m.); publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Ex-Simpson Library-UMW with their usual markings, spine labels of Vol. 2 & 3 removed with some glue residue (Vol. 1 shows no evidence of ever having had a spine label), else a Very Good..... More
Westport, CT: Oryx Press, 2001. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's glossy white photo-illustrated paper-covered boards, no dust jacket as issued; xxxvii,[1],377pp.; illus. throughout, text in double columns. Light dust-soil to boards else Very Good to Near Fine. Civil War reference in the form of a dictionary of terms and..... More
![Item #25777 35th Battalion Virginia Cavalry [Limited Edition, Signed]. John E. Divine](/pictures/thumb/25777.jpg?v=1677538952)
[Lynchburg, VA: H.E. Howard, 1985.] First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 593. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket printed in tan; [6],112pp.; maps. Light shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the Virginia Regimental Histories Series. More
New York: Nelson & Phillips, [ca. 1860s?]. Octavo. 154 p. + 4 p. advertisements. Black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Ex-library with minimal institutional markings on title page verso only. Worn at extremities with brief exposure and more heavy wear and chipping to top of spine. General..... More
![Item #7252 [Broadside] J.F. Brickley's Lift and Force Pump! Or Vice Versa. Patented Mar. 10, 1857...](/pictures/thumb/7252.jpg?v=1623779685)
Anderson, IN: Standard Print, ca. 1859. Illustrated broadside (30.5x13.5cm.); printed in various attractive display types and adorned with two woodcut vignettes of the pump. Offered together with small printed handbill testimonial (10.5x17cm.) dated Washington City [Indiana], Jan. 25, 1859, and signed in type by Republican Indiana congressman David Kilgore. The..... More
London: Samuel Bagster, 1820. Second Edition, "With Corrections and considerable Additions, including the Linnean order of ferns, together with essential characters and types of the genera of all the other orders or cryptogamia." 12mo (16.5cm.); contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt; mixed paginations ([A]4 2A2 B-2R4 2S-2X2). Boards..... More
Boston: Alexander Young, 1793. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); 20th century brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 80pp. (A-D4). Light wear to cloth extremities, half title present and slightly soiled, glue residue inside upper cover from previously removed ex libris replaced with ownership rubberstamp; overall, Very Good and sound. Half title: "Dr. Thacher's..... More
[Lynchburg, VA: H.E. Howard, 1989.] First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 220. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket printed in tan; [8],165pp.; illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, jacket a bit foxed, most notably at flap folds and spine panel, else Very Good and..... More
![Item #11112 Second Manassas Battlefield Map Study [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Twice Signed]....](/pictures/thumb/11112.jpg?v=1633022922)
Lynchburg, VA: H.E. Howard, 1991. First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 986. Octavo; publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, no jacket as issued; [4],vii,[1],504pp. Light shelf wear, cloth a bit dust-soiled, else Very Good to Near Fine. Signed by the author on colophon; additionally..... More
Princeton, IN: Press of the Clarion, 1895. First Edition. Octavo. 577 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations, complete. Blind-stamped brown cloth decorated in gilt; floral endpapers. Promotional flyer for public libraries laid in. Wear to extremities with brief exposure and minor fraying; bio-predation to boards. Front hinge..... More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1939. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's tan printed card wrappers, yapp edges; [2],23pp. & sixteen (16) leaves of photographic illus. Light wear and soil to wrappers, else Very Good or better. Issued as Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Vol. 98, no. 18 (Publication 3543). Short introduction to..... More
Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, 1842. Two volumes in four. Tall octavos. Amusing black and white caricatures throughout. Vol. I, Part I: 90 plates incl. 4 folding; Vol I, Part II: 74 plates incl. 1 folding; Vol. II, Part I: 91 plates incl. 5 folding; Vol. II, Part II: 65 plates incl..... More
Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1887. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue decorative cloth, upper cover embossed in black, gilt-lettered spine, dark brown glazed endpapers; 272pp. Light shelf wear, corners and spine ends a bit bumped, front hinge cracked but holding, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Memoirs of..... More