Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First American Edition. 16mo (12.5cm.); publisher's reddish-brown decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt; 80pp.; illus. in text, publisher's ads printed in red on endpapers. Extremities a bit rubbed and spine lettering starting to dull, textblock a bit toned and shaken in binding;..... More
New York: Baker & Taylor Company Publishers, 1907. Large octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's decorative green cloth lettered in gilt, three color pictorial paper inlays to front cover, top edge gilt; xvii,[18]-139pp.; color frontispiece, nine leaves of plates including five in color or sepia tone, additional vignettes throughout. Light shelf wear, ownership..... More
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, ca. 1855. Later Edition, part of publisher's uniform edition set of Dickens' works. Octavo. 268 pages. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 19 additional black and white plates by Cruikshank, complete. Brown cloth with gilt decoration to spine. All edges speckled. Boards worn with exposure to..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. New Edition, Complete. Octavo. 526 pp. 40 plates including frontispiece and engraved title page. Lacking half title. Bound in early 20th-century three quarter maroon morocco over cloth. Five raised bands; gilt lettering to spine; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Light edgewear to boards. Binding..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First book edition, first issue with errata slip to p. 481, and with all points listed in Smith. Octavo. xiv, 625 pp. 40 engravings by Browne ("Phiz") including frontispiece and engraved title page, complete, and includes the eight dark plates. Contemporary half red morocco with..... More
Boston: Printed for the Author. Press of Rockwell & Churchill, 1880. Second Edition. Octavo. 261 pp. + 2 pp. advertisements. Black and white illustrations, complete. Black leather boards lettered in gilt. Chips to spine ends, wear along edges, and spotting to rear. Binding is sound. Smudging to endpapers..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in dark green and gilt, top edge gilt; x,[2],119pp.; frontispiece (tissue guard). A hint of shelf wear at spine ends and corners, later (1957) ownership rubber-stamp to front free endpaper, else Very Good or better..... More
Paris: Furne et Cie., n.d., ca. 1864. Octavo (18cm.); original blue pictorial wrappers; [4],294pp. Some light edge wear, small chip to spine crown, contemporary ownership signature to upper wrapper, minor later (early 20th century?) repair to loose signature, else a Very Good copy, interior quite fresh. Collection of poetry and..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1896. Reprint. Octavo. 214 pp. + publisher's advertisements. Dark blue cloth boards stamped in black and gilt. Light shelfwear to boards and corners slightly bumped. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked. Overall an attractive copy of a...... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1937. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [12],296pp.; frontispiece, three leaves of plates, pictorial endpapers. Jacket lightly worn at extremities, external panels a bit toned and dust-soiled, corners gently bumped, else Very Good and sound overall. Biography of the American naval..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1899. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's grey pictorial cloth stamped in four colors; 383pp.; frontispiece, twenty-eight leaves of plates, additional maps in text. Ex-Bradford Library and Literary Society with their contemporary markings throughout, corners rather bumped, faint soil to upper cover, one plate separated but..... More
Paris: Éditions Garnier Frères, [1961]. First Thus. Thick 12mo (18.25cm.); publisher's green gilt-embossed cloth, pictorial plate mounted to upper cover, original mylar dust jacket; [6]xxiii,[1],944pp.; four leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos, additional text illus. throughout, including many full-paged. Tiny soil spot to rear cover, a few chips..... More
London: George Allen, 1899. Limited Edition of 200 Large Paper copies. Large octavo. 298 pp. Line drawings by Thomson throughout. Bound in half morocco over green cloth by Scroll Club of New York; six compartments and gilt decoration to spine; top edge gilt; green endpapers. Housed in custom-made slipcase... More
Cincinnati: Rickey & Caroll, 1864. Second Edition. Octavo; 504pp +10 ads. Seven illustrations including frontis, all present. Publisher's blindstamped brown cloth with gilt lettering and illustration to spine. Advert endpapers. Boards rubbed with some exposure along edges, spine chipped at head and tail with cracks to cloth starting along joints..... More
Minneapolis, MN: Harrison & Smith, Printing House, 1888. First Edition, second issue. Octavo. 176 pp. Frontis portrait. Green cloth boards decorated in black and gilt. Boards worn along edges and joints with soiling along fore-edge of front board. Binding is sound and, aside from some bookseller pencil annotations to..... More
![Item #21386 [Original Patent Application No. 370,011 Accomplished in Manuscript] "To all to whom...](/pictures/thumb/21386.jpg?v=1673999255)
Washington: H. Peters, 1887. Folio (30.5cm.); ribbon-bound engraved self-wrappers, wax-sealed and accomplished in manuscript; [8]ll. of photo-engraved plans printed on versos only, followed by [3]pp. text printed in double columns on rectos only. Previous mail folds, extremities a bit chipped and toned, ribbons slightly frayed, else Very Good, internally clean..... More
New York: Samuel Stansbury, 1804. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 192 pp., with half title; four plates, complete. Contemporary calf with gilt stamping and red title label to spine. Light scuffing and edgewear and binding sound. Recent ownership stamp to front pastedown and contemporary ownership inscription of Rick Waterman to front..... More
Skippackville, PA: J.M. Schuenemann, 1863. First English Language Edition. 12mo; publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth; xii,140pp. Extremities a bit rubbed with exposure at corners and shallow loss at spine ends, stock rather browned, else a Very Good, sound copy, internally clean and free of markings. Early Schwenkenfelder treatise first..... More
Neu-York [New York]: Amerikanischen Tractat-Gesellschaft, [1875-1899?]. Presumed First U.S. Edition. Sextodecimo. 94 pages. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Text in German. Drab brown blindstamped cloth with spine stamped in gilt. General wear and staining to boards. Small holes with brief loss of lettering to spine. Cracked at gutter of title..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. First Thus. 12mo; publisher's red blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine, all edges speckled red; lxiii,[1],213,[1],[2](ads)pp. Extremities scuffed with small chip at spine crown, spine cloth rather darkened, the whole lightly dust-soiled, front hinge cracked with spine backing starting to pull away a bit along lower half..... More
![Item #25820 To Col. Ashby [Manuscript title]. Civil War Manuscript Poem, Miss O'Ferrall](/pictures/thumb/25820.jpg?v=1678137606)
[N.p.]: [s.i.], [ca. 1862]. Civil War two-page manuscript poem folded with manuscript title "To Col. Ashby." Presumably penned by a Miss O'Ferrall. Later pencil inscription reading "Mrs. Sue Lupton"; tears along folds with some general spotting, but overall intact. The poem is laudatory of Confederate Colonel Turner Ashby..... More
New-London, (Con): Printed 1710 / Bridgeport: Reprinted by Lockwood & Backus, 1810. Small 12mo; full contemporary flame calf, black gilt spine label; xii,[13]-144pp. Minor scuffing to leather extremities, tiny loss at spine foot, textblock a bit foxed and toned, else a Very Good, quite attractive copy. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 19834. More
Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1825. Reprint. 12mo; publisher's sheep over paper-covered wooden boards, gilt-lettered spine; 119pp.; woodcut frontispiece. Binding quite worn with paper almost entirely perished, top quarter of upper cover removed as is 1.5" square at bottom fore-edge corner, light foxing to textblock, 20th century ex libris of an Abigail..... More
![Item #9778 The War Came By Train: The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad During the Civil War [Signed]....](/pictures/thumb/9778.jpg?v=1624021229)
Baltimore: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, 2013. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xii,292pp.; illus. throughout, chiefly photographic. Chip at top fore-edge corner of front jacket panel, tiny dents along board margins, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Signed by the author on title page. More
[New York: Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1866.] Twenty-four volumes in one; tabloid format (36cm.); contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards; 96pp.; illus. throughout, text in triple columns. Boards quite rubbed and leather dried and chipped, one-inch losses at both spine ends, shallow damp stain to textblock fore-edge, general old soil throughout, else Good..... More