London: T. Boys, 1826. First Edition. Two volumes in one. 24mo; 360pp. Two engraved title pages with engraved five-portrait frontispieces opposite. Marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine and corner tips with leather title card to spine. Marbled page edges. Boards a bit bumped at corners and spine ends, with some..... More
Philadelphia: J.W. Bradley, 1859. First Edition. Octavo. 319 pages. Illustrated frontis, with black and white illustrations throughout. Blind-stamped brown boards with spine stamped in gilt. Boards worn at extremities, with cracking and bumping exposing the corners. Binding secure, though book opens easily between some gatherings with pages 115-125..... More
Hardcover. Philadelphia: William M'Clane, 1813. Octavo (18x11cm); 150 leaves, 330 pp. Frontispiece illustration of Adam Clarke, L. L. D. Title page states; "Written originally in French by the Abbe Fleury, Much enlarged from the Apparatus Biblicus of Pere Lamy, and corrected and improved throughout by Adam Clarke, L. L. D.)..... More
New York: A. Wittemann, 1889. Oblong quarto (5.75" x 9.75"); [19pp]. Red cloth-covered boards elaborately stamped in black and gold; bound with woven red string along spine. Boards very lightly shelfworn with a bit of soiling, mainly along spine. Pages occasionally smudged along margins with one or two small, clean..... More
Hardcover. Leominster: Salmon Wilder for Isaiah Thomas, September 1810. Octavo (17x10cm); 148 pp. Marbled paper over boards with leather binding on spine. Substantial wear to corners and edges. Front and back hinges are starting, but binding remains sound. Bookplate for previous owner (Hugo Storm) on front pastedown. Name..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1866. First Edition, Second Issue (see below). Rebound in marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine and corners. Octavo; vii, 344p. Missing adverts at back. Front board cracked and separating 3/4 of the way down joint, likely to separate fully soon. Covers scuffed..... More
[London]: Mountcastle's Library, [1858]. First Edition. Octavo. Removed. 51 pages. Moderately soiled and worn; a good, sound copy. A mildly eccentric work, offering 100 suggestions for reform, a paragraph or two dedicated to each. Much dedicated to enlightened methods of industrial production (repealing the malt-tax to reduce drunkenness)..... More
[Willets Point, NY]: The Press of the Engineer School of Application, 1884. First Edition. Folio, original printed yellow wrappers, 31 pages + appendix. One plate. Some nibbling and staining to the edges of wrappers and leaves; some light staining and soiling. Ownership inscription to front. A good, sound copy... More
Hartford: A.S. Hale and Company, 1870. First Edition, published by subscription only. Octavo; xi, [xii], 13-501pp. Engraved portrait frontis, with 14 plates and fold-out facsimiles, all present. Rebound in brown buckram with leather spine and corner tips. Boards rubbed and bumped at corners and down joints, with a small chip..... More
Baltimore: T. Newton Kurtz, 1873. Stated Sixth Edition. Blue leather bookplate on front pastedown from the personal library of journalist William Safire. Octavo; 548 pp. Brown morocco binding with gilt decoration on cover and spine, and gilt dentelle. All edges gilt. Binding has some rubbing on edges. Hinges..... More
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London: Edward Moxon, 1835. First Thus. Three Octavo Volumes. 356p; 340p; 296p. With printer's error in pagination - page 108 numbered 110 in volume 2. Half morocco over marbled boards. Ruled in gilt; four raised bands; gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers with bookplate of Oregonian businessman..... More
![Broadside] Mr. Clother Gifford, Practical Phrenologist and Physiologist. Clother Gifford](/pictures/thumb/5354.jpg?v=1569346671)
[Boston?, n.d., ca. 1850s]. First Edition. Small printed broadside flyer (20x14cm.), accomplished in manuscript. Light foxing, previous folds, else Very Good. Small handbill advertising a lecture delivered by abolitionist phrenologist Clother Gifford on Monday and Tuesday, October 17 and 18 in the School Room in Mansfield. Gifford, later..... More
Philadelphia: Cowperthwait & Co., 1868. Stated 'Last Revised Edition.' Quarto. 108 pages. Original pictorial boards rebound with new spine with gilt lettering and new endpapers. Illustrations throughout including maps in color. Worn at extremities; corners exposed. Some damp staining to boards. Light foxing and tanning to pages, all..... More
![La Divina Commedia [The Divine Comedy] (3 Volumes). Dante Alighieri, Luigi Portirelli, Girolamo...](/pictures/thumb/5745.jpg?v=1574188455)
Milano: Societa Tipografica de Classici Italiani, 1804. First Thus. Three Volumes. Octavo. I: lxvii, 336pp, [2]; II: li, 441pp., [3]; III: 453pp., [3]. Three black and white illustrations plus frontispiece. Quarter contemporary leather with marbled cardboard boards. Brown leather spine labels. Speckled edges. Includes life of Dante written..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1854-1855. Complete six-volume set. Octavo; Vol. I xxxii + 483pp; Vol. II xii + 526pp; Vol. III xv + 466pp; Vol. IV xvi + 572pp; Vol. V xvi + 556; Vol. VI xvi + 554pp, including 174 page discursive index covering all six volumes. Engraved..... More
Philadelphia: Hopkins and Earle, 1808. Second Edition. Volume One only of a two volume set. This copy is from the library of journalist and White House speechwriter William Safire. Octavo; 596 pp. Contemporary calf binding with red and black title labels on spine with lettering in gold. All..... More
New York: Redfield, 1856-1857. Later Printings of Vols I-III, with apparent First Printing of Vol IV. Octavos (7.5" x 5"); Vol I - Tales (1857): lv, 483pp, portrait frontis with tissue guard; Vol II - Poems and Tales (1857): xxvi, 495pp; Vol III - The Literati (1857): iv..... More
First Edition. Holliston, MA: Warren Blake, 1841. First Edition. Octavo. 489 pages. Full contemporary sheep with title and ruling in gilt to spine. From the estate of author and Presidential Speechwriter William Safire, well known for his own Political Dictionary. In his preface, Currier writes of his goal..... More
W.J. Hennessy. Hardcover. New York: Charles Scribner and Company, 1870. First Thus. Octavo (8.25" x 6.5"); iv, 74p. Illustrations throughout by W.J. Hennessy. Rebound in green leather with gilt lettering and decoration, with gilt dentelle, marbled endpapers, and gilt page edges. Covers bumped at corners and scuffed along edges, with..... More
First American Edition. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1852. First American Edition, from the Second London Edition. Octavo; 179pp. Stamped red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Covers heavily faded and soiled, with bumping to corners and spine ends. Front hinge cracked, with covers opening a bit shakily and..... More
Philadelphia: WM. Rutter & Co., 1875. Two Quarto Volumes. 990 p.; 1054 p. Black and white illustrations. Green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Worn at extremities; corners cracked. Rear joint of volume 1 cracked and separation at spine but binding is holding. Two inch tear to front..... More
Paris: Librairie Administrative de Paul Dupont, 1869. First Edition. Large Octavo. 124 pages. Original printed wrappers. A defense of the national tobacco industry from the director of the state tobacco industries. Rolland was better known as a collector of French folklore. A bit foxed and soiled;..... More
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New York: Macmillan and Company, 1893. First Edition. 24mo (5.25" x 3.75"); 108pp +8pp ads. Portrait frontis with tissue guard. Mottled blue gray linen boards with black and red lettering and illustration. Front board board bumped at top corner with an adjacent run to cloth. Boards otherwise smudged with a...... More
Philadelphia: Hayes & Zell, 1856. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 300 pages + 4 pages of advertisements. Blindstamped brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and central design to front board in gilt. Loss to spine ends, rubbing to edges, corners bumped and cracked. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription..... More
Cincinnati: Published by the Author, 1866. First Edition. Duodecimo. 82 pages. Pictorial pink wrappers. Medical self-promotion and protest. Tumblety was a known Medical Quack, was accused of conspiring to assassinate Lincoln, and has been a plausible suspect for being Jack the Ripper. Rear wrapper detached with loss..... More