St. Petersbourg: Imprimerie de Jul Stauff (J. Fichon), 1882 [but 1881]. First Thus. 24mo (8.25cm.); later full red morocco, bound in original peach wrappers printed within typographically decorative border; xii,72pp. Minor bumping to corners, wrappers show some light soiling and wear with general rubbing slightly effacing text without loss of..... More
Paris: G. Charpentier, 1880. First Edition. Octavo (18cm.); contemporary brown morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine, marbled endpapers; [4],356pp. Some scuffing to boards with brief exposure at corners, spine leather a shade sunned, textblock uniformly toned and a bit foxed due to inferior paper stock, shallow dampstain to fore-edge of early..... More
![Item #13770 Rhymes a la Mode [H. Rider Haggard's Copy]. A. Lang, Andrew](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13770.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1659446935)
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. Second Edition. 12mo; publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, housed in custom linen slipcase; [2],x,139pp.; frontispiece (tissue guard). Very discreet evidence of color touch-ups to cloth extremities, corners gently bumped, else a Very Good copy overall. Provenance..... More
Boston: John P. Dale and Company, 1875. Second and Revised Edition. Thick octavo. 700 pp. + 1 page announcement. Black and white illustrations, complete. Black cloth stamped in silver. Boards edgeworn with shallow loss at base of spine, brief exposure to corners. Opens easily between gatherings but binding is holding..... More
London: Edward Bumpus, 1888. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine, green glazed endpapers; x,[2],260pp. Slight spine lean, corners bumped and a bit frayed, light soil, two small gouges to rear cover cloth, else Very Good, internally fine. Extensive poetry collection attributed to A.G. Rensham..... More
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1895. First Edition in book form. Small octavo. 76 pp. + advertisements. Black and white photographs and illustrations; fold-out of Thaumatrope laid in. Publisher's red cloth decorated in black, gray, and gilt; floral endpapers. Slightly ex-library with bookplate of University of Oxford's Laboratory of..... More
![Item #9426 Mémoires sur la famille des légumineuses [Articles on the Legume Family]. A P. de...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9426.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1619620911)
Lehre: J. Cramer, 1966. First Thus of reprint edition in facsimile of volume published in Paris in 1825. Octavo (28x20x3.5cm); [ii] + vi + 525pp + 2 fold-out geographical distribution tables + 70 full-page plates. The copper engraving plates reproduce the botanical drawings by Jean-Christophe [Kumpfler] Heyland. [Entirely in French..... More
New York: Office of the Anti-Slavery Reporter, 1834. First Edition. 12mo. 46 pp.; wraps, removed. Light soiling and rubbing to wraps. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Very Good. James Birney was a prominent Kentucky planter and slave owner who gradually grew enamored first of the concept of colonization..... More
New-York: George F. Nesbitt & Co., 1860 [but 1907]. Facsimile Reprint. Octavo; removed; 32pp. Title page (serving as front cover) separated but present, stitching a bit frayed, else Good and sound. Facsimile reprint nearly indistinguishable from the original, 1860, edition, save for the quality of the paper and p...... More
Evansville: Antes Press, [n.d., but 1928]. First Thus. Large, slim octavo; publisher's blue blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 127pp. A few tiny surface scratches to boards, else Fine. Letters by the 19th-century Austrian Catholic missionary in Utica, New York, and Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin territory, translated from the original German. First..... More
Stuttgart-Bad Connstatt: Friedrich Frommann Verlag, 1968. Facsimile Reprint of the 1894 Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey gilt-lettered cloth; [2],viii,278pp. Cloth sunned at margins, spine slightly cocked, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Very Good copy overall. More
London: Whittaker and Co., 1861. Second Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged. Octavo; publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xl,656pp. Cloth scuffed with exposure at corners and loss at spine ends as well as mid-spine, dust-soil to textblock edges, contemporary ownership rubberstamp of an. F.J.R. Bentley to front pastedown and textblock..... More
N.p.: ca. 1910, though photographs developed ca. 1950. Oblong octavo (15x21cm.); hand-made photo album of contemporary ribbon-bound linen boards; [12]ll. of stiff card stock to which are mounted twenty-four (24) cyanotype photographs measuring ca. 9.5x12cm, occasionally captioned with ballpoint pen. Boards a bit bowed, minor soil to binding and interior..... More
London: Published for Henry Colburn, by his Successors, Hurst and Blackett, 1854. Fourth Edition, "with all the late improvements." Eight volumes; octavos; contemporary dark maroon quarter calf over marbled boards, spines in five compartments, leather labels and gilt decoration to spines, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; engraved portraits of every..... 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
Boston: S.G. Simpkins, 1843. First Edition. Octavo. 202 pp. Brown boards with paper label to spine. Boards worn at extremities with bumping and chipping to corners, split with loss to crown. Binding is sound. Bookseller ticket "Kowalczyk Bros" to rear pastedown, and "1800" in title scribbled over, but pages otherwise..... More
Newburyport, MA: From the Press of E.W. Allen / for Sale at the Bookstore of Thomas & Whipple, 1804. First Edition. Octavo; removed, old remnants of spine leather; 28pp. ([A]4 B-C4 D2, collated and presumed complete); woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Brief soil to title page (serving as upper cover), occasional..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. Reprint with "Fifteenth Thousand" to copyright page. Octavo. 511 pp. Maroon boards decorated in gilt; top edge gilt. Light wear to extremities with brief exposure. Binding is sound. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown and pages unmarked. More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1859. "Thirty-Seventh Edition, much enlarged." Thick octavo; full contemporary gilt-ruled calf, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; vi,[7]-554pp.; engraved frontispiece, twenty-two (22) leaves of plates including folding map. Leather extremities a bit scuffed and rubbed, spine rather cocked and crown pulled..... More
London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. First Thus. Octavo. 47 pp. "Embroidered" with nine drawings by Beardsley, including frontispiece, complete. Beveled green boards decorated in gilt. Housed in custom-made slipcase. Boards slightly warped and rubbed at extremities, edges and corners bumped, and spine ends nudged. Gilt at front rubbed with some..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, [1987]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; xii,334pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Minor wear and dust-soil, else Very Good or better. More
![Item #25701 Dreamthorp: A Book of essays written in the country [Limited Edition]. Alexander Smith](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25701.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1677076735)
Portland, ME: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1913. First Thus, Limited to 700 copies. Octavo; publisher's parchment over boards in original white dust jacket, paper-covered slipcase; xxxv,[1],295pp. Minor wear to jacket extremities including a few small chips and closed tears, spine panel a shade toned, slipcase even more so toned at extremities..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First American Edition. Small octavo; publisher's green blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, brown glazed endpapers; iv,423pp. General shelf wear, most notably at spine ends, old black crayon price to front free endpaper, contemporary gift inscription to flyleaf, else a Very Good copy, internally clean and sound..... More
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1841. First Edition. Octavo; 20th century black library cloth, gilt-lettered spine, new endpapers; xvi,504pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Light dust-soil to cloth, frontispiece a bit foxed, ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else a Very Good copy in serviceable and sturdy binding. HOWES Y14;..... More
Portland, ME: Arthur Shirley, 1822. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 41pp. Some faint foxing to text block, contemporary ownership signature (illegible) at head of title page, neat 20th century ex libris to title page verso, else Very Good overall. Political pamphlet signed in text by Alford Richardson himself, regarding..... More