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

Oxford: Oxford University / Clarendon Press, 1922. First Edition. Octavo. 479 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt. Area the size of a dime cracked at top of spine. Cloth still attached but loose from binding. Rubbed at extremities and more heavily along top edge..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. Later Printing (November 1965 code to copyright, with August '65 noted on jacket flap). Square octavo; x, 318pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $6.95 price intact; book in sea-blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. Jacket shelfworn with a small chip at top back near..... 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

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

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. Limited Large Paper Edition, numbered 43 of 50 copies and signed "Charles Whittingham & Co." (the Chiswick Press). Bound by J.P. Gray and Son, Cambridge, with binder stamp at bottom of front pastedown. Bookplate of Percy Lancelot Babington, Esquire of Cossington in County..... More

Halae Magdeburgicae: Sumtibus Orphanotrophei, 1766. Second Edition. Small octavo; 79pp +1 appendix. Dark brown cloth-covered boards. Covers edgeworn with scuffing and fraying along edges and corners, vertical creases down front and back boards, and chipping away of cloth over spine. Endpapers heavily foxed, with lighter occasional foxing throughout. 3" x...... More

London: Navarre Society Limited, 1924. Limited Edition of 2000 sets. Three volumes; publisher's maroon cloth in tan pictorial dust jackets, top edges gilt; frontispieces (tissue guards), seventy leaves of plates (one folding), including steel-engraved views, portraits, and numerous facsimiles. Light shallow chipping to jacket extremities, chiefly at spine crowns, dark..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. First Printing with full numberline. Signed by the author on half title to journalist William Safire, who wrote the book's foreword, with inscription "To Bill Safire -- With my deep gratitude for introducing the book and for introducing me to the word dodge! Jeffrey McQuain..... 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

New York: Evert Duychink, 1821. Small octavo; 304 pp. Contemporary leather (sheep?) with red spine label. Boards a bit warped with a fair bit of rubbing, scuffing, and soiling to surface and edges. Dampstaining to initial pages and noticeable for the first 20 or so before disappearing into more general..... More

Hardcover. Boston: Wells & Lilly, 1818. States "from the last London edition." Small octavo (12.7x9cm); [xliv], 378 pp. 212 leaves. Pages 265-268 uncut. Rebound with calf retained on boards. Leather rubbed on edges with two small chips on front top edge. Binding is sound. Pages toned but clean and unmarked..... More