[Paris]: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1970. First Edition. Tall, narrow octavo (24cm.); publisher's decorative white card wrappers printed in red and black, French flaps; 270pp.; Chinese text printed in red throughout, text in English and French printed in black. Light wear and dustiness, faint spine crease, else Very Good and sound. More
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
London: G. Scott, for J. Robson, 1770. First English Language Edition. Three volumes; octavo (22cm.); full contemporary calf, red gilt-lettered spine labels, all edges stained yellow; collated and complete: [A]-2F8; [*]2 A-S8 TU8 X-2D8 E2; [*]2 A-2E8 (final two leaves blank); folding plate of sheet music in rear of Vol..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in glossy dark brown dust jacket; [6],332pp. Light shelf wear, ownership signature to front pastedown, else Very Good or better. More
Cincinnati, OH: Phonographic Institute, 1883. First Edition. Octavo. 231 pp. + 2 pp. publisher's advertisements. Brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt; brown endpapers. Boards rather worn with brief short splits to spine ends, brief exposure to corners, general scuffing, and a scrape to front. Cracked at hinges but..... More
Washington, DC?: Bureau of Land Management / Department of the Interior, 1978. First Edition. Slim quarto; publisher's spiral-bound printed card wrappers; [4],172pp.; bilingual text printed in double columns. Wrappers a bit foxed and dust-soiled, else Very Good. Issued as US-USSR Environmental Cooperation Project no. 02.05-31. Quite uncommon bilingual..... More
Philadelphia: J.J. Woodward, 1832. "Woodward's New Edition." 12mo (16cm.); full contemporary green gilt-tooled morocco, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; 624pp. Extremities rather rubbed with a few small chips along spine, spine leather a bit toned, textblock slightly shaken in binding, contemporary ownership signature at top margin of title page rigorously..... More
Shanghai: Kwang Hsueh Publishing House, 1933. "Fifteenth Thousand" printing. 16mo (14x11x1.5cm); viii + 237pp + "Radical Index" of 70pp. Brown-black pebbled leatherette with gilt spine lettering and rules. Cover shows one white paint-like spot (1 cm) and several white speckles. Joints and hinges solid; textblock unmarred and unmarked. Chauncey..... More
Seattle, WA: Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation / University of Washington Press, [2014]. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; xi,[1],622pp.; illus. throughout. Corners bumped, boards a bit dust-soiled, price sticker to rear cover, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. More
New York: Printed for the Author by Houel and Macoy, 1844. First Edition. Octavo. 197 pp.; iv pp.; [38] tables. Frontis portrait; 4 large fold-outs at rear. Publisher's blind-stamped dark brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Boards edgeworn with a 2" split to front joint at head..... More
London: C. Chappel, 1811. "Considerably Altered and Enlarged." Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's paper over drab boards, contemporary manuscript spine label; viii,[224]pp. (A4 B-P8, collation complete). Boards a bit scuffed and front joint starting to crack, paper flaw at spine crown, faint damp staining to board fore-edges not bleeding into textblock, lacking..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1857. First Edition. Two large octavo volumes. 576; 614 + 2 pp. advertisements. Black and white illustrations. Publisher's cloth with gilt stamping to spine; light yellow endpapers. Edges worn and corners bumped with chipping and minor fraying to extremities; spine sunned; amateur tape..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in glossy black pictorial dust jacket; xxvii,[1],273pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 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
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, [1990]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; xvii,[3],236pp.; illus. throughout, including photographs. Light shelf wear, boards a hint bowed, else Very Good and sound. 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
London: John Murray, 1847. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; vii,[1],492,16pp.; publisher's advertisements bound in rear printed in red and black. Light shelf wear, contemporary ownership ex libris to front pastedown, else a Very Good or better, superlative copy. Uncommon lexicon by the inventor of calotype..... More
Paris: Chez Deterville, 1820. First Edition. Two volumes; large, thick quartos; contemporary half parchment over marbled paper-covered boards, contemporary manuscript spine titling, all edges stained red; [4],viii,1093,[1]; [4],1063pp.; text printed in triple column. Parchment rather grayed from dust-soil, margins scuffed, contemporary ownership signature to title pages, else a Very Good..... More
New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1909. New Edition. Two volumes; quarto (25.5cm.); publisher's half linen over blue paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt; xxxii,576; xv,[1],[577]-1172pp.; photogravure frontispieces and ten leaves of plates (tissue guards), additional illus. throughout text, many full-paged. General shelf wear, spines both rather toned, front..... 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
Hardcover. London: T. Pote and T. Payne, 1762. Octavo (20.5x13cm); xxxiii, [1], 231, [7], 27, [1] pp. Page 91 misnumbered 19. Brown calf binding on spine with blue marbled paper over boards. Letter F stamped in gold on spine. Boards rubbed on edges. Top of spine is chipped..... 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
Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1816. First Separate Edition, "with corrections and additions." Octavo; publisher's plain paper over blue paper-covered boards, titling printed directly to spine ("Pickering's Vocabulary"); vii,[8]-206pp. Extremities scuffed with small loss to bottom fore-edge of upper cover, two small dampspots to the same, small loss mid-spine affecting the..... More
Philadelphia: Griggs & Dickinson, 1832. Standing Edition, Greatly Improved. 24mo; 413pp. Contemporary brown leather with black title card to spine. Boards rubbed and bumped along edges and corners, with chipping at head of spine and leather worn away and cracking at bottom exposing gatherings. Split starting to front joint, but..... More