Paris: Lebigre Frères, Libraires, 1832. First Edition. Leather Spine/Marbled Boards. 3 volumes. Volume 1: piece missing at top of spine, small piece missing at bottom (signatures still invisible). Small closed tear top right edge rear cover. Spine edges and cover corners and edges rubbed. Heavy foxing to page opposite title..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, half pebbled leather over marbelized boards, gilt titles spine, 338 9. Solid copy. More
NY: The Library of America, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Complete 2 volume set, apparently unread. More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union. Early Printing. Hardcover. Copyright 1837, no date, likely 1855. Stout 8vo, black half leather over marbelized boards, 648 pages, illustrated, plus 4 maps. More
Seneca Falls, NY: US Department of Interior/ National Park Service, 1985. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Draft document for the planning of the Women's Rights National Historic Park in Seneca Falls, NY. Large 8vo, paper covers, glued spine, 89 pages, including 4 fold out plates with detailed plans for the development..... More
NY: Garnett & Gow, 1889. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt, 393 pages, loads of advertisements. Gilt on covers is mostly gone, internals near fine, solidly bound. More
London: J. Stratford and R. Hughe, 1807. First Englsh-language edition. Hardcover. Bound in tan, polished full leathger. aeg, dentelles, marblized endpapers, 12mo, xiv, 240. Covers worn, red leather title label missing from spine, moderately foxed, solidly bound. More
NY: E. Weyhe, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 1675 copies. Black cloth, stamped red titles and eagle design. Lacking dustjacket, spine faded. Illustrated with a series of woodcuts of eagles by book designer Armitage. Inscribed by Armitage to Milton Lancelot, author and authority on WWI aircraft on the dedication..... More
Amsterdam: Fifth International Congress of Aesthetics, 1964. 1st Edition. Soft cover. A paper Prof Austin delivered at the ACTES DU CINQUIEME CONGRES INTERNATIONAL D'ESTHETIQUE in Amsterdam in 1964. Booklet, printed paper covers, stapled spine, 163-167pp. (4 pages), inscribed with "compliments of the author HMA.... Cofernce on 'Tradition and Innovation'". Austin..... More
New Haven: Durrie & Peck and J. W. Barber, 1838. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, sound unsophisticated copy in original full calf binding that is worn about edges and edges Binding firm, some sporadic spotting , but all plates and engravings extant, including the hand colored foldout map of Connecticut..... More
NY: H.S. Parsons & Co, 1842. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A sound, unsophisticated copy of the most uncommon of Barber's state historical collections. In original full calf, gilt stamped titles missing here and there at spine. Sqaurely bound, internals quite nice. All plates extant, including the color foldout map of New..... More
Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Co/ The Geographical Institute, 1915. Hardcover. Rare World War I map, undated but circa 1915, showing Italy and Switzerland plus all nations and nation-states in the Balkans before post war treaties: Austria hungary, Roumania, Russia (just the part around Odessa on rthe Black Sea), Bulgaria, Serbia..... More
Philadelphia: Henry Perkins, 1838. First Edition. Publisher's Binding. Scarce American publication, derived from Berquin's "L'Ami Enfans', constituting an instructional manual for young people, using French drama (especially Moliere) to elucidate moral and historical principle. 12mo, 330 pages, in original publisher's binding, pebbled cloth and gilt-ruled leather spine. Some loss at..... More
Albany (and) New York: William Gould and Co (and) Gould and Banks, 1825. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, original binding, waurte calf, red leather title, over paper-backed boards, 8vo, 192pp. TExt - 106 pages, Appendices 107- 189, Pub List 190-192. Some spotting here and there, but a solidly bound, unsophisticated..... More
NY: The Literary Guild, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Harpers' edition of The Literary Guild and first thus (stated on copyright page: there was also a trade edition.) 8vo, duotone blue, ArtDeco-patterned cloth boards, gold label title pastedown spine, in decorated dustjacket typical of The Literary Guild editions, decorated endpapers, illustrated..... More
England: The British Museum, 1925. Second Edition. Cloth. With 20 plates, 293 illustrations and 3 maps. More
Richmond VA: The Dale Press, 1930. Johnston, Frances Benjamin (photographic studies by). 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. Limited edition, #429 of 1980 copies, signed by the author. More
Little Rock: The Arkansas Churchman's Publishing Co, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An as new copy in as new dustjacket remarkably preserved in publisher's wrap-around cardboard folder. RELIGION CHRISTIANITY RACE POLITICS. More
Paris: Centrre De Recherches de l'Institute d'Etudes Hispaniques, 1966. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Academic paper, an extract from Melanges a la Memoire de Jean Sarrailh, by perhaps the most influential 20thC Spanish historian, Americo Castro (1885 - 1972) about Fray Bartolme(1484 - 1566) famous historian and social reformer in the..... More
Salem MA: The Marine Research Society, 1930. First Edition, Limited. Hardcover. Limited to 97 copies, this #37 fine copy (almost as new), cloth spine, marbelized boards, gte. No names, bookplates and desirable thus. More
Hartford: Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy with glassine wrapper, over which is pictorial dustjacket that is worn and soiled yet quite presentable. Inscribed by author on the title page. More
Hartford: Published by the State (Connnecticut), 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The actual, original edition, published in 1908, large 8vo, blue, ribbed cloth, gilt-pressed titles and vignette to front and titles to spine. Two frontispieces of sepia photographs of the Union soldier sculpture monument (one of his face in close-up) separated..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce title from prolific Australian novelist, traveller and reporter Clune. Lacking dustjacket, yellow cloth, stamped in black, 8vo. xiv, 379. Profusely illustrated with 61 b&w photographs, endpaper maps. Top edge dusty, internals near fine. More
Boston: Field, Osgood & Co, 1869. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's mauive pebbled cloth, blind double ruled, with stamped engraved vignette of cattle-drawn buggy with driver and two passengers, likely attributable to engraver John Feely. Covers a tad spotted, leaves toned, gilt titles to spine faded, rear hinge revealed, still soundbinding..... More