Cincinnati: Chase & Hall, 1875. Second edition. 8vo. 214 pp. Bound in original brown publisher's cloth, title in gilt on spine and front cover. Corners slightly bumped, shelf-wear. Textblock slightly tanned; front endleaf excised; cloth turn-in on lower cover slightly lifting. Bookplate of Dorothy and Clinton Josey. ¶ SECOND, MOST..... More

London: B.R. Howlette / John Murray, 1813. Second edition. 8vo. [2], 130 pp. Printed in Greek throughout on fine paper. Contemporary English red diced russia calf (rubbed and worn), tooled in blind, outer frame of gilt palmette rolls, all edges gilt, drab endpapers. Front endpaper waterstained; second blank leaf with..... More

Leiden: s.n., 1744. First Edition. 8vo. 5 ff. (of 6, lacking half-title), 132 pp. Early 19th-century green glazed boards, spine richly gilt, red morocco lettering piece, marbled pastedowns and endleaves. Binding slightly rubbed, lower cover scuffed. An attractive copy. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest and most importance works..... More

Rio de Janeiro / Baltimore: 1849. Manuscript on paper. Folio (310 x 195 mm). Stitched in contemporary marbled stiff wrappers (worn and partially defective, shaken). 63 pp. numbered in MS. TOGETHER WITH: working collapsible brass spyglass (likely contemporary), three draws, lens cap no longer present, clearly damaged but FULLY FUNCTIONAL..... More

Paris, Grenoble, and elsewhere: 1761-1764. Contemporary mottled calf; spine tooled in gold; red edges; marbled endpapers. The first Grenoble imprint lacking the first leaf (half-title?); both Grenoble imprints cropped close, just shaving some text; occasional light foxing. Text block splitting from the bottom between two of the pamphlets, roughly two-thirds..... More

Paris: Jeanne Bucher, 1934. First Edition. 4to. Complete set of all 5 Cahiers. Bound in 1990 by D.-H. Mercher (stamp-signed in minute lettering inside front cover, dated 1990 inside lower cover): quarter black morocco, spine lettered direct in multi-colored sans serif fonts (purple, green, red, blue, and yellow); both covers..... More

Mexico City: Fernando Loera - Chávez y Peniche, 1984. First Edition. Atlas folio (500 x 350 mm), loose as issued in original portfolio. 5 full-page plates on thick paper + 32 pp., including 26 in-text illustrations + 1 translucent leaf with letterpress identifications. Front cover of portfolio scuffed (from sliding..... More

Paris: Michel Van Lochom, 1638. First Edition. Folio, 393 x 267 mm. Engraved title-page by Van Lochom, engraved portrait of Boyceau after De Vris, [8], 87, [1] pp. With 36 single-page engravings (including one with 2 engravings on the page), 24 double-page engravings, and 1 quadruple-page engraving, numbered in recent..... More

Richmond, VA: Clemmitt & Jones, 1875 or 1876. Broadside (48 x 31 cm). Abrasions to outer edges in places, overall very good. STRIKING 1875 POSTER ANNOUNCING A "HUMOROUS" LECTURE ON VIRGINIA NEGROES, DELIVERED BY A POPULAR ANTI-NORTHERNER AND FORMER SLAVE-OWNER, GEORGE WILLIAM BAGBY (1828-1883). The editors of "Representative Men of..... More

New York (et al.): American Book Company, 1905. Small square 8vo (140 x 105 mm). 320 pp. Text evenly browned, paper stock weak, front endpaper torn along inside margin, front hinge starting. Original publisher's red cloth, covered with brocade fabric, board edges framed with ribbon woven with gold thread, central..... More

London: [Printed in Leipzig for] The British and Foreign Bible Society, 1895. First Edition. 8vo. 421 pp. Original green cloth embossed in black and blind, gilt lettering in Persian on front cover (some foxing and age toning, minor water-staining on the edges and endpapers, endpapers with old annotations in Ottoman..... More

Madrid: Francisco Laso, 1714-1715. Together 3 vols., small 4to (208 x 146 mm). A few small closed repairs, even toning throughout, in some instances foxed or quite browned as is true in all copies of this edition on account of the paper stock, but the paper is strong; erased inscriptions..... More

Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1824. 8vo. 234 pp. With 7 full-page plates by Richard Westall (1765-1836) engraved by Oliver Pelton (1798-1882). Contemporary polished calf, outer frame rolls in blind and gilt, in central panel a large rectangle, diamond, and "X" composed with black lines, at each conjunction a small or large..... More