Madrid: Antonio Marin, 1770. First Edition. 4to. (230 x 156 mm). [22], 174, [1] pp. Contemporary Spanish "cat's paw" patterned calf with gilt spine, very light wear to corners and joints, front flyleaf has been pasted to pastedown, making the first blank the new flyleaf. Contents extremely fresh and clean..... More

Broadside (593 x 430) composed of 2 folio sheets conjoined horizontally across the center, printed in two columns. Dated and signed in type at end: "Dado en el Real Palacio de Mexico a 22 de diciembre de 1815. Felix Calleja." With the MS cypher of Viceroy Calleja, and the complete..... More

Copenhagen: Typis Officinae Schultzianae, 1837. First Edition. Large thick 4to. xliv, 479 [6, genealogical tables] [1] pp., 18 engraved plates, maps and facsimiles (6 doublepage, 8 manuscript facsimiles on colored papers with rubrications in colors). Original quarter cloth over drab boards, printed paper spine label, boards shelf worn particularly along..... More

London and New York: 1750-1800. Royal 4to album. CONTENTS: Letterpress title-page, 68 engraved portraits, 3 engraved caricatures, 37 satirical prints, 5 engraved views, 22 engraved maps and charts, 1 letterpress cutting (describing an accompanying engraving). TOTAL = 136 items, each meticulously ruled around the edges and carefully affixed on 59..... More

Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1823. First Edition. 8vo. 21 pp. (title-page detached). Extracted from a larger volume; even browning; short tear in upper margin of title-page. Preserved in a mylar sleeve. Little-known moral "Instructions" for the Second Company of ABCFM missionaries to Hawaii. Although not specified in the text, included..... More

Charlottesville, Virginia: Paul B. Victorius, 1968. First Edition. Oblong octavo, 96 pp, illustrations of computer generated art throughout, some in color. Near fine publisher's red cloth, original dust-wrapper in good condition only (frayed along edges, large section on back missing, short closed tear - SEE IMAGES). Preserved in mylar sleeve..... More

New York: Bartlett & Welford, n.d. (but 1847). First Edition. 8vo. [3]-34 pp., lacking integral title and its conjugate leaf (a blank). Wrappers detached and chipped, with loss of text to publisher's "Catalogue" on lower wrapper (SEE IMAGES). With faults, and priced accordingly. Haferkorn, p. 12. Sabin 26392. Tutorow 4130..... More

Paris: Durand, 1862. First Edition. Together 13 vols. (from a total of 16). 8vo. Contemporary French quarter morocco over marbled boards, worn (see images), ownership stamps from various sources, various defects, the most egregious being some worming to the outside of the binding of the last volume (not affecting text..... More

New York: Lith. & Pub. by Currier, 152 Nassau St. Cor. of Spruce, 1848. Toned lithograph (signed "J.G." below image) with original hand coloring. Image: 20.7 x 31.9 cm; image and line border: 21.2 x 32.3 cm; image, border, and title: 32.1 x 32.3 cm; overall sheet size: 32.5 x...... More

Philadelphia: E.C. Biddle, 1837 (?). Hand-colored lithograph by Lehman & Duval after Charles Bird King (445 x 338 mm). Full-length standing portrait of male Sioux chief holding a rifle, wearing brightly colored blankets, feathered headdress, necklace of grizzly bear claws, and red leggings decorated with bird feathers. Very mild uniform..... More

London / Leiden: Warburg Institute / Brill, 1963-1997. First Edition. Together 7 vols., large 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth bindings (vols. 1-2 with signs of gentle bibliographical consultation, bound in slightly lighter blue cloth as issued by the publisher; all other volumes preserved in fine condition). NOT ex-library! "Iter Italicum"..... More

Lebanon, PA: Joseph Hartman, 1819. First American edition. Thick 8vo. Two parts in one volume, both with separate title-pages: [8], 458, [2], 426, [2] pp. Text foxed as is true in all copies, but COMPLETE and UNMARKED. Binding: original Pennsylvania binding by a workshop that was closely associated with Joseph..... More

Pittsburgh: David McKeehan; London, reprinted for J. Budd: 1808. First English Edition. 8vo. iv, [1], 2-381 pp. A1 (title-page) and A2 in brilliant facsimile, lacking advertisement leaf at end. Later English paneled calf (slightly scuffed, expertly rebacked with original gilt spine laid down), top edges gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers..... More