Oxford: William Turner, Printer, 1631. First Edition. Hardcover. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. 319 pages of text, followed by [i] colophon, and preceded by two engravings. Original blind-ruled calf without any spine labeling. The front hinge has been repaired, and an antique front flyleaf has been added. The... More about THE PSALMES OF KING DAVID, TRANSLATED BY KING JAMES
Paris, France: E. Dentu, 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Five volumes similarly bound in red leather spine with marbled paper-covered boards. Antique: xxiv, 332 pages of text; 2nd edition 1867; color frontispiece and numerous in-text black & white line-drawings; excellent condition with only minor rubbing to the extremities. Au... More about HISTOIRE DE LA CARACATURE Antique, Au Moyen Age Et Sous La Renaissance, Moderne, Sous La Reforme...
Reno, Nevada: First National Bank, 1946. First Edition. Unbound. Printed check of First National Bank of Nevada, made out to Coast Electric Co., dated October 26 1946, in the amount of $3.10. Signed Tyrus R. Cobb, with bank cancellation holes slightly affecting the first two letters of his signature. Attractively... More about Check signed by Ty Cobb
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London: Deighton; Kollock; Morris; Kollock, 1792. First English language edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Four works bound in one volume. Leather spine is heavily rubbed and chipped with exterior hinges starting to crack; decorative paper-covered boards; binding remains intact. Leather spine label is stamped: MISCELANIES. Several... More about Compenium of four works including: ORIGINAL POEMS, On Various Occasions [with] TRUE GRACE,...
London: Printed for James Knapton, 1697. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). [x] pages, VI pages, 550 pages of text followed by [4] pages of publisher's advertisement. Beautifully rebound by Scott Kellar in full leather with a leather spine label and date printed at the bottom of the spine. New endpapers... More about A NEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD. Describing particularly, The Isthmus of America
London: Hakluyt Society, 1876. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). [xiv], clxxiv, 289 pages of text including an index. Original blue stamped hardcover binding with gilt spine lettering and front cover gilt stamp of the ship "Victoria." Spine has been skilfully rebacked using appropriate matching material; original spinestrip laid-down; slight to... More about THE THREE VOYAGES OF WILLIAM BARENTS TO THE ARCTIC REGIONS, 1594, 1595, and 1596 by Gerrit de...
London: Edward Stanford, 1907. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Two volume set. Both volumes bound in the original blue/green cloth with gilt and black lettering and decoration. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs. Volume one is moderately discolored with numerous tiny spots of flecking or loss of color and both volumes... More about AUSTRALASIA. Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel. Australia and New Zealand. Malaysia...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 350 pages. Original magenta cloth is slightly faded on the spine, with a small tear and minor rubbing to the top of the spine. First issue of the text with the word serious spelled incorrectly as... More about A FAREWELL TO ARMS
London: Bell and Daldy, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (4to). [ii], 58 pages of text, followed by [ii] index. Hardcover binding: leather spine is chipped, rubbed and worn, with slightly rubbed and soiled boards; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Illustrated with 259 color images of beetles on 29 plates... More about BRITISH BEETLES. Transferred from Curtis's British Entomology. With Descriptions by E. W. Janson
Paris, France: Chez Claude Prudhomme, 1718. Second edition. Hardcover. 12m o - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. [xxiv], 452 pages of text, followed by [xvi] of index, etc. Original full leather (mottled French calf) binding with minor shelfwear including rubbing to the extremities. Illustrated with 13 of 14 fold-out plates... More about LE JARDINIER FLEURISTE, OU LA CULTURE UNIVERSELLE des Fleurs, Arbres, Arbustes, Arbrisseaux...
Lincoln, NE: Woodruff Press, 1913. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). 311 pages. Meaures 19.8cm. Hardcover: original gray cloth binding, soiled, spine crimped; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Second edition. Minor staining to a few page edges and margins. Illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of author and 15 illustrations. Author... More about THE CONQUEST: The Story of a Negro Pioneer. By the Pioneer
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. Original leather and cloth binding is heavily worn, with several maps loose. Moderate foxing scatted moderately throughout text, and staining affecting all of the pages of text but only the first and final maps. Lacking plate 79 containing a map of... More about MITCHELL'S NEW GENERAL ATLAS, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of...
New York, NY: Anais Nin Press, 1948. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo (8vo). 101 pages of text. Original paperback binding, with minor rubbing to the extremities; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Binding illustrations by Ian Hugo. Inscribed and signed by Anais Nin on a front endpaper "For [name withheld] Anais... More about UNDER A GLASS BELL. Signed and inscribed by Anais Nin
Kopenhagen und Hamburg: Verlegts Gabriel Christians Rothens Wittwe et al. 1765. First Edition. Paperback. Quarto (4to). 232 pages of text. Blue thick paperback binding; original to the book but heavily worn, soiled, stained, and with chips and creases. Illustrated with 15 of 17 folding plates, lacking plates numbered I and... More about Kurzgefaszte nachrichten, die naturhistorie Dannemark betreffend. Aus dem Danischen uberseszt
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Two volume set; complete. Original brown cloth is moderately worn and rubbed, with minor fraying and some chips; protected in archival mylar. Vol. I: viii, 413 pages, 32 pages of advertisement. Vol. II: vii, 426 pages. Complete with... More about ARCTIC SEARCHING EXPEDITION: A Journal of a Boat-Voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea,...
Nurnberg: Zufinden bey Paulus Fursten Kuntsthandler, 1657. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong 16mo. Engraved title page, 20 leaves of introductory text, followed by 71 leaves of text, followed by four leaves of black and white copper-engraved plates numbered I-IIII, followed by 226 leaves of black and white copper-engraved plates numbered 1-226... More about Das erneuerte und Teutsche Wappenbuch in welchem dess H. Romischen Reiches hohe Potentaten,...
Albany, NY: Printed by Packard & Van Benthuysen, 1814. Early reprint edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 146 pages of text followed by [vi] pages of subscriber's names. Illustrated with two plates titled "The Execution of Ten of Miranda's Officers" and "The Schooner Three Friends picking up... More about HISTORY OF THE ADVENTURES AND SUFFERINGS OF MOSES SMITH, During Five Years of His Life, from the...
London: Printed for the Author: And Sold by D. Wilson, at Plato's Head, near Round-Court, in the Strand, 1751. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Four volumes in original 18th century bindings. First edition, first issue. Cancel present at L12 in Volume III, and final two... More about THE ADVENTURES OF PEREGRINE PICKLE. In Which Is Included, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality
Los Angeles, CA: J.H. Tigner, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong octavo (8vo). 72 pages. Original hardcover binding with minor sunning/browing, minor shelfwear and minor soiling. Contains 110 black-and-white photographs. Minor soiling to a few page edges. Compiled and published by J.H.Tigner. Contains dozens of business advertisements. First edition. More about SOUVENIR SANTA MONICA FIRE DEPARTMENT. Published in the Interest of the Relief Fund of the Santa...
Washington, D. C. Not published, 1843. First Edition. Unbound. Large handwritten document (measuring approximately 14" x 9.5") signed while John Tyler was president, with an embossed Federal seal attached, and countersigned by A.P. Upshur as Secretary of State. 27 line handwritten document signed October 10, 1843, granting Executive Clemency, pardon... More about Handwritten Executive Order of Clemency signed by John Tyler as President
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (4to). xiv, 315 pages of text, including an index. Original brown cloth binding is quite worn, with the spine quite faded, worn and chipped, but remaining intact and attractive. Small label at the bottom of the spine. Theological seminary bookplates on... More about REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE COAST SURVEY, Showing the Progress of the Survey during the...
Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1574. Early edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Three important early textbooks in ethics, physics, mathematical geography; in De sphaera are eleven illustrations; bound in early vellum, rebacked; edges colored red with some bleeding into leaves and some staining, not affecting text. Title pages... More about Ethicae, seu, moralis philosphiae breuis et perspicua descriptio: diligenter & ordine...
Paris, France: published by the author, 1990. First Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Two volume set in the original slipcase. Vol. I: 236 pages. Vol. II: 417 pages. Unbound sheets protected in portfolio sleeves and a slipcase; the bottom panel of the slipcase has been replaced... More about TRAITE de DORURE sur CUIR
Albany, NY: published by D. Steele; Packard & Van Benthuysen, Printers, 1820. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). [ii], [i]- iv, [5]-104, [iv], [111]-210, followed by [ii] of contents (index). Original full calf binding with moderate wear and rubbing to extremities, attractively rebacked in full leather with new spine label. Illustrated... More about HISTORY OF THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND EXISTING CONDITION OF THE WESTERN CANALS in the State of New...