A Novel. First edition, one of 750 sets published in October of 1886. Three octavo volumes. Advertisement leaf at the end of volumes two and three. Publisher's dark green cloth, ruled in black on boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Green coated endpapers renewed. Spine extremities slightly bumped, light rubbing to tips and joints. Uncut. A very good copy. In custom cloth clamshell. "In the middle phase of his career, James wrote two novels dealing with social reformers and revolutionaries, The ...
In four books. The First Modern Attempt to Analyze Human Knowledge [LOCKE, John]. An Essay Concerning Humane [Human] Understanding. In Four Books. London: Printed [by Elizabeth Holt] for Tho. Basset, and sold by Edw. Mory, 1690. First edition title-page containing the inverted “SS” of “Essay, ” the type ornament composed of twenty-three pieces, and without Elizabeth Holt's name in the imprint. With the dedication undated, and with the errata uncorrected. It was once thought that the Holt ...
By John C. Warren, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the University at Cambridge; Surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital; Honorary Member of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London; Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine at Paris, and of the Academies of Naples, Florence, etc. First edition. Twelvemo (4 3/8 x 7 3/16 inches; 111 x 182 mm). [4], [i]-v, [1, blank], [1, half-title], [1, blank], 100, [4, Publisher's ads], [2, blank] pp. Without front free ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Printed forthe Author, and Sold at His Shop in Great Russell-Street, London
Date published: 1781
Description: GARRICK, David. Interspersed with Characters and Anecdotes of His Theatrical Contemporaries. The Whole Forming a History of the Stage, Which Includes a Period of Thirty-Six Years. DAVIES, Thomas. Memoirs of Life of David Garrick. Interspersed with Characters and Anecdotes of His Theatrical Contemporaries. The Whole Forming a History of the Stage, Which Includes a Period of Thirty-Six Years. London: Printed for the Author, and Sold at His Shop in Great Russell-Street, 1781. Third edition. Two ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J.E. Tilton and Company, Boston
Date published: 1864
Description: Or Romance of the Middle Ages. Octavo (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 188 x 124 mm). xx, 373, [1, blank] pp. With black and white engraved plates, including frontispiece and numerous textual illustrations. Full modern tan calf, ruled in gilt. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Spine heavily decorated in gilt. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Front board with some slight dampstaining. A very nice copy. HBS 64645. $250. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Vanguard Press, Inc, New York
Date published: 1947
Description: New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., [1947]. First edition. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 205 x 140 mm). [8], [1]-294, [2, blank] pp. Original full black cloth, blue lettering on spine. Top edge blue, fore-edge uncut. With original pictorial dust jacket. Sight foxing to endpapers and inner flaps of the dust jacket. Back panel of the dust jacket with a small closed tear. Otherwise near fine. This author's first two books (Dangling Man and The Victim, 1947) had a profound impact on the mid ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Printed by R. Watts at the University Press, Cambridge
Date published: 1806
Description: ROYSTON, Viscount. Translated from the Greek of Lycophron and Illustrated with Notes. LYCOPHRON. Cassandra. Translated from the Greek of Lycophron and Illustrated with Notes by Viscount Royston. Cambridge: Printed by R. Watts at the University Press, 1806. Small folio. xvi, 106 pp. with large folding table. Contemporary quarter brown calf over marbled boards, gilt-stamped on spine with black and red morocco labels. Edges bumped, outer hinge cracked but firm. Very good. HBS 64688. $1, 000. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Privately Printed, London
Date published: 1865
Description: And its Connection With the Mystic Theology of the Ancients. (A New Edition). To Which is Added an Essay on the Worship of the enerative Powers During the Middle Ages of Western Europe. And its Connection With the Mystic Theology of the Ancients. (A New Edition). To Which is Added an Essay on the Worship of the enerative Powers During the Middle Ages of Western Europe. London: Privately Printed, 1865. Limited to 500 numbered copies, this being number 226. Quarto (8 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 213 x 174 ... Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Printed for Jacob Tonson, London
Date published: 1695
Description: A Pastoral. Lamenting the Death of our late Gracious Queen Mary Of ever Blessed Memory. CONGREVE, William. The Mourning Muse of Alexis. A Pastoral. Lamenting the Death of our late Gracious Queen Mary Of ever Blessed Memory. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1695. First edition. Small folio (11 3/4 x 7 7/16 inches; 299 x 189 mm). [2]. 10, pp. Unbound, inserted in newer purple paper wrappers. With a printed paper label. Light foxing to title-page. Very good. "This is one of the best of many ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Saunders and Otley, London
Date published: 1837
Description: With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People. BULWER-LYTTON, Edward. Athens. Its Rise and Fall. With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People. London: Saunders and Otley, 1837. First edition. Two octavo volumes (9 x 5 5/8 inches; 226 x 144 mm). xiv, [2], [1]-484, [2, publisher's ads]; viii, [1]-596, [1, errata], [4, publisher's ads] pp. With half-titles in each volume. Errata page in volume two cropped at the top 2 7/8 ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Collins & Hannay, New York
Date published: 1833
Description: With Selected Sketches of Voyages to the South Seas, North and South Pacific Oceans, China, Etc., Preformed Under the Command and Agency of the Author. Also, Information Relating to Important Late Discoveries; Between the Years 1792 and 1832, Together with the Report of the Commander of the First American Exploration, Patronised by the United States Government, in the Brigs Seraph and Annawan, to the Southern Hemisphere. First Edition. Octavo (9 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 232 x 146 mm). xii, 13-499, ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Published by I. and J. Taylor, London
Date published: 1789
Description: Or, Repository of Designs for Every Article of Household Furniture, in the Newest and Approved Taste...Second edition. Folio (13 3/4 x 9 3/16 inches; 351 x 232 mm.). [i]-iv, [2, index], [1]-24, [2, publisher's ads] pp. 127 engraved plates on 126 sheets (numbered 1-125, with 9[*], 78*, and the final double-page plate numbered 124 and 125). Beautifully bound in modern navy blue straight-grain morocco. Boards and spines heavily tooled and embellished in gilt. Boards with circular corner devices ... Read More
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