London: 1836. First edition. Folio. With 12 b/w engraved plates. Bound with leather spine and boards. A good copy. Rare work on dogs; not listed in Schwerdt. Contains 12 engraved portraits of dogs' heads by Edwin Landseer, A. Cooper and Charles Hancock. More
New York: Putnam's, 1930. Limited Edition. Leather bound. AUTHOR'S AUTOGRAPH EDITION, #876 OF 1,000 COPIES SIGNED BY ADMIRAL BYRD. Original 3/4 vellum and blue paper-covered boards in acetate wrapper. Fine condition, virtually new. A beautiful copy of the signed limited edition, nicer than usually encountered as the vellum tends to..... More
Cincinnati: Drake and Conclin (Morgan, Fisher, and L'Hommedieu, Printers), 1827. Hardcover. 199p plus 1p index. An oblong hardcover book with a brown leather spine and light blue paper-covered boards. Fair condition with damaged covers. Both the front and back covers are heavily rubbed along the edges and have vertical cracks..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 222p. A navy blue cloth hardcover book in good+ condition. Corners lightly bumped and worn. Head and foot of spine wearing through and starting to fray. Very faint spotting on front cover, and there are faint traces of a piece..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4 vols. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A set of four brown cloth hardcover books in very good condition. The title plate on volume I's spine is lightly edgeworn. Some foxing on and around the plates and on foredges;..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1860. 1st American Edition. Leather bound. FIRST PRINTING OF THE AMERICAN EDITION OF ONE OF THE GREAT WORKS OF MODERN THOUGHT. Handsomely rebound in full green leather, stamped in gilt and blind. Marbled green endpapers. Scattered foxing throughout text, else clean and unmarked. Binding..... More
Philadelphia: John Campbell, 1867. Limited Edition Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. 184p. Facsimile reprint. Ex-library; REBOUND. A hardcover book rebound in green buckram. Sticker residue, stamps, and other library markings on endpapers and title page, but otherwise unmarked. Bright, clean pages and secure binding. A very nice reading copy in sturdy shape!..... More
London: David Nutt, 1887. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Hardcovers. 23 volume set bound as 21 books. Very good condition. Original green cloth boards except for the final volume which is rebound as black buckram. Edges, corners, and spine rubbed. Library stamps on fore-edge. Otherwise clean and tight. Complete run of journals..... More
Holyoke MA: Privately Printed, 1905. Limited Edition. Hardcover. ONE OF ONLY SEVEN COPIES PUBLISHED. 54p, illustrated with various 19th century prints. Bound in ivory-colored cloth and green paper-covered boards. A clean, tight hardcover book in very good condition. A 1905 reissue of the 1897 first edition, limited to only seven..... More
Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot, 1834. Third Edition. Hardcover. 162p. A small hardcover book measuring approximatel 3 3/4" by 5 1/2". The covers are soiled and dampstained, and the paper is beginning to peel away from the boards in places. Inside, the book lacks the front free endpaper. Interior dampstaining is..... More
London: John Murray, 1820. Leather. 520p. FINE BINDING BY RIVIERE & SON. A hardcover book bound in full golden-brown leather with a marbled effect. The spine is ornately decorated in gilt and has five raised bands. Features gilt dentelles and a gilt top edge. Edges barely rubbed. Tiny hole at..... More
New York: Blakeman & Mason, 1859. Hardcover. Complete four-volume set of this early collected edition of Poe. Original brown decorated cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Spine lettering faded, cloth lightly worn and frayed at spine ends. Pages uniformly lightly browned from age. Overall a solid set in good or..... More
Rome: Dominici Manelphi, 1649. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 407p + index. Quarto. Bound in full limp vellum. Title lettered on spine in old ink manuscript hand. Scattered toning to text else interior in good condition. Front pastedown has large circular hole where something (a bookplate?) was cut out exposing the..... More
NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1856. First one-volume edition. Hardcover. 624p. Includes errata slip, 11 folding maps, and 76 engraved plates. Brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Interior very good, covers worn along spine edges. Spine lettering dulled. A hardcover book in good, solid condition. The one-volume large octavo..... More
Mexico: Libreria Robredo, 1939-1940. First edition. Vols. 1-12 (of sixteen) only of this comprehensive collection of offical letters of the Mexican government under Spain. Red cloth. Ex-library with various library ownership markings else a clean tight set in very good condition. Text in Spanish. More
Ontario, CA: Frank W. Grove, 1976. Hardcover. 3 vols. 208p; 476p; 208p. A set of three hardcover books in fine condition. VERY SCARCE collectors' guide to Mexican orders and medals. Each volume is a limited edition. Volume I (Medals of the Spanish Kings, pub 1976) is a limited second edition..... More
London: Whittaker and Co., 1837. Leather. 203p. FINE BINDING BY MORRELL. A hardcover book bound in full green leather with ornate gilt decorations on the boards and spine. Features a gilt top edge, gilt dentelles, and silk doublures. Near-fine condition. Some light foxing on the endpapers and plates, but otherwise..... More
Dublin: George Faulkner & James Williams, 1770. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 288p, 198p + index. Contains two volumes bound as one book. Full 18th century calf stamped in gilt. Remains of old bookplate on front pastedown else clean and unmarked. Mild shelf wear, a study hardcover book in very good..... More
Grenoble: Editions des Quatre Seigneurs, 1973. Hardcover. 4 vols. A set of four oversize hardcover books in near-fine condition with like dustjackets. Very faint dampstaining along the bottom edges of the dustjackets, just barely bleeding through to the covers beneath. Text is unmarked and binding tight across the set. The..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 39p. A slender hardcover book bound in beige cloth with gilt lettering. Very good condition. Foredges and interior foxed, though not particularly heavily inside. The tip of the bottom corner of page 15-16 is torn off (text unaffected). Otherwise, text..... More
Florence: Ad Claras Aquas (Quaracchi), 1931-64. Third Edition. Hardcover. A rare complete set of vols. 1-32 bound as 32 hardcover books. Ex-library with shelf labels on spines and library stamps on title pages and endpapers. White cloth stamped in gilt. Each volume measures 8x12 inches and is approximately two inches..... More
London: W. Bulmer, 1816. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Bound in three-quarter leather and marbled boards, expertly restored with covers reattached preserving the original binding. Very good condition. Complete with all seven b/w plates engraved by William Daniell from the drawings of Samuel Davis. An important illustrated account of the island..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing in 1st issue dustjacket with all necessary bibliographic points. A near fine hardcover book which has a small scratch on the rear board and a few traces of edge wear; in a very good dustjacket which is whole and complete..... More
New York: Charles Webster, 1888. 1st Edition. Leather bound. FIRST PRINTING IN THE RARE LEATHERBOUND STARS-AND-BARS BINDING. Complete two volume set in 3/4 brown gilt-decorated leather and cloth with the "stars and bars" motif on the spine. Leather is slightly faded on spine and rubbed along its edges; interior is..... More
London: J. Robins and Co., Albion Press, [1812]. Leather. 4 vols. A set of four large hardcover books bound in modern half-leather and marbled boards. Very good condition! Edges lightly rubbed. A folding map of Egypt in volume II has been repaired with white cloth backing. The edge of volume..... More