London: Printed for Scatcherd and Letterman [et al.], 1824. 12mo, later 19th century pebbled brown half calf, marbled boards, gilt decorated spine, 260 pages, untrimmed. Frontis portrait. Ink ownership signature at the head of the title for Theodore F. Field, with the additional ink inscription on a front blank from... More about The Koran; Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mahomet. Translated from the Original Arabic, with...

Huntingdon, Pa., July 10, 1879. 1 page, letterhead in green and pink, 9 x 5.5 inches, approx. 45 words. What this country needs is a good machine to punch holes in sermons for tape binding—or such anyway is what Robinson seeks from an unnamed correspondent, preferably one able to do... More about Autograph note, signed, on attractive letterhead for publisher, bookseller, and wholesale...

Paris: C. & N. Hage Chahine, 1996. First edition. 4to, original blue cloth, inlaid pictorial paper label, silver lettering, xii, 339, [4] pages. Per the publisher’s promotional brochure laid in, “This Guide de Livre Orientaliste (Orientalist Book Guide), complete with 5337 notices, thousands of additional references and 7 indexes, has... More about Guide du Livre Orientaliste Levant: Eléments pour une bibliographie . . . Préface de Bruno Neveu

London: Dulau & Company, (1932). First edition. 8vo, original printed gray wrappers, 59 pages. A bookseller's catalogue of 480 items relating to typography or books from famous presses. Includes a brief essay from Moira Gibbings on the Golden Cockerel Press and the text of a letter from Francis Meynell regarding the Nonesuch Press. More about A Catalogue for Typophiles of Books of Typographical Interest. Preceded by "Typophily",...

Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Laurentii Sigismundi Cörneri, Bibliopolae Impendiis, Literis Christiani Michaelis, 1669. First edition. 4to, somewhat later (perhaps later 18th century) vellum spine lettered in autograph ink, sprinkled drab boards, [12], 306, [82] pages. Engraved title page, including a view of a scholar working at a table amid a library of... More about Martini Hankii De Romanarum Rerum Scriptoribus, Liber

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. Stated tenth edition. 12mo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, xi, [1], 146, [1] pages. Frontis portrait after Millais. An attractive edition of Locker-Lampson’s verses, printed by Whittington at the Chiswick Press. Locker-Lampson is perhaps better remembered today for his Rowfant Library rather than... More about London Lyrics

Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1854. First edition of this periodic publication. 12mo, unbound wrapper with rose paper spine (almost certainly as published), 83, [1] pages. Illus. A deep dive into juvenile literature of the period, a detailed catalog of over 3000 titles; the early Sabbath School movement saw a.... More about A Descriptive Catalogue of the Publications of the Mass. Sabbath School Society. (1854.)...

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1903. First edition, one of 330 numbered copies. Small folio, original brown quarter buckram, marbled boards, printed paper label, xii, 171, [1] pages, untrimmed. 28 plates of mounted facsimiles. An excellent discursive description of one of the great American cookery collections (assembled... More about My Cookery Books

New York: May 26, 1869. 2 pages on a bifolium of 8 x 5 inches, approx. 135 words, the bifolium including on page [3] a printed series of quotations gathered by professional indexer Allibone under the caption title, “Let no Book lack and Alphabetical Index,” touting the value of indices... More about Autograph note in search of a plug for one of his publications, to clergyman and author William...

Boston: Wm. White & Co., [1863]. First edition. Broadside, 13.5 x 9.75 inches. A fine, detailed, and ephemeral promotional broadside for Uriah Clark’s Plain Guide to Spiritualism, a proposed large octavo volume of superior type, paper, and binding, from the press of the stalwart spiritualist publishers who here make much... More about Plain Guide to Spiritualism . . . [caption title

Madison: Beriah Brown, Printer, 1855. First edition of each report. 2 vols in 1, 8vo, removed and stitched with later thread, 7, [1], 28 pages. The first report is signed in type Geo. B. Smith (i.e. George Smith, Wisconsin's fourth Attorney General) and includes details of a pending case brought... More about Report of the Attorney General, of the State of Wisconsin, for the Year 1854. Madison: Beriah...