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
Göttingen: (Pennsylvania German Society), 1989. First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, original white linen printed in red, 1245 pages in total. Frontis in each volume, illus. A standard reference and a useful bibliography, issued as nos. XXI-XXII in the Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society. Previous owner's neat ink signature to... More
Sunbury: Charles Collett, 1862. Stated second edition, one of 25 copies; according to the author’s note, the privately printed first edition of 1861 was suppressed before publication. 8vo, contemporary (likely original) blue half roan, marbled boards, gilt lettering, 24 pages, a.e.g. “Although our modern literature is thoroughly purified from the... More
Baltimore: Maryland Historial Society, 1972. First edition. Large 8vo, original red cloth spine and blue cloth sides lettered in silver, 175, [1] pages. Frontis portrait, illus. With nice bibliographical detail. Neat gift inscription dated Christmas, 1972 on the front free endpaper. More
![A Rough List of Valuable and Rare Books Including the Choicer Portion of the Valuable Library of the Late Rev. J. Fuller Russell, D.C.L., F.S.A.; and also Many Cheap Works of Every Class of Literature Recently Purchased, on Sale by Bernard Quaritch [caption title]. John Russell Fuller, Bernard Quaritch.](/pictures/thumb/13467.jpg?v=1465913966)
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1885. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 80 pages. One of Quaritch's "rough lists," generally meant to turn over recent acquisitions; in true Quaritch manner, however, there are over a thousand items and some 464 items from the Puseyite divine and antiqary Russell (1813-1884). More
Washington: Library of Congress, 1984. First edition. 2 vols, 4to, original black cloth, gilt lettering, xl, 1-780 & xl, 781-1671, [2] pages. Illustrated endpapers. An extensive bibliography. More
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
Gettysburg, Penna. Brethren Heritage Press, (1986). First edition. 4to, original cream linen, red lettering, 205 pages. An excellent reference. More
![Learn Spanish the Mexican Way [wrapper title]. Holmes Book Company.](/pictures/thumb/15990.jpg?v=1465913981)
Los Angeles: Holmes Book Company, [ca. 1914-1924?]. First edition? 16mo, original printed drab wrappers, 48 pages. Halftone view of the Holmes shop at 740-742 Main Street, Los Angeles. "For it is just at this time when the attention of the world is being called to Latin America, more than ever... More
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
Detroit: R. D. S. Tyler & Co., Publishers, 1875. First edition. 8vo, original decorated terra cotta cloth, 480 pages. Frontis, engraved title, illus., plates. A collection of humorous squibs and essays from the Michigan newspaper humorist Charles Bertrand Lewis (better known by his pseudonym M. Quad), including the humorous firsthand... More
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
![Mercantile Library Association. To All Who May be Interested in the Election of Officers for the Year 1857 and 1858 . . . [caption title]. Libraries, William Romeo, William, Wadsworth, Henry Talmage.](/pictures/thumb/15844.jpg?v=1465913979)
[San Francisco: n. p. 1857]. First edition. Unbound leaflet, 1 page printed on a green bifolium, approx. 8.25 x 5.5 inches, printed "Independent Ticket" slate (approx. 8.25 x 3.75 inches) leaf laid in. Stirring campaign literature for the officers and board of this early San Francisco library (established in 1854)... More
Bristol, September 2, 1743. Four leaves of parchment fastened together along the lower edges, approx. 26.5 x 31.75 inches, plus attached certificate of probate with stamps, approx. 8 x 8.25 inches. A detailed look at library presumably built on gin: Arthur Taylor was a distiller of some substance who owned... More
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
New York: [Masonic Publishing Co.], 1900. First edition. 8vo, unbound, wire-stitched, 32 pages. Per the prefatory notice from J. G. Barker, a sale "that exceeds any collection of its character ever offered for pnblic [sic] competition." 507 lots, including early works, some interesting American imprints and a substantial batch of... More
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
Chicago: Privately Printed [by Students at the Chicago School of Printing], 1938. First separate edition (having previously appeared in the Papers of the 1938 American Library Association), one of 200 copies. 8vo, original stiff blue wrappers, 23, [1] pages. On the scope and methods of the American Imprints project, from the head of the project. More
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
![Private Press Books 1969 [through 1978]. Private Press, David Chambers Roderick Cave, Prue Chennels, Anthony Baker, Peter Hoy.](/pictures/thumb/16148.jpg?v=1465913982)
Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1970-1982. First edition of each annual checklist. 10 vols, 8vo, original printed pictorial wrappers, various paginations. Illus. Suitably attractive catalogues for the annual output of private presses, with listings for such stalwarts as the Allen Press, Officina Bodoni, Windhover Press, etc. More
Greenock: The Signet Press, 1958. First edition, one of 750 numbered copies. Small 8vo, original pictorial cream stiff wrappers, printed dust jacket, 48, [1] pages. More
Boston: Office of the Daily Advertiser; London: Office of the Author, March, 1870. First edition. 16mo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering, 32 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on a front blank, "The Lord Houghton from The Author. 4 Trafalgar Square, July 15, 1870." Henry Stevens "of Vermont" was... More
New York: Lockwood Trade Journal Co. 1908. Stated 33rd annual edition of an annual directory and trade catalogue that ran from 1874 through 1987. 8vo, original gilt pictorial brown cloth (stamped in gilt with two views of a Horne Patent Adjustable Fourdrinier continuous-web paper making machine), 768 pages. A substantial... More
(Madison: Carpenter & Hyer, Printers, 1859). First edition. 8vo, original printed drab wrappers, 191 pages. Color frontispiece, illus. Collects the first three years of Proceedings for this Wisconsin newspaper association, an interesting volume full of much in the way of printing history (with local information) and occasional cuts of presses... More
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
