12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 349 pages; 1st edition. Binding of original drab paper covered boards; this copy professionally rebacked with original paper spine laid down over the rebacking. New paper title label to spine; remnamts of original label mounted to the rear pastedown. Original endpapers preserved with 1835 ownership in mnauscrip to front pastedown and flyleaf; half-title page retained. Xv, [1], errata slip, (1-3) - 349, [1], [4] (ads) pp. No ad at front; [4] pages ads at rear and thin rratum slip tipped in facing the errata and emendations page. Mild bruising to boards at tips and j... View More...
[Prince Liechtenstein Copy]; Wood cut frontis; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 305 pages; Small format 16mo in period vellum. Frontis, [14], [8], 305 pp. *7, []4, A-M12, N7. Cream vellum covered boards lightly soiled. A vertical stress to the spine has begun to crack. Small closed split in the vellum along the lower edge of the cover board. Contents clean and neat. Bound with frontis, title and prelims, followed by an unsigned 8 page catlog of works published by Coignard between 1660-1692. Mild yawn in the interior front hinge. Prior ownership of Prince Franz Joseph [?] of Liechtenstein with the P... View More...
4to 11" - 13" tall; 299 pages; 1684 [Andreas Hugenet], Bern. Separately bound 5 books of the Old Testament beginning with Job and ending with the Song of Solomon. Includes a title page for this voume lacking the Publisher imprint. Presumably bound in separate volumes for ease of use and study. Double columns bordered; in 4to. Period full leather with borders tooled in gilt and devices and rules to spine in gilt. All edges gilt. Shallow chipping to leather at spine ends; shallow pitting and scraping to leather boards. Short separation in the top 2 inches of the leather of the front joint. Soun... View More...
Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 128 pages; 1st edition. [viii], [1] -128, [4] pp. Half-title present. Soundly bound in contemporary drab brown paper covered boards, with a professionally rebacked spine in a very sympathetic matching brown paper and new paper title label. Variant with pages not watermarked, "II" in running title on p 82 is askew and period dropped on p 20. [4] pp publisher ads at rear. Edges untrimmed. No prior ownership or marks. G++ to VG- thus View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 238 pages; [1858] Dodd Mead. HC in publisher's decoratively stamped green cloth. Horizontal decorative rules to cover in black. Embossed gilt and black title design to spine. Binding sound and contents clean. Front endpages removed up to the title page, which is the first leaf of the book. Rear endpages present and neat. Just mild toning to page stock. Cloth a little rubbed at edges and corners; boards peeking through lower front corners. 12 page catalog of Dodd Mead juvenile titles appended at rear. G+ only. Scarce in collections and specialty libraries. View More...
4to 11" - 13" tall; 1495 pages; 1653 Sumtibus Zachariae Hertelij, Frankfurt & Hamburg. 3rd edition. Stout small quarto. [44] 1495 [139] pp. Prior ownership of a special collections University Library with minimal ownershio indications - ink stamp to front and rear pastedown and blind stamp to corner of title page. Text blog snug; contents complete and generally neat with just expected light spotting and toning. Boards detached at joints with evidence of old PVA type attempted repairs. Missing a v shaped chip from the leather at crown but title label intact and present. Excellent candidate for... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 300 pages; Bound in period 1/2 calf and marbled paper boards. Rebacked with original spine leather and morocco title label laid down. Contents complete and snugly bound with expected light toning. To the front pastedown is a presentation bookplate identifying the book's original owner and the date of the gift to an eastern American college's literary society. Small period paper label at the crown of the spine; no other marks or attachments. Pastedowns and endpages moderately foxed. Solid neat copy in considerably better condition than usually found. VG View More...
12mo 7" - 7" tall; 148 pages; Two volumes bound together. 1748 & 1753, respectively. Both 1st edition. Hamilton's Poems on Several Occasions bound in at rear following the collection of poetry, The Union; Or, Select Scots and English Poems. Hamilton's collection is distinguished by the 1st appearance in print of Adam Smith, who penned the unsigned Preface. The Union collection features an early printing of Grey's Elegy in a Country Church-Yard along with work by Shipley, Lowth, Thomas Wharton, Smallet. Both works gathered in 4's. 144; 148 pp. Title pages present for both volumes; Hami... View More...
4to 11" - 13" tall; 869 pages; Oxford, At the Clarendon Press; 1763. 1st edition. Two volumes, complete. Quarto volumes uniformly bound in contemporary speckled calf with spines in six compartments; red and black leather title labels to spines. Xxxvi, 476; 337, [1], (20) pp. Joints repaired, with archival linen tape reinfocring internal hinges and traces of PVA in the external joints. Leather had split over joints but repairs are sound and holding. Some light chipping to leather at spine ends and edges; drying and mild darkening to leather at board edges. Both volumes include an origi... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 608 pages; Tome Second. Vol two of six. In period patterned, polished calf with norocco title labels to spine and gilt tooled decorative designs in the spine panels. Soundly bound and neat copy. Marbled endpages and edges. Leather a little stressed and rubbed at spine with shallow chipping at spine ends. Underlying boards exposed at corner tips. Solid still neat copy. Vol II only. VG- View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages; New York, George Adlard; 1838. Volume II, only. Paged [3] - 208 with [4] pages of Adlard publisher ads at rear. Bound in original patterned green cloth with lettered paper title label to spine. 1st edition of this very uncommon volume of short pieces by the highly regarded early 19th century Southern writer, historian and novelist, William G. Simms. This 2nd volume contains three of Simms' Cherokee related tales and though sadly lacking the 1st volume of stories, stands independently and thus complete in itself. A well preserved example in the full texture... View More...
