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Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Franciscum Hackium, 1650. Full Calf. Near Fine+. Early issue of the first Latin edition of Browne's first and most celebrated work, a spiritual testament and meditative essay originally not intended for publication. 12mo (128 x 73mm): 235,[5]pp, with engraved title page after a design by William Marshall of a figure falling headlong into the… Read more about this item

London: Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, at the West-End of St. Paul's; T. Woodward, at the Half-Moon over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street; and J. Peele, at Locke's Head in Amen-Corner, 1740. Full Calf. Fine. A superb set of these classics of experimental science, milestones in the history of hydrodynamics and physiology, with the imprimatur of… Read more about this item

Paris: Auguste Udron, rue du Battoir, no. 20, 1827. Quarter-Calf. Near Fine+. Rare First Edition of Martin's charming melon lover's manual. 12mo (129 x 75mm): [4],iv,156pp, with delicately four hand-colored lithographs depicting nine varieties of melon (in section and whole) and a Piquet à Thermomètre de Regnier. Contemporary black quarter-calf lettered, ruled, and decorated with Empire motifs in… Read more about this item

Boston: J. E. Tilton and Company, 1864. Decorative Cloth. Fine-. First Edition under this title (see below) of this early work on a fashionable Victorian pastime. 8vo (191 x 119mm): 96pp, with six tissue-guarded plates, head pieces, and historiated initials. Original dark green ribbed and beveled cloth, covers paneled in blind, gilt vignettes to spine and front cover,… Read more about this item

London: Imprynted at the Bedford Press, 20 and 21, Bedfordbury, 1898. Wrappers. Fine. Limited Edition, no. 117 of 250 copies printed for private circulation only. Foolscap 8vo (145 x 116mm): 43,[1]pp, with frontispiece (Low Water in Mortlake Reach) and list of Sette club members. Publisher's blue-grey wrappers, uncut and entirely unopened. Faint creasing to rear wrapper, but a… Read more about this item

York: Printed for the author by Edward Peck, Lower-Ousegate, 1800. Paper-Covered Boards. Fine. First (and only) Edition of this account of the market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, the only published work of James Mountain, of whom little is known. 12mo (186 x 107mm): [4],x,162; 40,[22]pp, with folding frontispiece plan of Selby and folding plate (North… Read more about this item

London: Printed for P. Elmsly, in the Strand, 1779. Half-Calf. Fine. A superb First Edition (in period binding) of this account of a sojourn to Spain, "an exact investigation of the soil, cultivation, government, commerce, and manners." 4to (283 x 220mm): xv,[1],427,[15]pp, with folding engraved map and 18 plates (five folding) of archaeological monuments and Moorish architecture, including… Read more about this item

Dublin / London: Printed for William Wilson / Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1772. Full Calf. Fine-. First Editions of these two eighteenth-century poems in handsome contemporary binding with distinguished provenance. 4to (262 x 208mm): [8],50,2]; [4],156pp, with title page vignettes, list of subscribers, preliminary advertisement leaf, and final errata leaf; p. 49 misnumbered 94.… Read more about this item

Groombridge & Sons, 5, Paternoster Row, 1855. Original Cloth. Fine-. Scarce First Edition of Hibberd's first book, with extensive tables of annuals and perennials. Foolscap 8vo (142 x 91mm): 172,20pp. Publisher's olive-green pebbled grain cloth paneled in blind and lettered and decorated with vine motif in gilt. Handsome bookseller's and binder's tickets to front (Fry, Chelmsford) and rear… Read more about this item

Boston: George W. Light, Lyceum Press, 3 Cornhill, 1834. Original Cloth. Near Fine+. Scarce First Edition (rare both in commerce and in institutional collections) of this account of the Canary Islands by the nineteenth-century Boston naturalist. Crown 8vo (186 x 111mm): 140pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece ("Peak of Tenerife from Ycod del Alto"), full-page map of the Madeira and… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth & London: British Broadcasting Corporation & Penguin Books, 1972. Stiff Wrappers. Fine. Scarce true First Edition ("First published 1972) of this provocative art history text, based on the BBC television series. The first hardcover edition, published in New York, appeared only the following year. Crown 8vo (195 x 129mm): 170pp, with numerous illustrations. Publisher's off-white stiff card… Read more about this item

Paris: Paul Rosenberg Éditeur, 21, rue La Boétie, 1936. Stiff Wrappers. Fine. Limited Edition of the first catalogue raisonné of works by French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne, complete in two volumes. Inscribed by Venturi and numbered XV (probably one of an unspecified number of copies reserved for the author, separate from the edition of 1000 copies). Thick royal 8vo… Read more about this item

London: Boosey and Sons, 1827. Paper-Covered Boards. Near Fine+. Uncommon English translations of these two works by German educator Bernhard Heinrich Blasche, providing "Instructive Amusement for young persons," calculated to "introduce children to the most common and practical applications of geometry." (Preface) Papyro-Plastics: Second Edition, "greatly enlarged and improved." 16mo (141 x 116mm): xiii,[3],102,[2]pp, with hand-colored engraved frontispiece… Read more about this item

London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1849. First Edition thus. Original Cloth. Fine. First Printing of the Dallaway and Wornum edition, a "New Edition, Revised, with Additional Notes," complete in three volume in original cloth. Demy 8vo (220 x 135mm): xxxii,351,[1]; [5],352-479,514-720; [4],721-1007,[2],[Appendix & Index]482-510,[36]pp, with three tissue-guarded frontispiece portraits and 77 further full-page plates, plus… Read more about this item

London: printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lyon, in Pater-Noster-Row ; and W. Mears, at the Lamb, without Temple-Bar, 1724. Full Calf. Fine. First Edition, in two parts, of "perhaps Defoe's best travel book," an imaginary voyage of circumnavigation, intending to discover uncharted lands in the South Pacific. (Earle) Crown 8vo (201 x 115mm): [2],208; 205,[1]pp, with frontispiece… Read more about this item

York: Printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; T. Cadell, in the Strand; J. Robson, New-Bond-Street; and T. Durham, Charing-Cross, London. W. Creech and J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1776. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Near Fine+. First Hunter Edition (sixth overall, first published in 1664), virtually doubling the original text. 4to (298 x 230mm): [56],649,[11]pp, with engraved portrait… Read more about this item

London: printed by E[llen]. C[otes]. for Edward Dod, and Henry Seile the younger, and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivie-lane, and over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1655. First Edition. Full Calf. Fine-. First Edition of this rare history of the reign of Charles I to May 1641. Crown folio (267 x 178mm): [8],266,[6]pp,… Read more about this item

London: William Miller, Old Bond Street, 1801. First Edition. Half-Morocco. Fine-. An extra-illustrated copy of this uncommon treatise on the manners, customs, and scenery of Scotland. Complete in two royal octavo volumes: xxiv,310; viii,341,[3]pp, with engraved title-page vignettes by W. Poole, double-page map of Scotland colored in outline, 32 hand-colored aquatints of castles, cathedrals, and landmarks by Merigot… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. and F. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1773. Full Calf. Fine. First and only edition of this attempt to describe the method of God's creation through the words of the Bible, touching on the geology of the earth, its mountains, seasons, and rainbows, before and after the Deluge. Crown 8vo (204 x 126mm): vi,[2],502,[2]pp,… Read more about this item

London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1827. Paper-Covered Boards. Fine. New [third] Edition, enlarged, of this pioneering publication, one of the earliest horticultural works written specifically for women. Tall 12mo (186 x 109mm): viii,136 pp, with six hand-colored aquatints, including folding frontispiece (engraved by I. Clark with imprint: "Published for Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1824"). Publisher's advertisement… Read more about this item