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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

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [from 1880], 1887. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Fine-. Seldom seen Second Printing (no copy appears in auction records) of this cornerstone of baseball literature. Binding and text duplicate the first printing, excepting date on title page and advertisements (eight pages vs. six in first printing). Crown 8vo (178 x 112mm): viii,[2],188,[8]pp, with tissue-guarded… 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

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

London: William Darton & Son, Holborn Hill, 1830. Quarter Sheep. Near Fine+. Scarce early edition of this beautifully illustrated children's book. 12mo (144 x 89 mm): iv,5-156pp, with folding engraved frontispiece of the solar system and 13 further plates, most folding and all but two dated 1823. Of special note is the plate of Herschel's 40-foot telescope, constructed… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Richard Phillips, Bridge-Street, 1811. Quarter-Sheep. Near Fine+. Scarce early edition of this beautifully illustrated children's book, featuring the startlingly magnified images of a flea, louse, blue bottle, and mites in cheese. Long 12mo (174 x 100mm): xii,118,[2]pp, with engraved folding frontispiece and four further plates (three folding). Original red quarter-skiver, spine lettered longitudinally in gilt,… 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

Cambridge & London: Macmillan, 1861. First Edition. Original Cloth. Fine. Scarce First Impression of this spectacularly successful anthology, collecting the best-loved English poems from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries (from Shakespeare to Shelley, with a heavy dose of the Romantics), establishing a canon of the "best" poems in English literature. Only 2,000 copies of the first… Read more about this item

London: Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street, 1832. Original Cloth. Fine-. First Edition in original cloth of this popular paean to song birds with charming hand-colored lithographs. Crown 8vo (187 x 110mm): xi,[1],227pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece and sixteen further full-page plates. Publisher's green moire-patterned cloth (also issued in blue and brown cloth), red leather lettering piece gilt, edges rough-trimmed.… Read more about this item

London: Sold by Mr. White, bookseller, in Fleet-street, & Mr. Robson, in New Bond street, 1782. Quarter-Calf. Near Fine+. Tall uncut Second Edition (First Issue, with hand-colored allegorical frontispiece of sylvan scene with various insects and animals at foot of pedestal holding statue of Ceres and catchword on p. 40 corrected) of this classic of eighteenth-century entomology. Royal… Read more about this item

Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 59 Washington Street, 1854. Original Cloth. Fine. First expurgated American edition of this essential reference, revised more than 25 times during Roget's life and continually in print since 1852. Crown 8vo (192 x 110mm): 468,[12]pp. Original brown cloth elaborately stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, pale yellow end papers. Book label to front… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall, 1781. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Fine-. Third Edition (incorporating regulations of H. R. H. the late Duke of Cumberland) of this standard reference for junior officers in the British army (and for officers in the Continental Army). Crown 8vo (204 x 125mm): [4],363,[1,advertisement],[177,"military, historical, and explanatory dictionary" and Index],[2,advertisements]pp, with 19… 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

Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1899. First Trade Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Near Fine+. First Printing of the author's first book, seven interrelated folk tales set in antebellum North Carolina and told "in Negro dialect" by an old gardener. Crown 8vo (175 x 110mm): [4],229,[3]pp. Publisher's finely woven brown pictorial cloth, front… 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: Constable [through 1924], 1923. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. Fine-. Limited Edition (one of only 750 copies printed) of Melville's eighth book, first published in serial form in Putnam's Monthly magazine between July 1854 and March 1855, then in book form by G. P. Putnam & Co., in March, 1855. Royal 8vo (226 x 142mm): x,225,[1]pp. Publisher's… Read more about this item

London: Printed by and for W. Farror, sold by Messrs. Nichols, 25 Parliament Street and Messrs. Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1826. Half-Calf. Fine. Beautifully bound Third Edition (first published 1818) of this popularization of Gilpin's first picturesque tour, introducing the picturesque to a whole new readership. Foolscap 8vo (170 x 99mm): vi,199,[1]pp, with engraved frontispiece (view of Symond's… 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