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Brooklyn, NY: Thomas Kirk, 1812. 182 pages. Full leather. Early Brooklyn imprint, printed by the first printer in Brooklyn. In very good antiquarian condition.. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good-. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

London: Various Publishers, 1786. 4to (10 3/8" by 8 3/8"). Three bookplates on front endpapers tell an ownership story: Henry St. John Dixon (1773-1846) arrived in Abingdon, Virginia in 1798 with his friend and fellow student, Henry Clay. Clay decided to move on to Kentucky; Dixon remained in Abingdon. Robert W. Hughes (1821-1901) was a newspaper… Read more about this item

London: A. Millar, 1762. 80 pages. Octavo. Full leather. First edition. Collection of 11 poems by Scottish poet and dramatist David Mallet (circa 1705-1765). The poem "Edwin and Emma" is accompanied by an engraved plate after the drawing by Paul Sandby. The book is in very good condition: clean and tight, with… Read more about this item

London: R. Ackermann, 1825. Complete in 2 volumes, with 27 (of 27) hand-colored stipple engravings. Abbey Travel 6; Tooley Color Plates 515. Full brown leather. The books are clean and tight. All volumes have been professionally rebacked, retaining the original spines. Some relatively minor edgewear; pages and plates are clean and bright. The… Read more about this item

London: R. Ackermann, 1823. Complete in 2 volumes: 161 and 200 pages plus 32 (of 32) hand-colored stipple engravings. Abbey Travel 6; Tooley Color Plates 515. Full brown leather. The books are clean and tight. All volumes have been professionally rebacked, retaining the original spines. Some relatively minor edgewear; pages and plates are clean and… Read more about this item

London: D. Brown, at the Black-Swan Without Temple-Bar; J. Walthoe, in Vine-Court, Middle-Temple; and W. Mears, at the Lamb in Chancery-Lane, 1710. 2 p.l., [14], 231, [1] pages. Illustrated with nine (9) full-page copperplate engravings by Joseph Nutting. Note: the frontispiece is plate 3 of Nutting's illustrations rather than the portrait of Dunster that should be the… Read more about this item

London: R. Ackermann, 1822. Complete in 4 volumes, with 72 (of 72) hand-colored stipple engravings. Abbey Travel 6; Tooley Color Plates 515; Catalogue Russica S1294. Full brown leather. The books are clean and tight. All volumes have been professionally rebacked, retaining the original spines. Some relatively minor edgewear; pages and plates are clean and… Read more about this item

Venezia (Venice): Carlo Pecora, 1744. Two volumes (3 & 4 of 6) bound as one. Large 4to. Early full vellum binding with a brown leather title patch; all edges gilt; marbled pastedown endpapers. Parallel texts in Italian and French for seventy-two fables, each illustrated with a beautiful full-page color etching by Fossati. Each etching is printed… Read more about this item

London: Printed by A. Godbid & J. Playford, and sold by S. Neale, 1680. (6), 1-32, 49-176, 193-219 pages; missing the frontispiece. The text is complete and in proper sequence without duplication. But the page numbering problems in all known copies are present: page numbers 33-48 and 178-192 are not used; numbering of pages 82-95 is not sequential;… Read more about this item

London: J. Johnson, 1790. Volume I: folding map, xvi, 283 pages; volume 2: viii, 408 pages. De Lesseps accompanied La Perouse on the first part of his attempted circumnavigation of the globe. After investigation of the west coast of North America, La Perouse sent de Lesseps overland to take the journals and maps of the expedition to… Read more about this item

Norimb. (Nuremberg): Georgii Lehmanni, 1705. (20), 256, (18) pages. An important part of the Jesuit debate over "Laxity" in moral theology, this book includes Kugler's compendium not found in earlier editions. This 1705 Nuremberg edition is quite scarce--OCLC locates only 1 copy in libraries worldwide. In what appears to be a late 18th century rebinding (title… Read more about this item