Some Late Additions from Reginald C. Williams Rare Books

8vo, pp xxiv [including half title and subscribers], 172, [4, index and errata], 3 folding engraved plates with multiple illustrations of machinery, bound in contemporary polished calf, spine gilt, rubbed at spine and edges, professionally and sympathetic re-backed by The Heritage Bindery using the original spine, internally clean and sound throughout, FIRST EDITION; 'From the 1770s onwards, John Banks (1740… Read more about this item

Octavo, original purple cloth, original dust jacket. First edition, first printing, of John Rawls' landmark work, a milestone in political philosophy. John Rawls "was arguably the most important political philosopher of the 20th century… His first book, A Theory of Justice, revitalized the social-contract tradition, using it to articulate and defend a detailed vision of egalitarian liberalism" (Internet Encyclopedia… Read more about this item

BLAKE, William. The Writings of William Blake & The Life of William Blake. London: Nonesuch Press, 1925. Four volumes. Quarto, original half vellum, marbled boards, uncut and attractive. Limited Nonesuch Press edition of Blake's Writings, number 440 of 1575 copies (Life of William Blake is 1293 of 1480) printed on Vidalon handmade paper, the first complete edition of the poet's writings.This… Read more about this item

8vo, pp xiii, [3], 192, uncut in original blue boards, neatly respined in paper with window cut original label, minor foxing at end, a little worn at corners, but a sound very good copy, FIRST EDITION; John Haslam was medical officer at the Rethlem Hospital in London, and, based on earlier work, in 1809 published his highly influential work 'Observations… Read more about this item

8vo, 328pp. A very good hardback copy in blue boards. With good, mildly worn and un-price-clipped dust jacket. Heavily foxed fore edges and scattered foxing to prelims and title pages, and light offsetting to endpapers.

1801. 1st Edition. pp. viii, 413, [3]. Note: this is the true first printing, published as such complete in one volume. Scarce: Copac shows just 3 copies with UK institutions. Very good in contemporary brown leather with slight wear to extremities. Book plate of Charles Smith on the front pastedown, otherwise clean and tight. An excellent copy.

J. & R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1752. Title page, iii-vi, [2] 9-[268] (all collated). Full calf. Spine with raised bands. Covers have gold frames. All joints and hinges slightly worn and/or cracked but covers holding well by strings. Some brown stains to edges of endpapers and first and last few leaves. The spine is darkened but a nice uncomplicated… Read more about this item

Clean original maroon cloth with gilt title on spine. Pictorial frontispiece and half title page. Additional fourteen steel engravings. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. A few lightly foxed pages. Prior owners' inscription. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine sunned, else a near-fine copy. Contents: Superintendent of Nurses; Ladies who ministered to the sick, wounded, in camp, field and… Read more about this item

Octavo; Publisher s green cloth, gilt-stamped spines; 3 volumes; cloths show some light sunning to spines; slight wear to exterior panels; strong boards; text blocks have modest age toning to exterior edges; minor chips to endpapers, vol. 1; frontispieces to vols. 1 and 3; maps at rear; previous bookshop's small label to rear endpapers; some uncut pages; An excellent set.… Read more about this item

First Edition. First Printing (stated). This copy is from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] library, with their rubber stamp on the front endpaper at the bottom center that reads "FILE COPY," and another stamp above it which reads "Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Library, Culver City. There s a tiny date stamp of "Jan 4 71 at the top left of the endpaper. Kept on… Read more about this item

Original brown cloth, original printed paper spine label; pp. 5-227, (228), (blank leaf). with 11 haunting wood engravings. Text has moderate foxing throughout as do the plates. First Boston edition, issued by famed abolitionist Isaac Knapp, of Bourne's provocative work, preceded only by the 1834 Middleton, CT. first edition, this incendiary antebellum work is by the controversial minister who was… Read more about this item

Octavo. Two volumes. I: [ii], 422pp.; II: [ii], 441, [i]pp. Colophon to volume 2 (p. 391) - Typis Jacksonianis. Contemporary vellum, gilt. Morocco label. With engraved portrait frontispiece of Caesar, two engraved double-page maps and one double-page engraved plate in volume 1; one engraved double-page map, of Hispania, in volume 2. With the armorial bookplate of David Kennedy. "this edition… Read more about this item

FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Large quarto. Portrait of Locke. 937pp. Contemporary full calf. Spine is decoratively tooled in gilt compartments with red morocco gilt lettering label . An excellent copy with clean pages. First edition in French of John Locke's Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (first published in English in 1690). A stellar copy.

Octavo, original blind-stamped brown cloth. Text generally fresh with light scattered foxing, gilt on spine surprisingly brighter than expected, cloth with rubbing and wear along the hinges, but fully intact. Uncommon, especially so in publisher s cloth. First edition of Timothy Mather Cooley's important biography of Reverend Lemuel Haynes, who fought in the American Revolution as a Minuteman, penned one… Read more about this item

Two octavo volumes, original maroon cloth, gilt-decorated spines and centerpieces. Interiors clean; a few very short closed splits to folding map along folds. The two folding maps are color lithographs, one is quite large and housed in a pocket at the rear of Volume I. With publisher's ads at rear of each volume. Spines lightly sunned, gilt bright. An about… Read more about this item

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (1878 date). Thick octavo, [two volumes], xiv, [10pp maps], 522; ix, [1], 566pp title in gilt with decorative pictorial illustrations on covers. Light wear at edges. Frontispiece portraits in both volumes all tissues seem to be present, very clean bright copies. A near-fine set. Numerous illustrations and maps throughout, including 34 full page plates and… Read more about this item

Original Publisher's dark brown cloth and gilt lettered spine. Volumes 3 rear hinge is slightly cracked, otherwise a beautiful set in fresh condition. Housed in a cloth clamshell case with a morocco label. First Edition of Proudhon's Most Massive and Powerful Work - Completing and Fully Explicating His "Philosophy of the Revolution" - Seized and Suppressed by the Government Just… Read more about this item

Octavo. Original blue-green cloth backing beige cloth boards, titles to spine gilt, original unclipped dustwrapper in excellent condition. This first printing of Lillian Gish s biography is a presentation copy INSCRIBED (dated April 12, 1969) over to her good friend director Gilbert "Gil" Cates (1934-2011) and his wife. He was an American film director and television producer, director of the… Read more about this item

[viii] [xxxii] 660 pp. * Publisher's half leather (calf) * Gilt-stamped spine * Marbled boards * Tinted endpapers * Illustrated * Quarto (10.5 x 7.25) Beautiful antiquarian volume of the works by Lord BYRON, (1788-1824), the most notorious Romantic poet and satirist; profusely illustrated with full-page and in-text engravings from the original drawings by Birket Foster, Meadows, Browne, Janet,… Read more about this item