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Printed and published by George H. Williams, at the Office of "The Uncle Sam"[c1849]. Soft Cover. 1 p. l., [7]-108 p. incl. plate; 26 cm. The Gold Rush of 1849 stimulated many to seek gold and others to read about it. Here is a novel suited to the mood. …
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907-1909. Hard Cover. 24 volumes: 1. Roderick Hudson; 2. The American; 3 & 4. The Portrait of a Lady; 5 & 6. The Princess Casamassima; 7 & 8. The Tragic Muse; 9. The Awkward Age; 10. The Spoils of Poynton, …
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1810. Hard Cover. xii, xcv, 211 p.; 23 cm. (6 ll., a-f, A-N8, O2). Title continues: "Shewing the Close Analogy between the Principles of Machiavelli and the Actions of Buonaparte by J. Scott Byerley." John …
Boston, Printed by Wells & Lilly. For Charles Ewer, 1820. First Edition. Hard Cover. 272 p.; interleaved; 24 cm. First official U.S. pharmacopoeia. Lyman Spalding headed the Committee of Publication created by the General Medical Convention meeting i…
London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1897. Hard Cover. 312 pages. 'Ser Giovanni's collection, begun in 1378 and finished after 1385, derives its title, Il pecorone, 'the numbskull'-- a title probably not due to the author-- from the fact that so many pecoroni …
London, William Heinemann, 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover. Volume I only (of 2): xlviii, 371 p., frontispiece, illus., folding plates (1 color), portraits; 25.5 cm. Title continues: with an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc., an Account of the firs…
In Firenze. Apresso L. S. Olschki, 1911. Hard Cover. 3 p.l., [v]-xl, [1], 524 pages, 1 l.; 43.5 cm. Reproduces 101 facsimiles of woodcuts in the Venice, 1491 edition. A magnificent effort of book production to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the Divin…
Amsterdam, 1654; restrike 1998. Etching, restrike, 9 x 14 cm. Eight of Rembrandt's original copper plates survive and in 1998 a run of them was restruck. "The seventeenth-century Dutch game of ââ¬Ëkolf&Ati…
[Padua: Antonius de Avinione, between 1481 and 1483]. Hard Cover. Latin poems on historical subjects. [86] (of 108) leaves (signatures: aiii-a8, b-e8, f9 [f10? blank? missing?], g6 or g8 (lacks g4&5), h-k8, L10 (L10, blank, cut out); lacks a1, a2, f10, g…
NY, C. L. Webster, 1889. First Edition. Hard Cover. xiv, [15]-575 pages, illus.; 22 cm. First edition, variant issue: no half-title; without the s-like ornament on p. 59; no broken type at p. 59. BAL 3429. Bound in green cloth with gilt, blue-gray &…
Philadelphia, T. B. Peterson [©1852]. Hard Cover. 324 p., 12 p. of advertisements, front., plates; 20 cm. "Embellished with magnificent illustrations, from original designs by Stephens, engraved by Beeler." The Cabin and Parlor is an example of p…
Hartford, Published By Silas Andrus. 1818. Hard Cover. xii, [13]-316 pages, (6 leaves, 2-266, 272). Title continues: By S. Putnam Waldo, Esq. Compiler of 'Robbins' Journal,' and Author of the President's Tour. Bound in contemporary full leather, edges w…
In Firenze [appresso Lorenzo Torrentino] 1548. Hard Cover. 12 p.l., 119 p., 8 ll., 16.5 cm. (Octavo: *8, **4, A-G8, H4, I4, I4). "After Marsilio Ficino had completed his Latin translation from the Greek in 1463, he asked his friend Tommaso Benci (1427-…
Harper's Franklin Square Library. Number 570. Thousands of young Americans first encountered Stevenson's adventure tales through this paper's series of adaptations, yet the only copy known to WorldCat/OCLC is at Yale. Hard cover; 88 pages plus four leav…
London: Printed for S. Smith & B. Walford..., 1693. Hard Cover. Two volumes bound as one: [30], 396, [6], 3-186, 45 pages; 19 cm. Stirpium orientalium: Rariorum catalogi tres, 45 p. at end of work. Title continues: The first containing Dr. Leonhart R…
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