London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1775. Second edition, preceded by the first edition of 1774. ESTC T33641; NCBEL II, 1891. Joseph Priestley critiques - and criticizes - the work of three other contemporary philosophers over their positions on human nature, truth and reason, and challenges them to an exchange of.....

Various publishers and locations, including London, Edinburgh, New York and Philadelphia, 1803-1903. Grant was famous her works on Scottish lore and history, especially Letters from the Mountains; Being the Real Correspondence of a Lady, Between the Years 1773 and 1803; and her account of life in New York, where she.....

London: Henry Colburn, 1840. First edition in book form, preceded by the issue in monthly parts. Sadleir 3228a; Wolff 6818a; NCBEL III, 769. One of several novels by Frances Trollope on social issues; this one is about the plight of exploited children in the cotton mills of Manchester, centered on.....

London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1740. First edition. ESTC T22372; Foxon M-236; NCBEL II, 796. A satirical poem by the dedicated satirist James Miller, directed at Robert Walpole. It “caused a sensation. Six replies quickly appeared, including one by Miller, The Great Man's Answer, where, in confident colloquial verse, Walpole.....

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1951). First edition. A splendid and appropriate association copy of Bernard Devoto's amusing history of the American cocktail hour: Inscribed on the front free endpaper "This gospel for the spiritual and moral enlightenment of Cleveland Amory - Benny." DeVoto was an impassioned defender of the traditional cocktail.....

San Francisco: Henry Evans, Printmaker, 555 Sutter Street, 1970. First edition, one of only 16 copies for subscribers. In 1961 when Henry Evans was beginning the transition from his career as a bookseller-publisher-printer to becoming a printmaker himself, he began assembling portfolios of his botanical prints, as he completed them.....

N.P., n.d., but circa 1850-60. An historical tale in four chapters, in the manner of James Fenimore Cooper and William Gilmore Simms, about the annihilation of the last of the Erie Indian tribe at the hands of their adversaries, the Seneca. In somewhat flowery prose, the author, writing under the.....

Leyden: Ex Officina Elzeveriana, 1628. First Elzevir edition. Willems 299. An attractive Elzevir edition of the epigrams of John Owen (1564-1622), the Welsh poet known as John Owen, the Epigrammatist, who composed his verse in Latin. His epigrams were translated into English, French, German and Spanish and were so popular.....

San Francisco: William Doxey, (1897). First edition. Harlan, At the Sign of the Lark, 38; BAL 19005 (Stoddard). The second book by Japanese-American poet Yone Noguchi (1875-1947), a short collection of poems, mostly about Yosemite Valley and the surrounding Sierras. Noguchi moved to San Francisco from his native Japan in.....

Paris: E. Typographia Regia [Colophon: Curante Sebastiano Cramoisy], 1651. The first printed edition of the complete text. The first work of history written by a Western woman, Anna Comnena (1083-1153), the 12th century Byzantine princess. She wrote The Alexiad to chronicle the achievements of the reign of her father, emperor.....

Paris: Chez Emery, Saugrain, Pierre Martin, 1730. Volume 23 of 36 of a famous and relatively common work (i.e., a doorstop) of 18th century French theology. This odd volume is of interest because it has been made into a "Book Safe," which is described by Sidney E. Berger in the.....

Wien und Prag: Berlag von F. Tempsky, 1899. A second or later printing (possibly edition); the first was published in Leipzig and dated 1898. A German edition of the second part of Little Women, published in English for use in schools, with a seven-page introduction about Alcott in German by.....

Patavii [Padua, Italy]: Typographia Seminaria, 1698. First edition. The famous work of Quranic scholarship by Ludovico Marracci. Marracci's Quran was the first to publish the entire Arabic text with a Latin translation, to which Marracci added extensive notes. In the second volume, Refutatio Alcorani, Marracci systematically refutes the tenets of.....