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London: Published at Summerly’s Home Treasury Office, 12 Old Bond Street, [1843]. The first printed Christmas card with a proof of the card. See: Buday, George. The History of the Christmas Card. London, 1954; McLean, Ruari. Joseph Cundall, A Victorian Publisher. London, 1976; Elliot, Jock. Inventing Christmas: How Our Holiday...
Los Angeles: [Artemisia Bindery], 1902. First edition. Baird & Greenwood, California Fiction, 1688; Cowan, page 419; Smith, American Fiction 1901-1925, F-434. A scarce collection of five short stories set in the old pueblo of Los Angeles, and one in San Francisco's Chinatown, by five Southern California women authors: Amanda Mathews...
Philadelphia: Joseph Healy; Boston: Weeks, Jordan; New York: John S. Taylor, 1838. First edition. BAL 21710, binding A; American Imprints 53638. ¶ An early and substantial collection of over 50 poems by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1891). The first part contains 24 of his memorable abolitionist poems, collected for the first...
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Boston: Published by Cummings and Hilliard [&] Joseph T. Buckingham, 1813-1818 [vols 1-6]; Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1819-1823 [vols 1-5, New Series]. First edition, all published. Myerson E1; see Frank Luther Mott "The Christian Disciple and the Christian Examiner" in The New England Quarterly, April 1928; BAL does not generally...
San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, 1861. First edition, one of 165 copies printed. One of the last published books of San Francisco's Porpoise Bookshop and Peregrine Press, founded in the late 1940s by Henry Evans and his wife Patricia, with assistance from their daughter Judith, who set the type for...
Parma: Nel Regel Palazzo Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1793. First Bodoni edition of three translations of Gray's famous Elegy, two in Italian and one Latin, with the English text. Brooks, Bodoni, 485; Northup 545; ESTC T71250 records seven copies (Birmingham, BL, Rylands, Eton, UCLA, UNC & UVa). ¶ An attractive edition...
¶ A letter of condolence to a friend in England written in Lydia Sigourney's exemplary penmanship, delivered for her by the diplomat, pacifist, and social activist Elihu Burritt, who Sigourney notes in her letter is "well known on both sides of the ocean as the 'learned blacksmith.'"
Anvers: Chez Van der Hey, Libraire, 1735. First edition. OCLC 8848288 records five copies (Yale, Smithsonian, Virginia, Sydney, and one in Germany); Copac records four later editions, but not this one. The gossipy and scandalous memoirs of the eccentric and learned Abbe de François Timoleon Choisy (1644-1724), who, at his...
London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Mr. Symonds, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Lee, et al, 1803. First edition. The collected poetry of Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), including a sonnet and poem to his friend Thomas Paine, and poems to David Garrick, Charles Churchill, Lord Chesterfield, William Cowper, Philip Thicknesse...
London: Printed for T. Astley; and B. Collins, Salisbury, 1742. First edition in English. Gove, Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction, pages 303-305; ESTC T91064. The famous satirical work of science fiction by Norwegian-Danish philosopher, playwright, and miscellaneous writer Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754), the story of Norwegian Niels Klim's adventures underground in...
Kent: Printed at the Private Press of Lee Priory, By John Warwick, 1818. First edition. Lowndes vol. 8, page 221, #41; Woodworth, The Literary Career of Sir Samuel Edgerton Brydges, 70. A collection of six funeral memorials in verse, with annotations on the publication history, brief biographies of the authors...
Boston: Walker, Wise, 1861. First edition. Sabin 16221. A plea for emancipation from radical Unitarian minister and friend of Emerson and the Transcendentalists, Moncure Daniel Conway (1832-1907). Conway, a prolific and interesting author, was born and raised in Virginia; he attended Harvard Divinity School; served as a minister in Washington...
Various publishers, places and dates of publication, 1655-1900. The Language of Flowers phenomenon flourished for almost eighty years, beginning in France in the early 19th century. As both potent and subtle symbols in Western culture, flowers are found in religious texts, poetry, heraldic, and emblematic literature from the classical period...
(Reno, Nevada): The Black Rock Press, (1965). First edition, one of 80 numbered copies. The first book of the Black Rock Press and the first book of poetry by playwright George Herman, a collection of six amusing poems on sparrows. The Black Rock Press was founded by Kenneth and Patricia...
Lyon: (Imprimeur Basset), 1786. First edition. OCLC 469371960, recording one location, Bibliothèque Nationale de France; not found on COPAC; not in Maggs Bros Catalogue Bibliotheca Aeronautica. A pamphlet by François-Joseph L'Ange, (1743-1793), a civic-minded intellectual and later juge de paix from Lyon, on the possible uses of machines aérostatiques -.....
London: Printed by J. Cooke, 1767. First edition. ESTC N6101, records six copies: BL, Cambridge (2), Reading University, HEH, and Washington State; there was a second printing in 1769, of which ESTC T173535 records ten copies. A substantial work over 125 short chapters on vegetable, herb, and fruit gardens and...
London: Printed for S. Illidge and Sold by S. Ballard, J. Graves and J. Walthoe, 1716. Second edition; the first was published in 1638. ESTC T6263; Wither to Prior 78; this edition not listed in NCBEL. The best known of many works by Richard Brathwait (1587-1673), a picaresque - and...
San Francisco: Published by Le Count & Strong, 1853. First edition in book form, preceded by its appearance in the San Francisco Herald, in May 1853. Cowan, pages 629-630; Greenwood 426; Sabin 94437. The first account in English of Juan Rodiguez Cabrillo's famous voyage to California, during which he explored...
London: Printed and Published by Thomas Clio Rickman, 1819. First edition. Sabin 71242; Gimbel, page 136; Howes R278. A fine and important memoir about Thomas Paine by his lifelong friend and supporter Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), the reform-minded bookseller and poet. “Rickman's name will be forever linked with Paine, for...
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1921. First edition. BAL 18797; Mattila A25. ¶ An early presentation copy: "For / Ida Brenda Gregg / these songs of California / and Dreamland, with / all good wishes. / George Sterling. / San Francisco, Dec. 6th, 1921." The earliest presentations copies noted in BAL and Mattila are dated December 6 and 8.
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1916. First edition. BAL 18767; Mattila A12. A selection of Sterling's best poetry to date. Inscribed by Sterling on the front free endpaper to his wife, Carrie: "Dear Carrie: / Just a / few unnatural [?] sonnets. / George. / San Francisco, July 5, 1916." ¶ Printed by the Philopolis Press in San Francisco.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. First edition. A collection of over 35 stories set among the American Indians of the American west. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Joseph E. Foster / from / Mary Austin."
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1745. First and only edition. ESTC T20407. A satire on unscrupulous politicians - particularly those involved with the "broad bottom" coalition which came to power in 1744 - with a sensational engraving by William Hogarth depicting Tory leaders with flabby bottoms, relieving themselves on a....
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San Francisco: Mason-McDuffie Company, General Agents, [circa 1912]. This is the smaller of two versions of this map; this one was most likely for pocket or portable use; the other larger version for display on a wall. OCLC records one copy of this version (CHS) and two of the larger...
Dublin: Re-printed by, and for George Faulkner, 1752. Second Dublin edition, stated "The Fifth Edition" on the title-page; the first edition was published in London in 1737. Gove, The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction, pages 295-300; ESTC T59630. A celebrated utopian-philosophical imaginary voyage that went through numerous editions and translations...