London: Printed for the Railway Companies . . . by John Cassell; Sold by M'Glashan, Dublin; Peat, Liverpool and by All Booksellers, 1853. Second edition, enlarged. A profusely illustrated guidebook to Ireland prepared and published to meet the needs of the expected hordes attending the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853.....
Boston: George W. Light, 1834. First edition. American Imprints 23586; not in Smith, American Travelers Abroad. A thorough account of the Canary Islands by Daniel Jay Browne (1804-1867), a naturalist from Boston who traveled there for several months in 1833 apparently for the specific purpose of exploring all aspects of.....
No place, no date, but 18th century holograph, circa 1753-75, with numerous swash letters, most notably the long S., See NCBEL II, 1598. ¶ A fair copy manuscript of one of Hester Chapone's earliest published works, apparently copied directly from John Hawksworth's weekly magazine The Adventurer, in which the story.....
Chillicothe, Ohio: Mountain House Press, 1950. First edition, number 49 of 210 numbered copies (of which 180 were completed). The magisterial treatise by Dard Hunter on early American papermaking, from the establishment of the first paper mill in 1691 in Pennsylvania to the introduction of papermaking by machine in 1817.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. First edition. BAL 6465, state 1, binding 1; Wright III, 2077. The first American novel to take a serious look at life in that uniquely American urban innovation, the skyscraper, and “the first important American novel with city life at its theme” - Andrews.....
London: Printed and Sold by H. Herringman, D. Newman, T. Cockerel, S. Heyrick, W. Cadman, S. Loundes, G. Marriot, W. Crook and C. Smith, 1678. First complete translation in English of the five parts, preceded by their separate publications beginning in 1655. ESTC R19972; Wing S2156. One of the famous.....
Clerkenwell: Printed for the Author, at the Literary Press; Sold by all Booksellers, 1787. First edition. ESTC T114315; Lowe, English Theatrical Literature, 2397. An entry in the genre of tell-all memoirs about popular figures on the English stage. This one is strikingly similar to the memoirs of the prominent Irish.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. First collected edition. NCBEL II, 639; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Barbauld, 4(a). The collected works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825), the impressive poet and literary figure. Important parts of the work compiled here appear in book form for.....
London: Printed for J. Mawman, J. Ridgeway, J. Clarke, B. Crosby, and Constable, 1810. First and only edition. Not in Robinson, Wayward Women; but see Colbert, Women's Travel Writing, 1780-1840, and the ODNB. In 1802 novelist and translator Anne Plumptre (1760-1818) traveled to France with her friend Amelia Opie for.....
London: Printed for John Starkey and Thomas Basset, 1669. Second edition in English, preceded by the edition of 1662. ESTC R30756; Wing O270; Cox, Literature of Travel, I, page 249. In 1634 Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp (present day Denmark and Germany), sent an expedition, with Adam Olearus (1603-1671) as its.....
London: Printed for F. C and J. Rivington, 1811. First edition. Garside, Raven and Schöwerling 1811:40; Wolff 3100. A novel that explores and contrasts the lives of women of different social ranks, in this instance the Countess of Luxmore and the young Gertrude, who is working her way through life.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Munday and Slatter, Oxford, 1813. First edition. NCBEL II, 1682. A collection of over 150 letters, mostly concerning the recording of information of historical and biographical significance; thus there are letters about the merits of George Ballard's Memoirs of Several.....
London: Printed for Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy, 1824. First edition; there was a second edition in 1826 with a slightly different title. A well written and thorough cultural guide that begins in France and Switzerland en route to Italy, where the majority of the 42 chapters deal entertainingly with its.....
Edinburgh: Printed by William Adams Junior. Sold by Booksellers of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, 1723, First and only edition. ESTC 140711. A re-examination of the history of Elizabeth Mure (1320-1355), the Countess of Strathearn, Athol and the wife of Robert II, King of Scots (1316-1390). It was generally alleged and.....
[London:] John Murray, 1843. First edition. NCBEL III, 1378; Block, The English Novel, page 198; not found in Wolff; see Robinson, Wayward Women, pages 178-79. A sympathetic fictional study of an Eastern Russian Jewish family. Elizabeth Eastlake (1809-1893) spent several years in Eastern Russia, which she wrote about in her.....
[Hellgate, East River, New York, circa 1835.], A remarkable holograph manuscript by New York writer and man of letters Charles Astor Bristed (1820-1874), written when he was a teenager and under the supervision and care of his famous grandfather, John Jacob Astor - many years prior to his first published.....
London: Printed by J. Grover and are to be Sold by Francis Smith and Brab. Aylmer, 1681. Second edition, preceded by an edition of 1678, which consisted of 24 pages and did not contain a frontispiece. ESTC R12645; Wing F972; Goldsmiths 2435; Kress 1534. An important and early philanthropic treatise.....
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1893. First yellow-back edition. Wolff 697b; Sadleir 3455a. One of the many popular novels by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915), several of which were issued in the yellowback format shortly after their first publication. The Venetians was first published in 1892 in three volumes. The advertisements.....
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New York: The Independent, August 28, 1873. First appearance in print. Volume XXV, Number 1291 of New York's Independent newspaper, which contains, beginning on page one, the complete story by Louisa May Alcott entitled "Anna's Whim," which was later collected in Silver Pictures (1876). It was written following the publication.....
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.....
Madrid: Imprenta de Sancha, 1790-93. A mixed set of later printings or editions; the first editions of the five volumes were originally published over a six-year period beginning in 1786. Cf. Palau 12207. The popular and influential account of Italy by Juan Andrés y Morell (1740-1817), the Spanish Jesuit priest.....
San Francisco: Peregrine Press, Porpoise Bookshop and Henry Evans, Printmaker, 1948-1990.
New York: D. Appleton, 1850. First edition. Sabin 43336. The only work of nonfiction by the popular Georgia-born novelist, Maria Jane McIntosh (1803-1878) best known for her pro-slavery response to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Lofty and the Lowly (1853). In Woman In America, McIntosh addresses the role of a woman.....
London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1802. First edition. Bronson, Joseph Ritson, Scholar at Arms, 27; Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 399. An interesting treatise by antiquary Joseph Ritson (1752-1803) advocating the vegetable diet. Ritson was a committed vegetarian, whose diet, according to his biographer Bertrand Bronson, consisted of muffins, cake, cheese.....
Boston: Letterhead of H. Yatsuhashi, Inc., 420 Boylston Street and Boston Book and Art Shop, 657 Boylston Street, 1953-1969. Approximately 24 pages, including itemized receipts and descriptions of Asian art, primarily Japanese prints, that Mrs. G. Anglin purchased in the middle 1950s from the distinguished Boston art dealer Harumichi Yatsuhashi.....