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 J. Dodsley, 1790. First edition, Todd's second impression. ESTC T46573; Todd 53a; NCBEL II, 1185; Printing and the Mind of Man 241. Burke's famous polemic on the French Revolution, here in its second impression - as distinguished by Todd C, plate 6; the cancels and press marks.....
San Francisco: Peregrine Press, Porpoise Bookshop and Henry Evans, Printmaker, 1948-1990.
Gwalior, India, 1892-93. Documents permitting and taxing the movement of opium by the Government of Gwalior. The name of the trader on one of the documents has been identified as "Bhakim Chand Pijara." These documents were sold in a single lot at Superior Galleries, Los Angeles, January, 16, 2001, Session.....
[France, Italy, Switzerland and Britain, circa 1880-1925].
First or early editions. Various places and publishers, 1655-1897. See Beverly Seaton, The Language of Flowers, A History. University Press of Virginia, 1995. The core of this collection of language of flowers titles was assembled by Doris Ann Elmore, a French teacher in San Francisco and lifelong Francophile. The collection.....
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937-41. First collected edition, first issue, number 416 of 970 numbered copies, signed by Cather. Crane AA1. ¶ The fine Autograph Edition of Willa Cather's fiction, designed by Bruce Rogers, and issued over four years.
Various places and publishers, 1837-1976. Mostly first editions. The collection of primarily scholarly works on Joan of Arc (circa 1412-1431) assembled by antiquarian bookseller Bernard M. Rosenthal (1920-2017), who had an abiding interest in her story and times, which was one of his specialties as a bookseller. Joan of Arc.....
Mostly London, various imprints and dates, 1750-1800. First editions, with a few exceptions. ¶ A fine representative collection of published plays from the London stage, 1750 to 1800, including works by several playwrights who remain well known and others who have been relegated by time and fashion to theatrical by-paths.....
La Haye: Chez Henri van Bulderen, Marchand Libraire, dansle Pooten, à l'Enseigne de Mezeray, 1692. Second edition; first published in 1691, also in The Hague. The popular and colorful Relation du Voyage d’Espagne by Marie-Catherine Aulnoy (1650-1705), also known as Countess d'Aulnoy, the prolific French author of fairy tales, stories.....
London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. Colbert; Robinson, page 275; Pine-Coffin, page 175; ODNB. The first of two travel narratives by English poet Marianne Baillie (1775-1831), written with a "ladylike attitude to touring" (Robinson), in which she extols the beautiful, but is easily uncomfortable with surroundings to which she is.....
London: Printed for the Writer and sold by J. Bell, British Library, Strand, [1785]. Third and final edition, issued in close proximity to the prior two editions and in an identical format. ESTC N10835 records four locations of this edition: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Harvard, MIT, LC; three locations of the.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. First edition. ESTC T64790; Robinson, pages 249-50; ODNB. Like Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Ward (1699-1783) became a traveler when she accompanied her husband Thomas Ward on a diplomatic mission, this one to Russia between 1730 and 1739. Also like Montagu she did not intend.....
(New York, 1941-42). The Moon is Down was John Steinbeck's second attempt at converting one of his novels into a play (Of Mice and Men was the first). It was originally written while Steinbeck was on assignment from the Foreign Information Service, a division of the Office of Strategic Services.....
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Litchfield, (CT): Printed by Collier and Buel, [1793]. First edition, state A. Stoddard & Whitesell 448; Wegelin 489; Evans 25104; BAL 4976 (Dunlap) & 5046 (Dwight). The first anthology of American poetry; a second volume was planned, but never published. Smith (1771-1798), a physician and author who died at 28.....
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934. First edition, one of 300 copies printed. The first book by literary critic Meyer Howard Abrams (1912- ), a study of the opium addiction of four famous romantic poets and its effect on their creative processes. This pioneering work was published in the series Harvard.....
London: Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman and Thomas Dring, 1673. First edition. This copy is the issue without the tailpiece on the recto of Q2. ESTC R12858; Wing W-3744; Pforzheimer 1099; NCBEL II, 742. ¶ The uncommon second play (of four) by poet William Wycherley (1640-1716), a satire.....
[London]: Printed Anno, 1690. First edition, the issue for private distribution without the commercial imprint on the title-page; the regular issue has the full imprint: "London: Printed for Ben. Griffin, and are to be sold by Sam. Keble, 1690." ESTC R13464; Pforzheimer 793 (regular issue with the full imprint); Wing.....
London: Printed for J. Watts, 1732. First edition, first state of signatures B and C-F. ESTC T89776; Cross, pages 294-5; NCBEL II, 927. A satirical comedy by Henry Fielding (1707-1754) about a destitute couple who plot to defraud a wanton nobleman. It had an initial run at Drury Lane of.....
London: Printed by T. Plummer for G. and J. Robinson, 1802. First edition. Roff, Charles & Mary Lamb, pages 47-52; NCBEL III, 1225 (Charles Lamb) and 1291 (Mary Lamb). ¶ Lamb's first play - “a tale of witch craft” which was never performed. Upon hearing that it was being published.....
Atchison, Kas.: Howe & Co., 1883. First edition, binding variant with the binder's name stamped in black at the foot of the spine. Wright III, 2802. Howe's first book and a landmark in the development of American realistic fiction. Initially Howe couldn't find a publisher and resorted to printing it.....
Edinburgh: Printed by T. Ruddiman, 1785. Second edition, preceded by the first of 1773. ESTC T128607; NCBEL II, 406. ¶ An amusing miscellany first published by Scottish printer and publisher Walter Ruddiman (1719-1781) and here reissued by his son, Thomas, who continued his father's business. It includes poetry, sketches and.....
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1705. First edition, with 125 misprinted 215. Pine-Coffin 701-2; ESTC T74575; NCBEL II, 1100. An extensive and popular account of travel through Italy by Joseph Addison (1672-1719), which was standard reading for the 18th century Englishman Grand Tourist. It includes his poem “Letter from Italy,”.....
Edinburgh: Printed by Balfour & Smellie, 1773. First and only edition. ESTC T67787.; NCBEL II, 2053 (Hailes). ¶ A polite response, with some deferential corrections, to Lord Hailes and his History of Scotland, published earlier in 1773.
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London: John Camden Hotten, [1873]. First edition. BAL 1096; Starrett 1. The first book by Ambrose Bierce, a collection of his San Francisco journalism published by agreement - an agreement he would soon regret - with the infamous London publisher John Camden Hotten.