London: Printed by Thomas Hodgkin, for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R. Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, 1692. Third and last folio edition; the first in one volume, with new material. ESTC R15282; Pforzheimer 561; NCBEL I, 1655. An important edition of Ben Jonson's works, with the addition of.....
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1801. First edition. Rothschild 1553; NCBEL II, 1595. A sweeping chronological history of the world in 540 pages, from the birth of Christ to 1800, told in the entertaining, informal style of Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821). Retrospection was written and published to celebrate (and profit.....
London: Printed by J. Plymsell; for T. N. Longman, 1797. First edition. Colbert; ESTC N12984. Rachel Charlotte Biggs was acquainted with France when she traveled by herself there in 1792 to aid an aristocratic lady friend, during which time she witnessed the Revolution during its grim climax. Out of concern.....
Paris: Fr. Cocheris Fils, Libraire, 1808. First and only edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Williams 8(c); OCLC records 15 copies. A French translation of more than 30 poems by Helen Maria Williams, including ones on her real and imaginary travels: "Sonnet sur la ligne équinoxiale”; “Sonnet sur l’oiseau du.....
London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1833. First and only edition. Colbert; Robinson, page 196. One of three European travel narratives by Elizabeth Strutt (circa 1785-1867), a prolific novelist, whose publishers included the Minerva Press. Her travel writings were representative of the new class of cultural tourists, who descended on.....
London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing Office; for John White, 1805. First and only edition. Colbert. Topographically inspired poetry about Turkey, Syria and Greece by Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1759-1804), posthumously edited by his sister Susanna Maria Carlyle (1752-1833), handsomely printed by William Bulmer and illustrated with two.....
London: Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman, 1813. First edition. NCBEL III, 734 (which cites the date as 1825); Blakey, Minerva Press, page 241 (but apparently did not locate a copy to examine); OCLC records nine copies; Colbert; ODNB. The first of several imaginary travelogues for young.....
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2019. First edition. A bio-history of the engaging San Francisco bookseller and botanical printmaker Henry Evans (1918-1990), who founded the Porpoise Bookshop and Peregrine Press in San Francisco in the early 1950s with the assistance of wife Patricia and daughter Judith. Evans later.....
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.....
A letter from 21-year-old Julia White Peck (1829-1859) to her future mother-in-law, Mrs. Henry Marsh of St. Louis, Missouri. Julia was about to travel to Turkey to serve as a Christian missionary with her fiancé, Rev. Dwight Marsh, who was stationed in Mosul (then part of Turkey). Her knowledge of.....
London: Saunders and Otley, 1838. First edition. Clark III, 205; Sabin 44939; NCBEL III, 949; Robinson, pages 143; Colbert. The second travel narrative about America by political economist and journalist Harriet Martineau (1802-76), in which she recounts her two-year tour to New York, Baltimore, Washington, Charlottesville, Charleston, New Orleans and.....
London: John Murray, 1842. First edition. Robinson, pages 96-7; Pine-Coffin 838-2. In the summer of 1838 Augusta Holmes and her husband set out from Liverpool with the intention of riding all the way to Italy on horseback. The equestrian venture, described in detail in Holmes' narrative, took eight months, during.....
Dallas: The Book Club of Texas, 2014. First edition, second issue; 375 copies printed. The first issue contained printer's errors and the majority of it was pulped. Fewer than ten copies of the first issue survived. Designed by David Holman at the Wind River Press. ¶ Franklin Gilliam, Texas Bookman.....
London: Macmillan, 1941. First edition. NCBEL IV, 770. One of the great historical and cultural accounts of Eastern Europe prior the Second World War, by author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer, Cicily Isabel Andrews (1892-1983), who famously wrote under the pseudonym Rebecca West. She was realistic about what was.....
London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher; New York: Reprinted for the Booksellers, 1832. First American edition. NCBEL III, 769; Robinson, pages 197-98; Sabin 97028; American Imprints 15041; Clark, Travels in the Old South, vol. 3, 112; Colbert; ODNB. Frances Trollope (1780-1863) traveled to America in 1827 with several children in tow.....
[London:] Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1883-85. First collected edition, one of 50 copies only. NCBEL I, 1457. The first comprehensive collection of the works of Thomas Nashe (bap.1567- c1601), the colorful playwright, poet, satirist, novelist and pamphleter, who was at the center of the Elizabethan literary scene and many.....
Philadelphia: Issued by John M. Wolff, Stationer, [n.d., but circa 1855-60]. An early broadside edition., and the first separately printed edition that identified Moore as the author. Marshall, The Night Before Christmas, A Descriptive Bibliiography, 25; noted under BAL 14346: "An undated broadside, printed in blue and red, was issued.....
[N.p., n.p.,] April 5, [1779]. See the ODNB for Sheridan and Henderson. In the mid 1750s, actor Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) began delivering a series of public lectures on spoken English to promote his published discourses on the English language, education, theater and his second career as a orthoepist and educator.....
San Francisco: Grabhorn Hoyem, (1973), First edition of this translation, one of 300 copies, signed by Montale and Kant. An unusual and handsome selection of the short lyrics of Italian poet and author Eugenio Montale (1896-1981), who was the recipient of the 1975 Novel Prize in Literature, among many other.....
San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1952. First edition, one of 129 copies signed by the printer, artist and translator. A handsomely printed and illustrated selection of the poems of poet Oscar Venceslas Lubiz-Milosz (1877-1939), who though Lithuanian by birth wrote in the language of his adopted country, France. The text.....
London: Printed for H. Herringman, and Sold by R. Bentley, J. Tonson, F. Saunders, and T. Bennet, 1693. Third edition, preceded by editions in 1673 and 1676. ESTC R1905; Wing S2845; NCBEL II, 744. One of Thomas Shadwell's most popular plays of the many he wrote, a comedy centered on.....
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1790. First edition. ESTC N16432; Bronson, Joseph Ritson, Scholar at Arms, 16. A collection compiled by colorful and interesting antiquary Joseph Ritson (1752-1803) of old English songs and poems put to music, arranged chronologically from the time of Henry III to the middle of the.....
Philadelphia: From the Press of Mathew Carey, 1791. Second complete edition published by Carey in Philadelphia, preceded by four complete editions published in Hartford and Boston and one by Carey, in 1787. BAL 20558; Evans 23841; ESTC W6501. One of the great poems of the American Revolution, the first part.....
[Twickenham] Strawberry Hill: Printed by William Robinson and Sold by Dodsley for the Benefit of Mr. Hill, 1758. First edition, one of 700 copies printed. ESTC T43634; Hazen, Strawberry Hill, 6; NCBEL II, 1749 (Spence); Rothschild 1942. A delightful Strawberry Hill publication, written by the anecdotist, friend of Pope and.....
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1771. Second London edition. ESTC T33367; NCBEL II, 1891. Joseph Priestley's second book, following his treatise on electricity, and his first foray into the world of political and civil liberty, toleration and education. It was written in part as a response to works by John.....