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.....
San Francisco: (Press of Freygang-Leary Co.), 1903. First American edition. Not found in Unzelman, who does record the French edition of 1896. A complete translation of the second edition of Les Vignes Americaines by French viticulturists Pierre Viala and Louis Ravaz, which appeared in 1896 in France and slightly later.....
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.....
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable; London: Hurst, Robinson, 1825. First edition. Todd & Bowden 181A; NCBEL III, 674. A further installment in Walter Scott's famous Waverley Novels; this one contains two tales, The Betrothed and The Talisman under the general title Tales of The Crusades, and the amusing 28-page introduction by Scott.....
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.....
London: Printed by A. Rivington and J. Marshall, for Thomas Cadell, 1786. First edition. ESTC T70027; NCBEL II, 693; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Williams 4(a); Sabin 104230. The first collection of poetry by Helen Maria Williams (1762-1827). "The success of Williams' Poems secured her position as a prominent poet.....
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: The Arion Press, 2009-10. First Arion Press edition, number 108 of 400 numbered copies. A fine letterpress edition of Don Quixote by Andrew Hoyem of the Arion Press, with the wonderfully whimsical illustrations by artist William T. Wiley. Prospectus and publication party invitation laid in.
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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.....
Philadelphia: Published by M. Polock, 1857. Second collected edition. See under BAL 1516. The second edition of the novels of Charles Brocken Brown (1771-1810), America's first novelist of distinction and originality. The type for this edition by Moses Polock of Philadelphia was entirely reset, but the order of the titles.....
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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.....
New York: Bangs & Co., 1902. First edition. McKay, American Book Auction Catalogues, 5402; OCLC records three copies (Grolier, Yale and Bowdoin). A finely bound copy of one of the many sales conducted by Bangs & Co. of New York, one of the prominent auction houses of the day. 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.....
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.....
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.....
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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.....
London: The Queen Anne Press, 1953. First edition, one of 450 (of 500) numbered copies, this one out of series. The second book by the great travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), three essays based on personal experience of life in three famous monasteries: the Abbey at St. Wandrille de.....
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.....
Oakland: Eucalyptus Press, Mills College, 1934. First Eucalyptus Press edition, one of 150 copies printed. Cf. Cowan, page 557. An entertaining, whimsical ballad about the geological formation of the San Francisco Bay, attributed to early San Francisco publisher and businessman, C. P. Kimball. The first edition is rare, and this.....
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.....
London: n. p., [circa 1880-1886]. A famous portrait of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) by the French artist Paul Adolphe Rajon (1843-1888). This lithographed image reproduces the original chalk sketch which hung in Whistler’s Fulham Road home in London. The original is now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
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.....
London: Printed in the Year, 1689. First edition. ESTC R10117; Wing S5329; NCBEL I, 1223 (A. Marvell). 28 tracts on English affairs during the reign of Charles II, written mostly as anonymous pamphlets during the decade 1671-1681 and compiled here as an act of preservation "for the sole use of.....
Middelburg: Gilles Horthemels le Jeune, 1688. First edition. Brunet, II, 470; Cioranescu, Bibliographie de la Littérature Française, 38017; OCLC records 12 copies, five in the US and seven in Europe and Britain. ¶ Three ingenious, bold and entertaining imaginary conversations between the fictional character of Moliere’s famous play, Tartuffe, and.....