San Francisco: (The Grabhorn Press), 1933. First edition, one of 50 copies privately printed for the author. Grabhron Press Bibliography 183. Reflections on Shakespeare by the San Francisco attorney and book collector Oscar Sutro (1874-1935).
New York: Orientalia, Incorporated, [1924]. First edition, limitation not stated. OCLC records 17 copies in three separate records, none outside the U.S. A wide-ranging and interesting collection of Asian manuscript and printed leaves, virtually unknown as a leaf book. From the few copies that have come onto the marketplace in.....
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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.....
(London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1799). ESTC N60288 (Lincoln's Inn Library and Wellcome Institute). An act passed by Parliament in the summer of 1799, delineated in 39 paragraphs, numbered I-XXXIX, that regulated the slave trade beginning in August, 1800 -.....
Lichfield: Printed and Sold by J. Jackson, for the Author; Sold also by Robinson, Cadell and Evans, [et al.], 1781. First edition. Sabin 79477; Adams, American Controversy, 81-65a; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 291; NCBEL II, 682. The second published work by poet and writer Anna Seward (1742-1809), a.k.a......
Guadalajara: Tip. de Rodriguez, Julio, 1873. Probable first edition. Not found on OCLC. A ten-stanza poem of five lines each by the highly regarded Mexican poet Esther Tapia de Castellanos (1842-1897) Fraker description: Rare broadside poem by a Mexican poet highly regarded by her contemporaries. "Many other Mexicans deserve a......
Philadelphia, 1820-28. Theophilus Ransom Gates (1787-1846) was a self-styled visionary, itinerant preacher, author, utopian and advocate for free love and birth control, who published his memoirs and collected writings by age 30. Driven by unconventional religious beliefs, Gates collaborated with Philadelphia printer Joseph Rakestraw in 1820 to establish a radical.....
San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1951. Second edition, one of 122 copies printed at the Peregrine Press. ¶ The third book of the Peregrine Press, a substantially revised and expanded edition of Evans' earlier work issued under the long title A Contribution Toward a Check List of Bibliographies and Reference.....
Camden, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1897-1912. The earliest letter is addressed "Dear Charlotte," and is personal correspondence on family affairs; the second letter, dated February 4, is to Richard Mansfield, the English actor-manager (1857-1907): "Dear Mr. Mansfield, I have the honor to be one of the executors of Walt.....
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. First edition. BAL 20660, state A of the title-page. ¶ The first collection of poetry from H. T. Tuckerman (1813-1871), the prolific and popular American essayist and critic. Neat signature of "Thomas M. Brewer / Boston 1851" on the title-page.
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....