New York: 214 Broadway, 1848. First edition. An attractive advertisement for the Genin Hatter business on the history of the hat by the proprietor of the firm, John Nicholas Genin (1819-1878), one of the most famous hatters of his generation. "Like P. T. Barnum, his neighbor on Broadway, Genin had.....
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (2006). First edition edited by Roger Lonsdale. The magisterial and definitive edition of Johnson's famous Lives of the English Poets, issued 225 years after its original publication. This edition, edited by 18th century English literature scholar Roger Lonsdale, has been celebrated as a great achievement in textual.....
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.....
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1901. First edition. Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers, page 330; Kramer, Stone & Kimball, 275. The first book by Southern California poet and writer, Olive Percival (1868-1945), a charming series of sketches about Mexico City: "tender words of appreciation and an intimate sympathy for some.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. First edition. NCBEL III, 730. A substantial collection of unpublished works by the novelist and writer Elizabeth Hamilton (1756-1816): an autobiographical fragment, letters, poems, sketches and essays, compiled by her friend, the historian and novelist Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger (1777-1827). See.....
London: Printed by George Cawthorn, Bookseller and Printer to the Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, 1803. First edition in English. The first English translation of Madame de Stael's impressive survey of literature in historical perspective, De la Litterature Consideree dans ses Rapports avec les Institutions Sociales, a work that.....
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Boston: Otis, Broaders, 1839. First edition. Clark C11; BAL 7588; American Imprints 57952. An attractive pocket-size literary guide to the history and the notable features of Cambridge’s famous Mount Auburn Cemetery, which includes the first book appearance of Hawthorne’s appropriately morbid tale “The Lily’s Quest,” that was later collected in.....
Baltimore: Published for the Editor by E. J. Coale, Richard J. Matchett, Printer, 1821. First edition. American Imprints 4963; Sabin 12173. A commonplace anthology compiled by Marylander Elizabeth Chase (1767-1840), the sister of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Chase. The contents, from both American and English sources.....
London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1891-1911. See A. N. L. Munby, Phillipps Studies, The Dispersal of the Phillipps Library; and Roland Folter, Catalogues of the Library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, A Chronological Checklist. 12 of the 16 catalogues of the auction sales that took place prior to the First World.....
New York: Sheldon & Company, 1868. First edition. Wright II, 700; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, page 143. An early novel by Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910), first serialized in the Galaxy magazine. As in all of her early fiction, Davis explores social issues, in this example an unromantic look at.....
New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. First edition. McElrath A3.1.a, first printing, state 3 (as usual); BAL 15031; Wright III, 3989. One of the major and enduring of 19th century American novels, the realistic and gripping tale of the dentist McTeague (his first name is never revealed) and his miserly.....
New York: Published by J. W. Bell, 1836. First edition. BAL 3300, state 2; American Imprints 36726; and see Robert Fraker, "Stomach for Them All: Collecting Minor American Verse in the Twenty-First Century," PBSA, Vol. 107, No. 3, 2015. A collection of approximately 100 poems by McDonald Clarke (1798-1842), a.k.a......
London: Sherwood, Jones, 1825. First edition. Garside, Raven and Schöwerling, 1825: 14; Chew, pages 149 & 356. A biographical novel based on the life and career of Lord Byron, and one of the many imitations and satires on his famous Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the narrative poem about the world-weary young.....
London: Printed by J. Morphew, 1713. First edition. ESTC 66953; Goldsmiths' 5090; not found in NCBEL. A discussion about the injurious effects of gambling on the character and the purse in a dialogue between Callimachus and Dolomedes, set in early 18th century England. Jeremy Collier (1650-1726) was famous for his.....
[Laguna Beach, Ca.:] Laguna Verde Imprenta, [1985]. First edition, one of "some" 70 copies. A charming book about the printer Jane Grabhorn based on a talk by the printer Ward Ritchie which he gave as part of the Goudy Lecture series at Scripps College, Claremont, California. Ritchie later converted his.....
London: Printed for Edw. Husbands, 1643. First edition. ESTC R17603; Wing E1780. An interesting document issued 18 November 1643, at the beginning of the English Civil War, that called for the protection and preservation of libraries and archives from sale or dispersal by the Committees for Sequestration, which were confiscating.....
London: Printed for the Author: And Sold by A. Millar, 1743. First edition, ordinary paper issue. ESTC N11032; Cross III, pages 308-09. An important work by Henry Fielding (1707-54), an assemblage of poems, essays, satires, dialogues, plays and prose fiction, several examples of which appear here for the first time.....
Gardiner, Maine: Printed for the Author, 1896. First edition, one of 312 copies privately printed. Edwin Arlington Robinson’s scarce first book, a collection of 43 poems written between 1889 and 1896. The manuscript was rejected by commercial publishers and Robinson resorted to self-publishing it in an edition of 312 copies.....
London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1761. First collected edition. Fleeman 58.4Id/2a; Rothschild 1248; Chapman & Hazen, page 142. The first collected edition of the 103 essays that originally appeared under the byline "Idler" between April 15, 1758 and April 5, 1760 in the weekly Universal Chronicle; all but 12 were.....
New York: The Abbey Press, (1902). First edition. Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers, page 126. An extraordinary account of the journey by Ida Dorman Morris and her husband, James Edwin Morris, from New Orleans, through Texas and down into Mexico, where they traveled extensively as far south as Puebla.....
London: Printed for T. Evans, 1775. Second edition; the first was published in 1752 under the title Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain . . ESTC T94269; NCBEL II, 1806. A slightly revised edition of George Ballard's collection of 50 brief biographies of remarkable English women, from poets to.....
London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for John Holden and to be Sold at his Shop, 1651. First edition in English. ESTC R202714; Wing L1180. The first translation into English of De Providenti Numinis, Animi Immortalitate, a series of arguments for the existence of God, by Flemish moral theologian and Jesuit.....
London: Printed for Humphrey Mosley and Sold at His Shop, 1647. First edition. The second line of the errata begins "P.50.v," one of two recorded issues by ESTC, priority not known. ESTC R12392; Wing J1291; NCBEL I, 2171 & II, 774. The first complete English translation of the satires of.....
London: Printed for Edward Castle, 1696. First edition. ESTC R18928; Wing A4188; NCBEL II, 1682. The only book by John Aubrey (1626-1697) printed in his lifetime, a compilation of entertaining anecdotes which he styled “A Collection of Hermitic Philosophy.” It contains anecdotes on numerous subjects: Omens, dreams, apparitions, voices, impulses.....
London: John Murray, 1880. First edition. Robinson, Wayward Women, page 81; Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers, page 35. The extraordinary account by Isabella Bird (1831-1904) of her first trip to Japan, which she undertook alone in 1878. Upon arrival she hired a servant to accompany her and purchased a......