London: Sold by J. Ridley, G. Kearsly and W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, 1766. Fifth edition; first published in London in 1760. A widely reprinted tract by the Quaker minister Sophia Hume (1702-1774), who was born and bred in luxury in Charleston, South Carolina, but cast off her material lifestyle.....
London: Printed by J. D. for Richard Chiswell, 1680. First edition. Wing B5772; ESTC R7379; Foxcroft & Clarke, A Life of Burnet, page 527. A pamphlet attributed to Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), the influential theologian and prolific writer on all things theological in England and Scotland in the latter part of.....
London: Printed for F. & C. Rivington, 1798. First collected edition. Todd 72; NCBEL II, 1184. An uncommon publisher's nonce collection of three works by Edmund Burke (1729-97), posthumously assembled, viz: Three Memorials on French Affairs, London, 1797 (first edition, fourth impression, Todd 69d); Two Letters on the Conduct of.....
Boston: Carter, Hendee, 1832. First edition. American Imprints 10803. A mock-epic poem in 266 stanzas, modeled on the style of Byron's Don Juan and written under the guise of being an historical poem about a 12th century Irish king; it was actually a political allegory on the current state of.....
The antiquary, poet, and publisher of the Lee Priory Press, Egerton Brydges (1762-1837), writes to the Scottish poet, editor, and translator Robert Pearse Gillies (1788-1858) "to thank you very warmly for your last & to say that no man of feeling & taste can possibly see the high value of.....
Paris: Printed by Hartley, Adlard and Son; London: Re-Printed for T. Williams, 1796. One of several competing editions published in London following the Paris edition of the same year, priority unknown. Gimbel, pages 60-61; ESTC N6535. A controversial attack by Thomas Paine, written when he was still in France and.....
(East Aurora, New York: Printed and Bound by the Roycrofters, 1915). First edition. A drama about the adventures of Ulysses after the capture of Troy, while en route home by sea, when he encounters the Isle of the Enchantress Circe. Isaac Flagg (1843-1931) was a Greek professor at UC Berkeley.....
(San Francisco: Printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn and James McDonald), 1923. First edition, one of 250 copies. Grabhorn Press Bibliography 52. The only book by artist Maynard Dixon (1875-1946) published in his lifetime, a fine collaborative effort with the Grabhorn Press that combines his iconic art set in the.....
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1899. First edition, limitation not stated, but it was not a large edition. ¶ A collection of short aphoristic poems by the Berkeley poet and naturalist Charles Augustus Keeler (1871-1937), lavishly produced in an arts and crafts style, evocative of William Morris and the Kelmscott.....
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873. First edition. BAL 18979; Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography, 3009. Stoddard's fine travel narrative about his sojourn to Hawaii and Tahiti in which he follows the footsteps of Herman Melville, whom he evokes. South-Sea Idyls is his second book, and is dedicated to the publisher of.....
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, issued as a leaf book; the only commentary is in the identification of the leaves. From the.....
[Venice: Aldus Manutius & Andrea Socer, 1515]. Second Aldine edition, variant issue with pages 99 and 101 incorrectly numbered 98 and 107. Gordon, Bibliography of Lucretius, 6; Adams L-1651. A fine edition of De Rerum Natura, the famous philosophical poem by Roman Titus Lucretius Carus (94?-51? BCE). Chronologically this is.....
Spoleti: Nella Stampaeria Vescovile di Giovanni Tordelli, 1759. First edition. OCLC 503696914 records one copy, at the British Library. An archeological and epigraphic study by Filippo Gelosi Rosmarini of the remains of a cemetery in the ancient town of Spoleto, Italy. It also details the inscriptions on a temple near.....
London: Printed for J. Harris, Successor to E. Newbery, at the Original Juvenile Library; and B. Crosby, 1808. First edition. A humorous tale in rhyme for children about a lobster who moves to the Americas, with factual footnotes on various kinds of fish and marine animals. The illustrations are probably.....
(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, that regulated the slave trade beginning in August, 1800 - an act.....
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......
Paris: Newly Printed at Paris and to be sold in London by John Starkey, 1670. First edition, second issue with the variant imprint on the title of volume 1. Wing describes this as an edition; Pine-Coffin as a variant. The collations of the two issues are identical. Pine-Coffin, Bibliography of.....
San Francisco: Thompson and West, 1876. First edition. Cowan, page 567; Rocq 13727; Rumsey Map Collection 2556; LeGear, United States Atlases, L478. The first of the elaborate and handsome California county atlases produced by Thompson and West of San Francisco (and later Oakland); as they state in the preface this.....
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 and 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.....
Dublin: Re-printed by, and for George Faulkner, 1752. Second Dublin edition, stated "The Fifth Edition" on the title-page; the first edition was published in London in 1737. Gove, The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction, pages 295-300; ESTC T59630. A celebrated utopian-philosophical imaginary voyage that went through numerous editions and translations.....
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.....