Madrid: Imprenta de Sancha, 1790-93. A mixed set of later printings or editions; the first editions of the five volumes were originally published over a six-year period beginning in 1786. Cf. Palau 12207. The popular and influential account of Italy by Juan Andrés y Morell (1740-1817), the Spanish Jesuit priest.....
San Francisco: Peregrine Press, Porpoise Bookshop and Henry Evans, Printmaker, 1948-1990.
(Privately Printed for A.T.B., 1926.), First edition, one of fifty copies printed. A small keepsake, commemorating the life of the famous eccentric writer Frederick Rolfe, "Baron Corvo." Accompanied by a similar memorial for the 50th anniversary of his death with the caption title "Reprinted from The Times / October 25.....
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.....
London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1887. First Shelley Society edition, third printing (stated "Third Edition"), one of 150 copies. The Shelley Society's Publication, Second Series, No. 1. Bookplate of Louis V. Ledoux on the front paste-down.
London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1887. First Shelley Society edition, third printing (stated "Third Edition"), one of 150 copies. The Shelley Society's Publication, Second Series, No. 5. Bookplate of Louis V. Ledoux on the front paste-down.
London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1887. First Shelley Society edition, second printing (stated "Second Edition"), one of 150 copies. The Shelley Society's Publication, Second Series, No. 3. Bookplate of Louis V. Ledoux on the front paste-down.
Cambridge: The Riverside Press (for Houghton Mifflin), 1902. First edition, one of 500 numbered copies; this one is unnumbered and is designated "Publisher's Copy. / Not to be sold." BAL 18026. The first collected edition of the poetry of Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887), a fine production by the Riverside Press.....
London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1783. First and only edition. ESTC T52283. A satire on the Lords Temporal and Spiritual, in which the anonymous author challenges the influence and secret dealings that take place in their high offices to their advantage and to the detriment of all others. Sir Robert.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878-9. First combined edition of the two poems. BAL 1771; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, 982 and 1797. An attractive edition of William Cullen Bryant's first and final poems, with fine Doresque wood-engraved illustrations by William J. Linton. This was a memorial edition published.....
London: Printed for M. Stern, 1738, 1740, 1739 & 1741 (respectively); London: Printed for G. Hawkins, 1744 (fifth part). Second edition of volumes one and two; first editions of volumes three, four and five. ESTC T94842, T94839 and T179578, etc. An series of five classically-styled dialogues by Henry Coventry (1710-1752).....
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.....
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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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.....
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.
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.....
London: Printed by Brettell for Appleyards, 1808. First edition. The first of three plays by Marie Therese Kemble (1774-1838), the Austrian-born English actress and mother of Fanny Kemble. She moved to England at an early age and became a popular child actress. She later married actor Charles Kemble, for whom.....
Paris: Eugene Renduel, Editeur-Libraire, 1829-31. Second edition of volume one, published the same year as the first; first edition of volume two. An early and scarce work by Paul Lacroix (1806-84), French antiquary, bibliographer, editor and author of novels and short tales, who often wrote under the pseudonym "Bibliophile Jacob,".....
First or early editions. Various places and publishers, 1655-1897. See Beverly Seaton, The Language of Flowers, A History. University Press of Virginia, 1995. The core of this collection of language of flowers titles was assembled by Doris Ann Elmore, a French teacher in San Francisco and lifelong Francophile. The collection.....
London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1802-1807. The 1801, 02 & 05 volumes are second editions; the 1803-04 volumes are first editions. Lowndes, page 1901; NCBEL III, 1873; Brewer, Leigh Hunt, pages 15-16; ODNB. In 1801 Richard Alfred Davenport (1776-1852), an aspiring poet and energetic author, began independently issuing.....
(San Francisco: The Jumbo Press, 1955). First edition, one of a very few copies for private circulation. OCLC records three copies (BCC, Wellesley & Brigham Young); not in the Grabhorn Press Bibliography. The second broadside Jane Grabhorn wrote and printed for her husband Robert on the occasion of his birthday.....
London and New York: Macmillan, 1892. Second edition, revised and augmented, large paper issue, number 93 of 200 numbered copies. NCBEL III, 1441; Colebeck, A Bookman's Catalogue, Lang 69. A elaborate production, in which its author questions in his Preface to the Second Edition, the worth and validity of the.....