Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Charles T. Dillingham, (1882). First edition. Smith, American Travelers Abroad, B10. ¶ Detailed descriptions of life and culture in the Azorean islands by a resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and one of the earliest American travel narratives dedicated to the Azores. "The author presents the.....
Pacific Grove, California: Pacific Biological Laboratories, 1929-1930. First edition, first issue, of the second specimen catalogue issued by Ed Ricketts. OCLC records three copies of this issue (Monterey PL, Moss Landing Marine Lab & UC Santa Cruz) and does not record any other edition or issue; however, this is one.....
London: Macmillan, 1941. First edition. NCBEL IV, 770. ¶ One of the great historical and cultural accounts of Eastern Europe prior the Second World War, by author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer, Cicily Isabel Andrews (1892-1983), who famously wrote under the pseudonym Rebecca West. She was realistic about what.....
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1954. First edition, one of 300 copies printed. ¶ A charming journal kept by Una Jeffers, the wife of poet Robinson Jeffers, recording her return trip - but the first time as an adult - to Ireland, where both her parents were born. Handsomely printed.....
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[N.p., n.d., circa 1750]. A fair copy manuscript of a Spanish translation of the famous French novel by César Vichard de Saint-Réal (1639-1692). First published in French in 1672, Don Carlos – a novella about the forbidden passion between Don Carlos, the son of Philip II of Spain, and his.....
London: Printed for T. Davies, 1768. First edition. NCBEL II, 841; Fleeman 68.12HC/1a; ESTC T3451. ¶ The first of three plays by John Hoole (1727-1803), translator and aspiring writer. Hoole was a friend of Samuel Johnson and a member of his Essex Head Club. Johnson wrote the dedication to Cyrus.....
London: Printed by Sam. Buckley and sold by Ferd. Burleigh, 1714. First edition, second issue, with the imprint changed from 1713 to 1714. Rothschild 1950; ESTC T34402; NCBEL II, 1115. A widely circulated and controversial polemic on the question of Hanoverian succession by Richard Steele (1672-1729), which - together with.....
London: Wm. H. Allen, 1863. Second edition, revised; the first edition was published the year before. NCBEL III, 755. The papers and journals of the lively novelist and traveller Lady Morgan (1776-1859) that she left to her friend and literary executor, William Hepworth Dixon, who skillfully edited it, with the.....
Boston: Printed by Young and Etheridge, 1792. First edition. Stoddard & Whitesell 444; Evans 24643. An elaborate and lofty philosophical poem on the cultural advancement of man, modeled on the works of Alexander Pope and Mark Akenside. Handsomely printed with liberal use of ornaments - or "pretentious use" according to.....
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.....
Dallas: The Book Club of Texas, 2014. First edition, second issue; 375 copies printed. The first issue contained printer's errors and the majority of it was pulped. Fewer than ten copies of the first issue survived. Designed by David Holman at the Wind River Press. ¶ Franklin Gilliam, Texas Bookman.....
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2019. First edition. A bio-history of the engaging San Francisco bookseller and botanical printmaker Henry Evans (1918-1990), who founded the Porpoise Bookshop and Peregrine Press in San Francisco in the early 1950s with the assistance of wife Patricia and daughter Judith. Evans later.....
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.....
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.....
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[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 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......
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.....