Washington: [Privately Printed], 1907. First edition, privately printed. BAL 32. One of the most famous of all American autobiographies and the book for which Henry Adams is best known: a rich exploration of history and the writing of history told through Adams' life. Henry Adams published two great works of.....
New York: Published by D. Longworth, at the Shakespeare Gallery, L. Nichols, Print, 1804. First edition illustrated by Alexander Anderson, issue without the series title for Longworth's Select Modern Poets. Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, 224; not found in American Bibliography. An early work by the prolific American wood engraver.....
Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 5606 [1845]. First edition, first printing; there was a second printing dated 1846. Singerman, Judaica Americana, 881; not found in Rosenbach. A seminal document of the American Jewish Publication Society, a pioneering organization dedicated to the advancement of Jewish culture and religion in America, founded in Philadelphia.....
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Litchfield, (CT): Printed by Collier and Buel, [1793]. First edition, state A. Stoddard & Whitesell 448; Wegelin 489; Evans 25104; BAL 4976 (Dunlap) & 5046 (Dwight). The first anthology of American poetry; a second volume was planned, but never published. Smith (1771-1798), a physician and author who died at 28.....
San Francisco and New York: A. Roman & Co., 1863. Second edition, enlarged. Sabin 51211; Wagner-Camp 336n; Howes M-869. An early work on Arizona by speculator, miner and promoter Sylvester Mowry (1830-71), which was first published in Washington in 1859 as an effort to persuade Congress into designating Arizona a......
San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1931. First edition, one of 350 numbered copies, this one out of series. A dialogue between the book collector and scholar, Daniel Willard Fiske (1831-1904) and Walter Savage Landor, set in Villa Landor in Italy, where Landor had once lived and where Fiske.....
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.....
Edinburgh: Printed by John Pillans for John Thomson; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1826. First edition. OCLC records ten copies (including a second or variant issue). A collection of almost 90 literary anecdotes, including ones about Burns, Byron, Shelley, Boswell and John Gay, interspersed with occasional miscellaneous pieces, such.....
London: Printed in the Year, 1689. First edition. ESTC R10117; Wing S5329; NCBEL I, 1223 (A. Marvell). 28 tracts on English affairs during the reign of Charles II, written mostly as anonymous pamphlets during the decade 1671-1681 and compiled here as an act of preservation "for the sole use of.....
London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1781. First edition. ESTC T32385 records eight locations in the British Isles and three in the US (Getty, Texas and Yale). A satirical review of an imaginary exhibition by real artists at the Royal Academy, dedicated to Joshua Reynolds, a founder and the first president.....
London: Printed by Malachi****, for Edith Bates, Relict of the Aforesaid Mr. Bates, and sold by W. Owen, 1756. First edition. ESTC T77673; Block, The English Novel, page 140. A forerunner to Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, with numerous parallels in style and subject matter. In.....
London: William Pickering, 1851. First edition. OCLC records six copies (Harvard, State Library of South Australia, Queensland, BL, Cambridge and National Library of Scotland). An anonymous philosophical poem in 35 parts of three and four stanzas each, handsomely printed by Charles Whittingham for Pickering. Inscribed on the front paste-down "To.....
London: Printed for J. Bell, 1786. First edition. Sabin 61167; ESTC T43897. An opera in part based on Marmontel's Tale of the Coralie, with music by James Hook (1746-1827). A note on the front free endpaper in a learned bookseller's hand attributes the authorship to Harriet Horncastle Hook, the wife.....
London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Sold by J. Bell, 1801. First edition. Summers, Gothic Bibliography, pages 525-26; and see Richard Garnett, Original Poetry By Victor & Cazire (John Lane, 1898). An anonymously compiled collection of 20 tales in verse which parody M. G. Lewis' popular Tales of Wonder (1801).....
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. First edition, the issue with the price beneath the imprint. ESTC T187239; Foxon A296; Hayward 168; NCBEL II, 535. A long poem in blank verse on the virtues of fresh air, diet, exercise, and the passions. John Armstrong (1709-1779 ) was a Scottish-born physician.....
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E. Edwards, Photo.: N. Y. Photo-Gravure Co, n. d., A fine photograph of the Chicago home of Franklin MacVeagh, at the corner of Lake Shore Drive and Shiller Street, designed by H. H. Richardson, who received the commission in July 1885. The house was completed in 1887, the year following.....
London: Printed by C. Ackers for J. Wilford and J. Clarke, 1734. First edition. ESTC T56391; NCBEL II, 798: "Doubtfully attributed to Ralph." A detailed travel guide to London's architecture, monuments, fashionable squares, and statues from "mere Gothic heaps of stone, without form or order" to the stately works of.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Munday and Slatter, Oxford, 1813. First edition. NCBEL II, 1682. A collection of over 150 letters, mostly concerning the recording of information of historical and biographical significance; thus there are letters about the merits of George Ballard's Memoirs of Several.....
Taunton: Printed by and for Thomas Norris; London: Sold by Carpenter, E. Newbery, Hurst and Co., [et al], (1800). First edition; there were two subsequent editions. ESTC T108778 records five copies in the British Isles (BL [2], Morrab, Oxford, Somerset; and five in North America (HEH, Columbia, Free Library of.....
Santa Fe, N. M.: Privately Printed by The Rydal Press, 1935. First edition. A poem by Western author Mary Austin (1868-1934) about "what I shall do when I am dead." Small stamp of the "Bender Coll" on the rear blank.
London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. Robinson, Wayward Women, page 275; Pine-Coffin, page 175. The first of two travel narratives by English poet Marianne Baillie (1775-1831), written with a "ladylike attitude to touring" (Robinson), in which she extols the beautiful, but is easily uncomfortable with surroundings to which she is.....
London: Printed by Richard Bishop, 1651. The last 17th century edition. ESTC R12723; Wing B547; NCBEL I, 1083. A popular mid-Tudor work on moral philosophy by the poet, satirist and printer William Baldwin (circa 1518-1563?), "a literary innovator whose works influenced writers as historically distant and as thematically diverse as.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1906. First edition. Smith, American Fiction 1900-1925, B-389. The first novel by one of the most popular American novelist from the turn of the century, Inscribed on the front free endpaper to collector John Stuart Groves: “To Mr. John Stuart Groves / A......
London: Printed and Sold by A. Millar, 1760. First and only edition; there was a reissue in 1861 with a cancel title. ESTC T136422; NCBEL II, 640. The first book by the Scottish poet and philosopher James Beattie. Ink signature of Jas. French, dated 1764, on the title-page.
Alexandria: Printed by Cottom and Stewart, Booksellers, 1802. First American edition. American Bibliography 1860; cf. Garside & Schöwerling 1801:15 for the English edition. The first American edition of Thomas Bellamy's picaresque novel about young boy, Alfred, who is abandoned by his mother and lives through numerous "calamitous vicissitudes" as a......