1871. ALCOTT, Louisa M. LITTLE MEN: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First American edition, with Sig. mark 1 ; it follows the first British edition by one month. Frontispiece and three plates inserted. [4] pp. adv., [2], 376 pp. 16mo., green cloth, lettered in gilt..... More
ALDIN, Cecil. PICKLES. London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton [n.d. ca. 1909]. 48 text pages (versos numbered to XXIV); title page and 24 litho plates. The 24 lithographs are printed on an olive green ground in black white and several colors; the title page is printed in green and..... More
19. ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. [PROSE WORKS]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, v.d. (1901-1913). Complete in seven octavo volumes. Frontispiece portrait in vols. 1 & 7. Publisher's binding of green ribbed cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, t.e.g.; uncut and unopened. A fine and fresh set in age-browned, spine-sunned..... More
1891. ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. THE SISTERS' TRAGEDY: With Other Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic. London: Macmillan and Company, 1891. First edition, inscribed by the author, December, 1906. 8vo., 205 pp., green cloth. Many signatures unopened. Slight foxing at endpapers, slight over-opening. A bright, very good copy. (BAL 356)... More
1803. ALEXANDER, Caleb. A GRAMMATICAL SYSTEM OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: COMPREHENDING A PLAIN AND FAMILIAR SCHEME, OF TEACHING YOUNG GENTLEMEN AND LADIES THE ART OF SPEAKING AND WRITING CORRECTLY THEIR NATIVE TONGUE, 7TH EDITION, CORRECTED BY THE AUTHOR. Boston: I. Thomas & E. T. Andrews, Jan. 1803. 96 pp. 12mo...... More
1926. ALEXANDER, Charles. BOBBIE: A GREAT COLLIE. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1926. 114 pp. 12mo., orange cloth stamped in blue and blind. Fine except for a touch of wear to bottom of spine; cloth and lettering clean and bright. Light thumbing to endpapers. Interior clean, with four halftone..... More
1930. ALEXANDRE, Arsene. PAUL GAUGUIN: SA VIE ET LE SENS DE SON OEUVRE. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1930. Number 57 of 150 copies, on Arches paper. 276 pp. 4to., stiff printed wrappers. Minor shelfwear to bottom edge and heel of spine. Some edges unopened. Monochrome illustrations. More
ALICKE, Walter. PRINTING AND THE PROGRESS OF MAN: A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF 680 FINE & RARE BOOKS ILLUSTRATING THE IMPACT OF PRINT ON THE EVOLUTION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION DURING FIVE CENTURIES. CATALOGUE 269. Vaduz: Interlibrum [n.d.] [unpag] 8vo., stiff wraps with paper dust jacket. Near fine, slight bowing to front..... More
1848. ALISON, Archibald. THE MILITARY LIFE OF JOHN, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848. First American edition. 410 pp. 8vo., half calf with gilt rules, raised bands, gilt black leather spine label, marbled paper covered boards and edges, endpapers marbled to match. Boards and leather worn, rubbed..... More
18. ALLEN, Fred H. THE GREAT CATHEDRALS OF THE WORLD. 2 vols. One Hundred and Thirty full page plates executed in photogravure; with explanatory and descriptive text. Folio, 3/4 morocco, black cloth, decorated cloth endpapers, spine in gilt, a.e.g. Ex-lib. A very good copy with some soiling and scuffing to..... More
1937. ALLEN, Frederick Lewis, et al... EARLY AMERICAN ROOMS. A consideration of the changes in style between the arrival of the Mayflower and the Civil War in the regions originally settled by the English and the Dutch. With articles by Allen, Elliot Bisbee, Joseph E. Chandler, Kenneth Conant, et al...Portland..... More
1944. ALLEN, Hervey. BEDFORD VILLAGE. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1944). The second of three books, issued spearately, to constitute Sylvania, Vol. I. of THE DISINHERITED. First edition, inscribed to Robert Frost on the ffep. Color frontisp. [viii],305 pp. Octavo, tan cloth, title printed in blue to spine and upper..... More
1913. ALLEN, J. A. ONTOGENETIC AND OTHER VARIATIONS IN MUSKOXEN, WITH A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE MUSKOX GROUP, RECENT AND EXTINCT. New York: Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, March 1913. New Series, Vol. I, Part IV. Folio, grey wrappers lettered in black. Illustrated with 8 black and..... More
1662. [ALLESTREE, Richard?]. THE GENTLEMAN'S CALLING. London, Printed by R. Norton for Timothy Garthwait, 1662. 12mo. [xxiv]176pp. +[4]ff. Second edition. Fine engraved frontispiece and title, with allegorical figures and scenes in architectural frames, dated 1660, the date of the first edition. With two additional plates of prophets. Allestree, a Royalist..... More
1679. [ALLESTREE, Richard] By the Author of The Whole Duty of Man, &c. THE LIVELY ORACLES GIVEN TO US. OR THE CHRISTIANS BIRTH-RIGHT AND DUTY, in the custody and use of the Holy Scripture. The Theater at Oxford, 1679. 3rd edition. [8] + 226 pp + [1] pp. With engraved..... More
1859. ALLIBONE, S. Austin. A CRITICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, And British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, From the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1859. 3 volumes. Containing 30,000 biographies and literary notices, with forty indexes of subjects. Consecutive pagination to..... More
1897. ALLINGHAM, Hugh. CAPTAIN CUELLAR'S ADVENTURES IN CONNACHT & ULSTER A.D. 1588. To which is added An Introduction and Complete Translation of Captain Cuellar's Narrative of the Spanish Armada and His Adventures in Ireland, by Robert Crawford, M.A., M.R.I.A. &c. With Map and Illustrations. London: Elliot Stock, 1897. Inscribed presentation..... More
1941. ALLISON, John M.S., ed. CONCERNING THE EDUCATION OF A PRINCE, Correspondence of the Princess of Nassau-Saarbruck 13 June-15 November 1758. New Haven: Yale, 1941. 8vo., brown paper boards. Some pages unopened. A touch of foxing to pastedowns, negligible rubbing to boards, one page carelessly opened. Near fine in dust..... More
1733. ALLYNE, JAMES. NEW ENGLISH DISPENSATORY, IN FOUR PARTS. London: Printed for Tho. Astley at the Rose, and S. Austen at the Angel and Bible, both in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1733. First edition. 8vo., xiv + [2] + 646 + [56] + [2] pp. Title continued: "Containing, I. a more..... More
1990. ALOISI, Peter. FIRE APPARATUS FIGHTING FIRES. Lynnfield, MA: Chariot Publishing Co., (1990). Wrappers. Color photo illustrations. Near fine. More
1928. ALTHAUS, Paul, & R. T. Gribble. MYSTIC LYRICS FROM THE INDIAN MIDDLE AGES. A Free Transcription by Paul Althaus. Rendered into English by R. T. Gribble. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., (1928). First edition of this English language version based upon the free transcription by Althaus. Small octavo..... More
1982. AMANDRY, Angelique. L'INDEPENDANCE GRECQUE DANS LA FAIENCE FRANCAISE DU 19E SIECLE. Athens: Fondation Ethnographique du Peloponnese, 1982. 8vo., tan boards w/dj. Text in French. Very good plus. More
1926. AMANUMA Shun'ichi. INDO BIJUTSU SHASHINSHU^. Nara, Taisho^ 15 [1926]. Two plate volumes, but lacking the explanatory booklet. Illustrated with 233 (of 240) photographs of archaeological sites throughout the Indian cultural sphere showing Buddhist and Mughal architecture, architectural details, sculptures, and - to a lesser extent - painted and tile..... More
1887. (AMERICA'S CUP). A TESTIMONIAL TO CHARLES J. PAINE and EDWARD BURGESS from the City of Boston, for their successful defence of the America's Cup. Boston: Boston City Council, 1887. First edition. Illustrated. 159 pp. Tall 8vo., brown cloth, gilt-stamped title to spine and City-of-Boston seal to upper board. this..... More