Washington, D.C. Gales & Seaton, 1819. "Printed by order of the House of Representatives." 24 p.; 24 cm. Unopened and untrimmed. Disbound. The section on slaves provides that the state's General Assembly could not emancipate slaves without the consent of their owners or without paying "a full equivalent in money."... More
Paris: Le Décor d'Aujourd'hui, 1951. Hardcover. [14], 324 p.: 21 color plates tipped in on heavy, captioned stock, and many black-and-white photographs, drawings, and plans; 30 cm. Buff linen spine with black-stamped spine title; buff paper over boards printed in black with a leaf pattern. Grey endpaper. Lacking dust jacket... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1949. Hardcover. Three volumes in one slipcase. Saint George & the Dragon; Retold by William H. G. Kingston and illustrated by Edward Shenton. 75, [3] p.: in-text color illustrations; 31 cm. Light grey cloth with red spine and cover titles; color illustrated pastedown on front... More
![A General Abridgment of Cases in Equity, Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery, &c. with a large collection of Cases never before published. To which are added, Two Alphabetical Tables, one of the Names of the Cases, the other of the Principal Matters contained therein; by a Gentleman of the Middle Temple [Vol. 2]](/pictures/thumb/004462.JPG?v=1472082362)
London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, for T. Waller, 1769. Hardcover. "The Second Edition, with many References and considerable Additions." Attributed variously to Robert Foley, Sir Geoffrey Gilbert, Matthew Bacon, and Henry Pooley. cf. British Museum Catalogue. Vol. 2 only. [22], 780, [42] p.; 37 cm. Folio. Contemporary... More
York, Pa. P. Hardt, 1819. Hardcover. Title page continued: "arranged in so clear and concise a manner, that the most ignorant may with ease, by referring to it, execute bonds, leases, deeds, indentures, notes, articles, of agreement, &c. without application to an attorney Gentleman of the Bar . .... More
Philadelphia, Pa. Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1853. First Edition. Hard Cover. First edition. 316, 20 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary black morocco spine with gilt-tooled spine title and blind-tooled spine decoration. Black cloth over boards. All page edges marbled. Part of the series Lippincott's Cabinet Histories of the States. Added engraved... More
Boston: Wm. Bellamy, 1825. Hardcover. 152 p.; 22 cm. Red leather with gilt-tooled spine decoration and title; floral gilt-rolled border on each board. Former owner's name and date, John w. Stang, 1840, on front free endpaper and following blank leaf. Contains directions on fermentation and distillation for the production of... More
London: Printed for the Proprietor, and sold by H.D. Symonds, 1798. Hardcover. 5 volumes (vii, [1], 332 p.; vii, [1], 332 p.; viii, 320 p; viii, 322 p.; viii, 386, 2 p.): 43 leaves of engraved plates; 18 cm. Full contemporary morocco with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled... More
London: Jombert, Libraire, 1819. Seconde Édition. Imprint lists London and Paris. 3 volumes ([2], xxxvi, 356 p.; [2], 464 p.; [2], 363, [1] p.): frontispiece portrait of the author in vol. 1, and 14 additional plates (part folded); 17 cm. Contemporary half dark green morocco; white paper with green and... More
Paris: Boivin & Cie, Éditeurs, 1910. Hardcover. 84 p.: color illustrations; 37 cm. Publisher's green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; back cover decoration in black. Front cover title and illustration in red, black, blue, gilt, and grey. All page edges gilt. Brown endpapers. Title page in red and black. Part... More
![An Impartial Account of the Trial of Lord Conwallis [sic]. 3rd Baron Cornwallis Charles Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis Cornwallis of Eye, Baron.](/pictures/thumb/003506.JPG?v=1510962599)
London: s.n., 1679. Pamphlet. [2], 12 p.; 30 cm. Signatures: [A]2 B-C2 D1 (folio). Pages are untrimmed. "4" in ink at lower edge of title page. Wing I-78. Published anonymously but attributed to the defendant, Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Conwallis (1655-1698), who was tried for murder. He and another man... More
New York: Van Winkle and Wiley, 1814. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl. [4], 471, [1], 46 p.: 7 leaves of engravings (including folded plan); 22 cm. Full tree calf; six spine compartments between double gilt-ruled borders. Red leather spine label in second compartment reading: Chateaubriand's Travels. Early... More
![Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son; With Some Account of His Life [vol. 1] [provenance: Jane Buchanan Lane]. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield.](/pictures/thumb/005514.JPG?v=1495836831)
New York: C.A. Hinkley, 1824. Hardcover. Vol. 1 only. xix, [1], 405 p.; 15 cm. Contemporary tree calf with five spine compartments between double gilt rules; red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Chesterfield's Letters. Blank leaf following front endpapers inscribed, in two different hands: "?. S? Buchanan"... More
Boston: R. Herndon Co., 1901. Hardcover. Introduction by William T. Harris. xii, 491 p., frontispiece and one leaf of a plate: many full-page and in-text illustrations; 31 cm. Half calf with six spine compartments between raised bands and gilt-tooled spine title. Dark brown morocco-grain cloth over boards with gilt-tooled cover... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1863. Hardcover. "To which is added a chronological list of all the operas that have been performed in Europe." 2 volumes (xvi, 381, [1] p.; [4], 452 p.): engraved portrait frontispieces and 4 additional plates of portraits; 23 cm. Half dark green morocco with marbled... More
Philadelphia, Pa. William Cobbett, 1796. Second Edition. viii, [1], 10-56 p.; 20 cm. Signatures: pi4 B-G4 (8vo). Disbound. Evans, 30213. William Cobbett complains about everyone, including Benjamin Franklin and various Philadelphia printers and booksellers, and defends himself against accusations that he was in the pay of the British while living... More
London, Eng. Bradbury and Evans, 1848. Browne, H.K. First Edition in Book Form. Hardcover. xvi, [2], 624 p.: frontispiece, added engraved title page, and 38 additional leaves of plates; 22 cm. The First Edition in book form, with the Bradbury & Evans imprint dated 1848 on the added engraved title... More
Munich: Joseph Lentner, 1791. "Sur la seconde Edition." [8], 243, [1] p.: copper-engraved frontispiece; 16 cm. Signatures: )(4 A-P8 Q2. Full red morocco; black morocco spine label with gilt-tooled title. Blind-tooled Greek key pattern on spine; both boards have blind-tooled border. Binder is unidentified, but appears to be a late... More
London: Mary Hinde, 1774. Hardcover. The Second Edition. lxxv, [1], 371, [33] p.; 22 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Boards decorated Cambridge style. Caption title: A Journal of the Life of William Edmundson. Includes The Epistles and Papers of William Edmundson, as well as... More
Strasbourg: L'Imprimerie de F.G. Levrault, imprimeur de la Faculté de Médecine, 1837. Paperback. 27, [1] p.; 26 cm. Lacking original wrappers. "Ch Ravel" written next to title and a note in the same hand on the title page. Disbound from a collection of pamphlets owned by French homeopath Dr. Charles... More
![Ilustracion Apologetica al Primero, y Segundo Tomo del Theatro Critico: Donde se Notan mas de Quatrocientos Descuidos al Autor del Anti-Theatro; y de los setenta, que éste imputa al Autor del Theatro Critico, se rebaxan los sesenta y nueve y medio [bound with:] Justa Repulsa de Iniquas Acusaciones: Carta, en que Manifestando las Imposturas, que contra el Theatro Critico y su Autor. Benito Jerónimo Feijoo y. Montenegro.](/pictures/thumb/004682.JPG?v=1472082377)
Madrid: Blas Roman, 1781. Hardcover. xxvii, [1], 243, [1] p.; [8], 182, [2] p.; 22 cm. Signatures: a-c4 d2 A-Z4 2A-2G4 2H2; [pi]4 A-Z4. 19th-century tree calf with five spine compartments between gilt rules; boards have bevelled edges. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Feyjoo Ilustracion. Remains of... More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. Flint, William Russell. Hardcover. 123, [5] p.: color frontispiece, color title vignette, many in-text and full-page illustrations in sepia; 31 cm. Full scarlet morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled spine title and gilt-tooled Golden Cockerel emblem on... More
Venice: Camillo Borgomineri, 1593. Hardcover. "Nuouamente ristampate con le figure de gl'istrumenti, che s'appartengono all'essercitio d'vn vero, & perfetto agricoltore, et con due tauole copiosissime: vna delle dichiarationi di molti vocaboli bresciani: & l'altra delle cose più notabili, che nell'opera sono sparse." [24], 447, [1] p.: woodcut engravings; 21 cm... More
![The Poetical Works of John Gay: Including His Fables in Three Volumes With the Life of the Author [3 vols with armorial bookplate of Charles Grantham Esq.]. John Gay.](/pictures/thumb/001143.jpg?v=1472082195)
Edinburgh: Apollo Press, 1777. Hardcover. "From the royal quarto edition of 1720." 3 vols.: frontispiece portrait, 3 added engraved title pages; 13 cm. 18mo. Half black morocco (possibly dark blue originally) with marbled paper over boards. Gilt-tooled spine titles and volume numbers: Bell's Poets Gay I [-III], between gilt double... More
Albany: Re-printed by Barber and Southwick, for Thomas Spencer, book-seller, 1794. Hardcover. 458, vii, [1] p.; 17 cm. Contemporary calf with six spine compartments between gilt-rolled bands; red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title. First American edition. Early American Imprints, 1st ser. (Evans), 27057. Attributed to Oliver Goldsmith... More