London: J. Robins & Co, London, 1822. Frontispiece, iv, 262p. 19th century quarter green morocco over marbled boards and marbled endpapers. With 46 full page steel engravings. First printed in 1820 whereof most copies where apparently lost in a fire. See Lowndes V p2416. Inner spine sewing cracked by p118.....
Philadelphia: Rice, Rutter & Co., 1867. Four volumes. Original brown cloth stamped in blind with a gilt foredge. Nicely illustrated. Scattered marginal foxing. Some offsetting from the binding to the front paste down otherwise a very well-preserved set with some minor rubbing along the extremities.
Nendeln: The Huguenot Society of London/Kraus Reprint, 1969. Hardcover. xiv, 167p; vii, 272p; 514p. Dark blue cloth. Publications include: Registers of the French Non-Conformist Churches of Lucy Lane and Peter Street, Dublin. Edited by Thomas Philip le Fanu; History of Walloon & Huguenot Church at Canterbury by Francis W. Cross;.....
Nendeln: The Huguenot Society of London/Kraus Reprint, 1969. Hardcover. liii, 258p; vi, 364p. Dark blue cloth over boards. Publications include Letters of Denization and Acts of Naturalization for Aliens in England 1509- 1603 edited by William Page. The Registers of the French Church, Threadneedle Street, London by William John Charles.....
London: The Huguenot Society of London/Kraus Reprint, 1890. Hardcover. xii, 126p; vii, 329p; 172p. Old buckram. Publications include: Les Actes des Colloques des Englises Francaises et des Synodes des Eglises Etrangeres refugiees en Angleterre 1581-1654 by Adrian Charles Chamier. Lymington 1890. Limited to 500 copies where of this is numbered.....
London: Gall & Inglis. Hardcover. Frontispiece, iv, 318p. Contemporary polished calf with the arms of the Preparatory School in Weston-Super-Mare on the boards. Marbled end papers and fore-edge with a richly gilt spine. Eight illustrations in the next. Some foxing on the preliminary pages otherwise a fresh clean copy. A......
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1893. Frontispiece, li, 572p: Frontispiece, xviii, 639p. Publishers original blue cloth over boards. From the Dover Public Library with an old bookplate and the card pocket at back. But clean and well preserved. The name Samuel B. Shackford appears on the bookplate as the donor. Jared.....
Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Gleditschens Handlung, 1784. 2 volumes. 2496 columns: 2364 columns. Quarter Parchment over marbled boards. First volume covers A and B and is printed in 1784. The second volume covers C through I and is printed in 1787. The original edition of Adelung's continuation of Joecher's critical bio-bibliographical.....
Chicago: The Chicago Historical Society, 1968. xiii, 92p. Publishers cloth with a crisp clean dust jacket.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. Ex Library. xxviii, 607p: vii, 741p. Publishers blue cloth over boards. Institutional rubber stamp on the title page and a few additional pages otherwise internally clean.
New York: Carey and Hart, 1841. Frontispiece, 514p: 508p: 535p: 531p. Contemporary quarter blue leather over marbled boards with richly gilt spines and marbled end papers. From the Library of Leo & Helen Leventritt with bookplates in all four volumes. Henry St. John 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) was a British.....
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853. Ten volumes. Contemporary three-quarter polished tax calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised boards, red and black morocco spine labels, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Later edition of the most celebrated of literary biographies with engraved frontispiece, vignette title pages and 28 portraits, views and facsimiles (12.....
Boston: W. G. Thompson, 1880. Frontispiece, xii, 585p. Original brown cloth over boards. James Sanks Brisbin (1837 - 1892) was an American educator, lawyer, historian, author and soldier. Old inscription on the inside front blank. A well-preserved copy.
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1898. frontispiece, xii, 286p. Original cloth over boards. Biography of John Hancock. Minor rubbing to the headband, otherwise a fresh clean copy. The author was a Boston politician.
Frankfurt: Daniel Gorlini, 1680. Hardcover. [6], 460p, [14]. Contemporary velum. Written by German humanist Gabriel Bucelinus (1599-1681). Front end paper loose exposing the front board. One leaf from the preface detached and tear in the errata leaves with loss of a few words and one leaf detached. A little shaken.....
Munchen: George Muller, 1908. Hardcover. xxviii, 319p: 377p. Publishers quarter cloth over blue paper covered boards and endpapers. Includes the original chipped glassine paper dustjacket. Limited 650 numbered copies whereof this copy actually numbered 672. Some light spotting to the fore edges otherwise a well preserved copy nicely printed. Light.....
New York: Charles Scribner & sons, 1906. Hardcover. Frontispiece, xii, 303p; Frontispiece, x, 357p. Original burgundy cloth over boards. A fresh clean set from the Library of Edgar S. Barney (1861-1938) with bookplate inside the front board in both volumes. Also includes a Scandinavian Christmas gift sticker on the inside.....
New York: Harper A. Brothers, 1950. Frontispiece, 500p. Publishers red cloth. Lacking the dustjacket. A fresh clean copy of the stated first edition.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1937. Hardcover. 133p. Publishers brown cloth. A scholarly study of a remarkably individuals. Includes a short title listing of Porson work at the end. Ex Library copy with bookplate and shelf number on the spine. Still internally a fresh clean copy. 12mo - over 6¾.....
New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1909. Frontispiece, xxvi, 380p; 489p. Publishers original green cloth over boards. The "Popular Edition" with two volumes published in one. Minor general wear as a result of use.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887. Frontispiece, 702p. Original pictorial brown cloth rebacked with the original spine laid down, pattered endpapers. First edition of Elizabeth Custer's famous defense of Custer, with engraved frontispiece illustrations, including 22 full-page and two maps in original cloth. Minor offsetting to preliminary leaves.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. 465p. Publishers hardback. Jacket preserved in archival cover. Small tear and jacket's rear cover and a few chips along the extremities, otherwise internally clean. First edition with the A on the copyright page.
Little Rock, Ark: Tunnar & Pittard, 1899. Frontispiece, 488p. Original brown cloth over boards. Title lettered in gold on the front board. Major William S. Dunlop (1833-1914). First edition of this Civil War memoir. William Degge in Sons of Confederate Veterans, Benton County, Arkansas 2009 writes "Major Dunlop was first.....
New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. Hardcover. iv, 389p, 336p, xx. A reprint of the second edition first published in 1880. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Boston: Charles Bowen, 1833. xvi, 295p. Contemporary paper covered boards with a cloth spine. Front board detached. Kept in a slipcase box with dark brown morocco spine. First American edition based on letters and documents gathered by Jared Sparks. With a contemporary signature of Lucy Ann Kellogg, New York on.....