Plus Ultra
Frankfurt: Trajanus-Presse, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Wear at corners of vellum backed paste paper boards, clean internally. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 046773. More
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The Single Rose
Santa Fe: Los Santos Bookshop, 1948. First Edition. Softcover. Light wear to edges, spine worn, tiny tear at top of title page, otherwise fine internally. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Inventory No: 046772. More
God Speede the Plough
Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 400, slight wear to boards Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 046771. More
The Northern Lakes: A Summer Resort for Invalids of the South (1842)
Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 400, slight wear to boards Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 046770. More
Lola Montez: The Mid-Victorian Bad Girl in California
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1938. Mallette Dean. First Edition. Hardcover. Faint wear to boards - an attractive copy of the first Colt Press book; one of 350. Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: Mallette Dean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 046769. More
A New Orchard & Garden: or The Best Way for Planting...
London: The Cresset Press, 1927. Hardcover. Wear at corners, light soiling to boards; fine internally. An attractive edition of Lawson's New Orchard originally published in 1618. #372 of 650 copies. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Farming & Rural Life; Inventory No: 046768. More
A Directory for the Navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan, from the Straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the Passages East of Java
London: Richard Holmes Laurie, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Publishers brown cloth, wear and slight bumping to corners and spine ends, wear to spine, modest scattered foxing, generally clean internally. 1202pp complete with 9 folding plates, slight wear and a small tear in the gutter to one illustration. A.... More
The Voyage of the Challenger: The Atlantic
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). 2 volumes in publsher's green cloth. Modest wear at edges and corners, sspotting, both slightly shaken, scattered foxing and age toning internally, heavy in a few spots, some toning to a few plate margins. 168 in text illustrations, 42... More
The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor, or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship
London: JohnRichardson, 1819. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary calf backed boards, covers detached but present, modest wear and discoloration to bards, modest browning internally, a few small dampstains in the outer margins. 124pp, 113 plates and engraved title. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category... More
Terentius, a M. Antonio Mureto locis prope innumerabilibus emendatus
Venice: Aldina (Aldine), 1588. Later Edition. Hardcover. ca. late 18th century leather backed bords, spine worn, corners rubbed, head of tail of spine with loss of leather, trimmed a little close at top just touching the top title letters and the running title in places, staining to title, a few... More
Pro Sacerdotum Barbis
Rome: Calvum, 1531. First Edition. Hardcover. Modern half vellum. 16 leaves, A-D. The first edition of Valeriano's work defending Clement VII's decision to wear a beard in mourning after the 1527 sack of Rome. One of the earliest works on beards - scarce. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped... More
Granted Wishes: Three Stories
Northridge: Lord John, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 but not signed Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 046762. More
Acrobats in a Park
Northridge: Lord John, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 300, signed by Welty Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 046761. More
Entropy's Bed at Midnight
Northridge: Lord John, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 100 specially bound but unsigned - with slipcase Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Inventory No: 046760. More
Proud Flesh: Four Short Plays
Northridge: Lord John, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Purdy - one of 250; no jacket Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 046759. More
Scenic Route
Northridge: Lord John, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelfwear to jacket - signed on the title by Francis. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 046758. More
The Muddy Fork: A Work in Progress
Northridge: Lord John, 1984. Hardcover. Cloth backed decorative boards signed on half title by Crumley. Limited to 200, this an unnumbered presentation copy Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 046757. More
A Compendious History of Rome with an Appendix
Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1797. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary acid calf, boards neatly detached, very good internally, scattered light browning. Volume 1 only of an early American edition of Eutropius's Roman history. 360pp Size: Octavo (8vo). One volume of the 2-volume set. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 046756. More
A History of Three of the Judges of King Charles I: Major General Whalley, Major-General Goffe and Colonel Dixwell: Who, at the Restoration of 1660, Fled to America; and were secreted and concealed, in Massachusetts and Connecticut, for near thirty years
Hartford: Elisha Babcock, 1794. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Later half leather over marbled boards, old bookplates on endpapers, old ownership signature to endpaper - boards detached, spine defective, frontis portrait resized and tipped back in, chipped at edges, very mild scattered foxing, old repair to bottom of one folding... More
Letters from France: containing a great variety of interesting and original information concerning the most important events that have lately occurred in that country
New York: T. Allen, 1794. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full period sheep, boards reattached with tape, worn. First volume is lacking the title and most of the first page of the first letter - separate title for volume 2. First few pages worn at edges, some scattered foxing, smal... More
Vindicacion que hacen Benjamin y Tomas Laurent, confutando la esposicion que dirigo al Excmo. Sr. general en gefe del ejercito norte-americano, el R. Obispado de Cesarea
Mexico: Vicente G Torres, 1848. Softcover. Original wraps, mild wear, a few light stains internally. Details a convoluted property dispute during the US occupation of Mexico City. 47pp. Rare. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; History. Inventory No: 046752. More
Esposicion de...sobre el juicio a que se sujetó, como encargado de la administracion de la aduana maritima de Mazatlán cuando arribó al mismo Puerto la barca chilena “Natalia”, en agosto del año de 1847
Mexico: La Voz de la Religion, 1849. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full acid calf, spine label a bit worn, small burn mark to front cover, title penciled to an added endpaper, old withdrawn bookplate from Yale at rear. Details an episode where a Chilean ship the Natalia was stopped in Mazatlán..... More
Studii legalis ratio, or, Directions for the Study of the law Under These Heads
London: Francis Kirkman, 1667. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Later leather, new endpapers, quite worn, covers detached, the rear taking the last 3 pages and endpapers with it. Title trimmed a little close at the bottom, last page of preliminaries chipped at the edge touching a few letters but not... More
A Journal Comprising an Account of the Loss of the Brig Commerce Upon the Western Coast of Africa August 28th, 1815...
Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1831. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary leather, worn but sound, scattered foxing, browning to map. 20th edition. A hugely popular and influential narrative - published in a number of versions as recently as 2004. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category... More
Manitou to the Summit of Pike's Peak Altitude 14,147 Feet
Germany: 1880. Hardcover. Accordion binding, red cloth covers, covers a bit stained. Undated, ca. 1880s. 12 pages of lithographs on coated paper. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; Inventory No: 046746. More