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Constable with His Friends in 1806, with Introduction and Commentary by Graham Reynolds.
1981. Paris and San Francisco: The Trianon Press and Genesis Publications, 1981. 5 vols., sm. 8vo, 34; 44; 64; 32; 49 pp., 4 reproducing Constable’s sketches, and 1 with Introduction and commentary by Graham. Quarter morocco and hand-marbled paper, with paper label on front, each in a brownish-red, cloth covered..... More
Cope’s Tobacco Plant A Monthly Periodical Interesting to the Manufacturer, the Dealer, and the Smoker. [12 consecutive issues for 1877, Nos. 82-93].
1877. Liverpool: John Fraser, January - December 1877. 12 numbers bound together, includes the supplement to No. 83. Folio, [148] pp., engraved headpieces and some illustrations in text. Full pebbled blue cloth, title stamped in gilt to backstrip. Occasional creasing and minor edgewear, endpapers foxed; very good. § A complete..... More
Lectures on Sculpture, as delivered before the President and Members of the Royal Academy. Second edition.
1838. London, Henry G. Bohn. 1838. 8vo, xxvii, 243pp. Portrait frontispiece on India paper, 51 plates (complete, enclosed publisher's slip states that plate #18 was never engraved). Original green cloth with printed paper spine label, rubbed and worn. Pp.33-48 are missing but this is more than made up for by..... More
[illustration to] Bell’s British Theatre. [by John Bell] (Tancred and Sigismunda, “Oh Perfidious Woman, die!”).
1792. London: J. Bell, 1792. Single plate, 6 x 3.6 inches, browned but otherwise good condition. § Illustration to “Bell’s British Theatre” engraved by Legat after a lost painting by Fuseli. More
Annals of the Parish Or The Chronicle of Dalmailing during The Ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder Written by Himself Arranged and Edited by John Galt Illustrated in Colour by Henry W. Kerr, R. S. A.
1910. London & Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1910. Thick 8vo, ix, [1], 283, [2]pp. plus frontispiece and 16 color plates. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt to top board and backstrip, dark brown endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; frontispiece and illustrated throughout in color by means of facsimile..... More
Struggles through Life, Exemplified in the Various Travels and Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, of Lieut. John Harriott, Formerly of Rochford, in Essex; now Resident-Magistrate of the Thames Police.
1808. London: Printed (for the Author) by J. Skirven and published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. 2 vols., small 8vo, xxiv, 375; xi, 347, [8] pp. Engraved portrait and one folding plate. Early half cloth over marbled boards, backstrips gilt-lettered. Old ink signature on titles and occasional penciled..... More
Mallette Dean. A Printmaker and His Art.
2018. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2018. Roy. 8vo, 170, (1, colophon)pp. Printed in red and black, with 200 color and b/w illustrations throughout. Quarter red morocco with black morocco backstrip lettered in gilt, red morocco tips, patterned boards, black silk slipcase, new. § Edition limited to 350 numbered..... More
Catalogue 50, Part I [-V]: California... The Library of Jennie Crocker Henderson with Additions.
1979. San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1979 [to 1980]. 4to, (6), 560, (21) pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Blue cloth with red gilt-lettered label. A very good, clean copy. § Five parts in one. The monumental five-part, priced catalogue of 1665 items relating to California history and literature..... More
Avon: A Poem in Three Parts.
1758. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1758. 4to, [3], 78 pp. Original wrappers bound into quarter red calf, a bit worn, occasional spotting or discoloration. Front pastedown with bookplates of Ralph Straus and Robert Hartshorne. § First edition -- K2 is signed 2K and the “O” of Poems in title is inverted..... More
Odes Sonnets & Lyrics of John Keats.
1895. Oxford: Henry Daniel, 1895. 8vo., [12], 63, [1] pp., inlaid photogravure portrait of Keats on the preliminary leaf, printers-device to verso of the Preface. Printed greenish-grey wrappers, handmade Rives paper, untrimmed and unopened. Backstrip slightly faded, some slight curling to the edges of the wraps, minor foxing to outer..... More
[Disbound/Incomplete] Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote The Knowledge and The Love of Mankind. Illustrated by more than Eight hundred engravings, Accurately Copied; and some duplicates added from originals. Executed by, or under the inspections of Thomas Holloway. Translated from the French by Henry Hunter, D.D.
1792. London: printed for John Murray, H. Hunter, T, Holloway, 1792 342 loose leaves approx. 10 5/8 x 13 1/4”, almost all with engraved plates, edges gilt. Some minor foxing to outer margins, most leaves are chipped on the edge where they were bound; very good. § Hundreds of fine..... More
The Nest.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., n.d. Folio, 11 x 14 3/4”, printed on recto only, decorative initial and tailpiece; slight foxing; good. Together with folio 11 x 14 3/4”, engraving 7 x 10”, minor foxing to edges: very good. § Single leaf describing John Linnell’s painting “The Nest,” together..... More
A Vocabulary, Or Collection of Words and Phrases Which Have Been Supposed to Be Peculiar to the United States of America. To Which is Prefixed an Essay on the Present State of the English Language in the United States.
1816. Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1816. 8vo, vii, [8]-206, [1, errata] pp. Untrimmed in the original blue paper boards, rebacked, with new paper label (original label slipped in). Boards somewhat rubbed and spotted, minor foxing; very good in a custom clamshell box. Ink inscription on title, “I. Tucker’s, presented by..... More
Heliomaster Constanti [and] Helianthea Bonapartei.
1849. [circa 1849-87]. Two hand-colored lithographs, 14 1/2 x 21 1/4”, both with a second leaf of text; matted, very good. § Plates 236 and 260 with original corresponding text from A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds Volume 4. Plates lithographed after John Gould, H.C. Richter and..... More
Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam.
1813. London: J. Johnson, 1813. 4to, 3 uncoloured plates by Blake, from Vol II; Size 26.5 x 20. 5 cm. Rather browned and foxed in places, particularly to the edges. § Third edition. The plates are: "The Quato... Monkeys", "Limes, Capsicum....", "Flagellation of a Female....". Essick, William Blake's Commercial Book..... More
Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam.
1813. London: J. Johnson, 1813. 4to, 8 plates from the 1813 (third) edition. The plates are clean and in good condition hand-coloured with the standard palette, measuring 26.5 x 20.5 cm. § The plates are - "A Free Coromantyn Negro", "A Private Marine...." , "The Mecoo and Kishee Monkeys", "The..... More