London: Printed by John NIchols for David Henry, 1787. Quarter-bound leather. [PERIODICAL] [AMERICANA]. Printed by John Nichols for David Henry and sold by Eliz. Newberry, the corner of St. Paul’s Church-yard, Ludgate-Street. First edition. 8vo; [1], 554-1200pp + [16] Index; quarter-bound brown calf with marbled boards; bookplate on front pastedown..... More
Boston, Mass. H.H. & T.W. Carter, 1871. 12mo; 210, xi pp; blind stamped pebbled brown cloth over board with gilt stamped word “Receipts.” to the spine; bumping of cover corners with loss and loss at head and tail of spine, back hinge loose but holding; very good. Scarce. Only two..... More
New York: W. H. B. Creagh, Publisher, No date [1895]. F. LUND, L. RENAULT. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; [1-4] 4-105 [13]pp; gilt stamped blue cloth over board; illustrated in the text; book plate to front pastedown, ownership in ink to front free endpaper; text followed by 11pp of..... More
London. Leather bound. [NATURAL WORLD] [SPORT: FISHING]. Printed for F. and C. Rivington, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, W. Goldsmith, J. and J. Taylor, R. Faulder, Scatcherd and Whitaker, and E. Jefferey, 1792. Fifth Hawkins edition, with additions. 12mo; First part: lxxxii, 267, [1]pp + [3]plates; Second part: xxiv, 111pp +[10]pp..... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1924. Cloth. [SPORTS]. 8vo; 62pp; navy glazed cloth over board, blind stamped borders, gilt lettering on spine; bookplate on front pastedown; black line drawings in text; fine. This lecture on rowing was first presented in 1907, and the first edition was published in 1909. The..... More
New York: Hurd and Houghton. F.O.C. DARLEY. Leather bound. [HOLIDAY] [ILLUSTRATED]. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1868. F.O.C. DARLEY, illustrator. 8vo;[i-v], vi, [iv], [1] 2-198pp; triple gilt-rules on brown morocco, gilt-stamped decorative cartouche featuring a collection of holiday symbolism front and rear; 5 raised spine bands, gilt-ruled compartments and gilt-stamped lettering on..... More
Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 47 Washington Street, 1847. Full calf. 12mo; 776 + 4pp ads; calf over board, gilt stamped black calf label to spine; bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown; ownership in ink to front pastedown and ffep; general wear and scuffing to boards and edges, front and top rear..... More
New York and London: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, 1895. Newton A. WELLS. 1/4 cloth. [ILLUSTRATED] [GARDENING / HORTICULTURE]. 4to (12” x 10 ¼”); [20pp]; quarter-bound tan gilt-stamped buckram, iridescent green textured paper with roses, gilt-stamped title to cloth label; ownership dated “Christmas 1897” to ffep; 6 color lithograph illustrated..... More
Augusta, Maine: The Maine Historic Preservation Commission and The Maine State Museum, 1980. Faux Leather. 4to; [16], 130, [10]; faux-leather over board; pictorial marbled end papers with facsimile book plates of the Willoughby’s; owner’s stamp to recto frontispiece; portrait frontispiece; facsimile of author’s hand- written 1892 pages and watercolor illustrations;..... More
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co., Publishers, 1902. Wraps. [DANCE]. First edition. 12mo; 148 + [10] advertising; color pictorial stiff wrapper printed in red and black, rear wrapper a pictorial advertisement for The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway with a vignette of children sitting on a donkey; title and..... More