Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836. Three Quarter Leather. Small Octavo. First Published Edition. Edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson. One of 500 Copies. Bound in 3/4 black textured leather and marbled boards with gilt lettering spine, marbled endpapers. Additional lined paper pages bound in front and rear. Mild cover edge... More
London: Tho. Hodgkin (printer) Sold By John Newton, 1687. Full-Leather. Folio (11 5/8" x 7 1/2"). THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION IN ENGLISH; [18]616[i.e., 612]3; with errata at the end. Translated by John Phillips. With copper engraved frontispiece and 8 copper engraved plates, each with two illustrations. Contemporary paneled calf, expertly... More
Washington; 1855-1861: Government Printing Office. First Edition. Hard Cover. Quarto, 12 volumes in 13, uniform bindings of contemporary 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards; marbled end papers and marbled edges. A COMPLETE COPY, having all the maps, charts, color and black and white illustrations, which are called for by Wagner-Camp... More
London (1853, 1853, 1854): Bradbury and Evans. First Edition. 12mo. Three volumes in original reddish-brown cloth; first issue of all three volumes, with first state ads in volumes I, II and III, as well as the textual points called for by Walter Smith in his bibliography. Marbled edges and marbled... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. First Edition. Octavo. Original maroon morocco-grained cloth, stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt; two volumes, brown coated endpapers. Easily, a very good, unsophistocated copy of the author's first book, now quite scarce in the original cloth. Internally clean and bright, with... More
New York (1958 - 63 - 74): Random House. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. First printings, all in first issue dust jackets. INSCRIBED IN VOLUME 1 TO ANNE MERIWETHER. An exceptional set, in 3 volumes: volume I, Ft. Sumter to Perryville, with "11/58" on rear flap of dust... More
London: Harrison and Sons, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. In volume XLIX, pages 540 - 548, of Proceedings of the Royal Soceity of London. Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, was much interested in anthropometric classification. On 27 November 1890, he read a paper to the Royal Society, which was... More
London: Peter Owen Limited, 1969. First Edition. Small Octavo. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY SUE GRAFTON without personalization. Signing witness by bookseller, Charles Parkhurst. Bound in original orange boards, spine lettered in gilt; pictorial dust jacket, with price in pounds sterling on front flap. Author's second and rarest book. Only... More
Berlin: S. Fischer, 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Original pale blue cloth, decorated in gilt and black, original beige dust jacket, printed in black. The Tractat is bound in, with yellow printed wrappers, and separately paginated. 12mo, [9]10-64[33 pages, the Tractat]65-289[1]. Second issue dust jacket with 16... More
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1818. First Edition. Hard Cover. With first issue points of the imprint on verso of half-title "Printed by T. Miller, Noble Street, Cheapside" and with the 5 line errata slip, which was printed before publication and is also present in later issue copies. Bound without the... More
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1953. First Ediiton. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo, 842 pages; Original maroon cloth, with gilt letters on spine, in blue bands. Original yellow dust jacket, printed in black. SIGNED by Alfred C. Kinsey on front end paper; bookplate. A fine copy in a near... More
London: for John and Paul Knapton and John Nourse. 1742. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Full-Leather. Small Octavo. An abridgment of all the papers relating to Natural Philosophy, which have been publish’d by the members of that illustrious society, from the year 1699 to 1720. With many curious observations relating to... More
Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759. First Edition. Full Leather. The third of the first four editions, according to Bengesco, 1436, and the fourth edition, according to Wade (see Voltaire and Candide, 1959, p. 201), dated 1759 with 299 pages, clandestinely printed and published by Cramer in Geneva and preceeding the other... More
New York: Atheneum, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. Original blue cloth, xvi[226]12 pages. SIGNED BY JAMES D. WATSON ON HALF TITLE PAGE without personalization. A fine first edition review copy with review slip laid-in. Dust jacket is near fine. Housed in a custom made half calf morocco and cloth clamshell... More
N.p. National Aeronautic Association, Federation Aeronautique Internationale, 1928. Pilot's license for one Lloyd Marion Best (Nov. 25, 1905 - Jan. 11, 1993) signed by Orville Wright and Douglas Corrigan; 4 pages (2 1/2" x 4") with photo of Mr. Best, in a black leather wallet style pocket book [together with]... More