Philadelphia: Gedruckt bey Edmund Y. Schelly, 1838. 12mo., 180 x 105 mm., [7 x 4 ¼ inches]. 103 pp. One woodcut illustration of a “silk reel” in the text. Publisher’s leather spine over printed boards, cut of the silk reel printed on rear cover. Paper stock toned with age, showing..... More

New York: John Ross & Co. (Nation Press), 1867 (1871).  8vo. 225 x 140 mm., [9 x 5 ½ inches].  xliv, 115 pp., with the half-title.  Bound in original purple cloth , title in gilt on front board; binding faded, front hinge cracked, yet sound; paper stock showing some browning..... More

Manchester: Kirkham & Pratt Ltd., 1912. 2 volumes. 8vo. xxiv, 652 pp.; [vi], 653-824, xlviii pp. Illustrated with 43 folding plates, 44 illustrations and diagrams, and 48 pattern cards, each with 2 mounted fabric samples. Bound in publisher's blue buckram cloth, spine gilt with title information;front hinge of volume I...... More

1820-1840. Original archive of 175 Original watercolors and pen and ink drawings  measuring 95 x 125 mm. (3 ½ x 5 inches), a dozen or so at 115 x 155 mm. (4 x 6 inches).  84 illustrations in watercolor and 94 in pen and ink, with some highlighted in color..... More

Germantown: Printed by Christopher Sower, 1760. 8vo. 180 x 120 mm., [7 ¼ x 4 ¾ inches].  [Pp. 73]- 168.  Modern calf backed marbled paper boards.  Textblock a bit toned, a few leaves slightly brittle at extremities else a very good copy in a sympathetic modern binding; probably bound by..... More

Boston: Temperance Press, Ford & Damrell, 1833. 8vo.  213 x 135 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ½ inches].  79, [1] pp.  Stitched as issued, wanting printed wrappers; Title-page and final leaf lightly soiled, otherwise a good copy. First Edition.  The evils of the lottery system are explained, both from a...... More

Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1886. 8vo. 230 x 180 mm., [9 ¼ x 7 ¼ inches]. vi + 251pp. + 2pp. of publisher’s other Howells titles. Illustrations throughout: “From Drawings and Etchings by Joseph Pennell and Others.” Publisher’s mauve-brown cloth over thick beveled boards, stamped on front and spine in..... More

Brantwood (Coniston, Windermere): Printed for the Author, ca. 1866. Narrow folio 445 x 140 mm., [17 ¼ x 5 ½ inches].  Printed on recto only.  Folded across the middle, edges with minor tears, light use and foxing at edges, First (?) separate printing of these two poems, the first on..... More

New York: Published by the Author, 1834. 8vo. 190 x 120 mm., (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches). viii, 9-179 pp. Original cloth boards, rebacked with cloth, remnants of original spine laid down. Light foxing throughout. With faults a good, sound copy. Second edition originally published in New York by H...... More

In Pisa: Per Francesco Pieraccini, 1780. Two volumes folio.  300 x 220 mm., [121 x 8 ½ inches].  [xxxi], [1], 572 pp., with engraved portrait of the author after Joshua Reynolds and two folding maps;  [4], 660, [4] pp., with two folding maps and one folding plate illustrating hieroglyphics.  Bound..... More

New York: A. S. Barnes & Burr, 1862. 8vo. 165 x 105 mm., (6 ½ x 4 ¼ inches). 232 pp. Illustrated with a woodcut frontispiece by N. Orr & Co. Brown publisher’s cloth decorated in blind; spine faded; very good sound copy. First edition. William G. Stevenson was..... More

New York: E. B & E. C. Kellogg, 1844. Together two folio, full-length lithographic silhouette images of a pair of prominent Americans, the first set against an architectural background, and the second posed in an interior parlor room space.  The lithographs measure 335 x 245 mm., [13 x 9 ½..... More