Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1913. Second Edition. Stamped Cloth. Second (and final) Edition (first appeared in 1901), published only in German, with details of a new arrangement of paintings at the Hermitage recently completed. Small, slim 8vo: xxii,134pp, with 5 maps (including one of Russia on rear end papers), 11..... more

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1929. Early Reprint. Stamped Cloth. Twelfth Revised Edition, one of the rare uncorrected copies with the typo "togethep" on title page (most copies were corrected by hand in ink). Small 8vo (157 x 103mm): lxiv,518pp, with 86 maps and plans, two panoramas, and street index of..... more

London: Mills & Boon, Limited, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression (published August 1909 on verso of title page) of this "extremely difficult to find" collection of 25 weird, supernatural, and fantastic stories. Crown 8vo (189 x 121mm): [2],x,306,[2]pp. Publisher's forest green cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt..... more

Hafinae & Lipsiae [Copenhagen and Leipzig]: Printed By Pelt, Friedrich Christian, 1766. Early Reprint. Full Leather. Fourth Edition, in Latin, of one of the most popular eighteenth-century utopian novels (second only to Gulliver's Travels), eventually reaching some 60 editions in 13 different languages. Small 8vo: [10],360pp, with portrait frontispiece, engraved..... more

London: reprinted for J. Johnson, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1794. Three-Quarter Calf. Styled on title page "Second Edition in London" (although only the title page differs from the first London edition, according to Sabin, and indeed, in our copy, is on heavier stock) of this classic account of natural history..... more

Oxoniæ [Oxford]: e theatro Sheldoniano, MDCCXLV [1745]. First Edition thus. Quarter-Calf. Two works bound in one, each with half-title and title page, registration, and pagination. Text in Latin (an English translation, in octavo, appeared in 1774). 4to: [12],138,[4]; [4],164pp, with 16 plates (including seven folding and one double-page) and four..... more

London: Printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-Bar, for T. Egerton, Military Library, Near Whitehall, 1812. Morocco. Second Edition of the first book in English on target rifle shooting (the Latinized title means The Militiaman) and attempts to increase the accuracy of long-barreled firearms. Tall 8vo: xxiv,251,[7]pp, including errata sheet, with..... more

London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. A superb First Impression (with misprint "hölder" for "holder" on p. 70) of Beckett 's scarce first commercially published book (after Whoroscope, brought out the previous year by Nancy Cunard's Hours Press), one of only 3,000 copies printed. Crown 8vo (185..... more

Paris: Audot, Editeur, rue des maçons-sorbonne, no. 11, 1828. Wrappers. A charming juvenile, with directions, patterns, and finished views for the construction of paper and cardboard toys—a sentry box, a thatched cottage, furniture, a bridge, a windmill, a medieval tower, and more—intended to teach elementary geometric concepts. 12mo (146 x...... more

Richmond: Printed and Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, Hogarth House, 1923. Pictorial Boards. One of 400 copies printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Royal 8vo (257 x 186mm): 25,[1]pp, with frontispiece and one further drawing by Duncan Grant and one figuree by Vanessa Bell. Original..... more

London: John Lehmann, 1946. First UK Edition. Hardcover. First Impression ("First published in England 1946") of this slim, quiet masterpiece (Bellow's first book) from the Nobel prizewinning author of Herzog, Augie March, and Henderson the Rain King. Slim crown 8vo (184 x 119mm): 191,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven sunflower cloth, spine..... more

New York: Viking Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of Bellow's masterwork. 8vo: [8],341,[1]pp. Publisher's mottled blue cloth, spine stamped in silver, upper board titled in blind, top edge stained light blue; illustrated dust jacket priced $5.75. Signed by Bellow on first end sheet (as usual). Laid in is..... more

Paris: E. F. D'Allignan, 1919. Illustrated Wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies on Rives à la forme, from a limited edition of 347, of Belot's fourth book. Text in French. 8vo (285 X 210mm): [68]pp on double-fold sheets, divided into seven sections and profusely illustrated with woodcuts in black and..... more