London: Boosey and Sons, 1825 / 1827. Paper-Covered Boards. Uncommon English translations of these two works by German educator Bernhard Heinrich Blasche, providing "Instructive Amusement for young persons," calculated to "introduce children to the most common and practical applications of geometry." (Preface) Papyro-Plastics: Second Edition, "greatly enlarged and improved." 16mo..... more

London: printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lyon, in Pater-Noster-Row ; and W. Mears, at the Lamb, without Temple-Bar, M.DCC.XXV [but 1724]. Full Calf. First Edition, in two parts, of "perhaps Defoe's best travel book," an imaginary voyage of circumnavigation, intending to discover uncharted lands in the South Pacific. (Earle)..... more

New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of the poet's critically acclaimed first commercially published work (preceded by the privately printed pamphlet, Eleven Poems, in 1965), one of only 1,000 copies (bound from sheets purchased from Faber and Faber, Heaney's London publisher). Tall, slim 8vo..... more

London: Putnam, 1934. First Impression. Hardcover. The uncommon First British Edition of Isak Dinesen's first book. Thick 8vo: [6],522pp, with full-color frontispiece (repeating dust jacket design) by Rex Whistler. Publisher's cinnamon colored cloth, spine lettered in gilt; illustrated dust jacket, priced 7s / 6d. About Fine (spine ends bumped, top..... more

Dublin / London: Printed for William Wilson / Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1772 / 1757. Full Calf. First Editions of these two eighteenth-century poems in handsome contemporary binding with distinguished provenance. 4to (262 x 208mm): [8],50,2]; [4],156pp, with title page vignettes, list of subscribers, preliminary advertisement..... more

Paris: Auguste Udron, rue du Battoir, no. 20, 1827. Quarter-Calf. Rare First Edition of Martin's charming melon lover's manual. 12mo (129 x 75mm): [4],iv,156pp, with delicately four hand-colored lithographs depicting nine varieties of melon (in section and whole) and a Piquet à Thermomètre de Regnier. Contemporary black quarter-calf lettered, ruled..... more

London: printed for Thomas Evans in the Strand, MDCCLXXIX [1779]. First Edition thus. Paper-Covered Boards. Large Paper Copy ("A new Edition, greatly corrected, with some Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. Peck") of this "curious collection of original papers, relating chiefly to English history." (Lowndes) Two volumes bound..... more

Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1912. Pictorial Cloth. Scarce First Edition ("extremely rare") of this classic collection of antiquarian ghost stories dedicated to M. R. James. (Tymn) Crown 8vo (182 x 119mm): [8],187,[1]pp. Original pictorial coarse sky-blue cloth, spine lettered in black, front cover stamped in black and grey..... more

Boston: [printed by Samuel N. Dickinson, Washington Street] / Published by Luther Stevens, 186 Washington Street, 1843 / [n.d., but 1848-1861]. Two works documenting the first public obelisk in the United States and the technology developed to create it. First (and only) Edition of the Willard, quite scarce. Royal 8vo..... more