London: printed, for A. Bettesworth in Pater noster Row, & J. Clarke under the Royal Exchange, [1723?]. Full Calf. Unusually scarce first edition of Hewett's book of tables for calculating simple interest, brokerage commissions, and time, entirely engraved throughout by John Pine. Squarish 8vo (149 x 124mm): [64]pp, with engraved..... more

London: Published by John Murray, 1853. First Edition. Morocco. First Edition of this truly fascinating account, important for its descriptions of the manners, customs, and culture of the Inuit and other native tribes, particularly the Chukchi (Tuski) people. Thick 8vo: xv,[1],417,[1]pp, with 4 full-page tinted lithographs (by J. Brandard after..... more

København [Copenhagen]: Glydendalske Boghandels Forlag (F. Hegel & Son), 1890. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing of perhaps Ibsen's "most frequently performed play in the modern theatre." (PMM) In Danish (then the literary language of both Denmark and Norway). Foolscap 8vo: [4],236pp. Publisher's green cloth (copies were also identically bound..... more

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Fredericum Haaring, et Davidem Severinum Bibliopolas [through 1700], 1699. Vellum. First Leiden Edition of the Dialogo (Fourth Latin Edition, Fifth Edition overall) of Galileo's celebrated defense of the Copernican view of the solar system, bound with bound with the First Latin Edition (third overall) of the..... more

London: printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1758. First Edition thus. Full Calf. First Annotated Edition, illustrated (grangerized) with the full suite of 32 double-page plates by William Kent for the 1751 edition of Spenser’s Faerie Queene, published by Stephen Wright and John Brindley (ESTC T35152). 4to: xlii,(68, including glossary),673,[1];..... more

London: Constable, 1914. First Edition thus. Half-Leather. First English-language Edition of this manifesto for abstract art, translated, and with an introduction, by Michael Sadler. Wide 8vo: xxvii,112pp, with 9 sepia plates and 3 full-page figures printed in black and red. Publisher's blue leather spine over marbled boards, maroon leather lettering..... more

Amsterdam: Chez M. Magérus, Libraire, MDCCLXXI [1771]. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Rare French Edition of the first compendium of fruit arboriculture with 39 folding copper-engraved plates in fine contemporary hand coloring. Two foolscap-folio volumes bound in one: [ii],160,[iv],161-205,[1], with 19 plates (quince, cherry, plum, fig, currant, almond, chestnut, apricot..... more

Amsterdam: chez Pierre Humbert, 1724. First Edition. Full French calf. First Illustrated Edition, complete in two volumes bound in one, of this history of the Council of Pisa. 4to: liii,366; 327,[31]pp, with 16 full-page copper-engraved plates (portrait of the author by J. Houbraken after A. Pesne, one of the Prussian..... more

London: printed for Jacob Tonson, at Gray’s-Inn Gate next Grays-Inn Lane, 1699. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Third Edition (so stated) of this account of the author's travels to Paris, overflowing with observations of natural history collections, estates and libraries of Parisian society, and commentary on science, art, food, wine, medicine..... more

Birmingham: typis Johannis Baskerville, MDCCLXXII [1772]. First Edition thus. Full Calf. First Baskerville Edition, one of the "noble quartos," prized "for their magnificence of type, paper, ink, and presswork." (DNB) 4to: [2],280pp. Period-style twentieth-century gilt-tooled mottled calf, flat spine in six compartments divided by triple-gilt rules with gilt devices and..... more

London: printed for B. White and Son, at Horace’s Head Fleet-Street; and J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1788. First Edition. Full Calf. First edition. 8vo: iv,183,[1]pp (p.142 mispaginated 147), with folding copper-engraved frontispiece of a view of the island Bananas and large folding map of part of the coast of Africa, from..... more

Boston: Roberts Brothers [through 1871], 1870. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. Early printings, four parts in three volumes (as issued), the complete Author's Edition, with title pages dated as follows: Volume I (1870); Volume II (1871); Volume III (1871). otherwise light wear. Uniformly bound in publisher's emerald green cloth, spines..... more

Derby: Re-printed {Printed] at the Office of J. Drewry, 1811 / 1808. First Edition. Diced Russia. 4to: 46; 46pp, with engraved frontispiece facing each title page, engraved by John Landseer (father of the better-known painter Edwin Landseer) after drawings by Mary Emmas Sneyd. Contemporary diced russia, covers stamped in blind..... more