![The seasons. By Mr. Thomson [Subscribers Edition]. James THOMSON](/pictures/thumb/BB1652.jpg?v=1551965347)
London: [none given], Printed in the Year M.DCC.XXX [1730]. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Subscribers Edition of Thomson's masterpiece, and perhaps the most popular English-language poem in blank verse (running to some 5500 lines in its final form) from Milton to the Romantics, as well as "one of the earliest..... more
![Musical Score] Stabat Mater : for Soprano and String Quartet [Inscribed]. Virgil THOMSON](/pictures/thumb/BB1846.jpeg?v=1588779302)
New York: Cos Cob Press, 1933. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Text, in French, by Max Jacob. Crown 8vo (180 x 133mm): 9,[1]pp. Publisher's original tan wrappers printed and decorated in red and black. Front wrapper inscribed: "love & faithfulness / Alfred / from / Virgil." "Alfred," according to a notation..... more
London: printed for the author, and sold by G. Robinson, T. Becket, and J. Robson, MDCCLXXV [1775]. First Edition. Full Leather. First Quarto Edition (a two-volume duodecimo Dublin edition also was published) of the book Dr. Johnson called "as good as the first book of travels you will take up..... more
![Armorial Binding] Praedium Rusticum. Jacques VANIÈRE](/pictures/thumb/BB1467.JPG?v=1499085302)
Paris [Lutetiae Parisiorum]: Apud Joannem Le Clerc, M. DCC. VII. [1707]. First Edition. Full Calf. 12mo: [6],268,[12], with engraved initials and head and tail pieces, and 10 charming full-page plates by Laurent Cars after Dumesnil, one at the beginning of each book. In Latin. Full speckled calf, contemporary to publication..... more
![Art Journal] Noise 5; [with] Noise 6; [and with] Noise 15/16. artists and authors](/pictures/thumb/BB2228.jpeg?v=1588908783)
Paris: Maeght Editeur [through 1992], 1986. Three issues of Maeght Editeur's beautifully produced, outsized contemporary art and literary journal, Noise, all Fine and profusely illustrated in color. Crown Folio (368 x 268mm): 56; 56; 80pp, with numerous reproductions of original lithographs (mostly double-page, on card and included in pagination). Publisher's..... more
![Emblem Book] Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata, imaginibus in aes incisis, notisque illustrata....](/pictures/thumb/BB1106.JPG?v=1499796727)
Bruxellis [Brussels]: Apud Franciscvm Foppens, M.DC.LXXXII. [1682]. Early Reprint. Full Calf. 4to: [8],205,[3]pp, with full-page engraved coat-of-arms, portrait of "Octavio Vaenius," and 103 engraved emblems with mottoes in Latin and stanzas in French below each plate and verses in Latin, Italian, Dutch and French on verso of preceding plate. Contemporary..... more
![Judaica] De synagoga vetere libri tres : quibus tum de nominibus, structurâ, origine,...](/pictures/thumb/BB1022.jpg?v=1499796714)
Franequeræ [Franeker, the Netherlands]: Typis & impensis Johannis Gyzelaar, illustr. Frisiæ Ordd. atque eorundem Academiæ typograph. ordinar. MDCXCVI [1696]. Second Edition. Vellum. Small 4to, complete in two continuously paginated volumes. [30],608,[6],609-1138, [38, indices, addenda, emendanda]pp, with the identical additional engraved title page, showing Jews before a temple and signed "J..... more
London: printed for I. Tonson in Ye Strand, MDCCXXIX [1729]. First Edition. Full Calf. Large 4to: [18],450,xci,[1]pp, with engraved title page, four full-page copper-engraved plates (including frontispiece portrait of Waller engraved by Vertu after Kneller), and numerous superb head- and tailpieces and historiated initials. Contemporary cambridge-style calf, sides decorated in..... more
[Twickenham]: Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill [through 1771], MDCCLXII. [1762]. First Edition. Complete in five volumes, all first editions (one of only 300 sets, according to Hazen), dated 1762, 1762, 1763, 1763, and 1771, with 110 full-page copper-engraved plates. 4to, in half sheets: xiii,[2],168, [14,appendix],[6, index],errata leaf; [2],158, [51..... more
London: printed for William Bathoe in the Strand, M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]. Early Reprint. Full Calf. 8vo: xxiv, 200pp. Beautifully rebound by Fitterer in period style, with chestnut calf spine in six compartments divided by raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece gilt, hand-marbled paper-covered boards, end papers renewed. A...... more
London: Printed for S. Bagster, in the Strand, By R. Watts, at Broxbourne, on the River Lea, Herts, MDCCCXV [1815]. Full Calf. 8vo: [2],514p,[20]pp, with 13 (of 14) full-page engraved plates and 36 further illustrations (17 of fish, 2 maps of the River Lea & the River Dove, 2 autograph..... more
![Children's Literature] Original stories from real life with conversations, calculated to regulate...](/pictures/thumb/BB1281.jpg?v=1503665084)
London: printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1791. Second Edition. Vellum. First Edition illustrated by William Blake (and first to carry Wollstonecraft's name on title page) of this didactic collection of stories for children. 12mo: viii,[4],177,[3,advertisements]pp, with six full-page copper-engraved plates (including frontispiece) designed and engraved by..... more
![Peter Bell, A Tale in Verse [Wm. Rossetti's Copy, Signed]. William WORDSWORTH](/pictures/thumb/BB2063.jpg?v=1568470713)
London: Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode, Printers-Street | For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orne, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1819. Early Printing. So-called "Second Edition," but largely a reprinting from standing type of the first edition, with first gathering reset and advertisement added to half title verso. Demy 8vo (222 x 135mm): viii,88,[4]pp..... more
London: printed by J[ames].C[ottrell]. for Thomas Dring, at the Harrow at the corner of Chancery-Lane in Fleetstreet, 1675. "The second edition carefully corrected and amended, with many large and useful additions throughout the whole work." Folio (290 x 187mm): [36],324,[4]pp, with additional engraved title page signed: F H Van Hove..... more
London: Printed by Thomas Maxey, for R. Marriot, G. Bedel, and T. Garthwait, 1651. First Edition. Full Calf. 12mo: [60],540pp, with four copper-engraved portraits (of Wotton, Charles I, the Duke of Buckingham, and the Earl of Essex). Contemporary calf, flat spine with later red morocco lettering piece gilt, plain period..... more
London: Printed by W. Stratford, Crown-Court, Temple-Bar; For J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, 1802. Early Reprint. Original Wrappers. "A New Edition" of this enchanting pattern book of architectural follies, describing designs for huts, hermitages, grottoes, and other rural retreats in which many bizarre building materials are incorporated. Tall 8vo..... more