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

Amsterdam: Chez Thomas Lombrail, marchand libraire, dans le Beurs-Straat, M D CC VII [1707]. Full Calf. First French-language Edition (another French language edition was printed in Orleans, but bearing a Paris imprint, the same year, with no priority definitively established), translated from the English, of the first history of the..... more

Boston: George W. Light, Lyceum Press, 3 Cornhill, 1834. Original Cloth. Scarce First Edition (rare both in commerce and in institutional collections) of this account of the Canary Islands by the nineteenth-century Boston naturalist. Crown 8vo (186 x 111mm): 140pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece ("Peak of Tenerife from Ycod del Alto")..... more

London: printed by Mary Matthews, for Awnsham Churchill, and sold by William Taylor, in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXXII [1722]. Full Calf. A pinnacle of English scholarship, the first comprehensive topographical survey of Great Britain, complete in two tall folio volumes, mainly printed in two numbered columns: [66]pp,cclxviii columns,[2]pp,696 columns; [2],697-1526 columns,[176, appendices..... more

Boston / New York: Crosby and Ainsworth / Oliver Felt, 1865. Decorative Cloth. Early printing of this work on sport fishing, charting a voyage during the summer of 1858, when the author was Washington correspondent for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune. Foolscap 8vo (176 x 105mm): viii,261,[1]pp. Original green pebbled..... more

London: printed for S. Illidge, under Serle’s Gate Lincolns-Inn New-Square, 1723. Quarter-Calf. The Third Edition, "illustrated with several new copper cuts," of Brathwait’s most famous work, a mischievous doggerel featuring perhaps "the world’s most celebrated pub crawl.” (Bowes). Foolscap 8vo (149 x 89mm): [20],175,[11]pp, with frontispiece (reproducing the original engraved..... more

London: printed at the Shakespeare Press, by W. Nicol, for John Major, Fleet Street, 1831. First Edition thus. Original Cloth. First Edition with Cruikshank's illustrations and introductory verses by Bernard Barton, complete in two volumes. 8vo (173 x 105mm): [8],xvi,434,[2]; [4],406,[2]pp, with engraved steel frontispiece depicting Friday kneeling to Crusoe..... more

New York: D. Appleton, 1868. First Edition thus. Pictorial Wrappers. Scarce printing of "one of the most famous and important examples of travel-writing in the nineteenth century, documenting simultaneously a particular moment in the development of the United States and what was surely a major turning-point in Dickens's career." (Literary..... more

Paris: chez Jean-Geoffroy Nyon, quay de Conti, au coin de la rue Guenegaud, au Nom de Jesus, Etienne Ganeau, rue Saint Jacques, aux Armes de Dombes, vis-à-vis la Fontaine de S. Severin, Jacque Quillau, imprimeur-juré-libraire, rue Galande, aux Armes de l'Université, MDCCXVI [1716]. First Edition. A defective first edition (missing..... more

London: printed for R. Blamire, Strand, M.DCC.LXXXVI [1786]. Full Calf. First Edition of one of the earliest guides to the Lake district, complete in two volumes. 8vo: [4],xxxi,[1],xvi,230; [4],268,xivpp, with 30 sepia acquaints and soft-ground etched plates, including 3 maps with watercolor wash, by Joseph Farington. Full cat's-paw calf, boards..... more

London: Printed by H. Woodfall, M.DCC.LVI [1756]. Quarter-bound Leather. First Edition, "printed for presentation only and not sold." (DNB). The more common second edition, published in octavo, appeared the following year. 4to: [6],201,[5],203-361,[1]pp, with engraved frontispiece and engraved plate opposite the divisional title to the Essay on Tea, both by..... more

Amsterdam / Harlingen: Peter Conrad / Volkert van der Plaats [through 1786], MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. First Edition. Quarter-Calf. Rare complete copy of this early classic in the literature of whaling, illustrated with finely engraved maps of the polar regions, including one of the earliest maps showing the whole of the Arctic..... more

Dresden und Leipzig: Arnoldische Buchhandlung, 1847. Quarter-Morocco. Scarce First Edition of this detailed account of a trip in search of the gigantic sea serpent, Zeuglodon. Text in German. Demy 8vo (225 x 145mm): [6],162pp, with frontispiece of dinosaur skeleton, hand-colored geological profile of the Gulf Coast, and advertisement leaf not..... more