Paris: Chez la veuve Cclouzier, et François le Breton, 1730. First edition. An unauthorized sequel. This French 'sequel' to Gulliver's Travels purports to be a translation from English by the Abbé Desfontaines, who was the original translator of Swift's Travels. Le Nouveau Gulliver is in fact an original work by..... Read More about Le Nouveau Gulliver ou voyage de Jean Gulliver, fils du capitaine Gulliver. Traduit d'un...

New York: Francis Harper, 1893. First edition, limited issue, copy number 925 of 800 copies of fine book paper of a total edition of 1000 copies. Read More about History of the Expedition under the Command of Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the Missouri...

New York: Underwood & Underwood, [1904]. A complete set of 18 stereoviews of the Grand Canyon by Underwood & Underwood, with an accompanying booklet. Read More about The Grand Canon Through the Stereoscope

[Gregynog Hall: ca. 1936]. Proofs for the Gregynog ‘Parzival’. Polish artist Stefan Mrozewski (1894-1975) lived in Paris, Amsterdam, and London in the interwar years. His wood engraved portraits of English notables were very well received. While in Amsterdam, 1934, he began work on this series of engravings inspired by Wolfram..... Read More about Series of 12 wood engravings for Parzival [with:] Welsh Fairy Tale

London: printed by the assigns of John Bill deceas’d; and by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, printers to the Kings most excellen t Majesty, 1683. King’s Evil and the Royal Touch. From the Middle Ages in England and France it was believed that scrofula, or “the King’s Evil,” could be..... Read More about “At the Court of Whitehall the Ninth of January 1683. … Whereas by the Grace and Blessing of...

London: William Heinemann, 1902. New edition edited by Armstrong (first published 1891, expanded 1898). Zaehnsdorf Exhibition Binding. Dobson's magisterial biography. Part II consists of a Bibliography of Books relating to Hogarth, as well as Catalogues of Paintings and of Prints. Here in a superb, monumental Zaehnsdorf binding. Read More about William Hogarth. With an Introduction on Hogarth's workmanship by Sir Walter Armstrong

London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1882. First edition. Read More about Marion Fay

Paris: Edinger éditeur, 1887. Rops, Felicien. First edition, unnumbered state, after the 67 numbered copies of the édition de tête. A small format edition was issued in the same year. With Rops Proof. Read More about Le Decadence Latine. Ethopée III. L'Initiation Sentimentale

London: in Fletestrete, by Thomas Powell, n.d. [1562] (date taken from STC). First edition. Laws Passed under Henry VIII, 1545. Public laws passed in the year 1545, during the final months of the reign of Henry VIII, who fell ill in 1546, and died in January, 1547. Important laws were..... Read More about Anno XXXVII. Henrici Octavi. Statutes made in the parliament, holden at westminster in the...

London: John Morphew, 1709; 1710. Second edition of vol. I, first edition of vol. II. This famous attack scandalized virtually every member of the Whig Party and led to Mrs. Manley’s arrest. A friend and collaborator of Swift’s, she succeeded him as editor of The Examiner, and exercised some influence..... Read More about Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality … From the Island of Atalantis....

London: Iohannes Pine, 1733; 1737. First Pine edition, second isssue, with “potest” in medallion, p. 108, v. II. Pine’s Horace, in Matthews Binding. The pinnacle of Augustan book illustration, in an elegant binding by Matthews. “Pine’s complete command of his craft makes this the most elegant of English eighteenth-century books..... Read More about Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera

Columbia, S.C: The State Company, 1926. First edition. Recollections of hunting deer, waterfowl, wildcat, and turkey in Orangeburg county, South Carolina, on the Asheppo and Edisto rivers. Read More about The Happy Hunting Ground. Personal Experiences in the Low-Country of South Carolina

London: Sold for the Author, 232 Picadilly, and no where else, January 9th, 1804. Second Edition, with half-title. Printed by D.N. Shury, Printer, Berwick Street, London. Samuel Chifney (1753?-1807), inventor of the Chifney bit, was a prominent jockey and trainer, and, states the DNB, "He was long considered the best..... Read More about Genius Genuine ... A fine part in riding a race, known only to the author ... with ... a full...