London: printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode. for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown, 1819. First Edition. ORIGINAL BOARDS. Read More about Young Arthur; or, The Child of Mystery: A Metrical Romance

London: Henry Bohn, 1832. One of 100 Large Paper Copies. Large paper copy in original boards. Read More about Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book...

Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1814. First edition. American Speller, 1814. Read More about The Orthographer; containing above eight thousand words, arranged according to their parts of...

Paris: Chez Cuchet, rue & hôtel Serpente, 1783. First edition. The first standard work of an aerostation, UNCUT. Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819), was a very successful lawyer whose interest in natural history led him to become a geologist. He developed his own theory of volcanoes in the massive folio..... Read More about Description des Expériences de la Machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier et de celles...

London-Printed–Philadelphia: Re-printed for William Cobbett, 1799. First American edition. First published in London in 1795. IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Gifford's notable satires against the Della-Cruscans. The “Poetical Epistle” is dated Philadelphia and signed “C,” mostly likely Cobbett. Read More about The Baviad, and Maeviad. To which is Prefixed a Poetical Epistle to the Author by an American...

Strasbourg: Amand König [Imprimerie de Jonas Lorenz], 1770. First edition. Uncut and Unpressed. Gouan (1733-1821) was Professor of Medicine at Montpelier and one of the first naturalists in France to follow the Linnean system. Here, in the first section, he treats the anatomy of fish; the second section consists of..... Read More about Histoire des Poissons, contenant la description Anatomique de leurs parties externes &...

London: Printed by Henry Fisher at the Caxton Press, 1824. First Edition. Inscribed, in Original Boards. Inscribed on the flyleaf: “With the Author’s affectionate regards, April 6, 1824.” Desirable copy of this curious ‘tale’ in the form of essays, by John Holland (1794-1872) of Sheffield, miscellaneous writer and journalist. Block..... Read More about The Old Arm-Chair; or, Recollections of a Bachelor. A Tale. “Vy Sexagenarius”

London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1836. First British edition, issued shortly after the American edition. This is the most uncommon binding for this book which, when in the original state, is usually seen in cloth backed boards.  There is a half title in the first volume, but none is..... Read More about Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains

London: Samuel Richards and Co [Printed by H Dean, Printer, Kingsland], 1822. Second Edition. UNCUT. Read More about Chrysal: or The Adventures of a Guinea, by an Adept

London: Thomas Davison for Taylor and Hessey (vol. 1); Bradbury and Evans for Edward Moxon (vol. 2), 1823; 1833. First edition of the first and First English edition of the second. IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. The celebrated essays of Charles Lamb (1775-1834) in original condition, with distinguished Philadelphia provenance. Read More about Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine [And:] The Last...

London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1820. Second edition (i.e., first book edition; first published in 1818). In Original Boards. Contains the charmingly illustrated verses by "An Old Sportsman" entitled "A Sportsman's Progress", which, according to Schwerdt, are "generally missing " and without which "the work is incomplete."Rare thus..... Read More about British Field Sports; embracing practical instructions in shooting, hunting, coursing, racing,...

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1828. First edition. Captain Lyon set out for Mexico in January 1826 as one of the Commissioners of the Real del Monte Mining Company, and on his way back from New York was wrecked at Holyhead and lost all his papers. This work contains an..... Read More about Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the year 1826. With some Account of...