London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, by J.Diggins, Saint Ann's Lane, 1813. Rowlandson, Thomas. First edition. UNCUT... Read More about Poetical Sketches of Scarborough: Illustrated by Twenty-One Engravings of Humorous Subjects&hellip
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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
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London: Henry Bohn, 1832. One of 100 Large Paper Copies. Large paper presentation copy with ALS. A large paper presentation copy, inscribed: "John Rawlinson Esq. / From Mercurius Rusticus." With an amusing ALS of Dibdin presenting the book to Rawlinson laid in: "May 22/32. My Dear Sir Finding that I...... Read More about Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book...
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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...
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London: Henry Bohn, 1832. First edition, ordinary paper copy. Read More about Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book...
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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...
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Boston: Published by Samuel T. Armstrong, 1815. Timothy Dwight (1752-1817), theologian and author, is best remembered for his presidency of Yale College from 1795 to 1817. Because of his absolute interest in and devotion to the school, Dwight was admired by students and faculty alike during his twenty-two year tenure..... Read More about Remarks on the Review of Inchiquin’s Letters, Published in the Quarterly Review; Addressed to...
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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...
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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...
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London: Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition, half-titles in Vols. II & II. IN PUBLISHER'S BOARDS. Godwin's last novel, written at the age of of 77; he died three years later, in 1836. Read More about Deloraine
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London: R. Ackermann, 1817. Rowlandson, Thomas. Frazer-Widener-Adee Copy, Uncut. Read More about The Vicar of Wakefield
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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 &...
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New York: Mahlon Day, 1825. First edition. Griscom (1774-1852) opened a school for boys in New York City in 1807 and advocated the monitorial system of instruction, in which more advanced students help teach the less advanced. Read More about Monitorial Instruction. An Address, Pronounced at the Opening of the New-York High-School
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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”
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Liverpool: Printed by G.F. Harris for Samuel Bagster, Strand, London, 1808. First edition. Westwood & Satchell's comment, "The etchings good, the text trivial" is not unjustified--the text is more general than useful--but it would be hard for any writing to upstage Howitt's charming images. This book, rebound, brought a high..... Read More about The Angler's Manual; or, Concise Lessons of Experience, which the proficient in the delightful...
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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
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Bellows Falls, Vt. (Volume I) and Boston: Charles Ewer: Printed for the Proprietors, and sold by R. Edwards and J. Offor, 1824. A New Edition. Read More about The Life of Samuel Johnson...copious notes and biographical illustrations by {Edmund] Malone
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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
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London: for Taylor and Hessey, 1818. First edition, second issue with imprint on verso of half-title reading "T. Miller, Printer, Noble Street, Cheapside." and with errata leaf in two states. First edition, second issue, a superb copy in original boards of the second of only three lifetime publications by Keats..... Read More about Endymion: A Poetic Romance
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Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828. First edition. The American precedes the English issue of the Second Series. IN BOARDS. This is an unauthorized edition. The true "Second Series" was not published in England until 1833 under the title of "The Last Essays of Elia." The editor of this present..... Read More about Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine. Second Series
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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..... Read More about British Field Sports; embracing practical instructions in shooting, hunting, coursing, racing,...
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London: F. Wingreave, 1799. Sixth edition, carefully revised. Read More about The New Dispensatory: containing I. The Elements of Pharmacy. II. The materia medica, or an...
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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...
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London: John Murray, 1828. First edition. Read More about Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the year 1826. With some account of...
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Edinburgh: Printed for Adam Black and William Tait.. 1826. First edition. Read More about Elements of Arithmetic, Algebra, and Geometry, for the Use of the Students in the Edinburgh...
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 200 Broadway. Philadelphia: George S. Appleton, 148 Chestnut St, 1843. Leech, John. First American Edition. Read More about The Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran, and his Man Mark Anthony O'Toole
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