London: Mathew Iley, Somerset Street, 1821. First edition. UNCUT AND IN BOARDS. This is a satire on Samuel... Read More about The Tour of Doctor Prosody, In Search of The Antique and The Picturesque through Scotland, The...
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1844. First edition. Thomas De Quincey, 1775-1859. Pursuing ever more transgressive excursions after his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) and his On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts (1827), De Quincey turned his attention to the concepts of value, wages..... Read More about The Logic of Political Economy
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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: Printed for the Author by J. McCreery, and sold by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1811. One of 18 large paper copies of this rewritten and greatly enlarged edition. Large Paper. With the frontispiece portrait of Dibdin in clerical garb engraved by Freeman after J. J. Masquerier..... Read More about Bibliomania; or Book-Madness: A Bibliographical Romance, in Six Parts
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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 have..... 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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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 for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, (successor to Mr. Millar,) in the Strand, 1770. First Edition. IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Experiments illustrating phenomena in electrostatics. The work closes with a chapter on the medical uses of electricity. "This is one of the best early treatises on electricity." Wheeler Gift..... Read More about An Introduction to Electricity. In six sections. I. Of Electricity in general. II. A Description...
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London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795. Second edition. In Original Boards. Read More about Memoirs of the Reign of George III. To the Session of Parliament ending A. D. 1793
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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: 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: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Richard Milliken and Son, Dublin, and John Bolster, Cork, 1827. First edition. RARE. Covers the choice of a gun and other technical matters, dogs, and shooting for pheasant, grouse, woodcock, snipe, and rabbit, with gastronomic hints, and a vocabulary of terms; and the..... Read More about Hints to Young Sportsmen on the Art of Shooting Flying
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London: Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1822. Second, with additions. ORIGINAL BOARDS. Read More about A Concise and Practical Treatise on the Growth and Culture of the Carnation, Pink, Auricula,...
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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: C. Chapple, 1805. First edition. With MS Genealogy of 'Chatelar' by Ireland. First edition in publisher's boards, with Ireland’s initials dated 22 Nov. 1805 to the front pastedown and his bibliographic note to rear endpaper regarding the genealogy of his creation, the 16th-century French poet “Chatelar" Read More about Effusions of Love from Chatelar to Mary Queen of Scotland. Translated from a Gallic Manuscript...
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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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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...
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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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