Venezia: Giambatista Pasquali, 1753. The definitive edition of this celebrated catalogue of works written in Italian -- a.... Read More about Biblioteca dell' eloquenza italiana di monsignore Giusto Fontanini, arcivescovo d'Ancira: con le...
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London: A.M. Philpot Ltd, 1923. First edition, Number 207 of 500 copies. Printed by Unwin Brothers. (Published at £3.3). Still the standard, indispensable Burton reference. Read More about An Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton. Preface by F. Grenfell Baker
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[London]: Printed [by the Curwen Press] for the First Edition Club, 1925. First Edition, no. 479 of 500 copies printed. ‘every book and pamphlet which Byron is known to have written’. Elegantly produced catalogue of the major Byron exhibition mounted by the First Edition Club in 1925. Though not the... Read More about Bibliographical Catalogue of First Editions Proof Copies & Manuscripts of Books by Lord Byron...
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Stamford, Ct: Overbrook Press, [1963]. One of 150 copies. Designed by Margaret Evans. Read More about The Overbrook Press Bibliography 1934-1959. Compiled by Herbert Cahoon. Foreword by Frank Altschul
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Charlottesville, Virginia: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1951. First edition. The earliest substantial effort to prepare a bibliographical listing of the output of the press (although Siegel notes that the checklist does not include privately printed books). A fine association: from the collection of Don Frazier. Read More about The Derrydale Press. Notes from an informal talk before the Bibliographical Society of the...
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London: Constable & Co, 1930. First Edition, limited to 500 copies. Third volume in the influential series, Bibliographia Studies in Book History and Book Structure 1750-1900, edited by Michael Sadleir. Read More about Cancels
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London: Holland Press, [1954]. Second edition. Read More about Bibliotheca Chemica. A Bibliography of Books on Alchemy, Chemistry and Pharaceutics. Foreword by...
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London: Derek Verschoyle Academic and Bibliographical Publications Ltd, 1954. Reprint of 1906 Edition. Read More about Bibliotheca Chemica. A Bibliography of Books on Alchemy, Chemistry and Pharaceutics. Foreword by...
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New York: New York Public Library, 1927. First edition. The Rosenbach Exhibition. The pamphlet issued for the exhibition of Dr. Rosenbach's collection at the New York Public Library. Read More about Early American Children's Books 1682-1840. The Private Collection of Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach
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[Venice: Molinari], 1850. First edition. Scarce bibliography of the works of the Venetian historian and antiquarian Cicogna (1789-1868). OCLC locates only 2 copies in the US. the attribution comes from NUC (via OCLC). Read More about Di alcuni scritti pubblicati da Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna Veneziano dall'anno MDCCCVIII al MDCCCL
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London: Printed for T. Basset, J. Adamson, and T. Newborough, 1687. First edition. Rare annotated bibliography attributed to Clagett by the British Library Catalogue; according to the DNB, though, it was begun by Thomas Tenison and finished by William Clagett. Read More about The present state of the controversie between the Church of England and the Church of Rome: or,...
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London: Frank Hollings, 1900. First edition, One on 30 on LARGE PAPER, Copy no. 30. ONE OF 30. Read More about The Bibliography of Coleridge. A Bibliographical List arranged in Chronolgical Order of the...
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London: Printed for Private Circulation Only by Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd, 1921. Second edition. One of 170 copies. INSCRIBED TO MESSRS. DOUBLEDAY & PAGE. Inscribed to Messrs. Doubleday & Page (Conrad's American Publisher) by Wise on the half-title. Read More about A Bibliography of the Writings of Joseph Conrad
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New Haven & London: Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1985-1988. First American Edition. "Captain James Cook's three voyages of exploration to the Pacific between 1768 and 1780 were the first of the great European voyages of discovery to carry professional artists. The Art... Read More about The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages. Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771; Volume II:...
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San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1933. One of 650 copies. Read More about A Bibliography of the History of California 1510-1930
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San Francisco & Los Angeles (for the 1964 Supplement): John Henry Nash, 1933 (vols. I - III); and 1964. One of 650 copies. Read More about A Bibliography of the History of California 1510-1930. WITH Supplement
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London: Printed by J. Davy & Sons at the Dryden Press 137 Long Acre, 1903. Cruikshank, George. First edition, number 262 of 1000 copies. PRINTER'S COPY. Printer's copy with his note on ffep "1000 printed/500 bound/ All lost in Dryden Fire/ Feburary 1905-except 257/ sold- Chas. H. Davy/ Supp." Read More about The Works of George Cruikshank Classified and Arranged with References to Reid's Catalogue and...
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New York: Schuman's, 1943. Firsty edition. Publication No.1 of Historical Library Yale Medical Library. Read More about The Harvey Cushing Collection of Books and Manuscripts. Preface is by John Farquhar Fulton
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[Edinburgh]: 1838. First and only edition. One of approximately 10 copies printed. Very rare. Jackson thought that "only six copies of this vicious and trivial attack on Dibdin were struck off," but Windle & Pippin correct that to an estimated ten copies. Read More about Notes, Chiefly Correctory, on Dr Dibdin's Tour through Scotland
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London: Printed by William Savage: sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; J. Hatchard; and W. Miller, 1807. First edition, with half titles. Dibdin wrote a good portion of this weekly which lasted only 24 numbers. The intent was "the circulation of such knowledge as may serve to shew the... Read More about The Director; a Weekly Literary Journal: containing I. Essays, on subjects of Literature, the...
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San Francisco; Columbia., Pa: Underwood/Miller, 1981. First edition, one of 200 hardcover copies signed by Philip K. Dick, Levack and Godersky. Signed by PKD. Read More about PKD. A Philip K. Dick Bibliography. Compiled by … with annotations by Steven Owen Godersky
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1913. First edition, Number 222 of 750 copies. Read More about A Bibliography of the Writings of Charles Dickens and their Values
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New York: Edgar H. Wells & Co, 1928. First edition. Number 306 of 440 copies, signed by Eckel and Newton. Read More about Prime Pickwicks in Parts. Census with complete collation, comparison and comment. With a...
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London: Printed for the Author by J. Hichcock, Streatham, 1897. Read More about An Index to Pickwick
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Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes...Cambridge University Press, 1949-1971. Editors changed as the periodical went along. Read More about Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society
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London: Joseph Masters, 1850. PRINTED ON VELLUM, apparently the only copy thus. Printed on Vellum. Following the manuscript tradition, liturgical printing in both the Catholic and Anglican churches frequently employed vellum as well as paper. D.B. Updike writes that economic considerations were also a factor: “As early printed books were..... Read More about A List of Printed Service Books, according to the ancient uses of the Anglican Church
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