London: Sotheby's, 1975. Paperback. 9 1/2" X 6". 163pp. A solid, clean copy.Atlases and Maps, Travel and Americana, Naval and Military Books, Autograph Letters, Manuscripts and Historical Documents. The Properties of: The trustees of the Third Earl of Iddesleigh, Dr. T.W.F. Brown, Mrs. Hardinge-Francis, and E.W. Fowler, Esq. Pamphlet of..... More

Philadelphia: Special Committee on Nondiscrimination, The Board of Public Education of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1964. Paperback. 9" X 6". xxvi, 191pp. Mild edgewear and rather heavy sunning to textured paper wraps. Binding is firm and sound. Gift inscription to first page, else clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this 1964..... More

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. "The history of the Gardens of England follows step by step the history of the people..." Between these gilt garden-adorned covers lies an 1895 first edition of the first published account of English gardening history. This pioneering account was penned by the intrepid..... More

New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1963. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". viii, 295pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Wear to jacket with rubbing and toning to covers and creasing and chipping to corners and edges. Several closed tears to edges and spine..... More

Antwerpen: Unieboek, Het Spectrum bv, Houten, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. 11" X 11". 207pp. Bound in glossy pictorial paper over padded boards. Mild edgewear to binding, with some bumping to extremities. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. A highly presentable first edition of this celebration..... More

Kingston: McPherson & Company, 2004. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". xvii, 350pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light rubbing to covers and creasing to spine. Erased pencil marks to to half-title page. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK:Includes photographs and drawings. Foreword..... More

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1890. Second Edition. Hardcover. This Victorian travelogue is the work of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (1831–1892), the queer English novelist, journalist, Egyptologist, and co-founder of the Egypt Exploration Fund. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys forms the account of her 1872 ramble through the northeastern Italian..... More

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. 7" X 5". vii, 288pp, plus two leaves of ads. Brown cloth over boards nicely stamped in gilt, red, and black. Spine split 4" from tail up along rear board, with smaller tear along upper board edge, shallow chipping to head and tail..... More

San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1975. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 239pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of red cloth over boards. Light sunning to spine. Spots of toning to edges of text block. Previous owner's name in ink to title page. Library stamp..... More

Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. 5 1/4" X 4 5/8". Unpaginated. Color pictorial paper over boards. Moderate wear to binding, with edgewear, closed tears to paper at edges of spine, mild scattered rubbing, and corners turned in. Lean to spine. Binding is firm and sound..... More

Sussex: The Book Guild Ltd., 1991. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by author in ink to front free end paper. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". 260pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bottom of spine gently bumped. Blue cloth over boards with spine lettered..... More

n.p. Press of Morningside Bookshop, 1976. Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6". 36pp, plus ads. Mild edgewear to staplebound printed wraps, with light creasing and some sunning to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this 1976 facsimile of this examination of the supplies of..... More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1855. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". xii, 424pp, plus leaves of ads, with rear blank page torn out. Embossed brown cloth over boards, with spine lettered in very faded gilt. Heavy wear to binding, with edges and extremities rubbed to boards, heavy soiling..... More