London: W & R Chambers, circa 1888. Hardcover. 7 1/4" X 5". 288pp. Bound in full scarlet cloth, with vignette of a reading Florence Nightingale stamped in gilt to upper board, title in gilt and daisies in black to upper board and spine, and rear board decorated in blind. Moderate..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [2003]. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 11 1/4" X 9 1/4". 176pp. Bound in full red leather, stamped in 22kt gilt, with pictorial label to upper board. All edges gilt. Golden silk moire endpapers with matching silk ribbon placemarker. Mild edgewear to binding, with spot of..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2007. Hardcover. 9" X 6 3/8". xv, 431pp. Blue-and-white striped patterned paper over boards, with gold-framed portrait of a lady to upper board and spine backed in dark brown and lettered in gilt over blue. Only mild shelfwear to binding and to publisher's blue paper slipcase..... More
London: Privately Printed, circa 1920. Leather bound. 8 1/4" X 5 3/4". viii, 468pp. This privately printed edition is undated, published circa 1920. Halfbound in crimson morocco, lined in gilt, with red linen over boards. Spine lettered in gilt with floral gilt compartment and gilt fleur-de-lis. Toning to endpapers. Binding..... More
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1897. Hardcover. Published in 1897, this stunning snake-stamped tome holds a menagerie of late Victorian knowledge on the keeping of reptiles and amphibians as pets and the construction and maintenance of suitable home environments such as vivariums (aquariums and terrariums are types of vivariums), illustrated in..... More
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1902. Hardcover. Published in 1902, this stunning snail-stamped tome holds a treasure trove of early Edwardian knowledge on the keeping of both freshwater and marine aquariums and is illustrated in over 275 beautiful and instructive figures throughout. Chapters include: Part I, Freshwater Aquaria: The Aquarium, Making..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2001. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 9 3/8" X 6 1/4". 407pp. Bound in full red leather with boards and spine stamped in 22kt gilt, all edges gilt, and golden silk ribbon placemarker. Mild edgewear to binding, with faint scratching to gilt at edges of text..... More
Philadelphia: Ed. Barrington & Geo. D. Haswell, 1845. Third Edition, Enlarged and Improved. Leather bound. 9 1/8" X 5 7/8". xx,13-728pp, plus 36pp ads. Bound in full leather with black leather title label lettered in gilt to spine. Heavy wear to binding, with edges and extremities rubbed to boards, losses..... More
Birmingham, Alabama: The Classics of Medicine Library, Gryphon Editions, 1987. The Classics of Medicine Library. Leather bound. 9" X 5 3/8".259pp. Bound in full brown cowhide, with boards and spine stamped in 22kt gilt. Matching brown silk ribbon placemarker. A touch of edgewear to binding with slight lean to spine..... More
Austin, Texas: Wiyaka Press, 1983. Limited Edition. Leather_bound. Edition limited to 250 sets, this being number 101 and signed by Bobby Bridger at limitation page. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 153pp, plus fold-out map. Quarterbound in morocco leather, with marbled paper over boards and spine and upper board lettered in..... More
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1978. Barnett Freedman. Leather bound. 9 1/4" X 5 3/4". 431pp. Bound in full genuine scarlet leather, stamped in 22kt gilt to both boards, with cream silk moire endpapers and matching silk ribbon placemarker. All edges gilt, faintly mottled. Binding is tight & sound. Pages are..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2007. Eleventh Printing. Hardcover. 9" X 5 3/4". 421pp. Patterned paper over boards, featuring a design by Simon Brett, with spine backed in dark blue cloth and lettered in gilt. Mild shelfwear to binding and slight lean to spine. Mild shelfwear to publisher's matching blue paper..... More
London: L. Upcott Gill, circa 1900. Second Edition, Revised and considerably Enlarged with additional Instructions in Modelling and Artistic Taxidermy. Hardcover. "These pages are merely an introduction to a delightful art, which must be wooed with patient determination and loving pains until technical skill invests it with beauty..." so begins..... More
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1874. New Edition. Leather bound. This handsome and quite well-preserved leatherbound 1874 edition of this first series in Curiosities of Natural History ranges from observations on the poisons of toads to the ill-fated history of a pet monkey, all from the life and pen of..... More
London: Edward Stanford, 1899. Thirteenth Thousandth. Hardcover. This introduction to the science of living things is the work of Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929), who at the age of twenty-four started her eleven-year tenure as secretary to influential geologist Charles Lyell and who after his death became a science educator in..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887. Hardcover. “There are forces around us, and among us, which I shall ask you to call fairies, and these are ten thousand times more wonderful, more magical, and more beautiful in their work, than those of the old fairy tales. They, too, are..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2013. Hardcover. 9" X 5 7/8". xviii, 107pp. Dark gray cloth over boards, featuring Holly Golightly reclining against the New York City skyline stamped in blue and silver to upper boards and spine lettered in kind. Light scuffing to silvery gray paper-bound publisher's slipcase. Binding is..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1872. Twenty-Sixth Thousand. Leather bound. This stunning 1872 printing of Lewis Carroll's classic companion to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is here finely bound by the world-class Riviere & Son Bindery in full red morocco, with original cloth covers included at rear. Illustrated in tissue-guarded frontispiece and..... More
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1883. Hardcover. This charming introduction to astronomy through fact and fantasy was published in 1883 and is a stunning sidereal exploration from cover to cover. Employing classical myth, fantastical allegories, and imaginative journeys through the heavens, In the Sky-Garden follows its young heroine Joy as..... More
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6". 274pp. Red faux-leather cloth over boards with decorative gilt to spine and front and rear covers. Light rubbing to covers and edges. All edge gilt to edges of text block. Bookplate laid in. Pages bright, clean, and unmarked..... More
Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1977. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 7". xxii, 152pp. Bound in genuine leather, with spine and covers stamped in gilt. Raised bands to spine. Very mild shelfwear to covers and edges. All edge gilt. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Unused Easton Press bookplate..... More
London: Bickers and Son, 1880. Hardcover. This creative imagining of the girlhoods of fifteen Shakespearean heroines is the work of Mary Cowden Clarke (1809–1898), author of The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare and Shakespeare Proverbs, among others, and friend to Charles Dickens, Leigh Hunt, and Charles and Mary Lamb. In setting..... More
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1993. First Edition. Leather bound. Signed by Michael Crichton for members of the Signed First Editions Library. 9 5/8" X 6 3/8". 397pp, [viii]. Bound in full teal Morocco leather, with gilt decorations to both boards and spine and gilt lettering to spine. Moderate..... More
London: Seeley Service & Co. Limited, 1932. Hardcover. This globe-spanning tome holds accounts of exploration, adventure, and hunting in Canada, Africa, South America, and Russia from writings "Among Unknown Eskimo" by Julian W. Bilby, F.R.G.S., Member of the Folklore Society, "Wanderings in Central Africa" by Dugald Campbell, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I., "Among..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. In this dreamy book of poetry, published in 1900, Sarah J. Day takes us from the first buttercups of Spring to the mistletoe and holly of Christmas, allowing the legend and lore of each flower to blossom..... More
