London: Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, [1938]. First British Edition. Original maroon linen, gilt lettering to spine panel. 8°, 350 pp. Small bookseller's ticket and nice older ink name on front paste-down, a near fine bright copy. ¶ An account of a prisoner's 15 year sentence in French Guiana at..... More
Paris: L. Desessart et Cie. 1837. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. Octavo, two volumes. Bound in contemporary half red calf over marbled paper boards, the spines with raised bands, ruled and decorated in gilt, gilt titles. Marbled endpapers and page edges. 450 + 440 pp. Heraldic bookplate of Samuel..... More
London: Hall, Virtue & Co., 25, paternoster Row. MDCCCLII [1852]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Duodecimo, original reddish-brown cloth decorated in blind on front & rear covers, spine lettered in gilt, yellow coated endpapers. 271 pp. Pencil name on front endpaper, plus a small Bookseller's Ticket "John Britnell Bookseller/ 280..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Quarto, original green cloth titled in red "JOURNEY OF CORONADO" on spine. 550 copies printed. 134 pp + Notes, printed throughout in red & black, illustrated. Cloth at head of spine just starting to fray, otherwise a very good clean..... More
London: Published by Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., Ave-Maria Lane, 1833. First Edition (& 1st printing). Publisher's original drab grey cloth, printe title label on spine. 8°, [i-iii], iv-viii, [1], 2-434 pp; [2] pp ads at rear. An important early text on Emmigrating to Canada and the USA covered in two..... More
Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press. [1975]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original cloth, 373 pp., Illustrated, Index. Signed by the Editor Blakey on the title leaf, inscribed by Dr Helmcken's grandson Ainslee J. Helmcken on the half-title leaf "All members of the Helmcken family are very pleased..... More
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Amstelodami (Amsterdam) & Trajecti Batav (Utrecht): Janssonio-Waesbergios & Jacobum a Poolsum, MDCCXXXIII (1733), First Printing of This Edition. Quarto, contemporary full blind-stamped vellum, black leather title label on spine lettered in gilt. [48], 668, [134] pages. Engraved Frontispiece, title leaf printed in red & black with intaglio vignette, one additional..... More
Tyrnau: Typis Academicis Societatis Jesu. 1743. Small octavo. Three parts in one volume, bound in contemporary mottled calf, the spine with raised bands decorated gilt in compartments, red title label, marbled edges and endpapers. Attractive head- and tailpieces throughout, initial letters, title page vignette. 182 + 315 + 254 pp..... More
Stuttgart & Berlin: J.G. Cotta’sche Buchhandlung. 1913. Third edition. Third Edition. Octavo, bound in contemporary half calfover marbled paper boards, gilt banding and titles on spine, marbled edges and endpapers. xxvi + 990 pp. Text in German. Covers and back lightly rubbed, old signature on front endpaper. Contents crisp, fresh..... More
Budae: Typis Regia Universiitatis. 1778. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. Quarto. [A2-3, 233]. Vignettes on initial pages of Parts I & II, 3 folding engraved plates inserted at rear, decorative tailpieces & intital letters. Binding quarter calf, four raised bands, marbled boards. Stamp on title page and p.119, ink..... More
Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, Tweeddale-Court, and Simpkin & Marshall, MDCCCXXXII (1832), First Edition (& 1st printing). 12mo. (6.9 x 4.5 inches), publisher's original brown moire cloth, printed paper label on spine panel. 444 pp., engraved vignette title, folding frontispiece map of northern North America, eight engravings in the..... More
Gloucester: Printed For The Editor, MDCCCXXV (1825). First Edition (& 1st printing). Quarto, bound in full 20th Century brown morocco, spine panel with 5 raised bands, titled "Civil War Tracts" in gilt lettering on a red title label, "Washbourn" in gilt below this, handmade paper endpapers. ccv (Title leaf, Dedication..... More
London: T.Fisher Unwin, 1918. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original brown cloth lettered in black. 302 pp., 32 reproductions of black & white photographs inserted throughout the text on glossy paper stock, Index at rear. Stains to binding, and a waterstain to the lower margins of the front endpapers..... More