Search Results: Titles starting with M from Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA

New York: W. J. Watt and Company, (1911). First Edition. Harrison Fisher dustjacket art and matching frontis. An uncommon New York City set novel of a young couple, the husband preoccupied with business and the wife who becomes a suffragette. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and some edges.

London: W. Heather, 1802. First Edition. Contemporary full leather binding, red leather spine label, oblong, (6 1/2 inches tall, 8 inches long, almost 3 inches wide) 224 charts. Title continues: Including Those in the Gulf of Venice, Archipelago, Sea of Marmora, and the Levant, Drawn from the French & Italian Surveys of Michelot, Bremond, & Ayrouard ; and from Those of Mess. John Wilson and Joseph Foss Dessiou, Masters in the Royal Navy. Extremely rare complete copy of this title. WorldCat locates one copy at The British Library. Fabulous bookplate for 'Rich Barry Mathematical and Optical Instrument Maker' at front pastedown. William Heather was among the most prominent cartographers of the period. He succeeded Mount and Page in 1765 and then established a Naval Academy and the Naval Warehouse, which provided nautical instruments, charts and instructional texts on navigation. Very Good, front inner hinge cracked but holding, some chipping to leather spine ends, few maps with bit of old ink stain at… Read More

London: Joseph Cundall, 1846. First edition, and very scarce thus, with 1 copy on Worldcat. A year in the life of a 19th century wooden doll in London. Her name is Maria Poppet and she has a number of 'little mammas' in rapid succession. Octavo, original red cloth, gilt lettered spine Frontispiece and 3 plates in color by Margaret Gillies. Very Good with light shelf wear, especially at spine ends.

First Edition. Complete in two quarto volumes, modern full leather bindings, but retaining original marbled pastedowns and endpapers with ownership bookplates of Sir Henry St. John Mildmay (Dogmersfield Library) whose library was auctioned in London in 1907. Edited by Lord Braybrooke using John Smith's transcription of the original diary. Pepys diary gave historians important insights into the Restoration of the British Monarchy, the Anglo-Dutch war, The Great Plague and the Great Fire of London. Illustrated with 13 engraved plates as called for, no half-titles. An attractive set, some pages foxed, frontis of volume one with some staining.

New York: George H. Doran Co. , (1914). First Edition. Author's second novel and first mystery. Con men discover a healer and attempt to cash on his powers. Basis for the Paramount Picture starring Lon Chaney, Betty Compson and Thomas Meighan. Near Fine in attractive Very Good or better dustjacket (especially for being from 1914), few nicks and mild wear.