Rare books from Lost Time

W. H. Parish, Chicago, 1893. Folio in green cloth. 91 pp. thick card stock. 63 full-page photographs; 19 half-page photographs. Historic images of buildings, churches, residences, landscapes, waterfalls, and mills in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Originally published in twelve parts which have been bound together here in one volume in a library binding. The boards show moderate wear, heavier along the edges with the corners worn through. A library marking has been rubbed off of the lower spine. The binding is strong. The text block is tight and lightly soiled. There is a blind stamp on the title page reading "Princeton Univ Bibl." No other internal markings. The text and high quality gravure plates are remarkably well-preserved and clean throughout. Typically found incomplete and extremely scarce in any form. Photos are of the actual book you will receive. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1906. 4to. 166 pp. plus 26 full-page color illustrations and numerous smaller ones. A wonderfully imagined and illustrated children's tale by the foremost American Art Nouveau illustrator, printer, and graphic artist. VG-. Edgewear to boards; corners bumped and worn. Spine ends bumped and worn. Binding is strong. Text block is tight. Text and illustrations are pristine throughout. No writing or markings of any kind. Photos are of the actual book you will receive. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.

John Churchill, London, 1845. 8vo in original red cloth stamped in blind with gilt titling to spine. 198 pp. followed by 8 pp. of publisher's ads. First edition of 1,500 copies, subsequently appended to later editions of Vestiges. VG. Corners and spine ends bumped; small nick to edge of rear board. Light soiling to boards. Binding is strong. Text block is clean and tight. Faint foxing to endmatter and very sparsely in the text, which is free of writing or any other markings. Photos are of the actual book you will receive. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. Originally published in Vienna in a journal entitled Mines de l'Orient, this second edition printed in London in 1816 has been nicely rebound in 1/4 calf with gilt titling and marble boards. Bookplate on front pastedown and biographical entry on Rich taped to new front endpaper. Original pages and plates all in very good condition. 67 pp. 3 plates. Photos are of the actual book you will receive. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.

First edition. "Published June, 1934" on the copyright page with no other printings listed; $1.25 price on front flap. VG/G. Moderate edge wear to dust jacket; faint damp stain; now in a brand new Brodart clear protective sleeve. Binding is strong. Light foxing to text block and endpapers. Text is pristine. No writing or markings of any kind. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.

Three volumes of an eventual four: Vol. I: 1867 second printing. Vol II: 1866 first edition. Vol. III: 1882 first edition. 8vos in half morocco with gilt top edges. viii, 766; vii, 744; x, 837 pp. VG-. Leather is worn along edges and at the corners. Bindings are strong. Text blocks are tight. Small stains to lower edge of vol. I. Name on ffep of vol. I. Light, very sparse foxing. Texts are clean with no writing or markings of any kind.The major work of the founder of the theory of chemical structure. Extremely scarce and rarely found complete (the fourth volume was not published until 1887).Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box. Signature required upon delivery.International orders will require an additional shipping charge.

Tome Premier: Asie, Afrique, Amerique, Polynesie. Tome Second: Les etats de l'Europe et leurs colonies, I. Tome Troisieme I: Les etats de l'Europe et leurs colonies, II. Tome Troisieme II: Les etats de l'Europe et leurs colonies, II, cont'd. 1888-1893. Four large 8vos in half morocco. 574, 548, 967 pp. VG. Minor edge wear to the leather. The bindings are strong and the text blocks clean and tight. Previous ownership in pencil on the ffeps. The texts and charts appear clean throughout with the exception of two charts in the final volume which have faint numbers penciled next to names on the chart and notes written on the tissue guard. A very nice set of a very scarce and historically important work. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box. International orders will require an additional shipping charge.

First edition. 16mo in contemporary calf over marbled boards. vii, 296 pp. Howes A379; Sabin 2335. Leather worn along edges and joints; boards still firmly attached. Corners bumped and worn. Binding is strong; text block is tight. Name on front flyleaf and title page. Pages darkened with scattered foxing and offsetting. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.

Inscribed on the half-title to Rev. F. H. Hedge from J. B. Thayer. Hedge was an intimate friend of Emerson and the founder of the Transcendental Club. Thayer was the author of "A Western Journey with Mr. Emerson." 8vo in cloth. 64 pp. plus six plates. Frontispiece portrait is missing. VG. Moderate wear to corners and spine ends. Binding is strong. Text and plates are clean. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.

First publication of the second Sherlock Holmes story, from the February 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, bound in cloth with title page and frontispiece. Lacks original wraps. 8vo. 77 pp. (147-224 of the magazine). VG+. Light wear to edges of spine. Binding is strong. Bookplate on front pastedown. Small stain to edge of frontis. and title page. Text is clean. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.

First edition of 1500 printed in three impressions of 500 each, this from the second or third with the spelling corrections on pages 41 and 45. 16mo in publisher's holland-backed boards, in a three panel cloth case and a gilt-ruled full morocco case with gilt titles to spine. 68 pp. VG. Very light foxing to boards; faint stain to rear. Corners lightly worn. Binding is sound. Bookplate of Judge Willis Vickery, a noted late-19th, early 20th century collector on the front pastedown. A very few scattered spots of foxing in the margins. The leather case has moderate wear and rubbing to the spine and very minor edge wear. A nicely preserved copy. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.

First US edition. 363 pp. plus 8 pp. ads at rear. G+. Cloth worn at spine ends and corners; moderate wear to boards. Binding is strong. Light to moderate foxing. No writing or markings of any kind. Ships well-packed in a box.

99 octavos in 1/4 red morocco. There are 54 complete works represented across the 99 volumes, many in multi-volume sets. VG-: the volumes are generally in very good condition. There is some minor rubbing and chipping of the leather on the spines. Boards show edge wear, and there are occasional spots where the paper boards are rubbed. The leather remains strong on the joints throughout the set; bindings are uniformly strong and all boards firmly attached. Text blocks are moderately dust-stained along top edges, otherwise clean, square, and tight throughout the set. The majority of the volumes appear from the generally firm bindings to have never been opened. There is moderate scattered foxing, otherwise the texts remain clean throughout. Bookplates of previous owner, noted historian and author of historical fiction Samuel Shellabarger, are on the front pastedowns.
The individual works in this collection were published separately over the course of more than a decade. Multiple publishers are represented… Read More

Presentation copies of the complete set of all 32 lectures. NF in VG+ slipcases. Books are in excellent, unread, like-new condition. Very light shelf wear to slipcases. International orders will require an additional shipping charge.
1969: Nikolaus Pevsner, Ruskin and Viollet le Duc: Englishness and Frenchness in theAppreciation of Gothic ArchitectureNikolaus Pevsner
1970 Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Plunder of the Arts in the Seventeenth Century
1971 Peter Murray, Piranesi and the Grandeur of Ancient Rome
1972 Glyn Daniel, Megaliths in History
1973 John Newenham Summerson, The London Building World of the Eighteen-sixties
1974 Michael Sullivan, The Three Perfections: Chinese Painting, Poetry and Calligraphy
1975 C. V. Wedgwood, The Political Career of Peter Paul Rubens
1976 Ernst Gombrich, Means and Ends: Reflections on the History of Fresco Painting
1977 J. R. Hale, Renaissance Fortification Art or Engineering?
1978 Stuart Piggott, Antiquity Depicted: Aspects of Archaeological Illustration
1979 Kenneth… Read More