New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. First American Edition. Cloth. 8vo, blue buckram with silvered title on spine, dust jacket (unclipped), illustrated with 12 plates & 9 line drawings, xii + 300 pages. In exceptional condition, "The present book is the first comprehensive study in English of this important and..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1891. Semour. First Edition. Cloth. Royal and thick 8vo, green cloth with gold spine lettering and reduced gilt frontispiece of Pickwick Papers on front cover, Deluxe Issue with 42 pages of reproductions of the original "Pickwick" plates, profusely illustrated, viii + 375 pages. A work..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1877. Early American Edition (perhaps 2nd printing of 1st American edition by D. Appleton in 1874). Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. 8vo (8" x 5 1/2"), brown decorative blind-stamped & -gilt cloth (ice-berg design), numerous maps and engraved B&W illustrations, folding map at end, pouch..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1870. B&W engravings. First American Edition. Cloth. 8vo, green blind-stamped boards with a handsome gilt-embossed native on the spine; B&W illustrations (including frontispiece & 4 plates & 20 figures); 380 pages & ads. Seminal Study by Sir John Lubbock, PC, DL, FRS (1834 -..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1890. B&W engravings. Authorized American Fifth Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Thiick & tall 8vo (6" x 9" x 1 3/4,", original green boards with a gilt-embossed spear on the spine [cp. pl.I, p.80]; semi-toned frontispiece of tumuli at Upsala, 1 diagram of Abury..... More
The Classics of Surgery Library: Grune & Stratton, 1991: 1926 & 1949. First Reprint Thus. Leather with blind- & gilt-stamping. 8vo, red leather with gilt lettering and elaborate decorations on spine and both covers; illustrated with B&W photos of surgical & anatomical examples; marbled endpapers, all edges gilt (a.e.g.), viii..... More
Cambridge New York: Cambridge at the University Press, 1913. Diagrams & photographic plates. First Edition. Cloth. Thick Royal 8vo, publisher's dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine, illustrated with 131 in-text diagrams plus 5 photographic plates reproducing experiments,index, vii, [viii] + 699 pages + [1] Colophon. Ernest Rutherford, 1st..... More