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
London: Printed for Robert Dutton, 1811. Engravings. Third Edition. Quarter leather and marbled boards. 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2"), quarter leather with maroon label & gilt lettering over marbled boards, illustrated with 5 full-page engraved botanical plates and a few in-text engravings, xv, [xvi] + 487 + 4pp. Notes..... More
London: Seeley, Service & Co., Limited, 1913. 48 photographs. First Edition. Cloth. Tall & thick 8vo, embossed "presentation copy," red cloth with gilt-stamping (image of native wielding and axe), 48 photographic illustrations, large folding map of New Guinea, top edge of pages gilt, [366 pages] + ads. Superior copy of..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, Publishers, 1878. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Thick 8vo, decorative black cloth with gilt embellishments, numerous full page illustrations of noteworthy sites, 544 pages + 36 pp. of adverts (dtd. March, 1878). An Excellent and Scarce compendium with fascinating anecdotes about London's famous places for..... More
New York: George Braziller, 1955. First American Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo, black cloth with red & white typography on spine & blind-stamped atomic array on cover, frontispiece & 12 full-page glossy B&W plates & in-text illustrations, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket with red atomic array, 247 pages. Sections include: Growth of..... More