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Los Angeles: Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana, 1948 One of 450 copies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. Clothbacked decorative boards. Octavo. Covers a bit soiled. Very good.

London: Bibliographical Society, 1952 Linen-backed boards. Large octavo. Facsimiles in text. Very good.

Dordrecht: Kluwer, [1996] First edition. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Thick octavo. Rubberstamp of philosopher Adolf Grunbaum. Near fine in d.j.

Lyon: Chez Pierre Bruyset Ponthus, 1759 First edition of an interesting French word book by the Abbé Daire (1713-1792), known for his historical works (Histoire de la ville d'Amiens, Histoire civile, ecclésiastique et littéraire de la ville et du doyenné de Montdider, etc.). In his preface the author is careful to distinguish the difference between the words "épithete" and "adjectif." Where an adjective describes the physical and common properties of objects, and epithet designates that with is particular and distinctive about persons or things, whether for good or for ill. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with brown morocco label, edges stained red. . Title-page in black and red. Corners worn, otherwise a very good copy. Cioranescu 22121.

San Francisco: 1954 First edition. . Cloth. Octavo. Fine. Printed and designed by Lawton Kennedy.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1905/ First edition. In the preface, Dall writes that the present work was the only published record of Fuller's "conversations" at the time.. Publisher's olive-green cloth stamped in gilt. . Octavo. Smudge to back cover and light rubbing to extremities. Minor foxing to edges and endpapers. A very good, clean, and tight copy. Margaret Fuller (1810 – 1850) was a Transcendentalist writer and the author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), which is considered the first major feminist work written in America. In 1840, she took the helm of The Dial, the new Transcendentalist quarterly; a month later, she began hosting her "conversations," during which Boston intellectuals, mostly women, joined to discuss literature, art, philosophy, abolitionism, and women's rights. The conversations took place at the home of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and were attended by women like Maria White Lowell, Caroline Sturgis, Lydia Maria Child, Julia Ward Howe, Sophia Dana Ripley, and many… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed by Murray & Cochrane. For T. Cadell., 1786 First edition. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered in recent calf, gilt flat spine with burgundy morocco label. . Quarto. With the printed presentation leaf to Richard Bishop of Worcester, before the title-page. Verso of title-page with two old rubberstamps of St. Andrews University, one for deaccession. A very good copy. David Dalrymple, third baronet, Lord Hailes (1726-1792) was a Scottish advocate, judge, and historian. His best known work was his Annals of Scotland (1776-9). In the present work, he attacked Gibbon over his account of the effect of Christianity on the decline of the Roman empire. Controversial when it was published, it was a minor blow in the ongoing controversy between theological traditionalists such as Hailes and more liberal thinkers, led by David Hume.

[Sherman Oaks, California:] Joseph D'Ambrosio, 1989 One of seventy-five copies, signed by D'Ambrosio, who wrote, designed, and printed this work. The bibliography described forty-four of the printer's works. Covers hinged with matching gray leather strips. Octavo. Sixty tipped-in color photographs. Gray leather over handmade marbled boards, with an overlay of polished copper. A remarkably fine copy in gray linen jacket, trimmed with marbled paper. D'Ambrosio, A Memoir of Book Design, 1969-2000, pp. 110-113.

Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press,q [1978] First U.S. edition. Cloth. Folio. Black and white illustrations throughout. Fine in price-clipped d.j,

New York: Macmillan, [1965] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Light dampstain at bottom of front cover, not affecting text. Else very good in price-clipped d.j. with 1" tear.

NY: Harper, [1989] First edition. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

[with:] Seu Paradigmata Nominum Simplicum, Ac Verborum Integra…Jena: apud Jo. Felicem. Bielckium, 1709. Quarto. [46], 119, [1, errata] pp. Third edition. OCLC lists five copies, and no other editions. [with:] Seu Manuductio viam ostendens compendiosam ad Ebraeae Linguae...Jena: Ioh. Bielckium, 1702. Quarto. [12], 28 pp. Woodcut title-page vignette. OCLC lists four copies. Four works by Danz, bound together in full stiff vellum, soiled with some stains. Remains of title in manuscript on spine, library numeral on a spine label but no other library markings. A little light foxing. These appear to be large paper copies (205 x 170 mm.), with very wide margins, particularly at the fore-margin. A contemporary scholar has made neat notes in the inner margins throughout the book, as well as underscored certain passages and started a table of contents in the preliminaries. The scholar has written his name and the date on a preliminary blank—"Gustave Wulfleff, Anno 1710." The website of the Digital Library… Read More

Westminster, Maryland: The Newman Bookshop, 1944 Second printing. Cloth. Octavo. Former owner's ink signature. Otherwise very good in very good jacket. Jacket has a bit of light browning.

London: The Studio Limited/William Edwin Rudge, 1931 Special Winter Number of "The Studio," edited by C. Geoffrey Holme. Taupe cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. Quarto. Black and white and color plates, black and white text illustrations. Edges foxed. A very good copy in good, partially faded jacket with a few small tape repairs. In cardboard slipcase (probably made by a former owner). Features the work of Rackham, Dulac, Rockwell Kent, Claire Leighton, Eric Gill, and many others.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1977] First edition. Cloth. Two volumes, octavo. Fine in near fine dust jackets. Spines of jackets slightly faded.

London: John Murray, 1903 Brown cloth with gilt spine. Two volumes, octavo. Plates. Gilt largely faded from spines, binding extremities lightly rubbed, old bookplate. A little foxing to preliminaries, light spot on fore-edge of Volume I. A good set, tight and clean.

Philadelphia: Printed by John Omrod, 1798 First American edition of this educational classic that shows the influence of Rousseau on the work of Erasmus Darwin (1731 – 1802). First published in London the previous year. Included in this edition is an American printing of Mrs. M. Peddle's Rudiments of Taste, a popular conduct book was first published in London in 1789 and in the United States in 1790. Contemporary tree sheep with red morocco spine label. Gilt-ruled spine. Twelvemo. Separate title-page for Mrs. M. Peddle's The Rudiments of Taste. Some wear to binding and a couple cracks to sheep on upper board. Quite a fresh copy despite some foxing to first few leaves and some slight toning throughout. A very good, tight copy of a fragile book. Darwin wrote the present work after helping his daughters, Susan and Mary Parker, establish a boarding school for young women in 1794. Here, he draws on the theories of Rousseau, Locke, and Genlis to advocate for the education of women in schools in topics… Read More

New York: Praeger, [1972] First edition in English. Cloth. Large octavo. Numerous plates. Fine in fine d.j.

London: Edward Arnold, 1911 First edition of the most acclaimed study of the impressing of leather bookbindings with a bookstamp. Light brown linen buckram with gilt spine and cover vignette in brown. Large octavo. With 151 illustrations of cameo book-stamps. Subjects include Abraham and Isaac, Anne Boleyn, Charlemagne, Christ, Queen Elizabeth I, the Lion of St. Mark, Philip Melancthon, the Tudor rose, the goddess Fortuna, St. George, etc. Light shelfwear, back hinge just starting to crack, fly-leaves slightly browned. A very good copy.

Pasadena: Grant Dahlstrom, 1970 One of 250 copies printed at the Castle Press. Tan linen over brown and tan decorative boards, spine stamped in gilt. Octavo. Fine in plain paper dust jacket.x