Search Results: Titles starting with A from Bull's Head Rare Books

London: Broomsleigh Press, n.d.. Facsimile edition, no. 173 of 250 copies. 8vo. Hand-colored folding frontispiece after James Sowerby. xx, [2], 207, [1] pp. Half green leather and cloth; light shelwear and some fading to covers, book-plate Facsimile of the original 1785 edition. "Beginning his research after hearing of an old country woman who used the herb to cure dropsy, Withering used foxglove to treat congestive heart failure with some success. Its introduction into the Edinburgh pharmacopoeia in 1783 and its subsequent widespread acceptance eventually led to its overuse and Withering's classic Account of the foxglove was actually written as a protest against such abuse. The book includes 163 cases involving the use of digitalis and is regarded as one of the classics in pharmacology" (Heirs of Hippocrates 1039)

London: J. Phillips, 1788. First edition. 8vo. iv, [5]-55, [1, ads] pp. Stab-stitched, untrimmed, removed, with evidence of prior binding along spine; first and last pages toned and dust-soiled, loss of a few letters on title from poor imposition, occasional staining and chipping, old paper adhesion at gutter, in custom cloth folding box. Rare first edition of one of the foundational texts of the British abolition movement — “the first piece of published abolitionist propaganda” (Christopher Fyfe, ODNB) — an early firsthand account of the specifics of the slave trade by Alexander Falconbridge, who served as surgeon on four slave trading voyages from the west coast of Africa to the Caribbean from 1780-1787.Falconbridge (c. 1760-1792) met the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson in Bristol in 1787 during the latter’s fact-finding mission to gather evidence against the slave trade. Falconbridge was enlisted in the cause, traveling with Clarkson to Liverpool and London to provide expert testimony and to… Read More

London: Printed for the Author, by W. and W. Strahan, 1768. First edition thus. 4to. 48 engraved vignette head- and tail-pieces by Grignion after Wale. xxxv, [1], 462 pp. Contemporary acid-stained calf; worn, joints cracked, front cover holding by cords, tear to ffep, stain to pp. 158-9, a few leaves foxed  REFERENCE: ESTC T144205

London: George Routledge and sons, 1885. No. 10 of 50 copies with an extra set of etchings on India paper. George Cruikshank. 4to. 15 steel etchings by George Cruikshank, plates in two states (extra suite with plates on India paper, 30 plates total). [4], 531, [1] pp. Modern half black morocco and marbled boards, spine titled in gilt; fine

Paris: M. de Brunhoff, 1886. First edition, no. 230 of 250 copies on japan vellum. 4to. Portrait photograph frontispiece with facsimile inscription, plate by Félicien Rops in three states (blue and red before letters, and gray with letters), headpiece and vignette in two states (black and red). [4], 67, [3] pp. Publisher's wrappers; fine First edition in publisher's wrappers of this "conte cruel," with the plate by Félicien Rops depicting the titular warrior queen of Benares in three states.REFERENCE: Vicaire, VII, col. 1091

New York: Lafever and Gallier, Architects, Clinton Hall, 1833. First edition. 8vo. iv, 128, [2], 72, 17, [1[ pp. Publisher's muslin-backed printed boards, printed spine label; covers worn, textblock toned, ffep detached First edition in original printed boards of this scarce guide for estimating building costs, with sections on masons and bricklayers, stonecutters, carpenters, joiners, plumbers, painters, and plasterers, as well as a glossary of building terms and a summary of New York building laws. A critical reference for understanding building practices in the middle of the Greek Revival. A Boston edition, adapted to that city's trades and laws, was published in 1834 and 1836. The author, James Gallier, was a New York architect and surveyor; he published his autobiography in Paris in 1864. PROVENANCE: William Reese (book-label)REFERENCE: Hitchcock 484

Boston: M. Burns, 1836. Second Boston edition. 8vo. Folding wood-engraved frontispiece of Suffolk Bank, Boston. [iv], 130, [2], 78, [2] pp. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards with title and price ($1.50) in gilt on spine; covers rubbed, scatter foxing Revised and improved second Boston edition of this guide for estimating building costs, with sections on masons and bricklayers, stonecutters, carpenters, joiners, plumbers, painters, and plasterers, as well as a glossary of building terms and a summary of Boston building laws. The author, James Gallier, was a New York architect and surveyor; he published his autobiography in Paris in 1864. This Boston edition includes a folding engraved frontispiece of the facade of Suffolk Bank, Boston, and the printed approbation of four prominent Boston architects: Alexander Parris, Isaiah Rogers (who designed the Suffolk Bank), James McAllister and Gridley Bryant. A critical reference for understanding building practices in the middle of the Greek Revival.… Read More

Boston: R.P. & C. Williams, 1816. Third edition. 4to. 59 engraved plates. iv, [5]-104 pp. Contemporary sheep, rebacked, original red morocco spine label; typical foxing and browning of plates, minor worming in blank top margin and bottom fore-margin The third edition of Asher Benjamin's second book, with provenance from a Martha's Vineyard builder. The American Builder’s Companion “became the principal source for the Federal style for carpenters across the eastern half of the United States. Technically the plates were far superior to those in [Benjamin’s first book] The Country Builder’s Assistant, and the work was much broader in scope, including Roman versions of the five orders but also novel variants of capitals and bases. Plans and elevations included town houses, country houses, a courthouse, and a meetinghouse similar to Benjamin’s Old West” (ANB). The 1816 edition is largely as revised and expanded for the second edition (1811), with some few additional revisions to the text and one… Read More

Liverpool / London: The University Press / Constable & Company LTD, 1913. First English edition. 8vo. xii, 266 pp. Publisher's red cloth, spine and cover titled in gilt; spine lightly faded, ffep removed, book-plate Richet won the Novel Prize in 1913 for his work on anaphylaxis.

London: Printed for William Hone, 1823. First edition. George Cruikshank. 8vo. Two etched plates by George Cruikshank (first issue with plate at p. 262 hand-colored), 2 other engraved plates (frontispiece and folding plate) and 7 woodcuts to text. [ii], 298, 2 (ads) pp. Later 19th-century half brown calf and marbled boards, gilt spine, t.e.g., by Larkins; some scuffing to covers, small dampstain to frontispiece, offsetting and toning to title-page REFERENCE: Cohn 401

[Guildford]: Circle Press Publications, 1979. No. "H.C. III" of 5 hors commerce copies (of 355 total copies), signed by the artist. Folio. Illustrated throughout with color silkscreen prints and manuscript facsimiles, with additional signed print. xi, [7], 59, [3] pp., printed letterpress. Loose as issued, in printed covers, laid in publisher's linen and blue morocco chemise with die-cut outer panel; fine

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. First edition. 8vo. Frontispiece, illustrations to text. xvi, [2], 227, [1] pp. Publisher's red cloth; near fine in like dust-jacket Inscribed by the author on the title-page

Cambridge: Printed for the Author, (1813). Second Edition. 8vo. Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece and title-page by R. Maverick after Jenkins and Bickham, 10 engraved plates, illustrations of pen strokes throughout. xx, 68, [4] pp. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards; covers rubbed, with some loss to marbled paper, frontispiece and title stained, small hole to title, occasional toning and staining The second edition, enlarged and improved, of what was, in its first edition of 1791, the first American writing manual."The author of the following work has, since the year 1781, been employed in ten states of the Union, as an instructor in the art of writing. During this period he has seen, with much regret, the want of a proper, natural, and easy method for acquiring an art, so necessary for the gentleman and the man of business" (p. vii).Jenkins (ca. 1755-1822), a schoolmaster and itinerant writing master, "demonstrated that by the dissection of the round hand letters and analysis of their… Read More

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. First edition, BAL state B (no priority), binding A. 12mo. 39, [1] pp. + 4 pp. inserted publisher's list (October 1850) at front. Publisher's printed glazed cream-yellow boards (BAL binding A); spine chipped, front joint cracked, some soiling to boards, in custom brown cloth slipcase and chemise First edition of this poetical address to the Yale Phi Beta Kappa Society by Oliver Wendell Holmes. With a later manuscript note of October 1906 on the ffep by Yale alumnus Edmund Stedman, who witnessed the address: "I was only sixteen … it much impressed me, as all of us college boys knew something of the doctor's early verse." Stedman (1833-1908) was a poet, critic and stock broker, whose anthologies of American literature were important steps in defining the canon of American letters. BAL identifies two printings of the first edition, each printing having two states distinguished by minute typographical differences to the copyright page and signature mark 3.… Read More

Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858. First edition. 8vo. Engraved vignette title-page and 8 plates, letterpress title-page printed in red and black. viii, 373, [1] pp. Publisher's brown cloth, covers stamped in blind with ornate frame with curved inner corners, spine titled in gilt and stamped with 4 gilt rings (3 with fleur-de-lis and 1 with publisher's monogram), publisher's advertisements on endpapers (BAL binding A); small circular wormhole to cloth on rear joint, slight gouge to lower margin of first few leaves, still a remarkably fresh copy, in a custom brown cloth slipcase and chemise A fine first edition of the fictionalized table talk of Oliver Wendell Holmes, the epitome of the intellectual Boston Brahmin ethos. Contains two of his most celebrated poems, "The Deacon's Masterpiece or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay" and "The Chambered Nautilus." The Autocrat originated with two early essays published under that title in the New England Magazine in 1831 and 1832. Holmes reused the title… Read More

1932-1944. Oblong 12mo. 87 autographs on album leaves, nearly all accompanied by reproduced photographs of the performers, with manuscript notes by the album's compiler giving the location and date of the performance where the autograph was procured and details about the performance lineup An attractive and extensive collection of autographs of jazz bandleaders and musicians of the 1930s and '40s, meticulously compiled and assembled by the original collector to include important performance information. Notable names include Duke Ellington; Fats Waller, Count Basie; Mary Lou Williams, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Fletcher Henderson, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Guy Lombardo, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Jimmy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller.Each autograph, with a few exceptions, is on a separate album leaf and is accompanied by clipped photographs of the performer and a note as to when and where the autograph was procured (i.e. "Normandie Ballroom Boston April 13, 1937").… Read More

1940-1945. 6 vols. 677 pp total. Vol. I: 1940; Vol. II: 1941; Vol. III: 1942 (31 December 1941 to 19 January 1943); Vol. IV: 1943 (12 January to 30 December); Vol. V: 17 February to 23 June 1945; Vol. VI: 24 June to 29 October 1945. Approximately 1/2 linear foot total. “I am at this stage of my obscure existence, sixteen years old ….”A remarkable and vivid self-portrait of the development of a deeply thoughtful, intelligent and talented young Jewish girl in wartime Liverpool and London. Written between the ages of 14 and 20 while Froma is living first at the family home in Liverpool (5 Sefton Park Rd) and attending Aigburth Vale High School for Girls, whose loathed headmistress is Miss E.M. Curry. Later, Froma is stationed in London while serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). We see Froma grappling with her Jewish identity and sexuality (including strong attraction to several older women), experiencing frequent trouble with authority at school and home (her father appears to have… Read More

[London]: Ave Maria Gold Quartz Mining Association, [ca. 1851]. Oblong 8vo (6-1/2 x 9 inches), printed on light blue onionskin paper, scalloped left edge, with ms insertions and authorizing signatures of Secretary and two committee members, description of the Ave Maria Gold Quartz Mining Association printed on verso; light creasing Evidence of London investment in the California Gold Rush, 9 certificates (7 for 5 shares each and 2 for 10 shares each) of the London-based Ave Maria Gold Quartz Mining Association. A total of 50,000 shares were issued at £1 each. The company held half the rights to the Ave Maria Gold Quartz Mine in the Mariposa District, California, which was worked under a lease with the owner of the other half. Today the Ave Maria River is known as the Stockton Creek.