London: Fulgur Esoterica, 2014. Illustrated by Marjorie Cameron. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, limited to 156 copies, of which this is copy number 100. Folio. vii, 174 pages. Publisher’s original black leather over blue cloth-covered boards, with silver-gilt top edge; housed in the publisher’s original black cloth-covered slipcase and retaining the.....
Amherst: Published by the Editors, 1892. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by editor Robert Stuart Smith, “S. C. H. from R. S. S.,” to Samuel Culbertson Huey (1877–1941), Princeton Class of 1899 and Philadelphia investment banker; additionally stamped “Gift of Samuel C. Huey, Esq., July 1929.” Smith later practiced law.....
Charlton, Kent: Published by the Author, 1881. First Edition. Octavo, 106, 16, [8] pages. Publisher’s original blind-stamped brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Illustrated with a large folding color frontispiece map. First edition of this scarce 1881 account of Iceland, Askja volcano, and the volcanic interior by William George Lock.....
Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1912. D. Y. Cameron. First Edition. Limited Edition, No. 65 of 700 Copies. Deluxe Issue. One of the First 200 Copies on Handmade Paper, with a Signed Original Etching by D. Y. Cameron. Quarto, xlix, 259 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered vellum over cloth covered boards.....
London: James Madden, 1848. First Edition. 16mo, vi, 120 pages, publisher's original blind-stamped boards. A scarce collection of nineteenth-century verse by J. H. Röhrs, a former Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. The volume reflects the literary culture of the early Victorian period and is of particular interest as the work.....
Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1858. First Edition. 12mo, x, [11]-106, [2] pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered stamped blue cloth covered boards. A scarce collection of nineteenth-century American poetry by George M. Ryder, comprising the extended narrative poem “Gillian” together with a selection of shorter verse. The title poem is a romantic and.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854. First American Edition. With the Author's Latest Corrections. 12mo, lvi, 390, [10] pp. publisher's catalogue. Bound in the publisher's original blind-stamped red cloth, with gilt lettering to the spine. An extensive collection of the religious poetry and hymns of James Montgomery (1771–1854), one.....
Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1852. First American Edition. 12mo, [4] pp. publisher's catalogue, 255 pages. Bound in the publisher's original gilt-lettered green cloth. Now in a protective clear mylar jacket. A collection of thoughtful essays and meditations by Sir Arthur Helps (1813–1875), the English writer, historian, and.....
Pittsburgh, PA: W. S. Haven, 1856. First Edition. Author presentation copy, presented by John Christian Schaad to the Mercantile Library Company of Philadelphia, with the library's contemporary presentation bookplate to the front pastedown, completed in manuscript “the Author.” Additional Mercantile Library circulating bookplate above, with manuscript shelf numbers. Octavo, viii.....
Woodstock, Georgia: Privately Printed, 2026. First Edition. Limited Edition of 220 hardcover copies. Signed by Christopher Reed Johngson and Erica Rahel Johnson. Octavo, 114 pages, publisher's original pictorial red boards. A practical introduction to the Probationer 0°=0 grade of Aleister Crowley’s A∴A∴, presenting the foundations of Thelemic magick, mysticism, and.....
London: Neville Spearman, 1970. First Edition. Association copy, inscribed by the author to Richard Cavendish. Additionally bearing an ownership inscription on the title page, apparently that of Kenneth Grant. Octavo, 224 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered purple cloth-covered boards. Illustrated in black-and-white. Francis King’s Ritual Magic in England is one of.....
Mobile: Mobile Register Print, 1878. First Edition. Signed by the author. Octavo, xxxix, 338 pages, period leather over marbled boards. Illustrated with large folding map. First edition of Saffold Berney’s Hand Book of Alabama: A Complete Index to the State; With a Geological Map, and an Appendix of Useful Tables.....
Ringe, New Hampshire: Richard R. Smith Publisher, Inc., 1958. First Edition, Second Printing. Octavo, 254 pages, publisher's original pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's original yellow cloth covered boards. Illustrated with black and white diagrams. Journey Into A Strange Land: A Metaphysical Exploration of Ultimate Truth by Eloise Franco is a thought-provoking.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1852. First Edition. Octavo, 148 pages, publisher's original gilt-decorated and blind-stamped black cloth covered boards. All edges gilt. Illustrated with 7 full-page engravings. Now in a protective clear mylar jacket. A charming mid-nineteenth-century American juvenile gift book, *The Youth’s Diadem* was prepared expressly for young.....
London: Macmillan & Co., 1914. With 350 Illustrations by the Author. Sixth Edition, Reprint. Octavo, xii, 564 pages, finely bound in full brown leather by Morrell for John Wanamaker, with gilt-ruled boards, raised bands and gilt lettering and decoration to spine, gilt decoration to board edges, elaborate gilt inner dentelles.....
London: Luzac & Co., 1929. First Edition. Limited Edition of 350 copies. Octavo, xvi, 140 pp., [67] leaves of plates, illustrated with facsimiles of two Ethiopic manuscripts. Publisher's original gilt-lettered red cloth-covered boards. Top edge gilt. First edition of this scarce study and translation of the *Lefāfa Ṣedeq*, an Ethiopian.....
New York: Random House, 1937. First American Edition. Octavo, 480 pages, publisher's original color pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's original brown cloth-covered boards.
Leipzig and Züllichau: Buchhandlung des Waysenhauses, bey Nathanael Sigismund Frommann, 1761. Third Edition, Enlarged. Two Volumes in One. Octavo, [12], 808, 583, [7] pages, bound in period full leather. With the dated ownership inscription of Benjamin A. Metz of Towamencin Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, recording his purchase of the volume.....
Dublin: William Smith and Richard James, 1754. First Irish Edition. Octavo, xxiii, [4], 588, [18] pages, bound in period full leather with gilt-lettered label to spine. Illustrated with seven folding plates, one double-page plate, and three single-page plates. Now housed in an archival box. First Irish edition of Jonas Hanway’s.....
London: Printed by I. Okes for A. Wilson, 1640. First Edition. Small quarto, [2], [2], [66] pages, rebound in gilt-lettered quarter leather over marbled boards, with marbled endpapers and top edge gilt. First edition of Henry Glapthorne’s scarce Caroline comedy, *The Hollander: A Comedy, Written 1635. And now Printed as.....
London: Borderland Office, 1893. First Edition. Quarto, viii, 97-588, 384 pages, bound in black leather over pebbled black cloth covered boards. Nine consecutive issues bound in one volume, comprising Vol. I, Nos. II–VI and Vol. II, Nos. VII–X, October 1893 through October 1895. Lacking only the inaugural issue, Vol. I......
Philadelphia: G. M. Hopkins, C.E., 1876. First Edition. Volume I. Large folio, publisher's original leather over gilt-lettered and blind-stamped black cloth-covered boards. An important nineteenth-century Baltimore city atlas and Maryland cartographic reference by Philadelphia civil engineer and map publisher G. M. Hopkins. Prepared from official records, private plans, and actual.....
Philadelphia: Lake, Griffing & Stevenson, 1877. First Edition. Large folio, publisher's original leather over gilt-lettered black cloth-covered boards. Profusely illustrated throughout. A detailed nineteenth-century county atlas of Cecil County, Maryland, published in Philadelphia by Lake, Griffing & Stevenson in 1877. Illustrated with hand-colored lithographed maps, the atlas records towns, villages.....
Philadelphia: G. M. Hopkins, C.E., 1879. First Edition. Large folio, 95 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered and blind-stamped black cloth covered boards. Illustrated throughout with hand-colored maps. A detailed late nineteenth-century landownership atlas of the Washington metropolitan region, compiled and published by Philadelphia cartographer G. M. Hopkins. The work maps the.....
York Beach, Maine: The Teitan Press, 2010. Revised Edition. Limited to 666 copies, of which this is number 360. Octavo, xxxii, 64 pages, publisher's original color pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's original gilt-lettered black cloth-covered boards. Illustrated in black-and-white. Dust jacket now in a protective mylar sleeve. A collection of the.....