Authors starting with A from Rulon-Miller Books

Denver. 1957. Square 8vo, pp. [50]; illustrated throughout; original gold foil covers with Hirschfeld crest and title in blue on the upper cover; foil a little rubbed, but very good. With a typed letter from the president of the company Edward Hirschfeld laid in, as issued. The 50-year celebration publication of the famous Denver press. ... more information

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.. 1898. 12mo, pp. x, [2], 287; inserted frontispiece, vignette title-p. printed in red and black; full mottled vellum by Bayntun for Simms of Bath, decorative gilt border on covers, gilt-decorated spine with brown morocco label, a.e.g.; near fine.all edges gilt and gauffered, green calf doublures and endpapers; minor wear but generally very good. An early Bayntun binding. ... more information

Philadelphia, printed: London: re-printed for J. Debrette. 1789. 8vo, unpaginated, pp. [364], collating a2, b6, A-B6, C-P12, Q6, with the terminal leaf of ads; thumbnail-size chip from the bottom corner of the title page (not touching any letterpress), the first half of the text moderately soiled, but otherwise clean, fore- and bottom edges uncut; early 20th century polished calf by Pratt, gilt panels on both covers, black morocco labels on gilt-paneled spine, t.e.g.; joints cracked, spine worn, marbled end... more information

New York: Horizon Press. [1964]. First edition, folio, pp. xix, [2], 180 plates of photographs, [4]; one or two short tears in the jacket else fine throughout. This copy with a pre- publication slip from the publisher laid in regarding the pricing of the book. ... more information

[Pittsburgh, PA]: University of Pittsburgh. 1977. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 265, [1]; frontispiece portrait, numerous illustrations in text; fine copy in original blue cloth, gilt spine. Part of the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. ... more information

[New York]: Press of the Woolly Whale. 1931. Edition ltd. 250 copies, none of which were for sale, 12mo, [vii] & 155pp., title-page with press device printed in blue; very good in original blue morocco spine over light blue cloth-covered boards, gilt title on spine, light wear to spine ends and cloth slightly darkened in some areas. The Press's third Christmas book. Press of the Woolly Whale Catalogue, no.8. ... more information

[Madison]: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. [1982]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 241, [3]; frontispiece portrait; previous inscription (possibly from the author), else fine in dust-jacket. Complete biography of this friend of Samuel Johnson, poet, journalist, biographer, and editor of voyages. ... more information

Montreal, Canada: McGill University. 1931. 8vo; pp. 97; 11 plates printed recto/verso, frontispiece; good or better copy in original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover. Scuffing on lower cover exposing underlying boards, call numbers lettered in white ink on spine. Bookplate showing that the book was donated to library by the author. ... more information

Montreal: Medical Museum, McGill University. 1939. "Second edition, revised and indexed," 8vo, pp. xiii, [3], 163; frontispiece, 1 plate, and full-page facsimiles throughout text; ex- library copy minimally marked, some wear to extremities with top spine end chipped away, good and sound in original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. ... more information

New York: Burt Franklin. [1970]. Reprint of the 1905 edition, 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 225, [1]; illustrations; fine in original red cloth, spine gilt. 606 items with several indexes including chronological, printers and places, watermarks, and former owners ... more information

New York: Bonanza,. [1958]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 192; frontispiece; many illus. throughout; very good in worn jacket. ... more information

Tokyo & Yokahama. 1885. 16mo, 5" x 3 1/2" (125 x 87mm.), pp. [85], folded and interleaved in the Japanese manner, marbled edges, orig. printed paper-covered boards, title- p. printed in red; front hinge cracked, else very good. ... more information

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees [et al.]. 1819. Second edition, 4to, pp. xvi, 420; errata slip tipped in at p. [v]; 4 engraved maps (3 folding); 18 engraved plates (8 of them handcolored aquatints); contemporary half calf over marbled boards, neatly rebacked to match, gilt spine, black morocco label. Abbey Travel calls for 6 uncolored botanical plates, but only 5 are present here. Such is the case in about half of the entries examined (in the auction records and on line) and the last copy we offered also had t... more information

Louisville, Kentucky. 1926. 8vo; pp. 64; 29 illustrations; bookplate, call numbers in white ink on spine, extremities slightly bumped, else very good or better in original green cloth, embossed on upper cover, gilt-lettered spine. ... more information

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.. 1912. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 338; 24 plates; some foxing, else very good in original blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover. Abraham's account of his voyage to the East Indies, southeast Asia and Japan as physician on a coastal freighter. Told more in the style of fictional narrative as opposed to a journal. ... more information

Paris. 1835-1976. Complete run from Volume I. 395 bound volumes 1835-1972 plus 6 cartons of fascicles 1972-76, lacking only that for December, 1972. Library cloth or half cloth, gilt lettering on spines, spines with accession numbers, perforated stamps in the title-pp., and rubber stamp on last page of text in each volume but generally fine throughout. The best known and most important scientific periodical in France with many important contributors. ... more information

Naples: Giuseppe Ponzelli. 1746-48. 6 volumes in 5, folio, text primarily in double column, engraved vignette titles, engraved head-pieces and initials throughout, silk page markers; full contemporary vellum, spines stamped in gilt, sprinkled edges; mild occasional spotting, but all in all, a very good, sound, and impressive set. The Accademia della Crusca, founded in 1582, was by far the most famous of the Italian Academies, and had as its principle object the purification of the Italian language. Its grea... more information

London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1964. First edition, 8vo., frontis., jacket clipped and slightly rubbed, else fine. ... more information

London: R. Ackermann. 1812.. First edition, first issue (i.e. first plate in second volume signed F. Mackenzie), 2 vols., 4to, pp. [iii]-xvi, [2], 330, [6]; [2], 275, [5]; complete with engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved plan, hand-colored lithograph half-title in vol. II, 78 hand-colored aquatints and 2 uncolored lithographs; bound without the half-titles in contemporary full calf with double gilt rules on covers enclosing a large central gilt lozenge, neatly and sympathetically rebacked in tan calf ... more information

London: printed by John Baskett [and others]. 1734-1826. Folio, various paginations; approximately 38 Acts of Parliament relating almost entirely to the finances of the Royal Navy, 3 folding tables; contemporary red straight-grain morocco (yellow binder's ticket of Smith, 49 Long Acre), rubbed and worn, but sound. Includes several acts on the wages of seamen, seamen's' hospitals, harbor moorings, the Royal Navy treasury, prize money, benefits for seamen's' families, bounty money, pension... more information