Titles starting with V from Dawson's Book Shop

Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., (1993). Very good. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, 190 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket, Small inscription in pen on front endpaper. ... more information

Printed for W. and J. Innys... and T. Woodward, London, 1727. Very good: covers worn; small loss at bottom corner of title-page, edges of leaves A1-A3 browned, sparse foxing. 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches, [7], vii, [2], 376 pages, contemporary panelled calf, expertly rebacked, red morocco titling-label , With 19 engraved plates. First Edition of the first volume of Hales' Statical Essays. In Vegetable Staticks "... we see the genius of discovery and the sound original reasoning powers of the great explor... more information

Michael Dawson Gallery, Los Angeles, 2005. Limited edition: 1 of 25 copies numbered and signed by the photographer in the colophon. Fine. 8 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches, unnumbered pages, cloth with cloth slipcase, An artist book project containing one hundred and thirty images from the photographers extended visual investigation of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria. The book was designed and printed digitally by Kaucyila Brooke using archival inks. In her introduction the photographer notes ... more information

Imperial Press, Cleveland, 1902. First Edition. Very good: expert restoration to spine ends; top corner of text block and front cover slightly bumped. 9 x 6 1/4 inches, 251 pages, tan cloth lettered in black on front cover and spine, 11 pages of ads for photographic products at end, numerous full-page and smaller halftone reproductions of photographs in pagaination. An important account dealing with the nineteenth century American photographic trade. Included with the book are two portraits by Ryder, both... more information

Imprimerie Royale, Paris, 1819. Limited edition: 325 copies. Very good, mild occasional foxing. 20 x 26 1/2 inches, Oblong Folio, leather tips and spine over blue cloth, raised bands and gilt fillets to spine, rebacked with text from original backstrip, light soiling to cloth, title from original wrapper, 80 lithographic views, costumes, and scenes, including 8 aquatints by Debucourt and 2 engravings, with guard tissues.A very good example of early French lithography with views in Turkey, Palestine a... more information

Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, London, 1778. Very good: boards rubbed; scattered foxing. 8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches, [10], 315 (i.e. 215), [2] pages, modern boards with vellum spine, Includes half-title, often lacking. With folding plan of Mexico City. First edition in English of "[a] thrilling account of a race against time to reach Lower California before the transit of Venus occurred." (Streeter, ref. 1772 Paris ed.). To this edition is added an account of a voyage to Newfoundland as well as... more information

William H. Vermilye, New York, 1838. Fifth Edition. Good: wear to corners of text block, small amount of loss to corners of preliminaries, not affecting text, just touching corner of frontispiece, foxing. 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches, 324 pages, modern marbled boards with morocco spine, Frontispiece lithographed by N. Currier. ... more information