London & Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, [1911]. Limited edition. Complete in three volumes finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full calf, stamped and ruled in gilt, inner paneling, gilt dentelles, purple endpapers, all edges gilt. This edition has no verse numbers and is printed in paragraph form. Heavily illustrated with color..... More
![Item #140944480 [The Divine Comedy]. The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri, Consisting of the...](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140944480.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1671044404)
London: A. Strahan for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802. First edition of the first full translation of Dante's Divine Comedy into English. Octavo. Three volumes bound in contemporary full calf with gilt stamping and raised bands to spine. Light rubbing to bindings, darkening to spines; shallow chip to head..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. First American edition, first printing. xii, 349 pp. w/ two color photos. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with faint soiling to boards in Near Fine dust jacket, worn at spine ends, a little toned, unclipped ($7.95)..... More
Philadelphia: John McGill White & Co., 1897. First edition. 263 pp. with photo frontis. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with a few small areas of biopredation to cloth, spine faintly sunned, edges faintly foxed and a little stained. The author was an important African American..... More
London: Printed for Thomas Northcott, 1691. Second edition. [181]-236 pp. Complete text but does not include Appendix: "Robert Barclay, His Vindication[...]" other copies were apparently bound with. Disbound with paper tape on spine. Very Good with slightly worn corners, small stains on last page and a small marginal checkmark there..... More
London: Wertheim, Macintosh and Hunt, 1858. First edition. Complete in four volumes. viii, 580; iv, 551, [1]; iv, 571, [1]; [4], 69, [3] pp. With five folding maps or plans, on linen and partly in color. Bound in publisher's brown ribbed embossed cloth, spines gilt, pale yellow endpapers. Presented in..... More
![Item #140940712 [Beecher & Stone on Spirit Rappings] A Review of the "Spiritual Manifestations.":...](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140940712.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1606974234)
London; London & Dublin: Thomas Bosworth; H. Bailliere & James McGlashan, 1853; 1852. xxxii, 93; [1], 256 pp. Later three quarter leather with pebbled cloth [?] sides, gilt design at front, gilt ruling to spine bands, black title band and gilt title label "Beecher & Stone on Spirit Rappings." Rare..... More
London: Henry Clements, 1713. First edition, first printing of George Berkeley's work of philosophy. [x], 166, [vi], 44 pp. Octavo, bound in full contemporary mottled calf, laced in boards. Blindstamped ruled borders, red morocco title label to spine, all edges speckled red. Bound together with the third edition of another..... More
Brisbane, CA: Trillium Press, Publishers, 2003-2005. Complete three volume set. Each volume signed by Sandow Birk at colophon, as issued; each numbered 50 of 100. Additionally, many of the full-page lithographs are individually signed by the artist. Illustrated with 209 original lithographs by Sandow Birk, printed by David Salgado on..... More
London: Published by the Author, 1825 [but 1826]. First edition of Blake's visionary interpretation of the first of the Poetic Books in the Old Testament. Folio. Engraved title and 21 engravings on drawing paper. Original buff paste board covers with publisher's printed label over quarter brown cloth; cloth perished at..... More
London: The Theosophical Publishing, Company, Limited, 1888. First edition, first printings; British sheets with American publisher's (Judge's) imprint. An ex-library set bound in mismatched navy blue buckram with typical library markings. Good only with original spine clumsily laid over spine on volume I. Tipped-in 2 pp letter dated Aug 16..... More
Antique cabinet card photograph depicting a portrait of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, a Russian author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875, gaining an international following as the leading theoretician of Theosophy. Image measures roughly 3.75" x 5.5", mounted on card stock measuring 4" x 6.5". Near Fine with trivial edge..... More
Prague: Tiskem A Nakladem Noviny, 1944. First edition. Unpaginated. Bound in publisher's boards with black cloth backstrip. About Very Good with tear and fraying to a spot on the spine, boards slightly bowed, former owner's stamp on a few pages. A wordless graphic novel about the life of Jesus with..... More
Chicago: Edward Bonney, 1850. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with 13 inserted plates and engraved title-page. [5, sic] - 196 pp. Sammelband with 23 issues of The Cabinet of Literature, Instruction, and Amusement, Vol. 1 No.1 through Vol. 1 No. 23 [New York: Theodore Burling, 1828-29]. Bound in contemporary half calf..... More
Paris: Johannem Anisson, 1698. First edition. (xxiv), 440 (7, Indiculus Locorum), (1) pp. Period speckled calf, spine gilt. Woodcut title page device, head and tail-pieces and initials. In Latin. Very Good with worn head and tail, small sliver of biopredation to front joint also effecting front free endpaper, joints starting..... More
Nashville: The Sunday School Publishing Board, 1928. First edition. 158 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with lettering a little rubbed, wear at tips, former owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Uncommon. Born in South Carolina to enslaved parents, Jacob Tileston Brown (1863-1947) was one..... More
Nashville: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1903. First edition. [iv], 298 pp. Bound in publisher's pebbled blue cloth lettered in gilt; appears to be the more modern-looking of at least two variants. Near Fine with light shelf wear, age-toning to pages. Born in South Carolina to enslaved parents, Jacob Tileston Brown..... More
Chicago, IL: Henry Regnery Company, 1959. Sixth printing. Signed by William F. Buckley, Jr. on the front free endpaper and inscribed to the former owner, Portland lawyer Ridgway "Dick" K. Fowley, Jr. xvi, 240pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth-affect with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with light wear at..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1905. First edition. Three volumes in publisher's original cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with light soiling and light wear to cloth, bookseller ticker to front paste downs, pages tanned and with a few light pencil markings. A work which describes the Tuat..... More
Glen Ridge, NJ: Self Published, 1923. A manuscript of outsider meditations on science, religion, and metaphysics in the forms of poetry, prose, mathematical equations, and illustrations. [i], 36 pp. 37 sheets written recto only in cursive script with several sketched illustrations. Loosely bound with cord through two Clarke & Baker..... More
[Los Angeles]: Camp of the Lost and Found Sheep of the House of Israel, 1981. Single 8.5" x 11" sheet printed on rectos only. Good only, very fragile, loss along edges, closed tears (the largest being from the top edge right side, creased, stained, tape on verso. An extremely scarce..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press / Bollingen Series, 1973. Later reprint. Signed by Joseph Campbell and inscribed to a former owner on the colophon page. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wraps. Very Good, light creasing and wear to covers, covers curled outward, light soiling to textblock edge. The author's best-known..... More
New York: Pantheon Books Inc., 1949. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth over black spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with wear to extremities, bump to foot of spine. Contents tanned, foxing to textblock edge and endsheets, several hinges slightly exposed. In a Very Good unclipped dust..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1986. First edition. Signed by Johnny Cash on the half title in sharpie, inscribed to former owner. [xii], 226, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's cloth and boards, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, back panel rubbed, light wear, unclipped ($13.95)..... More
New York: Kailas Press, 1931. First edition. Signed by J.C. Chatterji on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs. Freyer with the compliments of the scribe New York Feb. 1931 > [signed] Jagadish Ch. Chatterji." 75 pp. Bound in publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Very Good+..... More