Recent Arrivals from Fine Editions Ltd

Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Franciscum Hackium, 1650. Full Calf. Near Fine+. Early issue of the first Latin edition of Browne's first and most celebrated work, a spiritual testament and meditative essay originally not intended for publication. 12mo (128 x 73mm): 235,[5]pp, with engraved title page after a design by William Marshall of a figure falling headlong into the… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Printing of this important debut, awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Selected and introduced by Dudley Fitts. Slim crown 8vo (203 x 124mm): xiii,[1],62,[2]pp. Publisher's coarsely woven plum-colored cloth (also issued in decorative wrappers), spine lettered in black; illustrated dust jacket priced $3.00.… Read more about this item

London: Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, at the West-End of St. Paul's; T. Woodward, at the Half-Moon over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street; and J. Peele, at Locke's Head in Amen-Corner, 1740. Full Calf. Fine. A superb set of these classics of experimental science, milestones in the history of hydrodynamics and physiology, with the imprimatur of… Read more about this item

Paris: Auguste Udron, rue du Battoir, no. 20, 1827. Quarter-Calf. Near Fine+. Rare First Edition of Martin's charming melon lover's manual. 12mo (129 x 75mm): [4],iv,156pp, with delicately four hand-colored lithographs depicting nine varieties of melon (in section and whole) and a Piquet à Thermomètre de Regnier. Contemporary black quarter-calf lettered, ruled, and decorated with Empire motifs in… Read more about this item

London: Archibald Constable, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A superb unopened First Impression collecting these three plays, the first commissioned by W. B. Yeats. Crown 8vo (176 x 119mm): lix,[3],293,[3]pp. Publisher's olive-green vertically ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt, others uncut; dun-colored dust jacket lettered in black and priced 6/-. An unopened, virtually flawless copy… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [from 1880], 1887. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Fine-. Seldom seen Second Printing (no copy appears in auction records) of this cornerstone of baseball literature. Binding and text duplicate the first printing, excepting date on title page and advertisements (eight pages vs. six in first printing). Crown 8vo (178 x 112mm): viii,[2],188,[8]pp, with tissue-guarded… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. First Impression. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First British Edition of this classic account of the perhaps greatest speculative boom in history, setting the stage for the Great Depression. Demy 8vo (212 x 134mm): 186pp, with frontispiece reproduced from The New Yorker Magazine. Publisher's blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Neat manuscript ex-libris in red ink to… Read more about this item

Boston: J. E. Tilton and Company, 1864. Decorative Cloth. Fine-. First Edition under this title (see below) of this early work on a fashionable Victorian pastime. 8vo (191 x 119mm): 96pp, with six tissue-guarded plates, head pieces, and historiated initials. Original dark green ribbed and beveled cloth, covers paneled in blind, gilt vignettes to spine and front cover,… Read more about this item

London: Imprynted at the Bedford Press, 20 and 21, Bedfordbury, 1898. Wrappers. Fine. Limited Edition, no. 117 of 250 copies printed for private circulation only. Foolscap 8vo (145 x 116mm): 43,[1]pp, with frontispiece (Low Water in Mortlake Reach) and list of Sette club members. Publisher's blue-grey wrappers, uncut and entirely unopened. Faint creasing to rear wrapper, but a… Read more about this item

York: Printed for the author by Edward Peck, Lower-Ousegate, 1800. Paper-Covered Boards. Fine. First (and only) Edition of this account of the market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, the only published work of James Mountain, of whom little is known. 12mo (186 x 107mm): [4],x,162; 40,[22]pp, with folding frontispiece plan of Selby and folding plate (North… Read more about this item

London: Printed for P. Elmsly, in the Strand, 1779. Half-Calf. Fine. A superb First Edition (in period binding) of this account of a sojourn to Spain, "an exact investigation of the soil, cultivation, government, commerce, and manners." 4to (283 x 220mm): xv,[1],427,[15]pp, with folding engraved map and 18 plates (five folding) of archaeological monuments and Moorish architecture, including… Read more about this item

Dublin / London: Printed for William Wilson / Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1772. Full Calf. Fine-. First Editions of these two eighteenth-century poems in handsome contemporary binding with distinguished provenance. 4to (262 x 208mm): [8],50,2]; [4],156pp, with title page vignettes, list of subscribers, preliminary advertisement leaf, and final errata leaf; p. 49 misnumbered 94.… Read more about this item

Groombridge & Sons, 5, Paternoster Row, 1855. Original Cloth. Fine-. Scarce First Edition of Hibberd's first book, with extensive tables of annuals and perennials. Foolscap 8vo (142 x 91mm): 172,20pp. Publisher's olive-green pebbled grain cloth paneled in blind and lettered and decorated with vine motif in gilt. Handsome bookseller's and binder's tickets to front (Fry, Chelmsford) and rear… Read more about this item

London: William Darton & Son, Holborn Hill, 1830. Quarter Sheep. Near Fine+. Scarce early edition of this beautifully illustrated children's book. 12mo (144 x 89 mm): iv,5-156pp, with folding engraved frontispiece of the solar system and 13 further plates, most folding and all but two dated 1823. Of special note is the plate of Herschel's 40-foot telescope, constructed… Read more about this item

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+. First Printing, First State (with "Shit!" uncensored on final line of p. 219), of the poet's first novel, an account of his imprisonment in a French military detention center during the First World War. Crown 8vo (199 x 135mm): [2],viii,,9-271,[1]pp. Publisher's coarse tan cloth, spine and front… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Richard Phillips, Bridge-Street, 1811. Quarter-Sheep. Near Fine+. Scarce early edition of this beautifully illustrated children's book, featuring the startlingly magnified images of a flea, louse, blue bottle, and mites in cheese. Long 12mo (174 x 100mm): xii,118,[2]pp, with engraved folding frontispiece and four further plates (three folding). Original red quarter-skiver, spine lettered longitudinally in gilt,… Read more about this item

Boston: George W. Light, Lyceum Press, 3 Cornhill, 1834. Original Cloth. Near Fine+. Scarce First Edition (rare both in commerce and in institutional collections) of this account of the Canary Islands by the nineteenth-century Boston naturalist. Crown 8vo (186 x 111mm): 140pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece ("Peak of Tenerife from Ycod del Alto"), full-page map of the Madeira and… Read more about this item

Cambridge & London: Macmillan, 1861. First Edition. Original Cloth. Fine. Scarce First Impression of this spectacularly successful anthology, collecting the best-loved English poems from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries (from Shakespeare to Shelley, with a heavy dose of the Romantics), establishing a canon of the "best" poems in English literature. Only 2,000 copies of the first… Read more about this item

London: Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street, 1832. Original Cloth. Fine-. First Edition in original cloth of this popular paean to song birds with charming hand-colored lithographs. Crown 8vo (187 x 110mm): xi,[1],227pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece and sixteen further full-page plates. Publisher's green moire-patterned cloth (also issued in blue and brown cloth), red leather lettering piece gilt, edges rough-trimmed.… Read more about this item

London: Sold by Mr. White, bookseller, in Fleet-street, & Mr. Robson, in New Bond street, 1782. Quarter-Calf. Near Fine+. Tall uncut Second Edition (First Issue, with hand-colored allegorical frontispiece of sylvan scene with various insects and animals at foot of pedestal holding statue of Ceres and catchword on p. 40 corrected) of this classic of eighteenth-century entomology. Royal… Read more about this item