Boston: Etheridge and Bliss, 1807. First Edition. Satirical account of the Rotten Cabbage Rebellion at Harvard in 1807, an uprising/food fight galvanized by the presence of maggots in the cabbage and splinters in the sugar bowl. Among the expulsions were Dr. Walter Channing and Richard Henry Dana. SHAW & SHOEMAKER..... More

Paris: Hachette, 1865. First Edition. Octavo. Contemporary gilt-decorated morocco over marbled boards, spine in six compartments; 424 (2)pp. Bookplate, private shelf label and ownership signature of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson's great-grandson and minister plenipotentiary to France from 1892-1893. Slight rubbing to board edges; sun-darkening to spine, with a bit..... More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. First Edition Thus. First Printings. Two octavo volumes (21cm); light gray cloth, blocked and titled in black and gilt on spines; dustjackets; [viii],[1]-381,[3]; [xii],[2],3-850,[2]pp; with parallel text in Italian and English. From the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with..... More

London: for Richard Phillips, printed by J[ames] Adlard, Duke Street, 1806. First Thus. Two demi octavo volumes (18.5cm). Contemporary tree calf with red and black morocco spine labels; marbled endpapers; lxxiv,[1]-355; iv,[1]-385,[7]pp (final seven pages are publisher's ads); engraved frontispieces, one folding facsimile. A tidy set; aside from some external..... More

Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, 1861. Later edition (first published 1856). 12mo (18cm). Publisher's full morocco, elaborately embossed with gilt titles and matching gilt devices to front and rear boards; all edges gilt; 300pp; frontispiece, engraved extra-title and 4 inserted leaves of plates; 4pp publisher's catalog bound in at..... More

London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1821. Second edition. Octavo (22cm). 20th-century half-calf over marbled boards; red and black morocco spine labels; xiv;223+568pp. Mild foxing to prelims, else a tight, clean and complete copy in an attractive modern binding to style. The 54th installment in this long-running series, begun..... More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. First Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's dark blue bevelled boards, titled in gilt and blind to spine and front board. 289pp.+16pp. ads to rear. Light bumping to spine ends, a little scuffing to extremities, strong and handsome; internally clean with some marginal toning to page..... More

New York: Pollard & Moss, 1889. Reprint. Novel of two sisters from a prosperous rural British family and the struggles they face when their fortunes change. First serialized in The Cornhill Magazine, edited by William Makepeace Thackeray. Quite scarce in any edition: OCLC lists Iowa's copy only of this imprint;..... More

Boston: Whipple & Damrell, 1837. Stated First Edition. Small Octavo. 15cm. Stab bound, with no evidence of ever having been in wraps or a binding. 144pp. The title page and last leaf form the covers for this volume, so there is some light soiling and spotting to both leaves, with..... More

London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1861-2. First Edition. First impressions. Two slim, small octavo volumes (19cm). Uniform publisher's blind-embossed green cloth by Westleys, titled in gilt on spines; printed endpapers; 104 + 69pp. Printed binder's ticket to rear pastedown of each volume. A few old bookseller's marks to prelims;..... More

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1858 [1857]. First Edition, Second Issue. Octavo. 18.5cm. Publisher's second issue green lavishly embossed cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. 438pp. Recased (or repacked) in original binding, light scuffing and rubbing to extremities, minor bumping to spine ends, bright and..... More

Paris: A. & W. Galignani / Baudry's European Library, 1849. The three titles bound together in a single volume. Octavo; three-quarter gilt-decorated white-dyed calf over marbled boards, with leather spine titles; 103,186,154pp; printed in double columns, original wrappers discarded by the binder. Bookplate to front pastedown of Charles Olmsted Hall..... More

Boston: Carter, Hendee, 1833. First Edition. First printing (1,000 copies printed). Publisher's blue moiré cloth with printed spine label; x,[1]-98pp. Thin splits to cloth at joints, with small losses to spine ends; rubbing to spine label; mild foxing within, mostly confined to endpapers; Good and sound. Faint early (but undated)..... More