NEW Summer Miscellany 2024 from Reginald C. Williams Rare Books

1st edition. Publisher's Cloth, a near-fine set in the very scarce dust wrappers. 2 octavo volumes, xvi+328pp, xvi+424pp, b/w frontis to each volume, folding chart, grand total of 31 b/w plates showing 54 images, b/w illustrations, index to both volumes, scattered foxing mainly to the preliminary & final pages, fore edges foxed, dustjackets worn with some loss along the edges,… Read more about this item

Folio (36.2 x 26.2 cm). x, 143 pp.; 12 engraved plates with explanatory text leaves, a few text figures. Original quarter linen over limp boards. Printed label with title mounted on front board. = Written by Darwin's Bulldog, the zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), who was a ship's assistant surgeon and naturalist on board of HMS Rattlesnake. The Rattlesnake charted… Read more about this item

Small 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth over black-stamped beveled boards First edition, First issue with volume 1& 3 lettered in Roman numerals and 2 & 4 in Arabic numerals on the spines (see Carter Binding Variants, p. 99). complete in four volumes. A FINE set in the publisher's cloth, no markings or inscriptions some minor spotting in places and minor… Read more about this item

FIRST EDITION. In-8, XXXIX-543 pp, Red canvas decorated in gilt from the publisher on the spine AND cover (Most copies are blind-stamped ). Original edition of this treaty relating to the amulets and superstitions of ancient peoples such as the Babylonians or the Egyptians as well as their various religious and mystical rituals. It is illustrated with 22 plates in… Read more about this item

Second edition revised & greatly enlarged. Small quarto. xxiv + 516pp + plates. Publisher's original deep maroon cloth with gilt tooling to the spine. The upper board is blind-stamped. unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's library plate to FEP. (The bookplate has wrinkled the front endpaper) The very scarce DJ is lightly shelf worn; tanned and discoloured, notably the spine, with… Read more about this item

2 volumes. xl, (2), 469, (1); (4), 553, (1)pp. 2 woodcut frontispieces, and a folding map of Salem Village in 1692. A bright very good set in the original publisher's green cloth and fold-out map. An excellent set housed in a custom green cloth clamshell box. In the late seventeenth century, nineteen residents of Salem, Massachusetts—charged by their neighbors with… Read more about this item

First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 192pp. Original blue cloth with gilt titling to spine, black borders. The first edition of this work by Dion Fortune described by the publisher as "based upon an esoteric interpretation of the Christian scriptures. and provides a series of broad-minded and tolerant considerations of the 'Mysteries of Jesus' as indicated in the Collects of the… Read more about this item

Small 8vo, pp [iv] , 219pp. + 1pp advert. Original blind-stamped dull purple cloth lettered in gilt to upper board, a little faded to spine and wear to lower joint, else a tight clean very good copy now Mylar protected. FIRST EDITION. An interesting memoir from a prominent English spiritualist who followed various mediums , including the American magicians /… Read more about this item

Paris, Henri Plon, 1871. In-12, 211 pp., dark blue leathery half-sorrow, smooth back decorated with golden nets and florets, preserved cover (dusty cover, small gaps at the foot of the cover, some small spots). Second partly original edition of this collection of prophecies of the end of the world by Jacques Collin de Plancy. It brings together predictions from Cazotte,… Read more about this item

1st edition hardbacks in original cloth Nice copy octavo xxviii + 462pp., Sir Leslie Stephen was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, & mountaineer, and father of Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell. Nice tight copy, partially uncut, in brown cloth boards with minimal wear. Uncommon and near-fine.

8vo., 8 plates; First edition, second issue, published 2 months after the first edition "with minor Corrections"; Hardback: green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Dust-wrapper, price-clipped, with sunning (darkening) to spine, is otherwise bright and clean, with some slight edgewear and minor chipping to top and base of spine panel. Dust-wrapper held in removable protective archival mylar sleeve. Green… Read more about this item

Prima edizione November 1957. 8vo., 566 pag - First authorized Russian trade edition - from the archive of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore . Publisher's original olive paper-covered boards stamped in black on the cover with the publisher's emblem stamped to the spine. Likely bound without the front free endpaper. Publishers stamp at the bottom right of the title page. A remarkable… Read more about this item

FIRST EDITION, 8vo., 5 3/4 x 8 5/8" 292 pages plus 20 pages of publisher's list dated 1938 (Only some copies of the first edition sheets were bound and issued upon publication. Slow sales of these copies delayed the binding and distribution of the remaining sheets, which were instead bound in stages over the next several years, as demand required.… Read more about this item

First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., xxvi, 313 pages, 26 photographic plates & numerous text tables. Bound in contemporary three-quarter brown Morocco over marbled boards. A beautiful copy, with a bit of mottling to the spine keeping it from being graded very fine. This comprehensive work defines the different genres of criminals, focusing on physical and psychological characteristics and other anomalies… Read more about this item

Publisher's red cloth. 8vo., xvi, 370 pp., including half-title plus 4 pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear. Large folding map. Owner's name (Vance Thompson [1863-1925], American literary critic, novelist & poet on front free endpage. Marginalia and writing inside, spine darkened, light wear at the head of the spine, a very good copy. Lombroso believed that genius was closely… Read more about this item

Publisher's original paper wrappers. Stapled binding. 32 pages. Complete and in very good condition, with some foxing to pages 1, 31 and 32. Foxing to edges. Brown marks on the spine edge of the cover. Clean internal pages generally. Preserved in a quarter morocco clamshell box with chemise. First edition, sixth impression, of the FIRST AUTHORIZED ENGLISH TRANSLATION of the… Read more about this item

First edition, 303[1] p, untrimmed, light foxing to endpapers and half-title, original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, in bright near-fine condition, the cloth a little frayed to front edge. With lists of witches' names, plus a 5-page bibliography. Scarce in first edition. The Witch-Cult in Western Europe was the first book in which Margaret Murray developed her controversial literal… Read more about this item

Original publisher's cloth. small 8vo. 399, [1] pp. 1949 1st Edition, 1st printing. The first publication of any of Heidegger's works in English. His most famous work "Being & Time" did not appear on English until 1962. With an introduction by Werner Brock, Dr. Phil. 399 pages. A collection containing four of Heidegger's most famous essays including "What is Metaphysics?"… Read more about this item

2 volumes, 8vo, pp xviii, 336: xviii, 397, [3, advert], uncut, bound in original blind-stamped black cloth, minor wear to upper joints and spine heads, but a near-fine bright set throughout, FIRST EDITION, the sole printing of this detailed economic study of trade in Ancient Greece and the Dutch Republic by the Irish historian and politician William Torrens McCullagh who… Read more about this item

Two octavo volumes, First Gaskin edition. Both with decorated green cloth covers, illustrated in black with two girls reading by fruit trees. Gilt title on spine. 1893. Top edge gilt. Two solid, clean, tight copies. Covers and spine a little faded. Some light edge-wear, corners bumped. Patterned endpapers. 398 & 426pp. Beautifully illustrated in the arts and crafts style. Contains… Read more about this item