Montpelier, Vt. Lucius Q. C. Bowles, 1813. ix + 369pp, original 18th century full leather binding with red leather title label lettered in gilt with minor loss, front hinge splitting but boards firmly attached, paper browning, some worm holes mainly to endpapers and corners. Book owner's label on front pastedown..... More

London. Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1910. 1st edition. Black and white photographic frontispiece and 13 photographic illustrations through the text. xi + 308pp index. Some foxing primarily to the first leaves, margins and edges. Contents leaf has been carelessly opened with subsequent loss to outer margin not affecting text. Head..... More

London. George Routledge and Sons. nd. c 1890. Translated by Laura Ensor. Original green cloth covered boards, lettered in gilt, 348pp index, head of spine rubbed, tail frayed with slight loss, corners slightly bumped, endpapers browned, sparse light foxing to the preliminaries, but a firm and tight copy of a...... More

Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University. 1895. 196pp + 5 page publisher catalogue, edges uncut, top edge gilt. Original cloth worn and a little marked with some loss to cloth at bumped corners and head and tail of spine. Endpapers evenly browned, edges lightly browned, compliments slip of Charles R. Lanman tipped..... More

No place of publication. No details of publisher. 清光緖3[1877]. A Chinese book on physiognomy by Yuan Liuzhuang [袁柳庄] also known as Yuan Hong [袁珙] (1335 - 1410), a well known late Ming and early Qing face-reading master. Five-hole stab binding with string ties, chops, illustrated in black and white, 10..... More