No place: No maker noted, No date [c. 1850-1900]. Ephemera no binding. [PAPER LACE]. 48mo (3 15/16” x 2 11/16”); one sheet of white perforated paper lace punched with a decorative border and two scenes: a man walking and the French word “Amitié” meaning “Friendship”; fine. The art of hand-cutting..... More
Epinal, France: Imagerie D'Epinal, No date [c. 1888]. Boards. [HUMOR] [RACIST CARICATURE]. Folio; 56pp; pages numbered 1-60 printed recto only on very thin paper stock, lacking pp15, 16, 17, and 19—SEE NOTE BELOW; red pictorial boards on front, rear has green and white patterned boards, green cloth shelf-back; “Printed expressly..... More
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co., 1902, September. First Edition, later printing. Cloth over board. [HOLIDAY]. W.W. [William Wallace] DENSLOW, illustrator. Grace Duffie BOYLAN, introduction. Later printing. 4to; [64]pp tan cloth over board, lettering stamped in brown on front and spine, color pictorial pastedown of Santa in a circle, in a...... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1868-1869. Three-quarter leather bound. [FASHION]. Folio (16 ¼” x 12”); 832pp; three-quarter leather on brown pebbled cloth over board; peach endpapers; three bookplates on the front pastedown, two belonging to O.N. Bradbury dated “Feb. 7, ‘72” and “1874,” and one “Drs. Bradbury and Bradbury Physicians..... More
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1926. Ada C. WILLIAMSON. Cloth over board. [TRAVEL]. Ada C. WILLIAMSON, etchings and decorations. 4to; [i-vi], vii-xiv, [ii], 297pp; orange pebbled cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering and vignette of a church steeple in a shield; map endpapers; frontispiece with tissue guard; pictorial title page; historiated..... More
Dornach (Alsace, France): Dollfus-Mieg & Co., Société Anonyme, No date [c. 1890]. Wraps. [EMBROIDERY] [HOME ARTS]. English: Embroidery Alphabet, Letters, Numbers, monograms and Ornaments with counted stitches followed by a series of examples with transfers for white embroidery, D.M.C. Library. 24mo oblong (5 ½” x 8”); 92 + [25]pp publisher’s advertisements;..... More
London: Printed by John Nichols for David Henry and sold by Eliz. Newberry, the corner of St. Pauls' Church-yard, Ludgate-Street, 1787. [PERIODICAL] [HISTORY]. First edition. 8vo; [1], 554-1200pp + [16] Index; quarter-bound brown calf with marbled boards; bookplate on front pastedown, “The Property of the Light House Establishment,” now the..... More
London: Printed at St. John's Gate for D. Henry and sold by F. Newberry, the corner of St. Paul's Church-yard, Ludgate-Street, 1776. [PERIODICAL] [HISTORY]. Fold-out map 1: A Map of the South Pole, with the Track of His Majesty’s Sloop Resolution in Search of the Southern Continent, T. Bowen, sculp. Fold-out..... More
Boston: Thomas Groom, Stationers' Hall, 82 State Street, [1842]. Cloth over board. [ALMANAC]. Printed at the Office of the Rotary Card Press, (Dickinson’s,) 52 Washington Street. Fold-out Map: Plan of the City of Boston 10” x 11 1/8” sheet size, 9 7/16” x 11” within the neat line; chipping of right edge..... More
Boston: Thomas Groom, Stationers' Hall, 82 State Street, [1839]. Cloth over board. [ALMANAC]. Printed at the Office of the Rotary Card Press, (Dickinson’s,) 52 Washington Street. 2 Maps: Plan of the City of Boston and Rail Roads Diverging from Boston. 24mo (5 7/16” x 3 3/8”);132pp; brown cloth over board, blind stamped..... More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, No. 146 Chesnut Street, No date [not before 1827]. Wraps. [CHAPBOOK] [VERSE]. Stereotyped by L. Johnson. 48mo (3 ½” x 2 3/16”); 15 [1]pp; pictorial wrapper, front and rear; publisher’s string binding; 15 wood engraved illustrations including front wrapper; ¾” split at spine fold foot, light..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 36 Essex Street W.C. By Permission of H.M. The Queen, 1924. First Limited Edition. quarter-bound cloth. [DOLLHOUSES] [ARCHITECTURAL MODELS] [BRITISH ROYALTY]. W.H. Smith and Son, The Arden Press, London, printers. First edition; No. 953 of a Limited-Edition of 1500 copies. Vol. 1: 4to; [iv] v-xiv [iv]..... More
[London]: The Religious Tract Society: 56, Paternoster Row, 65, St. Pauls Churchyard, and 164, Piccadilly, No date [c. 1870]. Wraps. [RELIGION]. J.M. Kronheim & Co., London, printers. 4to; [20]pp; stiff chromolithographed front wrapper with elaborate decorative border surrounding the lettering, old spine repair with brown cloth, rear wrapper includes a...... More
Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1918. Blanche Fisher WRIGHT and Milo WINTER. First Edition. Cloth over board. [POETRY / RHYMES] [RACIST CARICATURE]. Blanche Fisher WRIGHT, illustrator. Milo WINTER cover and endpapers. First edition, later printing. 4to (12 1/8” x 10”); [104]pp; blue cloth over board, color pictorial..... More
Chemnitz: Goedsche & Comp. 1840. First Edition. [HISTORY] [MILITARY] [GERMAN LANGUAGE]. English: Napoleon’s History from the Cradle to the Grave. For all people of German mind and German language in words and pictures. First edition. 24mo (5 7/8” x 4 5/8”); 572pp; quarter bound brown calf with dark marbled boards, 4..... More
New York: George F. Tuttle, Publisher, 102 Nassau Street, 1856. Cloth over board. [INSPIRATIONAL]. Cover title: Barber’s Illustrated Proverbs 12mo; 252pp; brown ribbed cloth, blind-stamped decorative frame around a gilt-stamped title, gilt lettering and vignette on spine; pale yellow endpapers, ownership on ffep; five-panel leporello frontispiece; wood-engraved illustration at the beginning..... More
[Germany]: Not signed by maker, No date [c. 1890]. Ephemera no binding. [BOOKRACK]. 17 ½” long x 7” wide, sliding open to 24 ¼” long; adjustable sliding rack; 2 brass hinges; 2 button stops on bottom; 5 three-dimensional oak leaves and three acorns each side; fine. Lovely hand-carved walnut folding..... More
New York: George Routledge & Sons, 416 Broome Street, No date [c. 1880]. Kate GREENAWAY. First American Edition. Boards. [JUVENILE] [ILLUSTRATED] [POETRY]. Wemple & Company, New York, Art Lithographers. First American edition. 8vo; [6] 7-64pp; two-tone green glazed pictorial boards, title in red; all edges stained yellow; blue-green endpapers; gift..... More
No place listed: Not stated, No date [c. 1801-1830s]. Full leather. [FASHION] [ALBUM]. Spine title: Coloured Plates of the Latest Fashions 8vo; horizontal ribbed brown Morocco with gilt borders and ornaments; 5 banded spine with gilt ornaments, red leather title label; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles, heavy marbled endpapers; frontispiece +..... More
London: 1768. Thomas KITCHEN, engraver. Map no binding. [COLONIAL AMERICA]. 18 ¾” x 23 ¾” sheet size; 16 ½” x 22 ¾” within the neat line; vertical fold as issued in the atlas; well defined plate mark, wide margins; light offsetting of ink, else fine. A captivating clear map of..... More
New York: J.W. Bouton, 1879. Cloth over board. [TRAVEL] [BOOKPLATE]. 8vo; 93pp; gilt-stamped blue cloth over beveled board, title to front cover and spine, pictorial stamped cover with boats at sea and cliffs; all edges gilt; brown endpapers; bookplate of Francis Whiting Halsey on front pastedown; 39 engraved illustrations with..... More
Chicago: Era Publishing Co., 1900. Cloth over board. [SPORTS] [AUTOBIOGRAPHY]. 8vo; 339 + [3], [i], ii-viii + [16]pp advertisements for Chicago area businesses; pictorial green cloth over board, vignette of a ball player and bat with mitt on front, lettered spine; brown flowered endpapers; ownership address sticker to half-title; portrait..... More
New York: P.F. Collier & Son, Publishers, 1911. Boards. [SPORTS] [BASEBALL]. Folio (15 ½” x 11”); color illustrated boards, maroon cloth shelf-back; 159pp; b&w photographic illustrations throughout; scuffing and general wear to board edges, light soiling and stain to front, scuffing to head and tail of spine; binding tight and..... More
Praze [Prague]: Spole nost p átel Lužice, No date [c. 1919-1938]. Wraps. [EPHEMERA] [POSTCARDS]. 3 7/8” x 5 ¾”; 12 numbered postcards with divided backs and titles; wood-cut illustrations printed in green, navy, brown and printed on two colors of stiff cream paper stock; each wood-cut signed by the artist..... More
New York: George P. Putnam, 1850/1849. Cloth over board. [CALENDAR]. 16mo (6 1/8” x 4 3/8”); gilt-stamped navy ribbed cloth, vignette on front and rear boards of Shakespeare leaning on a monument with the motto “He Was Not For A Day But For All Time,” triple line borders; lettered spine..... More