New Haven: Printed and Published by S. [Sidney] Babcock`, No date [c. 1840s]. Wraps. [JUVENILE] [CHAPBOOK]. 32mo (4 3/8” x 2 ¾”); 16pp; pale pink or light tan wrapper, decorative borders and wood-engraved vignette of a mother and child on front, rear wrapper publisher’s ad for “Toy Books, Beautifully Embellished..... More
New Haven: S. Babcock, No date [c. 1835-40]. Wraps. Cover title publisher: New Haven: Sidney Babcock. 64mo (3 ½” x 2 1/8”); 16pp; yellow wrapper printed with black decorative border and vignette of birds within decorative swirls; rear wrapper publisher’s ad for “New Editions of Toy Books;” wood engraved vignette..... More
Gera, Germany: Griesbach, 1875. J.G. BACH, engraver. Ephemera no binding. 4to plate; 9 1/2" x 6 5/8" within the neat lines; chromolithograph of four species of mushrooms; double acid-free archival backing and mat 13 7/8" x 11" matted; fine. Eight species of hydnum fungi are illustrated and identified on this..... More
Gera, Germany: Griesbach, 1875. J.G. BACH, engraver. Ephemera no binding. 4to plate; 9 1/2" x 6 5/8" within the neat lines; chromolithograph of four species of mushrooms; double acid-free archival backing and mat 13 7/8" x 11" matted; fine. Fourteen species of globe or puff mushrooms are illustrated and identified..... More
Paris: F.D. Pillot, 1830. Comte de B.G. LACEPÈDE. Ephemera no binding. 8vo plate (8 3/4" x 5 1/2"); 5 13/16" x 3 1/2" within borders; custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied silver line; a few light spots of foxing; near fine. Hand-colored copper plate engraving of Sharks..... More
Gera, Germany: Griesbach, 1875. J.G. BACH, engraver. Ephemera no binding. 4to plate; 9 7/16" x 6 5/8" within the neat lines; chromolithograph of four species of mushrooms; double acid-free archival backing and mat 13 7/8" x 11" matted; fine. Four species of mushrooms: Coprinus atramentarius, Coprinus fuscescens, Coprinus Fimetarins, and..... More
Paris: F.D. Pillot, 1830. Comte de B.G. LACEPÈDE. Ephemera no binding. 8vo plate (8 3/4" x 5 1/2"); 6" x 3 1/2" within borders; custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied silver line; a few light spots of foxing; near fine. Hand-colored copper plate engraving of Stingrays from..... More
Paris: F.D. Pillot, 1830. Comte de B.G. LACEPÈDE. Ephemera no binding. 8vo plate (8 3/4" x 5 1/2");5 3/4" x 3 3/8" within borders; custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied silver line; fine. Hand-colored copper plate engraving of Stingrays from Comte de B.G. Lacepede’s (1756-1825) Historie Naturelle..... More
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Paris: F.D. Pillot, 1830. Comte de B.G. LACEPÈDE. Ephemera no binding. 8vo plate (8 3/4" x 5 1/2"); 6" x 3 1/2" within borders; custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied silver line; a few spots of foxing; near fine. Hand-colored copper plate engraving of Sharks from Comte..... More
Paris: F.D. Pillot, 1830. Comte de B.G. LACEPÈDE. Ephemera no binding. 8vo plate (8 3/4" x 5 1/2"); 5 7/8" x 3 1/2" within borders; custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied silver line; one small spot, else fine. Hand-colored copper plate engraving of Sharks from Comte de..... More
Paris: F.D. Pillot, 1830. Comte de B.G. LACEPÈDE. Ephemera no binding. 8vo plate (8 3/4" x 5 1/2"); 6" x 3 15/8" within borders; custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied silver line; one small white area upper left of print. Hand-colored copper plate engraving of Finback Whales..... More
Paris: F.D Pillot, 1830. Comte de B.G. Lacepede. Ephemera no binding. 8vo plate (8 3/4" x 5 1/2"); 6" x 3 3/4" within borders; custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied silver line; a few light spots of foxing. Hand-colored copper plate engraving of Sturgeon from Comte de..... More
Paris: F.D. Pillot, 1830. Comte de B.G. Lacepede. Ephemera no binding. 8vo plate (8 3/4" x 5 1/2"); 6" x 3 1/2" within borders; custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied silver line. Hand-colored copper plate engraving of Sharks from Comte de B.G. Lacepede’s (1756-1825) Historie Naturelle. Plate..... More
New York City: G. Howard Watt, Publisher, 1929. Clement B. DAVIS. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 8vo; xviii,415pp; acknowledgement to Abercrombie and Fitch company inserted after xviii; gilt-stamped green cloth over board, black and gilt stamped vignette to front; color pictorial endpapers; ownership bookplate to verso ffep and recto frontispiece;..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, 1869. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 12mo; viii, 295pp; green cloth over board, blind-stamped decorative borders front and rear, gilt-stamped spine with illustration of a hunter; brown endpapers with publisher’s ads; round embossed stamp for “W.H. Smith & Son, Library, 138 Strand” on ffep;..... More
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 28 S. Fourth Street, 1891. Maurice LELOIR. Boards. 8vo; 296pp; dark green cloth over board; stamped pictorial, gilt figures and silver flowers on front, decorative spine; all edges gilt; gift inscription to ffep dated 1892; engraved frontispiece and vignette on title page, 11 additional full-page engravings and..... More
New York: Beginner Books, a Division of Random House, 1959. Carl ROSE. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 8vo; 61 [4]pp; glazed yellow pictorial boards featuring a giraffe; color illustrated endpapers; color illustrations with text; light scuff to head and tail of spine; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket lacking price, rear..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1939. Boards. 12mo; 103pp; pictorial red boards; gift inscription on ffep dated Christmas 1952; light offset acid burn from dj to eps; b&w illustrations every page; unclipped pictorial dust jacket, dj states “Eighth Large Printing” on front flap; light chipping to edges; near fine..... More
New Kensington, PA: The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company, 1936. Wraps. 4to; 30pp; b&w pictorial wrapper, 2 holes for notebook placement; b&w photographic illustrations, horizontal fold, light wrapper soiling; very good. Included is a 10pp leporello brochure titled, “Cooking Utensils, Their Selection and Use By Margaret Mitchell, Director ‘Wear-Ever’ Test Kitchen.”..... More
New York: Golden Press, 1967. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 4to; 168pp; color pictorial cloth over board, twin-loop wire binding; gold price sticker to front board $2.95; blue front endpaper with Betty Crocker’s portrait; color vignette title page; color illustration and photographic illustrations throughout; light rubbing to board edges, chipping..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo; 131pp; orange stamped “ABC” design to gold cloth, title, author and publisher stamped on spine; gold endpapers; illustrated in black and red; unclipped color illustrated dust jacket, light wear to dj; near fine in very good plus dj. “An alphabet..... More
London & New York: London: Ernest Nister, New York: E.F. Dutton Co., No date [1896]. Staplebound. Printed in Bavaria. 24mo square (5 ¾” x 4 ¾”); [20pp]; color pictorial glazed front board, brown cloth shelf-back, 3 staple binding; color printed eps, ownership to ffep; illustrated title page; thick paper stock; two..... More
Chicago: P.F. Volland Company, 1919. Maginel WRIGHT ENRIGHT. Boards. Volland “Nature Children” Book. 8vo; [88pp + 3 publisher’s ads]; color pictorial boards and endpapers; ownership in script to ffep; color vignette on title page; color illustrations throughout; light soiling to boards and eps, a few finger marks on pages; very..... More
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1940. Lang CAMPBELL. Boards. 12mo square; 33pp; color pictorial boards and endpapers; number 533 on upper front board; color vignette to title page; 27 color illustrations; color pictorial dust jacket, light chipping to edges; very good in very good minus dj. More
Chicago: Laird & Lee, Publisher, 1906. Wraps. 24mo oblong; [96]pp; pictorial front wrapper; fold-out photographic illustration, b&w photographic illustrations with title and text; binding tight; every page; insect damage to first and last pages, separations at some folds of fold-out illustration with old repairs, insect damage to center of fold-out..... More