Paris: E. Robert, 189 Rue Saint-Honoré, en face l’Eglise Saint-Roch, No date [c. 1853]. Leather bound. [RELIGION] [FRENCH LANGUAGE]. 24mo (5 5/8 x 3 ¾) ; xx, 416pp ; black goat skin over board, 5 raised bands on spine; gilt-stamped lettering on spine; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles, bronze floral brocade endpapers; wood-engraved..... More
New York: Munn & Co., No. 361 Broadway, 1895. Ephemera no binding. Folio (16 ¼” x 11 ¼”); pp66-80; illustrated wrapper; 2” split at tail of wrapper fold, insect damage to lower corner wrapper and 1st page, small closed tears and chipping to wrapper edges, hand-soiling and shelf-wear to wrapper;..... More
New York: Munn & Co., No. 361 Broadway, 1895. Ephemera no binding. Folio (16 ¼” x 11 ¼”); pp370-384; illustrated wrapper; 4” split at tail of wrapper fold and separation at mid-fold, 1” closed tear to fore-edge through all pages; light hand-soiling and shelf-wear to wrapper; very good minus. Advertised..... More
New York: Munn & Co., No. 361 Broadway, 1899. Ephemera no binding. Folio (16 ¼” x 11 ¼”); pp418-432; illustrated wrapper; 1” closed tear to rear wrapper fore-edge, light hand-soiling and shelf-wear to wrapper; very good. Advertised as a Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry and Manufactures..... More
New York: Munn & Co., No. 361 Broadway, 1895. Ephemera no binding. Folio (16 ¼” x 11 ¼”); pp50-64; illustrated wrapper; 3” split at tail of wrapper fold, small closed tears and chipping to wrapper edges, hand-soiling and shelf-wear to wrapper; very good minus. Advertised as a Weekly Journal of..... More
New York: Munn & Co., No. 361 Broadway, 1900. Ephemera no binding. Folio (16 ¼” x 11 ¼”); pp370-384; illustrated wrapper; light hand-soiling and shelf-wear to wrapper, age-toning and chipping at fore-edge; very good minus. Advertised as a Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry and Manufactures. Contents..... More
New York: Munn & Co., No. 361 Broadway, 1896. Ephemera no binding. Folio (16 ¼” x 11 ¼”); pp178-192; illustrated wrapper; insect damage to lower corner wrapper, small closed tears and chipping to wrapper edges, hand-soiling and shelf-wear to wrapper; very good minus. Advertised as a Weekly Journal of Practical..... More
New York: Munn & Co., No. 361 Broadway, 1895. Ephemera no binding. Folio (16 ¼” x 11 ¼”); pp322-336; illustrated wrapper; 3” split at tail of wrapper fold, chipping to bottom edge, hand-soiling and shelf-wear to wrapper; very good. Advertised as a Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics..... More
New York: Munn & Co., No. 361 Broadway, 1899. Ephemera no binding. Folio (16 ¼” x 11 ¼”); pp338-352; illustrated wrapper; 4” split at tail of wrapper fold, hand-soiling and shelf-wear to wrapper; very good. Advertised as a Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry and Manufactures. Contents..... More
London and Edinburgh: T. Nelson, Paternoster Roy, 1818. Boards. [NON-FICTION] [HOME ARTS]. 32mo (4” x 2 ¾”); 190pp; decoratively blind stamped red boards, gilt -stamped lettering and decoration to spine; pale yellow endpapers, gift inscription dated 1853 on ffep; borders around text on each page; chapter head-pieces; light rubbing to..... More
New York: G. Howard Watt, Publisher, 1934. Josephine Z. RINE, illustrations and R.W.TAUSKEY, photographs. Cloth. [NATURAL WORLD] [ANIMALS]. Josephine Z. RINE, illustrations. R. W. TAUSKEY, photographs. 8vo; 191pp; brown glazed cloth over board, gilt stamped title and author, fox terrier portrait vignette to front; red stained top; 16 b&w photographic..... More
Philadelphia: Weber Print, No date [c. 1915]. Ryan WALKER (?). Wraps. [POLITICS] [U.S. SOCIALIST PARTY.] Cover title: Jo-Ben’s Uncle Sam. Come on Fellow Citizens, We’ve Another Job On Hand, Price 10 cts. 12mo (7 3/8” x 4 ½”); 31, [1]pp; relief printed pictorial wrapper in red and navy, a poem..... More
New York: Antheneum, 1990. quarter bound cloth. First edition, first printing. 8vo; xvi, [ii], 365pp; quarter-bound in black cloth over cream boards, blind-stamped lettering to front, silver-stamped lettering to spine; b&w pictorial endpapers; b&w illustrated plates on glazed paper; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket; fine in fine dj. ISBN: 0-689-11960-7..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908, November. Boards. [HISTORY] [BIOGRAPHY]. First illustrated edition. 12mo; 47pp; grey boards, lettering and portrait of Lincoln stamped on front in dark brown, brown cloth shelf-back; ownership in pencil on ffep; glazed half-tone fp with tissue guard; fore edges untrimmed; unopened rear fly-leaves; light wear..... More
Toronto: William Briggs, 1889. cloth. SIGNED. 8vo; [i-vii], viii-ix, [3], 12-136pp; gilt stamped title and decoration on blue cloth over board, beveled board edges, blind stamped borders; inscribed and signed by author on free front endpaper; illustrated; scuffing and fraying to head and tail of spine, ½” scrape to mid..... More
Brattleboro, Vermont: The Stephen Greene Press, 1974. Boards. 8vo square (8 3/16” x 8 ¼”); [82]pp; white parchment-style boards, gilt-lettering on spine; blue endpapers; 20 color plates; blue presentation box with color onlay to top, sunning to titled edge, light crease to front bottom corner else fine, in a very..... More
New England: Printed for the Proprietor, 1813, February. Full calf. 12mo; 264pp; contemporary smooth brown calf, spine with onlaid gilt stamped black label; 4 woodcut illustrations of which 3 depict various conjoined twins and one with other genetic anomalies; damage to head and tail of spine, scuffing to edges, scrapes..... More
[Cincinnati, Ohio]: [1915]. Boards. [SCRAPBOOK]. 8vo (9½” x 6½”); [34 unnumbered leaves]; three-quarters green calf; blind-stamped “Scrap Book” and hubs on spine; marbled boards; sewn-in bindings; commercially sold scrapbook with Daniel Slote & Co. book trade label on front endpaper; 1 ½” split to spine; fragile without wrinkling or odors;..... 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
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: 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..... More
Portland, Maine: National Society of Colonial Dames of AMerica in the State of Maine, 1982. W. L. Frost. Limited Edition. cloth. Fold-out Map: FROST, W.L., Falmouth Neck and Stroudwater in the Time of the Tates, for the Colonial Dames, 1982. Fold-out Map: A Plan, of the Clear Inclosures in Brigadier..... More
[Portland, Maine]: [Maine Historical Society], 1903. 1st Edition. Wraps. Cover title: Tercentenary of Martin Pring’s First Voyage to the Coast of Maine, 1603-1903, [Portland, Maine: Maine Historical Society], 1903. BAXTER, Hon. James Phinney. The Avant Couriers of Colonization. DENNIS, Prof. Alfred L.P. Captain Martin Pring, Last of the Elizabethan Seamen..... More
College Station [Texas] and London: Texas A&M University Press, 1979. Cloth. [HISTORY] [AMERICAN WEST]. First edition. 8vo; xiv, [4], 4-201pp; tan buckram over board, lettering stamped on spine in dark brown; 16 pp b&w photographic illustrations; unclipped pictorial dust jacket, publisher’s ad on rear; fine in fine dj. The historical..... 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