THE REVOLUTIONARY JOURNAL OF BARON LUDWIG VON CLOSEN 1780-1783
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, (1958). First edition. 8vo. xxxvi, 392 pp. Illustrated. Maps on endpapers. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Very good. More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, (1958). First edition. 8vo. xxxvi, 392 pp. Illustrated. Maps on endpapers. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Very good. More
Pasadena, CA: Trail’s End Publishing Co., (c1948). First edition 8vo. xii, (4), 350. Profusely illustrated from Russell paintings and line drawings, photographs, plates, many in color, color illustrated endpapers. Adams Herd 16. Adams Six-Guns 14. Original burgundy cloth, gilt spine title, color illustrated dust jacket (rubbed, several small chips and..... More
An Essay and Practical System of Breaking and Educating the Horse[Columbus, OH?}: Columbus Printing Co., 1867. First edition. Small 8vo (16 cm). 27 pp. Trade card for Bert Sinkey, “Practical painter and Decorator, Richwood, O[hio]” laid in. OCLC locates one copy (Houston). Original printed blue wrappers (large chip on decorated..... More
8vo. 2-pages, approximately 150 words, in part: “The day after the death of our dear old friend Mr. Pierce I was taken down with a cold of the lungs, and am only now able to be about … whenever you can manage to run away from your work send me..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925. First edition of Nash's first book. Square 8vo. ix, (2), 165 pp. Illustrated from line drawings, plates, color frontispiece, illustrated endpapers. An "Alice in Wonderland"-like fantasy tale. With an undated inscription by Alger on the verso of the frontispiece. Very good. Original..... More
New Haven & London: Yale Center for British Art [and others], (c1996). First edition. Large 4to. 328 pp. Illustrated from photographs, old art, facsimiles, maps, etc., plates, many in color. Black cloth, color illustrated dust jacket, publisher’s plain light board slipcase. Fine. More
Baton Rouge, (LA): Ramires-Jones, nd [ca. 1934]. Printed broadside, 16 x 9 ¼ inches, the 2-line head in bold italic type. Diatribe against the “old New Orleans Ring, big money interests, and lying newspapers,” advocating for the poll tax relief bill: “The fact that over half of the grown white..... More
Clyde, Ohio: A.D. Ames, Publisher, 1879. 19cm.; 29, (3) pp. Black lettered tan paperwraps (moderately soiled; short tears to edges of wraps). Previous owner's signature on front cover and title page. Part of the Ames' Series of Standard and Minor Dramas (this is no. 79). A play set "during the..... More
Manila, P.I. Bureau of Science of the Philippine Government, 1931-1935. First separate edition, offprints from The Philippine Journal of Science. parts 1-3 and 5 (of five published, lacking the fourth part). 4to. Four parts: (14) pp., 16 plates, two in color; (24) pp., 29 plates, three in color; (22) pp...... More
[Boston: 1851]. Trade circular. Single sheet, 26.5 x 20.5 cm., printed on blue paper. "The Copartnership heretofore existing between the Subscribers, is, by mutual consent, dissolved." Signed in type by Alfred A. Andrews and Tobias Oakman Gardner. Alfred Andrews states he has formed a new copartnership with Tobias Oakman Gardner..... More
New York & London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1884. Original printed wrappers. 19 cm. 77pp. Spine and corners chipped on edges, previous owner's signature on front wrapper and at head of title page. First separate edition of an essay by the Duke of Argyll entitled "The Prophet of San Francisco," which..... More
[St. Louis, MO]: Woodward & Tiernan printing co., 1890. Original printed green paper wraps. 23 cm. 31pp. Folding map tipped in at the front: "Climatic Map of Arkansas, 1889," [St. Louis, MO: Higgins & Co. Engravers], showing the temperatures, rainfall, and spring frosts in yellow, red, and green. Chipping to..... More
(Goldsboro, NC: Nash Bros., Printers and Binders, 1905). Later printing (first published 1904). 8vo. 79 pp. Six maps, four double-page. Examines several state boasts about the war: “First at Bethel,” “Farthest at Gettysburg,” “Last at Appomattox,” among others; Ashe writes about the number of troops the state supplied, killed, wounded..... More
Paris: Eugene Rey, 1930. First edition, 1/10 copies on ancien du Japon. 4to. (204) pp. Mounted frontispiece portrait, black-and-white illustrations in text, mounted color plates, one double-page, with tissue guards; the second half of the book consists of Steinlen's drawings for the story of Saint-Lazare by Jacques Dyssord. Theophile Steinlen..... More
[Washington, DC]: U. S. Coast Survey, A.D. Bache, Supdt. 1865. Broadside lithographed map, 25 ½ x 35 ½ inches, sectioned and laid down on linen. Minutely detailed map of the two states, printing to the north on a line from Wilkesboro to Franklinton, starting between Charleston and Savannah to the..... More
Tuscaloosa, (AL): Woodruff & Olcott, 1843. First edition. 12mo. 245 pp. Publisher's ad leaf. The author published an earlier arithmetic textbook in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1830. American Imprints 43-406. Owen, p. 811 (without location). Ellison 471. Karpinski pp. 447. OCLC locates four copies (Mississippi [lacking title page], Alabama, Yale, American)..... More
Cambridge, (England): W. Heffer & Sons, 1927. First edition. Large 8vo. xii, 280 pp. Maps, some folding, one large folding in rear pocket, musical notation, decorated endpapers; includes an Urdu vocabulary at the rear. Trip through the mountains of Ladakh, 1923-1924, with a focus on the region’s music and folk..... More
NP: NP, nd [1930s?]. Unrecorded edition. 8vo. (8) pp. [the other editions, mentioned below, were issued with four or six pages]. Prints three different versions of this Jefferson County legend concerning the casting out of vengeful witches. OCLC locates single copies of three editions (with attributed dates of “1800s,” 1925..... More
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1940. First British edition (first published in the United States the previous year). 8vo. 319 pp. Plates, line drawings, folding temperature chart, endpaper maps. Account of a 1938 ascent of K2, the second highest mountain in the world, that reached 26,000 feet , about 2200 feet..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1939. First edition. 8vo. xii, (2), 381 pp. Plates, line drawings, folding temperature chart, endpaper maps. Account of a 1938 ascent of K2, the second highest mountain in the world, that reached 26,000 feet, about 2200 feet short of the summit." Neate 65. Very..... More
Georgetown, D.C. Published by Joseph Milligan. (J. C. Dunn, Printer), 1822. 16.5 cm. 12mo. 492, (8, index) pp. PARSONS 729: "Written in Latin by the Rev. Nathaniel Bacon, S.J (alias Southwell; translated from his manuscript, by Rev. Edward Mico, S.J. First appeared London 1669." Baxter was an English Jesuit and..... More
Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, 1962. First edition, 1/1250 copies (this #647), signed by the authors. 4to. 380 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, schematics, ephemera, old art, line drawings, etc., illustrated endpapers. Volume I: Alton – New York Central; Volume II: Northern Pacific – Wabash. Gilt-stamped gray cloth, acetate dust jacket, color..... More
Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, 1965-1966. First edition. 4to. Two volumes: 465; (9), 466-976 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, some in color, schematics, old advertising and art, line drawings, etc., illustrated endpapers, folding map in pocket at rear. Gilt-stamped black cloth, color illustrated dust jackets (two short closed tears). Very good. More
New York: nd [1940?]. 8vo. (2) pp. Accompanied by a contemporary snapshot of three men in a park, Beecham identified in ink in the lower margin, seated on a bench with the newly arrived Nikolai Malko, a well-known Soviet conductor. Both items very good. The note is folded for mailing..... More
New York: nd [ca. 1942-1943]. 12mo. 2-pages, approximately 40 words. Accompanied by a contemporary snapshot of three men in a park, Beecham identified in ink in the lower margin, seated on a bench with the newly arrived Nikolai Malko, a well-known Soviet conductor. Very good. For the pair, More