Buffalo: Clapp, Matthews & Co's Steam Presses, 1857. Beige wrappers, front cover printed in black. 23 cm. 64pp. Very good. OCLC lists copies at BDF, DANGER, and KAI. As well as the curriculum, the pamphlet prints an essay by Horace Mann on Mercantile Education. More
Larimore, N.D. Pioneer Print, 1901. Oblong 22 by 28 cm. Printed green wrappers. Holes punched along left margin, tied together with brown cord. A promotional pamphlet, (36)pp., with numerous photographic illustration of town buildings, private residences, local men, business ads, and directory of businesses; text describing land, history, game and... More
[Wichita, KS: the author, 1910-1920's?]. Black cloth folder, title stamped in gilt. 10 by 14 cm. 10 photographic page leaves attached accordian style with multiple images on a number of them. Pasted on the rear of the tenth page is promotional text. No OCLC nor were we able to find... More
New York: J.H. Colton, 1862. Engraved broadside map, 37 x 41 1/2 inches, the counties hand-colored in light shades of blue, green, yellow, and pink, with a darker pink outling state borders, all enclosed within a wide ornamental border. Cover title: "Colton's Sectional Map of Missouri." Cf. Phillips, p. 443... More
Pittsburgh: Printed and published by Eichbaum and Johnston. Market Street. 1824. First edition. 13 x 22 1/2 cm. xvi, 183pp., errata. A shaped-note songbook. Paper covered printed boards (worn) with leather spine, joints starting. Part One (all published). Book bears the early ownership signature of Archibald Hanna. OCLC locates copies... More
[post 1900?]. Early restrike of a color lithograph, originally published by W. Stephenson & Co. in 1855, Wm. Boell, lithographer. A street scene, image size 56 x 74 cm., on a 61 x 82 cm. sheet. Buildings with business names prominently displayed are depicted on the north side of Park... More
London: Printed for G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1804. First edition. Six volumes. 19 cm. xi, 320 pp.; 336 pp.; 314 pp.; 363 pp.; 298 pp.; 376 pp. All bound in three-quarter tan leather with marbled boards. Tan leather title labels and gilt rules on spine. First volume appears to... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1938. 8vo. Frontis. portrait, vi, 387 pp. Extra-illustrated with portraits, letters, notes and autographs. Rebound in tan leather, black-lettered red cloth labels (clipped from the original binding) laid down on spine. Hinges cracked, pictorial endpapers (offsetting to rear endpaper); previous catalog description tipped in to front... More
Washington, D.C. 1882. 20 1/4 cm. 7pp. typescript. Bound in black leather joints split and worn. Gilt stamping on cover. Embossed stamp of the Post. Signed by the Commander, Adjutant, and three members of the Committee on Necrology. Eustace, a Frenchman, had served as a Private in the Civil War... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. First edition. Two volumes. 24 cm. ix, 358; vii, 430pp. Illus., folding maps. Original red cloth with gilt stamping on spine. Slight discoloration to bottom of spines; tail of spine of the first volume worn down. HOWES G-432. RADER 1694. More
NP [Rochester, NY?]: np [D.M. Dewey's American Fruit & Flower Plates, Colored from Nature, 2300 Varieties] Mensing & Stecher, Lith. nd [early 1880s?]. Oblong leather catalogue (scuffed and worn, gilt tooling around front cover), 14 x 22 cm., with a color lithographed title page and 61 color plates. Remains of... More
Boston: J. Haven, 1851. First edition for this publisher. Gilt and blind stamped red cloth folder, short separations at top and bottom of front joint. 12mo. 20 pp. of text, plus a folding map (17 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. on an 18 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. sheet) entitled... More
New York: Baker and Scribner, Nassau Street and 36 Park Row, 1850. Later edition. 19 1/2 cm. xvi, 453pp. Dark green embossed publishers cloth with some wear to edges. Scattered foxing, some signatures pulled. Previous owner's signature in pencil, along with some other pencil notations. Howes W593. More
New York, NY: Charles Magnus, 12 Frankfort St. nd [1860s, Magnus is listed in New York Directories at 12 Frankfort Street from 1861 to 1867]. A collection of 360 images, including several numbered sets. The majority (approx. 280) are printed in bronze or sepia ink, plus approx. 73 hand or... More
Pittsburgh, (PA): Printed and published by Cramer & Spear, at the Franklin Head Bookstore, Wood Street, 1820. Fourth edition. 13 1/2 x 22 1/2 cm. (200) pp., 2 leaves of plates. Oblong blue paper boards (soiled) with leather spine. Joints cracked, amateur repair. Previous owner's signature on title page. In... More
Holley, NY: [1830-1835]. Small 4to notebook (approx. 8 x 6 1/4 in.) bound in original half calf over marbled boards, containing approximately 80 leaves with manuscript entries and designs composed and drawn in ink and pencil; some blank pages scattered throughout. Approximately 50 designs, including fully realized furniture styles with... More
London: The Two Horse Press, 1960. No. 119 of edition of 150. 91pp., [2], ill.. 26 cm. Blue spine cloth with orange paper boards, paper illustration of a house on front cover. More
Baltimore: Privately Printed, 1940. Subscribers Edition of 25 this one for Wm. G. Baker Jr. [145] pp., 50 illus. of which one tipped in. Set in Granjon types and printed on Hulbert Permanent Book paper by Peter Bielenson at the Walpole Printing Office, Mount Vernon, New York, Reproductions printed by... More
Koln: Markus, 4. August 67. First edition. 22 1/2 cm. 79pp. Gray wrappers. Front cover printed in black. Inscribed by Heusinger. Heusinger in began WWII helping Germany plan the early invasions, later was promoted temporary Chief of the General Staff of the Army in which capacity he was with Adolph... More
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. Later edition. 16 1/2 cm. 167pp., illus. Brown embossed cloth with gilt stamping on spine. Spine ends worn to block. Very good. Attributions to authorship include Samuel Goodrich and Abel Bowen among others, but Hawkes seems most likely credited as such for another Lambert... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1877. First edition. 24 cm. Two volumes. 414 pp.; 450 pp. Dark green peppled cloth with gilt stamped spines. All edges gilt. Previous owner's bookplate on pastedown. More
New York: New York University Press, 1976. First edition. 23 1/2 cm. xxiii, 381 pp. Red cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Black dust jacket. Very good. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981. First edition. 24 cm. xli, 498 pp. Brown cloth spine stamped with gilt in tan dust jacket. Very good. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980. First edition. 24 cm. xxxvi, 585 pp. Brown cloth spine stamped with gilt in tan dust jacket with few tears on upper edge. Very good. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976. First edition. 24 cm. xxviii, 706 pp. Brown cloth spine stamped with gilt in tan dust jacket. Very good. More
