New York: Printed at the De Vinne Press, 1893. First edition, 1/142 unnumbered copies on plate paper [10 additional copies were printed on Japan paper]. 8vo. 114 pp. Frontispiece, other illustrations from wood engravings, old prints and paintings, portraits, etc., plates, maps, one double-page. Howes A-263. Very good. Original gilt-stamped..... More

New York: Panoramic Photo Co., (c1901). First edition. Tall narrow 4to. (32) pp. Title leaf, ad leaf at rear, one page of text, and a 31-page continuous page-to-page panorama of the businesses, hotels, baths, and other attractions lining the inland side of the boardwalk. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Original..... More

(New York: Press of Andrew H. Kellogg), nd [ca. 1900]. Promotional. Oblong 4to (6 x 8 7/8 inches). 58, (6) pp. Illustrated from photographs, three folding panoramas, including frontispiece. Promotional for the town, “perhaps the finest resort on the whole New Jersey coast,” and its centerpiece inn, a viewbook featuring..... More

Philadelphia, (PA): Printed by William Stavely, 1826. First edition. 8vo. 42 pp. Sabin 30393. American Imprints 24794. “The review of Richard Harlan’s Fauna Americana in the Franklin Journal was written by Godman, that in the North American Review was published anonymously; the present Refutation is clearly written by Harlan” (AAS..... More

(Northampton, MA): The Rosemary Press [Rosemary and Elliot Offner], 1982. First edition, 1/20 copies (unnumbered). Tall 8vo. (6), 58 pp. Portrait frontispiece. An autobiography of a future dentist's "boyhood," from his birth in 1871 to his wedding day in 1900, a tale of hardscrabble survival, with travel from one relative..... More

Fort Humphreys, VA: The Engineer School, 1929. First edition, 1/500 copies. 8vo. (5) pp. Among the 18 graduates of the Company Officers’ Course was 2nd Lt. Benjamin B. Talley who, as a colonel in World War II, would lead the engineering effort on D-Day at Omaha Beach. Original printed wrappers..... More

Manila, P.I. Military Information Division, 24th Infantry, (1913, date from map in rear pocket). First edition (also issued in Manilla in 1916 and reprinted in the United States many times, in 1917 and after). 4to. 80 pp. Illustrations from line drawings, maps, plates, plans, diagrams, tables, two large folding plans..... More

Concord, NH: Printed by Isaac Hill, for the State of New Hampshire, 1817. One of a number of editions of this War of 1812-era military manual (first issued New York, 1815). 8vo. 330 [i.e., 332] pp. American Imprints 42741. Old tideline affecting top margin of last few leaves; otherwise very..... More

Philadelphia, (PA): Printed for the author by Lydia R. Bailey, 1820. First edition. 8vo. xxxvi, 396 pp. Sabin 72202. Howes R-380: “Chief contemporary authority on the audacious filibustering expedition against Mexico under Mina, launched with a handful of men, through Texas in 1817. Notable also for its advocacy of a...... More

New York: H. Long & Brother, 1846. First edition. 8vo. 55 pp. Portrait of Taylor on verso of front wrapper, two folding maps, wanting the facsimile letter. Original plain tan front wrapper (rear wrapper wanting), stitched. A little internal soiling and staining. More

Boston, (MA): Printed for the author (J.Q. Adams, Printer), 1835. Fifth edition (?) of this combination (first issued in 1825). 12mo. Two volumes in one: 228; 168 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author. American Imprints 34564 (apparently not including the second title). Sabin 95605: "Several editions of the second part..... More

Boston, (MA): Printing Dept, 1919. Document 40 – 1919. 8vo. viii, 99 pp. Illustrated from photographs, panorama view as frontispiece, plans, tables, maps, including 4 folding maps, one of them in color. “[The planning board] has made careful studies of the resources possibilities, and needs … particularly with respect to..... More

Boston, (MA): True and Greene, City Printers, 1826. First edition. 8vo. 30 pp. Stirring 50th anniversary address, given on the day that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died, their passing acknowledged in a note at the foot of pp. 5-6. Inscribed at the head of the title page “J. P...... More