Boston, (MA): C. B. Webster, c1894. First edition. Oblong folio (8 3/4 x 12 inches). v [rectos only], 237 [printed double-column] pp. Illustrated from photographs, 40 plates. Houses of Colonial Massachusetts citizens who were important in the development of the colony and were still standing at the time this illustrated..... More
Worcester, MA: Putnam, Davis and Co., 1894. First edition, 1/ 35 copies on large paper (this #14). 4to. xii, (2), 332 pp. 14 illustrations from photographs by J. C. Lyford, plates, illustrated paper onlay on title page. Following the development of plant life and other features of the natural world..... More
Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College, Excudebant Griffin et Weld, 1822. First edition. 4to. 4 pp. Title page, and a three-page accounting of the ceremonial orations, dissertations, poems, colloquies, etc., for each of those graduating. American Imprints 8157. OCLC locates two copies (American Antiquarian Society, Massachusetts Historical Society). Folded, old central circle..... More
Indianapolis, IN: The compiler, 1913. Second edition, compiled up to April 1, 1913. Narrow 12mo. 16 pp. State-by state list of some 170 practitioners who identified as socialists; a long list of socialist newspapers appears at the end. The owner of this copy, Fred Schwarzkopf (stamp at head of front..... More
Owensville, IN: The Messenger, nd [ca.1905]. First edition (?). Oblong 4to (7 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches). (1, index), 36 pp. [printed triple column]. Biographical directory of 19th-century ministers, both men and women, for the General Baptist denomination, including the deceased, for an area including Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee..... More
Baltimore, MD: P.H. Nicklin and Co. [and others], 1810. First edition. 8vo. iv, 253 pp. On the burdens of taxation in the French empire. Sabin 101165: "A study undertaken because of its bearing on the political situation in the United States." American Imprints 21934. Bookplates on front pastedown and endpaper..... More
New York: Research Reprints Inc., (1970). Facsimile reprint of the 1772 original. Thick, small 4to (25 cm). (4), viii, 542, (1, errata) pp. 18 folding maps and plans. Sabin 44396: "The introduction contains an account of Washington's escape from assassination, in December, 1853 ... (quoting Sparks) it is the best..... More
[Peoria, IL]: Daily Transcript Steam Print, 1858. Printed invitation, 6 5/8 x 4 ¼ inches, cream floral-embossed paper printed in gold, employing several styles and sizes of type. Folded for delivery and soiled, but very good. More
New York: American Emigrant Company, “188_” [date completed in manuscript “1883”]. 4to. (4) pp. Partly printed publication designed to facilitate emigration form Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland), printed in Swedish, this copy completed in manuscript, with farmland in Iowa emphasized; accompanied by an envelope, of blue paper self-addressed to..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): H. S. Tanner, 1824. First edition. 8vo. 238 pp. Engraved frontispiece of the Waterworks at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, by Thomas Birch, and an engraved plan, "Philadelphia & Its Environs," tables. [Lacks the map.] Includes an extensive section on the development of canals. Sabin 26897: "This work does not..... More
Georgetown, DC: Published by Joseph Milligan (Jacob Gideon, Jun., Printer, Washington City), 1821. Second edition, expanded (first published Richmond, 1812). 12mo. vii, 290, (5, subscribers list) pp. Sabin 14904 (this edition only). American Imprints 5039. Sowerby 138 (the 1812 edition): "This letter [from Jefferson to Colvin] is quoted in full..... More
[Philadelphia, PA: Printed by William Ross, 1797]. First edition 8vo. 26 pp. Evans 33078. OCLC locates 11 copies (New York Historical Society, George Washington, Library of Congress, American Antiquarian Society, Boston Public, Harvard, Portland Public, Winterthur, Dartmouth, Clements); OCLC also locates two copies of an 11-page issue (Yale, New York..... More
Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1961. First edition. 8vo. (2), 389 pp. Arranged by city or county, the bibliography describes the directories chronologically, giving collations and institutional locations, and includes occasional pertinent notes. Very good. Blue cloth (a little rubbed), gilt spine title. (11215). More
Philadelphia, (PA): For E. Bronson, Published by James Humphreys (H. Maxwell, printer), 1802. First edition. 16mo. 81 pp. With half-title. Sabin 89123: “On title page of New York Historical Society copy, in manuscript, ‘S.W. Dana author,’ [probably referring to] a representative from Connecticut”; Dana (1760-1830) later served in the U.S...... More
[Havana, Cuba]: Foster & Reynolds, c1905. Broadside street map of the city (removed from a copy of the first edition of the publisher’s Standard Guide to Havana), the squares formed by the streets and other land areas printed in yellow, with historic sites, hotels, churches, etc., noted. Fold lines, else..... More
New YorK: Roving Eye Press, (c1961). First edition. 8vo. xiv, 417 pp. [text printed double-column]. Frontispiece from an old wood engraving. Describes 4447 American cookbooks. Very good. Green cloth, white-stamped spine title, printed dust jacket (some wear around the extremities). (11214). More
New York: J. J. Colton & Co., c1855. Plate No. 57 from a period Colton atlas, a broadside map, 15 ½ x 18 ½ inches, Porto Rico in a lower left corner inset (2 x 4 ¾ inches), hand-colored in various light shades of pink, yellow, and green, also including..... More
[London: Maggs Bros. 1893]. First separate edition (?), apparently an offprint from a Maggs catalogue, describing item 1724 in “Bibliotheca Americana et Philippina,” Vol. I, No. 3 (1923), an unpriced description of the annotated manuscript, quoting liberally from the text and emphasizing the item’s importance as “one of the most..... More
(Baton Rouge, LA: Direct Advertising Co.), 1937. First edition. 4to. 137, (1) pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs, individual and group portraits. An uncommon memento of one of the crowning glories of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The CCC brought together youth from diverse social and geographical backgrounds in a quasi-military..... More
Washington DC: U.S. Office of Education, Division of CCC Camp Education, 1940. First edition (?), Curriculum Series, No. 1., a reproduced typescript. 4to. (2), 17 pp. [printed rectos only]. Tables. How the CCC conceived of its occupational training for its veterans. Not recorded on OCLC (which does locate Curriculum Series..... More
Homer, NY: Jas. A. Morrow (Schoch Print, Mifflinburg, Pa.), 1904. Six-panel route book (folded to 16mo) for the company, printing stops from April 29 through October 29, 1904, from Homer, New York, through cities in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, eastern Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont..... More
New York: Printed by Samuel Booth, (1865). 8vo. 70, (1) pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, portrait, plates, vignettes; text enclosed within an ornamental border throughout. Van Amburgh (1808-1865), an “American animal trainer who developed the first trained wild animal act in modern times, … the first to put his head..... More
Guatemala: Establecimiento Tipografico de ‘El Progresso’, 1879-1882. First edition. Tall 8vo. 2 volumes (three further volumes, written by other historians, were issued into the 20th century): lxxv, (3, blank), 342, 13, (1, errata); (2), iv, [3]-389, 22 pp. Ownership signature in volume one “Philip Brown / U.S. Legation / Guatemala”;..... More
New York: E. Forbes Smiley III, nd [ca. 1995]. Occasional list offering 26 maps and charts from the Americas, each illustrated. In 2006 Smiley, having been caught in the act the previous year, confessed to having stolen about 100 rare maps from a number of library collections and was sentenced..... More
[San Francisco, CA? Cartography Associates?], 1995. Thick 4to. (6), 404, (4), 22, (2), 69, (4), 69, (2), 76, (2), 64, (2), 13 pp. Includes an alphabetical catalogue of the collection, an alphabetical listing of reference books, three sorts of the collection (by date, type, and list number), a title index..... More
