London: John Russell Smith, 1865. 22cm. [2], [6pp. index], 308pp., plus [32]pp. list of publications or books for sale by J.R. Smith. Leather backed cloth, head of spine worn down to page edges, gilt stamped title on spine. Foxing to title page, some overall toning to text. This copy bears... More about BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA. A CATALOGUE OF A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, MANUSCRIPTS,...

New Orleans, LA: Great Acquisitions Books, nd [ca. 1995]. Bookseller's catalogue. Small 4to. 45 pp. Illustrated. Offers 250 priced items, almost all with some connection to Louisiana. Old ink markings on front wrapper, two items circled in ink, else very good. Original decorated wrappers, stapled. (#5457). More about Catalogue No. 3: Louisiana, Collectible Books, Journals, Documents, and Ephemera [cover title

[Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird], August 1, 1872. "Henry Carey Baird's Catalogue" [running title]. 16mo. 12 pp. Hunter and Co. was apparently jobbing Baird's list of approximately 200 titles. Printed self-wrappers, stitched. More about Catalogue of Practical and Scientific Books, for Sale, and Sent by Mail Prepaid, by Hunter &...

St. Paul [MN]: printed by James M. Goodhue, 1850. Disbound pamphlet. 22cm. 30, (1)pp. Some spotting to title page, else a clean copy. This catalogue, printed by Minnesota's first printer, in the second year of printing in Minnesota, is divided into two sections: Law Books [pp.3-11] and Miscellaneous Books [pp.15-30]... More about CATALOGUE OF THE TERRITORIAL LIBRARY OF MINNESOTA

NY: Derrydale Press, 1930. Catalogue 5. 8vo. 25 pp. List of titles to date with descriptions and prices and "out-of-print" notations. Printed wraps. Very good. More about Derrydale Sporting Books and prints

[NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1936]. Advertising poster on thick cardstock, 20 x 13 inches, probably for use as a bookstore display. Printed in yellow and black with a full color reproduction of the dust jacket to Zane Grey's The Lost Wagon Train in the upper left corner; in addition, the... More about A Grand List of Popular Novels for your early Fall reading by out-standing novelists of the day!...

Paris: Gumachian & Cie. nd [1930]. First edition, 1/1000 copies (this 1/900, unnumbered, copies on papier velin). 4to. 2 volumes: xx, (4), 446 pp. [catalogue printed double-column]; (2), 15 pp., 336 plates. Color frontispiece to volume two, some of the other plates in color. A massive landmark bookseller's catalogue of... More about Les Livres de L'Enfance du XV au XIX Siecle. Preface de Paul Gavault

(Philadelphia: Lippincott), nd [1861]. 12mo. (14) pp Original self-wrappers, stitched. Fine copy. First edition. Civil War era catalogue issued as the war began, offering standard texts and manuals. Scarce; OCLC records only a single copy of another issue, the books in that one to be distributed by "J. Healy, Evansville, Indiana." More about MILITARY PUBLICATIONS FROM THE PRESS OF J.B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., PHILADELPHIA. For sale by A.W....

Chicago, IL: Newberry Library, 1912-1928. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: x, 120; vii, 49. Very good. Original printed brown wrappers. (#8226). More about Narrative of Captivity among the Indians of North America: A List of Books and Manuscripts on the...

Princeton, (NJ): Joseph J. Felcone Inc., 1992. First edition. 8vo. xii, 303 pp. Full collations, descriptions, and annotations for 312 New Jersey-related books or New Jersey imprints. Inscribed by Felcone to another bookseller in 1993. Original invoice, prospectus, and 1988 Felcone want-list laid in. Fine. Red cloth, gilt spine title. (#8192). More about New Jersey Books, 1698-1800: The Joseph J. Felcone Collection

London: Lanston Monotype Corporation, 1928. First edition, 1/200 copies printed by hand at the Officini Bodoni on special Fabriano paper. 4to. 65, (3) pp. Illustrated, plates, mounted specimen title page, specimen leaflets illustrating various type sizes tipped in. Publisher's quarter vellum and marbled boards, gilt spine title. Scattered foxing, else a very good copy. (2645). More about Pastonchi: A Specimen of a New Letter for Use on the Monotype

Baltimore, (MD): Printed by Geo. Dobbin & Murphy, 1806. 12mo. 300 pp. Contemporary flame calf (a little chipped at head of spine, corners bumped), leather label and gilt rules on spine; signature clipped from head of title page, but a very good copy in an attractive contemporary American binding.Brinley 6946... More about SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS; OR, BEAUTIES OF THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS FOR 1805

New York: Merwin Sales Co., (1914). Auction sale catalogue no. 563. 8vo. 344, (1) pp. Illustrated, plates, title page facsimiles. 2451 lots, each priced in red ink. McKay 7401. Some neat repairs to joints, spine darkened, text uniformly browned, but a very good copy. Somewhat later brown three-quarter morocco, patterned... More about The Valuable Private Library of Lucius L. Hubbard of Houghton, Michigan, Consisting almost Wholly...