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: Pierpont Morgan Library, with the American Antiquarian Society, Cornell U. Library, Princeton U. Library, and the U. of Virginia Library, 1972. First edition, an exhibition catalogue, with its prospectus laid in (folded). Small 4to. 89 pp. Illustrated, plates; 61 bindings are described, each with an illustration. Inscribed by Papantonio... More about Early American Bookbindings from the Collection of Michael Papantonio.

Newburyport, [Mass.]: Entered according to Act of Congress by Thomas & Whipple booksellers, nd. Original blue wrappers sewn. 8 x 21 cm.; engraved title page, [16] engraved plates, Ownership signature, "George W. Chaplins Copy Plate 1812" (scattered doodling on covers and endpapers.) Due to a binding error the title page... More about Howard's large and small round text copies with the new rules for learners.; James Akin engraver....

Macon, GA: Lewis H. Andrews, [1858]. Broadside on card stock, 13 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches, employing at least six sizes and styles of type, with "Job Printer" central, the whole enclosed within four borders, an outer wide green ornamental border, a broken green rule, a wide red ornamental border... More about Lewis H. Andrews, / Job Printer / [followed by a calendar for 1859 printed in three columns] /...

Nashville, TN: The company, 1890-1909. Manuscript record of the stockholder and board of directors meetings for this 20 year period, many entries recorded and signed by J.H. Baird as secretary. Small 4to. (93) pp., with additional typed minutes, reports, and financial statements tipped-in or pasted in. Original charcoal cloth copybook... More about MINUTES OF MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS AND DIRECTORS OF BAIRD ROBERTS PUB. CO., NASHVILLE, TENN,...

Utica, (NY): Printed and published by William Williams, 1819. Oblong 4to. 47, (1) pp. Original printed drab wrappers (rubbed, spine partly eroded, fore-edges frayed); owner's name at head of front wrapper, some light foxing, but a very good copy. First edition of a Williams publication for the German flute (he... More about A NEW AND COMPLETE PRECEPTOR FOR THE GERMAN FLUTE; TOGETHER WITH A CHOICE COLLECTION OF SONGS,...

[New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1896. Publishers promotional broadside. 20 by 15 3/4 in printed in red and black with a pictorial scene of a cowboy and Indian staring off into the sunset. Very good with a little toning and a few small edge chips. Subtitle of the published... More about A NEW VOLUME IN/ THE STORY OF THE WEST SERIES/ THE STORY OF THE MINE/ BY CHARLES HOWARD SHINN/...

Minneapolis, (MN): Pentagram Press, 1988. First edition, one of six copies, from the deluxe lettered edition of 26, reserved for presentation "to friends of the press," this one inscribed "For Donn," and signed on the half-title by the printer, Michael Tarachow, as well as by 15 contributors. 8vo. (38) pp... More about The Pentagram Press Commonplace Book: A Selection of Typographic Interpretations

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...