San Francisco: B. C. Vandall, Publisher. 1877. 1st edition thus. Cf. Rocq 7993. 1431, [1] pp. Advert eps, as well as throughout. Some adverts with cuts. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4". Black cloth spine, gilt stamped, over advert paper-wrapped boards. More
Montrose [Scotland]: Printed by and for D. Buchanan, sold by him, & W. Creech, et al, 1801. The Twelfth Edition, with Considerable Additions and Improvements. Unpaginated, though ~ 722 pages. Text double column. 7 inserted folding copper-plate maps. 8vo. 13.5 cm x 21.7 cm. Period full brown calf binding maroon..... More
New York: William Wood & Co., 27 Great Jones Street, 1872. 1st US Edition (Cordasco 70-1590). 49, [5] pp. Full page advert, at rear, for the "American Journal of Syphilography and Drematology", edited by Henry. 8vo. 9" x 6". Original publisher's terra-cotta cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to front..... More
New York: Fowler & Wells, Publishers. No. 753 Broadway. 1884. 1st edition (Cagle 221; Wheaton & Kelly 1723 [NB. #1722 a ghost, see Cagle]; cf. Axford, p. 198, & Bitting, p. 125 for a 1901 [6th] edition). xi, [1 (blank)], 602, 4, [1], 8, [1] pp. Index concludes text. Adverts..... More
London: Loxley Brothers Limited, 1923. 1st edition. viii, 89 - 176 pp. Numerous full page advertisements interspersed. Includes an illustration by Katherine Mansfield. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Printed pale yellow paper wrappers. The journal started in 1923 as a monthly under the editorship of Murry, intended as a mouthpiece for D...... More
![CORROSION Of METALS By MUSTS And WINES.; [Reprinted from Food Research, 1937, Vol. 2, No. 5]. . ....](/pictures/thumb/47750.jpg?v=1569351873)
[Berkeley?]: 1937. 1st separate printing. Pp 439 - 454. Includes bibliographical references (p. 454). 8vo. 10-1/4" x 6-5/8". Printed self-wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Since the repeal of prohibition and subsequent revival of the wine industry, many different metals and alloys have been included in winery..... More
Paris. 1924. 1st Printing. iv, 120, viii pp. Advertisements. 9" x 5-1/2". White paper wrappers, printed in blue, all leaves are unopened. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
London: Printed for J. Robson, Bookseller to her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, in New-Bond-Street, 1766. 1st Edition in English (Goldsmith 10156). iv, [2], 212 pp. Lacking final eratta leaf [though with pasted printer slip under 'Finis', "The Translator having been at a Distance from the Press, the..... More
London: Printed for R. Baldwin in Paternoster-row, 1758. The Third Edition (ESTC T50645). 24 pp. Illustrated with two copperplate engravings, one folding. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5". Disbound from a larger volume of pamphlets, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
Chicago: Union Publishing House, 1897. Not in Zinman, though see 982 for an 1892 edition. Presentation leaf. Specimen pages and plates. Testimonials. Half-broadside of volume descriptions (3 binding formats), followed by lined, horizontally-oriented subscriber sheets. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-1/2". Mustard cloth binding stamped in black. Blue speckled edges. Sample bindings..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1873. 1st edition (Wright II, 1689). iv, [7] - 714 pp. Illustrated with plates and cuts designed & engraved by Gaston Fay. 12mo. Period black half leather binding with marbled paper boards. Speckled edges. Black marbled paper eps. More
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood & Co., 1876. 1st edition thus. 93, [3 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with a frontis & 4 full-page wood engravings. 12mo. 4-7/8" x 3-1/4". Green decorative cloth with gilt lettering on front board/decorations stamped inblack. Red 'Vest Pocket..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889. 1st edition (Cordasco 801658). xiii, [1 (blank)], 224 pp (including Index). Color frontis, "General Plan of the Circulation". 96 intratextual figures (No. 73 folding). 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4". Original blue cloth binding with white red cross adhering cloth belly band. "The object of..... More
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1967. 1st edition thus. LIMITED to 1,950 copies, of which this is #397. 92 pp. Many b/w intratextual illustrations throughout. 11-3/4" x 7-1/2". Blue cloth binding, gilt stamped lettering and design to spine and front board. Plain white paper DJ. Map illustrated front endpapers. More
London: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., (1977). 1st edition. xix, [1], 371, [1 (blank)] pp. B/w intratextual illustrations throughout, inserted plates of b/w photographic images. 10" x 7-1/2". Beige cloth binding, gilt stamped lettering to spine. Yellow illustrated paper DJ. More
Berlin, Canada: Grand River Railway, 1936, 1954 & 1955. 1st printings. 3 items, each of folded single sheets. Single black and white photographic image to advertisement. Varying sizes. Buff paper printed with black ink. This collection includes: Grand Railway's "The Lake Erie and Northern Railway" Timetables No. 29 & 62..... More
(n. p.): California State Printing Office, 1954. 1st printing (presumed). 32 pp. 9-1/16" x 6". Stiff orange printed paper wrappers, stapled. Rare in the trade. More
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelly & Sons Co., 1942. 1st edition thus. xix, 315, [1 (blank)] pp. 6-7/8" x 4-3/8". Maroon cloth binding, gilt printed lettering to spine and cover. More
San Francisco: Whitton Towne & Co., Printers and Publishers, 1857. 1st printing (Cordasco 50-0405; Cowan II, p. 143; Greenwood 813). 9, [1 (blank)] pp. Old print-out of an ABE book listing laid-in. 8-7/8" x 5-3/4". Modern marbled paper wrappers. Cooper a renowned physician of his day, founder of the first..... More
San Francisco: D. M. Bishop & Co., 1874. 1st edition thus, and the [presumed] 7th edition of the series. Cf. Norris 3495. 420 pp. Text double column. Adverts interspersed. Advert insert, printed on blue paper, tipped in prior to p. 401, noting the expansion of the next volume, adding additional..... More
(n. p.): (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed), ca 1896. 19, [1 (blank)] pp. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Lacking wrappers and appears disbound from larger volume. More
![WILLOW PARK WATER CURE, And HYGIENIC INSTITUTE. [Drop title]. . . Hero, M. D., ohn, enry. 1820 -...](/pictures/thumb/36487.jpg?v=1576104913)
[Westboro, Mass.]: [1866]. 1st printing. With a 14 line ALs by Hero to the recto, dated July 26th, 1867. One sheet, printed recto only. Horizontal chain lines. Wood engraved vignette of the institute's grounds & building, by Prentiss. Oblong format: 9-3/4" x 15" On March 1st 1853, Hero established the..... More
London: Thomas Hailes Lacy, (n. d.). Ca mid-to-late 1840s. 42 pp. Frontispiece. 6-7/8" x 4-1/16". Modern marbled paper wrappers, with printed paper title label to front wrapper. First performed at the Princess's Theatre, on Tuesday, October 8th, 1844. More
[Alameda]: Press of the Alameda Daily Encinal, (n. d.). 1st printing [presumed], ca 1902/3. Rocq 287. Unpaginated, though 32 pages. Illustrated with 23 b/w photographic images. 6-3/4" x 5". Printed red textured paper wrappers, stapled. Issued by the Alameda Board of Trade as a promotional vehicle for the town- some..... More
London: David Bogue, Fleet Street. 1849. "Second Edition" (Cowan II, p. 75; Kurutz 653b; Howes V-134). xviii, 207, [1 (blank)] pp. California gold district map as frontis. 8vo. 8" x 5". Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine crown, and boards stamped in blind. Pale..... More
