Washington: W. F. Roberts Company, Publishers, 1909. 1st Edition. 112 pp (including Index). Fully illustrated, including 10 full-page color plates. Oblong 8vo: 7-1/4" x 9-3/4". Original publishers vertically-ribbed green cloth binding with gilt stamping to front board, including goldfish design. More
![DIARIES Of A HOMEOPATHIC DOCTOR In TRAINING, 1876 - 1880. [accompanied by] Large Collection of Family Diaries and Nine Daguerreotypes. Willis Alonzo Dewey, 1858 – 1938, Josiah Earl Dewey, 1828 – 1892.](/pictures/thumb/45397.jpg?v=1528916218)
1876. Five diaries belonging to Willis Alonzo Dewey, plus 29 diaries and one record book kept by his father, Josiah Earl Dewey (lacking 1872 and 1883); ~20,000 total words in Willis’s diaries, ~80,000 in Josiah’s. Leather and cloth wallet bindings, showing various degrees of wear and light chipping, internally clean... More
(n. p.): (n. d.). C. 1899 - 1902. [48] pp., ms annotations in pencil. 91 original b/w photographs, all about 3-1/8" x 3-1/8", slipped under the leaves into square frames, one b/w photo postcard slipped in. Oblong format: 7" x 11-1/2" Period red cloth album with "Photographs" stamped in silver... More
London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1841. Later edition, first published in 1826. 2 volumes: 8, viii pp, 1719 columns; viii pp, 1711 columns. Indicies at rear of Volume II. First 8 pages, Vol I, an 1843 publisher catalogue, with page 1 listing "... Books published in the Pickwick Style." Illustrated... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. 1st edition thus (Smith II, 11n9; cf. Flake/Draper 2830, citing a later edition). Issue with Pinwell credited on the t.p.; no priority established. viii, 204 pp (double column). Frontispiece by G. J. Pinwell. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-1/8". Publisher's original green cloth binding with elaborate gilt... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1838. 4th edition (cf. Eckel, p. 104 & Smith II, p. 1 for the 1st edition). viii, 76, [4] pp. 4 pages of adverts at rear. Frontis + 5 inserted plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"). 8vo. Modern green cloth binding sympathetic to the original, with... More
[Mecklenburg, VA]: 1858 - 1892. 29 leaves of lined wove paper, including 4 half-leaves. Lacking first leaf [pp 1 - 2 of lecture notes]; 4 stubs. Inconsistently hand-numbered throughout.Manuscript notes in ink and/or pencil to recto and verso of leaves, with varying amounts of writing per pg. ~1500+ words. Some... More
London: Dickinson, Brothers, Her Majesty's Publishers. 1854. 25 sheets of text of a presumed 30 sheets, printed recto only. 25 full-color lithograph plates. "Proof" printed in the plate to lower corner of most, pencil name of illustrator Joseph Nash to opposite corner. 26-3/4" x 19-5/8". Plates: 23-3/4" x 17". Half-leather... More
Syracuse, New York: (n. d.). 1st printing. 70 pp. Illustrated with 15 b&w 'blow - apart' plate diagrams of divers systems, e.g., "Universal Drive Shaft". Oblong format: 9" x 11". Original printed brown paper wrappers, brad bound. More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, (n. d.). Ca early 1870s. Each volume ~ 400 to 500 pages. Crown 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5" Publisher's original morocco-style pebbled green cloth with gilt stamped spine & gilt-stamped Dickens' bust to front board. Bevelled edges. Brown clay-paper eps. Set with MacKenzie's LIFE Of... More
London: Chapman & Hall, [1868]. 1st collected edition (NCBEL III, 812). Divers paginations. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & front board. AEG. All 9 Christmas numbers from 1859 - 67, here bound together & issued with a collective title page & Table of Contents. More
New York and New Haven, Conn. Sargent & Co., 1894. 1st printing thus. Not in Romaine, though see p. 174 for 3 other similar Sargent catalogues, 1896-98. xxxv, [1 (blank)], 1089, [3 (blank)] pp. Tabbed Index precedes catalogue listings. Frontis with bird's-eye view of the New Haven factory. Practically every... More
(South Norwalk, CT): Nash Engineering Co., (n. d.). Ca. 1923. 43 b/w photographic leaves (5 laid in). 48 original silver-gelatin photos (7.25" x 9.5") exhibiting the factory, assembly floor, testing area, wide range of liquid ring vacuum pumps, and the numerous industries, commercial buildings, and homes in which they were... More
!['WINE MAKING In CALIFORNIA' [as published in] The Overland Monthly. Vol 7. No. 6, December 1871. Vol. 8. No. 1, January 1872. Vol. 8. No. 2, February 1872. Vol. 8. No. 5, May 1872. California Wine History, 1840 - 1900, Arpad Haraszthy.](/pictures/thumb/40896.jpg?v=1436912390)
San Francisco: John H. Carmany & Co., Publishers. 1871 - 1872. 1st printing. 4 issues. No. I, "Early Difficulties", pp. 489 - 497. No. II, "Later Triumphs", pp. 34 - 41. No. III, "Processes and Varieties", pp. 105 - 109. No. IV, "Conclusion", pp. 393 - 398. Text double column... More
Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1891. 1st Edition. [4], ii, iv, [3], 18 - 318, [2], vi, [2 (blank)] pp. Profusley illustrated with b/w 200 portraits, 22 inserted plates with full page engraving. 9" x 6-1/2". Red cloth binding with gilt title lettering and design stamped to front board and spine... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1969 [1971]. 2nd printing. 126 pp including index. Color illustrations by the author. 9" x 6". A fine binding by Garth While of full vellum, painted on both covers and spine in a design featuring different colored feathers, after the Simon illustrations in the work... More
Te Keulen: In de Nieuwe Druckerye, 1645. 1st edition. 168 pp. Printer's device to t.p. Full-page copper-engraved plate bound-in after A1. 4to: A - X^4. 7-13/16" x 5-3/4". Early full vellum binding, with illuminated mss scraps used in binding structure [visible in hinge area]. "Joost van den Vondel was a.... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. 1st book edition (Davis PM0642). xiv, 318, [2] pp. 206 illustrations by Pyle, of which 110 here first appear. 8vo. 10" x 7-1/4". Tan quarter-leather spine with publisher's original gilt stamped green boards. More
![A CHRISTMAS BOOK [Wrapper title: HAPPY CHRISTMAS]. D. Pepler, S. and M., Elizabeth Gill, Petra., J.](/pictures/thumb/32690.jpg?v=1436912217)
Ditchling: Printed at St. Dominic's Press, 1919 [1921]. 1st edition (Gill 368). Unpaginated, though 24 pp of text. Illustrated with 18 woodcuts. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Grey paper wrappers, printed in black ink. Front wrapper imprint date of 1921. 'Ave Jesu Parvule', by Elizabeth Giil, engraved by Eric Gill. The... More
![GAH DAH GWA STEE. [Sunday, in Cherokee]. William. Esther. b. 1877. DuPriest Sunday, Maude M., Marilee. Chu-lee-wah b. 1896. Brenhardt, Quannah Archer.](/pictures/thumb/30994.1.jpg?v=1436912201)
Pryor, Okla: Bryon Smith, (1953). 1st edition (Six-Guns 2166). [6], 172 pp. Illustrated with maps, plates & from photographs. 8vo. Maroon cloth binding with gold lettering to front board. A somewhat uncommon ["Scarce", says Adams] 19th C. reminiscence of a Native American & his family in Oklahoma, which includes a.... More
Sacramento, Cal: Solomon Alter, Publisher. 1853. 1st edition (Cowan [1933], p. 49; Greenwood IMPRINTS, 378; Rocq 6622). INSCRIBED by the author's wife [dated 1879]. viii, [9] - 261 pp. Illustrated with 6 plates (by Charles Nahl), on colored paper. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 5-1/8". Original publisher's purple cloth binding with gilt... More
Boston: E. Lincoln, 1806. 1st ed (Field 482; Sabin 21789). 36 pp. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. Disbound, lacks wrappers. More
![A DISCOURSE ABOUT The STATE Of TRUE HAPPINESSE. Delivered in Certaine Sermons in Oxford, and at St. Pauls Crosse. [bound with] SOME GENERAL DIRECTIONS For A COMFORATABLE WALKING WITH GOD [bound with] TWO SERMONS PREACHED At NORTHAMPTON At TWO SEVERALL ASSISES THERE. [bound with] A CORDIALL For CHRISTMAS In The TIME Of AFFLICTION. Robert Bolton, 1572 - 1631.](/pictures/thumb/11957.jpg?v=1436912108)
London: 1638/39/40. 'Discourses' - 7th edition, revised & corrected [STC 3234]. 'Directions' - 5th edition, corrected & amended [STC 3254]. 'Two Sermons' - 2nd edition [STC 3257]. 'Cordial' - 1st edition [STC 3227]. [xix], blank, 214pp; [xiv], 390 pp + 8 pp table; [4], 97 pp; [vi], 27 pp. 8vo... More
NY: Norton, (1992). 1st ed. Signed. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. Signed and dated in the year of publication. A nice copy. More
