Cedar Rapids (+ other divers locales): Cedar Valley Times Power Press Print (+ other divers printers), 1861 - 1880. 1st printing(s). 32; 28; 24; 32; 34; 34; 32; 30; 30; 30; 32; 40; 44; 40; 72, 56; 56; 52; 52; 56 pp. Frontis of the college for the 4th -..... More
![Item #16050.2 TELEPHONE DIRECTORY. San Francisco. October 1905. [with Chinese Section]....](/pictures/thumb/16050.2.JPG?v=1642550380)
San Francisco: Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co., 1905. 1st edition thus. xii, [8], 284 pp. 3 inserted leaves, unpaginated, of advertising material (blue, pink & peach in color). 8vo. 9" x 6". Pale green printed covers. White paper onlay, printed in red, to front cover, advising patrons "Do Not Use..... More
Louisville: Bradley & Gilbert, Corner of Third and Green Streets, 1863. 1st Edition (Cordasco 60-0671; Garrison & Morton 12167). 94, [4] pp. Following text, a one page tabular statement of cases of Erysipelas, treated in General Hospital at Louisville KY. Tables interspersed within the text, including a large folding example..... More
London: Printed for Francis Saunders, at the Blue - Anchor, in the Lower - Walk of the New - Exchange, 1690. The Second Edition Corrected (Wing L-173). [8], 136, 129 - 271, [1 (advert)] p. Part II has caption title on K1r. 8vo: A4 B-I8 K4 2K8 I - S8..... More
San Francisco: Lawrence & Houseworth, Opticians, Importers of Stereoscopic Goods, Etc., Etc. 377 & 319 Montgomery Street, (1865). Ca 1865. Cf. Palmquist, p. 59. Square, separate images. 3-1/4" x 6-3/4". Yellow colored mount [square corners], with publisher imprint to right end; series name ["California"] to left; typeset printed label as..... More
London: Houlston and Wright, 1862. Early edition. Cf. Gabler G18050, for the 1855 edition. 108 pp. "Management of Wine", pp 15 - 31; "Brewing Beer", pp. 32 - 63. Frontispiece of dinner party table setting; 3 "Bills of Fare", pp. 92 - 94. 6-3/8" x 4". Pebbled terra-cotta cloth covering..... More
Kjøbenhavn: Paa Boghandler Hegelunds Forlag, 1806. 1st Edition. Not in Cagle, A Matter of Taste. xxxii, 399, [1] pp. P. 398 misnumbered 298. 8vo. 6-3/4" x 4-1/8". Quarter leather binding with blue marbled paper boards. NB. The marbled paper look later to this eye. English translation: The New Original Danish..... More
Chester: W. Crane, Lithog. J. Fletcher, Printer. 1829. 1st Edition. PRESENTATION COPY. "Only 50 Copies Printed for Sale" [4], [iii] - xxvi, [iii] - xxii, [2], 69, [1 (blank)] pp. Untrimmed. T.p. & Dedication page both lithographed; t.p. with large vignette. 'Finis' tailpiece, p. 69. 8vo. Original drab boards (spine..... More
London: Sold by J. Marshall [Printer to the Cheap Repository...], R. White, Piccadilly ... & by S. Hazard, at Bath... [1796]. 1st printing (Spinney 76). 16 pp. Signed "Z" p. 16. Woodcut vignette [2-1/2" x 2-7/8"] to title page, signed "Lee". 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/8". Printed self-wrappers, stitched. Now housed..... More
San Francisco: 1912. 2nd generation photograph (?). Photograph: 6-5/8" x 8-5/8". Mount: 9" x 10-7/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A rare item of San Francisco local history, this photograph documents a short-lived restaurant operated by Joseph S. Lincecum, located at 694 McAllister Street. Mount verso with prior..... More
![Item #45041 UTRON 7 PACIFIC LOG; Photographic Record of VJ-7 [i.e., VU-7] Squadron Activities....](/pictures/thumb/45041.jpg?v=1542150160)
Photographic Laboratory of Utility Squadron Seven, [1945]. 1st Printing. Unpaginated, though 120 pp. 3 pages of muster rolls. Profusely illustrated, primarily with b/w photographic images accompanied by some drawings. Oblong format: 12-1/2" x 17-1/4". Basket-weave patterned paper-wrapped boards, brass screw post binding. Photographic onlay to front board, with large Navy..... More
Habana [Havana]: Imprenta y Papeleria "La Universal" de Ruiz y Hermano, 1894. 1st Edition. [6], 9 - 377, [7] pp. 3 page "Indice" at rear. RNBC "Autorización de Exportación" slip laid-in at rear. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/8". Period quarter bound red sheep spine over red marbled paper boards. Blue marbled..... More
[London]: Thomas McLean, Haymarket. Circa 1872. Engraving: 20" x 15". Frame: 33" x 27". Housed in a period wooden frame. Firth a long-time friend of Dickens, who Dickens commissioned in 1842 to paint a portrait of Kate Nickleby. This portrait of Dickens Frith completed in 1859, shows the author at..... More
(n. p.): (1862). 1st printing presumed. Single sheet lithograph, printed recto only. Image size: 10-1/2" x 17-5/8". Entire: 14" x 19-5/8" The lithograph shows the Monitor and the Merrimack firing at each other during their historically important battle of 9 March 1862, with other named ships [Cumberland -- Newport News..... More
![Item #41895 HOW THEY LIVE In BOSTON, And HOW THEY DIE THERE. [Drop title]. Edward Everett. 1822...](/pictures/thumb/41895.jpg?v=1542149351)
[Boston]: [1869?]. 1st Separate printing. Unpaginated, though 20 pages [last page blank]. Printed self-wrappers, sewn. A separate edition of this story, which appeared in Hale's 1869 book: SYBARIS, AND OTHER HOMES. Categorized as reform literature, Hale focuses his story on the effect of Cholera Infantum on the children of Boston's..... More
Portland OR: David Steel, 1889. 2nd edition, revised & enlargedition. 40 pp. 4" x 5 5/8". Printed pink paper wrappers. More
London: Elkin Mathews, [1904]. 1st edition. Unpaginated, though 24 pp. Last 4 pages adverts, 2 with woodblock cuts. Illustrated by Yeats in 18 b/w woodblock prints. 12mo. 7" x 4-1/2" Printed stiff-stock blue paper wrappers, sewn. More
New-York: 1842. [© 1844. Misprint?]. 1st US Edition (American Imprints 42-452; Cordasco 40-0079). x, [11] - 192 pp. 16mo. 4-3/8" x 2-3/4". Original verticall-ribbed brown cloth binding with gilt title lettering to front board, stamped vertically. More
Richmond, VA: C. F. Johnston, 918 Main Street. 1880. 1st edition (BAL 572). 23, [1 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 5-3/4" x 4-1/4". Printed self-wrappers, sewn. A political tract, anti-Grant & anti-Mahone, issued during the latter's 1880 run for U. S. Senator from Virginia; Bagby predicts a civil war worse than that..... More
London: (n. d.). Ca mid-1800s. 2 volumes (158; [2], 163 - 303, [1 (blank)] pp. Engraved title page & printed title page, in red & blue, to each volume. Engraved vignette to each engraved title. 74 numbered plates, Vol I; 70 [of 72] numbered plates, Vol II. 4to. 11-3/8" x...... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871. 1st US edition. [2], [7] - 136 [= 132] pp. Text double column. Tall 8vo. Modern brown quarter calf binding over marbled boards. More
In Venetia [Venice]: Per il Prodocimo, 1684. Later edition (European Americana 684/123) of a work first issued in 1672. Not in Sabin. [12], 321 [= 334] pp. P. 322 mis-numbered 321. Text in Italian. Illustrated with 5 cuts, head & tailpieces, decorative initial capital letters. 12mo. 13.6 cm x 8..... More
Springfield, Mass: Published by Milton Bradley & Co., 1867. 1st edition. Not in Drazin. xi, [12] - 244, 4 pp. 4 pages of adverts conclude volume. Croquet: pp. 13 - 41; Base Ball: pp 42 - 63. Frontis, plus many wood cuts throughout text (8 for Croquet; 3 for Baseball)..... More
London: Printed for J. Hatchard, Bookseller to Her Majesty, 190, Opposite Albany, Piccadilly. 1810. 1st edition (Bareham & Gatrell A15; NCBEL II, 610). xli, [3], 344, [4] pp. Last 4 pages a list of 52 title available from Hatchard. Edges untrimmed. 8vo: [a]8 b8 c4 d2 B - Y8 Z6..... More
