London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. 1874. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 884; Sadleir 41). 2 volumes. 24 illustrations by Frank Holl. 8vo. Original publisher's bright blue sand-grained cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & ornamental device to front board. Yellow eps. More
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1934. 1st US edition (Hubin I, p. 60). vi, 314 pp. Crown 8vo. Purple cloth binding with black stamping. Dust jacket. More
Franklin [N.H. ?]: 1847. Single sheet broadside, typographical border, 17 lines of text. 17-3/8" x 14-5/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. The broadside continues: "Also, All kinds of Imported and Domestic Liquors. Also, A large Stock of West India Goods & Groceries, of the best quality, for sale..... More
[New York]: 1923. 1st Printing. Broadside, with a 'plate' impression applied. Image of Farrand, with credits & accomplishments listed underneath. Graphics by T. Sindelar [signed in the plate]. 18-1/8" x 13-1/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Livingston Farrand was an American physician, anthropologist, psychologist, public health advocate and..... More
London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1723. 1st Edition. [2], 38 pp. Lacks half-title & dedicatory leaf. Head, tailpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 4to. 9" x 6-7/8". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Shaw was the son of Robert Shaw, A.M., master of the grammar school at Lichfield. On..... More
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. 1st trade edition (NCBEL III, 890; Sadleir 1692). Not in Wolff. 3 volumes: 8vo. Original publisher's olive-green morocco cloth with gilt stamped spine & decorative band stamped in black. More
Rawal Pindi: Printed at the Regimental Press, 1st Bn. The P. A. Somerset L. 1. 1898. 1st edition thus. [3] - 39, [21] pp. Illustrated with 4 original tipped-in albumen photographs. 8vo. 10" x 7-3/8". Original publisher's dark green cloth binding with gilt stamping to front board. Brown patterned paper..... More
Washington DC: McGill & Witherow, 1865. 1st Edition, Sabin 76615. [1-3] 4-8 pp. 8vo., 9" x 5-3/4" Self wrappers. An extract from the report of Frederick N. Knapp, Superintendent of Special Relief, read at the quarterly meeting of the Board of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, Washington, D.C., April 20, 1865..... More
San Francisco: H. S. Crocker Company, 1891. One long sheet, oriented horizontally, printed both sides, in purple, folded three times to form a 12-panel brochure. Illustrated with 4 wood engravings (one 3-panel, "Views of Pacific Grove and Vicinity"; one 2-panel) and map (single panel). Unfolded: 21-3/4" x 7". Folded: 7"..... More
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Detroit Mich: Maxwell Motor Company, 1915. 1st printing. Unpaginated, though 40 & 24 pp respectively. Each booklet fully illustrated. 5-7/16" x 5-1/2". Printed paper wrappers, stapled [1915 - Peach; Service - Grey]. Original buff paper mailing envelope. Maxwell - Briscoe Motor Company, formed ca 1904, was named after its founders..... More
Detroit: General Motors Corporation, Chevrolet Motor Division, (1966). 1st printing. 144 pp of printed glossy stiff card stock. 22 sheets with fabric & vinyl samples. 15 paint chip samples, with a separate sheet for the Corvette, which was offered in 8 colors. Oblong format: 12-1/2" x 14-1/2". Brown faux-wood vinyl..... More
San Francisco: Lith. Britton & Rey, [1869]. 1st printing. OCLC records a single copy, at UC Berkeley. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale: 900. Terms of Sale printed in upper left, under Auctioneer's name. Single sheet of light weight paper (almost newsprint), printed black, recto only. Folded 5x. Map shows two..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1862. 1st US edition. 144 pp. Illustrated with 34 intratextual figures & numerous charts. 12mo. 5-5/16" x 3-3/8". Original publisher's green pebbled cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Boards stamped in blind. "Translated from the latest edition of General Le Louterel's..... More
[Worcester, Mass ?]: Published under the Auspices of the Worcester (Mass.) Branch of the Chinese National Welfare Society, [1919]. 1st printing thus, i.e., by this publisher. 1st published by Kuo Fong Hui, July 30, 1919. Unpaginated, though 8 pages. P. 7 begins "The Legal Aspects of the Shantung Issue." T.p...... More
London: Printed by Iohn Windet, for the Assignes of Richard Day. 1602. STC 2507 (Sternhold & Hopkins series 8/62). [10], 94, [8] pp. Last leaf a "Table for the Number of Whole Psalms". P. 94 mis-numbered 49. Ornamental border to t.p. Elaborate wood block print to A1v. Illustrated with musical..... More
Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Ioannem Roigny vi Iacobea, sub insigni Basilisci, & Quatuor Elementorum. 1550. Early edition, 1st published in 1522. Not in Adams, though see entry 721 for a 1549 edition by Roigny. 76], 370 pp. T.p. woodcut device, "Prelum Ascensianum". Folio: a - e^6 f^8 A - 2H^6 [-..... More
Cambridge: E. W. Metcalf and Company, Printers to the University. 1832. 1st edition (American Imprints 14433; Sabin 67194). INSCRIBED by Quincy, "with the respects of the author", at the top of the front wrapper, to Benja R. Nichols, Esq. 27, [1] pp. Untrimmed. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-7/8". Original printed blue..... More
San Francisco: Published by the Commercial Travelers Congress Building Association, 1914. 1st edition (Rocq 17067). 255, [1] pp. Printed by Taylor, Nash & Taylor. Adverts throughout. Illustrated. Royal 8vo. 11-1/4" x 7-3/4". Blue cloth binding gilt stamped lettering to front board. Somewhat uncommon pre-WWI California item; OCLC locates just 5..... More
New York: The LImited Editions Club, 1948. 1st edition thus (Coigney 374; Newman & Wiche 187). #325 / 1500 cc. SIGNED by the Illustrator. xlii, 316, [2] pp. Untrimmed. Partially unopened. Illustrations, 31 wash-drawings & 11 engravings, by Douglas W. Gorsline. Folio. Ivory calf backed blue boards. Gilt spine lettering..... More
Canterbury: Printed by W. Bristow, for J. Badcock, 1802. 1st edition, Canterbury issue. vi, [7] - 20, 232 pp. Illustrated with 15 copperplate engravings, 4 color, and the 6th [Fig 1] serving as frontis. 12mo, signed in 6s. 6-3/4' x 3-7/8". Period brown half-sheep binding with marbled paper boards... More
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Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Adam Waldie, 1834. 1st appearance thus (Edgar & Vail, p. 15; Gimbel E162). 416 pp. Text triple column. Dickens' work, pp. 136 - 138. 4to. 11-3/8" x 9-1/8". Period maroon half-sheep over green marbled paper boards (professionally rebacked, with new eps). Herein we find Dickens'..... More
Cleveland: The Arthur Westbrook Co., 1899. 3rd edition (cf. Johannsen 277-1/2DL for the 1882 1st edition). Not in Hubin. 30, [2] pp. Last 2 pp blank. Woodcut engraving to p. 1, duplicating wrapper design. 7-5/8" x 5-1/4". Color pictorial wrappers, stapled. Series advert rear wrapper. The 'Denver Doll', our research..... More
London: MacMillan & Co., 1877. 1st edition. xxiii, [1], 513 pp. A3 is a second title leaf, entitled "AERIAL NAVIGATION. The Problem with Hints for Its Solution. By Ithi Kefalende. 1851". Appendix A, pp [493] - 496, is a list of aeronautic books used by the author in preparation of..... More
London: Printed for James Duncan, 1825. 1st edition. iv, 362 pp. Frontis (by Sidney Hall, dated 1825) & 3 inserted plates. 12mo: [A]2 B-X12/6 Y1. 3 5/8" x 5 3/4". Contemporary maroon half-calf with marbled boards. Speckled edges. More
