(n.p.): Chocolat Suchard, c. 1826. 1st Printing. Loose leaf. Illustrated with small full color scenes to recto. Verso with smaller vignettes and decorative lettering. 6-3/4" x 4-1/2". Tan card stock leaf, printed to recto and verso. Menu items handwritten in black ink. Verson printed in brown. Now housed in a...... More
France. Comité Interprofessionnel. (n.d.). 1st Printing. Biforlium. Illustrated. 4" x 2-3/4". Card stock, self wrappers, color photographs, printed in black. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A wine promational brochure from the restaurant La Fermette Marbeuf. More
(n.p.). May 1, 1898. 1st Printing. Broadside. Decorative lettering. 5-3/4" x 3-1/2". White card stock, printed in dark gray and silver. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A dinner menu for a persons communion. More
(n.p.). (n.d.). 1st Printing. Tri-fold. Illustration to upper wrapper. The background of the menu is a photograph of the interior of the bar/hotel. 10" x 4-3/4". Plasticized card stock, self wrappers. Printed in green and yellow. Interior with faded photograph of the bar with menu items printed in black. Now..... More
Paris. Les Nouvelles Imprimeries Champenoises. c. 1990s. 1st Printing. 4 pp. unnumbered. Vignette & decorative rule to upper wrapper. 11-3/4" x 8-1/4". White, semi glossy, card stock wrappers printed in gilt and gray. White card stock leaves printed in gray and gold. Held together by a cord gray cord tie..... More
Paris, France. Jacques HEBEY. (n.d.). 1st Printing. Unpaginated, though 40 pp. Profusely illustrated. 10-3/4" x 7". Printed (recto & verso) card stock wrappers, decorative fly leaves, glossy leaves, full color photographs and SEM's drawings throughout. Stapled. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. Mostly filled with French ads. Also showcasing SEM's..... More
Paris. June 1930. 1st Printing. 398 pp. Illustrated. 8-1/2" x 6". Original thick paper wrappers (missing), text printed in black. More
England. July 10, 1964. 1st Printing. Pictorial bifolium. Illustrated upper wrapper. 10-1/2" x 8". White card stock wrappers, black lettering now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
England. July 9, 1964. 1st Printing. Pictorial bifolium. Photograph of Neuschwanstein Castle to upper wrapper. 10-1/2" x 8". White card stock, full color to upper wrapper, lettering in black. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
London: Hurrst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough Street, 1862. Two volumes: xv, [1 (blank)], 312; [6], 323, [11] pp. 10 pages of adverts conclude Vol II. Mostly unopened. Frontispiece in each volume. 8vo. 8" x 5". Original publisher's tomato-red cloth bindings with gilt stamped spine..... More
(n.p.). 1933. 1st Printing. Broadside. 7-1/2" x 5-1/2". White, thin card stock leaf, printed ina light green and black. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
(n.p.). October 30th, 1962. 1st Printing. Bifolium housed in larger wrappers. Illustration to upper wrapper. 8-1/4" x 5-3/4" White card stock, wrappers, full color illustration to upper wrappers, lettering in blue and black, held together by a blue and white cord tie. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
San Francisco: [1895]. Ca 1895. 79, [1] pp. Tall 8vo. 10-1/8" x 6-7/8". Green cloth spine over elaborately lithographed glossy stock covers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. We find OCLC recording one institutional holding, the Huntington, who dates the catalogue as 1888, however, on page 14, advertising "New..... More
Newark [Rockaway N. J.]: Baker Printing Co. [Litho Service], 1912. Reprint, ca 1970s? 48 pp. Profusely illustrated with the divers types of locks offered by the firm. 8vo. 9-5/16" x 6-3/16". Original printed orange paper wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
St. Louis, Missouri: The Bethany Press, (1976). 1st Edition. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the 3 authors. [10], 79, [3]. Profusely illustrated, primarily from b/w photographs. 10" x 7". White paper covers, printed in red & blue. "Stanley Frank Musial, nicknamed Stan the Man, was an American baseball outfielder and first..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. 1st Edition thus (Cordasco 70-1236). xx, [17] - 1091, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with numerous steel plates and wood-cuts. 8vo. Original publisher's tan full sheep binding with black leather title label to spine. An expanded, re-titled edition of the author's 1869 publication, A...... More
London: Addey and Co., Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 1856. 1st Edition in English. 4 volumes. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Yellow eps. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1906. 1st Edition. 2 volumes: xv, [i], 382, [2]; 367, [1], 32 pp. Index in Volume II, with concludes with a 32 page publisaher catalogue. 45 illustrations. 8vo. Original blue publishers cloth with gilt spine lettering. TEG. More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1851. 4th Edition, first published in 1818. vi, [2], 595, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece of Curran. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4". Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & boards stamped in blind. Pale yellow eps. With a new preface..... More
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. 1870. 1st Edition (NCBEL III, 378). xiii, [1 (blank)], [3] - 162, [2] pp. The occasional woodcut. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4". Original publisher's pebbled blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Turnbull presumed to be the author of "Chessmen in Action" More
London / Edinburgh: Printed for T. Cadell; G. G. J. and J Robinson; C. Dilly; and W. Creech, 1788. 1st Edition (Goldsmith 13538). 109, [1 (blank)] pp. 8-1/8" x 4-7/8". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
London: Printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's. [1885]. First published in 1721. vii, [1 (blank)], 43, [1 (blank)] pp. Binder's blanks at rear. 7-1/2" x 5". Late 19th C. half green morocco binding with blue-green pebbled cloth boards. Gilt stamped spine lettering. TEG. Marbled eps. Recounting of the goings-on..... More
London: Printed for M. Collier, Bookseller at the Royal-Exchange, 1756. 1st Edition (Howes S368; Sabin 80046). [2], 111, [1 (blank)] pp. Lacking the half-title leaf. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Per Howes, a work "highly critical of the Ministry's futile policy in checking..... More
Nottingham: Burbage & Stretton, Printers, 14, Long Row, [1802]. 1st printing thus. Broadside, printed in 3 columns, with title printed in 4 lines at top, with bottom 4 paragraphs [in two columns] a history of the office. Typographical border. 19-3/8" x 15-1/2". Stored folded, and housed in an archival mylar..... More
