MITTAG - KARTE.
(n.p.). 1933. 1st Printing. Broadside. Small vignette to head. 13-3/4" x 9". Off white, thin card stock leaf, printed in blue. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
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A LETTER To LORD ROBERT BERTIE, Relating to his Conduct in the Mediterranean, and His Defence of Admiral BYNG.
London: Printed for R. Griffiths, in Pater-noster Row, 1757. 1st Edition (ESTC T38153). [4], 44 pp. Half-title & Postscript present [this latter most likely from the 2nd edition, and supplied later]. 8vo: [A]2 B - E4 F2 G4. 7-7/8" x 4-3/4". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "Robert..... More
An ESSAY On DRAINING And IMPROVING PEAT BOGS; In Which Their Nature and Properties are Fully Considered.
London: Printed for R. Baldwin, and J. Bew, Paternoster - Row. And Sold by W. Wilson, Dublin. 1784. 1st edition, issue with press figures (ESTC T136079). [2], x, 86, [2], [16 ("Books Printed for J. Debrett.")] pp. Half-title present. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5". Disbound. More
The HISTORY And ANTIQUITIES Of CIRENCESTER.; Including the Civil and Military Affairs of that Atnient Town; with Some Account of the Abbey and Abbats; and of the Descent of the Manor and Hunder of Cirencester, From the Conquest to the Present Time.
Cirencester: Printed and Sold by S. Rudder, 1780. 1st Edition. vii, [1], [3] - 105, [1 (blank)], viii pp. Appendix last 8 pages. 2 folding copperplate engravings. 8vo. Period speckled tan half-calf binding with marbled paper boards [modern respining to style]. Red leather spine label with gilt stamped lettering. Rare..... More
The YORKSHIRE MEMORANDUM BOOK; or, New Daily Journal, for the Year of our Lord, 1782.; Containing One Hundred and Four Pages of Ruled Writing Paper, for the Purpose of keeping Accounts of Receipts, Disbursements, Appointments, &c. Also the following useful Particulars: ...
York: Printed by W. Blanchard and Co. for the Booksellers of York. [1781]. 1st edition thus. xiii, [3], [104], 59, [1] pp. Last section has such information as "A Concise Account of the City of York", "A List of all the Fairs in the Counties of York..." & "An Account..... More
TAVERNE MUNICIPALE.; 7, Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville et 2, Avenue Victoria -:- Paris.
Paris. Imp. P. Boll, 12, rue des Bourdonnais, Paris. c. 1935. 1st Printing. Loose leaf. Decorative borders. 12-1/2" x 9-3/4". White paper leaf, printed in green to head of recto, and full page to verso. Menu items written in blue ink. Now hosed in a mylar sleeve. More
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STUDIO ALBUM Of 24 ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS DOCUMENTING [Mostly] PARIS Of The 1890s.
Paris: (n. d.). Ca 1890s. 24 leaves of hinged mouting stock, each image outline with a red rule & captioned underneath. Complete list of captions supplied on request. Images with "B K Edit" imprint. Horizontal format: 7-1/4" x 10-1/8". Original publisher's red cloth album, blocked in black. AEG. Block a...... More
ARCHIVE Of 20 LATE 19th C. NEW YORK VETERINARIAN BILL HEADS / BILLS Of SALE / RECEIPTS.
New York: 1876 - 1897. Receipts: ~ 6-7/8" x ~ 8-1/2" to ~ 10-3/8" x ~ 8-3/8". All receipts with interesting mss entries, giving service provided, along with the cost thereof, e.g., on a receipt from "J. Duane, Dr. / Horse Shoeing, No. 16 Hester Street" we find the mss..... More
The PATRIOT; or, The Irish Packet Open'd.
London: Printed fro W. Webb, near St. Paul's, [1754]. 1st Collected edition (Goldsmith 37608; NCBEL II, 1332). [2], 46 pp. T. p. printer's ornament. 8vo: [A]² (-A1) B - F G (-G4, G4=A1?). 7-13/16" x 5-1/16". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A reprint of the Patriot, a...... More
BRITANNIA'S INTERCESSION For The DELIVERANCE Of JOHN WILKES, ESQ. from Persecution and Banishment. To Which is Added a Political and Constitutional Sermon: and a Dedication to L*** B***; [Price One Shilling.]
London: Sold by H. Woodgate, Near the Chapter Coffee-House, St. Paul's Church-Yard, [1768]. The Fourth Edition [ESTC T4982]. First published as ’A New Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Happy Deliverance of John Wilkes, Esq.’. [1] - [10], [10] - 17, [1] pp. Dedication signed [in type] by 'youngtypo'..... More
The DUKE Of NEWCASTLE'S LETTER, by His Majesty’s order, to Monsieur Michell, the King of Prussia’s Secretary of the Embassy, in Answer to the Memorial, and other papers, Deliver’d, by Monsieur Michell, to the Duke of Newcastle, on the 23d of November, and 13th of December last. Published by Authority.
London: Printed by Edward Owen, in Warwick-Lane, 1753. 1st Edition, State 2, with "ship of a". Precedence not established. 46 pp. Two fold-out tables: "List of all Prussian Ships Taken" & "List of all the Neutral Ships, taken by British ships in the last war". 4to. 10" x 7-5/8". Disbound..... More
A SHORT ACCOUNT Of DANEGELD: With Some Further Particulars Relating to Will. the Conqueror's Survey.; Read at a Meeting of the Society, 1 April, 1756; and ordered to be printed.
London: Printed in the Year, 1756. 1st Printing. Printed by William Bowyer; his records show 500 cc printed. [2], 38 pp. Headline for pp 24 - 28: A Further Account of the Domesday Survey. 4to: A1 B - D^4 E^5 F2. 9-1/2" x 7-1/4" Disbound, red edgestain. Now housed in..... More
A TREATISE Of INCURABLE DISEASES:; Containing I. An Essay on the Proper Means to reduce the Number of Incurables. II. An Attempt to settle a just Notion of Incurable in Phuysick. III. A Specimen of a Rational Method to Discover the Cures of reputed Incurable Diseases.
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
A FEW GENERAL REMARKS On A PAMPHLET, Entitled, FOUR LETTERS In ANSWER To The OBJECTOR, &c. By Anonymous.; By James Turner.
Brimingham: Printed for the Author; and sold by Luckman and Lesson, at No. 8, in New-street, 1771. 1st Printing. 16 pp. T. p. printer's ornament. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
LETTERS And APPLICATIONS Relating to the Short History of a Ten Years Negotiation between a Prime Minister and a Private Gentleman, that Passed from the Time of its being Printed, (and in the minister’s hands), in March 1737, to the publishing of it in March 1738.
London: Printed. And Sold by J. Millan, 1738. 1st Printing. viii, 45, [1] pp. Last page a publisher advert. 8vo. 7-9/16" x 4-11/16". Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
SOME REASONS OFFERED By The LATE MINISTRY In DEFENCE Of Their ADMINISTRATION.
London: Printed for J. Morphew, near Stationers Hall, 1715. 1st edition (Moore 308; Sabin 86727). 78 pp. T.p. printer's ornament. 8vo: A - K^4 [- K4, a blank]. A2 missigned B2. 7-3/16" x 4-1/2". Disbound, with leather remnants along spine. Per Sabin, portions address America [mostly Canada, cf. pp. 49..... More
LETTERS To MONSIEUR H*** Concerning The Most Antient Gods or Kings of Egypt, and the Antiquity of the First Monarchs of Babylon and China.; Intermixed With a great Number of Curious and Entertaining Particulars, describing the Origin of the several Deities among the Heathens. Translated from the French.
London: Printed for J. Roberts, in Warwick Lane, 1734. 1st Edition in English. [4], 110, [6] pp. Index last 6 pages. Lacking final advert leaf. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 4-3/4". 19th C. speckled tan half-calf binding with marbled paper boards. Red leather title label to spine. Red edge-stain. Later eps... More
HOTEL DE CRILLON - PARIS.; Carte Des Etages - Room Service Menu.
France. c. 1990s (?). 1st Printing. 24 pp unnumbered. 11 photographs of inside the hotel and of food/wine. 13-3/4" x 10-1/4". White, glossy card stock wrappers, printed in silver. White glossy leaves with gray lettering, each page with a gilt rule. Held together by a silver cord tie with a...... More
ON A GREEK HELMET, Found in 1854, by Richard Banner Oakeley, Esquire, A Rugbeian, in the River Tigris, Near the Track of the Retreat of the Ten Thousand Greeks.; Read at the Meeting of the Northampton Architectural Society, October 15, 1856.
(n. p.): For Private Distribution, 1856. 1st Edition. The Author's copy, SIGNED. 4 pp. Binder's blanks. Tipped-in mss descriptive note to rfep. Lithograph plate, showing 3 views of the helmet. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/8". Tan half-calf binding with marbled paper boards. Red speckled edges. Matthew Holbeche Bloxam was a native..... More
An EXAMINATION Of The NEW TARIFF Proposed by The Hon. Henry Baldwin, A Representative in Congress.; By One of the People
New - York: Published and Sold by Gould and Banks, Corner of Nassau and Spruce-Streets, 1821. 1st Edition (Goldsmith 23199; Sabin 10109). 268 pp. Large folding frontis with rates of duty on American imports from 1790 to 1820. 8vo. Bound in modern light brown full antique calf. Speckled edges. This..... More
PARIS - ATLAS.; 28 Cartes Dont 24 En Couleurs. 595 Reproduction Photographiques - 32 Dessins.
Par. Librairie Larousse. (n.d.). c. 1898-1903. 239 pp. including index. Profusely illustrated. 12-1/2" x 9-1/2" Green cloth boards, leather back strip. Decorative blind stamping to upper and lower boards as wwll as back strip the title to upper board and back strip in gilt. Textblock stained red, maroon end papers..... More
BOXING WITHOUT A MASTER. Or Scientific Art and Practice of Attack and Self Defense.; Explained in So Easy a Manner that any Person May Comprehend this Useful Art. Containing Descriptions of Correct Pugilistic Attitudes as Practiced by the Most Celebrated Boxers of the Present Day.
New York: Robert M. De Witt, Publisher, No. 33 Rose Street. (n. d.). 1st edition thus, ca 1870s. Cf. Hartley 1816. [5] - 27, [9] pp. 8 pages of adverts @ rear. Illustrated with cuts. 8vo. 7-1/4" x 5-1/8". Original publisher's printed pale yellow paper covers, sewn. Now housed in..... More
SYDNEY. 40 Full Page Views of Sydney and Surroundings.
Sydney: Published by Samuel Wood, (n. d.). Ca early 20th C. Unpaginated, though 44 pages. All views b/w, captioned. Oblong format: 6-1/8" x 9-1/2". Light grey paper covers, printed in green & yellow, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
FAGGOTS To BURN!; An Intimate Edition. No. 709 50¢
Hollywood: Art Enterprises Inc., 1962. 1st Printing. 160 pp. 7-1/8" x 4-1/4". Purple & black stiff stock covers. "For the first time... the truth about the alarming spread of homosexuality in America today! Is the 'Third Sex' taking over Hollywood?" [cover blurbs]. More
CRUISING The MEDITERRANEAN.
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, (1938). 1st Edition. 407, [1] pp. Profusely illustrated. 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamping. Blue map eps. Dust jacket. More