GRADUATION PORTRAIT ALBUM NO. 8 [English Translation].; March of 10th Year of Showa Period.
Kure: [1935]. 12-3/4" x 9-1/4". Purple velour cloth binding, yapp edges, cord tie. Marble eps. More
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The CENTRAL BANK Of MANCHOU And APPENDIX Of LAWS PERTAINING THERETO. 1935.
Hsinking, Manchoukuo: Published by the Central Bank of Manchou, 1935. 1st Edition. [2], ii, 89, [3]; 21, [1] pp. 2 errata slips affixed to final leaf.. With 5 inserted plates depicting coins, paper money & the bank building itself. Tissue guards with printed captions. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 6-1/2". Later green..... More
PLYMOUTH'S FINEST.
(n. p.): Plymouth Division, Chrysler Corporation. [1941]. 1st printing. Unpaginated, though 20 pp. Filled with lovely full color illustrations of the car, and its divers systems, et al. Oblong format: 10" x 14". Color printed wrappers, stapled. The Plymouth De Luxe Sedan, their Finest.... I'm especially enamoured by the De..... More
WESTERN BARBARIANS In JAPAN And FORMOSA In TOKUGAWA DAYS. 1603 - 1868.
Kobe, Japan: Published by J. L. Thompson & Co., [1930]. 1st edition, limited to 500 cc. [6], xiv, 431, [3] pp. 2 page publisher advert concluded volume. 35 guarded plates including 3 folding, two folding color plates, 4 supplements [including folded color map] in pocket affixed to rear paste-down. Royal..... More
CHEVROLET 1941. Special Deluxe. Master Deluxe.
Detroit: General Motors Corporation, Chevrolet Motor Division, (1940). 1st printing. Unpaginated, though 12 pp. Laid-in color printed leaf for the "Special De Lux Five = Passenger Coupe in Two-Tone Color Combination." Each page with color lithographs depicting a version of the car, along with divers interior aspects. Oblong format: 7-1/2"..... More
1. FILIPINO TYPES: Manila Students.; An Attempt to Calssify the Littoral Population of Luzon and Adjacent Islands.
Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1909. 1st separate edition. Accompanied by a mss note, "With the author's compliments" calling card. 263 - 287, [6], 288 - 296 pp. Partially unopened. Illustrated with intratextual graphs & 3 full-page charts. 10-1/2" x 7-1/2". Original publisher's printed drab green paper wrappers. Now housed in..... More
The HISTORY And ANTIQUITIES Of MELROSE, OLD MELROSE, And DRYBURGH ABBEYS, with a Description of Abbotsford, Eildon Hills; Etc. Etc. Etc.
Melrose / Edinburgh: Misses S. & C. Cameron / W. P. Nimmo, St. James Square, 1869. Later edition, first published in 1847. [4], 95, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontis. 5 inserted plates. 12mo. 6-3/8" x 4-1/8". Original publisher's purple flexible cloth-covered card-stock covers, with gilt stamped lettering to front cover. "The..... More
CHEIRO'S LANGUAGE Of The HAND. A Complete Practical Work on the Sciences of Cheirognomy and Cheiromancy, Containing the System, Rules and Experience of Cheiro.
New York / New York / London: F. Tennyson Neely / Continental Publishing Co. / Nichols & Co., 1897. New 6th Edition. 162 pp. Appendix & adverts at rear. Fifty-five Full-page Illustrations, and over Two Hundred Engravings of Lines, Mounts, and Marks. Royal 8vo. 10-1/4" x 7-7/8". Original publisher's white..... More
VEGETARIAN COOKERY. By A Lady.; With an Introduction Explanatory of the Principles of Vegetarianism. By the Late Jas. Simpson, Esq.
London: Fred. Pitman, 20, Paternoster Row, E.C., (n. d.). Sixth Edition, ca mid-to-late 1860s. Cf. Dyer, p. 217. Not in Axford, nor Wheaton & Kelly. [4], 290, [2 (adverts)] pp. Index at rear. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4-1/8". Original publisher's dark blue-green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Yellow..... More
A NARRATIVE Of The DREADFUL SHIPWRECK Of The VRYHEID (Late the Melville-Castle) Capt. Scherman, a Dutch Indiaman Bound to the Cape of Good- Hope, Which was Wrecked off Dymchurch Wall, near Dover, Nov. 23, 1802, by Which Catastrophe 454 Persons Perished! Written by One of the Survivors.
London: Printed for Tegg & Castleman, at the Eccentric Book Warehouse, 122, St. John-Street, Smithfield; ... Hartnell, Printer, 3, New-Street, Borough. [1803]. 1st Edition. iv, 28 pp. Folding copperplate frontispiece. Tailpiece. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/8". Period full brown tree calf binding with later respining to style. Later eps. Scarce publication..... More
The INTERESTING LIFE, TRAVELS, VOYAGES And DARING ENGAGEMENTS, Of That CELEBRATED And JUSTLY NOTORIOUS PIRATE, PAUL JONES; Containing Numerous Anecdotes of Undaunted Courage in the Prosecution of His Nefarious Undertakings. Written by Himself.
London: Printed for Tegg & Castleman, at the Eccentric Book Warehouse, 122, St. John-Street, West-Smithfield; ... Hartnell, Printer, 3, New-Street, Borough. [1803]. 1st Edition. 36 pp. Folding copperplate frontispiece, partially hand-colored, dated 1803, of Jones shooting Lt Grub "for attempting to strike the Colours in an Engagement." 12mo. 6-7/8" x...... More
COPYRIGHT And Related Topics. A Choice of Articles.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964. 1st Edition. xvi, 609, [1 (blank)] pp. Royal 8vo. Blue green cloth binding. Dust jacket. More
MUHAMMAD JUKI'S SHAHNAMAH Of FIRDAUSI
London: The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland / Philip Wilson Publishers, (2010). 1st Edition. x, 214 pp. Profusely illustrated, with much in color. Folio. 13-3/8" x 8-7/8". Blue cloth binding. Blue dust jacket with multi-color pictorial front panel. More
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE. FIVE THEMES.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, (2009). 1st Edition. 263, [1] pp. DVD at rear. Profusely illustrated. 10-3/8" x 9-3/4". Grey cloth bindind stamped in black. Dust jacket. More
ROME & A VILLA.
London: Michael Joseph, 1953. 1st Edition. 302 pp. Drawings by Eugene Berman. 8vo. Grey cloth binding with dark blue stamping to spine. Dust jacket. More
OUR THOUSAND YEAR OLD BODIES. Selected Poems 1956 - 1976.
Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1980. 1st Edition. ARC, with slip laid-in. [8], 103, [1] pp. 8vo. Tomato red cloth binding. Red & black dust jacket. More
EQUIPMENT SALES MANUAL And Dealers Reference Book.; Interboro Hoist and Body Corp
Long Island City, New York: Interboro Hoist & Body Corporation, Borden Avenue and Van Dam Street, (1926). 1st printing thus, i.e., for this year. Each section [A - Y] with a separate pagination. ~ 200 pp. Illustated throughout with b/w photographic images. 11-1/8" x 8-3/4". Bound in a brown 3-hole..... More
A NEW PICTURE Of CAR VALUE. 1935 Plymouth.
Detroit, Michigan: Plymouth Motors, [1934]. 1st printing. Unpaginated, though 20 pp. Profusely illustrated with images of the automobile, as well as divers aspects thereof. Oblong 8vo: 7" x 9-1/8". Blue paper covers printed in light blue & silver. "Plymouth was a brand of automobiles produced by Chrysler Corporation. The brand..... More
HANDY BOOK Of CARD GAMES.; Crowell's Handy Information Series.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, (1907). Early, if not first, printing. viii, 376 pp. 12mo. 5-3/4" x 4". Original publisher's green cloth binding with black stamping. From Bridge to Whist, and a lot in between. More
MURDER Of MR. STEELE. Documents and Observations, Tending to Shew A Probablility of the Innocence of John Holloway and Owen Haggerty, Who were Executed on Monday the 2nd of Febuary [sic], 1807, as the Murders of the above Gentleman.; By James Harmer, Attorney at Law.
London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by M. Jones, 1, Paternoster-Row; and May be Had of All Booksellers in Town or Country, 1807. 1st, and only, edition published for the author. [4], 89, [1 (errata)] pp. Textblock trimmed. 8vo. 8" x 4-7/8". Bound in later stiff marbled paper wrappers..... More
The BIRTH Of PREHISTORIC CHRONOLOGY.; Dating Methods and Dating Systems in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavian Archaeology.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 1st Edition. 132 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Black cloth bindiing. Yellow dust jacket. More
A REPORT On HOSPITAL GANGRENE, ERYSIPELAS And PYAEMIA, as Observed in the Departments of the Ohio and the Cumberland, with Cases Appended.; Published by Permission of the Surgeon General U.S.A.
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
SATANIC DELUSION.
Zarephath, N. J. Pillar of Fire, 1918. 1st printing. 40 pp. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's printed grey paper covers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Godbey "was one of the most significant evangelists in the early stages of the Wesleyan-holiness movement. He was born in Pulaski, Kentucky..... More
BORN From ABOVE.
Greensboro, N. C. Published by The Apostolic Messenger Office, (n. d.). 1st printing presumed, ca early 1900s. 31, [1 (blank)] pp. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8". Original publisher's printed grey paper covers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Godbey "was one of the most significant evangelists in the early stages..... More
FORD V • 8 For 1935
Detroit, Michigan: Ford Motor Company, [1934]. 1st printing. Unpaginated, though 16 pp. Every page except 1 with a color illustration of a Ford V-8 model, or some aspect of a Ford car. Page 1 begins with the DeLuxe Tudor Sedan, p. 1 Oblong 8vo: 7" x 9-1/8". Grey paper covers..... More