A SERIES Of REPORTS CONCERNING INVESTIGATIONS And PROCEEDINGS In SWEDEN From 1902 to 1912. The Swedenborg Archives. Vol. I.
Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Soner, 1912. 1st edition thus. Royal 8vo. Original printed wrappers. More
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The EMPIRE Of The EAST.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1909. 1st US. xii, 307 pp (including index). Color frontis + 16 b&w inserted plates. 8vo. Lavender cloth binding stamped in gilt. More
PANORAMA Of AUSTRIA. In Which I Relate Also Some Pleasures to be Experienced While Traveling in Bavaria and Switzerland.
New York: Putnam's, (1956). 1st edition. ARC, with slip laid-in. 350 pp (including index). Illustrated. 8vo. Green cloth. Color pictorial dust jacket. More
NAPLES. The City of Parthenope and Its Environs.
Boston: Dana Estes & Co., (1894). 340 pp (including index). Illustrated with 20 inserted plates. 8vo. Decorative white cloth with elaborate gilt, blue & red embossing/lettering. TEG. Red cloth dust jackets lettered in gilt. More
FOUNTAIN Of The ELEPHANTS.
NY: Harper & Row, (1959). 1st edition. ARC, with slip laid-in. 319 pp (including index). Illustrated with plates. 8vo. Oliver green cloth. Dust jacket. Biography of Benoit de Boigne, a Savoyard soldier of fortune. More
SOUTH AMERICA. Observations and Impressions.
New York: MacMillan, 1914. 1st printing of the corrected & revised edition. 611 pp (including index), illustrated with color maps, 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. More
SQUADRON HISTORIES. R.F.C., R.N.A.S. And R.A.F. 1912 - 59.
London: Putnam, 1959. 1st edition. 208 pp. Illustrated with color plates. 8vo. Red cloth binding. Red topstain. Dust jacket. More
A PERPLEXED PHILOSOPHER Being an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's Various Utterances on the Land Question, with Some Incidental Reference to His Synthetic Philosophy.
London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co., 1893. 1st UK edition. 319 pp, 12 mo. Original red cloth binding with black lettering. More
The LETTERS Of F. W. LUDWIG LEICHHARDT.; Hakluyt Society Series II, Nos CXXXIII, CXXXIV & CXXXV.
Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society by the Cambridge University Press, 1968. 1st edition. 3 volumes. illustrated with plates & maps. 8vo. Lt Blue cloth with gilt lettering & cover device. Light blue dust jackets printed in dark blue. Leichhardt known primarily for his scientific explorations of Australia. More
MARCHING With GOMEZ. A War-Correspondent's Field Note-Book Kept during Four Months with the Cuban Army. Historical Introduction by John Fiske.
Boston: Lamson Wolfe & Co., 1898. 1st edition (BAL 6049). 294 pp + 5 pp adverts. Illustrated by the author. 8vo. Red cloth w/ gilt lettering. More
BELLI LOOKS At LIFE And LAW In JAPAN.; Foreword by Errol Flynn; Preface by Toshio Irie, Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1960). 1st edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the ffep. 320 pp, illustrated with photographs, 8vo. Hardback. Photographic eps. Pink dust jacket. The famous lawyer turns his eye to the far east. More
HISTORY Of The COINAGE ACT Of 1873. Being a Complete Record of All Documents Issued and the Legislative Proceedings Concerning the Act.; House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. 1900.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900. 1st Edition. 323, [3 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-3/4". Original publisher's black cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. "The Coinage Act of 1873, or Mint Act of 1873, was a general revision of laws relating to the Mint of the United States. By..... More
The FAMILY PHYSICIAN, NURSE'S GUIDE, And FARMER'S HORSE And CATTLE DOCTOR, In Three Parts.; Part First Gives the Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment of All Diseases Incident to Mankind. Part Second Gives the Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment of All Diseases of the Horse, Neat Cattle, and Sheep, and the Management of Hens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, and Bees. Part Third. Materia Medica, and the Preparation of Medicines.
Montpelier: Argus and Patriot Job Printing House, 1871. 1st Edition (Atwater 3522). Not in Cardasco. 406, [2] pp. Index at rear. 1 page advert follows text. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. 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
A TREATISE On WATERING MEADOWS. Wherein are Shewn Some of the Many Advantages Arising from that Mode of Practice, Particularly on Coarse, Boggy, or Barren Lands. With Four Copper Plates.
London: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Almon, in Piccadilly. 1779. 1st Edition (Goldsmith 11795). [4], 108, [2] pp. Illustrated with 4 inserted fold-out copperplate engravings. 8vo. 7-7/8" x 5-1/8". Later marbled card-stock covers. More
INSTRUCTIONS RELATIVE To The BAGGAGE And MARCHES Of The ARMY.
(n. p.): (n. d.). 1st printing thus, ca 1797. Cf. ESTC T136496. 31, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 6-7/8" x 4-5/8". Later (mid-to-late 19th C?) blue paper card-stock covers. ESTC records only one institutional holding of this edition [at the British Library]. More
AYER'S ALMANAC For 1881.; In English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Spanish, Portugese, and Bohemian.
Lowell, Mass: Published by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., [1880]. 1st edition thus, i.e., for this year (Atwater S-87.9). Most unpaginated, though each of the 11 almanacs ~ 40 pp. Yellow printed wrappers for each. Publisher "Specimen Copies" leaflet tipped-in to ffep. Illustrated with cuts. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/8"..... More
CATHECHISMUS, oder Kurzer Unterricht Christlicher Lehre, für Die angehende Jugend in der Churfürstlichen Pfalz und andern Reformirten Orten zu gebrauchen: Samt der Haus-Tafel, Mit und ohne Biblischen Sprüch-Büchlein, Alles zur Ehre und Lob Gottes.
Reading [PA]: Johann Ritter, 1811. 1st printing (American Imprints 22488; Arndt & Eck 1865). OCLC records 6 holding institutions. 104, [2] pp. 12mo. 5-3/4" x 3-1/2". Period quarter-leather binding, with paste-paper wrapped boards. More
RAMBLES AFTER SPORT; or, Travels and Adventures in the Americas and At Home.
London: "The Field" Office, 1874. 1st edition. ix, [3], 429, [5] pp (including Index). Frontis & 8 inserted plates. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamping. More
The PRINCIPLES Of MECHANICS. Explaining and Demonstrating The General Laws of Motion, the Laws of Gravity, Motion of Descending Bodies, Projectiles, Mechanic Powers, Pendulums, Centers of Gravity, &c. Strength and Stress of Timber, Hydrostatics, and Construction of Machines. A Work Very Necessary to be Known, by All Gentlemen, and Others, that Desire to Have an Insight into the Works of Nature and Art. And Extremely Useful to All Sorts of Artificers; Particularly to Architects, Engineers, Shipwrights, Millwrights, Watchmakers, &c. or Any that Work in a Mechanical Way.
London: Printed for G. Robinson, 1773. The 3rd edition, Corrected. x, [2], 284, [4] pp. Eratta penulitmate page; last page blank. Untrimmed. Many gatherings unopened. 43 fold-out copperplate engravings of divers geometric forms, mechanical devices, &c. 4to: A4 a2 B - 2O4. 10-1/2" x 7-3/4". Later tan calf spine over..... More
The COMPLETE FARRIER And BRITISH SPORTSMAN: Containing a Systematic Enquiry into the Structure and Animal Economy of the Horse, the Causes, Syptoms, and Most-Approved Methods of Prevention and Cure for Every Disease to Which He is Liable: A Detection and Exposure of the Erroneous and Bad Methods of treatment generally adopted; with numerous approved and original recipes for various diseases. The whole rendered easy and familiar, with a view to general utility, and founded on the latest discoveries and experimental facts, to which the progress of improvement for the last twenty years in the veterinary art has led, interspersed with sporting anecdotes, and an account of the most celebrated horses, &c. &c. Equally important and interesting to the British sportsman: as well as inn-keepers, coach-masters, farmers, owners of stage-waggons, &c. Embellished with a series of engravings, executed in the first style of the art, from original drawings in the possession of noblemen and gentlemen of the turf, and copied, by permission, exclusively for this work.
London: W. Lewis and Co., 1816. 1st edition. 512 pp. Frontis + 12 inserted engraved plates. 4to. 10-3/4" x 8-1/2". Period full calf binding; gilt lettered maroon leather title label to spine. More
EGYPT UNDER ITS KHEDIVES; or, The Old House of Bondage Under New Masters. Harper's Franklin Square Library. No. 267. August 25, 1882.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882. 44, [4] pp, printed triple column. Adverts last 4 pages. T.p. vignette. Full page map. 12 wood engravings (4 full-page). 11" x 8". Printed self-wrappers, stapled. More
ATLAS. Appendix to "Administrative Subdivisions of Japan".; Department of State Publication 2749, Far Eastern Series 19.
1946-47. Over 40 folding maps of the region. Folio. 20-1/2" x 14-1/8". Stiff pictorial wrappers, spiral bound. More
The ANALYSIS And SOFTENING Of BOILER FEED-WATER.; Translated by D. W. Patterson.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1906. 2nd edition, revised. 290 + 18 pp advertisements. Illustrated with schematics. 8vo. 23.5cm x 15cm. Brown cloth binding. Gilt stamped spine. More
A PRACTICAL GUIDE To The TESTING Of INSULATED WIRES And CABLES.
New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1899. 118 pp (including index), illustrated, 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. The book is comprised of articles and essays that orginally appeared in 'The Electrical Engineer'. More