Washington City: Printed for the Author, by Jacob Gideon, Junior. 1820. 1st edition (American Imprints 80). 297, [1] pp. 12mo. 7-1/8" x 4-1/4". Period brown full sheep binding. More
Evansville, Ind: For Sale at Geroge C. Smith & Co's, Booksellers. The Courier Company, Book and Job Printers, Stationers & Binders, 1878. 1st Edition. [ix], 10 - 95, [1 (blank)] pp. 2 page Introduction by Heywood, pp. vi - vii. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-3/4". Original publisher's taupe cloth binding with..... More
London: Edward Blackmore, 1638. 2nd edition enlarged, later issue (STC 17599). [26], 680, [1] pp. Errata last page. The sheets of the 1625 edition, with a new t.p. (printed in red & black, by T. Harper). Headpieces; tailpieces. Initials. Folio: A6 (±A2) B8 B - 3K6 L8. 28.5 cm x...... More
New Jersey: Princeton Untiversity Press, (1981). [34], 494 pp. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Dark green cloth binding with gilt title lettering stamped to spine. Green dust jacket with black title lettering to front pannel and spine. More
Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1847. 1st edition (BEAL 3713; cf Sabin 40798 for the more common 1848 edition). 715, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 5-7/8". Modern light brown quarter-leather binding with marbled paper boards. Renewed eps. As a young man, Lewis became a printer, and practiced this business..... More
Boston: Published by Crocker & Brewster, 1839. 'New Edition'. 516 pp. Double column. Bound in 6s. 5 3/8" x 8 7/8". Modern full, speckled sheep with black spine label lettered in gilt. Modern eps. This edition not listed in American Imprints, and, at the time of cataloguing, OCLC shows only..... More
Boston: Printed at the Daily Mail Office, [1850]. 1st printing (McDade 1059). 64 pp. Text double column. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Cut of courtroom to p. 1; cut of Mass. Medical College to p. 64. 8vo. 10" x 6-1/8". Printed self-wrappers, 4 untrimmed quires, stitched. Now housed..... More
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, [1867]. 1st Separate Edition. [2], 18, [4] pp. Text double column. 4 page advert of Howe sewing machines, printed on blue paper, inserted at rear. Wood engraving of the first Howe sewing machine to front wrapper. Advert with images of the Howe manufacturing plant. 9-1/4" x...... More
London: Henry Renshaw, 1835. 1st volume edition (Goldsmith 37604 & 29369 [for the 2nd Edition]). iv, 408 pp. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Original publisher's green patterned paper boards, with printed paper title label to spine. The DNB suggests that it is his 'admirable papers on health and gastronomy' that 'form..... More
London: Printed for Frederick Etchells and Hugh MacDonald at Ia Kensignton Place W.8. 1925. 1st edition thus. #72 of 75 cc printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott Paper. Total limitation of 625 cc. Unpaginated. Woodblock engraving to facsimile t.p. Headpieces. Decorative capital initials. 4to. Full blue morocco binding. AEG... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1949. 1st edition. 514 pp (including index), illustrated with formula & diagrams. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Dust jacket. More
London & Liverpool: George Philip & Son, 32, Fleet Street, (n. d.). Ca mid-1880s. Colored map: dissected and mounted on muslin, 20 panel, 26" x 221-1/2", displaying 56°N --> 50°N; 5°W --> 1°E. Scale: 1 degree = 69.15 English miles. Inset of Scily Islands. Case: 6-3/4" x 4-5/8". Purple cloth..... More
Detroit: General Motors Corporation, Chevrolet Motor Division, 1959. 1st edition. 116 pp. Over 200 color illustrations, color plates (many large, folding double-page), intratextual illustrations & diagrams. 36 interior upholstery color samples and 36 car color combinations spiral bound in rear. Oblong format: 10" x 13-1/8". Housed in a blue 19-ring..... More
(n. p.): Oklahoma Travel Association. (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed), ca 1940. 41 pp. Inserted color map of Oklahoma, b/w illustrations to each page. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Blue stiff color illustrated paper wrappers, with color photographic image of Miss Oklahoma [Martyne Woods] to center front wrapper. Now housed in a...... More
Baltimore: H. Niles, 1833. 16 pp. 8-1/2" x 6". Disbound. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
Kenneth, Indiana: (n. d.). Ca early 20th C. (?). 4 silver gelatin prints, black & white, matte finish. All captioned in the plate with white lettering, with photo ID number [87192, 87193, 87232, 87233]. Versos blank. These appear to be 'copy' photographs. 7-1/2" x 9-5/8". All now housed in a...... More
London: Boussod, Valadon & Co., 1897. 1st edition. 200, [2] pp. Illustrated. Folio. 13" x 9-5/8". Period deep maroon three-quarter morcco binding, with elaborate gilt decorated spine & red cloth boards. TEG. Marbled eps. "On 23 September 1896, Victoria surpassed her grandfather George III as the longest-reigning monarch in British history..... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1862. 1st edition. "Presented by the Publishers" oval stamp to t.p. v, [1 (blank)], 124 pp. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5". Original publisher's green cloth binding with elaborate gilt stamping to front cover. Handel "was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1886. 1st edition. 96 pp (including Index). Illustrated with 47 fold-outs & 8 inserted plates. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-7/8". Original blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to front board. A report on the author's tour of English, French, German & Italian shipyards. More
Annapolis: United States Naval institute, 1909. 2nd edition, revised & enlarged. vi, 376 pp [including index]. Includes 14 fold-out diagrams. Illustrated with schematics. 8vo. 24cm x 16cm. Green cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering. More
Indianapolis: Samuel M. Douglass, State Printer. 1866. 1st printing. 58, [2] pp. Lithographed frontis of Indiana University, by Strobridge & Co., Cin, O. 8vo. Original printed buff paper wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
S. - Petersburg: 1893. 1st Edition. 572 pages. No illustrations, text only. Royal 8vo. Modern brown buckram with white stamped title lettering to spine. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. 1st US edition. 2 volumes (xxii, 458; xvii, 525 pp). With two fold-out maps, 1 at rear of each volume. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 6". Olive green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine (both volumes professionally rebacked). TEG. More
Götheborg: J. G. Lange, Senior. 1748. 1st edition. [16], 372, [4] pp. Volume concludes with one page Eratta, followed by 3 page publisher advert. Decorative initial capital letters. Large tailpiece, pp. 198 & 360. 8vo: )(^8 A - T^8 V - X^4 Y - 2A^8 2B^4. 7" x 4-3/8". Modern..... More
London, printed. Hartford: Re-printed, and Sold by Nathaniel Patten, 1783. "A New Edition, Corrected" (Alston 235; Evans 18005). vii, [8] - 131, [1 (blank)] pp. 12mo: [A]^4 B - Q^4 R^2. 6-3/4" x 4-3/8". Brown sheep spine over period drab paper-wrapped birch boards. More
