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Osaka: Isaburo Hamamoto, 1886. 12mo, pp. 4, 59, [1]; illustrated throughout; a fusion of western and Japanese book styles, with pages folded and bound fukuro style with the folds facing the fore-edge, but reinforced in each leaf with wastepaper to replicate western paper, and paginated western style, encased in cloth..... More
West Branch, [Iowa]: Coffee House Press, 1985. Edition limited to 500 copies signed by the author and illustrator; 11" x 5½", pp. [24]; illustrations by Ann Mikolowski; stitched, as issued, in pictorial tan wrappers; fine. Morning Coffee Chapbook 12. More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [1975]. First edition, 8vo, fine copy in original dust-jacket. More
New York: New York Atheneum, 1964. First. full cloth case with silver- and gold foil stamping. 3 quater-inch tears at top of clipped dust jacket. More
[Saigon: Édition du Service cartographique des F.T.E.O., Avrile 1954.]. First edition, large square 4to, pp. [117]; photographic illustrations throughout; some wear, a few short splits in the wrapper extremities, else very good in original brown wrappers printed in black on the upper cover. At head of title: Forces terrestres du..... More
Antwerpiae: Ex officina Christophori Plantiti, 1582. 8vo, pp. 285, [3]; woodcut device on title page, woodcut initials and decorations throughout; the final leaf is blank; contemporary full limp vellum, turned-in edges, 19th- or 20th-century manuscript titling on spine; while the textblock is sound, the vellum covers are almost loose. At..... More
Paris: Huart, Nyon, Savoye, Durand, Moreau, Rubustel, Knapen, 1756. New edition, "considerably augmented by the author," folio, 2 volumes, pp. [8], 940, xv, [1]; [4], 980; vignette title page, ornamental headers and engraved initials; leaves O3 and O4 in volume I and leaf P3 in volume II with large temoins;..... More
Rotterdam: Elie Yvans, 1705. 12mo, pp. [22], 302 [i.e. 402]; recent half brown calf antique over marbled boards, red morocco label. Not in Brunet; British Library has this edition only. NUC locates one copy each of the Paris edition, the Rotterdam edition, a Paris edition in 2 vols., 1806; and..... More
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Abbeville [France]: [F. Paillart, c. 1913]. 12mo, pp. 32; original orange pictorial paper wrappers; evenly toned; very good. A collection of canticles in the Micmac language. More
Newport: Preservation Society of Newport County, Pitt's Head Tavern, 1954. First edition, 4to, pp. [4], vii-xviii, 216, [3]; illustrated throughout; original green buckram, gilt-stamped spine; previous owner's bookplate; near fine. Furniture, including cabinets, chairs, beds, desks, tables, etc., also clocks, fire screens, chests and bookcases, all made at Newport... More
[Providence? publisher not identified, 1847.]. Folio broadside (approx. 19" x 12¾"), text in quadruple column beneath the running head, signed in type at the end of the last column, "A Citizen of Narragansett." Some foxing and a sliver of browning at the top right corner; small hole in center affecting..... More
New-York: Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-Street, 1844. 8vo, 2 parts in 1, pp. [3]-52; [53]-103, [1]; text in double column; sectional title for the second part; trimmed, removed from binding, wrappers wanting; else very good. Following ten years of acting in England with mixed success, Cowell immigrated to New York..... More
Providence: Knowles and Vose, 1842. 12mo, pp. 24; original pictorial printed wrappers; light soiling to back wrap, two very small pieces from margins of front wrapper; very good. The first legally adopted Rhode Island Constitution, adopted overwhelmingly via referendum in November of 1842 (although with a low voter turnout). It..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1894. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 426, [2, ads]; 28 illustrations and maps; original red cloth gilt, spine a bit faded, rear hinge starting, small ink stamp on title-page, moderate foxing throughout; very good. D'Orleans started from Paris in 1891 intending to investigate lower Tonkin and..... More
[Saigon: Imprimerie française d'Outre-Mer, 1952.]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 140; 18 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 9 plates; folding map; very good copy in original printed wrappers, and dust jacket. More
London: Reeves & Turner, 1878. 2 vols., 8vo, pp. [iii]-xxvi, 464; [6], 467; bound in half brown morocco over rust cloth by Riviere & Son for Messrs H. Sotheran & Co.; upper joint of vol. I barely starting, joints a bit rubbed, else a near fine, handsome set with binder's..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1927]. First edition, this one of 1000 copies for friends of the publisher with a presentation bookplate, and with galleys for an additional chapter laid in; 8vo, pp. [3]-338; fine copy in the orig. glassine which is chipped and torn. More
Newburyport: Edmund M. Blunt, 1794. Eleventh edition, tall 16mo, pp. 158; original full calf; boards rubbed and bumped, bottom of spine chipped; contemporary owners' signatures and notations on endpapers and flyleaves, including a list of bank accounts. One of the many "pocket calculators" published throughout the US in the 19th..... More
[New York]: Oct. 24, 1881. Approx. 11" x 8½", the engraving approx. 4" x 7¾"; previous folds and with a couple of very short splits; otherwise very good. The hotel stood across the street from the Grand Central Depot which is also pictured in the image. More
London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1916. First edition of the author's first book, 8vo, pp. 32; original tan pictorial wrappers by Claud Lovat Fraser, yapp edges; some shelf wear, spine foot chipped, top edge of upper cover has been trimmed without affecting text; a quite lovely copy in custom blue-green morocco-backed..... More
Providence: E. L. Freeman & Sons, printers to the state, 1903. 8vo, pp. iv, 257, [1]; frontispiece portrait, folding plan and 42 plates; original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; fine copy. Greene (1742-1786) was a major-general in the Continental Army and was George Washington's most..... More
Boston: Richardson, Lord and Holbrook, 1831. First edition, 12mo, pp. vi, 3-140; contemporary quarter sheep over boards; boards neatly reattached, light foxing. Elementary chemistry in simple language, with simple experiments, for the benefit of teachers in their instruction of students. American Imprints 7435. More
n.p., n.d. [Springfield, IL ? 1841.]. Single sheet composed in 8s, approx. 19" x 25" and folding down into an unopened octavo (approx. 9½" x 7"); occasional spotting; very good. "The bill proposed to repeal out of office all the circuit judges, and to elect five additional judges of the..... More
Edinburgh: University Press, 1808-25. First edition, 4 volumes, 4to, including the 2 volume supplement; full contemporary calf, borders bllind-tooled, gilt spines in 6 compartments; armorial bookplates on front pastedown, modern bookplate on front free endpapers; Vol. I lower cover separated, else a very good, attractive set. The standard work on..... More
Newport: for Asaph Chilson, and sold by him, wholesale and retail, 1804. 12mo, pp. 88; contemporary full calf, gilt-paneled spine laid out in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1, ownership stamp in gilt on upper cover of "J. P. Luther," and with 4 pages of manuscript notes on the..... More
