Articles of belief: written November 20, 1728.
New York: [Celebration of Printing Week], 1966. 12mo, pp. 30; title-page vignette and wood engravings by John De Pol; very fine in original light gray paper-covered boards, gilt. More
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Translation of Japanese ordnance markings
Washington D.C. A. S. F. Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 1945. Staple bound booklet, 11 x 8.5 inches, pp. [4] 1-78 [2]; in pictorial paper wrappers, two inch tear to lower cover repaired with tape, corners bumped. A guide to reading Japanese terms particular to ordnance, intended for service..... More
十七世紀荷蘭人繪製的台灣老地圖 / Shi qi shi ji Helan ren hui zhi de Taiwan lao di tu [= Old maps of Taiwan drawn by the Dutch in the seventeenth century] (Hansheng vol. 105 & 106)
Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, [1997]. 4to, 2 vols, pp. 168; 100; text in Traditional Chinese; text illustrations throughout, including facsimiles of 37 Dutch maps of Taiwan; pictorial paper wrappers, fine in fine pictorial slipcase. Hansheng Magazine is an award-winning project dedicated to highlighting a specific aspect of Chinese cultural arts with..... More
Bird books and bird art. An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology based principally on the collection of books containing plates with figures of birds and their eggs now in the university library at Copenhagen and including a catalogue of these works.
[New York: Maurice Martino, 1990.]. Reprint edition limited to 300 copies (originally published Copenhagen, 1938); 4to, pp. xviii, 251; frontispiece, 12 plates, and 1 illustration in the text, all in b&w; a fine copy in the original maroon cloth, stamped in gilt and black on spine. The catalogue, bibliographically detailed..... More
Memorial addresses, on several occasions; delivered in the Senate of the United States
Providence: Sidney S. Rider, 1875. 8vo, pp. 52; inserted engraved title page and 5 engraved portraits; original stiff printed brown wrappers; a little crack at the top of the spine, the plates lightly spotted; very good. Addresses on Stephen Arnold Douglas; John R. Thomson; William P. Fessenden; Nathanael Greene and..... More
Two holograph editor's notes and 16 holograph articles
Dublin? May and June, 1901. 2 volumes, folio, containing the original manuscripts of 16 articles and 2 editorial notes, 63 and 45 pages respectively, on laid paper of different manufacturers, (one being Ravensbourne Superfine). The editorial notice in the first volume announces the debut: "It is with great pleasure that..... More
Dust light, leaves
[Nashville]: Vanderbilt University Press, [1986]. First edition, wrapper issue; 8vo, pp. [8], 3-69, [1]; fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy inscribed by Buckley to Merker on the title page: "For Kim - with all best wishes & great admiration for your fine..... More
Looking at fine printing...
Minneapolis: Michael Tarachow and Jonathan Stevenson at the Pentagram Press, 8 March 1989. Letterpress folio broadside limited to 193 copies, approx. 15" x 7¼", printed in blue and black; fine. "An impromptu broadside to mark Jonathan's second visit: six of Goudy's types handset & printed on [blue] Magnani paper..." More
A. Cornelii Celsi medicinae libri octo ex recensione Leonardi Targae. Accedunt notae variorum, iten, quae nune primum prodeunt, J.L. Bianconii dissertatio de Celsi Aetate, et Georgii Matthiae lexicon Celsianum
Lugduni Batavorum: Sam. et Joan. Luchtmans, 1785. 4to, pp. 678, 463; illustrations throughout; modern marbled boards with brown morocco spine, orange and gilt label; scuffing and shelf wear; ex-Knox College Library with usual markings. Contents: Bianconi, G., Epistola de Celsi aetate (pages [39]-56, preliminary sequence); Celsus, Medicinae libri octo (pages..... More
A day celebrating the friends of the writing program at the State University of Iowa. May 7, 1960. Special guest: Bennett Cerf, President, Random House
Iowa City: The Qara Press, 1960. Large 8vo, pp. [8]; printed on British hand-made paper; fine copy in original embossed wrappers flecked with gold. From the library of Kim Merker. Includes music and a libretto by Philip Bezanson and Paul Engle. Also, a list of the Friends of the Writing..... More
Journal of Philology
London: Macmillan Co.; Deighton, Bell, Cambridge, 1868-76. The first 6 volumes bound in 3 (containing 12 numbers); 8vo, recent brown cloth, leather labels lettered in gilt on spine; nice copies in matching new bindings. Contributors include Charles Taylor, J. E. Yonge, E. H. Palmer, W. W. Skeat, Oswald Cockayne, among..... More
The pioneers, or the sources of the Susquehanna; a descriptive tale
New York: Charles Wiley, 1823. First edition, 12mo, 2 volumes, pp. [5], viii-xi, [1], 275, [1]; 329, [3]; second state of vol. 1 and first of vol. 2 per BAL; original tan paper boards, paper labels on spine; boards starting on vol. 1, upper board loose on vol. 2 and..... More
Faust foutu: an entertainment...in four parts with decorations by the author
[Stinson Beach, California: Enkidu Surrogate], 1960. Edition limited to 750 copies, square 8vo, pp. 71, [1]; illustrations, text printed from typescript; original yellow pictorial staplebound wrappers (minor soiling) printed in black and green; about fine. "As produced in a dramatic reading at The Six gallery, 3119 Fillmore, San Francisco, January..... More
Infinite in all directions. Gifford lectures given at Aberdeen, Scotland
[New York et al. Harper & Row Publishers, 1988]. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 321, [3]; full black cloth, gilt spine; touch of spotting to fore-edge, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with old price sticker on back panel. More
Natur-Geschichte der Deutschen Vogel...
Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1891. First edition, thick 8vo, 970pp., 48 color lithograph plates (several species per plate), 2 double-p. sepia plates; nice copy in orig. dec. green cloth gilt, neatly rebacked with old spine laid down. More
Parliamentary views ... extracted from the diary of Toby, M.P.
London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [1885]. First edition limited to 1000 copies, oblong 4to, 30 tipped in caricature illustrations, each with a separate engraved key to the characters depicted; original white cloth with pictiorial only on the upper cover, gilt titling; recent rebacking in white cloth; some soiling and wear..... More
Wood engravings by Schanilec
The return of a private
Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 1998. Edition limited to 150 copies, (this, no. 14), thin 8vo, pp. viii, 22, [2]; 3 two-color wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec; original brown cloth-backed Nepal paper over boards, printed paper label on spine; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. Illustrated prospectus laid in..... More
Poems, abridged for dolls and princes
[London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1971]. Enlarged facsimile edition, 16mo, unpaged; text printed from facsimile on rectos only; original cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; fine. Reproduction of a miniature volume hand-written by Graves in 1922 for Queen Mary's Dolls' House. Higginson & Williams A131. More
Good night Bynum
[Colorado Springs]: The Press at Colorado College, 2005. First edition limited to 125 copies signed by the author (this, no. 25), large 8vo, pp. [6], 35, [3]; starburst pictorial title page printed in yellow, blue, green and black, with three full-page multi-color headers; original black cloth, silver title on spine..... More
Plumfoot poems
Madison, WI: Perishable Press, 1967. Edition limited to 200 copies, 8vo, pp. [8], 23, [3]; portrait frontispiece, printed in red and black; purple calf-backed olive cloth-covered boards, fine. From the library of Kim Merker. Inscribed by Hamady on the flyleaf: "For Kim Merker with all best and with hope that..... More
King Koko, or the pretty princess and the lucky lover. A conjuring entertainment in the form of a fairy tale with practical instructions
London: Chatto & Windus, 1904. Small 8vo, pp. 127, [1], 32; text illustrations, some full-page; brown cloth, printed in black; boards cocked and lightly soiled, text clean, very good. According to the preface, "the first attempt to present a drawing-room conjuring entertainment in the guise of a connected story."... More
Address delivered before the Providence Association of Mechanicks and Manufacturers, on the occasion of opening Mechanicks' Hall, January 10, A.D. 1825
Providence: H. H. Brown, printer, Market Square, 1830. First edition, 8vo, pp. 12; wrappers wanting; very good. A short history of the association by its sitting president. Howland (1757-1854), a barber, "was prominent in virtually every aspect of the city's life during the eighty-four years he resided there, including the..... More
An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language: illustrating the words in their different significations by examples from ancient and modern writers; shewing their affinity to those of other languages, and especially the northern … and elucidating national rites, customs, and institutions … to which is prefixed, a dissertation of the origin of the Scottish language
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
Johann Kunkels Churfürstlich Brandenburg. Würklich bestallten geheimden Kammerdienes Vollständige Glaßmacherkunst worinnen sowol dessen Erläuterungen über Anton Neri sieben Bücher von dem Glassmachen und Dr. Merrets hierüber gemachte Anmerkungen...Neu vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage
Nürnberg: Zu finden in der Christoph Riegelischen Buch-und Kunsthandlung, 1785. 2 volumes in 1, as issued; small 4to, pp. [18], 472, [20]; sectional title pages, engraved frontispiece portrait, 26 engraved figures on 17 plates; contemporary and likely original paste-paper boards; edges rubbed and worn; very good. Later edition of an..... More
Die lehre von der lust in den ethiken des Aristoteles
Munchen: C. H. Beck, 1958. 8vo, pp. [12], 130, [2]; text in German; tan printed paper wrappers; wrappers toned, underlining and marginalia in pencil, very good. This Paul Moraux's review copy, with his signature on cover and title page, solicitation by the publisher, manuscript notes, and his typed review (in..... More
