Uticae: Ellis H. Roberts, 1859. 8vo, pp. 44; lacking wrappers; very good. Unified list of students, alumni, faculty, etc. More about Catalogus senatus academici, et eorum qui munera et officia academica gesserunt, quique aliquovis...
New York: The Typophiles, 1940-1985. Includes Typophile Chap Book Commentaries series nos. 1-33 (lacking nos.7, 8 & 11); the original prospectus for the Chap Book series; 44 of the Typophile Monographs (mostly little chapbooks and pamphlets on various aspects of the book production world); plus a few other keepsakes and... More about Collection of approximately 90 Typophile publications, as below
Versailles: L. Bernard, n.d., [ca. 1880s]. bound with: Illustrated guide to the Trianon palaces and gardens, their history and description; the order of visiting the apartments; catalogue of the objects of art contained therein; and the carriages and hamlet, etc.16mo, pp. 127, 89, [2, indexes], [5, ads]; illustrated throughout; original... More about How to spend a day in Versailles. Illustrated guide to the palace and park
Morris, N.Y. A.S. Avery, job printer, n.d., [1859]. Broadside, approx 48" x 17½" (61 x 45 cm.), a few small creases and short tears at extremities, but in all a very good example. NY Historical Soc., AAS, Library Co., and Huntington in OCLC. More about J.H. Bump's atmospheric attempering churn. The subscriber calls the attention of dairymen and all...
London: Royal Aero Club, 1924. 8vo, pp. 28; advertisements throughout; original blue printed paper wrappers (soiled), tears to wrapper not affecting text, otherwise a very good copy. Not in OCLC. More about Two-seater light aeroplane competitions, 1924. 27th September-4th October, 1924. Official programme
New York: George Braziller, 1963. Limited edition on Italian Fabriano paper, signed by author and artist; oblong 8vo; 14 reproductions of drawings by Shahn, one in color pasted down; original white buckram with black stamped lettering on upper cover and spine; fine in a lightly worn black slipcase. A lament for JFK. More about November twenty-six nineteen hundred sixty three
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, [1972]. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 70; very good copy in jacket. Berryman's posthumous collection of poetry. Stefanik, A 22.I.a. More about Delusions, etc
Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Co., [1972]. First edition, 8vo., jacket slightly chipped at top of spine; fine in near fine jacket. Signed by author. More about The late John Marquand
Cazenovia: Crandall and Mosley, 1853. Stereotype edition of a pocket dictionary (and so lettered in gilt on the upper cover) measuring 3.5 x 2.25 inches; publisher's full red morocco, gilt paneled spine. This is the last of three editions cited in NUC - the others being 1836 and 1844. Not... More about An improved pocket dictionary containing all the principal words in the English language
Paris: Maison Quantin, [1887]. First edition, 4to, pp. [6], 613, [2]; folding map, illustrated with wood engravings throughout, many full-page; pages toning, last leaf of text loose, but present; original quarter black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine dull, generally a good copy. More about L'extreme Orient
London: Nonesuch Press, [1930]. Edition ltd. to 1475 copies printed by University Press, Cambridge on handmade paper, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 502; vi, 549; frontispieces and illustrations in color produced by the Curwen Press; spines slightly darkened, a few natural spots on the covers, else a very good... More about Don Quixote de la Mancha. The history of the renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha written by Miguel...
London: Printed for the Authors, and sold by J. Wilson & J. Fell [and 3 others], 1764. 3 volumes, folio; Vol. I: [†]2 a-d2 B-7K2; Vol. II: [A]-7Z2; Vol. III: [†]1 A1 B-7B2; wood-engraved frontispiece,151 plates and maps, including 2 folding; early 19th-century half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, red... More about The complete dictionary of arts and sciences. In which the whole circle of human learning is...
[New York: Marchbanks Press, 1929.]. Edition limited to 1000 copies, small, square 4to, pp. [32]; partially unopened; 10 woodcuts (8 full-page), initials illuminated in gilt; small ding at the top of the front board, else fine in original blue cloth-backed boards elaborately stamped in gilt on the upper cover; in... More about The story of the birth of Jesus Christ according to the Gospels of Saint Matthew and Saint Luke
Printed on the ice of White Bear Lake, Minnesota: Ampersand Club, 1997. Edition limited to approx. 120 copies, this one of 80 copies in gray wrappers, paper label on upper cover; sq. 24mo, pp. [15]; wood-engraved title-page vignette by Gaylord Schanilec; very fine. "The untitled and anonymously-compiled word-list was discovered... More about On the rocks
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 2003. Edition limited to 45 copies signed by the author, the illustrator, and the printer in different hands, using her real name and her pseudonym, Frieda Fitzenmeyer; 12mo, pp. [20]; 11 hand-colored illustrations by Blinn; hand sewn into paper wrappers using vellum tapes, spine stamped in green... More about Duck poultry poetry (or, once upon a time, book eight). Illustrated and proofread by Carol J.Blinn
London: The Scholartis Press, 1929. First edition limited to 500 copies, this one of 50 numbered and signed by the author (copy no. 40), 8vo, pp. [6], 241, [1]; original black cloth; shadow on endpapers, flyleaf spotted, very good, in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. This copy with a.... More about Forbidden marches
London: W. Innys, 1748. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], ii, [6], xiv, [1], 16-272 ; full contemporary calf, worn, joints cracked. More about An essay on the art of healing. In which pus laudabile or matter, as also incarning and...
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980. First edition, 8vo., fine in like jacket. More about Rites of passage
Berlin: Ferd. Dümmler's Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1858. Fourth edition, 8vo, pp. 56, 8 (ads); removed and in clear plastic wrappers , some toning, foxing, and dampstaining, else very good and sound. Grimm's famous essay on the origin of languages, first published in 1851 and containing "the mature expression of all Grimm's thoughts... More about Über den ursprung der sprache...Aus den abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der...
[McMinnville, Ore.]: Bird & Bull Press for Phillip J. Pirages, 1991. Edition limited to 275 copies, 8vo, pp.128, [4]; title page printed in red, blue, and black, initials in blue and red, 2 facsimiles; original brown goat-backed marbled boards, printed paper label on upper cover, morocco label lettered in gilt... More about Sweynheym & Pannartz and the origins of printing in Italy. German technology and Italian...
New York: Simon & Schuster, [1979]. First trade edition, 8vo., fine in like jacket. Signed by author. More about Good as gold
Glasgow: printed and sold by Rob. & And. Foulis, 1756. 8vo, pp. 300; quarter black calf over brown paste-paper boards, red speckled edges, gilt title direct on spine; boards and spine rubbed, head of spine worn, a good, sound copy. Likely Gaskell's variant in pot 8vo, with lesser quality paper. Gaskell 318. More about Hierocles upon the golden verses of the Pythagoreans. Translated immediately out of the Greek...
London: Longman [et al. 1855. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, folding colored frontispiece map in vol. I (neat acid-free repair to folds on verso), top of spine of vol. I with a small piece chipped away, slight fraying and rubbing, but generally a good copy or better in orig. blue... More about The Chinese empire: forming a sequel to the work entitled ""Recollections of a journey...
New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856. First edition, 8vo, pp. 498; 6 lithograph plates; original brown cloth, gilt pictorial spine; rebacked with old spine laid down, and with consequent cracking of the upper joint; front hinge cracked; good and sound. A classic of frontier life. Mrs. Kinzie came to Chicago... More about Wau-bun, the "early day" in the north-west
London: Charles Dilly, n.d., [ca. 1790's]. Thick 8vo, engraved vignette title-p. (showing a hive of bees), xvi, [8], 928; text in double column; beautiful copy in full contemporary calf, elaborate gilt-decorated spine, red morocco label. Includes a long extract from Benjamin Franklin's Way to Wealth, and interesting appendices on geography... More about Elegant extracts: or, useful and entertaining passages in prose selected for the improvement of...
