[Thailand: c. 1880s]. A collection of photographic prints, mostly 5 x 6.5", of scenes around Cambodia and Thailand. Subjects consist of street scenes, wats, river scenes, elephants, and French colonials. Each photograph has annotations penciled in on the verso, but without clear indication of the relation between the annotator and..... More
Boston: Saturday, April 28, 1810. 19½" x 13½", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding, slightly split. Auction and estate sales, Lord Grenville's speech, Portland Resolves, marine journal, burning of American vessels, latest news from France and England, numerous ads, including those of Isaiah Thomas and Matthew Carey..... More
Providence: A. C. Green, printer, 1852. Small 8vo, pp. 47, [1]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; near fine. After a listing of the students and faculty, the latter half of the publication contains information on the organization of the university, curricula required for the 11 degrees offered, libraries, costs, scholarships..... More
Oxford, et al. Oxford University Press, [1979]. 2 volumes, large quartos, original gilt-stamped blue leather, all edges gilt, silk ribbon bookmarks; generally fine. This is the anniversary edition issued by the Franklin Library in commeration of the 500th anniversary of the Oxford University Press and is limited to 7500 (!)..... More
St. Paul: Press Printing Co., 1870. 8vo, pp. 72; original yellow printed wrappers with the rubberstamp of the Northern Pacific Railroad at the top; near fine. Compiled by the Commissioner of Statistics, and published by direction of Governor Horace Austin. More
Boston, Massachusetts: printed by Young and Minns, Tuesday, March 8, 1803. 20½" x 13", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding, trimmed close with some loss to bottom and upper edge of page 2. Public notices, the health officer of New York has asked of the Governor that..... More
Philadelphia: Depot of the Quartermaster's Department, 1888. First edition, large 4to, pp. [6]; text in triple column; lithograph title page, 12 chromolithograph plates after H.A. Ogden showing the uniformed men at work and play, plus 13 photo-lithograph plates of uniform elements including epaulettes, shoulder straps and knots, helmets and caps..... More
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Tokyo: Heishiro [?], 1861. Large, folding hand-colored world map approximately 53" square (map itself is approx. 38" x 50"), the map surrounded by 158 hand-colored flags of nations, states, etc., with detailed tables at the bottom giving statistics on the world's largest rivers, mountains, lakes, islands, countries and their populations..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1885. First book edition, 8vo, pp. 129, [1], [6] ads; 57 drawings by M. J. Burns throughout text, plus 7 maps; original pictorial wrappers; some wear and soiling, several pages crudely opened yet still generally very good. Reprinted from the Century Magazine. More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1912. First edition, 8vo, very good copy in original green-blue cloth binding, soiling to front fore-edge of cover. More
Ad Aeni Pontem (Innsbruck): in Aedibus Wagnerianis, 1913. 8vo, pp. [2], 80, text in Latin, printed paper wrappers, bound into library card; ex library, textblock separated from wrappers, checkout tag on lower wrapper, text clean, good. Part of the Commentationes Aenipontanae series. More
Amsterdam: Pierre Humbert, 1719. Nouvelle edition, revûë avec soin & considerablement augmentée, 4to, 2 volumes in one; title page printed in red and black, text in triple columns; contemporary full blind-tooled reverse calf, brown gilt-lettered morocco spine label; extremities quite scuffed and worn, hinges cracked, small losses to spine ends;..... More
Burlington, Vt. V. Harrington, 1843. First edition, 8vo, pp. 40; removed from binding, wanting wrappers; very good. An edition was also published in Boston, but the Burlington edition is far more rare. "Pronounced before the Gamma Sigma Society, of Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., July 26, and repeated before the alumni..... More
Bach-Mai Airfield, Hanoi: 1935. 41-page quarto typescript variously paginated, full-page hand-colored map of Vietnam, and 67 mounted photographs (approx. 6" x 8½") showing aerial views of the various villages, hamlets, and French outposts in central and south Vietnam, each with a tissue guard; later brown cloth-backed marbled boards, leather label..... More
[Madison]: Bieler Press, 1980. Edition limited to 130 copies signed by the author (this, no. 121), tall 8vo, pp. [20]; Perpetua type, Frankfurt White paper, Fabriano paper endsheets, blue paper wrappers handmade at Bieler Press; fine. Smith, Bieler, 13. Buckley, known primarily as a satitist and a novelist is the..... More
[London: Richard Bentley, 1872.]. 8vo, pp. 49-61; folding map (with short tear at fold); later plain paper wrappers titled in ink; very good. Penzer, p. 217; Casada 144. More
[Paris: Braisson, ca 1750s]. Folio, pp. 17, [1]; 25 plates, comprising the alphabets section of the Encyclopedie, after designs by Goussier and Hautes Rayes; black buckram, gilt title "Alphabets" on spine; light ink spots on page 1, shallow chipping to plate XXV (Chinese) not affecting text, plates clean with minimal..... More
Providence: Sidney S. Rider, [Providence Press Company, printers], 1878. 8vo, pp. 52; wood-engraved frontispiece of the library; original printed blue wrappers, the front wrapper with slight loss at the lower gutter and several other minor chips; all else very good. Inscribed to William J. Miller, Esq. from J. L. Diman..... More
Chicago: The Bookfellows, 1924. First edition limited to 300 copies, 12mo, pp. 30; 6 photogravure plates of a series of mural decorations by Alexander in the Library of Congress; original brown cloth-backed marble boards, paper spine and cover labels; a fine copy. The Little Bookfellow Series no. 10, "printed by..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887. Fourth edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 72, 8 (ads); original maroon cloth gilt, a good, sound copy. Prefaces to first, third, and fourth editions. More
London & Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. First edition, 8vo, xiii & 465pp., a fine copy in the dust-jacket. Part of the publisher's Critical Heritage Series containing reviews and articles published between 1858 to 1897 concerning, chiefly, Morris's literary reputation. More
Cambridge, Mass. Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1891. 8vo bifolium; cover title, 2 pages of text, the final page blank; a couple of short tears in the gutter margin; very good. Nothing to do with lobster as a food, but rather reproductive and anatomical questions. 2 copies in OCLC, both at..... More
London: Hooper & Wigstead, 1796. Second and best edition, corrected and enlarged, and with an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author not included in the first edition; 8vo, pp. [iii]-xxii, & 321, [3] ads; half-title is not preserved; contemporary mottled calf, red morocco label (sometime renewed); front joint cracked, cords..... More
Cedar Falls, Iowa: Corycian Press, 1994. Edition limited to 200 copies printed at Congdon Printing and designed by Philip M. Fass; small square 4to, consisting of 32 leaves printed in Optima on 28 pound Gilbert Gilclear; original portfolio with string-and-button closure; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1921. Second edition, revised and enlarged, thick 4to, pp. xvi, 747; photogravure frontispiece, numerous text illustrations of goldsmith's marks, bookplate, endpapers toned, extremities rubbed and worn, else very good in original olive green cloth with gilt-lettered cover and spine. More
