Philadelphia: printed for the compiler [by W. & T. Bradford], 1767. First American edition, 8vo. pp. iv, 5-3, [1]; several early ink corrections to the text; later three-quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; some toning of the text, else very good. "Collected together, in order that such who profess..... More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1994. Edition limited to 94 numbered copies (this copy out of sries); 7.5" x 11" quotation broadside commissioned by the Minnesota State Arts Board to commemorate the Weaver's Guild of Minnesota's organization and production of Convergence 94, the biennial conference of the Handweavers Guild of America..... More
Springfield: Charles H. Lanphier, public printer, 1847. 8vo, pp. 220, ix, [1]; original sheep-backed blue paper-covered boards, old red morocco label (faded) on spine; title page browned, edges worn, spine ends chipped level with text block; a good, sound copy. More
Stockholm: [n. p.], [c. 2000]. 4to, pp. [120]; text in Swedish, white pictorial paper wrappers; light crease to first 20 pages, staining and wear to lower cover, overall very good. A collection of material, mostly artwork, from Puss's 24 issue run. The magazine was a radical underground art project edited..... More
Salem: printed at the Register Press. 1842. 8vo, pp. 29, [1]; original printed wrappers; very good. The regulations outline which textbooks each course ought to use, guidelines for disciplining students, which schools in Salem belong in which district, and which courses should be offered at each school. Contains 3 folding..... More
n.p., n.d. [likely Portland: Chisholm Bros.], ca. late 1880s. 24.7 x 16 cm, accordion fold with 18 photo-lithograph panels showing the White House, Capitol, Mt. Vernon, various monuments, the Smithsonian, the Washington Monument, the War and Navy Department, plus interior views of the White House, scenes from Gen. Washington's life..... More
Francofurti & Lipsiae: Joh. Adami Pleneri, 1693. 12mo, pp. [24], 660 (gatherings M and L bound out of order); woodcut vignette on title page; contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine, red speckled edges, woodcut initials in preliminaries, woodcut tailpieces; extremities rubbed and bumped contemporary signature on title page, library stamp..... More
Paris: Lecointe et Durey, 1824. First edition, 12mo, pp. [2], 374; a very good copy in contemporary, if not original blue paper-covered boards, somewhat worn and scuffed. A second edition, published the same year, contains pp.356. Barbaroux (1792-1867), the son of a French revolutionary who was guillotined in 1794, dedicated..... More
Boston: David Clapp, 1848. 8vo, pp. [2], 27, [1]; bound with, as issued: Bigelow, Anaesthetic agents, their mode of exhibition and psychological effects [drop title]; pp.18; this the first edition in which both this article and its extention appear together. Ether and chloroform had been published previously in the Boston..... More
New York: Knopf, 1985. First trade edition, 8vo., small price sticker on front jacket panel, else fine. More
London: printed for A. Strahan; T. Cadell, and J. Balfour, 1786. First edition, this being the issue with p. 5 paginated (no priority); 8vo, pp. 20; removed from binding; half title loose, but present. This copy with a presentation on the title page: "To Dr Vigarous / From the aut[hor]."..... More
London: William Pickering, 1839. Small 8vo, 3 volumes, engraved portrait, Pickering's vignette anchor & dolphin device on title page; early 20th century half brown morocco by Riviere, gilt paneled spines in 6 compartments, gilt lettered in 2, t.e.g.; fine. Issued as part of the publisher's Aldine British Poets series. Contains..... More
Dublin: printed for E. Lynch, W. Whitestone, J. Williams [et al.], 1774. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, 575, [1]; [2], 608, [4]; engraved portrait frontispiece in volume I after a painting by William Hoare; small chip out of the top of the spine on volume I, very light rubbing, otherwise..... More
Mittineague, Mass. Strathmore Paper Co., 1921. 2 volumes, small folio; 28 text pages followed by 2 plates engraved by Rudolph Ruzicka, and 19 folding color-printed specimens demonstrating color combinations. Cloth-backed boards, cover label. Volume two contains the printed paper specimens (numbered 20-46) as loose overlays with oval cut-out, contained in..... More
London: The Scholartis Press, 1928. Edition limited to 315 copies, this one of 270 numbered copies on Ellerslie mould-made paper, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 20; green and black cloth, near fine, dust jacket lightly worn on top edge. With a long introduction by the editor and printed by the Curwen Press..... More
Chicago: American Medical Association, 1926. 4to, pp. 9; staple-bound in original printed wraps; light toning, edgewear; very good. Offprint from the Journal of the American Medical Association, August 1926. Cushing Bibliography 245. More
Paris: chez Desenne, An 4 [i.e. 1796]. First French edition, 8vo, pp. [5], 6-68; self-wrappers, uncut and unopened, stitched, as issued; title a little dusty, else very good. Not found in Sabin or Howes. Contains the full text of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between his Britannic Majesty..... More
Mobile, Ala.; Monterrey, Mexico; Coatzacoalcos, Mexico; San Francisco, Calif.; Baltimore, MD, [almost certainly not published], 1959. 12mo (approx. 6½ x 4¼"); pp. 12; text and wrappers printed on a typewriter in red and black; soiled, but otherwise very good. Apparently the author's copy, with an extension of the title in..... More
Calcutta and Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1926. 8vo, pp. xiv, [6], 388; folding map; very good copy in original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First published in 1905, this is a detailed history beginning with the prehistoric and traditional rulers down to the time of British rule and the coming..... More
[London]: printed for the War Office by T. Egerton, 1798. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], [iii]-iv, 5-54, without the final advertisement leaf; 31 hand-colored folding plates of lines of battle, troop movements, attacks, etc.; contemporary marbled boards, neatly rebacked in beige cloth, green cloth label lettered in gilt on spine;..... More
Cumberland, Maryland: for the author, by J.M. Buchanan, 1826. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 123, [1]; contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, rebacked, old spine with gilt lettering direct neatly laid down; all edges yellow; light wear and rubbing to the binding but generally a good, sound copy, or better. With the..... More
New York & Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1893. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [3]-353; folding map printed in color, gravure frontispiece portrait, 50 gravure plates; hinges starting, spine a bit darkened, else very good in original pictorial brown cloth. More
London: R. Faulder and T. & J. Merril, 1781. 8vo, pp. [v]-lxii, 456, [16] index; bound without the half-title, and perhaps another preliminary leaf, but there is no evidence of anything missing; 20th century quarter calf over marbled boards, green morocco label; some scuffing, but good and sound. "A sermon..... More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2010. 8" x 10" poetry broadside, "written, designed, set, and printed by Allan Kornblum for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts" for From Start to Here portfolio. More
New York: Harcourt Brace, [1973]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 363; 33 illus. on rectos and versos of 8 plates; shadow from newsprint on front flyleaf, else fine in the jacket. Political biography of the aviator's father. Signed on the title-page by Lindbergh, Jr., the aviator, by the author..... More
