Minneapolis: Vermillion Editions, [1991]. Edition limited to 20 copies plus 3 artist's proofs (this, copy no. 19), signed by David Rathman; 4to; 13 double leaves, illustrated with 9 three-color "intaglios printed from relief plates and lift-ground etchings with aquatint created and printed by Rathman; typography and letterpress printing by Philip..... More
Charlottsville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 1970-71. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. xix, [1], 636; [10], 191, [1]; very good in original red cloth. Essential for anyonme dealing with 18th century Americana. More
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. First edition, 4to, pp. 254; illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Order form for the book laid in. More
London: printed for J. and P. Knapton, S. Birt [et al]. - imprint varies, 1751-50. 9 volumes, 12mo in 6s, engraved portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare in volume I plus 1 other engraved portrait also in volume I, woodcut head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spines in 6 compartments, leather..... More
St. Thomas: 1903. Philatelic cover with a stamp addressed to A. H. Lockhart, 3" x 5.75"; cancelled St. Thomas March 21st, 1903; bisected 4 cent stamp; cover sealed, cancel faded on one corner, cover toning. A change in rates and a shortage of stamps led to the Danish West Indies..... More
Paris: Société du Mercure de France, 1904. 16mo, pp. 169, [1]; later blue paper-covered boards, spine title in manuscript; first and last leaves used as pastedowns; pages uniformly toned; good and sound. This copy with a presentation inscription at the top of the title page "à madamoisellle Tessie Jones en..... More
![Item #60904 Collected papers 1920-[1957] (cover titles]. John Farquhar Fulton](/pictures/thumb/60904_1.jpg?v=1659983515)
V.p., v.d. 4 volumes, large 8vo, containing approximately 140 pamphlets, offprints, extracts, bifolia and broadsides authored or co-authored by J. F. Fulton, some with presentations from him, and many with the ownership stamp of Clarence W. Nichols, Jr. Two items in the final volume are photocopied; all in generally very..... More
ca 1940s. Broadsheet leaflet, 5" x 8"; printed in red and black with text in German on both sides, explaining "Dies ist die englische und amerikanische Aussprache des Wortes "I surrender" (Ich ergebe mich). Macht davon Gebrauch, wenn sich Gelegenheit ergibt" (i.e.: This is the English and American pronunciation of..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1994]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [3], 233, [5]; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Bookplate and ownership signature of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. More
Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., [2007]. Third edition in English, 8vo, pp. 448; illustrated throughout, much in color; fine in pictorial wrappers. Ownership signature of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. More
[Tokyo: Ginga (?), ca 1960s]. Washi, or paper sample book, 4.5" x 8.75"; 153 full-page samples, 12 of them with portions neatly excised, one sheet creased; original olive cloth boards, silver title on upper cover, Wada Shoten stamp on lower pastedown and price list pasted on to upper paste down..... More
[Tokyo: Yamada Shoukai, 1960s]. Washi, or paper sample book, 4.75" x 9"; 109 full-page samples, 17 with neat removals at the corners, a couple more than half removed, and one sheet entirely lacking; cord bound in green paper-covered boards; stamp of Ouno Scroll Mounting Company (小野経師店) on pastedowns, good. A...... More
New York & Camden: Thomas Nelson, Inc., [1970]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 174; publisher's full green cloth stamped in silver, dust jacket with one shallow nick at the top of the front panel, else fine. More
Reykjavik: Bókaútgáfa Menningarsjóðs, 1987. First edition, 8vo, pp. 177, [5]; 3 full-page maps, 32 full-page illustrations on rectos and versos of 16 plates, tables and graphs in the text; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. History of whaling in Iceland 1600-1939. More
Boston & Syracuse: The Mason Publishing Company, 1902. 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. [5], x-xvi, 673, [1]; [6], 696; [6], 708; nearly 200 illustrations throughout, many full-page; original green cloth, gilt-stamped spines and upper covers; a fine, bright set. More
Chicago [et al.]: Rand McNally & Co., [1963]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 191, [1]; 17 illustrations on rectos and versos opf 4 plates; publisher's gray cloth stamped in red on spine and upper cover; in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Ownership signature of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine..... More
London: Collins, 1962. First edition, 8vo, pp. 184; full-page map, 16 illustrations by Mary Weiler, several full-page; publisher's green cloth stamped in silver on spine; in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. "Customs and taboos of the Hotsath West Coast Indians." More
Boston and Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, 1958. First edition, 8vo, pp. 184; text illustrations; publisher's pictorial yellow cloth; gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper and ownership signature of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian, on half title; very good in pictorial..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1954]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 304; map endpapers, text illustrations; publisher's gray cloth, pictorial dust jacket; dust jacket with a couple shallow chips and a small stain to the back panel fold. Whaling lore from the golden age of American whaling in the Pacific..... More
Seattle: Washington Sea Grant publication distributed by the University of Washington Press; London: Butterworths, [1980]. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 107, [3]; publisher's black cloth, text in silver; top edge slightly spotted, near fine, in a foxed and edge-rubbed dust jacket, with an old price label. More
Nantucket: Nantucket Historical Association, 1971. First edition, staple-bound booklet, 8vo, pp. 70, [2]; map and illustrations in text; tan paper wrappers; owner's stamp on title page, light edgewear, near fine. Chatham Islands lie approximately 500 miles east of New Zealand and 5000 miles west of southern South America. More
[Easthamm MA]: Eastern National Park & Monument Association, [1988]. First edition, 8vo, staple-bound pamphlet, pp. [48]; three text illustrations showing the Pennimans and their home; pictorial paper wrappers in facsimile of marbled boards; fine. Augusta Penniman joined her husband Edward on the whaling bark Minerva, and for four years kept..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1969]. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 213, [1]; chapter headers and dust jacket illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher; publisher's navy cloth, gilt title on spine, pictorial dust jacket; ownership bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian, top edge spotted..... More
Tokyo: Iwasaki Shoten, 1994. 4to, pp. 48; text in Japanese; color illustrations throughout; pictorial paper covered boards, in dust jacket; top edge of dust jacket toned, bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian, on free endpaper, English translation of the colophon taped to final leaf..... More
New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1971. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [3], 248; figures, tables, and 19 plates; publisher's full blue cloth, blue stained top edge; fine in a price clipped, toned and slightly edge-worn jacket. Published at a time when the extinction of the blue whale seemed..... More
