[Burma: ca 1860s?]. One-page manuscript, 17.5" x 11" with six horizontal textile patterns divided by 5 narrower patterns, completed in pencil with accompanying ink annotations; old folds, neat repairs to one tear and another shallow closed tear along a fold touching some of the pattern, very good. Each pattern is..... More
[Chicago: The Lakeside Press], 1875. First edition, folio, pp. [4], v-viii, 7-557, [27], pagination errors throughout; hundreds of lithographic plates, monochrome and colored; original green cloth; gilt tilting; faded marbled edges; masonic bookplate on front pastedown; half-title with tears in the fore-margin (no loss), title page miscreased and remargined on..... More
London: printed by J. Brettel, 1803. First edition, 8vo, pp. 49, [3]; text in Italian and English; removed from binding; near fine. Lorenzo Da Ponte was born and raised in Italy but later moved from place to place as a consequence of his personal indiscretions. In Vienna he was named..... More
[Paris: Jean-Baptiste Croisey, n.d., 1764]. Double-page engraved map hand-colored in outline, approx. 12¼" x 17½" overall (image size 8" x 12"); central fold, else very good. Map no. 95 from Tome I, extracted from Bellin's Le petit atlaas maritime, 1764. Relief shown pictorially. More
Esslingen und Munchen: J. F. Schreiber, [c 1890]. 4to, pp. [8], 74, [4]; text in double column; 23 of 24 composite chromolithograph plates (plate 22 lacking); recent marbled paper boards backed in library buckram; very good.. In 1858, Johann Gottlob Kurr published Das Mineralreich in Bildern, a very popular book..... More
[Paris]: C. de Lasteyrie, r[ue] du Bac no. 58, [1821]. Early lithograph view by Brocas after Edouard de Montulé of the harbor of Charlotte Amalie, approx. 11" x 13¼" overall (image approx. 6" x 9"); light wrinkles, very good. Plate no. 7 extracted from Montulé's Voyage en Amérique, en Italie..... More
[Paris: Jean-Baptiste Croisey, n.d., 1764]. Double-page engraved map hand-colored in outline, approx. 12¼" x 17¾" overall (image size 8½" x 13½"); central fold, else very good. What is shown of the island is what is now modern-day Haiti. Map no. 95 from Tome I, extracted from Bellin's Le petit atlas..... More
[Paris: Jean-Baptiste Croisey, n.d., 1764]. Engraved map hand-colored in outline, approx. 12¼" x 9¼" overall (image size 8" x 5¾"); very good. Map no. 98 from Tome I, extracted from Bellin's Le petit atlas maritime, 1764. Relief shown pictorially. More
[Paris: Jean-Baptiste Croisey, n.d., 1764]. Engraved map hand-colored in outline, approx. 12¼" x 9" overall (image size 8" x 5½"); very good. Map no. 85 from Tome I, extracted from Bellin's Le petit atlas maritime, 1764. Relief shown pictorially. More
St. Petersburg, Florida: Possum Press, 1969. First edition limited to 1500 coipies, folio (approx. 18" x 12"), pp. [16]; 16 large linocuts (?) by Hodgell with accompanying verse by Meinke; handlettered by Margaret Rigg; near fien in original pictorial orange wrappers. Prospectus/order form laid in. More
New York: printed by S. W. Benedict, 1851. First edition, 8vo, pp. 30; original printed paper wrappers; dampstain to top right corner, light foxing, very good. More
London: Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, 12 May, 1794. Engraved nautical chart (approx. 21¼" x 14¾" overall, engraved surface approx. 17¼" x 11¼"); on thick paper; generally fine. From: The Oriental Navigator, 1794. False Bay, on the south side of Cape Peninsula, South Africa, is 13 miles southeast of..... More
New-York: John A. Gray, printer, 16 & 18 Jacob St., Fire-Proof Building, 1860. 16mo, pp. 29, [3]; original printed self-wrappers; fine. Drop title reads: "From the Syracuse Journal. Important libel suits." Correspondence related to Smith's suit against Watts Sherman, Royal Phelps, and S.L.M. Barlow occupies pp. [3]-11; address by Smith..... More
New York: Barnes & Noble, [1963]. Third (1st American) edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [2], 396; textblock a little edge toned, else near fine in original black cloth-backed boards, very good toned dust jacket. More
[London]: published by T[homas] Dolby, 299, Strand, and 34, Wardour Street, Soho, [1820 or earlier]. Folio broadside (approx. 16¾" x 10¼"); small loss in left hand margin not touching any text; small stain beneath the illustration; all else very good. Details succession, reform and radicalism in England. First line of..... More
[Boston: J. Russell Spalding, S. Chism, printer. Broadside, approx. 15½" x 11", fine. At head of title: "These are accurate portraits of the presidents, drawn and engraved by a good artist, and are well worth preserving," the whole within decorative border of presidential portraits, from George Washington to Franklin Pierce..... More
[Paris: Jean-Baptiste Croisey, n.d., 1764]. Engraved map hand-colored in outline, approx. 12¼" x 9" overall (image size 9" x 7½"); very good. Map nos. 101 from Tome I, extracted from Bellin's Le petit atlas maritime, 1764. Relief shown pictorially. More
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Paris: A. Combette, n.d., [ca. 1842]. Engraved map (approx. 14" x 21") hand-colored in outline, extracted from the Atlas National Illustré. Top margin irregular from extraction, otherwise very good. "Impie. de Lemercier Paris," at lower left margin. "A Paris chez Combette, edit." at lower right margin. Attractive map of Grande..... More
Paris: A. Combette, n.d., [ca. 1842]. Engraved map (approx. 14" x 21") hand-colored in outline, extracted from the Atlas National Illustré. Top margin irregular from extraction, otherwise very good. "Illustré par Raymond Bonheur, Peintre." at lower left margin. "Gravé par Laguillermie, Rue St. Jacques, No. 82.," "Impie. de Lemercier Paris.,"..... More
Central City, Colorado: December 8, 1873. Six-page pro-forma folio document (approx. 18¼" x 13¾" ) bound with red ribbon, being "General Land Office 931, Mineral Certificate no. 461," describing and outlining the parameters of the site in a lengthy one-and-a-half-page manuscript description, with a large wood-engraved illustration at the top..... More
Keesville, [N.Y. n.d. ca. 1933?]. Broadside (approx. 24" x 9"); paper toned, some light chipping on the left and bottom margins (no loss of letterpress); all else very good. Racist advertising broadside pure and simple. Not found in NUC. More
N.p., n.d. [Canada: ca. 1930s?]. Acrylic painting on board, approx. 20" x 16", perhaps once framed as there is very minor loss at the side edges; all else very good. Title supplied. Cuthbertson (1898-1969) was a Canadian marine painter. Along with Paul Caron, Cuthbertson illustrated Blodwen Davies’ book about the..... More
N.p., n.d. [1919]. Triangular silk pennant on silk approx. 15" x 35" printed in red white and blue with a reproduction of a wood engraving showing the Pittsburgh under way, the whole edged with a bronze-colored silk border. Wikipedia notes that the Pittsburgh, originally the second USS Pennsylvania (ACR/CA-4), also..... More
Virginia, Minnesota: published and lithographed by W. A. Fisher Company, 1952. Large folio (approx. 22" x 17"), pp. [32]. original pictorial wrappers, the front wrapper neatly reattached, central vertical fold; all else very good. With 16 full-page color maps. More
London: The Scholartis Press, 1929. First edition limited to 500 copies, 8vo, pp. [6], 241, [1]; original black cloth; light shadow on endpapers, pages starting to tone, near fine in a very good dust jacket with some fading of the spine, and a small hole in the middle. Eustace Virgo..... More
