Science. Discoveries and other works of importance from the 14th to the 20th centuries. Catalogue 48
San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1974. 8vo, pp. 111, [1]; lightly toned, mild crease to lower wrapper, near fine. More
San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1974. 8vo, pp. 111, [1]; lightly toned, mild crease to lower wrapper, near fine. More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, [1968]. Square 8vo, pp. 216; grayscale text illustrations throughout; metallic pictorial covers; light toning, else fine. A catalog for the eponymous exhibition. More
Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1971. First edition. 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 501, [1]; photograph frontispiece; original blue cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover and spine; near fine. Organized by state with the end of each section containing an index. The states covered include Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana..... More
[Tokyo]: Tsubochi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University, [1966]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], iv, [2],146; recent red cloth, gilt lettering direct on spine; original printed wrappers bound in; very good. Preliminary matter in both English and Japanese. The catalogue, in English throughout, contains only books in languages other than Japanese..... More
Decatur, IL: 1905. Folio, pp. 8; illustrated throughout with horses and their harnesses; printed on pink paper; central horizontal fold; very good. The firm was at the time the largest mail-order harness house in the United States. Not found in OCLC. More
[Minneapolis, MN]: The Mineapolis Institute of Arts, [2002]. First edition, 4to, pp. 352; profusely illustrated; fine in original brown cloth with gilt-lettered spine, pictorial dust jacket. Exhibition catalogue containing 218 objects in color from the "Appreciating China: Gifts from Ruth and Bruce Dayton," exhbition held at the MIA 2002... More
London: Jarndyce, 1993. 8vo, unpaged; facsimiles, text printed from typescript; original cream pictorial wrappers printed in maroon and black; light shelf wear, previous owner has circled a few items in ink, else very good. Catalogue XCII, Spring, 1993. Laid in flyer printed on red paper advertising earlier catalogues. More
London: Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers, 1989. 8vo, unpaged; facsimiles, text printed from typescript; original cream wrappers printed in red and black; light edge wear, previous owner has circled a few items in ink, else very good. Catalogue of 490 items, mostly English, relating to language, education, and etiquette. More
San Francisco: John Howell - Books, 1979-80. 5 volumes, tall 8vo, illustrated throughout; fine in original tan printed wrappers. 3 of the 5 parts have Howell's avaricious notice about bookseller discounts; part 1 has a complimentary slip from Warren Howell laid in; bookplates of Jacob Chernofsky. Part I: Spanish exploration..... More
San Francisco: John Howell-Books, 1979-80. 5 volumes, 8vo, black & white illustrations; original printed wrappers; fine. In total, 1665 items are listed along with a useful index at the back of volume 5. More
Racine, Wisconsin: S.C. Johnson & Son, [1925]. (25 x 11.5 cm), pp. 6; 2 folding panels with columns of 9 wood samples (2.5 x 7cm) each (total of 36) of interior finishes of floor, wall and trim varnishes with description printed in black on cloth in the margins; text printed..... More
New York: Anderson Galleries, 1918-1919. 3 volumes in 1, 8vo, pp. 186, [6]; 126, [2]; [2], 93, [5]; facsimile text illustrations; contemporary half brown morocco (likely by Allan Campbell), green cloth boards, gilt title direct on spine, t.e.g., prices realized penciled in margins; spine sunned, else fine. Herschel Jones was..... More
Boston: Joseph Burnett & Co., [1879]. 32mo, pp. 40; tables, illustrations, text in decorative line borders; original pictorial wrappers; later (1949) owner's rubber stamp inside back cover, else near fine. Attractive little calendar and promotional booklet produced yearly, usually under the title "Burnett's Floral Handbook and Ladies Calendar," by the..... More
Budapest: Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1959. Slim 8vo, pp. 44; 16 plates; original yellow and white printed wrappers in white pictorial chemise; tear to top edge of chemise partially affecting illustration, else very good and sound. Publications of the Oriental Library of the Hungarian Academy of..... More
Winfield: Armstrong Browning Library of Baylor University, [1984]. 8vo, pp. lvi, [2], 708; 32 plates, 7-leaf facsimile, fine in original printed tan cloth. Pen Browning, the only child of the Brownings, died intestate and the administrators of the estate ordered his effects sold. This is the Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge..... More
New York: Wallace's Monthly Print, 1878. 8vo, pp. 44; priced in pencil, original printed front wrapper bound in; bound with: Breeders' Joint-Sale of Trotting Stock ... Stallions, Brood-Mares, Young Stock and Harness Horses..., New York, 1878; 8vo, pp. 12, original printed front wrapper bound in; bound with: Kellogg's Special Combination..... More
[Terre Haute, Indiana]: Cumminham Memorial Library, Indiana State University, [1975]. First edition of the first published catalogue of the famed Cordell Collection of Dictionaries at Indiana State; 8vo, pp. xxxiv, 210, [2]; printed from typescript; original printed wrappers; front wrap stained and worn. This copy with a presentation "To Donald..... More
[Tokyo: Ko Uchida Kakichi-shi Kinen Jigyōkai, 1937]. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [40], 375, [3]; gravure frontispiece portrait and 41 plates; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; near fine copy. A catalogue of the private library of Kakichi Uchida, chiefly in Japanese, with some parts in multiple languages, including English. In..... More
Saint Paul: Rulon-Miller Books; Rochester, NY: Jeffrey H. Marks Books, 2004. 4to, pp. 81, [3]; illustrated; fine in original pictorial wrappers; fine. With prefaces by Kolb and the booksellers. Over 650 items fully described. More
New York: [Grolier Club], 2010. Edition limited to 1500 copies, oblong 8vo, pp. 156, [2]; illustrated throughout; fine in original pictorial wrappers. More
San Francisco: Chinese Culture Foundation, 1980. First edition, oblong 8vo, pp. v, [1], 98; illustrated throughout; errata slip laid in, as issued; slight edge wear, else near fine. More
Providence, RI: for the Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, 1991. Edition limited to 1200 copies, 4to, pp. 94, [2]; frontispiece and illustrations throughout, several in color; original stiff gray pictorial wrappers; the spine just slightly faded, all else fine. "A gathering of sixty-one representative and significant titles selected..... More
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1963. 8vo, pp. [2], vii, [3], 117, [9]; 22 grayscale illustrations in text and 2 plates tipped in; maroon paper wrappers; bookseller label on first leaf, else fine. More
Ernst Leitz. The collection includes Leica Photography magazine (1956 #3,4; 1957 #2,3; 1958 #2,3; 1959 #3,4; 1961 #2; 1962 #2,3; 1964 #1; 1965 #1,2; 1966 #1,3; 1967 #1,2; 1968 #1,2; 1969 #2, 1; 1974 #1; 1976 #1), Viewfinder: Lecia Historical Society of America publication (1983 v.16 #4; 1990 v.23 #4;..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1911. First edition, thick 8vo, pp. xxvi, 363; frontispiece, numerous plates in color and black & white, t.e.g., dampstaining on endpapers, occasional light foxing, hinges cracked with preliminary leaves separating (complete), extremities rubbed and shaken, otherwise good in original green publisher's cloth with applied..... More