![Item #26931 挿譯綴字書 [Sôyaku tsuzuriji-sho] Spelling book. [Edited by Gyoginshi Toyo.]...](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26931_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1491258131)
Tokyo: [Binsei Kyosho], 1871. Fukurotoji, 7.25" x 4.75", 27 leaves; original blue wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover; some wear, dampstain entering text at bottom margins, but generally good or better, and preserving the original printed fukuro (paper sheath). Spelling book in English, with a Japanese translation by Yôyû..... More
Albany: Websters and Skinners, 1819. 12mo, pp. 168; 8 woodcuts illustrating 8 fables; contemporary home-made calf binding with blind geometric details, naively executed and with a few holes in the skin; nibbling to textblock corner resulting in loss of last word on 3 leaves, and again on bottom edge with..... More
New Haven: from Sidney's Press for Increase Cooke, 1806. Second edition, 12mo, pp. 224, [2] table of contents; contemporary 1/4 sheep and drab paper-covered boards, rubbed and worn at extremes, but tight and firm, text browning throughout with some spotting, overall a good, sound copy. The volume is divided into..... More
Sandbornton, N.H. Charles Lane, [ca. 1836-8]. Small 8vo, pp. 144; wood-engraved illustrations throughout; contemporary brown paper-backed blue boards (some water stains), shelf wear, wooden boards exposed in various places, 1/4-inch loss at spine head, hinges weak; foxing, pages uniformly toned; interior in over all good condition. 1817 copyright application printed..... More
Boston: I[saiah] Thomas and E[benezer] T. Andrews, 1793. Second Thomas edition, 16mo, pp. 96; original calf-backed paper-covered boards; rear joint cracked, else very good; binding remains sound. First published in 1791. Skeel 658; Evans 26451. More
Cambridge: [Harvard University], October 8, 1810. 4to, address on verso of integral leaf, wax seal, previous folds; very good. H. Weston is likely Hiram Weston who was a divinity student at Harvard in 1811 and who later became a merchant in Duxbury. He was born in Duxbury, Mass, in 1793..... More
Indianapolis: printed by S. V. B. Noel, 1843. First edition, 8vo, pp. 37, [1]; stitched, as issued; wrappers wanting, title slightly spotted; very good. Contains a long address by the president, Charles White. American Imprints 5094; Byrd & Peckham 1076. AAS & Princeton Theological only in OCLC. More
New York: Collins, Keese & Co., 1840. Oblong 4to, pp. vi, 159, [3]; lithograph frontispiece and 27 composite plates with 107 lithograph illustrations; original quarter calf over cloth, gilt title on upper cover; boards worn, stained, and fraying, cloth on lower board largely perished; textblock with mild dampstains and foxing;..... More
New York: Samuel Wood, 1814. Second edition, small 12mo, pp. 324; lexicon in double column; full original calf, morocco label; extremities rubbed and worn; some foxing; good and sound. In a modern quarter cloth slipcase, leather label lettered in gilt on spine. First published in 1811, the work went through..... More
[New Haven, India, England and Japan: 1877-1915]. A collection of 42 items, mostly manuscript letters signed, from a variety of academics, administrators, and Yale men, to the sinologist Frederick Wells Williams (1857-1928), with a few letters from Williams' father-in-law, the theologian Hemen Lincoln Wayland, to his daughter (Williams' wife) Fanny..... More
London: printed by J. Downing, for M. Wotton at the Three Daggers near the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleet-Street, 1704. First edition, 4to, pp. [2], 45, [1]; removed from binding; title with very slight damp, small tear in the gutter of the last leaf; good. The last leaf includes lists of books..... More
Philadelphia: Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger, and Co., 1812. First edition, 8vo, pp. 275, [1]; full sheep, gilt-ruled spine; boards worn, upper board neatly reattached, the occasional spotting and offsetting to text, ex-Sherburne Public Library with bookplate, pocket on rear pastedown; good. Also with what is presumably the Sherburne stamp (the letter..... More
London: J. Osborn, 1741. 12mo, pp. [10], iv, xxxvi, 257, [1]; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1; slight cracking of the upper joint, but a very good, sound copy. Fundamentals of Christianity to be taught to the Indians of Georgia. De Renne I...... More
Boston: J. Howe, printer, Merchants Row, 1831. 8vo, pp. 16; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; very good. In a contemporary hand next to Windship's name on the title page, "M.D." has been added in pencil. American Imprints 10689. Can't find a tangible copy in OCLC, but there are copies at..... More
Oxonii: e theatro Sheldiano, 1674. First edition, folio, 2 parts in 1; pp. [8], 414; 447, [5]; engraved title page, engraved vignette title page, engraved and woodcut initials, engraved headpieces; lacks the folding plan; title page with perforated stamp; mild dampstain pervades the lower margin, prelimins and terminals reinserted; good..... More
Washington, D.C. W. Greer, printer, 1842. 8vo, pp. 21, [1]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; title page a bit foxed; all else very good. A dedicated public servant, Woodbury (1789-1851) served in the New Hampshire State Senate, was governor of N.H., was elected to the U.S. Senate, served as the..... More
[Boston]: privately printed [by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press], 1923. Edition limited to 650 copies, small 8vo, pp. [6], 12, [2]; plate of the portrait; original tan cloth-backed green paper-covered boards; fine. Attractively designed and printed on hand-made Venetia paper. "Lida Shaw King was born in Boston. Her..... More
Boston: Timothy Swan, 1819. 8vo, pp. 323, [1]; pages browned, occasional pencilled marginalia, corners worn and rubbed, else a good, firm copy in contemporary half calf, red morocco label on spine. Lacks the atlas. The third in a series of school texts and gazetteers by the school teacher turned lexicographer..... More
Boston: Hickling, Swan and Brewer, 1859. 8vo, pp. 180; some rubbing at extremities but otherwise an attractive copy in original pictorial printed paper-covered boards backed in brown cloth. First published in 18578. Like his Dictionaries, this speller emphasizes pronunciation. There are several interesting sections at the back, including diacritical marks..... More
Boston: Jenks, Hickling and Swan, 1854. First and only edition, 8vo, pp. 48; stitched as issued; very good. The Dictionary Wars continued. This is Worcester's publisher's vehement rebuttal to a pamphlet circulated in the Midwest by the Merriams accusing Worcester of appropriating Webster's orthography. Includes interesting statements from the publisher..... More
Boston: Timothy Swan, 1819. 12mo, pp. viii, [1], 10-322, [2]; atlas not present, lacking front free endpaper; 2 plates, tables, toned and foxed, notations on rear fly leaf dated 1825, front hinge starting, else good in contemporary full sheep with gilt-lettered red morocco label on spine. The third in a...... More
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege for Oxford University Press, [1946]. Second edition, 12mo, pp. xiii, [1], 226; original red pebbled cloth, slight faded spine, cracked, else very good. More
Providence: printed by the Collegiate Press, Menasha, Wisconsin, and Akerman-Standard Press, Providence, 1946. First editions, 12mo, fine in original printed wrappers. 1) The Structure of Brown University; 2) Educational Housing; 3) The University College; 4) The Size of Brown University. Wriston (1889-1978) was the 11th president of Brown University, serving..... More
Liverpool: University Press, 1904. First edition, 8vo, pp. 24; original brown printed wrappers; ex-Bedford College, with stamps and release stamps; all else very good. More
Albany: printed by Packard & Van Benthuysen, 1822. First edition, 8vo, pp. 16; stitched, as issued; uncut and unopened; very good. American Imprints 9666, not locating any copies but citing Sabin 53454. University of Rochester and University of Glasgow, and College of London in OCLC. More
