Philadelphia: [Philadelphia Inquirer], 1884. 8vo, pp. 3, [1]; self wrappers; fine. Last page provides list of the economic papers published by Baird; this pamphlet a reprint of a letter written to the editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, April 30, 1884. Scarce, only one copy in OCLC, at the American Philosophical..... More
Hartford: printed by Peter B, Gleason & Co., 1825. 8vo, pp. 26, [2]; stitched, as issued; very good. Founded as Washington College in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in Connecticut, after Yale. It was renamed Trinity College in 1845. Like many of his Yale alumni, Baldwin declines to support..... More
Boston: E. P. Guild & Co., 1896. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 5-312; largely unopened; 52 illustrations on 43 plates; a fine copy in original blue cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine, t.e.g. More
Cincinnati: A. B. Roff. Lincoln & Co. Printers, 1831. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 400; contemporary full mottled calf; gilt decoration and lettering on spine; wood-engraved tipped-in frontispiece with vignettes of farm life; additional woodcuts throughout the text; one gathering extended; spine rubbed; front hinge cracked; otherwise very good. Instructions..... More
New York: published by the author at the Anatomical Museum, 1847. 8vo, pp. 212, [4]; hand-colored engraved frontispiece, 2 engravings of the skeleton, 2 colored prints of the circulatory system, and 23 hand-colored anatomical plates, text illustrations; original full sheep; boards worn, spine chipped, joints weak, text foxed, last gathering..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, publishers, 82 Cliff Street, [1846]. 8vo pp. 36, 4 (ads); text in double column; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; all else very good. Beecher's importance stems from her desire to expand the role of women in domestic life and to use that newly found power..... More
[Connecticut: 1814?]. First edition, 12mo, pp. 28; self-wrappers, sewn as issued; uncut; light dampstaining and edgewear, very good. Signed in print by Beecher on p. 25 as chairman of the committee, followed by the constitution of the society and a list of its officers and committees, among whom Timothy Dwight..... More
[Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1884]. First edition, quarto, pp. 86; folding graph; original brown cloth, gilt title on upper cover, paper label on spine with title in manuscript; covers stained, textblock clean and sound, front free endpaper excised; all else very good. A study of the heritability and..... More
Washington DC: The Volta Bureau, 1895. First edition, 8vo, pp. 25, [3]; printed paper self-wrappers; light soiling to covers with tipped in slip reading "compliments of The Volta Bureau." A speech covering errors in elocution, education, and a brief aside on Bell's universal system of visible speech. Alexander Melville Bell..... More
Washington DC: The Volta Bureau, 1895. First edition, 8vo, pp. 25, [3]; printed paper self-wrappers including "with the Author's Compliments" printed at the head of title; light soiling to covers. A speech covering errors in elocution, education, and a brief aside on Bell's universal system of visible speech. Alexander Melville..... More
[Washington DC]: The Mathematical Association of America, [2003]. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xiv, 194; pictorial paper covered boards; fine. Inscribed by Benjamin "my 260th=2^2x5x13th signed book ... and counting!" "This is a magical introduction to the simplicity, power, and beauty of bijective proofs ... [it] explores more than 200..... More
Manchester: C. Ambery, 91, Market Street, 1840. 16mo, pp. 16; removed from binding, wrappers wanting, stitching perished; else very good. Includes a list of donors and funerals plus other financial reports. Not in OCLC. More
Boston: Richardson, Lord, & Holbrook, 1832. First edition, 16mo, pp. 72; original sheep-backed boards; near fine. Salem State and Trinity only in OCLC. I am distrustful of the four copies claimed by "British Libr Reference Collections." American Imprints 11287. More
n.p. Cast by Randolph Bertin at the foundry of Bradley Hutcinson, [ca. 1990]. Bifolium, 12mo; fine. A short, entertaining essay on the author's experience at "Monotype University" at the Hill & Dale Private Press and Typefoundry. Not in OCLC. More
Providence: Providence Press Company, printers to the state, 1870. 8vo, pp. [2], 260; frontispiece, tables and several diagrams in the text; original printed gray wrappers; last leaf with tear entering from the fore-margin (no loss); all else very good. More
Providence: printed by the Providence Press Company, state printers, 1871. 8vo, pp. 16; original printed gray wrappers; lightly soiled, else fine. More
Boston: David Clapp, 184 Washington St. 1859. 8vo, pp. 24; original printed terracotta wrappers; bookseller's ticket of A. E. Foote, M.D., Philadelphia at the top of the front wrapper; rubberstamp of Dr. F. C. Thayer, Waterville, Me. also on front wrapper; previous vertical folds, mild dampstaining; all else very good..... More
Salem: printed by Thomas C. Cushing, 1811. First edition, 8vo, pp. 8, self-wrappers; stitched, as issued; near fine. With a cryptic ink inscription on title page. American Imprints 22394; Sabin 5344; Tapley, p. 421; Wegelin 863. More
Bruxelles: Emile Van Balberghe, 1987. 8vo, pp. lix, [1], 358; facsimiles; original pale blue printed wrappers, near fine. Bibliography of Italian language textbooks and dictionaries produced for French speakers, printed from 1510 to 1660. More
Providence: printed by Knowles and Vose, 1846. 8vo, pp. 16; bound with: Report of the Superintendant of Public Schools, on the Public School Houses of Providence. Providence: printed by Knowles and Vose, 1846, pp. 28; 17 diagrams in the text (2 full-page); bound with: Report of the School Committee of..... More
Philadelphia: published and sold by David Hogan, no. 249, Market-street, 1810. First American edition,12mo, pp. 180; engraved frontispiece showing 3 figures; contemporary full sheep, red morocco label on spine; text toned and lightly spotted, occasional stains, extremities rubbed and worn but the binding is sound. Ownership signature of Miss Harriet..... More
['s-Gravenhage, Netherland: Ministry of Education and Science, 1976.]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 86; illustrated throughout; fine in original pictorial wrappers. More
Groningen: Dijstra, 1959. 8vo, pp. 209, [3]; text in Dutch; portrait frontispiece, plates; creme cloth with title in brown and gilt on spine; vignette of the Gymnasium on upper cover; near fine. A commemorative book published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Willem Lodewijk Gymnasium in Groningen..... More
Pittsfied, Massachusetts: 1928-1932. 3 volumes, 8vo; black and white photographic portrait frontispieces, illustrations throughout; Book I in original grey, tape-bound printed boards, Books II and III in original half tan cloth over printed boards; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, Books I and II with gift bookplates from Williams College..... More
San Francisco: International Society for General Semantics, 1991. 8vo, pp. xix, [3], 185; original white wrappers, near fine. More
