Birminghamiae: Johannis Baskerville(typis), 1772. First Edition. Quarto. . First Baskerville edition. 364pp., John Baskerville (1706-1775) was forty-four when he gave up engraving to establish his own printing business. He developed a beautiful typeface and new recipes for ink. To print his delicate new font, Baskerville needed a "kiss impression," that... More
New York: New York Tribune, 1922. 8 unnumbered pages, a very scarce edition of which the only recorded copy is in the Free Library of Philadelphia. Based on the character by Beatrix Potter in The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Harrison Cady creates these characters both in color and black-and-white. Staple... More
San Francisco(1938): Colt Press. First Edition. 12mo. 55 pages : illustrations in woodcuts by Mallette Dean. Text in black and red, 13 x 16 cm. decorative wood covers backed in green cloth, bookseller label by firm of Gelber-Lilienthal Book Shop of San Francisco. (see James D. Hart, Rare Book Stores... More
London: Printed for G.G.J. And J. Robinson, 1788. Octavo. [2], ii [4], xxiv, 184, 159, [1], 299, [1] pages. The rare early printing of the U.S. Constitution in Great Britain in its original paper wraps. It is now known that William Godlin wrote not only the History of Henry VIII... More
Limassol, Cyprus: James Bendon, 1999. First Edition. Thick Quarto. 874 pages, index, including appendices of Arabic Letters and numerals, spellings and currency evaluations. Egypt had the first handstamp postal markings of Africa and was the first non-colonial African country to issue stamps as well as the first to print its... More
Edinburgh: William Tate, 1844. Octavo. . Second edition. 2pp. ads, half-title,219pp., 16 full page, double paper or folding plates in color and in black and white with tissue guards present. As Glasgow's celebrated astronomer lectured in the United States in the 1840's, he slowly began to shift away from the... More
New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838. First Edition. Octavo. xi, 489 pages. More than 600,000 women signed a petition to end the so-called "apprentice system" in an appeal directly to Queen Victoria. While some of the smaller editions were issued by the Anti-slavery examiner with only 128 pages (and a.... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1862. Octavo. Sixth edition. 614 pages, illustrations. This book was quickly printed from the London 1855 edition for use of surgeons in the Civil War. It began with a general treatment on gunshot wounds which very few physicians had dealt with prior to the war. Later in the... More
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Shanghai: The China Modern Education Co., 1935. First Edition. Octavo. xvi, 369 pages, with (2) page Index of Hexograms. The Chinese text of the I Ching with Legge's English translation. As Neo-Confucianism is debated, the thought of Shao Yong (1011-1077) who viewed the emotions as nothing more than the reflections... More
New York, Nd(ca.1900): Hurst and Blackett. Octavo. 254 pages. Not only does this copy have a nice dust jacket but also represents one of the most interesting of Alger's works. This was one of the few Alger books where the protagonist who was a non-Anglo that had the heroic will... More
London; Nd(ca.1912): Gresham. First Edition. Octavo. xii, 439 pages, color plates. From King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to the great legends and romances, the author has given us the tales with rich color illustrations and many plates in monochrome. Bound... More
Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1875. xxiv, [17]-786 pages, index, illustrations. While this would horrify the modern obstetrician, it was the state of the art in the last 19th century. The debate also which was on the issue of fraternal versus identical twins is represented. A standard for the era through... More
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. Thick Quarto. A new edition from the enlarged and revised London edition. 519 pages, 54 leaves of plates, index. A work that became the standard though his strong disdain for ether in even the most extreme cases of pain made him the enemy of those... More
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1848. First Edition. Large Octavo. xii, [25]-635 pages, index, [36]pp. publisher's ads at rear. Illustrated in black and white with 2 hand colored plates. This work introduced American students to the details of physics and meteorological science which was advanced in France and Germany but as... More
London: For W. Strahan and W. Nicholl, 1770. First Edition. Octavo. 4 volume set. 28 engraved plates (many folding). With 27 engraved plates (14 folding) and six folding printed tables. Arthur Young (1741-1820) was the most important agricultural writer of the 18th Century. His careful detailed notes with exact statistical... More
sheet measures approximately 7 3/4" x 8 3/4". Request dated July 15, 1851 from the Port of Wilmington, Delaware for Jacob Thom a col[ored] seaman to be admitted to the City of Philadelphia Hospital by Abraham Staats Dye to William D. Lewis. People of color had virtually complete freedom in... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923. Limited Edition. Octavo. In two volumes. Limited to 575 copies. The present set is number 59. Volume I xxx, 276 pages with the folded map; Volume II, 322 pages. One of the most important primary sources on the conditions of America made by an astute foreigner... More
. Major Russell, William Worthington (1821-1862), the Marine who served as Paymaster for two decades. While serving under the overall command of General Winfield Scott in the U.S.-Mexican War, he was aboard the ship Independence when Captain Shattuck against the orders of Scott ordered Russell to lead a contingent in..... More
London; Nd(ca.1880): Letts, Son and Co. 12mo. A color sectional map of London in 32 sections measuring 30" x 23" (76.2cm x 58.43cm), backed onto cloth for durability, folding within a blue pictorial gilt cloth depicting a large wheeled bicycle and lettering in gilt. Roads are 4 miles to an... More
Philadelphia: For Joseph Cruikshank, 1796. Octavo. (title con't) for determining the areas of right-lined figures, arithmetically or by calculations, as well as the geometrical ones heretofore treated of. 7th edition, updated, eliminating parts being of little use to the American surveyor also, there are alterations and tables have also been... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1917. First Edition. Octavo. First printing.326[1]pp., Illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover. The author's first story and first of Burrough's mars series, which was first serialized in the pulp magazine, All-Story Magazine in 1911. Bound in brown cloth lettered and stamped in red, light wear through... More
Washington: Beverley Tucker, 1856. Quarto. In three volumes. Vol I: 537pp. includes index, 89 color(tinted) plates including one chart, 2 folding color woodcuts, 5 maps of which two are folding. p. 245 is numbered 2. Vol. II: 414pp., xi (index) p. 49 numbered 4, 24 full plates in black and... More
Ames, IA: The Windhover Press. Limited Edition. String Tied. Octavo. 2 leaves. Single poem, printed on Japanese Shinsetsu paper frpom 14 point Emerson type. Bound in brown paper covers, black title, and string bound. More
(Dick Spencer, Inglewood, California; 1947). First Edition. Small Octavo. 30 pages, Illustrated by Carl Roehling. The Photo of Bear-Step was taken by Paul Denver Nelson. An Indian legend from the Miwoks of Yosemite with beautiful illustrations of the perhaps mythical lovers. A very attractive story and one of romance of... More
One of his 12 sketches is dated at base of the drawing, 1834, another with the number 31 at the base (1831?), one showing two children and a raised outhouse has a space where an image was removed measuring approximately 3 3/4" x 5". Dr. Griffiths served as a surgeon... More