(Apache, OK, 1999): Self Published. Limited Edition. Quarto. 181pp. #176 of 500 copies, signed by author on title page. A thick treatise on Tombstone, Cochise County, and the gunfighters, lawmen, and outlaws. This provides residential records and registers, often with facsimile of signature, photographs and epitaphs. Bound in gray cloth... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. First Edition. Octavo. . 432 pages. index. Signed on the White House Presidential Bookplate. Chosen and annotated by the President himself. It include his earliest speeches in 1951 that defined the "Reagan Revolution" to his days as governor of California and the Presidency as... More
Cambridge, Mass. The Museum, 1945. Quarto. . xvi, 223 pages [30] color frontispiece, illustrations (9 including maps) 90 plates on 15 leaves. This work was based on the author's Ph. D. Thesis at Harvard. The work of the Hemingway Expedition that took place in the late 1880's under the influence... More
Lansing MI; (2003): Protar House. First Edition. Octavo. 181p. index. bibliography. notes, Photographs. Signed by the author limited to 200 copies (no 25 of 200). An important study on Curly Bill solving many problems based on a careful study of the documents. A fine copy bound in off white cloth... More
Tucson, Arizona: Westernlore Press, 1994. First Edition. Octavo. . 387pp. Well written history in cattle country. Profusely illustrated with period photographs, facsimile documents. Chapter notes. References. Index. A fine copy bound in red cloth, spine lettering gilt in near fine pictorial dust jacket. Endpapers are maps. More
Philadelphia: For Robert Campbell, Bookseller, 1795. Small Octavo in 4s. Half-title, 276pp., 19pp notes, (4)pp. publisher's ads. Originally published in London in 1791, this book was sought after with the outbreak of Yellow Fever in 1793. The cures mentioned turned out to be ineffective such as drenching with cold water... More
Hamburg: G. Liebernickel, 1701. Quartio. . Half-title, frontispiece, 1090 pages, 68 leaves, plans, plates, portrait, (title continues: und funff unterschiedenen Buchern….) The plates were engraved by Johann Wilhelm Michaelis (d. 1737) and they depict the great furniture and altars of ancient Judaism from the Tabernacle to the Temple of Solomon... More
New York: Doubleday, 1960. First Edition. Large Octavo. 501 pages. Index. Detailed Maps, photographs, prints. The reason this book had to be placed on locked reserve in libraries was that it was the first book to note the locations where the great treasures were known to have been lost. It... More
Chicago; (1935): University of Chicago Press. First Editiion. Octavo. 492 pages, index. After winning the Nobel Peace Prize in Physics in 1923, he published this work which was the culmination if his earlier items. Since this became the classic works on the accurate determination of the charge created by an... More
Ocala, Florida(2000): First Impressions Printing. First Edition. Quarto. 411 pages, bibliography, index. The range of what constitutes money from wampum of the American Indian to the mamulis used as the bride price on the Island of Sumba, what is used for money covers the earliest definitions, the comprehensive listing of... More
London: J & R Tonson, 1739. Small Octavo. Second edition. 96 pages, folding plate at end of p. 94 listed the ships of George Byng Torrington's fleet with the names of all the captains. This is the first account of the events of the Sicilian Expedition (1718-1720). On March 14... More
London; 1763-1764: J. Payne. 12mo. 90 plates(some folding) . This edition was issued both in 14 volumes in 14 or as in this case all 14 volumes in 7 volumes. Table of contents to all volumes within volume I. This volume does not have maps but has the city maps... More
London: Lockwood & Co. 1871. Small Octavo. [v]-xiii, pages, 1 leaf, 165 pages including diagrams. He began his system in 1804 of solving the problem of subterranean mines as well as the variations with the magnetic needle. This became the definitive edition used in mining at the last part of... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1862. Small Octavo. 118 pages, xxiv leaves of plates. This copy belonged to John N. Budlong (1837-1889) of the 8th Regiment of the New York Cavalry, Company G while stationed for the Union side at Falls Creek, Virginia. The National Republican newspaper of Washington, D.C., requested in... More
London: Samuel Thompson, 1667. Quarto. [8], 143, 1-58, 1-24, [1-44], 14 leaves of plates, portraits. The first translation of the author's De Bello Beligico first published at Rome 1632-47. Much on European diplomacy and the effects of the Protestant Reformation as Calvinists appropriated psalms to show the righteousness of their... More
Austin, Texas; (1963): Published for the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art By the University of Texas. First Edition. Quarto. 103 pages, bibliography. A review copy with card laid in dated 1/24/63. This work is an exciting pictorial record of the spotted horse in many cultures and through many centuries... More
Houston: Saddlerock Corporation, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. 158 pages, 56 photographs, illustrations. Signed by L.N. Sikes and Bob Grey. Laid in is a photograph of L.N. Sikes taken by Bob Grey and signed on the back: "L.N. Sikes, DeQueen, Ark." Also laid in is a two page advance description of... More
New York: Baker Street Irregulars, 2011. Small Quarto. 433 pages. A work issued in a small print run with sixty-six articles on the mystery of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, 211b Baker Street and Moriarty. It is no wonder that has become scarce in less than a decade since those haunted... More
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Philadelphia: Blanchard and Leas, 1857. Octavo. . 2 preliminary leaves, [17]-73, 42 pages, 32pp. Index. . At head of title: Fiske Fund prize essays. Reprinted from the American journal of the medical sciences for April and July, 1857, in which they originally appeared. Includes bibliographical references. These appeared in book... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. xvi, 372 pages, frontispiece, plates, facsimiles. The Confederate privateers is a book of action and adventure filled with stories of the Confederacy's privately armed ships and their sea battles with the Union. Called 'pirates' by the North, the South preferred to... More
np/nd; [ca.1920]: [W.O. Allison]. Small Octavo. np: np. [W.O. Allison, 1920]. 131 pages. signed: "a mis amico, Billy Bass, from Francis Allison Polson" August 1922, Grand Canyon. The accounts of hunting mountain lions in the Grand Canyon, the adventures around the J.D. Dam (20 miles Southeast of Williams, Arizona), Many... More
Philadelphia, (1857): Charles C. Rhodes. Octavo. 176 pages. woodcut illustrations "Containing the history of all previous explorations of the Arctic Ocean, from the year 1618 down to the present time; showing how far they advanced northward, what discoveries they made and their scientific observations. The present whereabouts of Sir John... More
Paris: Apud Petrum-Joannem Mariette, 1750. Folio. 412 numbered pages , 178 pages [CLXXVII), In black and red letter. The graduals were hymns of order in the observance of the mass, containing the Propers of the Mass and employing the black and red states of the Georgian musical notation. The rich... More
New York; nd: Ward, Lock and Co. Small Octavo. 183pp., illustrated. A small general work on the history of earth, its geography and geology and the classification of some of earths minerals. Bound in blue pictorial gilt cloth lettered and decorated in black and gilt,, spine lettering gilt and black... More
London: Rivingtons; Longman, and Col, Etal, 1842. In four volumes, fourth edition. 523, 589, 431 and 560pp. A handsome set bound in full tan polished calf, raised bands with compartments decorated in gilt, red and black morocco spine labels gilt, all edges marbled with matching endpapers, previous owner's bookplate John... More