Arosiae (Uppsala): Typis & Impensis Pet. Kraft, 1804. Small Octavo. [8], 496 pages, index of 112 pages including the errata, with Latin and Greek words, references. Lars Kraft and his son Petrus Kraft worked together publishing scholarly works aimed at educating the pastor in Greek and Hebrew while serving in..... More
London; Nd(ca.1911): Hodder & Stoughton. Florence Hardy Small, 1860-1933. Thin 12mo. 30 pages, Frontispiece is signed in the plate "Fhardy. While the book is undated, the British Museum cites the publication date of 1911. All illustrations and text printed in green. The cover has a full color pastedown on paper..... More
![Bookplate] Revue Illustreee Carte Postale, Ex-Libris Ad Exrtra Bibliobecam Lectienem. Jacques Gruber](/pictures/thumb/027997.jpg?v=1602871817)
65 x 98 mm. Jacques Gruber studied in Paris at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He also frequented the studio of the painter Gustave Moreau. In 1893 he joined the Daum company as chief decorator and taught at the Nancy Ecole des Beaux-Arts until 1916..... More
![Bookplate] Revue Ilustreee De La Carte Postale, Ex Libris Actum Intra Biblietbecam Legendis....](/pictures/thumb/027996.jpg?v=1602871817)
61 X 81 mm. Bookplate designed for collectors of postcards for club of which the Demeufves were founders. More
Ex-Libris Rachel Lelandais. 125 x 95 mm. Georges Demeufve of Normanie has created for Rachel Lelandais a delightful bookplate of a mouse who is reading the text reading "aime pour savoir" on the left side and "traville pour avoir" on the right side. In pencil on the bottom of the..... More
Bookplate for the Library of Mr. A. Houbigant. Armand-Gustave Houbigant grew up in the home of the famous perfumer Jean-Francois Houbigant (1752-1807) whose clients included Madame du Barry and Marie Antoinette. He was an erudite historian but spent most of his time in drawing and the art of engraving. He..... More
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1735. 12mo. 94 pages, title page in red and black, (1) full page engraving. Anne Righter notes that in She Wou'd if she Cou'd, that Etherege chartered the basic dimensions of restoration comedy. It was when first previewed in 1668 considered a very bawdy play..... More
Tucson, AZ: Privately Published, 1986. First Edition. Thick Octavo. Limited to 1000 copies. 625 pages, illustrations, photocopies of documents. Once the Air Force admitted lying about the "weather balloon" stories, the investigations of what took place at Roswell led to the very important one at Aztec. A fine copy bound..... More
Mexico: Barcelona (Espana), 1899. First Edition. Thick Quarto. 776 pages, xlvi, indice general. 3 large colored folding maps with the one on the details of downtown Mexico City especially brilliant, each have tape repairs but none of the original is missing. Volume I dealing with Mexico City in the period..... More
New Bedford, MA: 1842. 2 page autographed Bifolium to James R. Williams, April 20, 1842. New Bedford, MA: 1842. Dr. Lyman Bartlett was one of the leading physicians of New Bedford. He studied in Paris and took a liberal position when some physicians disparaged homeopathy. His view while conventional felt..... More
New Jersey: 1836. 1 page signed by S.C.G. Graham on bifolium format notes: "I have placed in this bank 1600 dollars for the state tax due at this time of one-half of one per cent of 320,000 dollars, the Capital Stock of this bank actually subscribed 8000 shares in the..... More
Philadelphia; Nd(ca.1933): Lippincott. Octavo. Half-title, frontispiece, 9-302 pages, illustrated with maps, plans and plates. Edward Stotherd was the Wing Office of the 4th Cavalry of the 2nd West India Regiment at Hyderabad in 1888. His history is fascinating with his primary work in India. With the disbanding of Nizam's Cavalry..... More
Altona-Bahrenfeld, (1936): Cigaretten-Bilderdienst. Quarto. 2 volume set. These album include black & white and colored mounted cigarette cards. Many of the cards are hand-colored. Volume I has 175 mounted cards, Volume 2 has 200 mounted cards. Number 13 and 14 show series, they are considered 1 and 2 by OCLC..... More
(Victoria, B.C.: 2006): Trafford Publishing. Octavo. ). 2 volume set. xviii, 434-701 continued pagination. The only copies in OCLC are at the 6th Floor Museum Dealy Plaza in Dallas, and two other colleges with a set at Canadian Archives. Volume I is inscribed by the author to her friend Joanne..... More
New York; (1972): Random House. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 300 copies signed by the author. The present copy is #297. Printed on special paper and specially bound in brown cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt, gift inscription to collector Ivan [Geiger] by his parents, spine is sunned, upper..... More
New York; (1970): Random House. First Edition. Octavo. 436 pages. Limited to only 300 copies signed by the author. Also inscribed by her to a serious collector on April 16, 1970 on the front free endpaper. One of her most important novels dealing with a family during the 1930s, set..... More
New York; (1971): Random House. First Edition. Octavo. 113 pages. Limited to 300 copies signed and numbered by the author. The book has photographs made by Eudora Welty in Mississippi while home from college in the Depression. Although she later worked for the WPA, she made these photographs on her..... More
Warner and Swasey Observator, Case Institute of Technology, 1962. Quarto. Inscribed by the author to the German astronomer Dr. Arthur Beer who was a member of the Royal Astronomical Society and the International Astronomical Union. Reprinted for private circulation. English Text, p. 37-78, illustrations. Bibliographic references, p. 78. Since much..... More
London; (1946): Art and Education Publishing for Private Circulation. First Edition. Octavo. Compiled from the Regimental War Diary, Squadron Diaries, Personal Narratives and the Unofficial "actions of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards in France". London; (1946): Art and Education Publishing for Private Circulation, First Edition. Octavo. 192pp. (1) p. map..... More
London: A. Strahan for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803. Octavo. Second edition.112pp. This edition contains thirteen views from nature, illustrative of French scenery aquatinted by J. Hill from the drawings by the author who was an an accomplished artist himself and includes two new prints substituted for two in..... More
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927. First Edition. Octavo. Third impression. In two volumes, Vol. I: xiii, 402pp. Vol. II: vii, 403-791pp. Portrait frontispieces, with more than 30 other photographic images, 2 maps (one folding) These letters cover the incredible life of the woman who was the first female to ever..... More
Burnet, Texas, Nd.(ca.1940): Self-Published. First Edition. 12mo. Signed by the author. 24p., an important essay by an African-American author who deals with the Solid South as it was called in the 1940's where the Southern states including Texas were able to maintain the traditions that in practice treated blacks as..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. 278pp. The story of four men on a three day conoe trip down a particularly wild section of a river in the heartland of today's South. On their second day, the group was attacked viciously and perversely by mountaineers. The trip explodes into..... More
circa 1906, 8 x 5 photograph shows damage caused by the earth quake of the Memorial church on the [Leland] Stanford campus. More
Quarto. Artist signed edition of illustrations from the Donald M. Grant, Publisher. Inc. Stephen King's The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands. Limited edition of 1000 copies. 12 color illustrations and one limited and signed plate titled Jake and OY. The twelve color plates are titled: Mir Embraced the Tree..... More