New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929. First American Edition. Octavo. In two volumes. The author writes in his Note: "I have tried to establish a chronological order, because many of the poems are so personal that, in their fragmentary fashion, they make up a biography of an emotional... More about Collected Poems
Amsterdam: North-Holland/Elsevier, 1997. First Edition. Large Octavo. 583pp. Two of the great scholars at the end of the 20th Century cover topics on mostly metallic rare earth materials. Whether it is the formation of amorphus, microcrystalline and quasicrystalline phases by mechanical alloying or the 4f elements, they have been on... More about Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths (Volume 24
np/np, 1800. Octavo. Unopened. 223, vii pages. Contains many items from 1799 including an act (p. 209) for the public "to testify their grief for the death of General George Washington". Although he had been President for two full terms and a major force in the Constitution of the United... More about Acts Passed at the First Session of the Sixth Congress of the United States
Paris: Guillaumin, 1860. Octavo. 372 pages. John Stuart Mill recognized Dupont-White's view that the advance in civilization brought about an increase in state activity which was an index to continued progress. As opposed to pure laissez-faire, this was a remarkable progressive view. Although the Catholic Church's control over the state... More about La Centralisation, Suite De L'indiviidu et L'etat
(Philadelphia, 1868): Edgewood Publishing Company. First Edition. Octavo. 512 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates, index, The work of the U.S. Christian Commission depended on the donated services of 4,859 Protestant ministers and laypersons including the famed evangelist D.L. Moody who was among the first to deal with the wounded... More about Incidents Among Shot and Shell; the only authentic work extant giving the many tragic and...
[Western States Publisihing, Los Angeles, CA], 1938. Quarto. 40 pages, Primarily California architecture from adobe, classic Spanish and mission to the experimental. While the article "Palm Canyons of the Coachella Valley" is a classic on late 1930's California architecture, it is the article "Fred Astaire Among the Machines" that is... More about California Arts & Architecture (February, 1938
University of Chicago: William Wesley, 1908. First Edition. Octavo. 252 pages, index, following with 104 full page photographic plates. Many of the plates show the early 20th century development of Mt Wilson and the process of preparing the lens as well as the structure. After his Professorship of Astrophysics at... More about The Study of Stellar Evolution: An Acocunt of Some Recent Methods of Astrophysical Research
Royal Oak, Michigan: Np, 1997. First Edition. Small Quarto. Limited to 150 copies, signed by Margaret Coel and James D. Doss who has written the introduction, and Phil Parks who has produced the four illustrations which are tipped in and finally a handwritten Arapaho word written by Coel for "thou... More about Dead End, Signed By Author, Illustrator, Limited to 150 Copies
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Ancient City Press, 1961. First Edition. Folio. No pagination. Chiefly thirty three sketches and floorplans of adobe buildings followed by notes and how adobe plans were laid out. There was a cheap reprint done in 1986. William Lumpkins was an architect in La Jolla but in... More about La Casa Adobe
London; nd(ca.1919-1920): Martin Secker/ Printed by the Chiswick Press. Octavo. 2nd impression. In two volumes. Part One, 1888 to 1900: 512pp. Begins with his travels, first to Greece, Rgypt, on to the Boar War. Spencer Part II, 1900 to 1914, 511 pages, index, begins with Death of Queen Victoria in... More about My Diaries; Being a Personal Narrative of Events, 1888-1914 (2 Vol set
London: A & C Black, 1949. Octavo. 271(1) pages. illustrated. 4th Edition with two added chapters, in the one the author discusses the reasons for the value of cross-stream winds to the angler and in the other he celebrates the strangely neglected fly C. pennulatum. Bound in olive green cloth... More about The Way of a Trout with a Fly, and Some Further studies in Minor Tactics
London: William Pickering, 1853. Octavo. xii, 408 pages, title page in red and black, Of the nature, excellencies, Uses, and intention of the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper -- Of our general preparation to the worthy reception of the blessed Sacrament, the participation of the mysteries -- Of faith... More about The Worthy Communicant; a Discourse on the Nature, Effects and Blessings Consequent to the Worthy...
London: Vinton & Co., 1903. First Edition. Octavo. 286 pages. Frontispiece of author, with 43 leaves of plates each with their tissue guards. Halford is most noted for his development and promotion of the dry fly technique on English chalk streams. He is generally accepted as "The Father of Modern... More about An Angler's Autobiography (The Halford Dry Fly Series, No. 4) Introduction By William Senior
(Yorkshire, England): E P Publishing, 1973. Octavo. 387 pages. Reprint edition from the 1880 edition with a new forward by A.J. Clinch. The author portrays the individual gipsy personalities with whom he stayed and knew intimately, describes their daily life and in turn brings to the reader accounts of events... More about In Gipsy Tents with a New Forward By A.J. Clinch
Edinbugrh: Edinburgh University Press, 1935. Octavo. 120 pages. Illustrated with photographic images. The great gypsy collection of R.A. Scott Macfie is at Liverpool University. In 1907 John Sampson and fellow gypsiologist David MacRitchie persuaded Macfie to revive the Gypsy Lore Society which had been defunct for the previous 14 years... More about Memoir of R.A. Scott Macfied (Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, Third Series, Vol. XIV, Special...
New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. 397 pages, subject, names and title index. bibliographic references. Annotated with many works by Gypsy authors or which highlight Gypsy voices. Gypsy authors, reflecting their oppression, were often angry, defiant, or just plain weary of the struggle. During the writing of this... More about Gypsies; a Multidisciplinary Annotated Bibliography
New York: Anglers Club of New York, 1972. First Edition. Small Quarto. Limited to 1000 copies. xiv, 168 pages, illustrations. Articles by its members that have been referred to over the past century. Includes Eugene V. Connett's essay: "Random Thoughts on Nymph Fishing" as well as many other illustrious members... More about The Best of the Anglers' Club Bulletin, 1920-1972
New York: The Anglers Club of New York, 1954. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 591 copies. 149 pages, plus epilogue, illustrated by Charles De Feo. This classic remains one of the finest writing on the love of angling. Each chapter is preceded by one of Charles De Feo's illustrations of... More about Fishless Days; a Collection of small Lures on Which I Have Taken Many a Full Basket of Friends...
London: Printed for the Trustees By William Clowes, 1962. Octavo. In two volumes. The Wallace Collection which was initially formed by Richard, fourth Marques of Hertford (1800-1870) was vastly increased by his son Sir Richard Wallace (1818-1890). While some are traced to much earlier family members, it was the later... More about European Arms and Armour: Text with Historical Notes and Illustrations, Fifth Ed, Revised
Philadelphia; (1890): World Bible House. Octavo. Revised and enlarged subscription edition. xxxiv, 33-682 pages, index and glassary. portrait frontispiece, color illustrations with folding diagrams, 10 plates and textual illustrations. Dr. Seth Pancoast provides a fairly detailed description of the female sexual organs (including in the color foldouts) of the vagina... More about The Ladies' New Medical Guide: An instructor, counseller and friend in all the delicate and...
Cambridge: The Minority Press, 1930. Small Octavo. 15 pages. The Minority Pamphlets were issued in the late 1920's and early 1930's on Lawrence, and other figures. The first essay is on his poetry, the second is on his doctrine or as Murray calls its (a review of Lady Chatterley's Lover)-he... More about D.H. Lawrence (Two Essays
Minneapolis, MN: John M. Wolfe Company, 1927. Octavo. 128 pages, index. Founded at the Seven Stars Inn of Baltimore on April 26, 1819. This work has color photographs of the birthplace as well as over 90 other color images of its temples, hospitals, and parks. The International Order of Odd... More about Album of Odd Fellows Homes, 12th Revised, DeLuxe Edition
New York: Alfred a Knopf, 1992. First Edition. Quarto. Signed by the artist. 208p. illustrated with 196 color and in black and white illustrations. The artist paint America and its people comically through daily life, work, job, personal and private subjects an more. Much of his work has been seen... More about The Discovery of America (signed By the artist
London: for the Author [as Prizes in the Royal Botanical Lottery], by J. WHITING, 1812. First Edition. royal Octavo. In two volumes. Vol. 90pp. Vol. II: 73pp. Containing 180 full page botanicals, and 4 charts. One of the most fascinating writers on botany who was influenced by Professor Thomas Martyn... More about Elements of Botany
New York: Baker and Scribner, 1848. First Edition. Octavo. . From the library of collector George Brinley (1817-1875) with his book plate. A series of ten lectures.336pp., 17 full page plates of which three are folding. These lectures were used by the author as his way of obtaining subscriber's to... More about The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: a Popular Exposition of the Great Discoveries and Theories of...