London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1885. Octavo. 2nd edition. xii, 572 pages, color frontispiece, double map, and plans. This is the important second edition which deals with both the classic and regular spellings of names on Regimental decorations, thus, Palasi is here spelt "Plassey: Lakhnao "Lucknow". This will be essential..... More
(Flagstaff, Arizona; 1974): Northland Press. First Edition. Quarto. 127pp. Ben K. Green's description of 34 full color reproductions of Darol Dickinson's oil paintings. One of the most essential classics for those who deal with beautiful horses. It has insight into horse color. Intense colors. Bay -- Brown -- Black --..... More
Oakland, California; (1895): Pacific Press Publishing Co. First Edition. Octavo. Portrait frontispieces. 510 and 426pp. The original 2 volume set (later issued into one volume). This scarce work remains one of the best works on both George Washington and the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He has biographies of..... More
Chicago: The Faithorn Company, 1924. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 1000 copies. The present copy is number 381 specially made for Rev. Lewis B. Fisher and signed by the author, 137 pages, his work has humorous look at the area before its settlement and displacement of native Americans. It moves..... More
Washington, D.C. (1946): Infantry Journal Press. First Edition. Octavo. 444 page. Profusely illustrated, maps on endpapers. The 104th fought through France, Belgium, and western Germany. It formed a vital link in the drive to the Maas River and the Roer River line. After crossing the Roer, they moved past Cologne..... More
(Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, 2001-2005): Stackpole. First Editions. Thick Octavo. In five volumes, illustrated. Extensive bibliography and index. The author has assembled a wide variety of first- person accounts that are not generally available elsewhere, relying primarily on unpublished manuscript accounts, special military reports, and contemporaneous newspaper and magazine articles. Each account..... More
Salem, MA: Cushing and Appleton, 1809. Octavo. 511 pages, errata (p. 512). From the Adams family to Yale Elihu. The family of Rev. Joseph Buckminster (page 88-89) is noted in the book and also written on the front pastedown the following biographical information: Great Grandfather Buckminster, Col. 1876, Essex Co,....Richard..... More
Boston, nd. Dana Estes and Co., [Edinburgh] : Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press. Limited Editioin. Quarto. The Florentine Edition, limited to 250 copies. The present set is number 11 illustrated with two hundred tipped in plates in colour and with..... More
New York, nd. E.P. Dutton and Co. Octavo. 335 pages. A special book, handcolored with 41 pages of beautiful flowers, birds, mask and other items delicately painted in watercolor allowing the text to be visible. Novel about a French naval officer who has two objectives for his stay in Japan..... More
London: Printed for G. & W. Nicol, 1816. Octavo. In nine volumes. A fine set all in lovely Zaehnsdorf bindings. Each volume contains the following works: Vol. 1. Memoirs of Jonson, & c. Every Man in his Humour -- v. 2. Every Man out of his Humour. Cynthia's Revels, or..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1904. Octavo. 255pp., illustrated with 25 color illustrations by C.E. Brock. The author was an English novelist, biographer and short story writer. Cranford was serialized in Household Words by Dickens. Besides known for her books Cranford and North and South, she also wrote the biography of..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1904. Octavo. 309pp., unopened. illustrated with 25 illustrations in color by C.E. Brock. Our Village(s) was originally issued in a series of five volumes at two-year intervals from 1824 to 1832 and became Mary Russell Mitford's most successful and celebrated achievement. Mitford was an..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut; (1991: Easton Press. First Edition. Octavo. 540 pages, index. signed boldly by Stephen Jay Gould. This is one of the two essays he considered best for biology teachers to read (the other is Dinosaur in a Haystack). Beautifully issued by the Easton Press is a lovely leather edition..... More
(Boulder, Co. 2007): Lynne Rienner Publishers. First Edition. Octavo. 219 p. Map. Bibliography, contributors, and index., The author wondered how the African Muslim landscape looked like by the next African Studies Association meeting> More important, what was the true state of Islamism in sub Saharan Africa? The author traveled there..... More
New York; (1993): Distributed Art Pub Inc. First Edition. Folio. . 213pp., illustrated with black and white photographic images beginning with the alphabet, moves into numerals, and then develops into sentences. The dynamics of this found language, photographed from the streets and walls of America, is heightened by the irregular..... More
Maywood, CA: Kunkin-Turner Publications, 1961. Octavo. 517pp. Facsimile of 1822 original edition. A compendium of notes, letters, & speeches -- by States. Bound in maroon cloth boards. Inscribed and signed by publisher on the front free endpaper. More
London: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1836. First Edition. 215 pp. an ex-library copy. Annual journal of Society, for 1836. Articles on tidal forces, affect of light on plants, and several articles of electric voltage, as letters-to-Michael Faraday, who that present year had won a Gold Medal..... More
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1941. C. F. Tunnicliffe. First Edition. Octavo. 70pp. 50 illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe. A marvelous book on fishes and fisheries for the young readers. In illustrated boards, with matching dust jacket (panels are bright, but this jacket has a partially detached spine, and 1/2" chips..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893. Limited Edition. Octavo. The present copy is numer 37 of 1000 copies. 332 pp. illustrated by Van Ess, Warren. Ex-library copy with pocket and usual markings including number in ink on spine. Number 37 of 1000 copies. 10 plates in text, including frontispiece..... More
London: Alexander Strahan, 1867. First Edition. Small Octavo. 480 pp. The author examines the chairtable houses and societies in Europe. Those charity homes for children, the disabled and the elderly. Bound in brown pictorial gilt cloth depicting a scene of helping a fallen man, spine and all edges gilt. Spine..... More
Grand Rapids, Mi; (1999): William B. Erdman's Publ. 1999. First American. Thick Small Quarto. First American edition in Englsih. 893pp. A monumental series for the scholar and layman alike, written by leading scholars from many countries and cultural background, the more than 1700 articles that that comprise the EC depict..... More
Dresden: Widerstands-Verlag, 1929. 59 pp. Fraktur. Reprint of Moltke's 1841 text on the question of the Rhine as Germany's western boundary. More
New York: George Braziller, Inc. 1983. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 28 color plates, with notes. Bibliography. Introduction by Josef Krasa. Gilt stamped navy cloth leather-ette, with small gouge on lower spine. Near fine in lightly soiled, illustrated slipcase. More
New York: Heritage Press, 1948. 107pp mostly reproductions of Kent's book illustrations nicely in color. Foreward by Thomas Craven. Usual ex-library markings with surface roughness on front endpaper where pocket was, tape marks on covers and jacket. Dust jacket cover illustrations attractive. More
Paris, nd: Jouve et Compagnie. First Edition. Quarto. 278 pp. Illustrated by photograph. The author's business card mounted to front free endpaper and an unidentified signed inscription as well. An account of the trip made in the car by Madame and Mr Alphonse Gautier, former méhariste de Laperrine and former..... More