London: John Murray, 1849. First Edition. Octavo. In two volumes; xix, 588pp. and XII, 584pp. The author writes of the Justice's lives and how they ruled as Chief Justices, digging deep into their most unsavory power of the law. He dedicates this work to his son stating "Learn that, by..... More
New York: Greeley and McElrath, 1851. Octavo. In two volumes. Half-titles, 608 and 568pp., (5)pp publisher's ads. folding frontispiece to volume I, several textual illustrations and full page illustrations with tissue guards. The author traveled and gave lectures on scientific studies. He had then brought to a close his public..... More
London; (1940): Hague & Gill Ltd. First Edition. Octavo. xv pp. 36 full page line drawings of nude women. Bound in blue cloth stamped in silver, spine lettering silver, some light scattered foxing to plates. A very good copy in very good unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine and..... More
(Suffolk, England 1997): Antique collectors' Club. Quarto. In two volumes, 439pp. plus bibliography and 863pp. Illustrated in color and in black and white. This is the first fully documented study of the jewellery produced during a period when old craft traditions co-existed with new industrial techniques and when the expansion..... More
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1919. Octavo. pp. 57-86, with three photographic plates, dealing with apparition of 1913-1914, detailing Mars in W. Quadrature with the Sun through the Vernal Equinox. E.M. Antoniadi was the foremost astronomer on Mars and he contributed the greatest number of drawings, photographs and assessments. His major..... 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
London: Chatto and Windus, 1897. Octavo. A new edition translated by C.B. Pitman, with 10 color plates and 363 woodcuts, unopened, 385pp., 32pp. publisher's catalog. Rambossom was editor-in-chief of La Science Pou Tous. The successive discoveries of the astronomers were carefully registered. In 1865, he published an elementary treatise, which..... More
Wetzlar (printed in Leipzig, 1935): Ernst Leitz, Optical Works. Small Octavo. 64 pages. One of the most expansive of the directions series produced by Letiz. This issue was designed for the English-speaking Leica fans in the U.S. It contains every known item used by photographers in preparation for the Olympics..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1960. First Edition. Octavo. 86 pages. Warmly inscribed by the author "To Margaret Grant Elliott from Anne Morrow Lindbergh with many grateful thoughts for her help and her understanding" March 1960. This is a compilation of poems written between 1935 and 1955, many published here for..... More
One of the great divorce scandals in the early 1920's following that of Chaplain, Fairbanks, and Pickford was this between Winifred (Westover) Hart and her husband, William S. Hart, the legendary cowboy of the early silents. In the Washington Times of September 3, 1922 on page 5, there is a...... More
Austin, TX: The Texas folk-Lore Society, 1924. First Edition. Octavo. 279pp. Publications of the Texas Folk-Lore Society. It took Dobie over three years to compile all the legends he could find, from newspaper, manuscripts, other books and of course, the people of Texas. He says this work is not exhaustive..... More
New York; (1967): Random House. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 428(1)pp. The story set in Virginia in 1831 where a revolt was led by a remarkable negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who narrated his confession from jail days before his execution. This compelling story that ranges over..... More
Phoenix, AZ: 1917. Octavo. No pagination [32] pages published for the benefit of the Ladies Aid Society, First Methodist Church, Phoenix, Arizona, 1917. No copies on OCLC or in Arizona Memory Project. Besides the recipes, there are a number of advertisers including Vic Hanny whose ad simply says: "He sells..... More
London: C. Clement, 1824. Octavo. no pagination. [240] pages. While in his day he was known as important books on the English countryside, his contribution to grammar in the early Nineteenth Century is significant. He is closer to the descriptivist approach than the proscriptive approach than his contemporaries. His aim..... More
Boston: The Ball Publishing Co., 1908. First Trade Edition. Octavo. 241pp., with an introduction by Le Roy Phillips who was the compiler of a bibliography of the writings of Henry James. This is a compilation of reviews and views of various authors such as George Eliot, Swinburne, William Morris, Walt..... More
New York: Young People's Socialist League, 1941. 22p. While Murray Kempton was known for having won a Pulitzer price in journalism in 1985 and also the winner in 1943 of a National Book Award in 1974, his period as a socialist after his graduation from John Hopkins in 1939 is..... More
Los Angeles, CA: Book Arts Programs, Occidental College, 1990. Octavo. 37pp. illustrated. Laid in is (4)pp of Saul Marks, printer 1905-1974, a separate story of the deceased printer who was the founder of Plantin Press of Los Angeles. Bound in beige printed wraps illustrated with photographs and books. The Saul..... More
Troy, NY: W. & L.E. Gurley, 1874. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, [3]-234p. 12 plates, in text illustrations. Dating their instruments before 1909 is difficult but this edition greatly expanded the size of the 1868 edition published after the Civil War and it shows the improved instruments used such as the plates..... More
8" x 10" on Robert Stanton Baum letterhead, 1105 North College Avenue, Claremont California, November 1, 1948. A Phoenix resident, Dexter Parks, wrote on his Oz Collection. Robert Stanton Baum (often known as R S Baum) was the second of our sons of L. Frank Baum and Maud Gage Baum..... More
Kansas City Missouri: Kelley Milling Company, 1909. 2 3/4 x 4 1/4" 4 leaves, a blank book, that says they know more about milling and distribution of flour than anyone so they imply there is no point in offering a detailed guide to their processes. The Company was a major..... More
Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1950. First Edition. 265p.index, bibliography, eleven other illustrations. 2 folded color maps in rear pocket. Octavo. The frontispiece has rich color painting by Keith Eddington which shows Escalante and an Indian viewing the Utah Valley. A very good copy with some fading to..... More
Montana; September 13, 1894: Fort Belknap Agency. Quarto. Major Joseph M. Kelley (1844-1911) spent his military career first as Captain of the 10th Colored Cavalry known as the "Buffalo Soldiers" at various posts including Fort Grant, Arizona until he received the rank of Major in 1893 and served at the..... More
Robert Ibbitson: London: Golden Cockerel, 1936, 1654. Small Octavo. 8p. loose leaf extract (p. 4335-4342) An important example of how strong censorship became under Oliver Cromwell. The Licensing Order of 1643 had already been attacked by John Milton in his Areopagitica. (The act was not repealed until 1695). "Then Parliament..... More
Capetown: Bergman, 1971. Octavo. 2nd enlarged edition. 65p. extensive photographs of paper money including the rare Cape of Good Hope 1802 and 1804 with a complete list of the private banks that issued money. A fine bright copy bound in brick stiff paper wraps lettered in black, spine lettering black..... More
[San Francisco: 1919]: The Book Club of California. Quarto. The photograph by Gabriel Moulin of Millet's famous picture which ispired the Markham's poem was to accompnay the book. The photograph is tipped into a decorative folder with text on the front panel within a floral border in blue, ruled in..... More