Arcadia, CA: Post-Era Books, 1978. Octavo. 45pp. Electronically copied from the 1933 original edition. Illustrated with company photographs. Bound in black cloth boards, with white titles and slot machine device; Original transparent dust jacket. More
Denver, CO: Andy Lowe Gold, 1925. Two nice pieces of gold mining stock with both from the Idaho Springs Mining Exchange and the actual stock of the Andy Lowe Gold Mining Company. One is the letter confirming the purchase with a note that condiitons at the mine are "most favorable"..... More
London: Printed and Sold By the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1691. Small Octavo. 10 pages, John Ashton was an official in the royal household and Jacobite conspirator who in 1688 lent James II's government 12,500 pounds but he distributed money for the Jacobian plot and he was captured at..... More
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1895. First Edition. Stapled Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 63pp. Graduate catalog, including calendar, faculty, scholarships, and fellowships. This catalog also includes a list of 1895 graduates, with their former college, Harvard department and thesis title. List of current resident graduate students..... More
London: R. Norton, for R. Royston, 1675. First Edition. Folio. Two parts in one. The first part, containing the Life of Christ, written by Jeremy Taylor, late Lord Bishop of Down Connor. The second, containing the Lives of the Apostles, with an enumeration, and some brief remarks upon their first..... More
Cambridge; 1881-1888: John Wilson & Son. Octavo. Eight volumes "Second - Ninth Annual Report of the Executive Committee 1880-1888" bound into one volume, each with original printed wrappers bound in. The fifth annual report contains a double paged map of Arizona and New Mexico showing Mr. Bandelier's route in 1873..... More
New York: W.H. Schieffelin & Company, 1890. 24p. Original paper edition of the product manufactured by Bayer of Germany. It was said to be used successfully for abscess, cancer, chancres on lips, penis, syphilis, eczema, endometritis, gangrene, lupus, tuberculosis, and varicose veins. The before and after pictures on pages 10..... More
Tucson: University of Arizona, 1977. Octavo. Volume 33, number 2. A collection of articles on Hemingway various writers. Hemingway's "Vulgar" ethic: Revaluating The Sun Also Rises, the search for celebration in The Sun Also Rises and The Great Garsby, Hemingways' novels: the shift in orthodoxy and symbolism, the meaning of..... More
Phoenix: State of Arizona, 1928. Small Octavo. 123 pages, [5] pages list of fairs and exhibitions around the country. Also cataloged under: Premium list, rules and regulations of the ... Arizona State Fair. While most of the item are based upon the agricultural prizes, Section H deals with the Fine..... More
Prescott, AZ: Gosham A. Bray Treasurer Tonto Basin Wagon Road, 1883. The check is issued to one Henry Burns under the authority of Gorham A. Bray, who was the Treasurer for the Tonto Basin Wagon Road Commissioners. Henry Burns worked nine days for $10. From an oral history by five..... More
A pristine stereographic card taken by Daniel Francis Mitchell who photographed Arizona views for sale from 1877. Mitchell also was in partnership with Baer and remained active in the territory until at least 1883. Accompanied with an envelope from the War Department Headquarers of Arizona addressed to Major A.J. McGonnigle..... More
San Francisco: 1881. Certificate issued in the Tombstone Mining District, Cachise [sic] County, Arizona Territory. 400,000 shares were offered at $25 per share (Capital Stock was $10,000,000). This is number #452. A pristine copy printed by the San Francisco printer Le Count Bros. In the contemporary work on the Territory..... More
Prescott, [AZ]: 1864. Slight variations in text from the printed published the next year (1865). Possibly W. Claude Jones copy. The printed version adds: "shall take effect and be in force from and after the passage of this act." Two page document signed by Governor John Goodwin, President of the..... More
Washington, John C. Rives. Folio. Vol. 1, No. 39, pp. [609] 610-622 describe in detail the Iuka-Corinth campaign, with the daily correspondence between Grant and Rosecrans, pp. 618-619 Abraham Lincoln's order of the blockade of Brownsville [Texas] relaxed, many other details for that week, from Joshua Chamberlain's move to Courts-Martial..... More
Los Angeles: Arroyo Guild, 1990. Octavo. 67 pages, 16 pages of ads. Facsimile. One of the highlights of George Whartons James work was this issue which brought together some of the finest designers and artisans of Southern California. Besides his article "Collecting Indian Baskets" and "Hanson Puthuff" is his editorial..... More
Direccion De Promocion Industrial, Comercial y Artesanal Del Gobierno Del Estado De Mexico, 1972. Hard Cover. Folio. 105pp. Color photographs. Mexican folk arts. More
National Gallery of Ireland Dublin 1974. First Edition. Original Paper Wrps. Besides examples of major Irish art, there are brief biographies of the major Irish artists at the back of the book. 113p. More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1848. Quarto. Frontispiece,[3]pp. list of maps, references of the battle of Blenheim and references to battle of Malplauet. [4] full page engravings of Marlborough’s arms and [7]pp. facsimile letters, along with 17 hand-colored maps of which 6 are full page (one was carefully mounted), the remaining..... More
Citta Del Vaticano: Pontifico Istituto Di Archeolgoia Cristian, 1978. Thick Quarto. . 2 volume set. Volume I. 685 pages, Vol. II, 603 pages. Plates, charts, photographs. Besides the set in the Vatican the only other recorded copy is at the Univ Complutense de Madrid. One of the great conferences on..... More
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While there are articles in the Arizona Republican on February 9, 1910 about the aviation event at the Territorial Fairgrounds, there are no photographs of the event. Card #1 postmarked Phoenix Feb 13, 1910 is a cyanotype photo of Louis Paulman "Making his record breaking flight for altitude 4600 feet"..... More
New York: Jan. 1942: McGraw-Hill Publishing, Quarto. 246 pp. First wartime issue of Aviation. Includes photo of newer stripped down version of the Sikorsky helicopter and long article on the fall of France, blamed on laborers demanding a 40-hour work week and other benefits. Much material on engineering and design..... More
Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, Inc, 1964. Octavo. 190pp., written anonymously, with notes and bibliography by Jerome Peltier. An eye witness account of the crimes of the Slade gang and originally published prior to the better known "Vigilantes of Montana" by Thomas J. Dimsdale, first issued in 1866.bound in light brown..... More
Wilmington: P. Brynbert, (Printer), 1809. 12mo. Rare American edition, 36pp., bound in plain gray wrappers, worn along spine with some paper loss, a bit of paper lost to upper right corner, internally clean. A very nice copy of this small early book. More
Philadelphia: R. Magee & Son, 1876. Stapled Wraps. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. 74pp. Large, folding map of the streets of Philadelphia. Illustrated with numerous scenes around Philadelphia. Facsimilies of posters and broadsides. In original orange paper boards, printed black, and brilliant blue cloth spine (panels rubbed, edgeworn)..... More
Nuremberg: Peter Conrad Monath, 1730. Octavo. 17, 1120, 320. Very rare. Only two recorded copies of the Morl edition (Erlangen, Nuremberg); none on OCLC. Second corrected edition. Introduction by Gustav Philipp Morl (1673-1750), Doring notes in The Learned Theologians of Germany in the 18th and 19th Centuries was important both..... More