Album containing just under 400 photographs showing an unidentified party's extensive travels in North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia) and Europe (France, Switzerland, Spain) in 1922-23. The photos are all sequentially numbered (1409-1807) and have typed captions in French. The album is labeled "Volumen IV", but we have only this volume. The..... Item #23090
Very good. Original 8 x 10 photograph, uncredited and undated, showing five parade floats with messaging from the John F. Barker Produce Company, a Phoenix-based fruit and vegetable wholesaler incorporated in 1914. This photo may date from April 1925, when an article in the Arizona Republic notes the company's participation..... Item #23088
Hutchinson, KS: Printed by the News Co. for the Hutchinson Commercial Club, [1908]. Softcover. Very good. 5.75" x 8.75", [48] pp., illustrated, in original pictorial wrappers. Light handling wear; very good. A nicely produced promotional book with many interesting illustrations showing the range of commercial and industrial activity (not just..... Item #23087
Rome, GA: Merchants and Manufacturers Association of Rome, Georgia, Floyd County, U.S.A., 1906. Softcover. very good-. 6" x 5.25", [23] pp, in stapled wrappers. Vertical folding crease, small split at base of spine, otherwise very good. A primarily pictorial promotional book with 5 pages of text describing the virtues of..... Item #23086
Sydney: Bloxham and Chambers, 1928. Softcover. Near fine. Travel/promotional brochure, 9"x 8" (folding to 9" x 4"), 32 pp, with three full-color illustrations by Percy Trompf on the wrappers, many half-tone photographs inside. Near fine, with minor handling wear.This beautifully illustrated brochure promotes Australia as "The Land of Opportunity!" for..... Item #23080
New York: J.Q. Preble. Softcover. Good. Alphabet book. Undated, ca. 1850s. 10.25 x 7 inches, 8 pp printed on one side only, extensively illustrated with hand-colored engravings. A good copy with chips and tears to edges, amateur linen repair to spine resulting in binding being too tight at gutter, with..... Item #23079
Skagway, Alaska: The Daily Alaskan, [1910]. Softcover. Good. 5.25" x 7", 52 unnumbered pages, with many illustrations from photographs. Light soiling, chipping and short tears to wrappers, some gatherings detached from staples; good. Scarce booklet sponsored by the Skagway Commercial Club, an organization founded in 1909 to promote tourism to..... Item #23070
Very good. Three 8" x 10" photographs, one credited on the verso to Orby G. Kelley Jr., a photographer who worked for the Virginian-Pilot newspaper (Norfolk, VA) in the 1950s, the other two unmarked. The credited photo is an informal portrait of Charles Manuel Grace (1881-1960) -- born Marcelino Manuel..... Item #23066
London: J. Dodsley, 1775-1785. Hardcover. Very good. Sammelband containing seven speeches by Edmund Burke, all issued in pamphlet form by Dodsley. In modern binding of three quarter leather and marbled boards, first speech with previous owner's annotations on title page (trimmed), some speeches with scattered foxing but generally very good..... Item #23061
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. 701 pp, with illustrations, maps, index. Fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with minor creasing and small chips. Part of the University of Chicago Publications in Anthropology, Ethnological Series. Goodwin describes and compares..... Item #23060
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1856. Hardcover. Very good. Early reprint. Quarto (10.75 x 7.75 inches), pp xxiv, 26-712, with 33 plates (of 36 in the List of Plates, lacking #6, 9, and 29), additional wood-engraved illustrations in the text. In original three quarter leather and marbled boards with marbled..... Item #23059
Wichita, KS: 1932. Very good. Volume I, Number 1 of this newspaper published by the Wichita Opportunity School, which offered adult education and vocational training. Approx. 18" x 12.5", 4 pp, on good-quality coated stock. Folding creases, otherwise minimal wear. The Opportunity School was founded in 1912 as the Wichita..... Item #23058
San Diego, CA: San Diego Museum of Man, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. 8.5 x 11 inches, stapled. 11 pp, with bibliography and 12 b/w illustrations (photos). Sticker shadow on front cover, internals fine. Describes the practice of the Zapotec Indians of eating earth as a preventive and curative medicine..... Item #23057
Philadelphia and New York: George S. Appleton and D. Appleton & Co., 1849. Hardcover. Very good. A scarce early American crochet manual. Probable first edition (copyright 1848, but no examples of an 1848 edition found in OCLC). 11.5 cm, 64 pp, in original brown cloth with gilt vignette on front..... Item #23052
London: Macmillan, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition, with additional chapters. xxxii, 507 pp + 4 pp ads. Index, frontis portrait, 27 plates from photographs, folding map of Tropical West Africa. Foxing to front matter, small stain on spine, else clean and sound. No dust jacket. Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862-1900)..... Item #23050
Chicago: P.F. Volland, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 10" x 9", unpaginated, in original illustrated pink and black paper-covered boards, with color-illustrated endpapers and many color illustrations. Some soiling on page margins, ownership inscription on front free endpaper. First title in the scarce Volland Hug-Me Toy Book series, lacking the..... Item #23048
San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1951. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 27 pp, in printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies printed by Grant Dahlstron at the Castle Press, with cover and initials by Bradley, exhibition and handlist prepared by Carey Bliss. Moderate edgewear to wrappers, internals fine. Item #23046
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 667 pp, indexed, illustrated with 24 plates (all paleontological). Bound in original three-quarter leather and black cloth, with marbled edges and endpapers. Leather scuffed at corners and joints, binding sound, contents very clean. "The U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth..... Item #23044
Hartford, Conn. Columbian Book Company, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. 8vo, 602 pp, with engraved frontispiece portrait of Joseph Meek, plates, engravings in text. Original cloth with gilt vignette of grizzly bear on front board. Spine sunned but legible, one signature partly sprung, otherwise very good. Biography of mountain..... Item #23042
Philadelphia: C.A. Conrad et al. 1810. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Text volume only, complete as issued with frontispiece and tables, but no maps or charts, which were issued in a separate volume. 8vo, pp. [7], 105, [11], [107]-277, [5], 65, [1], 53 [1] 87, in contemporary full-calf binding. Scuffing, loss..... Item #23040
Philadelphia, London, Toronto, Melbourne, and Shanghai: China Inland Mission, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 165 pp, with illustrations from photographs, in original blue cloth. Minor wear to extremities, previous owners' names, address label, and light staining on front free endpaper, otherwise clean and sound. Biography of Margaret King, a...... Item #23039
Softcover. Near fine. No publication given, but a note at the back indicates the book was "sponsored by the East Side Thimble Club." 6 x 9 inches, unpaginated, but ca. 60 pp, with photographic illustrations. Minor wear to the cheerful pictorial wrappers, internals fine. An interesting compilation of short articles..... Item #23037
Fair Lawn, NJ: Essential Books, 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. 237 pp, illustrated with b/w photos, maps. Minor offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a fine copy, in a very good dust jacket with a small loss along the front joint and short tear..... Item #23036
1919. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 103 pp, illustrated. Small stain at top margin of front wrapper, slight wear at corners, binding tight, text clean. "Forbes was at one time keeper of the Spanish and Mexican Archives of the U.S. Surveyor General, and out of his broad knowledge of Spanish..... Item #23034
Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1968-1974, 1988-1997. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Nine volumes, including The Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771 (1968 reprint); The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775 (1969 reprint); The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780..... Item #23033
