New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, [1917]. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 5" x 7.25", 89 pp, in original wrappers. Good only: three inches of the backstrip missing, crease at upper corner of front wrapper with archival tape reinforcement on the verso, old dampstain to margins of first 40 pp. Text..... Item #21669
Ruthin: The Taliesin Press, 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. Large quarto, in a nineteenth century binding of dark purple pebbled cloth with burgundy leather spine and corners, gilt spine lettering, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Complete with five plates. Extremities scuffed, bookplate removed from front pastedown, leaving an area..... Item #21667
Vienna: Joseph Noble de Kurzbek, 1788. Hardcover. Good. Folio, 37 cm (ca. 14.5 inches), pp. [14], 77 + 40 plates drawn by Kiblerand engraved by Kohl, Mark, Schülz, Ponheimer, Mansfeld, Adam, and Durmer. Contemporary leather boards, rebacked (probably in the nineteenth century). Spine panel now partially separated from rear board..... Item #21666
Cologne: Chez Charles Savoret, 1741. Softcover. Very good. 12mo, 216 pp, in lavender silk wrappers, all edges gilt. Some fraying to edges of wrappers, a bit of rippling to the text block, very good overall. "Par le sieur des Lauriers" written in small, light handwriting on the title page. Bruscambille..... Item #21664
New York: Blaisdell Publishing Company, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 525 pp, indexed, bound in original blue cloth. Minor abrasion to rear board near the spine, slight ripple to text block. Binding tight, text clean. First edition of an important mathematical textbook. Apostol was an analytic number theorist and..... Item #21663
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1924. Hardcover. Near fine. Revision of the 1919 edition. 158 pp, illustrated with diagrams and halftone photographs. Minor rubbing to corners, otherwise a fine copy in original tan cloth with red spine label. A text for the instruction of student officers. Among the topics covered: smokeless..... Item #21662
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1882. Hardcover. Good+. 496 pp, with 322 illustrations, in wonderful pictorial cloth binding with images of an octopus, flamingos, and more. Wear to corners and spine ends and a few spots of abrasion on front board, front hinge a bit loose, a few pages..... Item #21660
New York: Harcout, Brace, and Company, 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. fine in a fair dust jacket. 136 pp. indexed. A fine copy in original green cloth binding. Dust jacket split at front joint (i.e., where the front panel meets the spine) and also has some chipping and a split..... Item #21659
New York and London: North American Review; British Esperanto Association. Undated. The first edition was published in 1906. This is the second edition, revised and enlarged. pp xix, 357 + 1-page ad for the British Esperanto Association. 6.5 x 4.25 inches, in original green cloth. Spine toned, light soiling to..... Item #21658
London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xv, 565 pp, in three-quarter morocco and marbled paper boards. Top edge gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers. Some rubbing and scuffing to the leather, small stain to fore edge. Binding sound, text clean. A defense of the work and philosophy of..... Item #21652
London: Robert Hale, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp xvi, 336, + [32] photographic plates. Index, frontis portrait of the author. Original blue cloth boards, light wear to extremities, some tonng to endpapers. Binding sound, text clean. Memoir of Philby's years as a diplomat and explorer in the Middle..... Item #21651
Los Angeles: Southern California Academy of Sciences, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 212 pp, with illustrations from photographs, folding map. Corners lightly bumped, else a fine copy in the original dust jacket, which has one small tear to the rear panel. Publisher's prospectus or advertising circular for the book..... Item #21650
7" x 11" strong-tied album belonging to Vivian Harriet Hansen (1911-1998) of Montevideo, Minnesota, containing 200 b/w photos, corner-mounted on both sides of 48 leaves. The majority of photos are 3.25" x 5.5", about 30 are smaller. Vivian Hansen was the daughter of Hiram Eugene Hansen, a breeder of Angus..... Item #21649
St. Louis: Paris Medicine Company, [1897]. Softcover. Good. Memorandum book given away by the Paris Medicine Company, with space for making notes on rectos and advertisements and testimonials on the versos. The majority of the text is in English, but there are also ads in French, Spanish, German, and Czech..... Item #21645
Milwaukee: Geo. Brunder, [1883]. Softcover. Good. 13 cm (ca. 5"), pp 110 , [2] (index); original sewn wrappers, with decorative initials and wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Final leaf (index of songs) and back cover are damaged, with some loss, chipping to corners of front cover; otherwise very good. An uncommon..... Item #21644
Very good. Burton Holmes (1870-1958) was an American writer, photographer, and filmmaker who perfected the art of the documentary travel lecture. He "coined the term travelogue in 1904 to advertise his unique live stage presentations combining stories of his travels with slides and motion pictures. Sophisticated and elegantly attired, Holmes..... Item #21642
National Wildlife Restoration Week, now known as National Wildlife Week, is the National Wildlife Federation’s longest-running public education program. When it was launched in March, 1938, the week was dedicated to establishing government responsibility for restoration and conservation of wildlife. Goals included securing adequate funding for the U.S. Bureau of..... Item #21635
Detroit: C.A. Newcomb, [1932]. Softcover. Very good. Viola V. Vincent was an entertainer who billed herself as a diseuse (monologist), performing a "mosaic of song and story" in which she spoke and sang in the accent and costume of women of different nations. This packet of materials produced by her..... Item #21631
London: Printed by A. White & Co. Beautifully designed folding tariff card for the Arundel Hotel located on Victoria Embankment in London. 9.5 x 12 cm (ca. 3.5" x 4.5"), printed in a deep brown ink on pale blue cardstock with decorative gilt borders. The first page lists charges for..... Item #21630
St. Louis: M. Peterson Hair Co., [1918]. Softcover. Good. 8 pp, 10" x 5.5, with a 1919 price list laid in. Complete, but fairly worn, and stamped on many pages (lest you forget) "Owing to the advance in the cost of raw material, prices are subject to change without notice."..... Item #21626
Philadelphia: Starkey & Palen, [1888]. Softcover. Good. 99 pp + [1] (index), 5.75 x 3.75 inches, with portraits of the authors and 11 full-page plates. Soiling, wrappers chipped; good. Accompanied by a 4" x 6" trade card advertising Compound Oxygen. George R. Starkey was an 1855 graduate of the Hahnemann..... Item #21621
Advertising handbill, approximately 8.5 x 5.5 inches, illustrated with a wonderful (or not, depending on your point of view) image of "A Flea Magnified." Some staining, old folding creases. Joseph Fusch trademarked his Eureka Insect Exterminator--guaranteed to kill fleas, flies, mosquitoes, bed bugs, ants , moths, lice, and cockroaches without..... Item #21613
Very good. Collection of 27 embroidered silk postcards created for use by Allied soldiers during the First World War. A few with light soilng or corner wear; overall very good. Although embroidered silk postcards were being produced as early as 1899, their popularity peaked during the war. According to the..... Item #21611
New York: Viking Press, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good- in a very good dust jacket. First printing, inscribed on the title page "Frances Clarke Sayers inscribeds this book to Shelley - with every good wish." Spine ends are rubbed and there is some discoloration to the top inch of..... Item #21600
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Hardcover. Very good. Bound manuscript, 9 x 7 inches, in contemporary quarter-leather and marbled boards with gilt title and floral decorations on spine. [335] pp, with several charts (two folding) and 86 meticulously drawn illustrations in black ink, as well as a few unfinished pencil drawings. No author name or..... Item #21590
