Titles starting with E from Bartlebys Books

Indianapolis, IN:: Indianapolis Journal Co.,, 1877.. Trade catalogue. 8vo. 32 pp. 4-page inserted price list, dated March, 1877. Profusely illustrated with seven black and white wood-engraved plates, four large black and white illustrations in text, and five striking folding chromolithograph plates. Original printed green wrappers (foxed). Very good. A scarce catalogue of heavy agricultural machinery with five brilliantly colored folding plates, chromolithographed by Chandler, Indianapolis, depicting ... more information

Van Buren, AR: Press-Argus printers, 1952. First separate edition, an offprint from ARKANSAS HISTORICAL QUARTERLY, Spring issue, 1952. 8vo. 16 pp. Hunting in pre-Civil War Arkansas. Printed self-wrappers; stapled. Very good. ... more information

Dated Jan. 22, 1808. One page. Printed bond, filled in in long hand, allowing Luis Lofton, accused of theft & assault & battery, to remain at liberty until his trial. Very good. ... more information

Portland, ME:: The Bibliographical Society of America,, 1944.. Volume 38, No. 2 of THE PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, April, May, June 1944. 8vo. 87-268 pp. 22 folded plates following text. 1/1200 copies. Black-lettered brown paperwraps; stitched. Very good. ... more information

Baltimore,, 1944.. 8vo.; 132pp. Illus. Reprinted from orig. articles the author wrote for the Catonsville Argus newspaper. Very good. ... more information

Washington:: Columbia Historical Society,, 1912.. 1st ed. 8vo.; viii, 277pp., (1). Frontis. portrait & illus. Author's presentation copy ("Complements of the writer", at head of title page). Blind-stamped brown cloth; gilt lettering on spine. Lower corner of front cover & bottom of spine slightly mottled, else a very good copy. ... more information

New Haven, CT:: Bureau of American Ancestry,, 1896-1906.. Seven volumes in cloth. The first two volumes have indexes laid in; the last five have the indexes bound in. Dampstaining to lower outer margins of some pages in volume two, with a few pages having been stuck together at the corners, resulting in some tears, but no loss of text. A good set overall. ... more information

Ann Arbor, (MI):: U. of Michigan Press,, 1941.. 4to. 45 pp. 37 plates (title page facsimiles). Burgundy cloth, gilt title on spine, printed dust jacket (some soiling and fading). Very good copy. First edition. Inscribed by Karpinski in 1942. The books, 372 titles, were published 1493-1800; 121 title pages are illustrated. ... more information

Worcester, MA:: Press of Charles Hamilton,, 1898.. 1st ed. Tall 8vo. 11pp. Red three-quarter morocco (joints rubbed), gilt spine title, top edge gilt, original wrappers bound in, by Stikeman. A very good copy. Inscribed by the author to Paul L. Ford on the front wrapper; with an autograph note signed from Eames to Ford concerning a meeting tipped in. ... more information

(Philadelphia, PA):: Privately printed (at Ad-service Printing Co.),, 1922.. 8vo. 53 pp. Illustrated, tipped-in photographs, one of John Singer Sargent and the aboriculturalist Charles Sprague Sargent. Original gilt-stamped stiff brown wrappers. Very good. First edition. Signed by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), American portrait painter "rated as the equal of the best British eighteenth-century painters and doubtless the most masterful water colorist of his time, with the single exception of Winslow... more information

Oxford:: Clarendon Press,, 1985.. 8vo; xix, 616 pp.; ix, 666 pp. Illustrated with maps and figures. Very good in dust jackets, spines sunned. ... more information

London:: Richard Bentley & Sons,, 1884.. 8vo; xiv, 338 pp. [Vol. I], x, 365 pp. [Vol. II]. First edition. Extra-illustrated edition, with photographs, portraits, plates, autographs, and notes. Autographs include those of novelists Wilkie Collins, Charles Reade, and Geraldine Jewsbury, as well as Robert Peel and Susan B. Anthony. Very good in original three-quarter calf, gilt-decorated spine with five raised bands. Some slight fraying to bottom of spine of Volume I. Edmund Yates (1831-1894) was a Vict... more information

Bloomington, TN:: np,, 1887.. Broadside, 13 x 11 inches, an invitation to an "Educational Mass Meeting," set in several typefaces and sizes, among them display types as tall as 1 5/8 inches; signed in type "W.W. Baker, M.D., R. Pierce, A.M., W.F. Tilley, Committee of Board." Folded (one archival tape repair on verso); some light fraying at the edges, but very good. Invitation to "a rare intellectual...this rally is in the interest of the Bloomington College." The list of 12 sp... more information

Columbus, OH:: Hann & Adair,, 1885.. 8vo.; 77pp. Original printed stiff green wrappers. A very good copy. First edition. 763 species are included. ... more information

Chapel Hill:: UNC Press,, 1938.. 8vo. 198 pp. Title page facsimiles. Original blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Very good. First edition, 1/200 copies. ... more information

Lancaster, (PA):: Gedrucht bey Johann Albrecht,, nd [1799].. 8vo. 15 pp. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched. Very good untrimmed copy. First edition. Evans 35450: "A Federalist pamphlet, advocating James Ross for governor." This was the first of three failed gubernatorial attempts in his active political career that included helping to settle the Whiskey Insurrection and serving as U.S. senator. ... more information

El Paso, TX:: Gateway Club,, 1923.. Illus. paperwraps. 4to.; (30pp.). Photo illus. A promotional brochure. Very good. ... more information

Quito:: Imprenta Nacional, por Mariano Mosquera,, 1868.. 8vo. 29, (2) pp. Original printed wrappers (a little soiled). Very good. First edition. Description of the Pinchincha volcano in Ecuador. OCLC locates four copies (Indiana, Brown, two at Texas-Austin). ... more information

Encampment, WY, and Tyrone, PA:: The company,, (ca. 1920).. Oblong 4to. 19 pp. Original plain green wrappers; stapled. Very good. Mimeographed report and promotional. Includes the company's articles of incorporation, engineers' reports on the mine, descriptions of climate and geology, comments on its past and prospects for renewed development, etc. Unrecorded on OCLC (which does locate a 1906 plat map for the mine). ... more information

Folio 3 pp., printed in red and black. For $1650, Andrew O. Jackson of New Orleans purchased the 22-year-old slave Bedford, at auction from William H. Ryan of Charleston through C.E. Girardy & Co., Auctioneers, of New Orleans. Stapled and folded for filing in a mustard paper wrapper. ... more information