Titles starting with H from Rulon-Miller Books

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. [1961]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [3], 367; 8 illus. on rectos and versos of 4 plates; jacket slightly rubbed, else fine. ... more information

Mystic, CT: The Marine Historical Association. 1961. The Marine Historical Association publication number 38, 8vo, pp. 63; map, plans, illustrations; original beige pictorial wrappers, edges of wrappers rubbed with one small chip, else very good. A fascinating look at the three and a half year old "seventy-four" which wrecked near Montauk Point in 1780. ... more information

n.p. [Milwaukee]: Excelsion Publishing Co., n.d.. [ca. 1890]. 8vo, pp. [iii]-vi, 7-802; frontispiece portrait, folding color map, 5 chromolithograph plates, and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text, many full-p.; original pictorial tan cloth stamped in gilt and black; fine copy. A subscription publication which appeared under several imprints, including Hubbard Bros., Philadelphia; E. R. Curtis, Cincinnati; and, Union Publishing House, New York. ... more information

St. Paul: [n.p.].. 1904. “Second Autograph Edition” (signed at preface), 8vo, 384pp., 7 photographic plates; a very good copy in the original red cloth gilt, very slightly soiled. A volume of political reminiscences gathered during a long career devoted to journalism by the man who established the St. Paul Dispatch in 1868. ... more information

London: printed by George E. Eyre and WIlliam Spottiswoode. 1853. First edition, royal 8vo, pp. lxii, 482; folding chromolithograph plate; ex-library copy with usual markings, pages slightly browned, hinges cracked, spine faded with small cracks in ends, covers scuffed, else good or better in original purple cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Thomas describes the purpose of the Hand-Book: “It is intended to exhibit the various classes of records and documents, and much information contained therein, analy... more information

Paris: Garnier Freres. [1868]. 2 volumes, 12mo; few pages with mended small tears, edges and corners rubbed, joints rubbed, covers soiled, else very good in contemporary half red calf gilt, black leather labels gilt on spines, over marbled boards, t.e.g. Ex-MHS. ... more information

London: printed for Henry Rhodes [et al.]. 1703. 12mo, collating A1-A2, B1-O6, Aa1-Rr6, and two blank flyleaves; text in double column; headband loose at both ends and partially lacking at tail, joints starting, extremities rubbed, else a nice, unrestored copy in orig. full calf, marbled edges. An enigmatic little book, mostly pertaining to classical history, in the design of a gazetteer, "useful for schools and all young gentlemen to know the time, when each great man liv'd, and the remarkable act... more information

Montreal: Armour and Ramsay. 1850. 12mo, pp. viii, 225; pages browned, slight scattered foxing, one signature starting, hinges cracked, small area of cloth on lower cover torn off, spine ends frayed; fair in original brown cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover. Ex-MHS. Sabin 73743. ... more information

London: Longmans, Green, and Co.. 1906. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii-[xiv], 336; 8 plates; very good in original blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Lang's aim is to prove that “the Homeric epics…present a perfectly harmonious picture of the entire life and civilization of one single age” (1), using internal evidence and archaeological findings. Ex-MHS. ... more information

New York: Macmillan. 1947. Small 4to, pp. 778; text in double column; very good copy in the dust- jacket. The first Hortus was published in 1930 to cover the inventories of cultivated plants in North America. A reprint was published in 1935, with a large Supplement. "Now comes Hortus Second … not a reprint, but a new work set in a different type to bring the continuing enterprise up to date" (jacket blurb). ... more information

Cambridge: Harvard College Library. 1967. Folio, xiv-[xvi] & 255-[256]pp., 10 color plates, numerous illustrations throughout of manuscripts, bindings, maps, and printed books from Harvard's diverse collections; fine copy in orig. black cloth gilt, t.e.g., with publisher's announcement and presentation slip laid in. ... more information

Boston: The Merrymount Press, various dates.. Eight volumes, 8vo, dec. ruled and bordered title-pages printed in red and black, rubricated throughout; all in orig. linen-backed dark green paper- covered boards, dec. gilt brown morocco labels on spines; mostly unopened, mostly very good to near fine. Volume I: Thoughts on Art and Life by Leonardo Da Vinci. Translated by Maurice Baring. 1906. Edition limited to 103 copies; spine somewhat darkened; prospectus for Series I and II, with all titles listed, laid i... more information

Harrisburg: Stackpole and Heck. [1948]. First edition, large 4to, pp. xx, 1152 including 18pp. of color plates; text in double column, illustrated throughout; very good in orig. brown cloth. Extensive compendium of all aspects of hunting, including dogs, firearms and ammo, all sorts of birds, fish, and mammals, and a miscellaneous section with chapters on archery, back-packing, knives, canoes, ferreting, photography, preservation of meat, snowshoes, tanning hides, etc. ... more information

London: Elliot Stock. 1887. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 85, [1]; original terracotta cloth, gilt lettering on spine; a bit spotted, but a very good copy. "The following chapters are reprinted, with slight modification, from the 'Academy,' where they appeared from April 30th to August 13th, 1887." ... more information

Basileae: in officina Frobeniana per Hieronymum Frobenium, & Nicolaum Episcopium. 1538. Folio, pp. [28], 398 (i.e. 389), [11]; woodcut printer's device on title and colophon, numerous woodcut initials throughout; full 18th century calf, gilt-decorated spine, the initials of an early owner ("M.S.J.S.R.") in the third compartment, edges stained red; S2 bound before S3; a very good, sound copy. An early edition of Erasmus's edition of Terence's plays. Compared to Erasmus's own wri... more information

[1987]. Edition limited to 500 copies, this being no. 131; 8vo; pp. [2], 81; 6 illustrations on 2 plates printed recto/verso; fine copy in original paper wrappers. ... more information

New York: Prentice-Hall. [1947]. First edition, small 8vo, pp. xii, 259; plates, endpaper maps; fine in original taupe cloth stamped in blue, dust-jacket with minor edgewear. The author tells of her three trips to Guatemala along with background, history and legends. ... more information

Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. 1984. First edition, review copy with publisher's slip laid in; 8vo, pp. xxv, [5], 555; 20 illustrations; generally fine in original blue cloth. ... more information

Minneapolis. 1934. Edition limited to 200 copies, 8vo, pp. 82, [2]; fine in orig. blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Fifty-four poems by 16 poets, as judged by Louis Untermeyer, Arthur Guiterman and Witter Bynner, among others. The first cloth-bound book issued by the press. Press Preterite 23. ... more information

San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 1978. First edition, oblong 8vo, pp. 91, [5]; profusely illustrated in color and b&w; faint waterstain on rear wrapper and last few leaves, else very good in original pictorial wrappers. An exhibition organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in cooperation with The Hand Bookbinders of California. ... more information