Titles starting with Q from Margolis & Moss

Paris: Imprimerie Seringe Freres, 1875. 46 pages. Illustrated with 18 mounted albumen photographs from drawings, by the noted French photographer Pierre Petit, with his printed name on the mounts. The images measure 2 1/2 x 4 inches. Large octavo 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. Red morocco backed marbled boards; original printed wrappers bound in. A fine, bright copy. The frontispiece, a photograph of two playing cards, is followed by seventeen photographs that depict satirical caricatures by an anonymous artis... more information

Paris, 1892. 58 pages. With one folding chart. Octavo, 10 x 6 1/2 inches. Printed wrappers, edge of wrappers chipped. This pamphlet contains two works: Marsy, Comte de. L'INFLUENCE DES OEUVRES DE PIERRE D'AILLY SUR LES PROJETS DE CHRISTOPHE COLOMB. and, Morel, Abbe Emile. JEAN-FRANCOIS DE LA ROQUE, SEIGNEUR DE ROBERVAL VICE-ROI DU CANADA. Our copy is inscribed in ink by Marsy to Marquis de Croizier. ... more information

New York: The Grolier Club, 1921. 19 pages. Narrow quarto, cloth backed marbled boards; paper label; label chipped. One of 300 copies on Van Gelder paper printed by John Henry Nash. It is one of a series of six books done by by eminent American printers at the invitation of the Grolier Club. ... more information

New York, circa 1940. Folding colored map of New York City and vicinity, showing the recently opened Queens Midtown Tunnel. On Verso is a close up map, text and photographic illustrations of the interior of the tunnel. 17 x 20 inches. The tunnel opened in November of 1940 and was the first tunnel to connect Manhattan to Long Island. "The Queens Midtown Tunnel is most attractive in appearance, ideally illuminated and scientifically air conditioned. Use it to save time, miles and gas..." - Te... more information

Centerburg, (Ohio): D. Wolfe and A. T. Selby, 1850. [2],36 pages. 5 x 3 1/4 inches. Brown paper wrappers. An unusual imprint. "In offering these Questions to the public in the present form, we have been impelled, more, by a desire of showing the reader, in a plan and comprehensive, and yet brief and concise manner, the utter absurdity of Orthodox notions..." - Prefatory Remarks. There follows 250 questions and a group of hymns. ... more information

(New Haven, 1836 ?). Small silk ribbon measuring 6 x 1 inches, with printed title and illustration. Folded and lightly soiled; pencil notations on verso. In 1638, Momauguin, the Grand Sachem of the Quinnipiac tribe, signed the first treaty with the English planters at Quinnipiac (New Haven, Connecticut). This ribbon most likely celebrates the bicentennial of this grand event. ... more information

London: The Punch Office, 1846. 87 pages. Frontispiece and numerous wood-engravings by John Leech. Twelvemo (6 1/2 x 4 inches); half-green morocco by Lauriat of Boston; spine faded to brown, hinges showing wear. First edtion. A'Beckett's biting satire on the contemporary British stage. While contributing to "Punch" and his famous "Comic Histories," A'Beckett became active in writing and producing plays. During his short life (1811-1856) he wrote fifty to sixty plays. Amongst... more information