One Hundred New and Valuable Receipts
by Anon. - HOUSEHOLD BROADSIDE
[Pennsylvania], ca1870?. As issued.. Very good; old folds with minor separations. Folio, meas. appx. 485 x 328 mm.; milled paper no watermark. Printed in four columns. A general list of household recipes, cures, cleaning preparations, white wash, "whiskey vinegar", a way to compute interest - you get the idea.This sort of thing did not survive use for very long especially if folded instead of hung. Unlocated.
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Eine wahre und approbirte Kunst in Feuers-Brunsten und Pestilenz-Zeit nützlich zu gebrauchen
by Anon. - POW-WOW BROADSIDE
[Pennsylvania]: Unknown publisher, ca1810. As issued.. Good; some toning and edge chipping to the sheet; tide mark.. Broadside meas. appx. 260 x 210 mm. Printed on laid paper, no watermark. Text enclosed by an ornamental border The use of prayers for protection against fires and natural disasters was a commonplace among the PA Germans. It was a natural step from religious prayer to the printed broadside house blessing. Such emigrant traditions came west to America. It is also worth noting... Read More
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Das ewige Leben und die ewige Verdammniss. Das Neue Jerusalem.
by Anon. - PA GERMAN DEVOTIONAL BROADSIDE
Lancaster, PA: H W Villee, 1820 - 1830. Unknown.. As issued.. Good; paper toned; folded at one time; two marginal tears into the printed border (no loss); two small punctures filled at some past date; tape residue on verso.. Broadside, original stencil and hand-coloring, measuring appx. 330 x 413 mm. The earliest of 6 versions that are located in the scant institutional holdings (see German Language Broadsides in North America) exhibiting the best color scheme for... Read More
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Die wunderbare Geschichte von Concordia ....
by Anon. - HANDCOLORED BROADSIDE
[Ephrata?]: [Joseph Bauman?], ca1800. Edition not known.. Not bound.. Good; irregular marginal trimming; old folds.. Broadside appx. 280 x 220 mm embellished with a hand-colored woodcut of Concordia appx. 140 x 70 mm "One of the most unusual of the German ballads ...." The tale is of a girl who visits paradise and returns after what she believes is a few hours but in reality is over a century. According to Yoder this ballad was... Read More
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For Sale. ' Valentine's Garden ' and ' Burgundy ' ... valuable farm of the late Henry West, of Rockville, Md. ....
by Anon. - LAND DEVELOPMENT BROADSIDE
Washington D C: Edwin Higgins Att'y., ca 1875. First Edition.. As issued.. Good with separation along folds and marginal tears.. Broadside. The illustrations are color tinted plans. A superb land development and sale broadside of Rockville and its surrounding area. The two farms in the West estate comprised some 500 acres or more between Rockville and modern day Gaithersburg. The railroad lines ( including a proposed branch of the Great Southern) are shown as are the main turnpike... Read More
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Star Atlas of the American Association of Variable Star Observers ... for the Epoch 1900 ... from Revised Harvard Photometry ....
by Brocchi, D[almiro] F[rancis]
[Cambridge]: Harvard College Observatory, 1936. First Edition. Punched holes with text secured by brass fold-over pins.. Very good; some wear at the edges.. Small folio, meas ppx. 380 x 310 mm; [4] pp + 20 leaves of plates. Printed recto only; entirely printed as "blueprints". Inserted is a black and white rendering of a moonscape - a view looking south from Gassendi by F Chollar and R Porter; meas. appx. 234 x 357 mm.; printed on cloth.... Read More
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Wir Luftschiffer. Die Entwicklung der modernen Luftschifttechnik in Einzeldarstellungen
by Brockelmann , D - AERONAUTICS
Berlin: Ullstein, 1909. First Edition.. Original publisher's yellow cloth (balloon cloth material?).. Very good.. Large 8vo, [10], 433, [3] pp. + frontispiece and 2 folding plates, 5 inserted plates (other plates are part of the pagination), and numerous text illustrations. Printed on glazed paper. An exhaustive history of ballooning and its development, especially in Germany. The book is invaluable for its photographic reproductions of club ascents and technical information.
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Pathological and Surgical Observations on the Diseases of the Joints.
by Brodie, Benjamin Collins
Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner ...., 1821. First American Edition.. Full contemporary calf.. Very good; light toning; tide mark to the lower corner and edge of several leaves.. 8vo, viii, [1] - 329, [1] pp. + 6 lithographic plates (2 colored). G-M #4311 for the English edition.
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The Domestic Manufacturer's Assistant and Family Directory, in the Arts of Weaving and Dyeing ... a Plain System of Directions ... Cotton and Woolen Goods ....
by Bronson, J & R - WEAVING & DYEING
Utica: William Williams, 1817. First Edition. Full contemporary calf; gilt ruled spine with leather label.. Very good; some toning.. 12mo, 204 pp. Illustrated throughout. The errata is affixed to the rear pastedown. The pagination in the K signature is erratic, but complete. First edition, uncommon. This was one of the more useful of early 19th-century craft manuals. It is especially valuable for its material on weaving and for its patterns of coverlets and carpets. S & S #40323; Rink #3307;... Read More
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The Domestic Manufacturer's Assistant and Family Directory, in the Arts of Weaving and Dyeing ... a Plain System of Directions ... Cotton and Woolen Goods ....
by Bronson, J & R - WEAVING & DYEING
Utica: William Williams, 1817. First Edition. Full contemporary calf; gilt ruled spine with leather label.. Very good; some toning.. 12mo, 204 pp. Illustrated throughout. The errata is affixed to the rear pastedown. The pagination in the K signature is erratic, but complete. First edition, uncommon. This was one of the more useful of early 19th-century craft manuals. It is especially valuable for its material on weaving and for its patterns of coverlets and carpets. S... Read More
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Photographies Stereoscopiques sur verre en tons chauds - Fontainebleau
by Lumiere Bros.
[Lyon]: Lumiere Bros., ca 1930. Boxed as issued.. Fine condition throughout; second series wanting the printed list; may want 2 slides.. Three boxes of glass slides containing 34 slides with individual glassine sleeves and the viewer. Glass, positive, stereoscopic photographic views of Fontainebleau, illustrating the facade details, interiors, fountains, grottoes, and pools. Each box comes with a folded sheet of printed legends that identify the views (the second series box is without the leaf of explanatory text).... Read More
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On Irritation and Insanity ... to which are added Two Tracts on Materialism, and an outline of the Association of Ideas
by Broussais F J ( Cooper, T trans.)
Columbia (S C): S J M'Morris, March 1831. First English Edition.. Original publisher's linen backed boards. . Good; the paper cover of rear board has been torn away; rear board is chipped at the extremities; backstrip re-glued to cover; tide marks; untrimmed.. 8vo, xxv, [3 - errata], [23] - 408 pp. + two portraits. The Contents and Errata are bound out of sequence. An interesting book translated by an important American scientist. Cooper is best known for... Read More
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A Treatise on the Construction and Use of Milling Machines ....
by Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co.
Providence: Brown & Sharpe, 1894. Later Printing?. orig. publisher's cloth.. A good copy in a bright binding but with interior dusty.. 8vo. There are illus. throughout. his is essentially a trade catalog for all kinds of plain and universal milling machines, cutters, drives, details etc.. A very good guide to the products of the firm who would soon become the standard in the field.
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Cases of Orthopedic Surgery Read Before the Massachusetts Medical Society ....
by Brown, Buckminster
Boston: D Clapp, 1868. First Edition.. Original publisher's black cloth with gilt stamping.. Very good with some wear to the margins of the binding; small inst. stamp on the title; old gum label on the spine.. 8vo, [5], 6 - 24, [4] pp. + 8 mounted photographic plates inserted. Brown was the first American physician and surgeon to limit his practice to orthopedics. He graduated from Harvard and then spent two years in Europe at the side of... Read More
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Reports of Cases in the Boston Orthopedic Institution ... Deformities of the Human Frame ....
by Brown, John B
Boston: D Clapp Jr., 1845. First Edition. Stitched as issued.. Good; dust soiling.. 8vo, 35 pp. with text illustrations. According to Rutkow, orthopedic surgery as a specialty made its appearance in America in 1838 when John B Brown opened the Boston Orthopedic Institution - the first such specialized hospital in America. Twenty of the city's most prominent surgeons offered their services without fee at the hospital. Brown was responsible for developing and applying the surgical "remedy" for... Read More
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Bearing South. Antarctica at Sea ....
by Brown, Warren & John Gore Grimes - ANTARCTIC
Colorado Springs: Press at Colorado College, 1991. First Edition. Limited to 50 copies.. Original blue/green fine linen cloth and slipcase.. Fine.. Oblong small folio. 50 unnumbered pages of thick watercolor paper. Illustrated with 28 mounted black and white photographs (appx. 3 x 4 inches) by Stuart Klipper. Printed recto only. Signed by the printer, designer, and photographer. This #9 of 50 copies. The record of a 4000 mile sailing journey from Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands to... Read More
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The Tract of Gowers
by Bruce, N - NEUROLOGY
London: Qrtrly. Jour. of Exp. Physiology, 1910. OFFPRINT.. Original publisher's printed wrappers. A very good copy.. 4to. There are text illus. . Bruce's work on the the cells that originate Gower's tract or Gower's bundle.
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Elektrizitätszähler für Gleich, Wechsel - und Drehstrom, deren Theorie, Beschreibung und Eichung
by Bruckmann, H W L
Leipzig: O Leiner, 1914. First Edition.. Original stamped publisher's cloth.. Fine.. Large 8vo, viii, [1] - 224, [8 - adverts] pp. + 3 large folding plates and numerous text illus. and halftones. A superb insight into what must be one of the more esoteric but nonetheless important aspects of commercial electrical development. Bruckmann's book is an encyclopaedic account of the theory and construction behind all kinds of electrical metering devices. The book is filled with informative cutaway views... Read More
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Praxis Medicinae, or, The Physicians Practise ... Explaining the Nature of Each Disease ... with Direction for the Diet ... Cures ....
by Bruel, Walter
London: John Norton for William Sheares, 1639. Second Enlarged English Edition.. Modern leather in a period style.. Very good, with some toning and occasional spotting; good margins; small tear part way into p. 373 with marginal paper flaw (no loss).. Small 4to, [4], 407 pp. [there is one leaf of the index bound out of place]. Mettler comments that this book was, 'one of the most popular therapeutic works in the middle of the seventeenth century'. The book... Read More
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Glandulae Duodeni seu Pancreas ... accedit Dissertatio de Glandula Pituitaria
by Brunner, J C von - DIABETES - NEUROLOGY
Frankfurt & Heidelberg: Joh. Maximilian. `a Sande, 1715. First Edition.. Contemporary three-quarter leather.. Very good; bright; front joint broken and cover detached.. Small 4to, [14], [2 - blank], 199, [1 - errata] pp. + large engraved folding plate (composed of two joined sheets). Brunner was a noted 17th century pathologist. This tract brings together two of his most important works. The first contains the discovery of 'Brunner's Glands' and his near discovery of pancreatic diabetes. The second is... Read More
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{25} Plantes de l'herbier ... comprenant principalement la flore des environs de Rosenlaui, Faulhorn, Grimsel & Furca
by Brunner, J - PLANT COLLECTION
[Geneva?]: [F Bruel?], ca1850. Edition Unknown. Original paste-paper box.. Very good; some wear to the edges of the box and joints. The samples are quite fresh and complete.. Oblong paste paper box (130 x 235 mm) covered in printed glazed paper with cotton ties. The number 25 is hand inscribed before the printed label/ title on the inside front cover. Each sample sheet has a printed label (Latin name) affixed. "Grand-Tour" souvenir? An appealing artifact. Rare - OCLC not showing... Read More
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Hallucinations and Allied Mental Phenomena
by Brunton, L
London: Jour. of Mental Science, 1910. OFFPRINT.. orig. prtd. wrappers... A very good copy.. 8vo. An early and well illus. research paper.
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Manual of Determinative Mineralogy with an Introduction on Blow - Pipe Analysis
by Brush, G J - MINERALOGY
New York: John Wiley & Son, 1875. First Edition.. Original publisher's cloth.. A good copy; some overall wear to the cloth.. Large 8vo, [6], [1] - 104, 16 - adverts dated January, 1875, pp; with numerous text illustrations. Note: The second half of the text is made up of 2 page tables of various minerals and non-minerals; pages 97-104 are an index. The book is printed on an unusual thick paper. Brush was an important contributor to Dana's... Read More
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Christian Researches in Asia, with Notices of Translation of the Scriptures into the Oriental Languages ....
by Buchanan, C - TRANSLATIONS
St Clairsville [Ohio]: Joseph W White, 1816. First American Edition.. Original printed paper boards. . Fair; tide marks throughout and wear to the covers.. 8vo. An interesting book on the translation of the scriptures with an exotic provincial American imprint. S & S #37114.
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Domestic Medicine: or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases ... - BOUND WITH - Advice to Mothers, on the Subject of Their Own Health
by Buchan, W
Charleston, SC: Printed and Sold by John Hoff ...., 1807. First Charleston Edition, Enlarged". Full contemporary calf.. Very good; some spotting and toning; binding scuffed and spine label chipped.. 8vo, xxxi, [1 - blank], [33] - 482 pp.; II - vi, [7] - 120 pp. A rare southern edition of the medical classic. An editorial note printed after the title states that there are additions to the text that are identified. This copy purchased by Paul Black in... Read More
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