Late-19th Century Manuscript by an American, "Travels in the West Indies"
by [AMERICANA; manuscript travelogue]; Crawford, George A.
1875. Paperback. Near Fine. Original unpublished manuscript, black ink on lined paper, in handsome script; 195 x 246 mm; pp. 29. An engaging narrative by a young U. S. Navy chaplain, offering brief histories and descriptions of the places he visits, and remarks on race, slavery and -- briefly -- other political views such as education and women's rights. He visits St. Thomas, St. Croix, Martinique, Baradoes, Trinidad, Jamaica, and Havana -- and offers blunt, unflinching... Read More
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Engineer's Pennsylvania Manuscript Notebook: Railroad Work and Construction
by [americana; manuscript notebook; railroads]; Dox, Isaac
Pennsylvania, 1886. Hardcover. Very Good+. Contemporary quarter sheep, marbled paper over boards; 112 x 176 mm; with 123 numbered and lined leaves, mostly filled. Rather early and rare American railroad treatise made by one, Isaac Dox, chief engineer in the building of a rail line from Delano to Hazelton, Pennsylvania, 1886-1887. Covers all aspects of railroad construction and the working of railroads, exceptionally well accomplished in a small, precise hand, with frequent illustrations and diagrams... Read More
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Horace in New York. Part I [all published].
by (AMERICAN POETRY]. [Clason, Isaac Starr].
New York: James M. Campbell,, 1826. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo, self wrappers, stitched as issued (also stabbed, as if in preparation for binding), but loose at the end. 47 pages. First edition. Clason (1789-1834) was a minor actor and poet. This is his second work of poetry which, according to Appleton's, is "full of the New York gossip of the day, and celebrating, among others, Madame Malibran, then the chief operatic singer." Housed in a folding... Read More
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Lives of Notorious Felons. Joseph Shed! The Stocking Stealer of the Pacific!" -- Original Manuscript Story, and Sketchbook of Travels in the United States and Caribbean -- Steamer Winfield Scott
by [Americana; manuscript; sketchbook]; Phoenix, John; Derby, Lewis; Richardson, Horace
1852. Hardcover. Very Good. Original full red morocco, ornately stamped in blind and gilt; 8vo; 31 manuscript pages, including an illustrated short story, landscapes in pencil (Havana, the Hudson River, harbor of St. Thomas, Martinique), and 3 colored-pencil cartoons of American Indians (these seemingly contributed by a child). Just a little scuffed along joints and edges of boards, else fine. Likely the work of Horace Richardson, the title-page and "publication information" (see above) states that this unique item... Read More
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Collection of Mid-Nineteenth Century Deeds and Receipts
by [Manuscript Americana]
primarily, New York, 1840s-1870s. Ephemera. Very Good+. Twenty items, ranging from small receipts, to full-page handwritten legal letters and forms regarding land, debt, and the like. A range of material, including receipts for millinery and newspaper subscriptions, as well as more complicated transactions such as calculations of interest or purchasing land. United by time period and location (mostly, New York), nice examples of the commerce of the period.
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Ames's Almanack, 1759
by AMES, Nathaniel
Boston: Draper, Green & Russell, & Fleet, 1758. Paperback. Very Good. 12 leaves. Disbound. Illustration of solar system and "the Explanation of the above System" to first title. Second title without imprint. Contemporary ownership signatures and annotations to first two leaves.
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Coronis Ad Collationem Hagiensem, Qua ArgumentaPastorum Hollandiae Adversus Remonstrantium Quinique Articulus
by [Ames, William] Amesio, Guilielmo
Amsterdam: Joannem Jansonium, 1628. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12 mo. 372 pp. Modern decorative paper over boards. A scarce little volume by the English Puritan Theologian. Text in Latin.
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Christianae Catecheseos Sciagraphia...
by [Ames, William] Amesio, Guilielmo
Franekerae: Bernardum Berentsma, 1635. Hardcover. Very Good. 16 mo. 225 pp. Modern quarter vellum. A scarce little volume.
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A Dissertation on Speech
by Amman, John Conrad
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, 1873. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good+. Rebound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards. A nice copy.
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Uplands: New Poems
by Ammons, A. R.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Wraps. Previous owner's name on half-title page, notes inside rear cover. Otherwise fine -- a nice, tight, bright copy.
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Libertine Lyrics, by Various Authors Mostly of the XVII and XVIII Centuries
by Amour, Anthony (illus.)
Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, n.d.. Hardcover. Very Good+. Decorative paper over boards, paper spine label; slipcase; 8vo; pp. [94]. Spine a bit tanned; some light wrinkling scattered throughout text block. Slipcase sunned and cracked.
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Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloe. Traduites par Jacques Amyot, texte de 1559.
by Amyot, Jacques; Courier, Paul-Louis (trans.); Prud'Hon, Boilvin (illus.)
Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1872. Hardcover. Very Good+. Cloth-backed marbled paper over boards, paper spine label; with 6 etched plates by Boilvin, after the drawings of Prud'hon. Just some light scuffing at spine tips and along edges of boards; paper spine label a bit tanned. A pretty little volume.
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Odaria Anakreontos = Odes d’Anacreon
by ANACREON -- FIRMIN-DIDOT, Ambroise (1790–1876) -- GIRODET-TRIOSON, Anne-Louis (1767–1824).
Paris: Ambroise Firmin-Didot, 1864. Hardcover. Near Fine. 24mo (140 x 85mm). Pagination: [iii]-xlvii, 158pp. (including table). Signatures: a(6), b-4(4), 1-20(4, including final blank). Title printed with engraved border of muses and signed by engravers “H. Catenacci” - Hercules Louis Catenacci (1816–1884) and “A. F. Lemaitre” - Augustin Francois Lemaitre (1797–1870). 54 photolithograph plates of Girodet’s compositions illustrating the odes with fine classical figures and settings. Greek text with French prose translation for 64 odes by Ambrose Firmin-Didot. Text printed... Read More
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Atlante di Biologia
by [anatomical drawings; anatomy]
Italy, c. 1830. Hardcover. Very Good+. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, gilt-stamped lettering and ornament on spine; 430 x 560 mm; contains 26 anatomical drawings in red and grey chalk, most of them full-page, but also including double-page spreads tipped onto stubs. Spine tips and corners gently bumped; some faint dampstaining; a few leaves with repaired tears. Images of skeletal and muscular representations of arms, legs, feet, torsos, and heads.
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Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medicinali materia libri nove....
by PEDANIUS DIOSCORIDES OF ANAZARBUS
Bologna: Cintio Achillini, 1526. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo. Woodcut title page with decorative border and a woodcut printer's device at the end (partially colored). Contemporary blind-embossed vellum with gilt label on spine, lacking closures. Old library stamp in margin of first text page; bookplate of Kenneth K. Mackenzie The Horticultural Society of New York. An extremely well preserved complete copy. Rare edition of this famous work by the great Greek botanist, physician and pharmacologist, who... Read More
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Lover Man
by ANDERSON, Alston; GRAVES, Robert (introduction)
London: Cassell, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo. Original cloth in pictorial dustwrapper. Slight spine lean. A collection of short stories by the Panamanian born, Jamaican writer, Anderson.
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The Ugly Duckling
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
London: David Nutt in the Strand, 1894. First English language edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Tall slim quarto. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Color illustrations by T. van Hoijtema. Inner hinges reinforced with Japanese paper, otherwise light wear only. An exceptionally nice copy of a beautiful and fragile children's book.
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Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1872. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Publisher's highly decorative green pictorial gilt stamped cloth; a. e. g. Early armorial bookplate. Illustrated with twelve large designs in color by 'E.V.B.' Newly translated by H. L. D. Ward and Augusta Plesner. A quite beautiful edition, this is an unusually exceptional copy in a very bright binding.
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Fairy Tales
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
London, Edinburgh & New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1920]. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall quarto. Publisher's pictorial cloth with stork and baby. Illustrations by Honor C. Appleton. Original cloth, modest wear; a few stains and scratches to cover and light foxing to outer edge of text block, but overall a quite decent copy. Signature of Margaret Dobson, June 1925. Nice color plates.
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Stories from Hans Andersen. Illustrations by E.S. Hardy.
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
London & New York: Ernest Lister & E. P. Dutton & Co., n.d.. Hardcover. Very Good+. Printed in Bavaria. Full red leather, a prize binding by Relfe Brothers, Ltd, London; the tips slightly rubbbed; spine gilt in six compartments; a.e.g. 288 pp. Black and white illustrations by E.S. Hardy throughout, along with a full color frontis. Christmas 1903 gift inscription presenting the prize to a T. Oxley.
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Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrations by Dougald Stewart Walker.
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
London: George G. Harrap & Co., n.d. [c. 1915]. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrations by Dougald Stewart Walker. Contemporary ownership inscription from a Madeleine Worsley dated 1915. Original green cloth with pictorial inlay; illustrations throughout in color and black and white by Douglas Stewart Walker. An attractive edition with modest wear.
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The Snow Queen. Illustrated by June Corwin.
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
Boston: Atheneum, 1968. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. An uncommon edition. Publisher's cloth in spine faded DJ with tear at top. With a heartfelt lengthy letter from the ilustrator, June Corwin, discussing her role as illustrator of a classic work.
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The Story of the Storks and The Flying Trunk
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
London: Sandle Brothers Ltd, 1944. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Illustrated by Allan Carter. Stamp ex Opie Collection. Statement in ink to same page: This is the first book of which I did the lay-out and paste-up. A nice copy of a scarce little book, the matching (to the cloth design) pictorial DJ with light wear only.
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Spellmanen från Svendborg
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
Stockholm: Tryckt Hos L. J. Hjerta, 1838. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo. Contemporary 1/4 brown leather and marbled paper over boards. First edition in Swedish. Early ownership inscriptions, one dated 1857. 189pp + 221 pp. Two volumes in one.
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The Story of a Mother. In 15 different languages.
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian [Edited by Jean Pilo and Vilh. Thomsen]
Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Contemporary 1/2 leather and marbled paper over boards. 98 pp. A fun, multilingual edition with the story translated into 15 languages. Some foxing throughout, otherwise a VG copy.
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