God speede the plough (1601). Facsimile reprint. Introduction by J. Christian Bay
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: privately printed for the friends of the Torch Press, 1953. Edition limited to 400 copies, small 8vo, pp. 30, [16]; frontispiece, one other illustration, facsimiles; original black cloth-backed blue boards, printed paper spine label, glassine protective wrappers (toned); fine. Facsimile of this brief tract on early plowing, originally printed as "God Speede the Plovgh," London: Iohn Harison, dwelling in Pater noster row, at the signe of the Gray-hound, and are there to be solde. 1601. Publisher's... Read More
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New desk standard dictionary. Em'pha'type edition. By the Funk & Wagnalls editorial staff
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1951. 8vo, pp. xvi, 943; text illustrations throughout; contemporary three-quarter black morocco over green marble boards, gilt spine, t.e.g., marble endpapers; binding partly detached from text block, shelf wear, most notably along hinges; in all a very attractive copy. All emphasized syllables underlined in this edition.
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![L'insurrection de Paris, 19-29 août, 1944 [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/568/161/601161568.0.l.1.jpg)
L'insurrection de Paris, 19-29 août, 1944 [cover title]
[Paris]: France-Éditions, 1944. 8vo, pp. 46, [2]; 2 plates of photographic illustrations printed on rectos and versos; original pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in red, paper quite toned and brittle, chips and tears along edges not affecting text, textblock loose in binding, spine nearly perished. Compilation of newspaper reports of the liberation of Paris, published just a few weeks after the event.
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The advantages and disadvantages drunkenness; containing a variety of plain and important maxims, well worthy of being remembered by every man in the nation
Cambridge: printed for the Trustees of the Publishing Fund, by Hilliard and Metcalf, Cambridge. Sold by Cummings & Hilliard, No. 1 Cornhill, Boston, and other agents of the Publishing Fund, 1821. First edition, 12mo, pp. 12, removed from binding, wrappers wanting; spot permiating a few leaves, else very good and sound. Printed for the trustees of the Publishing Fund. A tract that pulls no punches. "If you wish to repel the endeavours of the whole human race to raise... Read More
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Основи фонологије српскоxрватскога књижевног језика / Osnovi fonologije srpskohrvatskoga knjizevnog jezika
Niksic: Univerzitetska Rijec, 1989. Second edition, 8vo, pp. 269, [3]; text in Serbian; printed creme paper wrappers; a touch of wrinkling to the plastic film protecting wrappers, textblock clean and sound. Phonology of Serbo-Croatian.
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![西藏硏究 / Xizang yan jiu [= Tibetan studies]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/385/461/1686461385.0.l.jpg)
西藏硏究 / Xizang yan jiu [= Tibetan studies]
Taipei: Zhongguo bian jiang li shi yu wen xue hui, 1960. 8 x 5.75 in., pp. [4], 2, 195, [2]; text in traditional Chinese; printed paper wrappers; owner's signature on upper wrapper, annotations on title page; wrappers toned, very good. Chapters focus on national boundaries and relations between Tibet and China.
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Gundam biblios. Mobile Suit Gundam books gathering 1979-1998
Tokyo: Sunrise, Movik, 2000. First edition, 4to, pp. 159, [1]; text in Japanese; color illustrations throughout; printed paper wrappers; fine in fine dust jacket. An annotated bibliography of Gundam publications over two decades, with a color image of the cover of each entry.
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![Almanak voor Hollandsche Blijgeestigen, tweede jaargang 1832 [1834] [1835]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/849/136/1533136849.0.l.jpg)
Almanak voor Hollandsche Blijgeestigen, tweede jaargang 1832 [1834] [1835]
Amsterdam: Brest van Kempen [and Gebroeders Diederichs], 1832. 3 volumes, 16mo, pp. [20], 21-210; [25], 26-211, [5]; [17], 26-195, [9]; first 2 with engraved frontispieces, the last with a woodcut frontispiece portrait; 6 wood-engraved plates (including a portrait of Erasmus), 2 engraved plates, one instance of printed music in the text and another on 1 folding plate; original printed brown wrappers; wrappers loosening, bindings shaken; overall good and clean. None of these are found in OCLC.
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Catalogus Collegii Harvardiani seu Universitatis Cantabrigiensis, inb republica Massachusettensi
Cantabrigiae: Metcalf et Sociorum, 1848. 8vo, pp. [4], xv, [1], 110, [2], 50; original tan wrappers; very good. Catalogue for the academic year, with curricula, lists of students and faculty, unified list of alumni 1642 to date, doctoral candidates in law and medicine, laureates, etc., plus an extensive index.
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Standing rules of the Council and House of Representatives with joint rules and standing committees. Printed by order of the Council
Saint Paul: printed by Brown and Olmsted, 1854. Small 8vo, pp. 22, [2]; orig. yellow printed wrappers, stitched, as issued; back wrap soiled, else fine. Martin 72, locating only the Minnesota Historical Society copy; not in Sabin; NUC locating only the MHS copy as well. I dare say rare: in 20 years of bookselling in Minnesota this is the first time I've seen a copy.
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![Ricordo di Milano. 32 vedute [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/367/105/1546105367.0.l.jpg)
Ricordo di Milano. 32 vedute [cover title]
Milano: Frat. T. Scrocchi, n.d., 1930. Accordion-fold view book 6¾" x 4½" containing 29 photolithographic illustrations (3 double-page); map endpapers; captions on verso in English, Italian, German, and Spanish; original color pictorial boards; near fine. Published as no. 258 in the publisher's Riservata series.
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![Dumdadu arad-un Mongġol kelen-u̇ sudulul [= Medieval Monglian language studies]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/633/547/1651547633.0.l.jpg)
Dumdadu arad-un Mongġol kelen-u̇ sudulul [= Medieval Monglian language studies]
[Shenyang: Liaoning People's Publishing House, 2001. 8vo, pp. [8], 12, 7, [1], 53. [1], 743, [1]; text in Mongolian; publisher's blue cloth, "Jade" written in Chinese on fore-edge, else fine in fine dust jacket. Indiana, and the German State Library in OCLC.
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![繪圖釋音百家姓 / Hui tu shi yin bai jia xing [= One hundred surnames, illustrated and pronounced]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/704/437/1673437704.0.l.jpg)
繪圖釋音百家姓 / Hui tu shi yin bai jia xing [= One hundred surnames, illustrated and pronounced]
[Shanghai]: Guang Yi Shu Ju, 1920. 8" x 5", pp. 18; text in Chinese and printed lithographically, each page with four small portraits at the head; stab stitched, pictorial paper wrappers; the impression a low quality, leading to blotching and fading, but condition wise clean and sound. Guang Yi Shu Ju was an printing house established in the early 20th century and was known mostly for its cheapness, both in the price of its books and in their production... Read More
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Proceedings of the Symposium on Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau. Geological and ecological studies
Beijing: Science Press. New York: Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, Inc, 1981. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [4], xxv, [5], 974; [2], xiv, 975-2138; numerous maps, illustrations, tables, graphs, etc. throughout; some edge wear but overall a fine set in original green cloth stamped in silver on spine, preserving the original dust jackets. The Tibetan Plateau is "a treasury of information on natural sciences. Yet, over the long years this plateau was approached by only a few scientists... Read More
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Harper's Bazar. A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction. Vol. XI. No. 47
New York: Saturday, November 23, 1878. 16½" x 11¾", pp. [1] 746-760 [i.e. 16 pages]; 4 columns per page, partially unopened with some clean tears. Front page features an elegant 'Dinner and Visiting Dress'. Includes many wood engravings of fashion and clothing patterns with samples of embroidery, coiffures of flowers, and satchels. Also an English gossip column, extracts of "Coward Conscience!" by F.W. Robinson, New York fashion column, sketches in India and usual ads (many with cuts).
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Fine printing and bookbinding from San Francisco and its environs. A representative exhibition for the Grolier Club selected and catalogued by David Magee
San Francisco: [Grabhorn Press], 1961. Edition limited to 200 copies "printed at the Grabhorn Press for Carroll T. Harris, presented to members of the Grolier Club on the occasion of their visit to San Francisco," 4to, pp. 35, [1]; title-page printed in red and black, printers' devices printed in red throughout; fine in original linen-backed decorative paper-covered boards, plain paper dust jacket. Examples from 25 San Francisco presses, the Allen Press to Adrian Wilson, plus work by 5 binders.... Read More
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Five pamphlets on the etymology of names
1956. Five 8vo pamphlets, bound in a "Strakers" spring back binder, as follows: Russell, R. C. Hunter. A collection of place-names, and their meaning, in West Sutherland and part of Wester Ross. [Plymouth, 1969] pp. [2], 14; printed paper wrappers, fine. National Library of Scotland only in OCLC. Krahe, Hans. Ortsnamen als geschichtsquelle. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitatsverlag, 1949. Pp. 30, [25]; printed paper wrappers; toned, fine. Mawer, Allen. Place-names and history. Herbert Spence Watson memorial lecture delivered before the... Read More
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Bilder-atlas fur schuler. Ein unterhaltendes Büchlein für jedermann. Band XI. Mineralien
N.p.: publisher not identified, n.d., 1870. 16mo (approx. 6¼" x 4"), leporello-style binding with 12 double-page lithograph spreads showing 96 specimens of minerals, the illustrations often highlighted with gilt and silver; original blue printed wrappers; light wear at edges, very good.
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May, 1846. At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, begun and holden at Newport, within and for said state, on the first Tuesday of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, and of independence the seventieth
[Providence: publisher not identified], 1846. 8vo, pp. 95, [3]; uncut and largely unopened; 2 folding tables; signed at the end by Henry Bowen (1785-1867?), son of Jabez Bowen Jr, and R.I. Secretary of State from 1819 to 1849; self-wrappers; stitched, as issued; lightly foxed. Laws, allotments, and other enactments passed at the General Assembly of Rhode Island since the previous meeting in January, 1846. Not in American Imprints. Not in OCLC.
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![Progress report on forest administration in the North-west Frontier Province for 1912-13, [1913-14], [1914-15], [1915-16], [1916-17]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/401/637/1551637401.0.m.jpg)
Progress report on forest administration in the North-west Frontier Province for 1912-13, [1913-14], [1914-15], [1915-16], [1916-17]
Peshawar: Government Press, North-west Frontier Province, 1913. Folio, pp. [4], 2, [2], ii, 15, [1], xxvi; [4], ii, 2, 3, [1], 16, [1], xxvi; [6], 4, ii, 14, xxiv; [4], 3, [3], ii, 18, xxv, [1]; 3, [3], ii, 13, [1], 22; folding map hand-colored in outline, numerous tables throughout; later gray paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, gilt titling and white accession numbers on spine; original blue printed wrappers bound in; ex-Oregon Agricultural College with bookplate, pressure stamp... Read More
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![金文關係文獻目錄 / Kinbun kankei bunken mokuroku [= Bibliography of Chinese bronze inscriptions]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/814/857/1576857814.0.m.jpg)
金文關係文獻目錄 / Kinbun kankei bunken mokuroku [= Bibliography of Chinese bronze inscriptions]
[Hiroshima]: Hiroshima University, 1956. 8vo, pp. 4, 190; text in Chinese, Japanese, English, German and French; printed via duplication process; teal library buckram; touch of soiling to bards and foxing to endpapers, text clean and sound, very good. A short title list of references.
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![藏汉对照丹珠尔佛学分类词典 / Zang Han dui zhao Danzhuer fo xue fen lei ci dian [= Tibetan-Chinese dictionary of the Buddhist Tengyur]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/078/050/1689050078.0.l.jpg)
藏汉对照丹珠尔佛学分类词典 / Zang Han dui zhao Danzhuer fo xue fen lei ci dian [= Tibetan-Chinese dictionary of the Buddhist Tengyur]
[Beijing]: Minority Nationalities Press, 1992. First edition, 8½" x 5¾", pp. 8, 16, 382, [2]; original full blue cloth stamped in gilt; a little musty but clean and sound; very good.
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A pictorial and descriptive guide to the Isle of Wight with map of the island, plans of Ryde, Sandown, Shanklin, Ventnor, Cowes, Newport and Carisbrooke. One hundred illustrations. Twenty-second edition, revised
London: Ward, Lock & Co., n.d., 1930. 12mo, pp. xvi (ads), xv, [1] ads, 184, 64 (ads); ads on endpapers, folding map printed in 2 colors, 6 (5 folding and printed in 2 colors), 5 sketch maps, and numerous plates from photographs; a very good copy in original pictorial limp red cloth printed in black. Many citations in OCLC for the Ward, Lock guides, but not that for the Isle of Wight.
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![Hark away Bess. [With]: The boatman of the Ohio](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/379/337/1244337379.0.l.jpg)
Hark away Bess. [With]: The boatman of the Ohio
London: H. Such, printer & publisher, n.d.. Broadside, approx. (9½" x 7½"), text in double column with the 2 poems side by side, with a metalcut border between the two, and each beneath a small woodcut vignette; fine. The number '3' at the bottom of the left column. Of the second title, an English ballad dealing with American slavery. McMaster, Boston Public, Princeton, Delaware and Miami in OCLC, but each, apparently, missing the left half of the sheet. Hark... Read More
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![Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol. LXII, Part III, No. 1 -1893 [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/848/191/1720191848.0.l.jpg)
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol. LXII, Part III, No. 1 -1893 [cover title]
Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1893. 8vo, pp. 45, [1]; original printed paper wrappers with spine reinforced, in a glassine protector; shallow edge chipping to wrappers, text unopened and unmarked, near fine. With the library stamp of Prince Roland Bonaparte on inner wrapper. Includes the following papers: Wise, "The Hindus of Eastern Bengal"; Chandra Das, "The Marriage Customs of Tibet"; Risley, "Measurements of Cingalese Moormen and Tamils.
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