Christy's Panorama Songster; Containing the Songs as Sung By the Christy, Campbell, Pierce's Minstrels, and Sable Brothers
New York: Published by William H. Murphy, 384 Pearl Street, 1870. Price 12 1/2 cents. Frontispiece. of the CACHUGA and textual wood cut vignettes throughout. 71-134,[2, minumbered 93 & 37] pp. 12mo. Yellow wrappers, minor chipping, else Very good. Price 12 1/2 cents. Frontispiece. of the CACHUGA and textual wood cut vignettes throughout. 71-134,[2, minumbered 93 & 37] pp. 12mo. Blockson 7959 (pagination said to be 37 forthat is the last leaf's number]
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Manuel de Gastonomie, contenant la maniere de dresser et de servir une table
Paris: Chez F.G. Levrault, 1825. Folding plate. 349pp. 12mo. Modern half calf and marbled boards, original printed paper wrappers maintained. Folding plate. 349pp. 12mo. Vicaire p. 561 ≈ΩΩ
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Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum sive Samscrudonicum
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1772. First edition. 9 folding charts. xxviii, 100 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Recent morocco backed marbled boards, a.e.g. Fine. First edition. 9 folding charts. xxviii, 100 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. First type specimen of the Grantha or Malabar alphabet, now most frequently known as Malayalam. Birrell & Garnett 16; de Gubernaties 329; Smitskamp PO 207; Brunet I, 197
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Views in South Manchuria
South Manhuria Railway Co, 1910. Unpaginated, titles with images in both Japanese and English. Oblong 8vo. Disbound green boards with gilt lettering on recto [in English], endpapers chipping but other pages bright and photo illustrated throughout; a very good association copy. Unpaginated, titles with images in both Japanese and English. Oblong 8vo. Signed on front pastedown, "Compliments of Mr Kuniisawa Vice President S.M.R. Co." He became its president in 1917.
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Original lithographic stone, two sided, with designs for cigar box labels on both surfaces
1890. 10 x 12 x 2 1/4"; weight 25 lbs. 1 vols. A slab of finely-grained limestone, polished both sides, edges roughly trimmed , sides painted red, ends numbered, chip to one corner not affecting image, a few minor scratches (see below), else in very good condition. 10 x 12 x 2 1/4"; weight 25 lbs. 1 vols. This stone was used for the printing of cigar box labels, and bears six images: Side One: (a) A... Read More
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Alkibibla. A Disquisition upon Worshipping towards the East. In Two Parts. together with; A Letter to the Bishop of London
London: J. Noon, 1740. Second Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound. Very good. Second Edition. 1 vols. 8vo.
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Sheet of Metamorphics: 16 fold-over caricatures on top and 16 images of men and women back to back on bottom half. Each with playing cards in upper left and lower right corners
1840. 18-/2 x 23 inches. Neatly backed. 18-/2 x 23 inches.
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Agenda. Volume One, Number One through Volume 3, Number 6
London: Poets & Painters Press, 1964. First. 26 vols. 8vo. Wrappers. Fine copies. First. 26 vols. 8vo.
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The Salmon Streams of Anticosti Island
Montreal: Consolidated Paper Corporation Limited, Anticosti Division, 1941. Eighth edition. Folding map of Anticosti Island tipped to the inside of rear cover, photographic illustrations throughout. 20 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Publisher's black pictorial wrappers printed in silver and red. Very good. Eighth edition. Folding map of Anticosti Island tipped to the inside of rear cover, photographic illustrations throughout. 20 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Anticosti, "the treasure island of the Saint Lawrence," was maintained as a private hunting preserve... Read More
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POSTER: Tiger Bills Wild West. With Central Image of Indians attacking from left and white men and women defending on left. With Blockhouse in background
Milwaukee, [Wisconsin]: Riverside Printing Co, 1900. Chromolithograph Number 2861. 1 vols. 42 x 26 inches. Minor wear at edges, and small loss at the top left just affecting a tiny part of the initial "T" and border, but unaffecting the image. Chromolithograph Number 2861. 1 vols. 42 x 26 inches.
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The Art Journal. Volume II ONLY LACKING title page
[New York: D. Appleton & Co., Publishers, 1876. Illustrated. 380 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in full brown pebbled morocco, front hinge split and off, a.e.g.. Internally fine. Illustrated. 380 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Illustrated with 32 engravings on Steel after F. Leighton, Landseer (10), Birket Foster, & Bougereau. 4 engravings after Sculpture and 3 full-page wood engravings.
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![The Aeriel Cruise; or The Dream of A Voluntary Exile. A Holyday Recreation. [A Poem] By Mr. Dionysius Quill [pseudonym of George B. Moore?]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/826/020/1616020826.0.l.jpg)
The Aeriel Cruise; or The Dream of A Voluntary Exile. A Holyday Recreation. [A Poem] By Mr. Dionysius Quill [pseudonym of George B. Moore?]
Belfast, [Maine]: Wing & Moore, 1852. First edition. 27pp. 12mo. Covers are lightly foxed, with faint dust soiling, else a near fine copy, with text fresh and clean. First edition. 27pp. 12mo. The publisher, Wing & Moore, also published the Belfast, Maine newspaper, the 'Republican Journal,' in 1849; George B. Moore served as editor of the newspaper (from 1849-1861).
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Greenbank's Periodical Library, containing in the Cheapest Possible Form, A Republication of New and Standad Works...Volume III
Philadelphia: T.K. Greenbank & Co. No. 9 Franklin Palce, 1833. 621, [3]pp. 8vo. Quarter contemporary cloth with leather labe, boards. 621, [3]pp. 8vo. Published weekly in Numbers of 48 pages each 1. Life of Sir Walter Raleigh; 2. The Painters and Paintings of Italy; 3. The Autobiography of John Galt; 4. The Three Histories; 5. The Wisdom of God, as displayed In the Formation of Water; 6. The Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities... Read More
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U.R.S.S. Broderies Russes Tartares Armeniennes
Paris: Ernst Henri, Edirteur 35, Ruew Saunt-Vincent, 1925. 40 tippoed in colured plates. 4pp. of text. Folio. Portfolio. VG. 40 tippoed in colured plates. 4pp. of text. Folio. These items were displayed at the l'EXposition International des Arts Décoratifs (Paris, 1925). `
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Rules and Regulations of the Edinburgh Angling Club Instituted 28th June 1847
Edinburgh, 1856. Vignette on title-page by W. Forrest. Printed in red and black. 1 vols. 8vo. Wrappers. Guillotined, chipped edges. Vignette on title-page by W. Forrest. Printed in red and black. 1 vols. 8vo. Westwood & Satchell, Supplement, 244
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How Children may be Happy with an Address to Parents. By a Sabbath school teacher
New York: Saxton & Miles 205 Broadway, 1847. Illustrated,, some colored. 63pp. 16mo. Publisher's straight grained brwon cloth, stamped in gilt. Very Good. Illustrated,, some colored. 63pp. 16mo. OCLC 1 copy at AAS
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United Toy Manufacturers``
St Louis & Chicago: United Toy Manufacturers, 1919. Illus in colour. 16pp. Oblong 8vo. Yellow pictorial wrappers. VG/Fine. Illus in colour. 16pp. Oblong 8vo.
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One Hundred Steel Engravings of Battle Scenes and Portraits chiefly illustrating British History
London, 1890. 100 engravings of battle scenes Military and Naval by Smirke, Nichols, Davis, etc. with plates from various sources including the London Printing & Publishing Company. 1 vols. 8vo (10-1/2 x 7 inches). Contemp red pebbled morocco,spine chipped, front cover off, plates fine. 100 engravings of battle scenes Military and Naval by Smirke, Nichols, Davis, etc. with plates from various sources including the London Printing & Publishing Company. 1 vols. 8vo (10-1/2 x 7 inches).
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Les Mille et Une Nuits contes arabes traduits en français par GallandChoisis et revués avec la plus scr pulleuse attention
Paris: Garnier Freres, nd. iiiustr´´par MM. Français, H. Baron, Ed. Wattier, Laville, etc, [i], 556, [1]ppo. 8vo. Bound in publisher's quarter red morocco and cloth, a.e.g. iiiustr´´par MM. Français, H. Baron, Ed. Wattier, Laville, etc, [i], 556, [1]ppo. 8vo. The French translation by Antoine Galland (1646-1715) derived from an Arabic text of the Syrian recension of the medieval work[1] as well as other sources. It included stories that are not found in the original Arabic manuscripts - the... Read More
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![The New School announcement card for lectures by Louis Untermeyer and Max Eastman [1953]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/169/640/1497640169.0.l.jpg)
The New School announcement card for lectures by Louis Untermeyer and Max Eastman [1953]
New York City: The New School for Social Research, 1953. 5.5" x 3.5. Black text on card; fine. 5.5" x 3.5" Louis Untermeyer (b.1885 - d.1977) and Max Eastman (b.1883 - d.1969) were both prominent New York poets and editors who in their own ways were swept up by the effects of McCarthyism. Eastman, once a defender of socialism and the Bolshevik Revolution had turned politically and initially supported the House Un-American Activities Committee while Untermeyer who was... Read More
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Sing a Battle Song: Poems by Women in the Weather Underground Organization
Inkworks / Red Dragon Print Collective, 1975. First edition, second printing; Red Dragon Print Collective logo on inside of back cover and WUO mission statement letter as first page identifying this as the March reprint released in celebration of International Women's Day. 48 pp. 8vo. Staple-bound green card wraps with light toning and creasing to spine and some shelf wear, else a near fine copy. First edition, second printing; Red Dragon Print Collective logo on inside of back... Read More
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The Book of Common Prayer According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States
Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1841. Engraved additional title. 520, 144pp. 12mo. Contemporary morocco gilt. Repairs to front joint. Provenance: Rebecca Hamilton (inscribed to her by her sister-in-law L. McClane on the date of her wedding to Philip Hamilton, and with an additional inscription by Rebecca: "Simul cum / Philip Hamilton / Bohemia / Maryland. Engraved additional title. 520, 144pp. 12mo. Rebecca McLane married Philip Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton's youngest child, on December 29, 1842.
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A Description of the Royal Palace and Monastery of St. Laurence, called the Escurial; and of the Chapel Royal of the Pantheon ... Translated from the Spanish of Frey Francisco de los Santos by George Thompson
London: Printed by Dryden Leach, for S. Hooper at Caesar's Head, in the Strand, 1760. With 13 plates (9 folding), including engraved coat of arms of dedicatee on verso of errata in Part I and engraved coat of arms on dedication leaf in Part II. xxxvii, [1, blank], 299, [1], xi, [1, blank], 60 pp. 1 vols. Large 4to. Twentieth-century quarter morocco and cloth. Some traces of soot in margins. Fine. With 13 plates (9 folding), including engraved... Read More
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Union Pacific Railroad Discrimination against the Government. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting to the Senate Copies of Papers relating to the Settlement of Accounts for the Transportation of the Second Regiment of Infantry from St. Louis to San Francisco, via Denver, in July, 1877
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1878. [2], 35pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Modern half green morocco and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Very good. [2], 35pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Detailed correspondence relating to a controversy stemming from the rates charged by the Union Pacific for transporting the Second Infantry to the west coast. The troops were destined to suppress an Indian outbreak in Oregon.
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![THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S DAUGHTER. A True Story [published anonymously]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/179/940/1446940179.0.l.jpg)
THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S DAUGHTER. A True Story [published anonymously]
Philadelphia: 1224 Chesnut St, 1869. First edition, variant issue in red cloth [also seen in green and blue cloth]. 64pp. (measuring 55mm). A near fine copy. First edition, variant issue in red cloth [also seen in green and blue cloth]. 64pp. (measuring 55mm). Rare [OCLC locates only three holdings, one of which is incomplete: Indiana University (two copies in variant color bindings); Virginia (incomplete)]. Welsh 4402; Bradbury p. 195-- date of publication from Bradbury]. Rare [OCLC locates only... Read More
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