City of Salem. Order of services in Mechanic Hall, on Thursday, July 18, 1850, as a testimony of respect to the memory of Zachary Taylor, late President of the United States..
[Salem, 1850. Broadside, approx. 9¾" x 6½", text printed within an ornamental border; the broadside on thin paper and the paper consequently wrinkled, one or two shallow chips in the margins; all else very good. The ceremonies were conducted by the Rev. William R. Babcock and the eulogy delivered by Charles W. Upham. Includes texts of hymns by Rev. Dr. Flint and Edwin Jocelyn. The music was provided by the Salem Philharmonic Society. AAS, Peabody, and NY Historical in... Read More
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DICTIONARIUM SACRUM seu religiosum. A dictionary of all religions, ancient and modern..
London: James Knapton, 1704. First edition, 8vo, 8 preliminary leaves and unpaginated lexicon in double column; slightly later full paneled calf neatly rebacked to match, red morocco label on spine; a gathering extended, worm track in bottom margin has been repaired and the imprint on the title page has been slightly affected, but all in all this is a good, sound, and respectable-looking copy. A second edition appeared in 1723. Attributed at various times (but erroneously) to Daniel DeFoe,... Read More
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The Town Room. Providence Biltmore
[Providence: Saturday & Sunday, January 23-24, 1943. Two bifoliate menus (approx. 10½" x 8"), full dinner menus printed in red and black with bar suggestions, a notice on rationing, and the evening's entertainers; 2 small adhesion marks on the back, else fine. "Because of wartime restrictions, we can serve only one portion of butter and one cup of coffee with each meal. Please do not ask for more.
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Delafons, Allan, ed. The Penrose annual: a review of the graphic arts, 1960. (Vol. 54)
London: Lund, Humphries, 1960. First edition, 4to, pp. [20], xv-xl, 120, [20], 1-50; frontis.; illus. throughout; fine in jacket. Includes "Typophiles' adventures in bookmaking," by Paul Bennett and, "Porson's Greek Types," by J.M. Mosley.
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Secretary's record ... Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen [cover title]. Record of Chippewa Valley Lodge No. 425
Eau Claire-Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, 1940. Three quarto ledger books containing approx. 425 pages of recorded minutes for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Foreman (later, The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen), kept in several different hands by different secretaries. There are gaps: the first volume runs from 1896 to 1906; the second from 1910 to 1918, and the third from 1929 to 1940. Some entries are no more than a sentence or two, others go on for more than a... Read More
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Tartu riiklik ulikool. Eesti keele kateeder. Generativse grammatika grupi aastakoosolek
Tartu: Tartu State University, Department of Estonian Language, 1970. 12mo, pp. 73, [2]; Abstracts from the Annual Meeting of the Research Group for Generative Grammar; text in typescript, lightly toned, else very good in original printed wrappers, stapled.
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Receipt for 4 quires of quarantine notices
Newburyport, [Mass.], 1806. Holograph receipt, approx. 3" x 7.5"; "To Caleb Cross Dr to 4 Quires of Quarantine Notices - $6.00" dated July 18th. Prior fold, near fine. Evidence of job printing in the early 19th century America.
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Manuscript promissory note to sponsor of New Haven transient
New Haven, 1784. Manuscript promissory note, 3.5" x 8", reading: "To John Lawrence Esq. Treasurer, Sir / Pay out of the public treasury to the men of New Haven the sum of five pound lawful money the amount of James Runell bill for supporting Daniel Roger a transient man as allowed in Counsel / Lut. William Pellham, Clerk. / New Haven Nov. 2, 1784." Old creases, else near fine.
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The Brunonian. Edited by students of Brown University. Nos. 1-4
Providence: H. M. Brown, printer, July - October, 1829. 8vo, pp. 128 (continuous pagination through all 4 issues), original brown printed wrappers preserved; generally fine in 20th century three-quarter brown calf over marbled boards, red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine. The periodical ran to 12 issues in all, ceasing in March, 1831. Not found in Bartlett; Sabin 8757.
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Manuscript parlor / puzzle / guessing game of famous moments in history
[Bordeaux, ca. first quarter of the 19th century?]. Oblong octavo album with 58 tipped-in pen & ink drawings, 55 of them using a combination of detailed landscapes, architecture, interiors, and stick figures to depict various scenes from classical times, the Bible, and European history, accompanied by 8 pages of a manuscript, titled "Explications des dessins-Énigmes," being a key to the illustrations and describing the moments depicted, in French. Contemporary cloth backed boards, sewing weak but holding, mounted paper with... Read More
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The cultivation of rice the bread of China
[San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1937. Edition limited to 300 copies, 9¼" x 6¼", pp. [10] plus one page pasted down to inner wrapper; reproductions of 10 "original Chinese drawings" (likely facsimiles of printed book illustrations) but with one leaf (i.e., two illustrations) duplicated in a binder's error; original pictorial wrappers printed in black and red, fine save for the binder's error. Grabhorn Bibliography 280, calling also for a page of donor's greeting not present here.
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Pionier-faltboote ... noch besser [cover title]
Munchen: Pionier Faltboot Werft, 1938. 8¼" x 5¾", pp. 48; self-wrappers; illustrated throughout. A trade catalogue for the company's folding kayaks and camping gear. The company supplied Oskar Speck with four kayaks during his seven year voyage from Germany to Australia. During the voyage, Pionier Faltboot Werft became Speck's main sponsor. The center spread of this catalogue details the journey.
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The Edinburgh review, or critical journal. Nos. XXVI - XXIX
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; Constable, Hunter, Park, & Hunter, London; and Wogan & Cumming, Dublin, 1809. 4 volumes covering the whole of the year 1809, including: volume XXVI (January-March); volume XXVII (April-June); volume XXVIII (July-September); and, volume XXIX (October-December), all in original stiff blue printed paper wrappers, cream paper shelfbacks, printed paper labels on spines; a number of small defects here and there, but on the whole very good, sound, and clean. Ownership signature at the top... Read More
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Catalogue of the Illinois State Library
Danville: Illinois Printing Co, 1903. First edition, 4to, pp. 712; ex-library copy with small sticker adhered to lower spine, bookplate stamped withdrawn, and perforated title-page; somewhat later library binding of green cloth lettered in black on spine, the spine a little darkened with a small stain, a little bit of wear to extremities.
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Before the computer virus there was the termite
[Two Rivers, WI]: Hamilton Wood Type Museum, n.d., [ca. Folio broadside (approx. 17" x 12½") printed in three colors with wood type on thinly shaved on wood veneer on chipboard.
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サクラ大戦スーパーコレクション / Sakura wars super collection [cover title]
[Tokyo: Shinkigensha, 2004. 4to, pp. 159; text illustrations; printed pictorial boards fine in fine dustjacket, unopened in shrink wrap. A collector's checklist of Sakura Wars merchandise "from new releases to the most nostalgic items.
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Gazetteer of the Japanese Empire containing place names from the hydrographic charts and sailing directions on issue in 1936
[Washington, D.C.]: Hydrographic Office, United States Navy Department, 1943. 4to, pp. [4], 378; text in double column; text in English and Japanese; original printed tan wrappers; very good and sound. Front wrapper with the word "Restricted" at top right, and back wrappers with a red rubberstamp noting that "This book is charged to Tom Stuart to remain in his custody during his enrollment in the Japanese course given under Navy auspices..." "The Japanese section of the Division of naval... Read More
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The philipena, or friendship's token: a present for all seasons
Worcester: S. A. Howland, 1851. 24mo, pp. 126; additional chromolithograph title page by Geo. Snyder, New York, woodcut tail pieces; publisher's brown blind- and gilt-tooled binding, a.e.g., yellow endpapers, box-ruled text; top and bottom of spine a bit rubbed, contemporary pencil inscription, occasional foxing, a very good copy. This edition not listed in Faxon.
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The Oakgrove catalogue of Clydesdale horses. Property of John C. Huston, importer and breeder Blandinsville, M'Donough County, Illinois
Blandinsville, Ill: Lucien S. Reid, printer, 1886. First edition, 8vo, pp. 26; 3 wood-engraved plates of Cyldesdales; original printed pink wrappers; slight cracking at the spine, front cover with a two-inch tear entereing from the fore-margin (no loss), small previous owner's rubberstamp at the top of the front wrapper; all else very good. Not found in OCLC as of 9/16.
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![Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas mit Unterstützung durch den Bund und die Kantone herausgegeben von der Konferenz der Kantonalen Erziehungskirektoren. Neunte Auflage Jubilümsausgabe 1898-1948. Umgearbeitet und erweitert unter Mitwirkung von Dr. H. Annaheim [and others] durch ed. Imhof](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/240/310/1741310240.0.l.jpg)
Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas mit Unterstützung durch den Bund und die Kantone herausgegeben von der Konferenz der Kantonalen Erziehungskirektoren. Neunte Auflage Jubilümsausgabe 1898-1948. Umgearbeitet und erweitert unter Mitwirkung von Dr. H. Annaheim [and others] durch ed. Imhof
Zürich: Orell Füssli, 1948. Folio, pp. viii, 144; color lithographs maps throughout, many full-page and some double-page; original black cloth-backed brown cloth-covered boards stamped in gilt on the upper cover; previous ownership inscription on front free endpaper, 3 small adhesion marks on front pastedown, else very good, sound, and clean. Laid in is a folding color map: "Karte der Deutsch-Franzosischen Grenzlande (approx. 27" x 21"), Leipzig, n.d. (ca. late 1940s). Swiss Secondary School Atlas, published with support from the... Read More
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The Connecticut Courant. Vol. LXXXV, no. 4370
Hartford: Saturday, October 21, 1848. 26" x 20", pp. [4]; 7 columns per page; central fold, removed from binding. Numerous ads, some with cuts, an endorsement for Taylor and Fillmore for President and Vice-President, with much on the upcoming election, an account of Taylor and Slavery, and Van Buren and the tariff, deaths, marriages, foreign news, and 5 columns on the last page advertising patent medicines.
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The house of Harrison being an account of the family and firm of Harrison and Sons, printers to the King
London: Harrison and Sons, 1914. First edition, small 4to, pp., vi, [2], 118, [1]; laid in is a "Prefatorial Note" on 1 sheet dated April 6, 1914; engraved frontispiece, vignette title-page, and 24 illustrations, facsimiles, etc. on plates and in the text; spine a bit sunned, 3 light spots to the front cover, else a near fine copy in original ochre cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, t.e.g. Bookplate of Jacob Chernofsky.
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A description of the Merrymount Press [cover title]
Boston: Merrymount Press, 1921. Third impression, revised (first published in 1913; first illustrated in 1917); 12mo, pp. 24; largely unopened; 6 plates; original green printed wrappers; fine. While not credited, this is almost certainly designed by Daniel Berkeley Updike. Smith, Merrymount Press, p. 209.
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Minutes of the Warren Association held at the Baptist Meeting-house in Warren, September 10 and 11, 1805
Boston: Manning & Loring, 1805. First edition, 12mo, pp. 14, [2]; removed from binding, fore-margin of title page neatly infilled; text slightly toned. With a survey of Baptist elders and ministers throughout the Boston area, and two circular letters. Page [16] consists of Manning & Loring ads. American Imprints 7942; AAS only in OCLC.
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Nouveau dictionnaire du voyageur. François - Allemand - Latin, et Allemand - François - Latin, enrichi de tous les mots, et de toutes les expressions Françoises, & Allemandes, nouvellement introduites. Pour l'usage de ceux qui desirent d'aprendre ces langues. Nouvelle edition reveue et corrigée. Avec des augmentations considerables, tirées des meilleurs dictionnaires & auteurs françois
Frankfurt: Renard Eustache Moeller, 1744. Very thick 8vo, 2 parts in 1; pp. [8], 1062; 496; engraved frontispiece, printer's device on title page; contemporary full calf, rubbed and worn, leather on spine largely perished and revealing binding structure; joints cracked, but the binding remains reasonably sound and the text relatively clean. A popular and durable dictionary for travelers, first published in 1683; the last edition with which we are acquainted is 1800. The second part has an added title... Read More
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