CRUISING & ocean racing
Philadelphia: Lippincott, n.d. [ca. 1930's]. 8vo, pp. 592; pictorial endpapers showing ships' rigs, 63 plates, 415 illus. in the text; fine copy in the jacket. Volume XV in the Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games & Pastimes, edited by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Lonsdale and Eric Parker. Contains much on design, rig, navigation, yachtmen's lore, cooking afloat, yacht clubs, medicine afloat, etiquette, ocean racing, etc., and a glossary of sea terms at the back.
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The eulogy to United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy by his brother... Edward M. Kennedy delivered at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City June 8th, 1968
Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1968. Edition limited to 2,000 copies printed by Joh. Enschede en Zonen Haarlem, Holland, (2 5/8 x 1 7/8; 68 x 47mm.); pp. 27, [1]; b & w portrait tipped in; very good in green calf gilt, a.e.g., publisher's plastic box.
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United-States Firemen
New York: Charles Magnus & Co, 1850. Hand-colored lithograph bifolium letter-sheet, approx. 10½ x 8½ inches; mild dampstain along right lower edge barely touching the image; all else very good. Depicts approximately 30 New York firemen in uniform, with a pump wagon in front of the fire station bearing a sign reading "Eagle Hose Co., No. 2, Organized October 1831." Magnus worked in New York City from 1850 to 1899, and letter-sheets were among his earliest work. AAS only... Read More
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The planning of a new town. Data and design based on a study for a new town of 100,000 at Hook, Hampshire
[London]: Greater London Council, 1965. 4to, pp. 182; chiefly illustrated with plans, drawings, charts, black & white photographic illustrations; light wear to extremities, a very good copy in original black, grey, and yellow paper covered boards.
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The pious prince
London: Religious Tract Society, 1860. Bifolium, 16mo; illustration, p. [1] printed within green decorative borders; heavy spotting, else fine. "Little Messengers No. 2" printed at bottom of p. [1]. Religious tract concerning the piety of Josiah, the "Jewish prince
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The Kansas Commoner
Leavenworth, Kan: Ross & Co., Saturday, November 1, 1884. Approx. 22" x 15", pp. [8]; unopened; 6 columns per page; very good. Contains a letter by the ex-President John Adams expressing dangers of the republican government, an article on the gold fields of Africa, the swine plague, along with Kansas news, minor mentions, casual, and miscellaneous sections. Numerous ads (with cuts), stoves, musical instruments, saddlery, and patent medicines to name a few.
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Columbian Centinel. Whole No. 2,608
Boston: Benjamin Russell, Saturday, April 1, 1809. 19½" x 13½", pp. [4]; 4 columns per page; removed from binding, early owner's name above masthead. Washington and the real whig nominations, democratic patriotism or the plunder of fity-eight thousand dollars, Napolean and his troops in Spain, Martinique captured, Massachusetts Federalists!, general caucus, shipping list, ship announcements (with cuts), auction sales, Boston Theatre, Rhode Island coal lottery, miniature almanack, public announcements, school for young ladies, painting and glazing, and homes to... Read More
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The London Chronicle. Vol. LXII. No. 4800
London: T. Wilkie, From Thursday, August 9, to Saturday, August 11, 1787. Approx. 12" x 9¼", pp. 137-144 [i.e. 8 pages]; 3 columns per page, removed from binding, two historiated initials, magenta tax stamp at lower corner verso of the first sheet. Includes: travels through Germany translated from a series of letters, foreign news on various army troops, a small paragraph conerning a woman with the skin condition vitilio (though not known at the time) as communicated to the... Read More
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Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House, of December 20th, 1866, transmitting report of the Chief of Engineers, with General Warren's report of the surveys of the Upper Mississippi River and its tributaries
Washington: House Exec. Doc. No. 58, 39th Congress, 2d Session, 1867. 8vo, 116pp., 5 maps and a number of tables in the text; disbound. Includes much on the Falls of St. Anthony and the Mississippi River above Lake Pepin, the St. Croix Minnesota, and Zumbro Rivers, as well as the report of Major H.C. Long on dredging bars.
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![The life, condemnation, and dying addrss [sic], of the three Thayers, who were executed for the murder of John Love, at Buffalo, N.Y. June 17, 1825](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/352/741/1400741352.0.l.jpg)
The life, condemnation, and dying addrss [sic], of the three Thayers, who were executed for the murder of John Love, at Buffalo, N.Y. June 17, 1825
Buffalo: printed for the publisher, 1825. 8vo, pp. 15, [1]; self-wrappers with three coffins on the first page; slight toning, a few small breaks at the extremities, all else very good. "John Love, an itinerant who boarded with one of the Thayer brothers, aroused their cupidity by the money he used in a small loan business. On a day selected because they were slaughtering hogs, the brothers shot Love first and finished him off with an ax. More than... Read More
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MINNESOTA: her agricultural resources, commercial advantages, and manufacturing capabilities ... Published by the State Board of Immigration
St. Paul: H.M. Smyth & Co, 1879. Later issue, measuring 215mm. x 140mm., and with the paper used for text and map of a decidedly lesser quality, 8vo, 40pp., some fading at extremities, but generally a very good copy in original pink printed wrappers.
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![Union de Prieres etabile en la mission de Ste-Anne de Ristigouche [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/471/772/839772471.0.l.jpg)
Union de Prieres etabile en la mission de Ste-Anne de Ristigouche [cover title]
[Rimouski, Quebec: Imprimerie Generale S. Vachon, 1914. Approx. 4.74 x 3.25 inch pamphlet; pp. 4, [4]; text in French, explaining the intended use of the funds being raised by the church and the benefits to donation, along with blank charts tracking tithes from 1914 to 1947. Staple-bound in original cream paper wrappers.
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SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY. By the Spectator
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. 8vo, xii & 233-[234]pp., illus. title-p.; general rubbing, corners nicked, else very good in contemporary 1/2 calf over marbled boards, tan morocco label on spine.
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First editions, manuscripts, autograph letters and drawings by Thackeray and Sevenson together with general literature collected by the late Hon. D. Phoenix Ingraham, Justice of the Supreme Court of New York
New York: American Art Association Anderson Galleries, 1936. 8vo, pp. [8], 106; original tan wrappers; spine darkened, edgewear to wrappers, otherwise very good.
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Bibliography of Herman Goodman, M. D.
New York: Froben Press, 1944. First edition, 8vo, pp. 38; ex-library copy minimally marked, in contemporary if not original maroon cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, a few small spots and the spine slightly faded. Works in dermatology, sexually transmitted diseases, beauty culture, and photography.
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Independent Order of Odd Fellows. To all whom it may concern, this certifies that..
Manchester, N.H.: Hillsborough Lodge, 1851. Broadside, 4to (287 mm.); printed certificate accomplished in manuscript, engraved decorative borders by J.H. & G.W. Casilear; previous folds, else fine. Printed date 1843, certificate accomplished September 1st, 1851, certifying that "Mrs. Mary Ann Kidder, whose name is written on the margin of this Card in her own proper hand writing is the wife of one Bro. S. B. Kidder, who is a member of the Hillsborough Lodge". Signed by Kidder and 3 additional... Read More
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He Kaine Diatheke = Novum Testamentum. Juxta exemplar Millianum. Typis Joannis Baskerville
Oxonii: typographeo Clarendoniano, 1763. 4to, pp. [6], 415, [1]; the first leaf is blank; late 19th-century half brown morocco over brown cloth sides, gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2, t.e.g.; first 4 leaves darkened from (?) smoke (?) in top outer corners; the binding lightly rubbed, but generally very good and sound. With an inscription on the recto of the first blank: "Dono dedit McAynscombe / Samuel Peach." Gaskell Add. 1 noting only 500 copies were... Read More
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The Child's Bible: being a consecutive arrangement of the narrative and other portions of Holy Scripture, in the words of the authorised version. With upwards of two hundred original illustrations
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1877. 4to, pp. viii, 566, [2], 256; frontispiece, 12 plates, and engravings throughout text; publisher's half brown morocco with gilt image of child praying on upper cover and "George Brussell Clark, April 27th 1877" beneath, gilt decorated spine, a.e.g., marbled endpapers; frontispiece neatly reattached, edges lightly rubbed, occasional foxing, neat calligraphic presentation "by Otho and Catharine C. Shaw to their Grand Nephew George Bussell Clark" on flyleaf, bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of... Read More
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Tibetan People's Right of Self-Determination. Brief summary: report of the workshop on self-determination of the Tibetan people: legitimacy of Tibet's case 1994/1996, India
New Delhi: Tibetan Parliamentary and Policy Research Centre, 1997. First edition, 8vo, pp. [3], iii, 40; very good, sound, and clean in original maroon wrappers printed in yellow. Surprisingly, only 3 in OCLC, and only Columbia in the U.S.
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First editions of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894. With other Stevensoniana exhibited at the Grolier Club November 5-28, 1914
New York: The Grolier Club, 1914. 12mo, pp. 74; original cream printed wrappers, very light foxing, small loss to bottom of spine. A very good copy.
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Style. New metrics. Volume 21, Number 3, Fall 1987
DeKalb, Illinois: North Illinois University, 1987. 8vo, pp. iv, 321-490; diagrams and graphs throughout; original cream pictorial wrappers, fine. Contents from this issue of "Style" include Geoffrey Russom's "Word and Foot in Beowulf" and Frank G. Ryder's "Poetic Prose: A Suggested Approach by Way of Goethe's Werther
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Columbian Centinel. Whole No. 2,435
Boston: Benjamin Russell, Saturday, August 1, 1807. 19¾" x 13¼", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding, early owner's name above masthead, two inch tear with creased fold on upper edge, with all text present but paper mutilated. Miniature almanack, price of stocks, political miscellany, War-is it necessary? or if not necessary - is it expedient? (with Great Britian), Neopolitan ports blockaded, marriages, deaths, shipping news, auction sales, ship sales (with cuts), new publications, usual ads, and... Read More
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Антология Русской советской поэзии 1917-1957 / Antologiya russkoi sovetskoi pojezii 1917-1957
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoye Nzdatel'stvo Khydozhestvennoy Literatury, 1957. 8vo, 2 vols; text in Russian; orange cloth printed in gilt and red; text clean and sound, a touch musty, very good.
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A tale of two presses. A brief history of two hand presses recently acquired by the Huckleberry Press
[Incline Village, Nevada]: The Huckleberry Press, 1991. Edition limited to 50 copies (this, no. 7); small slim folio, pp. [8]; illustrated title page with the 2 presses printed in red; fine copy in original terracotta wrappers, title on front printed in black. From the library of Kim Merker. "Fifty copies of this Keepsake were printed by John Balkwill and Greg Peterson ... under the direction of Gabriel Rummonds who kindly traveled to the Lake to instruct in the use... Read More
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Commercial Aeronautics - 23 [cover title]
Chicago: Junior Air Service of America Inc, 1930. 8vo, pp. 23, [1]; text illustrations throughout; illustrated self-wrappers; some splitting at spine, near fine. This issue focused on aerial photography.
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