Republic of China 1987: a reference book
New York & Taipei: Hilit Publishing Company [and] Highlight International, 1987. First edition, 8vo, pp. xx, 620; color illustrations throughout; fine in original pictorial laminate boards. General information about Taiwan, including its geographical features, government system and operation, territory under Taiwan's control, economy and finance, education, sports, cultural activities, social development, international relations, and a whos' who in the ROC, among other subjects.
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Providence Illustrated
Providence: H. S. Inman, 1886. Large 4to, consisting of a title leaf, table of contents, and 100 fine heliogravures, each appropriately captioned; publisher's heavy full blindstamped black morocco, double gilt rules on covers enclosing the title in gilt, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-decorated spine, a.e.g., silk moiré endpapers; some moderate rubbing; very good. Also published in 20 parts by the Lithotype Print. and Pub. Co. in Gardner, Massachusetts.
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The self-interpreting family Bible, with an evangelical commentary by the late Rev. John Brown, minister of the gospel at Haddington containing marginal references. Embellished with elegant engravings
London: Thomas Kelly [assigned of Richard Evans], n.d., 1832. Large folio, engraved title-p., pp. 26, [4] plus unpaginated text in double column, engraved portrait of Brown, engraved table, engraved plan of Jerusalem, and 72 engraved plates; last leaf with small piece torn from bottom margin affecting the last 2 lines of the footnotes, occasional spots and stains, but generally a good, sound copy in contemporary and probably original dark blue straight-grain morocco, gilt borders on covers, gilt spine, red... Read More
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I, Charles Lounsbury
Montreal: Privately printed, 1923. Slim 12mo, pp. 14; Ltd. to 350 copies printed for Charles Corbett Ronalds by The Ronalds Company Limited, woodcut frontispiece, initials rubricated; previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper with some offset, a near fine copy in beautiful decorative floral paper covered boards, with black lettering on spine.
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An anthology of Delaware papermaking With an introduction by Gordon A. Pfeiffer and four wood engravings by John DePol
New Castle: Delaware Bibliophiles, Oak Knoll Books, 1991. Edition limited to 200 copies, this the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy and out of series; 8vo, pp. 81, [3]; 4 mounted wood engravings, other illustrations in the text; original blue cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards; fine. Forty-Four B40.
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Ladies' indispensable assistant. Being a companion for the sister, mother, and wife. Containing more information for the price than any other work upon the subject. ... best directions for the behavior and etiquette of ladies and gentlemem, ladies' toliette table, directions for managing canary birds, also, safe directions for the management of children; ... a great variety of valuable recipes, forming a complete system of family medicine. Thus enabling each person to become his or her own physician: to which is added one of the best systems of cookery ever published; many of these recipes are entirely new and should be in the possession of every person in the land
New York: Published at 128 Nassau-Street, 1853. 8vo, pp. [10], 7-72, 7-48, 121-138; original blind-stamped brown cloth; gilt ornament on upper cover; spine cloth missing; extremities rubbed and worn; spine perished; light foxing; otherwise good and sound. Apparently, a composite volume of three different texts from past publications. A large portion of the text is comprised of instructions for homeopathic remedies, as well as an index describing the medicinal properties of various items found in nature.
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Riba Harihariuna
London, Canberra, Cape Town: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1962. 8vo, pp. 626, [2]; frontispiece map; original maroon cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover; light wear, damp on final leaf, rear hinge starting; all else very good and sound. "Wholly set up and printed in Australia by Ambassador Press ... Sydney." A corrected and revised reprint of the 1956 (first) New Testament in Suau, also known as Duai. With section headings, inter-Gospel and other references, and a map.... Read More
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Directory of libraries of the Chicago area including historical sketches of the four local library organizations
Chicago: Chicago Library Club, 1933. 8vo; pp. 160; very good copy in original orange paper wrappers, pencil annotations throughout.
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![Standard map of Chisago County, Minnesota, showing selected roads in red [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/197/673/649673197.0.l.jpg)
Standard map of Chisago County, Minnesota, showing selected roads in red [cover title]
St. Paul: McGill-Warner Co, 1920. One color map (approx. 648 x 521 mm.) folded down to approx. 178 x 114 mm. in brown printed wrappers; occasional tears from folds, else very good. Map title: "Standard map of Chisago County, Minnesota, showing portions of Isanti and Anoka Counties". University of Minnesota and Minnesota Historical Society only in OCLC.
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Two scrapbooks documenting the life of Ululani Franklin Lemon
Honolulu. Two folio albums, 16½" x 14½" and 14½" x 12¼", about 200 pp. total, containing ephemera, news clippings, and photographs. Ululani Franklin Lemon - "Uncle Nani" - was born in Honolulu in 1881 to a naturalized Canadian father and a Hawaiian mother. He lived his entire life in Honolulu and died there in 1950. In 1902 he graduated Kamehameha School for Boys as a scholarship student. He had flourished during his school years, establishing himself as a star... Read More
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Pitman's shorthand, a short account of its invention and history, together with a statement of the position of the system at the present day
[New York: Sir I. Pitman and Sons], 1918. Small folio, pp. 35, [1]; 13 plates laid in; original printed green paper wrappers, relief portrait of Isaac Pitman on upper cover; edges frayed and sunned, cover starting, textblock clean and sound. An advertising vehicle for Pitman shorthand, with a brief history of the system, testimonials, and statistics as to the rate of its use.
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Annual of the Grand National Curling Club of the United States, for 1876
New York: printed for the Grand National Club, 1877. 12mo, pp. 108; 3 plates (1 folding); original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover; near fine throughout. This is the eighth year of the Annuals, containing rules of the game, accounts of the year's matches and championships, national officers, chapter officers, constitution and by-laws, minutes of annual meetings, selected prose and poetry relating to curling, etc.
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華英始階 / English and Chinese primer. ... Specially translated and carefully revised
Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd, 1912. 47th printing, 8vo, pp. 48; parallel text in English and Chinese; two text illustrations; printed yellow paper wrappers; contemporary note "Printed for Government Schools, notice(?) the Christian Teaching. Carrie I. Jewell." on upper wrapper; light edgewear, two pages with pencil marks, very good. An elementary text reprinted for over a decade but appearing to survive in about a dozen copies institutionally.
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![Economic and social aid to Vietnam...July 1, 1964 - December 31, 1968 [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/296/885/631885296.0.l.jpg)
Economic and social aid to Vietnam...July 1, 1964 - December 31, 1968 [cover title]
[Saigon]: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1968. 4to, pp. 64; photographic illustrations throughout; original white and blue pictorial wrappers, shelf wear mostly affecting corners, last few pages a bit creased, else interior very good. Corrigenda laid in. A record of the humanitarian assistance "from governmental sources, foreign voluntary agencies and professional organizations sponsored by their governments, exclusive of the U.S. programs" - foreword by Tran Chanh Thanh, Minister of Foreign Affairs. OCLC locates one copy, in the Netherlands.
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Biographical history with portraits of prominent men of the great West
Chicago: Manhattan Publishing Company, 1894. Large, thick 4to, pp. 720, [3]; steel-engraved portrait frontispiece, approximately 200 full-page portraits, tissue guards; modern brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; about fine.
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Boston Notion. Volume 1. Number 43
Boston, Mass: Saturday Morning, July 25, 1840. 34" x 23¾", pp. [4]; 8 columns per page, removed from binding. Popular publications, English magaziniana, crime records, literary notices, marriages and deaths (with cuts), domestic news, select poetry, foreign news, including attempt to assasinate the Queen and Prince Albert, Liverpool markets report, and London commercial report. With chapters from Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock, and Marryat's Poor Jack.
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General index to the first forty-two volumes of "The Studio" 1893-1908
London: Simms & Reed Ltd, 1979. Reprint edition after the original editions of 1902 and 1909; 2 volumes in 1, small folio, pp. 135; 128; fine in original green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine.
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The favorite pictorial defining and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. Based on the labors and principles of Webster, and other authorities
Easton, PA: Seitz & Vogel, 1887. New edition, carefully revised, 16mo, pp. 320; steel engraved illustrations in text throughout; original brown printed cloth (minor staining); pages uniformly toned, front edges of boards a bit worn; mostly fine. Advertisements for various Easton businesses printed on endpapers ("Pomps old stand for pure drugs, paints & oils," etc.). Preface printing statement dated 1882, Hurst & Co., New York. This edition not in OCLC.
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The 44th Air Service Group in India, 1944-1945
[Calcutta]: 44th Air Service Group, 1945. Oblong 4to, approx. 9½" x 12", pp. 68; greyscale photo reproductions throughout; bound with metal clasps in stiff paper wrappers. A photo album of daily life in the 44th, with the last pages dedicated to a personnel directory. This copy belonged to William Woehrle, with his pen marks in the directory. Some wear to edge and covers, still very good. Listed in OCLC but without a location.
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Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies Volume 25 ... In honor of a great librarian this volume is dedicated to Alfred K'Aiming Ch'iu ... in gratitude for four decades of devoted service to libraries, scholars, and students
Cambridge: Harvard Yenching Institute, 1965. 8vo, pp. 307, [1]; frontispiece portrait, the occasional illustration; near fine copy in original gray printed wrappers. This copy inscribed at the top of the front wrapper: "To Ptrofessor Romeyn Taylor with the compliments of A. K'Aiming Ch'iu, 1 December 1965." With contributions by Max Loehr, David Farquhar, Helen McCullough, a bibliography of the works of Alfred K'Aiming Ch'iu, and his own reminescences as a librarian at Harvard-Yenching.
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![彙集雅俗通十五音 / Hui ji ya su tong shi wu yin [= An elegant collection of 15 tones(?)]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/820/134/1586134820.0.l.jpg)
彙集雅俗通十五音 / Hui ji ya su tong shi wu yin [= An elegant collection of 15 tones(?)]
[n.p., 1820. Stab stitched manuscript, 9.5" x 6.5", pp. [2], 409, [1]; text in Traditional Chinese; limp cloth covers; covers soiled and roughly restitched, first leaf partially perished with loss to text, about half a dozen pages adhered to each other, one leaf chipped with some loss to text, some nibbling to the top of first 60 pages, not affecting text, which is neatly executed and legible with a few dozen corrections, good. Hui ji ya su tong shi... Read More
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![The Maritime Customs. I. Statistical series: nos. 3 and 4. Returns of trade (55th issue) and trade reports 49th issue), 1913. Part III. - Analysis of foreign trade. Vol. I. - Imports. [Vol. II. - Exports]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/260/421/1611421260.0.m.jpg)
The Maritime Customs. I. Statistical series: nos. 3 and 4. Returns of trade (55th issue) and trade reports 49th issue), 1913. Part III. - Analysis of foreign trade. Vol. I. - Imports. [Vol. II. - Exports]
Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs, 1914. Small folio (11" x 8½"), pp. [4], 735, [1]; tables galore throughout; bound with Index to Annual Trade Reports 1908-12, Shanghai, 1914, pp. [4], 19, [1]; original cloth-backed printed yellow paper-covered boards, paper label on spine; a little soiling but very good and sound. Text in Chinese and English, old German library rubberstamp on title page. Includes an "Appendix. Foreign Trade of China: imports (gross) and exports for 1911,... Read More
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The bookworm. An illustrated treasury of old-time literature
New York: A. C. Armstrong & Son; London: Elliot Stock, 1982. 5 volumes (first thru fifth series, of 7), large 8vo, original morocco-grained brown cloth-backed green cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine, fore- and bottom edges uncut; tops of spine slightly chipped, texts variously toned, and several hinges starting to crack, but generally a good, and reasonably sound set of the first 5 volumes. The series extended to 7 volumes, ending in 1894. Bookplates of Jacob Chernofsky. An interesting... Read More
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Group of ten titles, as below
Chicago & Cedar Rapids, 1920. All slim 8vo, orig. cloth-backed paper-covered boards, paper labels, occasionally illustrated, etc. Includes 3 titles printed for the Chicago Bookfellows, and 7 privately printed for the friends of the Torch Press, and 1 duplicate, many by J. Christian Bay of the John Crerar Library. Very good, sound copies or better.
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![City charter, proposed for the adoption of the freemen of Providence, at a town meeting, to be holden April 29th, 1829 [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/724/461/1362461724.0.l.jpg)
City charter, proposed for the adoption of the freemen of Providence, at a town meeting, to be holden April 29th, 1829 [wrapper title]
[Providence]: printed for the use of the Freeman, by order of the town, 1829. 8vo, pp. 12; self-wrappers, stitched, as issued; lightly toned, else fine. U.S. Senator's Theodore Francis Green's copy, with his lightly penciled ownership signature at the top of the first leaf. At the time the oldest serving member of the Senate, Green (1867-1966) was Governor of R.I. 1933-37, and U.S. Senator 1937-61. Together with: City Charter, proposed for the adoption of the freemen of Providence, at... Read More
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