De Maisse. A journal of all that was accomplished by Monsieur De Maisse Ambassador in England from King Henri IV to Queen Elizabeth Anno Domini 1597. Translated from the French and edited with an introduction by G. B. Harrison ... and R. A. Jones
Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1931. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], xvii, [1], 146; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; near fine.
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Catalogue of an exhibition of the typographic work of Jane Grabhorn in the Albert M. Bender Room of the Stanford University Libraries March 4 to April 7, 1956
[Los Angeles]: Grabhorn Press, 1956. Edition limited to 500 copies, 8vo, pp. 27, [1]; device of the Colt Press on the title page printed in red, other devices and ornaments in the text; touch of wear and toning to covers, very good in original floral patterned wrappers, paper label on upper cover. In a new clamshell box.
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Plaza de Toros. En la tarde del Lunes 30 de Mayo dse 1842 (si el tiempo lo permite) se verificara La Novena Corrida de Toros..
[Spain, no place of publication], 1842. Broadside approx. 18" x 25½", text within an ornate woodcut border; previous folds, else near fine. Determined to be not a bullfighting broadside, per se, but states rather that bulls from one company "Ganadera..." can't be there but others will be in play.
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The useful arts and manufactures of Great Britain
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1848. 8vo, pp. [4], 36, 35, [1], 47, [1], 40, 48, 39, [1], 32, 52, 56, 48, 36, 24; text illustrations throughout with full-page engravings heading each section; contemporary green cloth, gilt title on spine; light wear to extremities, edges spotted, very good with contemporary inscription reading: "To William Saunders a small present from his friend [?] Lovels." With sections on paper, glass, leather, parchment, glue, sugar, and various textiles.
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Agricultural almanac for the year 1871
Lancaster, PA: printed and sold by John Baer's Sons, 1870. 4to, pp. [36] unpaginated; looped cord in upper left corner for hanging, as issued; corners curled; otherwise very good. Contains astrological charts for each month, weather predictions, fables, anecdotes, and an assortment of other writings, including a "fable of an ambitious turtle.
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Massachusetts Mercury. No. 31, Vol. XIII
Boston: printed by Young and Minns, Tuesday, April 16, 1799. 20 " x 12½ ", pp. [4]; 4 columns per page; removed from binding. An account of a French ship firing at an American ship in the harbor of Curracoa (French forces invaded Curaçao a year later) in which ten men were killed and wounded; a letter defending President Adams, news from the Secretary of War, American naval intelligence, marine diary, marriage & death annoucements, new publications, woolen goods... Read More
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Webster's dictionary of quotations: a book of ready reference for all familiar words and phrases in the English language
New York: R. Worthington, n.d., 1880. 8vo, pp. 295, [1], [18] ads for Ward, Lock & Co. (London); original green cloth; spine stamped in gilt and black; hinges cracked, else very good.
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East India (progress and condition). Statement exhibiting the moral and material progress and condition of India, during the year 1913-14. Fiftieth number
London: printed under the authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, by Eyre amd Spottiswoode, 1915. Folio, pp. iv, 137, [1]; original printed blue wrappers, a few tears and light chipping at extremities; accession numbers at lower corner of front wrap; good copy. Notices of administration and legislation; justice and police; finance; land revenue; revenue from taxation and opium; agriculture; forests; mineral production and mining; manufactures; trade; public works; post office and telegraphs; scientific departments' education, literature and the press;... Read More
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Couriers of the cross in China. Pilgrim of the Honan Road, Miss Minnie Shipley. Theology in the service of suffering, Rev. W. B. Djang, M. A., B. D.
Toronto: The United Church of Canada, 1940. 7.25 x 5 in., pp. 32; portrait frontispiece and illustration of Cheeloo University Chapel; yellow printed paper wrappers, fine. Also with: A bifolium programme for using the pamphlet in the use of worship services, with guidance to leadership on preparation, readings, and questions. Also with: eight pages of manuscript notes being largley a series of questions to be asked a la reading comprehension tests, based on the text of Couriers of the... Read More
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Allyn Kellogg Ford Collection of Rhode Island documents
Providence, [et al.], 1840. Thirty-one letters and documents in approximately 45 pages in all, some relating to prominent merchant traders; and many signed by prominent political figures. The collection of Allyn Kellogg Ford (1878-1964), a Minneapolis businessman, Minnesota president of the Sons of the American Revolution, a founder of the Minneapolis Better Business Bureau, and a charter member and secretary of the Minneapolis Rotary Club. This collection was sold en bloc in 2012 to benefit the Minnesota Historical Society.... Read More
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![漢藏對照詞典 /Han Zang Duizhao Cidian / རྒྱ་བོད་ཤན་སྦྱར་ཚིག [= Sino-Tibetan comparative dictionary]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/548/451/1667451548.0.l.jpg)
漢藏對照詞典 /Han Zang Duizhao Cidian / རྒྱ་བོད་ཤན་སྦྱར་ཚིག [= Sino-Tibetan comparative dictionary]
[Bejing]: Publishing House of Minority Nationalities, 1991. First edition, large 8vo (approx. 10½" x 7½", pp. [2], 2, 2, 4, 26, 1448, [2]; lexicon in double column; some toning of the text, but in all, a very good, sound, and clean copy bound in the original gilt-decorated blue cloth.
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The Greatest Hero of the War is the title of a lecture to be given by a former pastor of the M. E. Church, and a victim of the Tariffville disaster a few years ago. Rev. H. W. Thomas in the Methodist Church, Wednesday evening, May 26, under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society
Winsted, Conn: Citizen Job Print, 1895. Folio broadside, approx. 13" x 7¼", wood-engraved portrait of the lecturer; very good. His talk is "replete with touching incidents and adventure, and will linger long in the memory of those who were so fortunate to listen to this tender and eloquent story. He closed with a thrilling recital of an incident of Little Round Top, and as he produced the little artillery flag taken from the hands of a dead hero who... Read More
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A glass, from "the book;" historical fact, and ocular demonstration: showing the mysteries of the late Emanuel Swedenborg. By a believer in "One God and Father of all.
Philadelphia: printed for the author by William Fry, and sold by Thomas Dobson, no. 41, South Second Street, 1817. 8vo in 4s, pp. 104; removed from binding; light tide stain, extremities soiled, early owner's signature on title page; good and sound. A title critical of Swedenborg, who had claimed to have received revelations from God and was capable of visiting Heaven and Hell. Scarce. Princeton Theological and Graduate Theological Union only in OCLC. American Imprints 40923.
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The hieroglyphick Bible; or select passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical figures, for the amusement of youth ... illustrated with nearly five hundred cuts
Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1825. Fourth edition, 12mo, pp.129, [1]; lacking pages 9-10, 47-96, 125-128, and 130-[134] (page 130 being blank in this copy but with text on copies checked online); woodblock illustrations throughout text, many crudely hand colored; calf-backed paper-covered boards; spine partially perished, textblock split and pp. 37-38 loose; a deeply flawed copy, but still a visually interesting novelty, telling the major stories of the Bible through a rebus text. This edition is in neither Osborn nor Welch,... Read More
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![林野土壌調査報告第6号附図 / Rinya dojou chousa houkoku... / Soil maps. Forest soils of Japan. Report 6. March 1956 [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/971/357/1564357971.0.l.jpg)
林野土壌調査報告第6号附図 / Rinya dojou chousa houkoku... / Soil maps. Forest soils of Japan. Report 6. March 1956 [cover title]
Tokyo and Meguro: Forest Experiment Station, 1956. Five large folding maps, printed in color, bound in to a printed paper wrapper, this set focusing on Nagoya and being nos. 21-25 of a nation-wide survey; wrappers a touch toned, else fine. The maps are as follows: Dando (34.75" x 24.5"), Ena (39.25" x 29.5"), Kuguno 1-3 (19.75" x 29.75", 30" x 42.5", 30" x 22.5").
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An assortment of 5 antiquarian book catalogues as below
New York: American Art Association Anderson Galleries, 1937. Small 4to; facsimiles; bound in blue cloth, hand lettered paper spine label; very good. The five sales include, Rare Americana from the Library of the Late Levi Z. Leiter, 1933; The Library of the Late Ogden Goelet of New York, parts I & II, 1935; Romances of Chivalry, European Literature, French Books with Engravings, Rare Americana from the Library of John B. Stetson Jr., 1935; Americana Rara, English & American First... Read More
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January, 1846. At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, begun and holden by adjournment at Providence, within and for said state, on the first Monday of January, 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. 70, [2]; uncut and largely unopened; 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 October, 1845. Not in American Imprints. Minnesota only in OCLC.
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The Book of Common Prayer and administration of the sacraments and the other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America: together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David
New York: George Forman, 1803. 12mo, pp. 394; [2], 225, [3]; The Psalms with separate title page; bound in is an Additional hymns set forth in the General Convention of 1808 [drop title], publisher not identified with its own marbled paper wrappers, paginated in manuscript [1], 225-245, [3], and collating X6, Y6; signed at the top of the first leaf "William Carter, May 4, 1815"; full calf; rebacked in calf at an early date; lower joint cracked, boards rubbed,... Read More
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A grammar of the Hebrew language without points, rendered easy by familiar explanations, and examples to every important rule. To which is subjoined, a very copious Vocabulary, consisting of upwards of fifteen hundred words, with an English translation
London: printed by J.S. Hughes ... for John Offor, 1821. 12mo, pp. x, [1], 12-131, [1]; folding frontispiece of verb conjugation printed in red and black; original drab boards with a later rebacking in cloth, red leather label lettered in gilt on spine. Oddly, only the Columbia copy in OCLC and the google surrogate also from the Columbia copy.
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Complete run of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society. Volumes I thru XVII in 18 volumes
St. Paul & Philadelphia, 1860-1920. Volume I, 1902 (being a republication of the original "Annals," (all scarce in original editions, 1850-56); Vol. II, 1889 (a republication of Major Stephen H. Long's Voyage in a Six-Oared Skiff to the Falls of St. Anthony in 1817, with Introductory Note by Edward D. Neill, Phila., 1860), see Howes L-445; Vol. III, 1880 (containing the Relation of M. Penicault, Levenworth's Expedition to Fort Snelling in 1819, A Reminiscence of Fort Snelling by Charlotte... Read More
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A book of alphabets for Douglas Cleverdon drawn by Eric Gill. With a foreword by Douglas Cleverdon and an introduction by John Dreyfus
Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 1987. First edition limited to 550 copies (this, no. 139 and one of 450 bound by Woolnough Fine Binding); 8vo, pp. 15, [1] followed by 28 leaves of letters and colophon; original quarter red cloth over decorative paper boards, gilt lettering on spine; fine in a fine blue paper slipcase.
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![Celebration of the Fourth of July during 18-- [manuscript drop title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/366/122/1443122366.0.l.jpg)
Celebration of the Fourth of July during 18-- [manuscript drop title]
1900. Manuscript story on lined paper, 10½" x 7", pp. [12]; text on rectos only, an ink illustration on bottom of each page, stapled at top, blank cover leaf toned, the rest clean and near fine. A simple and childish story, notable mainly for the equally childish and entertaining illustrations. It describes speeches and picnics, naughty boys starting wars with bees, and a grumpy farmer holding his son back to fish and harvest the oats.
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![La matrone du pays de Soung. Les deux jumelles [contes chinois] avec une préface par É. Legrand](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/483/012/1613012483.0.l.jpg)
La matrone du pays de Soung. Les deux jumelles [contes chinois] avec une préface par É. Legrand
Paris: A. Lahure, 1884. Edition limited to 225 copies, this copy no. 71 and one of 50 on papier du Japon; 8vo, pp. xxx, 100, [4]; color plates in 2 states (one colored); original pictorial wrappers; light toning, else near fine. Issued in the publisher's Collection Lahure series. OCLC notes that this was reprinted from Rémusat's Contes chinois, 1827. The first tale was translated by Dentrecolles. Appendice: La matrone d'Éphèse (extrait du Satyricon de Pétrone).--La matrone d'Éphèse (conte de... Read More
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![Ministry of Aircraft Production headquarters staff abridged telephone directory ... August 1943 [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/305/962/1673962305.0.l.jpg)
Ministry of Aircraft Production headquarters staff abridged telephone directory ... August 1943 [cover title]
[London: Ministry of Aircraft Production, 1943. Abridged edition for handy reference, to accompany the full directory "which is now to be issued in June and December only"; 8vo, pp. 43, [1]; printed blue wrappers; some toning, two pages with pen revisions, text clean and sound, very good. A restricted internal directory for the British aeronautics industry and the RAF in the middle of WW-II. Marked restricted, and includes the instructions: "Important, keep conversations short and so reduce delays. Avoid... Read More
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The annual of bookmaking 1927-1937
[New York]: The Colophon, 1938. 4to, unpaginated sections of varying length produced by 25 different printers; decorative title page designed by Rockwell Kent and a profusion of facsimiles and illustrations throughout; extremities lightly soiled and small stain on rear cover, else a very good, sound copy in original half light blue cloth stamped in black and silver, designed by W.A. Dwiggins. Among the bibliophilic enterprises represented are AIGA, Alfred A. Knopf, Riverside Press, Ward Ritchie Press, Press of the... Read More
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