Landscape Gallery. A Series of Fine Line Engravings, Views of Scenery, Edifices, Cities, &c. &c in various parts of the world copied from nature and executed by the first artists. Volume I.
London, 1863. With 88 steel-engraved Numbered plates by German engravers. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Elaborate gilt stamped blue Publisher's cloth, a.e.g. Fine. With 88 steel-engraved Numbered plates by German engravers. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo.
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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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Blossom Fruit and Foliage. Fifty Photographs
Jersey City, N.J.: H.C. Perleberg Publisher 314 Palisades, nd. 4to. In half brown cloth portfolio with pictorial label on upper cover. Some minor wear to portfolio. Photos finer. 4to.
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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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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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7 original drawings of Indian hunt scenes
np, 1840. 7 x 9 3/4 inches (17.5 x 25 cm) each. Laid into modern folding cloth case. Some spotting and minor edge wear,. 7 x 9 3/4 inches (17.5 x 25 cm) each. The group includes a darkely lit night scene titled "A Village Tragedy" in which a tiger has struck down a man; a scene in which a large horned animal looms over a man hanging from a cliff's edge is titled "A Choice of Evils";... Read More
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Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu Indostanum Universitatis Kasi
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First edition. xx, 152 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Recent morocco backed boards, a.e.g. Paper flaw in margin of A1 (no loss), else fine. First edition. xx, 152 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Birrel & Garnett 12; Updike, Printing Types I (1951), pp. 181-3; Smitskamp PO 206; Brunet I, 197
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How Harry was kept from the Street. A True Story
[Boston: C.H. Simonds & Co., Printers, 1890. 4pp. 12mo. Cream wrappers. Fine. 4pp. 12mo. A Story of how a young boy was saved by his Harvard Photograph Outfit.
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Tintype and albumen portrait photographs of a women housed in a double-sided brooch
1870. One albumen and one tintype oval seated portrait photograph in a decorative gilded swivel-mount brooch with pin. 2-1/2 x 2 in. Fine. One albumen and one tintype oval seated portrait photograph in a decorative gilded swivel-mount brooch with pin. 2-1/2 x 2 in.
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Archive of Skateboarding photographs of Tom Spratt, Southern California, 1976-8
[Various places, California, 1978. 358 photographs, 3-1/2 x 5 or 3-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches, most color Kodak prints, many stamped Sharpshot on verso; some in black and white. Preserved in mylar sleeve mounts in three albums. 3 vols. Three albums. Ink ownership name and address of Tom Spratt in one album. Photographs generally fine. 358 photographs, 3-1/2 x 5 or 3-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches, most color Kodak prints, many stamped Sharpshot on verso; some in black and white.... Read More
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L'Office de La Quinzaine de Pasques, suivant le Nouveau Brévaire de Paris et de Romeen Latin et François
Paris: Chez de Hansy, 1788. 586 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound in contemporary crimson straight grained morocco, a.e.g., gilt spine. Fine. 586 pp. 1 vols. 12mo.
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Ristigouche Salmon Club. 1880-1980. 100 Years. Souvenir Program June 14-22 1980 [Cover title]
Ristigouche Salmon Club, 1980. Perhaps one hundred copies printed per Wood. Frontispiece, illustrated throughout. Unpaginated, [24] pp. 1 vols. 8-1/4 x 8-3/4 inches. Pictorial self wrappers. Fine. Book label of Charles Wood. Perhaps one hundred copies printed per Wood. Frontispiece, illustrated throughout. Unpaginated, [24] pp. 1 vols. 8-1/4 x 8-3/4 inches. Scarce souvenir of the Club centennial, "the best part is the wonderful series of reproductions of old photographs" (Wood). Bilbiotheca Salmo Salar 138 "closely guarded
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Erstes Modernes Musikfest zu Dreden 24-27 1917
Dresden: Druck Verlag, 1917. Obne of 1250. 4to. Wrappers. Obne of 1250. 4to. Inscribed in 1958to Fritz Reiner (there is a photo and paragraph about Reiner on pp. 12-13.
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Biblical Museum. Collected from the Holy Land
New York: Paul S. Iskyian 42 Franklin Street. 22 round boxes and 5 rectangular ones. With 1 leaf description of facsimile coins. 1 vols. 10-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches. Laid in cloth box, with paper printed label. 22 round boxes and 5 rectangular ones. With 1 leaf description of facsimile coins. 1 vols. 10-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches.
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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England : together with the Psalter or psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by W. Dawson, T. Bensley, and J. Cooke, 1798. 8vo. Bound in gold tooled red morocco. Fore edge painting. Ownership bookplate on first pastedown, with additional ownership signatures. In red cloth slipcase. 8vo. A lovely rebound copy of the Clarendon Press' 1798 "cum privilegio" edition, with a slightly faded yet highly detailed fore-edge painting of Oxford. The two inscriptions on the first blank, dated 1806 and 1837, as well as the annotated... Read More
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The Shakspere Gallery, Containing the Principal Female Characters in the Plays of the Great Poet
London: Charles Tilt, 1835. 42 engravings. 1 vols. 4to. Three-quarter dark brown morocco over light brown, gilt portrait of Shakespeare on upper board, a.e.g. Rubbed, upper hinge cracked, title page missing. Some light foxing to plates. 42 engravings. 1 vols. 4to.
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Conrad Blessington: A Tale. By a Lady
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Longman, 1833. First edition. pp. iv, 216. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco, spine gilt, double fillet border and vignette of feather helmet in gilt to boards, a.e.g. Some rubbing, small (early) paper shelf label at base of spine. A nice copy, very good. First edition. pp. iv, 216. 1 vols. 12mo. A scarce anonymous novel. The preface, pp. [iii]-iv, mentions the "sedendary life" of the author, "caused... 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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Watercolour of 3 women and man crushing grapes wine and pressing
19th century. 14-1/2 x 10 inches. Matted. 14-1/2 x 10 inches.
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Broadside: Boston Theatre. "Long Strike: or the Workingmen of Manchester...presented with the Great Factory & Telegraph Scenes
Boston: F.A. Searle Printing, 1870. 20 x 8.5 inches. fine. 20 x 8.5 inches. Two working man dramas.
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Small leather-covered wooden box with brass lock, decorated with brass tacks, the interior lined with a portion of the Map of the State of Kentucky and the Tennessee Government by Cyrus Harris, engraved by Amos Doolittle for Thomas and Andrews's Boston 1796 edition of Morse's American Geography
Np, 1800. Approx. 5 x 10-1/2 x 4 inches. Very Good. Approx. 5 x 10-1/2 x 4 inches. The lining also includes a portion of a double-hemispheric world map from the same work.
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Alphabetum Persicum, cum Oratione Dominicali et Salutatione Angelica
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Propag. Fide, 1783. 24 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Recent morocco backed boards, a.e.g. 24 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Birrell & Garnett 19; Smitskamp PO 210; Brunet I, 197
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The Parish of Shoddyville. Their new minister and How they got him.
1883. 38 pp. on lined paper 24 lines per page. Corrected and annotated. 4to. Fine, with ties, some toning. 38 pp. on lined paper 24 lines per page. Corrected and annotated. 4to. This manuscript is not for the book: Shoddyville. A social and political satire. By Paladin. [In verse.] Author: PALADIN, pseud. Publisher: London : Kerby & Endean, 1884 [1883] Our poem commences: "Shoddyville as some of my heroes may know, Is a place that has grown-is... Read More
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