June, 1845. At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, begun and holden by adjournment at Newport within and for said state, on the fourth Monday of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and of independence the sixty-ninth
[Providence: publisher not identified], 1845. 8vo, pp. 56; uncut; 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. Laws, allotments, and other enactments passed at the General Assembly of Rhode Island since the previous meeting in May, 1845. Not in American Imprints. Minnesota only in OCLC. Bound with: An Act relating to Public Schools [drop title], pp. 12, [4]. Not in American... Read More
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Maria matka dobré rady. Modlitební knizka k ucteni nejblahoslavenejsí Panny Marie
Vimperk: J. Steinbrenera, n.d., 1887. Prayer book in Czech, 24mo, (approx. 111 mm), pp. 384; chromolithograph frontispiece and title-page, 12 full-p. wood engravings at The Stations of the Cross, publisher's binding of full celluloid with an elaborate metal onlay frame enclosing a maroon velvet background onto which have been applied a celluloid crucifix and a celluloid floral motif also lined in metal, brass clasp intact, both covers edged in brass; minor edge wear, very good and sound. A similar... Read More
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v.p., v.d.. Two large cloth-covered clamshell boxes containing a miscellany of bookbinding ephemera, approximately 40 items in all, including trade catalogues, price lists, advertising matter, chapbooks, instruction manuals, etc.
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January, 1836. 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 fourth Monday of January, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and of independence the sixtieth
[Providence: printed by Knowles & Burroughs], 1836. 8vo, pp. 97, [3]; uncut and 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. Laws and other enactments passed at the General Assembly of Rhode Island since the previous meeting in October, 1835. Not in American Imprints. AAS only in OCLC.
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A picture journey over Shasta route: being a series of forty-five photographs of the principal spots of scenic, romantic and historic interest between San Francisco and Portland and the Pacific Northwest
San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company, 1930. Large, slim 4to, unpaged; chiefly black and white photographic illustrations; original pictorial wrappers depicting a painting by Maurice Logan, yapp edges; edges a bit shelf worn, else very good.
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Type metals. Their characteristics and their performance
Philadelphia, New York, Chicago: Imperial Type Metal Company, 1950. 8vo, pp. 64; text illustrations; blue printed paper wrappers; old price sticker, small ink dot on fore-edge, near fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
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Third annual report of the regents of the university, on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History, and the historical and antiquarian collection, annexed thereto
Albany: Weed, Parsons & Company, 1850. Revised edition, 8vo, pp. 183, [1]; 18 colored plates, 5 black and white, 2 folding; 5 maps, woodcut illustrations throughout; original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt spine; front joint starting; faded; spine cracked and chipped with sections missing; otherwise good and sound. 18 beautiful colored plates depicting Iroquois garments and accessories, 5 black and white plates showcasing fossil specimens, 5 maps indicating where various artifacts referenced in the text were discovered. The report begins... Read More
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G4G12 Exchange Book. Gathering 4 Gardner
Atlanta: Gathering 4 Gardner, Inc, 2017. 2 volumes, 4to, pp. [3]-255, [1]; [3]-209, [1]; original pictorial wrappers; illustrated throughout (much in color), generally fine. "The Gift Exchange is an integral part of the Gathering 4 Gardner biennial conferences. Gathering participants exchange gifts, papers, puzzles and other interesting artifacts. This book contains gift exchange papers from the conference held in Atlanta, Georgia from Wednesday, March 30th through Sunday, April 3rd, 2016. It combines all of the papers offered as exchange... Read More
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WOOL and manufactures of wool. By Worthington C. Ford
Washington: G.P.O., 1894. 8vo, pp. v-[vi], 699; numerous graphs and tables throughout (many folding, some in color); some text browning, spine faded, else very good in orig. black cloth; ex-MHS.
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A supplement to the Digest of the Laws ... 1798. Public laws of the state of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, passed since the session of the Hon. General Assembly in January, A.D. 1798
Providence: printed by Jones & Wheeler, printers to the state, for Henry Cushing, at the Bible and Anchor, No. 2, Market Square, 1810. First edition, 8vo, pp. 144; original cloth-backed boards; text a bit browned and dampstained; good and sound. An Act relative to the catching of lobsters, An Act for the preservation of stakes and buoys, An Act to regulate the fishery in the Pawcatuck River, and many others. American Imprints 21214; Bartlett, p. 172.
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Les lettres nouvelles, no. 2
Paris: René Juillard, 1953. 8vo, pp. 256, [8]; original white wrappers (soiling) printed in red and white; tears to spine ends not affecting text; pages uniformly toned and brittle, textblock loose in binding; a fair copy only. Contents include 5 short pieces by Franz Kafka; a newly discovered poem by the Marquis de Sade; and the first appearance of Henry Miller's "The Children of the Earth," here published as "Les enfants de la terre". Shifreen & Jackson C262. ... Read More
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Maine Farmer. Vol. XLIV, No 22
Augusta, Maine: Homan & Badger, Saturday Morning, April 29, 1876. 28¾" x 21", pp. [4]; 8 columns per page, removed from binding. Black knot on plum trees, a plea for tree planting, experience in orcharding, preparations for the state fair, women's department - advice for young speculators, agricultural intelligence, congressional summary, House of Maine news, poetry, young folks' column, patent medicines, and numerous ads (many with cuts).
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East India (progress and condition). Statement exhibiting the moral and material progress and condition of India, during the year 1912-13. Forty-ninth number
London: printed under the authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, by Eyre amd Spottiswoode, 1914. Folio, pp. iv, 144; 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; local... Read More
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Manuscript French-English dictionary: Verba galant scripta manent
N.p. [likely France, 1880. 8vo, approx. 190 pages, text in double column; original full brown morocco, unadorned spine laid out in 6 compartments, a.e.g.; silver plate lock (broken and so no key needed); lightly marked, last leaf partially loose, but generally fine. The text is in a fine, calligraphic hand thrughout, the opening spread highlighted with red and green watercolors; sections include phrases and idioms (including topics such as food, birds, fish, vegetables, money, metals, clothing, etc.; and another... Read More
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Antwerp. Plan of the city. Guide of monuments and curiosities. Tramways, lines, and streets [cover title]
Antwerp: J. Stappaers, publisher, 1930. Small 8vo, pp. 8, 39, [1]; large folding color plan of the city; text and plan toned, else very good and sound in original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black.
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The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: newly translated out of original tongues: and with the former translations diligently repaired and revised.
London: Mark Baskett ... and by the assigns of Robert Baskett, 1767. Large paper copy (measuring nearly 5 centimeters larger than that cited in Darlow & Moule), large 4to, 1 volume expanded to 2, unpaginated; sectional title page for the N.T.; contemporary full red goatskin, elaborate borders on covers incorporating a Greek key design enclosing lilies with birds and vases with flowers, an with a central monogram "M*B" on an oval green morocco onlay, surrounded by a black morocco... Read More
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Bibliotheca Americana. John Carter Brown Library. Catalogue
[New York]: Readex Microprint, 1965. 25 leaves of fiche text reproducing 100 leaves of the original per leaf; housed in red buckram box with white pasted labels; very good.
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Sand and rock
New York: American Tract Society, 1840. 32mo, pp. 16; engraved illustrations throughout; bound with: Memoir of little George; or, "It is very mean to tell lies". New York: American Tract Society, [ca. 1850s]. Together in red cloth over marble boards, gilt spine, some shelf wear, edges rubbed, a bit foxed throughout, a good copy.
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Atlas of Beijing
Beijing: Surveying and Mapping Pub. House, 1994. Folio, pp. [8], 271, [5]; color maps, diagrams, and photographs on geography, history, culture, urban development, etc.; text in Chinese; maroon patterned cloth with gilt title on spine and cover, in pictorial paper dust jacket, both fine, in a slip case with a small dent.
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Cone cut corners: the experiences of a conservative family in fanatical times. Involving some account of a Connecticut village, the people who lived in it, and those who came there from the city. By Benauly
New York: Mason Brothers, 28 Park Row, n.d., 1855. 8vo, pp. xi, [2], 14-456; tinted lithograph frontispiece, wood-engraved chapter headings and tail-pieces; original blindstamped brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; binding a bit skewed, spine ends cracked, corners worn; good and sound. Wright II, 257: "A joint temperance production of the Abbott brothers, Austin, Benjamin, and Lyman.
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Constitution and canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Minnesota. Printed by order of the Council
Red Wing: Red Wing Printing Co, 1882. 8vo, pp. 14; orig. pink printed wrappers; slight fading at extremities, old library rubber-stamp on cover, else very good. Unusually nice copy.
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Werken Uitgegeven Door De Vereeniging ter Bevordering der Oude Nederlandsche Letterkunde. (Edited by P.J. Vermeulen, J. Tideman, W.J.A. Jonckbloet, P. Leendertz, J.G. de Hoop Scheffer, and M. de Vries
Leiden: D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1844. 17 volumes, 8vo, original printed paper-covered boards, together with 6 annual supplements, and a Brief aan Dr. W.J.A. Jonckbloet [cover title] by Dr. M. de Vries, all uniformly bound in stiff printed paper wraps, several fold-out facsimiles of Old Dutch manuscripts, some spines cracked; very good. Anthology and history of medieval Dutch literature put out by the Society for the Advancement of Old Dutch Literature. 1846 no. 1 is missing. Glossaries included... Read More
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The American handbook of printing containing in brief and simple style something about every department of the art and business of printing
New York: Oswald Pub. Co, 1913. Third edition, 8vo, pp. [14], 284; illustrated throughout on plates and in the text, some in color; hinges cracked, extremities rubbed, otherwise a very good copy in original green cloth, paper labels on upper cover and spine.
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The story of an institutional newspaper, 1878-1899, being twenty-one years of the Minneapolis Journal [cover title]
[Minneapolis?]: Press of the C.A. Mitchell Printing Co, 1899. Edition limited to 1999 copies of which this is no. 30, 4 volumes, 16mo; black and white plates, some folding; text illustrations; original white printed wrappers, red line borders; original green paper slipcase, paper labels on upper cover and spine; wrappers a bit toned, slipcase edge worn, else a very good set. "Printed and published as a lesson in publicity for advertisers, and a souvenir of its 21st year for... Read More
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The book of conversation; a guide for the tongue. Under the following important and useful heads: conversation, babbler, silent man, whitty man, droll, jester, disputer, opinionist ... flatterer, liar, boaster ... the tongue of women, language of love ... Translated from the French
Charleston, [South Carolina]: printed and published by S. Babcock & Co, 1837. First edition, 16mo, pp. xviii, [1], 20-251, [1]; engraved frontispiece; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover; top gutter corner of upper cover stained, light occasional foxing; generally good and sound. The preface identifies this as "A new and highly improved edition of this most valuable work", - which is originally from the French..." American Imprints 43302.
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