A Descriptive and Pictorial Review of the Luncheon and Reception given by the National BIscuit Company in celebration of the completion of its new bakery, on Saturday, the ninth of September, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, at its new buildings, Central Street and Milwaukee Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, MO: Nabuisco, 1911. Illustrated throughout. [64]pp. Large oblong quarto. Bound in full brown morocco, gilt. brown moire silk endpapers, matching brown cloth slipcase. Illustrated throughout. [64]pp. Large oblong quarto. Inscribed on ffep.
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The Log of the Automobile. Records and Observations by the Owner
Boston: Bookcraft Company, 1902. 1 vols. 8vo. Original limp reverse sheep. Rubbed, several sheets at front removed. 1 vols. 8vo. From the library of Charles Edison (1890-1969), son of Thomas A. Edison and Governor of New Jersey from 1941-1944. This was probably Thomas's Log book A relic of the early days of the automobile, the log consists of printed forms to be completed in manuscript with details of "runs" in the automobile, including beginning and end of... Read More
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Eighty years' Progress of the United States: A Family Record of American Industry, Energy and Enterprise ... With a large amount of statistical information
Hartford, Conn: L. Stebbins, 1869. Illustrated profusely. 465 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Original green cloth. Boards a bit soiled, lower joint starting, else Very Good. Illustrated profusely. 465 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo.
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Leo Honnani Ka Papa Hawaii, Honolulu. Preface by Theodore Richards. WITH: Hoku Ao Nani
Honolulu] & New York: [Hawaiian Evangelical Association] & Bigelow & Main, 1902. 240; 304 pp. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Crimson cloth and boards. 240; 304 pp. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo.
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Arabic Manuscript. Compendium of Seven Maghrebi Texts including a Pharmacopeia
[N.p., Islamic Northwest Africa, 1858. Ink on paper, in different Maghrebi hands, catchwords; with later annotations. 1 vols. 6 x 8 inches. Twentieth-century brown Islamic wallet style binding. Loose in binding. Some leaves folded to retain annotations. Bookplates of Max Mayerhof and George Sarton (with presentation inscription from Mayerhof in Arabic and French "au Dr. Sarton", and Sarton's note of receipt in 1933). Ink on paper, in different Maghrebi hands, catchwords; with later annotations. 1 vols. 6 x... Read More
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Woman's Peace Party. Preamble and Platform Adopted at Washington, January 10, 1915
[Boston], 1915. 4pp. handbill, the conjugate leaf perforated as issued for application. 8vo. Unbound. Some short edge tears. 4pp. handbill, the conjugate leaf perforated as issued for application. 8vo. Founded by Jane Addams and others, The Woman's Peace Party (WPP) was an American pacifist and feminist organization formally established in January 1915 in response to World War I. At the party's founding convention on January 10, 1915 in Washington, D.C., Addams was elected President and the convention approved... Read More
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Oxford Blue Book [Cover title]. [Album of cyanotypes of the Oxford College for Women]
Oxford, Ohio: E.B.F., 1891. Cover with printed title label and 16 cyanotypes mounted and hand captioned. 1 vols. Oblong 12mo. Disbound, some chipping to edges of cover. Owner signature, Property of Jane Knox (Skinner). Cover with printed title label and 16 cyanotypes mounted and hand captioned. 1 vols. Oblong 12mo. The Oxford College for Women was formed by the consolidation of the Oxford Female College and the Western Female Seminary.
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Exhibition of Posters. Penna Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia, 1896. 27 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Self wrappers; some internal and external dampstaining, not affecting legibility of text. 27 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.
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The Black Family ReunionCookbook
Tradery House National Council of Negro Women, Inc, 1991. First Edition. viii, 192pp. 8vo. Spiral pictorial paper over boardsbound. Fine. First Edition. viii, 192pp. 8vo.
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Rules, Orders, and Ordinances for the Fisheries in Thames and Medway
London: Printed by Arthur Taylor, 39, Coleman Street, Printer to the Honourable City of London, 1856. 36 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Half green calf over marbled boards, t.e.g., by Zaehnsdorf. Bookplate of Dean Sage. Very Good. 36 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. This edition not noted in Westwood & Satchell. No copy recorded in OCLC. Sage p. 197 (this copy)
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Egisto Fabbri [Jr.] 1866-1933. With a Memoir by Mabel La Farge
New York: Privately Printed, 1937. First Edition, one of 300 copies. Frontispiece, with facsimile letter. vi, [iv], 165pp. 8vo. Blue cloth.Almost fine. First Edition, one of 300 copies. Frontispiece, with facsimile letter. vi, [iv], 165pp. 8vo. Inscribed on ffep "To Louis V. Ledoux with memories from Mabel La Farge December 1937." Artist and architect nephew and the namesake of a J.P. Morgan partner, a famous collector of Cezanne and an architect.
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The Church Book of the Bunyan Meeting 1650-1821. Being a reproduction in facsimile of the original folio in the possession of the Trustees of Bunyan Meeting at Bedford ... With an Introduction by G.B. Harrison
London and Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd, 1928. No 527 of 675 copies. 1 vols. Folio. Full japon vellum, yapped edges, ties. Fine, in broken slipcase. Bookplate. No 527 of 675 copies. 1 vols. Folio.
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Crosby Opera House Art Association : its plan and objects : descriptive catalogue of over three hundred valuable premiums! To be Distributed among Subscribers
[New York: Russell's Print], 1866. 36pp. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers, with staining. 36pp. 8vo. Catalogue of an auction to raise funds to pay for the construction of the Crosby Opera House, which was completed in the spring of 1865.
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The Netherland-historian, containing a true and exact relation of what hath passed in the late warrs between the King of Great Britain, and the French King with their allyes, against the States Generall of the United Provinces; from the beginning thereof anno 1671. to th conclusion of peace between his aforesaid Majesty of Britain, and the said states; with the continuation of what hath since happened between France and his allyes, against the said states, and their confoederates, to the end of the year 1674. Illustrated with above 60 sculptures, being the exact delineations of the most principall fortifications in those provinces, and the pourtraictures of severall mighty princes and eminent officers
Amsterdam: Printed By Stephen Swart, 1675. First edition, missing first half-title. 27 (of 29) engraved folding plates, some bound out of order. [viii], 560 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt-ruled, with circular red morocco shelfmark label, covers ruled in blind, spine mostly perished, covers detached. Bottom corner torn from pp. 531-2, Signed on the front free endpaper in an early hand, "Thomas Smiths Book. First edition, missing first half-title. 27 (of 29) engraved folding plates, some bound out... Read More
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The Forest Lake Club. Incorporated 12 July, 1882. Under the laws of Pennsylvania as the Forest Lake Association. Charter amended 18 July 1908 changing name to The Forest Lake Club ... Mast Hope, Pike County, Pennsylvania
[New York: E.A. Ronaldson & Co.], 1907. Frontispiece. 54 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth, upper cover titled in gilt. Near fine (soling to a few leaves in back). A few manuscript changes to addresses and list of members. Frontispiece. 54 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. This fishing club was formed in 1882 after Joseph Williamson of Lackawaxen bought a 1500-acre tract of land from William Holbert, and early members included many New York sportsmen. This 1907 year book... Read More
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Qur'an [Koran]: Manuscript Leaf on Paper: [Surah 48:1-25]
[N.p., 18th century?]. Single sheet of polished paper, text of 15 lines, Muhaqqaq script, fully vocalized, with gold aya markers. 11x 15 inches. Edges with a few traces of wear and old repairs, bottom line with three letters supplied in manuscript. Single sheet of polished paper, text of 15 lines, Muhaqqaq script, fully vocalized, with gold aya markers. 11x 15 inches. "for to Allah belong the armies of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is full of... Read More
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Extractus capitulationis. Anno 1690. Das die einnehmende Succurs und Auxiliar Völcker in drey Bataillons / jede Battaillon zu fünff Compagnien zu Fueß / drey Compagnien zu Pferde und eine Dragoner ..
[Aachen, Germany, 1690. Ornamental initial, Title in roman ,text in black letter, 42 lines per page. 4 pp. on a single bifolium. 1 vols. 4to. Old folds, occasionally affecting a letter or two; paper flaw in bottom center margin (no loss of text). Very good. Ornamental initial, Title in roman ,text in black letter, 42 lines per page. 4 pp. on a single bifolium. 1 vols. 4to. Printed document stating the terms, pay grades, and regulations for soldiers... Read More
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Three P's, or Pioneer Pen Pictures of Dakota. By the Tuesday Club
Huron, S.D.: Huronite Printing Co, 1907. Illustrated by Carrie Morse Norton. 80pp. 4to. Purple wrappers.With wear and some staining. Illustrated by Carrie Morse Norton. 80pp. 4to. With 13 pp typescript laid in at the back celebrating the Tuesday Club's 10th Anniversary.
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A Treasury of American Popular Songs [Cover title]
[New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. Publisher's dummy, pasted up from sheet music, with blanks. 1 vols. Thick 4to. Blue cloth spine and red cloth boards. Externally clean and fresh, internally some paste soiling and loosening. Very good. Publisher's dummy, pasted up from sheet music, with blanks. 1 vols. Thick 4to. Mock-up for A Treasury of American Popular Songs, from sheet music, from On the Banks of the Wabash (1898) to Say It with Music (1921), with a... Read More
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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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The Port Folio, or Companion to the Select Circulating Library. A Semi-Monthly Publication, on the basis of Chamber's Edinburgh Journal...Part 1-January to June, 1835 [AND] Part II - July-December, 1835
Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Adam Waldie, 1835. First edition. [iv], 208; [iv], 208 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary three-quarter calf, marbled boards. Upper board detached but present, spine chipped. Internally about fine. First edition. [iv], 208; [iv], 208 pp. 1 vols. 4to.
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Watercolor Full Length Profile Portrait of Gentleman in blue waistcoat holding rolled paper, with curtain on right
1 vols. Framed and glazed. 1 vols.
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Black Images. Volume 1 Number 1 & Number 3 & 4. A Critical Quarterly on Black Culture
Toronto Ontario, 1972. 32,; 67, [1]pp. With errata in Vol.I. 4to. Wrapers. About fine. 32,; 67, [1]pp. With errata in Vol.I. 4to.
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Incomplete set
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers 327 to 335 Pearl Street, Franklin Square, vd. Volumes LVIII, LVIV, LXVI, LVII, LIX, LXII, LXV, LXVI, LXIX, LXVIII, LXXI, LXIII, LXX. 13 vols. Large 8vo. Bound in quarter black contemporary calf and black cloth sides, Very Good condition Signed label "Clark's Journal Book Bindery Removed to Rialto Building, State Street, Montpelier, Vt..." Bookplate of W.R. Sturtevant Hartland, Vt. Volumes LVIII, LVIV, LXVI, LVII, LIX, LXII, LXV, LXVI, LXIX, LXVIII, LXXI, LXIII,... Read More
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After-Dinner Assortment Party Games
Highland Park, Illinois: Edward Smith Manufacturing Co, 1935. In pictorial yellow printed box. Fine. An Assortment of 6 different games.
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