THE HUMANISTS' LIBRARY. First and second series; complete, as below
Boston: The Merrymount Press, various dates. Eight volumes, 8vo, decorative ruled and bordered title pages printed in red and black, rubricated throughout; all in original linen-backed dark green paper-covered boards, dec. gilt brown morocco labels on spines; mostly unopened, mostly very good to near fine. Volume I: Thoughts on Art and Life by Leonardo Da Vinci. Translated by Maurice Baring. 1906. Edition limited to 103 copies; spine somewhat darkened; prospectus for Series I and II, with all titles listed,... Read More
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Large albumen photograph of the Pennsylvania Military Academy Base Ball Club
[West Chester, Penn. ?], 1890. The photograph is approx. 12" x 15¾" (by sight) in what appears to be the original mount (approx. 18" x 22"). The mount is broken at 3 corners but no loss of any lettering or image; some light overall spotting of the image, else generally very good. The 12-member team is pictured in 2 rows in a formal pose with a landscape backdrop; players and positions are identified in ink at the bottom; some... Read More
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The British almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge for the year 1831
London: Charles Knight, 1831. 12mo, pp. 72; 240; bound with: The British almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge for the year 1832, pp. 72, 240; Each almanac with a substantial Companion to the Almanac bound after; together, 2 volumes in original full green cloth, leather label on spine; joints starting, sewing snapped near upper hinge resulting in casing separating from spine (still attached at lower hinge); textblock clean and sound; good.
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![The lady's magazine. A new series. June 1820 [cover title]. Vol. 1, no. VI](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/016/106/1607106016.0.l.jpg)
The lady's magazine. A new series. June 1820 [cover title]. Vol. 1, no. VI
London: printed for the Proprietors, and sold by S. Robinson, 25, Paternoster-Row; and W. Fearman, New Bond-Street, 1820. 8vo, pp. [1], 282-336, [4] (ads); engraved frontispiece by Heath after Strothard, 2 engraved plates and plate of music; original printed paper wrappers; untrimmed, light foxing to plates, near fine. Uncommon to find in original wrappers. Includes a biographical sketch of Joseph Banks; contributions to the natural and literary history of dolphins; African human sacrifices; disappointments of love (from Washington Irving's... Read More
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Translation of Japanese ordnance markings
Washington D.C.: A. S. F. Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 1945. Staple bound booklet, 11 x 8.5 inches, pp. [4] 1-78 [2]; in pictorial paper wrappers, two inch tear to lower cover repaired with tape, corners bumped. A guide to reading Japanese terms particular to ordnance, intended for service members with no prior exposure to Japanese.
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Republic of China yearbook 1991-92
[Taipei]: Kwang Hwa Publishing Company, 1991. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxi, [1], 663, [3]; map endpapers, color illustrations throughout; front hinge starting, else very good in original pictorial laminate boards. General information about Taiwan, including the year in review, history, language, government and law, elections and political parties, national defense, among other subjects, and 4 in-depth biographies of Sun Yat-sen, Lee Teng-hui, Li Luan-zu, and Hau Pei-tsun.
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THE STEEL FLEA. Translated from the Russian by Isabel F. Hapgood
Boston: privately printed for the Company of Gentlemen Adventurers at the Merrymount Press, 1916. Edition limited to 300 copies, 8vo, pp. vii-[viii], 94-[96]; ornamented title-page; orig. half black cloth, light wear to extremities, some browning to endpapers from acidic later chemise, else fine. Smith 439.
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A picture book, for little children
Philadelphia: Kimber and Conrad, 1812. Thin 24mo, pp. [24];engraved title page, woodcut illustrations; original stiff tan wrappers (minor soiling to back cover), a few short chips, last quire partially unopened; about fine. The illustrations are redrawn cuts with a similar design to The Wonderful Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Albany: E. and E. Hosford, 1810; and Mother Goose's Melody, Worcester: I. Thomas, 1794. "The book is part of a large publisher's remainder" (Welch 993).
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Total returns of the 1840 census for Rhode Island. Copy submitted from clerk's office, District Court, Providence, to Federal Government. April 20, 1841. John T. Pitman, clerk. Included with copy of report to Stephen Cahoone, General Treasurer, concerning numbers of public school children. From sub committee: Thos M. Burgess, Thos. W. Dorr, Moses B. Ives
Providence: April 22, 1841. Folio bifolium (approx. 17¼" x 10½"), 3 pages, in ink, with a docket on the verso of the integral leaf; previous folds, neat, professional repair at splits; all else very good. Document concerning the financing of public schools in Providence. The fomenter of the Dorr Rebellion, Thomas W. Dorr, was part of a subcommittee on schools in Providence that sent this report to Stephen Cahoone, General Treasurer, based on the act of 1828 to establish... Read More
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Columbian Centinel. Whole No. 1728. No. 7 of vol. XXXIV
Boston: Benjamin Russell, Printer, Wednesday, September 24, 1800. 19" x 12", pp. [4]; 4 columns per page; removed from binding. Laws enacted, an act to establish the district of Kennebunk, cheating in play never prospers, military review, naval affairs, proclamation by the governor of the province of West Florida he will pay $4,500 to any person who will deliver him the body of William Augustus Bowles or produce sufficient proof of having killed him, 'Ode to Fancy' by Peter... Read More
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Catalogus senatus academici, et eorum qui munera et officia academica gesserunt, quique aliquovis gradu exornati fuerunt, in collegio Hamiltonensi
Uticae: Ellis H. Roberts, 1859. 8vo, pp. 44; lacking wrappers; very good. Unified list of students, alumni, faculty, etc.
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![The articles of association of the Broadway Bank. Directors. Francis A. Palmer, Lebbeus B. Ward [et al.] John L. Everett, cashier. Francis A. Palmer, president](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/755/804/1237804755.0.l.jpg)
The articles of association of the Broadway Bank. Directors. Francis A. Palmer, Lebbeus B. Ward [et al.] John L. Everett, cashier. Francis A. Palmer, president
[New York, 1849. 8vo, pp. 13, [3]; original printed tan wrappers; light wear and minor chips; very good. Essentially the By-Laws of the bank spelled out in eight articles. Broadway Bank was a New York bank absorbed into Manufacturers Trust Company in the early 20th century. Harvard Business School only in OCLC.
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Catalogue of theological books for sale by A. Finley ... The retail prices are annexed, from which a liberal discount will be made
Philadelphia: N.E. corner of Chestnut and Fourth Streets, 1822. 12mo, pp. 20; removed from binding; fine. "A. Finley has also constantly for sale a large collection of miscellaneous, medical, classical and school books, which he will sell on very reasonable terms." Alphabetical listing of nearly 300 titles. Pages 17 and 18 list recent titles, and 19 and 20 "a valuable collection of miscellaneous books.
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A catalogue of the officers and students of Brown University, 1852-53. First term
Providence: A. C. Green, printer, 1852. Small 8vo, pp. 47, [1]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; near fine. After a listing of the students and faculty, the latter half of the publication contains information on the organization of the university, curricula required for the 11 degrees offered, libraries, costs, scholarships, examinations, etc. Bartlett, p. 63.
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Complimentary dinner tendered to William H. Crane Sunday February 27 nineteen sixteen The Waldorf-Astoria
New York: Cameron & Buckley, 1916. 4to, 12 leaves (7 photo-engraved), self wrappers, ribbon-tied; fine. Portrait of Crane on the front, 10 illustrations of Crane in character (John Falstaff and David Harum among them). William H. Crane (b. 1845-1928) a prominent American actor who worked in opera, comedy, farce and vaudeville. Sutro Library only in OCLC.
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Deed of Sale of Land: Nathaniel F. Draper to Philo T. Barnum
Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut: November 16, 1853. Pro-forma broadside, approx. 13½" x 8½" filled out in manuscript, signed by Nathaniel F. Draper, Isaac Sherman, Stephen Hawley (Justice of the Peace). and with a small seal; previous folds, docketed and recorded on the verso; very small hole at fold, small tear at fold, no loss. Philo Fairchild Barnum (1806-1878), the purchaser of this lot in Bridgeport, was the half-brother of showman and politician Phineas T. Barnum. Philo was one of... Read More
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The scientific reports of the Whales Research Institute no. 1 - [no. 39]
Tokyo: The Whales Research Institute, June 1948, 1988. 39 individual issues (complete) in 10 volumes, 8vo, modern half green cloth, gilt-stamped spines and upper covers; fine. Tables, graphs, plates (some folding), and illustrations in the text throughout, original printed wrappers bound in. Ownership signature of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian on covers of most issues. A complete run of this title - text in English throughout. It was continued in 1990 by the Scientific... Read More
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Quinquennial review of forest administration in British India for the period 1909-10 to 1913-14 to which is appended the annual return of forest statistics for the year 1913-14
Simla: printed at the Government Monotype Press, 1915. Folio, pp. [4], 12, [4], 31, [1]; 1 plate, 2 very large folding maps (approx. 24" x 49") colored in outline; original cloth-backed printed boards, ex-Oregon Agricultural College with bookplate, accession numbers at the top corner of the upper board, pressure stamp on title page, pocket inside back cover, spine titling in ink; internally fine; but for the library treatments, very good overall, and sound. United Nations only in OCLC. ... Read More
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Johnson Society of the Central Region: 1998 annual meeting
[Bloomington: Indiana University, 1998. Bifolium, 8vo; illustration; about fine. Program of events for the Society's annual meeting.
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Steel memorial. December 1, 1865
N.p., 1865. 8vo, pp. 15; original yellow wrappers, occasional tears, otherwise very good. Only two copies located in OCLC.
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The Grand Union Tea Co. dictionary
New York: Grand Union Tea Co, 1889. 12mo, pp. 407,192, [4]; 5 pp. of engraved illustrations between the first and second sections; publisher's purple pictorial cloth (a bit soiled on back board), decorative endpapers; spine toned, front free endpaper and title page detached, pages brittle and uniformly toned. Publisher's advertisements, pp. 2-6; heading title of second section: "American Geographical Names, with their derivation and signifaction". Cover title: "Grand Union Tea Co. Dictionary & Cyclopedia". Not in OCLC.
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![The allied armies under Marshall Foch in the Franco-Belgian theatre of operations. Rapport du comité interallié des ravitaillements. Les armées alliées sous le commandement du Maréchal Foch dnas le théâtre des operations franco-belge [cover title]. Report of the military board of allied supply ... Volume I, part two](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/553/967/1560967553.0.l.jpg)
The allied armies under Marshall Foch in the Franco-Belgian theatre of operations. Rapport du comité interallié des ravitaillements. Les armées alliées sous le commandement du Maréchal Foch dnas le théâtre des operations franco-belge [cover title]. Report of the military board of allied supply ... Volume I, part two
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1924. 8vo, approximately 230 unbound (as issued) charts, tables, graphs and maps (many folding, several rather large - 10 in color); dampstain throughout to lower gutter corners, often affecting image but also often confined to the margins; the several large folding color maps are generally unaffected; contained in publisher's blue cloth portfolio lettered in gilt, also similarly stained. This is the atlas/plate volume for the 2-volume set, Report of the military board of allied supply,... Read More
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COMMERCIAL TARIFFS and regulations, resources, and trade, of the several states of Europe and America, together with commercial treaties between England and foreign countries. Part the fifteenth: United States of America
London: Charles Whiting, 1846. 2 volumes, small folio, pp. x, 960 (continuous pagination); orig. green cloth; joints split, covers nearly loose on vol. I; ex-MHS. With long sections on the manufactures, agriculture, fisheries, whale fishery, m ining, climate, population, etc. of the U.S.A.
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La Haye [cover title]
Amsterdam: uitgave van A. Jagrr, n.d., 1880. 32mo (approx. 4½" x 3"), accordion-fold view book with 12 mounted albumen photographs, each captioned and within a red-ruled border (one caption defective but not touching the print), including views of 's Gravenhage and Schveingen; original red cloth stamped in gilt and black; covers a ittle dull and the photographs slightly toned; good and sound, or better.
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Catalogue of books of the Marion Library Association
New Bedford: E. Anthony & Sons, 1893. 8vo, pp. 128; original pictorial stiff card wrappers; text a bit toned, else very good. List of books by authors and titles, plus a separate section for poetry. Also, an abstract of the by-laws and a list of members. Not found in OCLC.
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