HISTOIRE AMOUREUSE DES GAULES suivie de la France galante, romans satiriques du xviie siecle attribues au Comte de Bussy ... precedee d'observations par M. Sainte-Beuve
Paris: Garnier Freres, 1868. 2 volumes, 12mo; few pages with mended small tears, edges and corners rubbed, joints rubbed, covers soiled, else very good in contemporary half red calf gilt, black leather labels gilt on spines, over marbled boards, t.e.g. Ex-MHS.
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Routine. Nineteen hundred and twenty-six
Baltimore: Published by the Senior Class, Johns Hopkins Hospital School for Nurses, 1926. 4to, pp. 111, [18]; illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers, and 18 pages of advertisements, some in color, at the end; original gilt-stamped blue limp reversed calf, spine fading and worn with loss at bottom; interior fine. The School's yearbook with unknown print run. OCLC locates one copy in the United States, at the Maryland Historical Society Library; one other copy, located in Canada.
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Williams College: the induction of Harry Augustus Garfield...into the office of president, October seventh, MDCCCCVIII
N.p.: The Riverside Press, 1908. 8vo, pp. 127; black and white photographic portrait frontispiece; contemporary purple cloth, gilt-stamped upper cover and spine, khaki endpapers; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, spine toned, ink blot on top edge, interior fine.
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Archives of neurology and psychiatry, Vol. II, no. 2, Feburary, 1924
Chicago: American Medical Association, 1924. Large 8vo, pp. [4], [113]-256, [6]; black and white photographs, illustrations, tables, and graphs; original drab printed wrappers, small loss to spine 1 1/2" from foot, ends chipped, edges toned, general light shelf wear; interior fine. Advertisements, mostly for sanitariums, bound in front and back. Contents include "Concerning the Cerebellar Symptoms Produced by Suprasellar Tumors," by Percival Bailey; and "Testicular Teratoma with Secondary Deposits in the Spinal Column and Meninges," by the pro-eugenics Irish-American... Read More
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The first English dictionary of slang 1699
[Oxford]: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2010. 8vo, pp. xxvii, 195, [1]; facsimile of B.E.'s 'A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew', 1699 edition, with and introduction by John Simpson. A fine copy in black cloth with gilt-lettered spine, pictorial dust jacket.
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Prize poems 1913 - 1929. Edited by Charles A. Wagner. With an introduction by Mark Van Doren
New York: Charles Boni Paper Books, 1930. Small 8vo, pp. 247, [3] ads; vignette title page after a design by maybe Rockwell Kent; bookplate; otherwise a near fine copy in original pictorial wrappers with an illustration maybe by Kent on the front cover. I find no attribution to Kent but it sure looks like his work. He also designed the cover for the hard-cover edition of this book.
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Notes for infantry officers on trench warfare. Compiled by the British General Staff, edited by the Army War College
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917. Reprinted with revised diagrams from the British edition of November, 1916, 8vo, pp. 163, [1]; large section of diagrams at rear, including a fold-out color diagram of rapid entanglement methods; staplebound in printed wraps; toned, hole-punched; very good.
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Immortals of Chinese mythology [cover title]
Bloomfield, NJ: Schering, 1960. 8 cardstock bifolia, 9" x 4"; with figures of each of the 8 Immortals crafted from cloth, paper and string mounted to the upper covers of each. One page of text provides a short biography of each character. The following two pages are advertisements for Meticorten and the Schering company. Near fine in original rubbed and worn box.
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Printing history: the journal of the American Printing History Association, nos. 13, 14, 16-18, 20
New York: American Printing History Association, 1988. 6 vols, 4to, about pp. 50 each issue; text illustrations; printed paper wrappers; all fine. Topics are international in scope, with print history on Tibet, India, France, the US, New Zealand etc.
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The Tribune. Vol. XVI. No. 124
Minneapolis, Minn: Saturday, October 14, 1882. 21" x 17", pp. [8]; 7 columns per page, removed from binding. A St. Louis journalist kills ex-congressman Alonzo Slayback who spent many summers in Minnesota with his family, national news, christians at work, finance and trade, politics, campaign notes, the courts, market new, and usual ads (some with cuts). Also included, woman's rights discussed at a joint debate in Omaha, Nebraska betwen Susan B. Anthony and Mr. Edward Rosewater, editor at the... Read More
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Glossographia Anglicana nova: or, a dictionary, interpreting such hard words of whatever language, as are at present used in the English tongue, with their etymologies, definitions, &c. Also, the terms of divinity, law, physick, mathematicks, history, agriculture, logick, metaphysicks, grammar, poetry, musick, heraldry, architecture, painting, war, and all other arts and sciences are herein explain'd, from the best modern authors, as, Sir Isaac Newton, Dr. Harris, Dr. Gregory, Mr. Lock, Mr. Evelyn, Mr. Dryden, Mr. Blunt, &c
London: printed for Dan. Brown, Tim. Goodwin, John Walthoe, M. Newborough, John Nicholson , Benj. Took, D. Midwinter, and Fran. Coggan, 1707. First edition, 8vo, pp. [584]; woodcut illustrations in the text, primarily heraldic; leaves B7 and B8 with odd smudge (not obscuring any text); slight worm track to margins of first several leaves; all else very good and sound in recent mottled calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered direct on spine. "The first English dictionary to make any considerable use... Read More
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Articles of Agreement
[Providence?]: February 18, 1856. Large holograph document (approx. 17" x 14") signed and sealed on the verso by all five partners, and witnessed by Hezekiah Allen. Neat and professional repairs at previous folds; very good. These are the articles of agreement between Amos H. Ray and Elliot P. Gleason, both of Providence (of the first part); and John West and William J. Miller, of Bristol, and George H. Vorman, of Newport (of the second part), the first part selling... Read More
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Music Hall! New Haven, Monday evening, December 19, 1864, Handel's oratorio, "The Messiah," by the Mendelssohn Society, of New Haven, assisted by Mr. J. R. Thomas, Basso, of New York
New Haven: [Mendelssohn Society], 1864. Bifolium, 9 x 6 in.; text in double column providing the lyrics; light edgewear, old folds, very good. Conducted by Gustave J. Stoeckel, of Yale University.
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Collection of 25 Western film publicity broadsides
V.p., 1940. 25 items, including 3 duplicates; all approximately 328 x 177 mm.; black and white photographic illustrations; some broadsides printed on colored paper; all very good or better. Includes broadsides advertising the Cisco Kid films "Riding the California Trail" ("The Cisco Kid...too rough for the law but just right for the Ladies!") and "Robin Hood of Monterey," amomng others.
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First Annual Books on Demand Symposium. How to prepare, how to print, how to bind
Des Moines: Xerox & LBS Bookbinding Components, 1994. Three ring binder of conference materials for the Des Moines Bookbinding Symposium, June 11-12, 1994. 50-odd leaves printed on rectos only under 5 tabs ("Industry Trends," "Emerging Technologies," etc.). Black cloth binder lettered in gilt on upper cover, later leather label lettered in gilt on spine.
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Journal of the House of Representatives, of the state of Iowa at the special session begun and held at the capitol, in Iowa City, on Tuesday the 2nd day of July..
Iowa City: P. Moriarty, state printer, 1856. 8vo, pp. 107, [1]; 32 (appendix); [2], 12 (index); wrappers wanting; very good. OCLC locates 2 copies at the University of Kansas, and one at the University of Missouri. None in Iowa.
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The Roger Williams Coal Mining Company [wrapper title]
Boston: printed at the Daily Mail Establishment, Nos. 14 and 16 State Street, 1847. 16mo, pp. 16; original printed yellow front wrapper, rear wrapper wanting; very good. Articles of Incorporation for a mining company ready to extract coal in Cumberland and Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and a 5-page account of Coal Exploration in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Not in OCLC, not in American Imprints.
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A hymn on creation
New York: printed and sold by Mahlon Day, at the new Juvenile Book-store, no. 376, Pearl-Street, stereotyped by James Conner, n.d., 1830. 32mo (approx. 3¾" x 2¼"), pp. 16; 15 small woodcuts; original pictorial yellow wrappers, in drab outer wrappers; wrappers a little spotted, corners curled; all else very good. According to New York city directories, Mahlon Day was located at 376 Pearl St., New York, between 1825 and 1833. Not in Osborne, not in American Imprints.
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Up-to-date map of Buffalo. Compliments of Sidney Shepard & Co., 145 to 149 Seneca Street
Buffalo & New York, 1901. Folding pocket map approx. 20½" x 14"¾ folding down into printed terracotta wrappers (6½" x 3"), the map printed in red, green, and black, the verso with a plan of the Pan American Exposition; generally fine throughout. Not found in OCLC.
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Human conditions
Iowa City, Iowa: Green River Press, 1976. Edition limited to 10 copies (this, no. 4); square 8vo, pp. [16]; 6 wood engravings; very good in original black cloth. From the library of Kim Merker. In this copy there are at least 8 corrections in ink to typographical errors in the text. Not found in OCLC.
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The child's cabinet of beasts and birds
Greenfield, [Massachusetts]: A. Phelps, 1844. 24mo, pp. 24; wood-engraved vignette title page and 41 vignette wood engravings throughout, variously signed by "M" (p. 9; i.e., Abraham John Mason), and John H. Hall (p. 23); back wrapper with wood engraving on verso; front wrapper wanting; several illustrations with hand-coloring or partial hand coloring (a few badly colored in black), the whole lightly spotted; removed from binding. First published in 1816, of this edition only AAS in American Imprints. American Imprints... Read More
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New Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette. New Series, Vol. 10. No. 480. Whole No. 2480
Concord, N.H.: William Butterfield, Wednesday, July 30, 1856. 25¾ " x 19½", pp. [4]; 8 columns per page; removed from binding, slightly split. Railroad news with train routes and schedules (with cuts); numerous ads: wood & coal furnaces, dentist listings, patent medicines, marriages & deaths, printing, bookbinding, wine & spirits; front page features a six-and-a-half column speech of Samuel Herbert Esq. of Rumney, on the Resolutions relating to Kansas affairs and the attack upon Senator Sumner, delivered in the... Read More
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Solomon's temple and Bruce's address to his army
Providence: printed and sold [by Henry Trumbull] at no. 25, High Street, Providence, where are kept constantly for Sale 200 other kinds of the most new and popular Songs and Ballads ... great allowance made to Shopkeepers, Pedlers, &c, who buy to sell again, 1820. Quarto broadside (approx. 10½" x 9¼"), text in double column beneath the running head; previous folds, some wear at the extremities and a few small stains; good or better. Two poems with promotional paragraph... Read More
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A brief description of the excellent vertues of that sober and wholesome drink called coffee
[Saint Paul]: Coffee House Press, n.d., 1984. 17.5" x 11.5" broadside, text in double column under a running head, printed in red and black on white paper. Gaylord Schanilec traced the vignette illustration printed at the top, and adapted it for the Coffee House Press press mark. The text of this broadside, the first illustrated broadside advertising an English coffee house, was first printed in 1674.
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Three 18th century advertising leaves
[London], 1977. Three 8vo leaves containing the following advertisements: Collection of novels from the most celebrated writers selected and revised by Mrs. Griffith. Printed for G. Kearsly, at No. 46 in Fleet-Street; and the other proprietors. The advertisement dated May 20, 1777. With a detailed summary on verso. A new edition of Letters written by the late right honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son Philip Stanhope, Esq... together with several other pieces on various subjects.... Read More
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