Autograph book containing approximately 68 autographs, among whom John Greenleaf Whittier, evidently collected by a student at the Friends' Boarding School in Providence, R.I., now Moses Brown

Providence, 1859. 8vo, 51 filled-in pages, some pages with several signatures, others have been left blank; the flyleaf has inscription "Mattie from Nellie 1859." A publisher's pebble-grain morocco binding with "Autographs" in gilt on the upper cover, a.e.g.; the spine is perished, 2 or 3 gatherings extended or loose, the whole shaken. A title page, also in gilt, identifies J. C. Riker (New York) as the publisher. In addition to J.G. Whittier's signature, this autograph book contains primarily the... Read More

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May, 1845. At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, begun and holden at Newport within and for said state, on the first Tuesday of May, 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. 75 [5]; uncut and largely unopened; 3 folding tables; 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 January, 1845. Not in American Imprints. Minnesota only in OCLC.

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Commercial Aeronautics - 22 [cover title]

Chicago: Junior Air Service of America Inc, 1930. 8vo, pp. 15, [1]; text illustrations throughout; illustrated self-wrappers; touch of soiling to wrappers, near fine. This issue focused on aerial surveys of the country.

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Masterworks of Chinese Jade in the National Palace Museum

Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1974. 4to, [53], 54-92; 50 color illustrations from photographs on plates; full red cloth, gilt on spine and cover; fine copy, slipcase has signs of wear. All text and captions provided in Chinese, Japanese, and English.

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孔子聖蹟圖 / Kongzi sheng ji tu [= The illustrated life of Confucius]

Shijiazhuang: Hebei Mei Shu Chu Ban She, 1996. Oblong 4to, pp. [4],5, [1], 148, [2]; text in Chinese; 137 pages of facsimile illustrations; black pictorial paper wrappers, fine. A facsimile edition with some commentary of two 15th century illustrated biographies of Confucius. Smithsonian and University of Hong Kong in OCLC.

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Scene on the Upper Mississippi (Am Ober-Mississippi)

New York: published by Enshel, Adler & Sons, 94 Fulton Street, 1860. Hand-colored lithograph approx. 24½" x 20" (by sight, not examined out of frame); fine example with strong coloring; attractively matted and in a classic white frame. The steamboats Diana and Baltic are running side by side on a moon-lit night. A similar version with the same title was published in Berlin by F. Sala & Co. In that version, the raft in the foreground is not at... Read More

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高麗佛畫 / Koryo purhwa [= Buddhist paintings of the Koryo dynasty]

Seoul: Chungang Ilbosa, 1985. 10 x 9.5 in., pp. 256, [2]; color and grayscale illustrations throughout; full tan cloth in original pictorial slipcase; fine, slipcase with 3-inch split at joint. No. 7 in the Arts of Korea (韓國의美) series.

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Elementary and middle-class instruction in the Netherlands, and their development in accordance with the laws of 13th August 1857 (elementary) and 2nd May 1863 (middle-calss)

Leyden: A.W. Sythoff, 1876. Slim 8vo,[6], 120 & l-[liii]pp., folding tables, tables in the text; very good in orig. green cloth; very good; ex-MHS.

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Danske dialekttekster. 1. Jyske tekster

[København]: Akademisk Forlag, 1967. First edition, 8vo, pp. 83; map; very good in original blue printed wrappers.

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The week-end book

London: Nonesuch Press, 1926. Twelfth impression, small 8vo, pp. xii, 360; marbled endpapers, joints a touch rubbed, else near fine in three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, decorative gilt-lettered spine. t.e.g. Poems, songs, advice on food and drink and first aid.

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Masterworks of Chinese porcelain in the National Palace Museum

Taipei, Taiwan: National Palace Museum, 1969. 4to, pp. [9], 110; colored plates, text in Chinese and English; Fine in original orange cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, publisher's pictorial slipcase.

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Letter from the paymaster general to the chairman of the committee on military affairs, giving an account of the moneys disbursed for bounties and premiums

Washington D. C.: Roger Chew Weightman, 1814. Bifolium, accompanying folding table disbound, details sums paid to the states and territories via the Army Pay Office. Tear neatly repaired to second leaf. Accompanied by: Letter from the Secretary of War to the Chairman of the Committtee of Ways and Means, transmitting a detailed estimate of the sums necessary for the ordnance department for the year 1816. pp. 6; 2 folding tables. Includes estimate costs for Springfield and Harper's Ferry. ... Read More

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Diary of a farmer

Madison, Lake County, Ohio, 1884. Pre-printed pocket book, 7¼" x 3" inches, titled "The American Diary for 1883," approx. 174 pages, with (mostly) chronological entries January 1884 to January 1886. Handwritten in ink, bright and legible. This closely written pocket diary was kept by a farmer who lived in the small town of Madison, in Lake County, Ohio. The place was determined by names found in the diary. A typical entry: "August 22, 1884. Therm 76/90, clear. A Scovill... Read More

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The seafarer

La Crosse, WI, 1959. Folio broadsheet folded twice; 12mo; fine. A poem anonymously written pre-975, the date of the Exeter Cathedral manuscript in which it was originally found. Printed in red & black. Limited to 300 copies. Rulon-Miller, Wulling, #88.

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The Providence National Bank. One hundred and fiftieth anniversary 1791-1941

Providence: privately printed [by the Ackerman-Standard Press], 1941. 8vo, pp. [6], 52, [2], xiii, [3]; 28 full-page illustrations including portraits of all the bank's presidents; original white cloth-backed printed blue paper-covered boards, the spine lettered in black; small spot on the front cover else generally fine.

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Hymns and spiritual songs

Glasgow: Andl. Kerr script, 1815. 32mo (approx. 4½" x 2¾"), 132 pages of neat manuscript containing the lyrics of 118 songs, many from Isaac Watts. Bound before: The Psalms of David in metre: translated and diligently compared with the original text, and former translations. More plain, smooth, and agreeable to the text, than any heretofor. Allowed by the authority of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland. Edinburgh: printed by Sir D. Hunter Blair and J. Bruce, 1812;... Read More

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Collection of 26 photographs of Zhou Enlai

n.p., 1976. 26 photographs, 24 about 8" x 6", one 3" x 10.25" and one 4" x 10", all photographs of Zhou Enlai, from a young adult to his death and funeral; 21 photos part of an incomplete numbered run lacking nos. 5, 12 and 22, the others apparantly out of series; one photograph creased at the corners, one photo with an abrasian just touching the edge of the image, otherwise generally fine. Zhou Enlai was Premier of the... Read More

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中華故事　/ Zhonghua gu shi [= Chinese stories] vol. 5

[Taipei: [publisher not identified], 1960. 7.75 x 5 in., ff. 24; text in Chinese, illustrations on every page; pictorial red paper wrappers; wrapper edges worn and nibbled, some pencil marks in table of contents, text otherwise clean and sound, good. A juvenile reader with old stories and folktales.

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Harper's Bazar. A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction. Vol. XI. No. 47

New York: Saturday, November 23, 1878. 16½" x 11¾", pp. [1] 746-760 [i.e. 16 pages]; 4 columns per page, partially unopened with some clean tears. Front page features an elegant 'Dinner and Visiting Dress'. Includes many wood engravings of fashion and clothing patterns with samples of embroidery, coiffures of flowers, and satchels. Also an English gossip column, extracts of "Coward Conscience!" by F.W. Robinson, New York fashion column, sketches in India and usual ads (many with cuts).

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閩南語.台語 : 900句俚語 諺語.俗語 [Audio CD of Minnan Taiwanese]

by 柯皮

Taipei: Book City, 2000. Two CDs, with accompanying booklet (pp. 32); fine in a card case; fine. The CDs include about 150 minutes of speaking covering about 900 topics. The speaker identifies his dialect as from Xiamen.

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漢藏對照詞典 / Rgya bod shan sbyar tshig mdzod [= Chinese-Tibetan dictionary]

Peking: Ethnicities Publishing House, 1991. Thick 8vo, pp. 2, 2, 4, 26, 1448, [1]; text in double column; full blue cloth gilt; lower hinge split, text toned but otherwise clean and sound, very good.

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List of stockholders, (with the amount of stock held by each Jan. 1, 1849,) in the banks of Maine

Augusta: William T. Johnson, 1849. First edition, 8vo, pp. 53, [3]; sewn and uncut, as issued, self-wrappers; "Cony F. Academy" in pen on second leaf [i.e. Cony Female Academy, Augusta), wrappers with minor soiling, very good. Listing the stockholders of 32 banks. The Cony Female Academy, which was founded in 1816 by Daniel Cony, provided free education to orphans and other girls under the age of 16. Issues from other years in OCLC but none for 1849.

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Report of the Senate Committee on the beet sugar industry in Minnesota. Hon. Henry Keller, chairman

Saint Paul: Pioneer Press Company, 1897. First edition, 8vo, pp. 47, [1]; nine photographs and eight illustrations; original green printed wrappers, some soiling, library stamp on cover; else very good or better.

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Costumes militaires. Catalogue des principales suites de costumes militaires Franc, ais parues tant en France qu'a l'etranger depuis le re'gne de Louis XV jusqu'a nos jours et des suites de costumes militaire etrangers parues en France. Par un membre de la sabretache

Paris: Henri Vivien, 1900. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], vii, [3], 562, [4]; engraved hand-colored title-p. and frontispiece, 3 hand-colored plates; spine a bit scuffed else very good and sound in contemporary quarter brown morocco, red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine. Detailed catalogue enumerating every plate in this comprehensive work on French military costume books.

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Album

n.p.: n.d., [late 19th century]. 4to, approx. 200 blank pp., original embossed limp calf, a bit worn at the edges and with some hairline cracks, else good and sound, or better.

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