American Decorative Papermakers: The Work & Specimens of Twelve Craft Artists
[Mattapoiset, MA]: Busyhaus Publications, 1983. One of 200 hardbound copies. 10 mounted marbled paper samples. 65pp. Oblong 4to. Publisher's morocco-backed cloth boards. Fine. One of 200 hardbound copies. 10 mounted marbled paper samples. 65pp. Oblong 4to. Essays and specimens by Don Guyot, Faith Harrison, Iris Nevins, Kay Radcliffe, Sage Reynolds & Colman Rutkin, Donna Seim, Peggy Skycraft, Pamela Smith, Jim & Pamela Talin and Christopher Weimann. One thousand two hundred copies printed by Naiman Press, with two hundred... Read More
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Alden's New-Jersey Register and United States' Calendar, for . 1811
Newark: William Tuttle, 1811. First Issue of the 1st NJ Register. 160, [4] pp. 12mo. Original quarter sheep and marbled boards, Nice copy. First Issue of the 1st NJ Register. 160, [4] pp. 12mo. Felcone, New Jersey Books, #321; Drake 5275 ; S&S 22165
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A History of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill 1888-1932 (Volume Two)
Philadelphia: Published by the Citizens of the State in Schylkill, 1932. First edition. Frontispiece. 517, [1]pp. 1 vols. 4to. Green printed wrappers. Laid into a half green morocco slipcase and chemisee. Fine. First edition. Frontispiece. 517, [1]pp. 1 vols. 4to.
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Manuscript Diary of a hunting Expedition to the Belgian Congo in 1911 and 1912
1912. 143 ruled pages. 8 x 5-1/2 inches. Original dark purple limp morocco, marbled endpapers, Spine worn, but text fine. 143 ruled pages. 8 x 5-1/2 inches. Manuscript by an Unidentified English in purple pencil written in a generally legible cursive hand with corrections and deletions, plus a few blanks at the end including the financial accounts for the expedition £197.10. Leaving from London for Antwerp on November 23, 1911 up the Congo River soon after the Belgian... Read More
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Watercolor: Decoupage Scene of Victorian women, men and children cutouts, background painted in watercolor on silk of large tree lower left, waterfalls upper right. Probably American
1 vols. 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches. Framed and glazed. 1 vols. 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches.
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The Book of the Omar Khayyam Club 1892-1910
London, Printed for Memberrs for Private Circulation. First edition, #116 of 181 copies. With many tipped plates of illustrated menus. 220 pp. printed by Starngweways & Sons. 1 vols. 4to. Cloth and boards, paper label. Fine. First edition, #116 of 181 copies. With many tipped plates of illustrated menus. 220 pp. printed by Starngweways & Sons. 1 vols. 4to.
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Map of Hollywood-by-the-Sea Hollywood Fla. Scale = 1 inch = 1/2 mile
1928. 53 x 47 cm. Blue line map. Lines somewhat muted as if fading, small stain at center of lower margin, old folds, good condition. 53 x 47 cm. Blue line cadastral map with Fort Lauderdale at the top, Hallendale at the bottom, and Hollywood in between. The city of Hollywood "By-the-Sea" was incorporated in 1925 and planned in large part by Joseph W. Young Jr. who built a boardwalk, hotels and a casino in order to... Read More
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Still-Life Watercolor on paper of Floral bouquet on black ground
1875. 1 vols. Framed and glazed. 1 vols.
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Pen and Ink drawing entitled "Protection accorder aux beaux artes en 1816" with a kicking ass depicted
4-3/4 x 3-1/2 inches. Matted. 4-3/4 x 3-1/2 inches.
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Emigrant Life on an Inman Steamer. reprinted from "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper" April 17th and May 1st, 1880
New York: William De Lacy, Steam Printer, 1881. Folding plate, woodcut illustrations. 31, [1]pp. 8vo. Original wrappers, minor wear and spotting. Provenance: J. J. McCormick Steamship and Exchange Agent (inked stamp on title and upper wrapper). Folding plate, woodcut illustrations. 31, [1]pp. 8vo. Founded in 1850, the Inman Line was one of the three largest 19th-century British passenger shipping companies on the North Atlantic. By 1870, Inman landed more passengers in New York than any other line, mostly... Read More
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[Photo Album]: Fishing in Rhode Island
Rhode Island, 1941. 21 gelatin silver glossy snapshot photographs. Sizes mostly about 3-3/4" x 6", a few slightly smaller. Uncaptioned. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. String-tied blue embossed boards with "Photographs" in gilt. Modest soiling, a scrape on one image, a couple of images have fallen out but not pillaged, else near fine. 21 gelatin silver glossy snapshot photographs. Sizes mostly about 3-3/4" x 6", a few slightly smaller. Uncaptioned. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. The album depicts a young... Read More
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The Merchant and Seaman's Expeditious Measurer; Containing a Set of Tables, which show at one view, the Solid Contents of All Kinds of Packages and Cases ... also, Rules for Determining the Contents of all Sorts of Casks, in Wine and Beer Measure
New York: E. & G.W. Blunt, 1856. 'Stereotype Edition, Corrected. [4], 196 pp. 1 vols. Narrow agenda 8vo. Contemporary calf, boards neatly rehinged. Some superficial rubbing. Very good. 'Stereotype Edition, Corrected" [4], 196 pp. 1 vols. Narrow agenda 8vo. By the important New York publisher of the American Coast Pilot and many other sea manuals, including this very nice example of his Tables for computing Tonnage. Blunt's "Measurer" became the standard American manual, and went through several editions... Read More
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Landscape Gallery. A Series of Fine Line Engravings, Views of Scenery, Edifices, Cities, &c. &c in various parts of the world copied from nature and executed by the first artists. Volume I.
London, 1863. With 88 steel-engraved Numbered plates by German engravers. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Elaborate gilt stamped blue Publisher's cloth, a.e.g. Fine. With 88 steel-engraved Numbered plates by German engravers. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo.
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Drawings: One entitled in reverse: "Priapus sive Pan
3 drawings. Signed lower left in an undecipherable hand. 12 x 8 inches. Fine. 3 drawings. Signed lower left in an undecipherable hand. 12 x 8 inches.
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Asbury Park Fishing Club 1924
[Asbury Park, New Jersey], 1924. Illustrated from photographs and line drawings, plates, portraits, vignettes of various fish, spoecies map. 72 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stiff mottled green wrappers, printed on upper cover. Minor soiling and toning. Very good. Illustrated from photographs and line drawings, plates, portraits, vignettes of various fish, spoecies map. 72 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Nicely produced club book, illustrated with portraits of members, photographs of fishing, line drawings, and a good group of articles. "New... Read More
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La Liturgie, ou Formulaire des Prieres Publiques selon l'usage de L'Eglise Anglicane
a Londres: Paul Vaillant dans le Strand, 1764. Nouvelled edition revue et corrigée. xlix, [i], 438 pp. 12mo. Contemporary red morocco, gilt spine. Small chip at head of spine, else fine. Nouvelled edition revue et corrigée. xlix, [i], 438 pp. 12mo. Probably printed in the Netherlands. ESTC T142212 (One copy in US at Harvard)
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Linguae Romanae Dictionarium Luculentum Novum. A New Dictionary, in Five Alphabets
Cambridge: W. Rawlins, 1893. Missing 2 leaves. 4tro. Bound in later leather-backed boards; lacking 2 leaves. SOLD-AS-IS. Missing 2 leaves. 4tro. Wing L2565
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Utile cum Dulci. Volatile Aromatic Snuff for Head-Ache & Catarrh. Prepared by John W. Whitewell, Chemist and Druggist, Boston. Composed principally of Roots and Aromatic Herbs. Patented and Warranted
[Boston ?]: Davies, Printed. Broad Street, 1815. Tenth edition, 10,000 each. Composed primarily of text but with a small woodcut of a snuff bottle at the top. 1 vols. Aprox. 18 3/4 x 7 inches. Folded and creased as might be expected, altogether in very good condition. Tenth edition, 10,000 each. Composed primarily of text but with a small woodcut of a snuff bottle at the top. 1 vols. Aprox. 18 3/4 x 7 inches.
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Les Idées Nouvelles de la Mode. No. 1 1923
[Paris, 1923. 6 pochoir full page plates on tipped-into blank leaves. Folio. Pochoir wrappers. VG. 6 pochoir full page plates on tipped-into blank leaves. Folio.
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![Lovers of Beauty, Speed and Enduring Power, ATTENTION!! Blazing Star, Jr. ... Lyman Curtiss [Broadside]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/409/876/1471876409.0.l.jpg)
Lovers of Beauty, Speed and Enduring Power, ATTENTION!! Blazing Star, Jr. ... Lyman Curtiss [Broadside]
Saybrook: Times" Print, Geneva, Ohio, 1870. Image of horse, 2 headlines, 27 lines of text. 12-1/2 x 19-1/2 inches. Old folds and some wear, with pencil notes on front and all of bacxk. Image of horse, 2 headlines, 27 lines of text. 12-1/2 x 19-1/2 inches.
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Robinson Crusoe
Newburyport: Printed [by W. & J. Gilman] and sold at No. 5, Middle-street, 1810. Woodcut headpiece. Ballad text in two columns. 10-1/2 x 5-1/2. Edges rough, some staining. Old backing on verso. Good. Woodcut headpiece. Ballad text in two columns. 10-1/2 x 5-1/2. Unrecorded printing of this broadside of Robinson Crusoe in ballad form, narrating the adventures of the shipwrecked mariner in ten stanzas with repeated burden "Oh poor Robinson Crusoe" and refrain "Tink a ting tang". The... Read More
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Photograph album of Scouting, camping, and other outdoor subjects
1910. 236 black and white photos (most 2 x 3 or 6-1/4 x 4 in.), mounted to album leaves. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Black cloth. Fine. 236 black and white photos (most 2 x 3 or 6-1/4 x 4 in.), mounted to album leaves. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. A great visual record of outdoor activities from a vanished America. Subjects include Scouts (some dressed in Native American costume), camping trips, hunting and fishing, canoeing, haying, wildlife, and scenery.... Read More
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Mehlspeisen, Pasteten, und allerlei Backwerken [German Manuscript Cookery Book]
N.p. [Germany], 1825. Ink on paper, 21 pp. with two smaller leaves loosely inserted, 6 blank leaves at back. 1 vols. 8vo. Green lithographed wrappers with ornamental borders, titled in ink on front "Kochbuchlein ... 1825", back wrapper with view of Tempelhof, Berlin. Very good. Ink on paper, 21 pp. with two smaller leaves loosely inserted, 6 blank leaves at back. 1 vols. 8vo. Closely written in an elegant and archaic hand, comprising more than 50 recipes for... Read More
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![La Vie Privée et Publique des Animaux. Vignettes par Grandville. Études de moeurs contemporaines par MM. De Balzac, George Sand, Cahrles Nodier, Stahl [et al.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/415/195/1715195415.0.l.jpg)
La Vie Privée et Publique des Animaux. Vignettes par Grandville. Études de moeurs contemporaines par MM. De Balzac, George Sand, Cahrles Nodier, Stahl [et al.]
Paris: Chez Mm. Mareeseq et Compagnie; Chez Gustave Havard, 1852. Illus by Grandville. 217, [1]pp. 4to. Quarter contemporary green morocco with gilt emblematic tooling on the spine. Some textual staining. Bookplate of Lila Ross Hotz, later Lila Luce (signed Lila Luce August, 1931 on ffep) (Wife of Henry Luce) and then Lila Tyng. Illus by Grandville. 217, [1]pp. 4to.
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Photograph of 4 women playing lawn tennis
Boston: Hearn 392 Boylston Street and Old Orchard, Me, 1895. Ivoryette 1884. Fine. Ivoryette 1884. Signed and adted on back "1895 Frances E. Haynes." Frances Haynes was a student at Mt. Holyoke in 1895.
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