Palestine Folk Dance Series Nos. 1-6
Tel-Aviv: Lion the Printer, 1946. First edition. Photographs, diagrams, and music, some pages laid-in. 6 vols. Printed wrappers. Some toning and shelfwear, but very good. Vols. 1-4 have ex-libris stamp of Herb Kummel. First edition. Photographs, diagrams, and music, some pages laid-in. 6 vols. Folkloric collection of dances, recorded by Gert Kaufmann, for the Zionist Organisation Youth Department. With text in English, with music in Hebrew and romanized Hebrew. Includes: No. 1) Horra Agadati No. 2) Sherele... Read More
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5 Prayer books for "Service of the Synagogue
In Hebrew and English. 5 vols. 8vo. Padded blue morocco, a.e.g., with the name "Samuel M. Bronfman" on upper over of each and his father's bookplate Samuel Bronfman in three of them. Some wear, esp to one volume's head of spine. In Hebrew and English. 5 vols. 8vo.
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Album of Japanese 8 hand-coloured photographs and 14 others mostly Mexican including birds eye view of the city of Zacatecas, Statues of Guitlahuac, Hotel del Jardin, water carere, La Viga tipped into an album
nd c.. Oblong 4to. Contemporary black cloth, spine perished, back cover off. Oblong 4to.
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![[Vai M'nua Jii Kili]. [Cover title: Vai Kpoloe]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/634/055/1476055634.0.l.jpg)
[Vai M'nua Jii Kili]. [Cover title: Vai Kpoloe]
[New York City: De Pamphilis Press, 1944. First edition, variant issue (copies also seen in red cloth). Title page in Vai Syllabary. [ii], 33 pp. 1 vols. 24mo. Original blue cloth, upper cover titled in gilt, a.e.g., glassine wrapper. Light spotting to covers, else a fine copy. First edition, variant issue (copies also seen in red cloth). Title page in Vai Syllabary. [ii], 33 pp. 1 vols. 24mo. The Vai langage is a Mande language of west Africa,... Read More
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Societe des Droits de L'Homme et du Citoyen, [Proclamation]
(Paris): Imprimerie Dondey-Dupre, rue Saint-Louis, 46, au Marais, 1848. 1 vols. Folio Broadside (17 1/2" x 12"). Fine, printed on tinted paper. 1 vols. Folio Broadside (17 1/2" x 12"). Declaration of the Society of the Rights of Man formed during the Revolution of 1848- asserting defense of the rights of the individual ennunciated by Robespierre-with the demand for a new constitution. Rare bit of ephemera.
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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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Archive Documenting the Life of a Queer African American Couple
Calfornia, 1980. Approx. 270 chromogenic prints, 20 pieces of ephemera. 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. Some fading, but everything very good. Approx. 270 chromogenic prints, 20 pieces of ephemera. 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. An intimate archive of approx. 270 personal snapshots documenting the life of a queer Black couple in California in the late-1970s and early-1980s. They appear to live in San Francisco, but travel to Napa, Los Angeles, San Jose, Las Vegas, and other... Read More
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A Review of the Universal Remedy for all Diseases incident to Coin with Application to our Present Circumstances. In a Letter to Mr. Locke
London: Printed for A. and J. Churchill, 1696. First edition. 61 pp. Last page in facsimile. 1 vols. 12mo. Modern half green cloth. First edition. 61 pp. Last page in facsimile. 1 vols. 12mo. Wing R1200; Arber's Term cat. III 6; Kress 1995
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Pastel of man in hat
In Oval Frame, with rectangular label on back "J. Guerney & C.D. Fredricks Photographists, 46 Rue Basse du Rempant, Paris and No. 39 Broadway, New York...E. Varney's Print 60 Walker Street..
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The Pictorial Tour of the World Comprising Pen and Pencil Sketches of Travel, Incident, Adventure, and Scenery, in all Parts of the Globe
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co, nd. Coloured frontis. and title, illus. throughout. vi, [ii], 312pp. Bound in three quarters modern green morocco and marbled boards, red label. Fine. Coloured frontis. and title, illus. throughout. vi, [ii], 312pp.
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Agenda. Volume One, Number One through Volume 3, Number 6
London: Poets & Painters Press, 1964. First. 26 vols. 8vo. Wrappers. Fine copies. First. 26 vols. 8vo.
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The Correspondence of Mrs. Virginia Myers, (which have never before been published or even read in Court,) to Dudley Marvin Hoyt, who was murdered at Richmond, Sept. 28, 1846, by Wm. R. Myers and Two Others. Together with a Denial of the Truth of Mrs. Myers' Letter of Explanation of November Last, From Alta Vista. Likewise Added a Short Biography of D.M. Hoyt, By a Relative of the Deceased
Philadelphia, 1847. 63 pp. Printed in two columns. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue printed wrappers, with tears and minor loss, Signed L. M. Thorn on the upper cover. 63 pp. Printed in two columns. 1 vols. 8vo. McDade: "Dudley Hoyt had been intimate with Mrs. Myers in a hotel in Richmond, Virginia. Her husband, with his brother and a friend, called on Hoyt and presented him with a paper to sign promising to leave the city never to return.... Read More
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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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The Art Journal. Volume II ONLY LACKING title page
[New York: D. Appleton & Co., Publishers, 1876. Illustrated. 380 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in full brown pebbled morocco, front hinge split and off, a.e.g.. Internally fine. Illustrated. 380 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Illustrated with 32 engravings on Steel after F. Leighton, Landseer (10), Birket Foster, & Bougereau. 4 engravings after Sculpture and 3 full-page wood engravings.
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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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English Scrapbook
1830. Contains about 180 prints, dating from 1833 to 1835 by R. Ackermnann, Thomson, H. Ryall, Mercier, Zobel, etc; including 3 prints from the Beauties of Brighton. Pasted on to the recto, some full page and some 1/2 page, some smaller, including some relief prints. Bound in elaborate contempoary crimson morocco, with paper onlays, with wide crimson morocco dentelles stamped in gilt and blue moire silk doublures and endpapers. covers off, spine perished, page chipping, but prints good. ... Read More
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Photographs by Danford Newton Barney [an excerpt from The Yale University Library Gazette Vol. 27, No. 4 (April 1953)]
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University, 1953. An excerpted loose leaf from the Yale University Library Gazette. Single leaf folded; [4] pp. 6.5" x 10. Single unbound leaf folded, [4] pages total. Some toning to paper and three very small tears at edge of paper though not bad; else very good. An excerpted loose leaf from the Yale University Library Gazette. Single leaf folded; [4] pp. 6.5" x 10" Danford Newton Barney (b.1892 - d.1952) was a poet and... Read More
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POSTER: Tiger Bills Wild West. With Central Image of Indians attacking from left and white men and women defending on left. With Blockhouse in background
Milwaukee, [Wisconsin]: Riverside Printing Co, 1900. Chromolithograph Number 2861. 1 vols. 42 x 26 inches. Minor wear at edges, and small loss at the top left just affecting a tiny part of the initial "T" and border, but unaffecting the image. Chromolithograph Number 2861. 1 vols. 42 x 26 inches.
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Proceedings of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of the State of New York. From Its Organization, in 1798, to1867, Inclusive: Volume 1, 1798-1853. Volume II. 1854-1867
Buffalo, New York: Published by the Order of the Grand Chapter, 1871. First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Fine. First edition. 2 vols. 8vo.
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Pacific Northwest: set of 3 outdoor photographs
1890. 1 vols. 4-1/2 x 7 inches (8-1/4 x 10-3/4 mounts). Contemporary mounts on card. Some soiling of mounts, slight foxing of one print, else very good. 1 vols. 4-1/2 x 7 inches (8-1/4 x 10-3/4 mounts). Totem pole with five elements before a two-storey white clapboard house still under construction (with a ladder in place of front steps), stand of conifers visible in background. View along a Western village street depicting eight buildings at the foot of... Read More
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The Salmon Streams of Anticosti Island
Montreal: Consolidated Paper Corporation Limited, Anticosti Division, 1941. Eighth edition. Folding map of Anticosti Island tipped to the inside of rear cover, photographic illustrations throughout. 20 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Publisher's black pictorial wrappers printed in silver and red. Very good. Eighth edition. Folding map of Anticosti Island tipped to the inside of rear cover, photographic illustrations throughout. 20 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Anticosti, "the treasure island of the Saint Lawrence," was maintained as a private hunting preserve... Read More
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[The History of little Goody Two-Shoes; otherwise called, Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes]
[New York: H. Gaine, 1775. First American edition. 32 woodcut illustrations. Pp. [3]-28, 31-138, only. Lacking title [A1] and pages 29-30 [B3] and 139-156 [F9-G6]. 24mo. Stitched. Corners rounded, first leaf worn. First American edition. 32 woodcut illustrations. Pp. [3]-28, 31-138, only. Lacking title [A1] and pages 29-30 [B3] and 139-156 [F9-G6]. 24mo. First published by John Newbery in London in 1765 and often attributed to Oliver Goldsmith, Giles and Griffith Jones, or even Newbery himself, the first... Read More
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Joseph R. Lucier, The Favorite Cornetist
Boiston: Forbes Co. three quarters lithogrpohic portrait with cornet under his arm. With rips and tears to image. Good copy. three quarters lithogrpohic portrait with cornet under his arm. Lucier was a blind cornetist tipped onto the plate is a ticket admit One to Lucier's Minstrels.
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The Holy Bible
London: Nonesuch Press, 1924. One of an edition of 1000 copies on Japon vellum paper. Each volume with an engraved title page, head piece, and tail piece by Stephen Gooden. 5 vols. Folio. Original gilt stamped parchment paper boards, uncut. Very slight toning to spine, one or two corners bumped but a superior copy of this fragile book. Very good plus. GOODEN, Stephen. One of an edition of 1000 copies on Japon vellum paper. Each volume with an... Read More
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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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