Alphabetum Syro-Chaldaeum una cum Oratione Dominicali Salutatione Angelica et Symbolo Fidei
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1797. First edition. 30 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Recent morocco backed marbled boards, a.e.g. Fine. First edition. 30 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Type specimen printed on the eve of the Napoleonic conquest of Italy, during which "there was an order from the French government for the confiscation of exotic language punches and matrices from the Propaganda to supply the Imprimerie Nationale" (Coakley). Uncommon. Birrell & Garnett 241; Smitskamp 215;... Read More
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The Judge's Tarpon. A Comedy of the Royal Palm
[Miami]: The Florida East Coast Hotel Company, 1903. First edition. Vignette title page, illustrations from photographs. [20] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Near fine (scuff to lower corner margin of front wrapper). First edition. Vignette title page, illustrations from photographs. [20] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "How would a tarpon weighing 185 pounds suit you?... the plain unvarnished truth is more startling than anything you'd care to risk telling." Exceedingly scarce tarpon fishing pamphlet, issued by... Read More
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The Hunter's Guide and Trapper's Companion. A Complete Guide in All the Various Methods by which to Capture all kinds of Game, Fur Animals, &c. ... By an Experienced Woodsman. [And:] Hunter's Guide Appendix
Hinsdale, N.H.: Hunter & Co, 1871. First edition, with an intermediate state of the Appendix. 58; [59]-74; [6, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Brown cloth stamped in gilt. Very good plus. First edition, with an intermediate state of the Appendix. 58; [59]-74; [6, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Includes chapters on the Birch Bark Canoe and on Fishing. Phillips notes that the 1871 edition contains an Appendix; the present copy, in a variant cloth binding, contains the... Read More
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![Slocum [cover title]. A Hero sans peur et sans reproche. In Memoriam [preface by Alonzo Williams]. "For What He Was and All He Dared Remember Him Today" [Memoir] by Olney Arnold](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/294/281/1289281294.0.l.jpg)
Slocum [cover title]. A Hero sans peur et sans reproche. In Memoriam [preface by Alonzo Williams]. "For What He Was and All He Dared Remember Him Today" [Memoir] by Olney Arnold
[Providence, R.I.: Livermore & Knight, 1886. Portrait frontispiece. [12] ff. Portrait and text printed on rectos only (first and last leaves blank). 1 vols. Square 24mo. Stitched; hard-tack biscuit-shaped covers of pressed cardboard. Covers detached. Very good. Portrait frontispiece. [12] ff. Portrait and text printed on rectos only (first and last leaves blank). 1 vols. Square 24mo. On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle of Bull Run, veterans of the Civil War honor the memory... Read More
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Village Annals containing Austerus and Humanus. A Sympathetic Tale
Philadelphia: Published by Johnson & Warner. Griggs & Dickinson, Printers, 1814. First American edition. Embellished with 8 fine woodcut engravings. 35 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Drab boards. Fine. First American edition. Embellished with 8 fine woodcut engravings. 35 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. A famous Uncle Moses Pollock remainder. Rosenbach 514; Welch 1381: not in Hamilton
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![[Persian Manuscript Anthology of Poetry and Devotional Writings]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/568/666/1737666568.0.l.jpg)
[Persian Manuscript Anthology of Poetry and Devotional Writings]
[India, 1840. Red and black ink and gilt on polished Dobbs paper (gatherings of cream, yellow, rose, and blue), embossed with running ornamental border in blind at outer margins, 10 lines per page in broad mustaliq hand. 48 ff. 1 vols. 8vo. Vernacular flexible leather binding, green straight grained goatskin covers with brown spine and edging, natural leather doublures. Very good. Red and black ink and gilt on polished Dobbs paper (gatherings of cream, yellow, rose, and blue),... Read More
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Oil on board: Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley
1 vols. 9-3/4 x 7-3/4 inches (image size). In molded giltwood frame. Fine. 1 vols. 9-3/4 x 7-3/4 inches (image size). Based on the Amelia Curran portait in the National Gallery, possibly the only lifetime portait of the poet.
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![[Bound volume of Plays, comprising:] The Invasion [and;] Lie of a Day [and: Marian [and:] Which is the Man? [and:] The Portfolio](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/202/720/1735720202.0.l.jpg)
[Bound volume of Plays, comprising:] The Invasion [and;] Lie of a Day [and: Marian [and:] Which is the Man? [and:] The Portfolio
London: various publishers, 1816. 8vo. Nineteenth century half morocco and marbled boards. Boston Museum in ink on each title page. Some trimming to marginalia. Bookplate of A.J. Cox. Very good. 8vo. Pilon, Frederick. The Invasion: Or, a Trip to Brighthelmstone. A farce of two acts, as it is performed, with universal applause, at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. ... The third edition. 30 pp. London: printed for G. Kearsley, 1782. Ownership signature of S. Powell. ESTC N8634. [Possibly lacking... Read More
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Bible in Hindostan. The New Testament in Hindostání. Sixth Edition. 8vo, cloth, printed paper spine-label; Calcutta, 1851. Not in Darlow & Moule
Calcutta, 1851. Sixth Edition. 12mo. Contemporary pebbled cloth, with paper spine label "New Testament in Hindustani", with Bowdoin Library withdrawal stamp, spine-ends frayed, library bookplate and ink stamp on front pastedown, embossed stamp on title, generally sound otherwise. Sixth Edition. 12mo. Not in Darlow & Moule
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Catalogue of All the Books Printed in the United States, with the Prices, Places where Published, Annexed
Boston: For the Booksellers, 1804. First edition. 79, [1]pp. LAST LEAF IN FACSIMILE. 8vo. Later marbled wrappers. First edition. 79, [1]pp. LAST LEAF IN FACSIMILE. 8vo. "The first trade catalogue of books in the United States, of which very few copies are known" (Streeter). The title continues: "This catalogue is intended to include all books of general sale printed in the United States, whether original or reprinted; that the public may see the rapid progress of book-printing... Read More
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Shadow Box of English angling ephemera including Erolene and Hardy line containers, Lerder metal box, label for Hardy "Deluxe" Fly Rods, 1895 Rule of Angling on the River Dee, etc.
18-1/2 x 17-1/2 inches. Framed and glazed. 18-1/2 x 17-1/2 inches.
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History and Anecdotes of the Elephant with Beautiful Engravings
New Haven, Connecticut: S. Babcock, 1840. 16 pp., seven full-page engravings, plus engraving on each wrapper. 48mo. Stitch bound illustrated blue wrappers, tender with some separation at lower spine, with inscription in pencil on inside cover, some rubbing on lower cover near foot of spine, soiling on verso at bottom corner near spine, some toning to pages, else a very good copy. 16 pp., seven full-page engravings, plus engraving on each wrapper. 48mo.
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The Century Gallery. Selected Proofs from the Century Magazine and St. Nicholas
New York: The Century Co, 1893. First edition. Printed by the De Vinne Press. 64 full-page black and white plates. Title page and 6 pp. of text. 1 vols. folio. Laid in original worn paper over board portfolio. Covers off. Plates fine. First edition. Printed by the De Vinne Press. 64 full-page black and white plates. Title page and 6 pp. of text. 1 vols. folio. Plates es after Rousseau, Rembrandt, George Frederick Watts, kenyon Cox, Joseph Pennell,... Read More
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In the Heart of the Long Leaf Pine. A Few Random Sketches about Lockhart, Ala., 1916
[Lockhart, Alabama: Jackson Lumber Co, 1916. One of 1500 copies. Pictorial title page, illustrated with 10 tipped in plates after Cyrus Bates Currier, 3 maps (one double-page). [24] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth and boards. Front inner hinge cracked. Very good. One of 1500 copies. Pictorial title page, illustrated with 10 tipped in plates after Cyrus Bates Currier, 3 maps (one double-page). [24] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Scenes of the long-leaf pine forests and limbering operations of... Read More
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The Novelette. Number 1 - Number 4
Boston: Thomes and Talbot, 1876. Illustrated with wood engravings. 66; 66; 66; 66 pp. 4 vols. 4to. Printed wrappers. Fine, fresh copies. Illustrated with wood engravings. 66; 66; 66; 66 pp. 4 vols. 4to. Outstanding opies of the first four numbers of the Thomes and Talbot Novelette series, comprising: (1) [Ballou, Maturin M.] The Arkansas Ranger: or, Dingle the Backwoodsman. A Story of East and West. By Lieutenant Murray. (2) Cobb, Sylvanus, Jr. The Sea Lion: or, The... Read More
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Breviary Treasures
Boston: Privately Printed by Nathan Haskell Dole, 1905. The Athenian Edition, Number 78 of 100 copies on Royal Japanese vellum. Illustrated with frontispieces and head and tail-pieces. 10 vols. 8vo. Bound in full dark blue french levant, gilt spines, t.e.g. Fine. Bookplate of C.W.C. Deering. The Athenian Edition, Number 78 of 100 copies on Royal Japanese vellum. Illustrated with frontispieces and head and tail-pieces. 10 vols. 8vo. A choice set of this finely printed compendium of world literature:... Read More
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![Congo River, from Leopoldville to Stanley Falls [Manuscript title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/539/442/1638442539.0.l.jpg)
Congo River, from Leopoldville to Stanley Falls [Manuscript title]
[Belgium, 1890. Manuscript title leaf (verso blank), 1 large folding map, Leopoldville to Stanley Pool], and 151 navigation maps, all printed lithographically, paginated as follows: [1, title:] Congo River, Stanley Pool - Bangala (South Side), 1-71; [1, title:] Congo River Bangala - Stanley - Falls (South Side)], 1 (double-page), 2-79. Paper with Belgian watermarks, rampant lion, surmounted by a crown and orb, large banner: L'Union Fait La Force, with a cross pendant beneath; or Royaume | De Belgigue surrounding... Read More
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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches
Oxford: University Printers, 1709. Printed in two columns within red rules. Collation: A-Q12; A-D12. 1 vols. 24mo. Contemporary full black morocco, silver center pieces and clasps, edges ribbed with silver, marbled endsheets, a.e.g. Previous bookseller's description tipped in. Fine (one top rib lacking). Printed in two columns within red rules. Collation: A-Q12; A-D12. 1 vols. 24mo. Bound with: The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Others. Conferr'd with the Hebrew.... Read More
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The Lorsch Gospels
New York: George Braziller, 1967. No. 155 of 1,000 copies. With six color plates, and monochrome plates throughout. 1 vols. Folio. Original quarter vellum and red cloth. Fine in slipcase. No. 155 of 1,000 copies. With six color plates, and monochrome plates throughout. 1 vols. Folio. Full color facsimile of the Lorsch Gospels. The two parts of the Lorsch Gospels are held in the Biblioteca Documentara Batthyaneum in Alba Julia, Rumania, and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Rome.... Read More
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Almanak Familiar para 1860, 1866, 1870 Segundo depois do Bissexto contendo Alem Callendario e Artigos do Costume
Lisboa: Imprensa National, 1869. 192, 176, 192 pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Full green morocco, stamped in blind with gilt fillet, a.e.g., top of spine chipped of 1866, rest fine. Bookplates of Mathias Lima. 192, 176, 192 pp. 3 vols. 12mo.
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Allegheny Country Club, Sewickley, Penna.: Yearbooks for 1909, 1916-1917, and 1918-1919
Sewickley, PA: Privately printed for the Club, v.d.. First Editions. Frontispiece photo of clubhouse in 1909 volume. 3 vols. 12mo. Original white cloth, green lettering and Club flag, slight cover wear, one volume with faint waterstaining, else fine. From the library of Joseph S.F. Murdoch, with his bookplate on front pastedown. First Editions. Frontispiece photo of clubhouse in 1909 volume. 3 vols. 12mo. Constitution, By-Laws, and Lists of Members, full of notable Pennsylvania names, such as Dilworth, Laughlin,... Read More
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Princeton vs. Harvard. Tuesday May 30, 1893. Holmes Field Cambridge
[Cambridge, 1893. [4] pp. on coated card stock. 1 vols. 8vo (17.7 x 15.4 cm.). Photographic self wrappers, split, creased and dampstained. [4] pp. on coated card stock. 1 vols. 8vo (17.7 x 15.4 cm.). Scoreboxes partially filled, with 4 cute pencil drawings around edges of Princeton box scores and a small "H" pennant spliced through Harvard score box Harvard won, 9-8.
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![Rules and Regulations for the Government of Racing, Trotting, and Betting as adopted by the principal Turf Associations throughout the United States and Canada. [And:] The Turfman's Referee; containing numerous Discussions on Disputed Points on Racing, Trotting, and Betting. Compiled from the "Answers to Correspondents," as given in "Wilkes' Spirit of the Times](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/958/325/1546325958.0.l.jpg)
Rules and Regulations for the Government of Racing, Trotting, and Betting as adopted by the principal Turf Associations throughout the United States and Canada. [And:] The Turfman's Referee; containing numerous Discussions on Disputed Points on Racing, Trotting, and Betting. Compiled from the "Answers to Correspondents," as given in "Wilkes' Spirit of the Times
New York: M.B. Brown & Co, 1869. Expanded edition. 272; [viii], 66, [8, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Very good copy (minor rubbing and soiling to boards, head of spine scuffed). Splitting along endpapers and hinges, otherwise binding is good. Previous ownership of J.W. Fiske in black ink on front flyleaf (tear beneath); another ownership signature on title page.Bookplate of the Jockey Club. Shelfmark taped to foot of spine. Expanded edition. 272;... Read More
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Oval photograph of "Park Hotel", three storey columned clapboard structure, with group of men standing on corner outside, a waiting buckboard and other horses, others on the upper porch of the hotel
[N.p., 1855. 1 vols. Image 7-3/8 x 5-1/2 inches, mounted. 1 vols. Image 7-3/8 x 5-1/2 inches, mounted.
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The Life of Mahomet; Or, the History of that Imposture Which was Begun, Carried on and Finally Established by Him in Arabia; and Which Has Subjugated a Larger Portion of the Globe than the Religion of Jesus Has Yet Set at Liberty. To Which is Added an Account of Egypt
Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, Junior, 1802. First American edition. viii, [13]-154, [2, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt rules. Signed on flyleaf and title, Samuel D. Ward. Very good plus. First American edition. viii, [13]-154, [2, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Polemical tract on the superiority of Christianity to the imposture of Mahomet, in which "the author has, on every suitable occasion, made such moral reflection as seemed naturally to arise out of the topics... Read More
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