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185635940Philadelphia: D. Rice & A. N. Hart 1856. Later printing. Leather bound. Fair. Tall quartos. 4 volumes. Unpaginated. Illustrated with steel engraved portraits. Brown leather bindings with embossed covers raised bands on spines and gilt titles on spines. All edges gilt. Leather is rubbed along the joints corners and board edges. Leather is torn bottom of volume 3. Light to moderate toning and scattered foxing to all volumes. Volume 1 has two frontispieces including a portrait of George Washington as a young officer. Volume 4 front board reattached and front hinge repaired. All volumes have the previous owner printed name labels of C. P. Crawford on the front paste downs. C. P. Crawford was a Confederate Captain during the Civil War. He practiced law in Milledgeville Georgia after the war. D. Rice & A. N. Hart unknown
31659London: C. Smith & Son Map and Globe Publishers 63 Charing Cross Road n.d. Hardcover. Fair. Red cloth hardcover with black borders and designs on the front cover. Gilt title on the front cover. Approx. 26" x 34" colored accordion folded linen backed map of Europe. Advertisement printed on the front paste down. Cloth covers have light superficial insect damage. Inner hinge broken. The map is in good condition with occasional light spots. C. Smith & Son, Map and Globe Publishers, 63, Charing Cross Road hardcover
1850List1315Britton and Rey 1850. Single sheet measuring 8 ¼ x 10 ¾ inches on blue wove paper. Small chip to corner not affecting image some older tape repairs verso at margins else fine very good plus overall and quite attractive. Very Good. A series of four illustrations telling the story of a mining party that heads out with a pack mule only to fail to find gold and lose their mule before returning to a new prospect with their clothes in shambles. This is entry 209 in Baird’s California’s Pictorial Letter Sheets in which he sets the publication date as being prior to 1855. The series possibly illustrates scenes from a song. A particularly fine example on the classic blue wove paper of the period. unknown
185527567Concord New Hampshire: Rufus Merrill and Co 1855. Reissue. Pamphlet. Very good condition. Eleven birds are illustrated including an Australian lyrebird. Descriptions of eight birds appear including the swallow the Lyre bird Boat-Bill of Brazil the Roseate Spoonbill blue jay hoopoe robin belted kingfisher & the dove. 12mo pamphlet stitched binding 16pp & orig. tan printed wrappers entitled "Book about Birds". With ads for a general assortment of Merrill publications on the back wrapper. Rufus Merrill and Co unknown
185024414Concord New Hampshire: Rufus Merrill and Co 1850. Wraps. Very good condition. Eleven birds of the world are illustrated including a full page woodblock illustration of an Australian lyrebird. Descriptions of eight birds appear including the swallow the Boat-Bill of Brazil the Roseate Spoonbill blue jay hoopoe robin belted kingfisher & the dove. <br /> <br /> 12mo 16pp. Original pale green printed wrappers entitled "Book about Birds" with the original hand stitching. Publisher's advertisement on the back wrapper. Good impression the woodblock illustrations dark and crisp. Wrappers slightly marked short diagonal split at rear wrapper. Rufus Merrill and Co paperback
184513990Concord New Hampshire: Rufus Merrill and Co 1845. Pamphlet. Children's chapbook entitled "Book about Birds". With advertisements for a general assortment of Merrill publications on the back wrapper. Eleven birds are illustrated including an Australian lyrebird. Descriptions of eight birds appear including the swallow the Boat-Bill of Brazil the Roseate Spoonbill bluejay hoopoe robin belted kingfisher & the dove. 12mo pamphlet with stitching 16pp & original tan printed wrappers. Slight watermark on all pages except for the front wrapper. Housed in a handsome small brown cloth slipcase with gilt title on the front board. Rufus Merrill and Co unknown
184419643Concord NH: Rufus Merrill Low's Brick Block -- up stairs 1844. Very good overall. Includes engravings of the belted king fisher golden pheasant ring neck pheasant of China California quail found in California and other parts of Mexico Chilean sea eagles Bird of Paradise New Guinea South Seas and Carolina Parrot "these birds are rapidly diminishing". Small 8vo 24pp frontispiece 22 engravings in text. Pictorial yellow paper wraps titled & illustrated in black on the front cover with a full page illustration of the peacock at the rear wrapper. Wrappers slt dusty lower corner chipped; some fox spotting internally. The cover illustration is signed in type by the illustrator H. G. Eastman; engraved by Henry Walker Herrick. Rufus Merrill, Low's Brick Block -- up stairs paperback
11914London: Printed for Darton and Harvey Gracechurch-street. 1837. London: Joseph Rickerby Printer Sherbourn-lane. 45 ii pp. Frontispiece. Two pages of advertisements of the firm's books at end. In original pink printed boards with further advertisements for the firm on back. Lightly-aged in worn boards with wear to spine. Scarce: no copy of this 1837 Darton & Harvey edition on COPAC which lists only four copies by them alone: one from 1831 NLS two from 1834 TCD and Bodleian and one from 1838 V&A. This title does not feature in Linda David's catalogue of the 1992 Lilly Library exhibition of 'Children's books published by William Darton and his sons'. London: Printed for Darton and Harvey, Gracechurch-street. 1837. [London: Joseph Rickerby, Printer, Sherbourn-lane.] hardcover
184933033Portland: Davis & Southworth 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. viii 9-340 pages. Brown cloth hardcover with blind stamped decorated covers and gilt title on the spine. Edge and shelf wear to the cloth binding. Pencil index notes on front paste down. 1946 gift inscription in blue pen on right front end sheet. Light toning to the text. A fair or better copy. <br /> <br /> Sabin 41590. Davis & Southworth hardcover
187131645New York: De Witt C. Lent & Co. Stereotyped at The Women's Printing House New York 1871. Wraps. Good. Approx. 9.5" x 7.5" stiff color illustrated wraps. 23 pages. Contents illustrated in black in white. Light edge wear to extremities. De Witt C. Lent & Co. Stereotyped at The Women's Printing House New York unknown
187335377Boston: Briggs & Co. Publishers 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 9 advertisements on yellow card stock 274 pages 92 pages "Vermont Business Directory Advertising Department" 3 advertisements on yellow card stock. Brown paper printed covers. Dark cloth spine with gilt title. Scuff mark on the spine. Advertisements pasted on the front and rear paste downs. Printed advertisements on the covers. Several non page numbered advertisements throughout the directory. The majority of advertisements are illustrated with a few in color. Briggs & Co., Publishers hardcover
1889049824Chicago: W.S. Dunbar & Co. Front hinge cracked inside some wear to the leather. Some signatures lightly sprung. Still tight and overall antiquarian look and good condition to it. Rare - only 3 copies located in Worldcat at this time 2020. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall . Good Condition. Original Sculpted Leather Hbk. 1st. 1889. W.S. Dunbar & Co. hardcover
491558 Pall Mall 1814-1815. One page c.8 x 6" minor defects mainly good condition. 17s 6d received in payment of an invoice for "Philosophical Transactions" for 1814. 58 Pall Mall, 1814[-1815]. unknown
72041829-1830. 12pp. 4to April 1829-March 1830 giving a total for example April 1829 £4700.8.7- indicating the value to the bookseller of SPCK business and giving details of discounts. WITH: "Miscellaneous Accounts 1829-1830" 2pp. 4to; four cheques mostly for large sums made out to "Selves" drawn on SPCK bankers Gosling & Sharpe signed by John Rivington x 3 and G. & F. Rivington; and a MS. letter explaining the mechanism of Rivington drawing money from the SPCK account for themselves from the SPCK Treasurer who instructs the Bank to honour one of the above cheques £1000 21 Oct. 1831.Note: According to S. Rivington's The Publishing House of Rivington they had been the publisher to the SPCK since about 1760 p.55. Their business was transferred to George and Francis Rivington in 1827 by their father John p.109. "In 1835 the S.P.C.K. removed their agency from the firm no doubt owing to the tendency of the firm's publications towards views which were considered dangerous" p.135. 1829-1830 unknown
269421967-1979. 1. Asimov's "Pebble in the Sky" Memorandum of Agreement 17 March 1969 between Sidgwick and Jackson and Sphere Books four pages folio signed by Anthony Cheetham Wikipedia for Sphere Books. £300 advance with percentages.2. Asimov's "Pebble in the Sky" Memorandum of Agreement between Doubleday & Company and Sidgwick & Jackson 21 September 1967 three pages folio sl. crumpled signed by Nelson Doubleday. It concludes with statement about copyright Asimoc 1950. WITH: two file copy letters amendments etc. and an original letter from Barbara Noble of Doubleday and Company about paperback rights.3. Asimov's "Pebble in the Sky" Memorandum of Agreement between Sidgwick & Jackson and Sphere Books 22 March 1977 6 pp. folio eventually signed by Edmund Fisher of Sphere Books Wikipedia and a squiggle on behalf of the "Grantors" concluding with typed list of countries headed "Schedule" from Ascension to Zambia.4. Asimov's "The Science Fictional Solar System" Memorandum of Agreement between Granada Publishing Limited The 'Proprietors' and Sidgwick and Jackson Limited four pages folio 13 December 1979 signed by Alewyn Birch M.D. of Granada and a squiggle. Note: None signed by Asimov. 1967-1979 paperback
50031859 1850 1859 mainly 1850 1859 letters headed 21 Berners Street as is one from 1850. 18 pages used 4to copies on flimsy paper of outgoing letters signed "James Nisbet & Co." poor condition front cover detached one page detached and damaged otherwise text complete and legible. Correspondents include a number of Reverends inc. foreign. Subjects: 1850 They tell author "Lecture" that his work will be in an edition of 3000 and that he has a large credit balance with them anticipating how much profit he will make on "each succeeding thousand" £25 the price. "It is a very handsome volume and in fact does the publishers no discredit"; a meeting of a Mr Turner's creditors; price levels and the need to reduce to sell; negotiations; creditors in "Mr Cork's affair"; their "claim against the Rev. A.J. Hudson"; tardy acceptance of an order South African customer; acknowledgment of payment; prices of bibles influenced by the bindings - he lists examples including "Royal Folio Bible Dble pica Type with Apoc at 5gns"; arrangement of dispatch of periodicals reporting the "North American as out of print" the Galignani to be sent directly from Paris; discussion of "gratuitous help" in the formation of a correspondent's library; they offer to reduce a debt greatly to help a customer who has experienced a serious loss; corresondent not identified but same as first copy letter above they cannot accurately state printing costs without the manuscript but give a detailed estimate: "Supposing the work to be similar to yr second series of Lectures we should say in round underlined figures the cost of 1000 copies wd be about £100 - leaving £10 or £11 to cover the expense of correction & advertising". He suggests that the whole edition would make £160 at 5/- "without deduction for copies for Review &c" but warns him that he should not look for more than £40 profit. He outlines another scenario 1500 copies expenses of distribution and concludes with their wish to purchase the copyright and "taking the risk of an edition" and a postscript giving terms 10% for them after trade price considered - "25 or 24 @ 3/7"; they sent a catalogue to Dr Taylor Madras and give terms - order with remittance discount of 25% over £10 welcoming lsarge export orders for anything but law books; they ask David D. Scott" to return the MS. "Tetraphonia by Da Costa" with as much of the translation which has ben completed; comment on the Preface to the MS. "God in Disease to James F. Duncan; published by Nisbet in 1851 saying that the subject is not so much "in their department" to offer more favourable terms and want to stick with "half risk and half profit" with the proviso on future editions that they could change the terms. They recommend it be printed "any where but in Dublin" Duncan's home city; 1859 To Patrick Beaton re. "Creole and Coolies; or Five Years in Mauritius" pub. 1859; reprinted 1971 they make points in response to complaints firstly that they did not print more than 500 copies but "to place the matter beyond all controversy" they have written to the printer. Secondly a second edition would be expensive for various reasons inc. engraving the vignette charging for corrections. Thirdly they discuss an error with a section of his MS.apologetically and ask to be informed of any other changes; also to Patrick Beaton; they are sending payment for the "retranslation of thirty seven pages of MSS of a German Work". One copy letter is signed "James Batton" indicating the writer of all. (1859), 1850, 1859, mainly 1850, 1859 letters headed 21 Berners Street as is one from 1850 unknown
1740017354London: John and Paul Knapton 1740. FIRST EDITION first printing. Period full calf with riased bands. Front & back boards are detached. First signature attached to front board. 16 1 - 359 16 pp. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Not exlibrary. Overall a READING COPY only. First Edition. Full Calf Leather. Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. John and Paul Knapton Hardcover
190434022Chicago: Laird & Lee Publishers 1904. Hardcover. Good. Oblong 12mo. unpaginated. Illustrated with 32 "Colorgraph Views" and 168 "Copper Plate Scenes". Blue cloth hardcover with blind stamped design and gilt embossed title on the front cover. Light shelf wear and soiling to the covers. Light edge wear to the cloth extremities. Interior contents clean and hinges in good condition. Laird & Lee, Publishers hardcover
63688Ephemera. Very Good. Advertisement presented in the form of a newsletter. One sheet printed on both sides. 8 1/2 x 14" when unfolded. "Postmarked June 3 1983." This advertisement is held by Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois as a part of the Cage Correspondence Collection Music Library Repository. William Maiben was an award-winning Utah composer and pianist. unknown
47618Various publishers & dates. Extensive photographic archive documenting events on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico Border during the Mexican Revolution focused primarily on the Border Wars in Texas and the Veracruz Incident of 1914 comprised entirely of contemporary images all but a few of which are original vintage prints. The collection includes: <br /> <br /> • Sixty-one commercially-produced real-photo postcards ca. 14cm x 9cm or the reverse; <br /> • Six commercially-printed postcards using non-photographic processes same dimensions;<br /> • Three carte-de-visite portraits ca 9cm x 6cm mounted to cards;<br /> • Eight small-format photographs ranging from 14cm x 8cm to 11cm x 16cm of which three appear to be commercial images; <br /> • Three 8x10 20cm x 25cm photographic prints printed at some later date from original plates but apparently not contemporary; <br /> • One vintage 4x6 10cm x 16cm photograph mounted on board. <br /> <br /> All but a dozen or so images are captioned in the negative and most are additionally captioned in pencil in a later hand on verso. Approximately half the images include no photo credit; of those that do we have identified the following photographers: W.H. Horne D.W. Hoffman Walter P. Hadsell Van Zile & Chalk and L.O. She. <br /> <br /> Condition is generally Very Good. Two of the photo postcards are damaged with abrasions to significant portions of image area; the remainder show various degrees of edge wear aging and creasing but by and large image quality remains excellent. None of the postcards are postally used though a few include brief contemporary notes on verso. The refusal of Mexican President Porfirio Dîaz to cede power to his rival Francisco Madero in the elections of 1910 resulted in a violent large-scale revolt by campesinos and leftists setting off the thirty-year long Mexican Revolution. American involvement in the conflict began in 1911 when President William H. Taft under the guise of heightening border security moved to back Díaz against the rebels. The resulting mobilization - Taft sent more than 20000 American troops nearly a quarter of all American forces to the Mexican border with especially heavy concentrations in Texas and New Mexico - was to that date the largest mobilization of American military forces in peacetime. At the same time many Americans whose sympathies were not aligned with the Díaz dictatorship including anarchists wobblies Native Americans and more than a few soldiers of fortune went south to fight on the side of the rebels. The resulting border conflict which took place over nearly a decade occasionally pitting American insurrectos against American Federal troops resulted in thousands of Mexican and hundreds of American deaths. <br /> <br /> The Border Wars reached their climax around the period 1912-1914 which happened to coincide with a near-hysterical vogue for postcards among the American public. The result is that the Mexican Revolution is perhaps the first major armed conflict to have been extensively photo-documented in real time and certainly the first to have had a significant mass audience for that documentation. At least three hundred commercial photographers have been identified in association with the Mexican Revolution and they produced tens of thousands of images ranging from the relatively innocuous e.g. peaceful street and harbor scenes in Veracruz to the horrific lynchings and sidewalk cremations. <br /> <br /> This entire range of content is represented in the current collection along with portraits of most of the key players on the Mexican side including El Presidente Porfirio Díaz; his primary rival and successor Francisco Madero; Madero's successor by coup Victoriano Huerta; and various military figures including General Juan Navarro Felipe Angeles Ramírez and numerous others. Many of these semi-professional images though produced with commercial intent "professional" remains a guarded term in the context of what was essentially battlefield exploitation photography are valuable for their almost off-hand depictions of violent day-to-day life on the contested border including the casual destruction and acceptance of death from both sides that seemed to define this conflict. Of particular note are numerous of photographs of African-American troops the so-called "Buffalo Soldiers" as well as at least one image depicting Native American soldiers in uniform. Locales represented include Camp Grossmont in California; El Paso and Laredo in Texas and their cross-border sister cities Juarez and Nuevo Laredo; Veracruz site of the American incursion of 1914 known as the "Veracruz Incident"; and various unidentified encampments and battle sites in both Texas and Mexico. <br /> <br /> A wide-ranging and compelling photographic collection documenting not only a key period in U.S. military diplomacy - one which for better or worse set the tone for American-Mexican relations for the succeeding century - but also a tangible manifestation of the first widespread public incarnation in America of the picture-postcard as a vehicle for both propaganda and photojournalism. unknown
FORT108556Morang & Co. Used - Acceptable. 10 Volume Set. Volumes I-X. Quarter-bound in red leather with gilt text on spine; Yellow cloth covered boards. Red endpapers. Top edges gilt with other edges uncut. Morang & Co hardcover
187228881Olympia: Murphy & Harned 1872 1872. First edition. Streeter 3258; Graff 2936; Howes M910. Upper hinge skillfully repaired; edges a little rubbed and darkened; very good complete copy enclosed in a chamshell case. 8vo original black calf spine and printed light blue-green paper boards. 1-71 1 116 unnumbered pages; three inserted advertisements printed in color; two title-pages; advertisements on the upper and lower boards and endpapers. The first business directory to Puget Sound printed in Olympia by R. H. Hewitt's Excelsior Job Printing. The directory is divided into two parts. The first contains a general sketch of Washington Territory with descriptions of the abundance of fish plentiful forests beautiful but challenging geography a guide for tourists suggestions for immigrants railroads agriculture and a substantial final section nine pages on Washington's Indians who the compilers maintain "will soon be among the past." The second part with a slightly different title-page contains descriptions of individuals towns with accompanying advertisements for the local businesses including most prominently Seattle Olympia and Port Townsend followed numerous small "milling towns" after which the compilers stretch the boundaries of Puget Sound and Washington Territory to include a few other locations from Portland Oregon to Victoria B.C. Olympia: Murphy & Harned, (1872) unknown
195621176Geneva: Nagel Publishers. 1956. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. DJ chipped and torn and with DJ spine missing - though nicely preserved in Mylar ; Rear map section in color with 32 pages 61 plans. Publisher's sticker on title page as issued in the US. ; The Nagel Travel Guide Series; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; xxxii 681 31 pages . Nagel Publishers hardcover
12502Printed by F. Bentley & Cpo. 4a Shoe Lane Fleet STreet London 1869. One page 8vo goods condition. No. 1 to be published on 22 May 1869 promising "Original Information" leading articles bearing on "social happiness and political freedom non-partisan opposed to "every dangerous measure introduced in the name of Liberalism". This was presumably "Bentley's London News of commerce agriculture manufactures etc." of which a copy of vol.1 no.1 is listed in the BL Catalogue. No other copy listed on COPAC or WorldCat. This prospectus is listed on neither nor In Lake. [Printed by] F. Bentley & Cpo., 4a Shoe Lane, Fleet STreet, London, [1869] unknown
12501Richard Bentley & Son 1890. Offprint "From the 'Pall Mall Gazette' of October 22 1890." Four pages 8vo bifolium unbound slight staining not affecting text mainly good condition. An evocative account of a visit to a Trade Dinner held by the House of Bentley. No copy listed on COPAC or WorldCat. See Image. [Richard Bentley & Son, 1890] unknown
