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1763045560Madrid: Antonio Sanz 1763. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary acid calf wear at edges discoloration to boards old spine labels affixed. Small mostly faint dampstain to bottom right corner heavier to endpapers otherwise clean internally. 58pp Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; Military & Warfare. Inventory No: 045560. <br/><br/> Antonio Sanz hardcover books
044015Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Finely bound in full contemporary red morocco elaborately gilt and stamped. Worn at corners and spine ends with a bit of loss to leather at one end front hinge cracked rear rubbed darkened lacking clasps. Scattered foxing discoloration to endpapersContaining Lists of both Houses of Parliament The Court Register and Lists of Army Navy Universities Public Offices Hospitals etc. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 044015. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1830045140London: Sears & Co 1830. First Edition. Hardcover rebound in cloth. Very Good Condition. M.U. Sears. Rebound in salmon cloth with the chipped lettering piece laid back down. A singularly paternalistic and shotgun approach to the genre - includes recommendations on apparel the duties of married life female biography "or records of feminine talent worth and virtue" courtship and marriage among the Tartars of the Crimea arithmetic contentment and cookery. 440pp. Scarce. Size: Octavo 8vo. Illustrator: M.U. Sears. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Women & Feminism. Inventory No: 045140. <br/><br/> Sears & Co hardcover books
1785045481Madrid: Placido Barco Lopez 1785. Early Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary full vellum browned but sound. Endpapers with notes front pastedown missing a section old ink mark to title scattered foxing a nice clean copy generally. 279pp plus index. Early edition originally published in 1777 of a much reprinted manual. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books for Writers; Inventory No: 045481. <br/><br/> Placido Barco Lopez hardcover books
30641<p>Small octavo 127 manuscript pp. bound in original limp leather entries dated 21 May to 13 July 1919 and 25 January to 19 May 1919 written in ink in legible hand; first 50 pp consists of the diary for the time period of 21 May to 13 July 1919; the next 60 pp are apparently entries from another diary copied into this diary for the dates of 25 January to 19 May 1919 giving a total time period of the diary for 25 January to 13 July 1919. The last 17 pp of volume contains various memorandum notes including: "Partial list of books I read in France" the poem "Ladies" by Rudyard Kipling a list of different types of alcoholic beverages a poem "Jim" a quote from "Ben Hur" and "Wicksteed" a poem "To the Unknown Goddess" a poem "Jealousy" plus two other notes about war and food.</p><p> <b>Description of Diary:</b></p><p> The name of the author of the diarist is unknown at present although with research his name could presumably be found. The author is a male who is serving in the United States Army in 1919 as a driver transporting officers to various locales in France near the former frontlines. The war had just ended 11 Nov. 1918 a little over two months before this diary begins 25 Jan. 1919 thus our author sees a number of the former battle fields and entrenchments of the frontlines various destroyed French cities and towns and he makes a tour of Paris. He also visits war cemeteries and attends various events at the Red Cross or at Base Hospital 53 amongst other places. </p><p> There is much about his regular care and maintenance of his car and picking up military officers and travel to other military installations towns or places or simply acting as the driver as the officers go out on the town pick up prostitutes bed them at a local hotel and afterwards driving both the officer and prostitute to their respective homes. </p><p> The diary recounts the various 'joyrides' that the author and his fellow servicemen take to nearby towns the dinners they seek out meeting French girls bartering with the local French population with cash chocolates and cigarettes for various items like watches fruit gloves etc. The diary also recounts the steamer ride home from France to Newport News Virginia which took from 24 June to 5 July.</p><p> <b> Sample Quotes from the Diary:</b></p><p>"From other diary</p><p>Jan 25 1919</p><p>Have neglected diary. Will write only when I feel like it. At noon helped Miss Flagg pack books for another hut. Did not go to dinner but she brought me cocoa & sandwiches. Snow on ground."</p><p>"March 24</p><p>Rain sleet and lightning. Dance at R.C. afraid to try. All sorts of nurses big little short tall stout thin graceful awkward decent and crooked. Some extremely ugly but very sic are passably good looking." </p><p>"April 6</p><p>Up early breakfast and roll pack. Left at 8 for St. Javin by way of Flinville. Rode atop a 'Mack' In barracks all shot to pieces formerly German headquarters St Javin was great German rail head town occupied by Germans for 4 years. Full of German signs. Took walk to Champigneulle. Detonations machine guns grenades etc. We put over a barrage. Sarsfield's gun blew up salvage dump with piles of everything French American and German. Piles of burned German helmuts. After supper walked thru St. Javin heaps of dead unburied horses German machine gunner buried with one leg sticking above ground part of uniforms heap of empty shells an overturned machine gun by his side. Outdoor movies."</p><p>"May 1</p><p>Went to Chaumont this morning. Cole is leaving for home mother sill. Took Lehmer to café. Returned at 7 waited till 8. Good looking 'Catin' prostitute with him. Went to little town and had drinks. One to Rolampont to café de la Patrie. Lieut & girl slept next room to us. Came in to see me before she went to sleep. Moans!</p><p>"May 2</p><p>Breakfast and took L to Chaumont. Returned for girl. Asleep. Had not slightest idea of modesty. My reply to her advances was to get her clothes on or she would not go back with me. September moon in May. Truck trains left Chaumont at 1:30 P.M. was in Langes at 4 P.M. At 10 P.M. took Lieut L. and Capt. Ardon to depot. L was pretty drunk. Met 2 fellows and 2 girls. Took them to town. L had me drive him and them but they could find no rooms. Drove them to Humes but no room there. Left them at depot. One girl about all in. Lieut L in R.C. talking to girl finally got him home at 2:30 A.M. Quite disgusting."</p><p>"May 10</p><p>Drove all day and B.H. at night. At R.C. Peggy asked me to go for a walk. Experiment 'Baso' Muy bien. In at 3 A.M. 'Cracker' had his court martial today."</p><p>"June 5</p><p>Did not make a trip. Farewell party at Y. Close of contests. Band concert & special selection. Fine. Free eats. Date with Miss Lawrence for tomorrow night. Down town in ambulance to round up drunks. </p><p>"June 6</p><p>Woke me up at night to go to Romagne went via St. Dizier Bar le Duc Varemes. Lunch at fine café at Bar le Duc. Romagne at 3:30. Large camp tents largely negroes 'beaucoup' P.W.'s cemetery is very large mainly for those killed in the Argonne to hold 30000 to 40000. Dug up & brought in by negroes search for means of identification. Disagreeable work & place. Very bad smell over entire camp. Motorcycle bicycle mounted and foot M.P.'s no place to stay with them. Loan of bunk & blankets razor & use of barber shop. Lemonade at 'Y' Negro 'Y' & 'Y' women."</p><p> "June 24</p><p> Up for breakfast fair hit most of lines hot chocolate at 'Y' coffee & sandwich at J.W. B. cakes at K. of C. 3 cones ice cream at Premier Hut. Rate of exchange for U.S. silver is same as for French silver. Rolled pack at noon 12:00 physical inspection. Out to parade grounds with full equipment at 4:30 supper march to boat at 8 P.M. cigarettes and chocolate from Y.M.C.A. at wharf gangplank at 9:30 up on deck till midnight."</p><p> "June 25</p><p> A good night sleep tho it is some job to dress & undress. When get back can give exhibition as 'sandwich man' for in these 4 tier bunks one is a living sandwich every night. Fair meals. Mixed indiscriminately with negroes and hate it. They are often unbearably insolent. Rain at 9:30 35 war brides aboard one being a negro. Leave locks at 1 P.M. last glimpse of France late in afternoon a low-lying headland off to right. A very heavy windy &sea steadily getting rougher. Many are getting 'mal de mer.' By night waves dashing over forward hatch & bow In very tip of ship protected from waves by covering overhead. Most motion of any part of ship but I like it. Bed early."</p><p> "June 26</p><p> Up for breakfast fed fine but nearly everyone sick especially the 'smokes.' They are whiter than I thought it possible a negro to get. Still windy and rough. Good dinner. Moderating slightly in afternoon. War brides not in evidence. Oh but they are a hard-looking bunch. One looks like someone's washwoman about 40 years old. I sure don't want anything in that class. Would be ashamed to be seen with one of them. No foreigners in mind…"</p><p> "June 30</p><p> For breakfast boiled eggs first time since I left Wash. Barracks that had eggs in regular mess. But these were so old I expected the chick to peck me when I opened the shell absolutely not fit to eat. Am sure getting tired of this trip every day is a month you read sleep eat talk watch the porpoises or simply look at the sea & think of home what you will do when you get there etc. The boat is so crowded it is very hard to get a place to sit-down & are mixed up with Negroes in everything. And the Y man takes candy & tobacco up on the promenade deck & he and the officer amuse themselves by throwing it to the fellows and laughing at them scrambling for it. It is really disgusting just like a bunch of little kids. But there is always that would do anything if they think they are getting something for nothing. Well anyhow I can stay clear of it…"</p><p> "July 5</p><p> Rolled my pack last night while I had a little room but slept perfectly comfortable. Sighted land at 12:30 debarked at New Port News at 4 P.M. 'Y' with cigarettes & candy. Marched under the 'Victory Arch' & thru town. When we halted people gave us water bought ice cream and cola at drugstore. It seems so strange to hear civilians speak English and especially children. But oh boy! It sure seems good. And everything moves along briskly and in a modern manner street cars locomotives autos & everything are so different. But unless one has spent a year in France he does not know the relief & joy it is to get back…"</p> books
17255740London: J Pottinger and J Seymour 1764 1725. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Textblock Fine. Light shelf/edge wear tips through minor scratch in paper front board else tight bright and unmarred. Quarterbound burgundy leather spine marbled paper boards. Small 8vo. 54pp plus 2pp ad. <br/><br/>A wonderfully unflattering short biography of the notorious Judge Jeffreys. Jeffreys infamously presided over the trial of Titus Oates and numerous other significant cases.bringing his unusual blend of apathy arrogance and brutality to the bench. It is said that he was "reckless of everything save his own advancement." This volume contains a list of some 240 names organized by towns of those who suffered his convictions. A very handsome copy of this minor classic. J Pottinger and J Seymour hardcover books
18111793London: John Murray 1811. Second Edition. Hardcover. Brown leather Very good. 440 pages. 16.5 x 10 cm. A comprehensive household manual filled with what seems to be very helpful receipts and some of a dubious nature. Chapters filled with constructive advise on rearing livestock making butter brewing and the management of malt liquors the management of plants seeds and the greenhouse while other advice such as using a bush held by a rope to clean a chimney as opposed to employing a child children will damage the interior bricks seem a bit outdated. Accredited to Mrs. Rundell of New Systems of Domestic Cookery fame but there are many who think this is a false theory due to her well published falling out with the John Murray. All edges gilt dentelle edging and blindstamped Missing 1 cm. of leather at the head of spine. Interior crisp and clean. Owners signature present on front boards 1819. <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
19079072New York: Ullman Manufacturing Company 1907. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Full color off-set printed multi-flap post card mailer with die-cut holes for puzzle and tab for closing. 3.5x5.5"; bright and unmarred with fully intact flaps. <br/><br/>An example of early 20th century Black Americana ephemera or as some refer to as 'Negrobilia' referring to a wide array of materials including mass advertisements postcards tourist souvenirs etc. with the image of an African American universally portrayed in a derogatory and racist manner. These items were produced and manufactured by and for white audiences that enhanced the perception of white racial superiority and class status. These type of items are particularly challenging to many communities however many scholars and private collectors alike agree these materials are historical records and reminders of the racist history of the United States and should not be invisible. The puzzle postcard is an example of mass produced racial stereotyping manufactured for an actual mailing enclosure. The instructions on the outside of the mailer state: "Arrange the flaps by placing one over another in such a manner as to show ONLY the eleven pickaninnies." <br /> <br />Reference: Goings Kenneth. "Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping." Bloomington Indiana University Press 1994. Ullman Manufacturing Company paperback books
181318282Philadelphia: Redwood Fisher 1813. First edn. 8vo pp. 91. Untrimmed and uncut little soiled sewn self-wraps a very good copy . Imprints 28087 ArSC OCLaw. Scarce. With a very small Navy the US and its New England merchants paid a stiff price for the Napoleonic Wars. The situation continued to retrict US exports and the northeastern merchants were by no means enthusiastic supporters of the policies that brought on the War of 1812. Indeed Massachsetts merchants tried to employ the use of British licenses to insure their safety on the seas. This offers the case histories of four shipsthat were seized by the British. Redwood Fisher unknown books
1838041582Amsterdam: S. de Grebber 1838. Later Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Original paper wraps worn covers detached spine degraded. Internally very good with slight foxing generally quite bright. Attractive frontispiece of a kitchen scene a few notes in margins. The two plates illustrating carving are torn but complete. A later edition of one of the classic texts of 18th century Dutch cuisine. Scarce. Cagel 1098 earlier ed. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 041582. <br/><br/> S. de Grebber paperback books
1837045667Boston 1837. Broadside. Good Condition. Single sheet ca. 9" x 7" chipped at the edges with loss to margin and touching the typographical border paper browned a few small tears. One attractive woodcut of Harry waving a tattered flag. Undated a copy at the AAS with both poems and printed by L. Deming in Boston is suggested at 1832-1837. The Female Sailor had appeared a few years previous. The Female Sailor was a popular trope in England and then America where a woman falls for a sailor as here or loses her love to a press gang or some other calamity and then dresses up as a sailor to track him down. "she was as jolly as a sailor could be/Her grog she would drink and kiss the girls merrily." Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Americana. Inventory No: 045667. <br/><br/> unknown books
1930CAT0007511930. Hardcover. Good Condition. Large format cookbook ca. 13" x 9" - apparently a fragment begins on page 27 bound up with new marbled endpapers in half cloth over original marbled boards at some point. Detailed recipes for desserts bottom corner with water damage but lost text written back in a contemporary hand chipping and some loss to corners. 60 used pages with a few blanks at the end.<br/><br/>Mostly desserts with emphasis on strawberry and chocolate: pastel de naranja gelatina de fresa ballas de platano bubiletes rellenas de crema de frezas atole de fresa capuchinos volcan de cacahuate with a mole poblano recipe slipped in. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000751. hardcover books
1800042202Zutphen: W.C. Wansleven 1800. Softcover. Very Good Condition. An unusually well preserved copy of this early Dutch ABC book. Undated ca. early to mid 19th century. Printed on heavy paper folded with a red rooster on the verso of the title page and a woodcut of a classroom scene on the title. 16 pages printed on one sheet both sides 8 pages per side - probably never issued thus accounting for its condition. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042202. <br/><br/> W.C. Wansleven paperback books
045451Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Portuguese religious manuscript - a translation of an Italian devotion - in a richly gilt black morocco binding light wear at edges heavy wear and damage at the spine ends some worming and two bookplates to endpapers. 149 leaves nearly all written on both sides in an attractive hand 3 blanks at rear. 2 in the front. Ca. late 18th early 19th century. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 045451. <br/><br/> hardcover books
045759First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Later quarter leather over marbled boards spine chipped with some loss binding sound old signatures to endpaper and title very clean internally and attractively printed. No date publisher or location ca. 1700 A scarce collection of church sayings in French Spanish and Latin just the Bibliotheque Nationale copy in OCLC. Bound with a similar second work; no copies in OCLC of the second. 80pp; 32pp Size: Octavo 8vo. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Language & Linguistics. Inventory No: 045759. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1823030211New York: Printed For the Purchasers 1823. No Binding. Very Good. 16mo 8 pages title-leaf with decorative woodcut pagination incorrect paper tanned text pinned together otherwise very good. The text carries four songs with Masonic themes. Unrecorded. Not in American Imprints not in OCLC etc. <br /> Printed For the Purchasers books
123238France: c. 1809-1820. 8vo 36 leaves printed rectos only illustrated. Brown pebbled cloth rebacked leather backstrip with raised bands gilt-stamped bees and the binder's title "Florilége" sic in the compartments green coated endpapers. Cloth considerably stained backstrip rubbed pages lightly toned and foxed but sound overall. § A curious book appearing to be a lithographic facsimile of a manuscript in which pious reflections are inspired by wayside flowers in the format of a flora. With adept illustrations of the flowers and some religious scenes apparently drawn by the author printed on better paper in monochrome in one of three inks and tipped to each facing page. There is no title page instead the book opens with a quote from Chateaubriand's Les Martyrs published 1809 beneath which is the stamp "Déposé" and the handwritten inscription "Propriété de l'auteur." the name that follows is unfortunately illegible. The author appears to have been a French priest appending the suffix "ptre" here and also to the printed name "Jean" which closes the facsimile manuscript. Presumably multiple copies would have been printed but no others have been located. This copy came from the famous eccentrica and erotica collection of Gershon Legman. c. 1809-1820]. 8vo hardcover books
187310250Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co 1873. First edition. Frontispiece and 12 plates. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Original tan pictorial boards black calf spine. Bottom half of spine perished some cover wear internally fine. 1873 Christmas gift inscription on title. First edition. Frontispiece and 12 plates. 1 vols. Oblong folio. A Resort Summer of 1873 in Drawings and Rhyme. An account of the adventures of a group of friends vacationing at Mt. Desert Maine recounted in humorous verse and equally humorous drawings evidently by two members of the party. Summer romances the hazards of the communal dining table days of genteel ennui and other activities with the first names of the participants indicated as a partial aid to social historians a few of them are named in pencil on the title page are described in double columns of rollicking verse narrative and accompanying plates. A charming period piece and a not insignificant bit of amusing Americana. J.R. Osgood & Co unknown books
18474980Troy: Published and Sold by L. Willard 1847. First Edition. 1 - 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers uncut and unopened; some chipping at margins sporadic foxing. First Edition. 1 - 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contains: The Condemned: A Chapter from Our City Prison: A Tale of Truth and Horror. Wright I 2444 Published and Sold by L. Willard unknown books
170357338London: Nich. Cox 1703. 8vo pp. 216. Bound in contemporary calf little bent a very good copy. Pages 169-176 omitted from numbering English Short Title Catalog: T60536. On the "Camisards or Cevennois. This is the history of the Camisards rebellion 1702-1705 which carried on organized military resistance to the dragonnads or coversion by torture death and confiscation of property. See Britannica 11th edition vol. 5 pp. 113. Nich. Cox unknown books
3558BOSTON DUTTON 1856. WINSLOW HOMER ILLUSTRATIONS FIRST EDITION GOOD-VERY GOOD. F. BOSTON, DUTTON, 1856 unknown books
1870278711870. np nd and unsigned. All are laid into a beautifully gilt tooled full calf oblong quarto portfolio 9-3/4 x 12 inches. One of the designs has some rubbling to the edge the rest are bright and clean. unknown books
173811064012mo. Londres i.e. Amsterdam : Aux dépens de la Compagnie 1738. 12mo 4 179pp. Title- printed in red and black. Ink signature “Carteret Harvey†on A1. 19th-century blue cloth red label red edges very good. § OCLC: 12073708: “Miscellany comprising a grotesque fairy tale a philosophical epistle and a series of letters addressed from hell to the world above. The whole is redolent of political and philosophical overtones intended as a criticism of the Regency and the morality of the age. L'amour magot is a fable about the dangers of romantic love in an inexperienced young heroine. The 'lettres infernales' are written by inhabintants of hell. One letter is written from a bookseller addressed to his colleagues on earth in which he discusses hell's booktrade.†OCLC locates in all about 18 copies but doubtless there are more. No one hazards a guess at the authorship. A pencil note in the book states: “Anon see Bulletin du bibliophile 16 série p. 372. Comte d’I.†Aux dépens de la Compagnie hardcover books
1800045663sl: sn 1800. Broadside. Very Good Condition. Single sheet worn and soiled chipping at edges title in an old hand to verso bleeding through - with three attractive woodcuts at top. The same text as Evans 49645 with similar woodcuts but with A Virtuous Life appended - the AAS gives a date of between 1790 and 1810. The ESTC shows only the AAS copy. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Americana. Inventory No: 045663. <br/><br/> sn unknown books
18100456681810. Broadside. Good Condition. Single sheet chipped and torn at the edges mild staining and soiling no loss of text. ca. 10 1/2" x 9". A few very similar copies exist at the AAS but each with a small woodcut of a leprechaun. Undated they suggest Boston 1810-1814 Bunch of Rushes was sung to the tune of the Irish song Cailín ag buaint luachra The Sprig of Shillelah is thought to have been adapted from "The Original Black Joke Sent from Dublin". The last verse with the curious profession of Irish allegiance to England against the French points to the Napoleonic period in which it was adapted. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Americana. Inventory No: 045668. <br/><br/> unknown books
