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61707Title page to the second volume of works by Bacquet Jean 15.-1597 with large oval printer's device of Abel Langelier or L'Angelier 1553-1610 representing a shepherd kneeling in front of a fire and an angel coming from the sky. On the frame: 'SACRUM PINGUE DABO NEC MACRUM SACRIFICABO'. It might hint to Abel one of the sons of Adam and Eve as the first name of the publisher is Abel.Allegorical figures populate the outer frame. Monogrammed in a shield beneath the representation.Date of print: 1608 published in Paris. Letterpress and wood engraving on laid paper; total: 352 x 222 mm; despite a light pink shadow on the top left margin in good condition mounted on cardboard decorated with a line frame in black ink. unknown
193862369London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1938. 8vo. viii 9-303 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates text illusts. Blue cloth gilt lettering on spine minor edgewear scuffing w/ d.j. minor chipping head of spine minor creasing dustsoiling & slight sunning to spine still VG/VG- copy w/ former ownership markings on endpapers. First British edition of this fascinating memoir of the noted American geologist-naturalist’s trek prospecting for gold iron ore and other metals in Sierra Leone and considered one of the earliest women geologists. She is perhaps best remembered for her fundamental geological descriptions of large areas in Sierra Leone Wyoming and New Hampshire later becoming a passionate environmental activist. Very scarce in dustjacket. See: Carol Frost Katharine Fowler-Billings: Pioneering Woman Field Geologist Trained in the Rocky Mountains Rocky Mountain Geology Vol. 37 No. 1 Spring 2002. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., hardcover
1418159850Shūseidō 衆星堂. Reprint. Tenpō 14 1843. Large folding handcoloured map of the thirteen provinces from which Mt. Fuji can be viewed. 159 x 178cm. Folds into paper covered card covers measuring 40 x 24cm. Title label upper cover. A little browning along folds occasional spotting and soiling. A little worming causing approximately 1cm of loss in places. Two chops in lower section. A very striking and attractive map. This very large handsome map is a detailed map of the thirteen provinces from which one can see Mt. Fuji. Provinces shown are the eight provinces of the Kantō region Sagami 相模 Musashi 武蔵 Kazusa 上総 Shimofusa 下総 Awa 安房 Kōzuke 上野 Shimotsuke 下野 and Hitachi 常陸 and five other provinces Izu 伊豆 Suruga 駿河 Tōtōmi 遠江 Kai 甲斐 and Shinano 信濃. The map offers a large amount of detailed information such as province and county borders rivers high ways post towns checkpoints villages and scenic spots. <br> <br>The cartographer Akiyama Einen or Nagatoshi 秋山永年 came from Edo and the editor Funakoshi Seizō 船越清蔵 studio name: Shugu 守愚 1805-62 a Confucian scholar from Nagato Province now the western half of present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture. A dedication by Funahashi Akira 舟橋徴 is dated 1843. . Shūseidō 衆星堂 unknown
191461710Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House 1914. 8vo. 281 1 pp. With photo frontisp. photo plates plates illustrations historiated initials. Pictorial blue publisher’s cloth cover art in gilt silver & red of musher on an iceflow gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing still VG bright copy from the library of former California State Librarian Gary Kurutz and Joseph Luke Janulaw 1893-1937 a Los Angeles CA fireman w/ ownership markings on front pastedown. First edition of this sensationalistic Klondike gold rush memoir recounting the experiences of 18 gold seekers from the YMCA setting out from New York Feb. 1 1897. After voyaging on a condemned brigantine with a drunken captain they purportedly attempted the Malaspina Glacier trek to the gold fields traversing from Yakutat Bay across the Wrangell-St. Elias range and dropping into the headwaters of the Tanana and Yukon Rivers. The absorbing tale is filled with contradictions as it relates the loss of three into ice crevasses madness while wintering in a cabin starving retreat across icefields and finally rescue by a passing revenue cutter. See: Terrence Cole Klondike Literature: These Alaska Gold Rush Tales Share a Prominent Characteristic with the Region’s Mountainous Terrain -- They are Very Tall. Columbia Magazine WHS 2008 Vol. 22 No. 2 pp. 9-16; Kurutz Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes A Descriptive Bibliography 172. Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House, hardcover
188523852San Francisco: George Spaulding & Co. General Book and Job Printers 1885. First edition. Paperback. Lacking front wrapper and front blank leaves toning to top of title page text clean and complete. Original wrappers lacking front wrapper 349 pp. 18 pp adverts and inserted litho advert on cardstock at rear engraved illustrations in the text. In protective paper chemise and card slipcase. <br/><br/>Scarce OCLC/Worldcat finds 9 library holdings. Cowan 1933 edition page 240. George Spaulding & Co., General Book and Job Printers paperback
16437081<p>Amsterdam: Jodocum Janssonium 1643 Contemporary stiff vellum with title in manuscript on spine. Twelvemo. Engraved title-page. A few pages a little browned. Generally a very good clean copy. Scarce: OCLC lists five copies two in North America.</p> Jodocum Janssonium, hardcover
195333464New York: World Editions Inc. 1953. Tanning to text paper mild edge wear to covers very good to nearly fine copies. 33464. Small octavo three issues covers by Ed Emshwiller pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The complete first appearance of the Asimov's THE CAVES OF STEEL in three serial parts. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 290-309. World Editions, Inc. unknown
185519819London 1855. Very good overall. Engraved trade advertising letterpress advertising the services of Thomas Beck Wholesale Stationer Engraver Printer Lithographer Die Sinker and Manufacturer of Copying Machines 81 Cheapside Two Doors West of Old Jewry London. A London newspaper advertisement for Thomas Beck Co. appeared in December 1846. With an engraved vignette of dock workers at an English/Australian dock sealing crates marked "Gold" "Tallow" and "Wool" with tall masted ships & a steamship visible in the distance; elaborate engraved borders. Printed on laid paper blank at verso. 4 1/4 x 4 3/4". Slightly marked. unknown
191088688New York: Jerome H. Remick Co 1910. First Edition. Quarto. Baseball-themed sheet music; 6pp including covers. Cover illustration in color signed in plate "Starmer" depicting a stadium of fans cheering a baseball game. Very light wear and soil to covers; Very Good to Near Fine. Jerome H. Remick Co unknown
elala2390London: Printed And Sold By J.Downes. 1793. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l. 59. disbound London: Printed And Sold By J.Downes..., 1793 unknown
1911004030Washington DC: The Gridiron Press 1911. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. Inscribed by C.K. Berryman the cartoonist to H.W. Berryman. The inscription states "This book is inscribed by the illustrator C.K. Berryman". 8vo. 20 by 16.5 cm. 74 1 pp. Cartoons are of the political luminaries of the day including many names still recognizable such as Elihu Root William Borah Taft TR Robert LaFolette Gifford Pinchot Henry Stimson Woodrow Wilson and on and on. Clever rhymes for the ABC and then clever variants of well-known nursery rhymes. The drawings capture the persons depicted with great fidelity yet impressive economy. Berryman began his career as an artist for the patent office before joining the staff of "The Washington Post" in 1891 as an understudy for its chief cartoonist then becoming its official cartoonist in 1896. In 1907 he left the Post for "The Washington Star" where he drew cartoons until his death. He is probably best known for inspiring the Teddy Bear. The Gridiron Club was founded in 1885 and remains one of the most prestigious press clubs in the nation. The Gridiron Dinner is an annual rite in Washington often attended by the sitting President. This book is uncommon in the original printing. The Gridiron Press unknown
195233461New York: World Editions Inc. 1952. First edition. Tanning to text paper light wear to covers with loss to to upper rear cover of the third issue. 33461. Small octavo three issues covers by Don Silbey Richard Powers Richard Arbib pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The complete first appearance of the Alfred Bester Hugo Award winning novel THE DEMOLISHED MAN in three serial parts. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 290-309. World Editions, Inc. unknown
178343848Lyon: chez Jean-Marie Bruyset Pere & Fils. A. 1783. 12mo. 17x 9.5cm Volume 5. In original full mottled calf real raised bands panels ornated full gilt decorated marbled endpapers edges stained red in contemporary binding style some wear on the edges hollow binding with the rear marbled endpaper re-used to line the hollow out recess which continue from page 30 the back interior box glued. – When opened the interior hollowed recess is not noticeable however the book is uncommonly light in very good sound condition. very good. These hollow book boxes were common before after the second war in the book stals on the banks of the Siene. They were made from broken sets which were common in that era and were considered a great keepsake in the growing tourist trade. As a bookseller you never had any money to hide away however we did keep the cash register float in a book box made from a small folio “Boy’s Own Annual 1912†for about forty years shelved with the reference and bibliography section behind the counter until it fell apart in complete exhaustion. chez Jean-Marie Bruyset Pere & Fils. A. unknown
1720NC0225E. Curll 1720. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. London 1720; rebound in brown leather covered boards; corner and spine edge wear; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; new end papers; Previous owner's name on front end papers; lightly foxed; coffee colored discoloration at hinges pages original front end paper fading through 225; From the library of ABAA bookseller Tom Nicely; 320 pages. E. Curll hardcover
1720540914London: Printed for E. Curll 1720. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Octavo. xix 5 320 8pp. eight-page publisher’s catalogue at the back. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait and three engraved plates one of which shows images of sign language. In the original calf with blind tooling on both covers neatly re-backed in 19th century calf with a red spine label and wove endpapers. The boards are darkened and worn at the corners four text leaves are slightly creased some intermittent toning about very good. The author of this popular account of an enterprising deaf-mute has been attributed both to William Bond and Daniel Defoe and has yet to be resolved in favor of one or the other. A scarce copy of the first edition in the original boards ESTC T69700. OCLC locates only two copies. Printed for E. Curll hardcover
1098Around the first half of the fifteen century. Manuscript in Latin. Large margins. Paper with unidentified watermark. Text in black ink headings initials and rubrications in red. With a note by later hand on title page about Alfonsus: “Parisis per manum fratris Alfonciisâ€. In modern half vellum binding. Insignificant wormholes to margin with no effect to text. Overall in fine condition. Manuscript in Latin. Large margins. Paper with unidentified watermark. Text in black ink headings initials and rubrications in red. With a note by later hand on title page about Alfonsus: “Parisis per manum fratris Alfonciisâ€. In modern half vellum binding. 20 leaves. <p><br /> Manuscript copy in Latin of the Epistle of Rabbi Samuel one of the most influential anti-Jewish treatises of the middle ages. Allegedly translated from Arabic by the Spanish Dominican Hebraist and Arabist Alfonsus Bonihominis d. 1353.<br /> <p><p><br /> Alfonsus writes in his introduction to the manuscript that the Epistle was written after the year 1000 by Rabbi Samuel a Jew of Fez in Morocco to share the reasons with Rabbi Isaac chief of the synagogue at Sujulmeca Subiulmeta which led him to be baptized and convert to Christianity. <br /> <p><p><br /> According to Alfonsus it was originally written in Arabic because only a few Jews and even fewer Christians knew that language thus the text could remain concealed for hundreds of years and the Christians were not able to use it against Jews until he found and translated it while he was the Bishop of Marrakech in 1338 or 1339. <br /> <p><p><br /> The Epistle itself coming after this introduction. Most copies are divided into twenty-four sometimes twenty-five sections. Other version of the work like this copy contains additional chapters.<br /> <p><p><br /> Since the Arabic original of the text from which Alfonsus allegedly translated the Epistle has never been found it is more likely that he imitated other works in the genre and composed a new text himself which ended up being among the most widely copied and printed anti-Jewish tracts of the later middle ages. <br /> <p><p><br /> Bibl.: Limor O.: The Epistle of Rabbi Samuel of Morocco: A Best-Seller in the World of Polemics. In: Contra Iudaeos. Ancient and Medieval Polemics between Christians and Jews. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr 1996. pp. 177–194.<br /> <p>. unknown
1923IH 1035<p><strong>IH 1035 </strong><strong>Advertisements for Ireland: being a description of the state of Ireland in the reign of James I contained in a manuscript in the Library of Trinity College Dublin. </strong>By Henry Bourchier Earl of Bath 1587 or 8-1654; Series: <em>Extra volume - Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland</em>. Edited by George O'Brien. Dublin: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1923 viii 66 p. Very good copy. Very uncommon. <strong>$75.00 Box A1</strong></p> Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, hardcover
185183020London: John Van Voorst 1851. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 23 x 14.5 cm. Slim octavo. viii 74pp 2 ads. Small stamp on page vii. Complete with 6 lithographs of flies by Paul Jerrard of which 5 are vibrantly hand colored and one that is not in color of other tackle. Bound in original brown cloth. Spine is faded and head and tail of spine are chipped. ~ 8 cm closed tear to front free endpaper. With sections on salmon white trout trout pike grayling sea fly-fishing and lengthy appendix including a section on angling in America. Authorship is unattributed internally but various sources give either Mrs. Hutchinson or Richard Bowden-Smith as the author. Uncommon work. References: Heckscher 1075. Westwood & Satchell p 95. John Van Voorst hardcover
195133462New York: World Editions Inc. 1951. First edition. Toning to text paper repaired closed tear to the upper right front cover light edge wear to spine tiny closed tear to lower right front panel a very good copy. 33462. Small octavo three issues covers by John Bunch Chesley Bonestell and Don Sibley pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. First appearance of the novella The Fireman by Bradbury which would be expanded into the novel Fahrenheit 451. And the first publication of TYRANN THE STARS LIKE DUST by Asimov. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 290-309. World Editions, Inc. unknown
1670FREP[BRE75Amsterdam: np c1670. 1670. 12mo. pp. 15 p.l. 179 lacking 1 presumably blank. sphere device on title. woodcut headpiece & initials. contemporary mottled calf very worn joints split library bookplate & number on lower spine. First Edition. Barbier III 813. Brunet Imprimeurs Imaginaires et Libraires Supposés p. 58. Goldsmith BM STC French 1742. Cioranescu 16388. Baldner p. 97. cfWilliams p. 18. F. [Amsterdam?: np, c1670]. unknown
194452289Salem OR: Oregon State Highway Commission February 1944. 4to. Approx. 520 pp sections separately paginated some unpaginated. Frontispiece numerous maps many folding some in colour plans some folded tables diagrams some in colour and other text photographs and illustrations. Burgundy-coloured simulated calf gilt lettering on front cover & spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing still NF copy from library of Richard Rosecrans w/bookplate on front pastedown. First edition of this remarkably scarce report prepared during the depths of World War II to detail the traffic flows needs road structures the loads of existing Columbia River Bridges at Hood River Cascade Locks and Longview together with proposed bridges to be built in order to facilitate economic growth in the Pacific Northwest Home Front. The proposed bridges included those at the Dalles Umatilla and Astoria which were eventually built but also pushed for far more crossings which have been resisted up to the present day. Of particular interest are the photos and descriptions of the types of commercial trucks and buses on the roads the service stations and support facilities for maintaining commerce and more. Oregon State Highway Commission, unknown
1850List2416Great Britain 1850. Broadside measuring 9 ⅞ x 15 ⅜ inches. Some chipping and wear to edge ink number written in corner two small section of loss due to improper mounting very good overall. Coat of arms of the United Kingdom above printed text. Very Good. A scarce broadside relating to British postal rates across the Panama Route through the Chagres River which supplied mail to California and Oregon beginning in 1848 before eventually being replaced by the Overland route in 1860. The service was characterized by long delay times as steamships on either side of the isthmus were often not coordinated causing major delays in the delivery. Several different steamship companies operated privately some carrying express mail. The letters were transported by canoe or pack animal across the isthmus. Postmaster General Cave Johnson began establishing post offices in California in 1848. Johnson also oversaw the transition to the prepaid delivery system. The broadside here of which we find no other records does state that postage must be prepaid and that the route can be accessed by writing “via New York†on the letters. A scarce postal history item relating to the expansion of mail services to California. We find no other records of this institutionally or in the trade. unknown
1854331498Boston & Cleveland: John P. Jewett and Jewett Proctor and Worthington 1854. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. 42pp. Printed green glazed wrappers. Early penciled owner's name splitting and slight erosion at the spine a very good copy. John P. Jewett and Jewett, Proctor and Worthington unknown
1860List2417Marysville 1860. Marysville 1850s-1860s the bulk mid-1850s. A collection of documents including eleven receipts three manuscript legal documents four manuscript documents relating to land claims; five partially printed documents relating to land claims; two letters from the US Land Office in Marysville 1858 regarding land claims; six billheads from Marysville firms with receipts for a range of goods some illustrated; one letter from Marysville written in 1853 concerning a death in a family. Generally fine condition. Fine. A mini-archive or assemblage of documents relating to the early Euro-American citizens of Marysville and its environs in the 1850s. The population of Marysville grew quickly after the town’s incorporation to 10000 by the mid-1850s due to its strategic location close to the gold fields but the levee system put in place to control flood damage limited the town’s growth beyond this initial phase. The documents here relate to Marysville in this early period of growth and include several quitclaim land deeds as well as illustrated billheads. As a group they offer an ephemeral record of the city in its early period with the legal documents and deeds showing the means with which the area was settled. A well preserved group overall. unknown
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
