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1830112432New York: E.P. Dutton and Co 1830. First edition of this work regarding the crossing of the Atlantic which the Andrews brothers sailed from Boston to England and then to France in a 20 foot Gloucester dory. Octavo original gilt decorated cloth with 12 illustrations. With Introduction and Notes by Dr. Macaulay. From the library of James Stephen "Steve" Fossett with his bookplate to the front free endpaper. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days 8 hours and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fossett was also one of sailing's most prolific distance record holders set the Absolute World Speed Record for airships with a Zeppelin NT in 2004. He received numerous awards and honors throughout his career including aviation's highest award the Gold Medal of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale FAI which he was awarded in 2002. Fossett disappeared on September 3 2007 while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert between Nevada and California. In very good condition. Uncommon. E.P. Dutton and Co hardcover books
197220743New York: The Viking Press. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670258873 . no discernible wear to book; jacket shows only light surface- and edge-wear. The MGM Library of Film Scripts Series B&W photographs In their second M-G-M outing Groucho Harpo and Chico now permanently Zeppo-less take on the medical profession with Groucho as Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush a horse doctor posing as the medical director of a sanitarium. Both the original script and the dialogue and action from the film as released are presented it sez here "because the final film differs so much from the script." As with all the books in this series the hardcover printings are much less common than the simultaneously-issued trade paperbacks. . The Viking Press hardcover books
1986248586New York: Collins 1986. hardcover. fine/near fine. Photographed by 200 of the world's leading photojournalists on one day May 2 1986. 268 pages of color and black & white photographs. Folio black cloth dust wrapper. Wrapper is very lightly rubbed on back cover. New York: Collins 1986. Near-fine.<br/><br/> Collins unknown books
1986248643New York: Collins 1986. hardcover. near fine/very good. Photographed by 100 of the world's leading photojournalists on one day March 6 1981. 286 pages of color and black & white photographs. Folio black cloth dust wrapper. Wrapper is very lightly rubbed on back cover. Sticker residue on back endpaper. Otherwise near-fine. New York: Collins 1986.<br/><br/> Collins unknown books
1988249116New York: Collins 1988. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Photographed by 100 of the world's leading photojournalists on one day May 7 1987. 220 pages of color and black & white photographs. Folio black cloth dust wrapper. Wrapper is lightly rubbed. Near fine. New York: Collins 1988.<br/><br/> Collins unknown books
1987248585New York: Collins 1987. hardcover. fine/very good. Photographed by 100 of the world's leading photojournalists on one day May 15 1987. 240 pages of color and black & white photographs. Folio black cloth dust wrapper. Wrapper is lightly rubbed closed tear to back panel. New York: Collins 1987. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Collins unknown books
1937008417NY: The Derrydale Press 1937. First Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. The pair offered togther. The limited edition 115 of 950 copies red rough-weave cloth gilt-pressed insignia fornt titles to spine xxiv 71pages. Top edge a wee dustewd/soiled titles to spine faded internals fine binding firm. Trade edition has paper covers with a short tear to cover. Laid in to limited edition is Derrydale book catalogue for 1941 #31. The Derrydale Press hardcover books
164929369London: Printed for Matthew Simmons dwelling in Aldersgate-street 1649. 1st edition issue with 'Parlament' Wing E-1498 noting "Part of E1505". Disbound with leather remnants to spine. Age toning to text block edges. A VG copy. 2 12 - 28 = 18 pp. P. 13 misnumbered as p. 12. Printed glosses to pp 19-20. Headpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 4to: 2 C-D3 -D4 a blank. 6-7/8" x 5-1/8" <br/><br/> Printed for Matthew Simmons dwelling in Aldersgate-street hardcover books
1928004599Syracuse NY: Keramic Studio Publishing Co 1928. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First thus edition. Folio. 40 black & white plates and ten color plates. Reprinted from the journal edited by Adelaide Alsop Robineau featuring works of Hiroshigi color Persian miniatures Persian coats Byzantine jewelry East Indian 17th century jewelry Coptic 5th century Egypt coats and designs Island of Titicaca ponchos Peruvian designs Decorative figures by May Warner color surface patterns by M. Chohany and a decorative panel by Eunice Genthner color enamelled silver boxes and decorated textiles from the Austrian Werkbund in Vienna color Persian tiles vases and bowls Chinese porcelains including Ming Blue & White K'ang Hsi saucer 18th c. Yung Cheng Sung Early Ming and Ch'ien Lung mug pottery by Emile Lenoble Hunt Diederich Henry Varnum Poor Carl Walters E. Decoeur Jean Gaugum Catteau Smara Buthaud Paul Jacquet Mougin sculpture vases stoneware vases black with silver gold and white by Jean Luce glassware by Rene Lalique Designs for textiles by Vally Wieselthier color sculpture by Mestrovic Wuilleumier Lalique Do Canto Francois de Leyritz Royal Copenhagen porcelain porcelains by Adelaide A. Robineau color overglaze decorations by Albert Heckman color numerous world design motifs etc. Portfolio: orange printed paper covered boards with blue lettering and decorative motif with moderate shelfwear. Blue cloth spine with minor wear. String ties are lacking. Plates are slightly dusty at edges but are overall clean and in excellent condition. Keramic Studio Publishing Co Hardcover books
1751204039London: W. & J. Mount & T. Page 1751. unbound. very good. Sea Chart. Uncolored engraving. Image with text measures 18.5" x 11.75".<br/><br/> From the "English Pilot" a composite sea-chart atlas published in several editions from 1671 to 1803. This map of St. Peters in Newfoundland was part of the fourth book "The West-India Navigation" published by W. & J. Mount & T. Page in 1751. The Mount family was active in publishing in various manifestations for many generations from the 1650s to 1800. On the back of the page is a beautiful print of two Auks along with a description of the birds and their abundance in this area. These birds were eventually hunted into extinction.<br/><br/> W. & J. Mount & T. Page unknown books
1948226134Oakland The Holmes Book Company ca. 1948. 1948. First edition. 4to 9 3/8" x 13 3/8". 2 page introduction by Harold C. Holmes. Illustrations and facsimile title pages. Original 1/2 red linen over boards. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Text is clean. A still useful reference and bibliography. One of 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Oakland, The Holmes Book Company, ca. 1948. hardcover books
42051Boston Boston History Company. 1899. (Boston) books
19461331561Washington DC: Freer Gallery of Art 1946. Hardcover. Quarto; pp 108; VG-; burgundy brown spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth shows mild wear to exterior; some rubbing wear to edges; strong boards; text block exterior edges have modest toning; interior clean; illustrated; arts - Sculpture. 1331561. FP New Rockville Stock. Freer Gallery of Art hardcover books
1932177604New York: The New York Farmers / Privately Privated 1932. Hardcover. VG. linen cloth worn & frayed at edges spine & corners. corners & spine ends rubbed. title plates edge worn. front cover pastedowns begining to split at hinges. pgs have edge tanning w/ occasional smudges. tan brown linen boards w/ maroon title plate; maroon spine title plate. top edge gilt. approx 90 unpaginated pgs w/ 19 bw plates. Cover flyleaf is inscribed to Bronson Winthrop from F.R. Appleton Jr both promnient members of New York's Gilded Age society. Includes square dinner menu from Harvard Club Of New York City with both Mr. Appleton's and Mr. Winthrop's names. A nice copy. The New York Farmers / Privately Privated hardcover books
1929006705Chicago: The University of Chicago 1929. Very Good in stapled wrappers 32 pp. numerous black and white photographs top corner crease last 2 pages and rear wrapper light soiling to wrappers. SCARCE. . First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The University of Chicago Paperback books
1970156091970. Softcover. VG slight exterior wear. Color wraps. xiv 127 pp numerous small bw plates. Two-page introduction biographic chronology impressively detailed catalogue of 256 works selected biography collection of small plates to illustrate a good many of the catalogue entries. Nice compact overview of the Van Gogh collection in the museum. unknown books
188236701Edinburgh: William Paterson 1882. Royal 8vo 4 volumes; original red cloth spines soiled and discolored t.p. of Vol. 1 detached otherwise a fine attractive copy. <br/><br/> William Paterson hardcover books
191568699Chicago: American Medical Association. Very Good. 1915. Hardcover. 504 pages. Tan boards are soiled and rubbed. The spine is heavily rubbed and labels removed. The contents are bright and complete. Near Very Good. . American Medical Association hardcover books
1833442411833. Washington 1833-1836. 3 vols. Washington 1833-1836. 3 vols. Valuable 1833-1836 Compendium Of U.S. Commercial Regulations United States. Department of the Treasury. A Digest of the Existing Commercial Regulations of Foreign Countries With Which the United States Have Intercourse; As Far as They Can be Ascertained. Prepared Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Treasury In Compliance With a Resolution of the House of Representatives of 3d March 1831. Three volumes. Volume I: City of Washington: Printed by Francis Preston Blair 1833; Volumes II and III: Washington City: Blair & Rives Printers 1836. Complete set. Octavo 9" x 5-3/4". Contemporary sheep blind fillets to boards lettering pieces and blind fillets to spines. Some rubbing some scuffing to boards. Several unopened signatures. Occasional discoloration and foxing interior otherwise fresh. $500. This is one of 750 sets printed for the use of the House of Representatives. A valuable resource for students of commercial and international law of the period and students of taxation as well it contains laws the texts of treaties and statistical information. These books were published at an important juncture in U.S. history. Having survived the Napoleonic Wars and the devastation of the War of 1812 the United States was beginning to emerge as one of the world's leading commercial powers. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2003 Supplement 7432.70. unknown books
183855364Providence: H. H. Brown 1838. First edition 12mo pp. 161 1; original green cloth black paper label printed in gilt on the upper cover; label a little dull very light foxing very good. Early ownership signature of Hiram A. Ross a relative of the author on the front free flyleaf. "In his Centennial sermon preached at the close of the second century of the settlement of Newport he was very largely assisted by his friend Mr. B. B. Howland one of his deacons who was more than anyone else familiar with the history of his native town. Mr. Ross was desirous of making known his obligations to Mr. Howland but could not obtain his consent" Hammett. American Imprints 52714; Bartlett pp. 233-34; Hammett p. 132; Parks 1199; Sabin 73341. <br/><br/> H. H. Brown hardcover books
185456720Providence: John K. Stickney 1854. 8vo pp. 32; original printed wrappers bound into half brown morocco over marbled boards gilt-lettered direct on spine. Inscribed on the front wrapper to "Rev. S. Adlam with the kind regards of the author." The Mite Society founded 1806 is the oldest missionary society in Rhode Island. Jackson 1798-1863 was born in Providence and graduated from Brown in 1817. He served various ministries in Massachusetts and Connecticut before settling in Newport in 1847 where he remained for the rest of his life. "During the ministry of Dr. Jackson he was actively engaged in the cause of religion and education" Bartlett. Bartlett p. 166. <br/><br/> John K. Stickney hardcover books
186064651Boston MA: Privately printed 1860. First separate edition 1/100 unnumbered copies from the American Antiquarian Society's "Transactions" Vol. IV. 4to. 45 pp. Howes W-565: "First printing of a 1613 manuscript." One of the original patentees for a colony in Virginia Winfield flourished ca. 1560-1613 sailed with the first settlers for what became Jamestown and was elected president of the governing council there. Removed from office after six months and imprisoned he was sent home in the spring of 1608. This discourse "a rather able refutation of the charges against him" DAB defends his actions during a hard first year in the new land and offers suggestions for governance going forward. "Its chief influence in addition to partially redeeming Wingfield's reputation was to excite a prolonged and heated dispute regarding the trustworthiness of John Smith's accounts of early American history." With the bookplate of historian and University of Virginia professor Thomas Perkins Abernethy. Very good. Original gilt-stamped brown cloth all edges gilt. 10843. <br/><br/> Privately printed hardcover books
177745115Norwich CT 1777. 1st printing Bristol B4457; Shipton & Mooney 43243. Printed self-wrappers stitched. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning to paper. Abrasion to lower left of text block tips rounded. Very Good. 22 2 pp. 12mo: A - C4. 6-7/8" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/>Early Colonial publication on the subject in which the author proclaims that the second coming of Christ "is nigh at hand even at the very Door and That it is very probable this glorious Day will begin or commence in America." RBH has no sale record for this work solely noting its inclusion in 'Evans' though technically it was not recorded by Evans being added by Bristol. OCLC records just 3 holding institutions: Yale AAS & the Library Co of Philadelphia. Rare. unknown books
1797WRCLIT24531Worcester: Printed by Leonard Worcester 1797. 2341pp. Full 20th century calf raised bands gilt contrasting labels. Early endsheets from former binding retained with 1798 acquisition inscription. Light tanning and occasional foxing but a very good or better copy. First edition of this substantial work by Edwards the younger written chiefly in defense of his father's doctrine as elucidated in A CAREFUL AND STRICT ENQUIRY INTO.FREEDOM OF THE WILL 1754. "He lacked the imagination and originality of his father but he had a powerful mind and gave a great impulse to the development of a more progressive type of thought in theology" - DAB. EVANS 32073. Printed by Leonard Worcester hardcover books
5180NEW JERSEY IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. DS. 2pg. August 2 1780. N.p. A document signed “Joseph Cosgrove Leut†relating to the New Jersey militia during the American Revolution. “A return of those warnd to Appear the Second Septem At Coalts sic Neck for their monthly Tour of Duty 26 names appear Duly Warned to Appear the Second Aug 1780 Joseph Cosgrove Leutâ€. The document is in very good condition. Colts Neck is in Monmouth County. New Jersey Revolutionary War documents are uncommon. unknown books
