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184658406Paris: J. Dumaine 1846. 4to 1 volume only of 6 - the second volume wasn't published until 1851 and volumes 3-6 weren't published until 1862-71; pp. xxviii 387 1; 10 engraved plates of weapons and equipment of war; contemporary full green morocco elaborate gilt rules on covers enclosing the Napoleonic crown with the letter 'N' beneath gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 2 a.e.g. inner dentelles; extremities a bit rubbed small crack starting at the bottom of the front joint all else very good. This copy inscribed "Lord William Lennox souvenir de la part de l'auteur Napoleon Louis B" part of the 'B' lost to the binder's knife. Lord William Pitt Lennox 1799-1881 was a British Army officer and writer of bad novels. He preferred sport horseracing literature and other entertainments to military life - a life cut short by blindness in one eye. <br/><br/> J. Dumaine unknown books
198051122Tokyo: Kyuryudo Co. Ltd 1980. First edition folio pp. 195 5; text in Japanese; the first 62 pages are a description of bookbinding techniques illustrated by 174 diagrams. The remainder of the book is dedicated to high-quality full color photographs of fine bindings produced by Miura some in folding spreads. Original red silk gilt title direct on spine gilt designs on cover fine in original pictorial slipcase; bookplate of John Howll Books. Inscribed by author on half-title page with the English title provided on title page. <br/><br/> Kyuryudo Co. Ltd unknown books
191728724Strassburg: Heitz & Mundel 1917. Large 8vo; pp. 2 141 1; good in original faded paper wrappers. A German history of the printing of the Constantinian missal. <br/><br/> Heitz & Mundel unknown books
199951707Stockholm: Midnight Paper Sales 1999. First edition one of 99 signed copies printed and bound by Gaylord Schanilec this no. 52; 8vo; 10 wood engravings 3 in color; original black cloth and patterned paper covered boards printed paper spine label; fine. Quarter to Midnight A.187. <br/><br/> Midnight Paper Sales hardcover books
199251523Clifton N.J.: AB Bookman Publications 1992. First edition 8vo pp. 8 171 1; illustrations and facsimiles throughout; fine copy in original black cloth-backed decorative paper-covered boards gilt-lettered spine. Designed by the legendary Ward Ritchie Ward Ritchie Press premiere book designer and printer from Los Angeles. <br/><br/> AB Bookman Publications hardcover books
197432098Kent: Dawsons of Pall Mall 1974. Reprint of the 1925 edition pp. 263 1; illus.; very good in original maroon cloth spine gilt-lettered. <br/><br/> Dawsons of Pall Mall hardcover books
179281112Albany New York: Charles R. & George Webster 1792. Nine of Paine's writings gathered each pagination with a separate title page. Octavo bound in contemporary calf. One of at least four issues with variant title pages for this work this apparently the first without the addition of "Rights of Man Part the Second. In very good condition with some light foxing. Rare and desirable. One of the founding fathers of the United States Thomas Paine authored two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution which ultimately inspired the 1776 Declaration of Independence. Virtually every American rebel read Paine's powerful pamphlet Common Sense which crystallized the American Revolution and demand for independence from Britain. John Adams asserted "without the pen of the author of Common Sense the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain." Charles R. & George Webster unknown books
192729708London: Macmillan & Co 1927. Edition de Luxe limited to 1050 sets volumes 22-26 were limited to 775 copies; volumes 27-33 were limited to 1000 copies 33 of 39 volumes 8vo etched frontispiece portrait in vol. I titles printed in red and black contemporary half blue crushed levant by Stikeman gilt-paneled spines in 6 compartments gilt lettered in 2 t.e.g.; some minor wear at the corners upper joint on vol. I a little rubbed else near fine throughout. The set extended to 39 volumes by 1937. See Livingston p. 447. <br/><br/> Macmillan & Co unknown books
196851272Jersey City N.J.: Davey Co 1968. First edition 8vo pp. viii 85 3; title page printed in red and black numerous and attractive color illustrations by Kredel throughout the text; original red cloth-backed black cloth-covered boards title in gilt on spine glassine dust jacket with hole cut out on spine to reveal titling; publisher's slipcase; generally fine throughout with a printed slip from the publisher laid in. Printed at the press of A. Colish Mount Vernon. A promotional give-away from this manufacturer of binder's board. <br/><br/> Davey Co hardcover books
199243338London: Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation 1992. First editions 4 volumes 8vo pp. xvi 2 569; vi 724;vi 716; 10 489; a fine set in dust jackets. <br/><br/> Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation unknown books
186932120London: Smith Elder & Co 1869. 24 volumes 8vo illustrated with plates throughout after those of the original editions by the author Richard Doyle George Du Maurier and Frederick Walker; tops of 7 spines lightly rubbed and/or barely nicked sun shadow on front cover of last volume; all else fine in slightly later half red morocco over red linen sides gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments gilt lettered direct in 2 t.e.g. The first collected set of Thackeray's works including the final two volumes of Miscellaneous Essays and Contributions to Punch which are often missing. Essays. CBEL III 429. <br/><br/> Smith, Elder & Co unknown books
29015Limited edition engraving by artist Frederick Reynolds signed by both the artist and Woodrow Wilson one of 300 numbered. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 19.5 inches by 24 inches. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable. Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. Born in Staunton Virginia he spent his early years in Augusta Georgia and Columbia South Carolina. Wilson earned a PhD in political science at Johns Hopkins University and served as a professor at various institutions before being selected as President of Princeton University a position he held from 1902 to 1910. In 1910 he was the New Jersey Democratic Party's gubernatorial candidate and was elected the 34th Governor of New Jersey serving from 1911 to 1913. In the 1912 presidential election Wilson benefited from a split in the Republican Party to win the presidency gaining a large majority in the Electoral College and a 42% plurality of the popular vote in a four-candidate field. He was the first Southerner elected as president since Zachary Taylor in 1848 and Wilson was a leading force in the Progressive Movement bolstered by his Democratic Party's winning control of both the White House and Congress in 1912. While in office Wilson reintroduced the spoken State of the Union which had been out of use since 1801. Leading the Congress that was now in Democratic hands he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal in 1933. The Federal Reserve Act Federal Trade Commission Act the Clayton Antitrust Act and the Federal Farm Loan Act were some of these new policies. Having taken office one month after ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment Wilson called a special session of Congress whose work culminated in the Revenue Act of 1913 introducing an income tax and lowering tariffs. Through passage of the Adamson Act that imposed an 8-hour workday for railroads he averted a railroad strike and an ensuing economic crisis.3 Upon the outbreak of World War I in 1914 Wilson maintained a policy of neutrality while pursuing a more aggressive policy in dealing with Mexico's civil war. Wilson faced former New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes in the presidential election of 1916. By a narrow margin he became the first Democrat since Andrew Jackson elected to two consecutive terms. Wilson's second term was dominated by American entry into World War I. In April 1917 when Germany had resumed unrestricted submarine warfare and sent the Zimmermann Telegram Wilson asked Congress to declare war in order to make "the world safe for democracy." The United States conducted military operations alongside the Allies although without a formal alliance. During the war Wilson focused on diplomacy and financial considerations leaving military strategy to the generals especially General John J. Pershing. Loaning billions of dollars to Britain France and other Allies the United States aided their finance of the war effort. Through the Selective Service Act conscription sent 10000 freshly trained soldiers to France per day by the summer of 1918. On the home front he raised income taxes borrowing billions of dollars through the public's purchase of Liberty Bonds. He set up the War Industries Board promoted labor union cooperation regulating agriculture and food production through the Lever Act and granting to the Secretary of the Treasury William McAdoo direct control of the nation's railroad system. In his 1915 State of the Union Address Wilson asked Congress for what became the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 suppressing anti-draft activists. The crackdown was intensified by his Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to include expulsion of non-citizen radicals during the First Red Scare of 1919-1920. Following years of advocacy for suffrage on the state level in 1918 he endorsed the Nineteenth Amendment whose ratification in 1920 provided an equal right to vote for women across the United States over Southern opposition. Wilson staffed his government with Southern Democrats who believed in racial segregation. He gave department heads greater autonomy in their management. Early in 1918 he issued his principles for peace the Fourteen Points and in 1919 following armistice he traveled to Paris promoting the formation of a League of Nations and concluding the Treaty of Versailles. Following his return from Europe Wilson embarked on a nationwide tour in 1919 to campaign for the treaty suffering a severe stroke. The treaty was met with serious concern by Senate Republicans and Wilson rejected a compromise effort led by Henry Cabot Lodge leading to the Senate's rejection of the treaty. Due to his stroke Wilson secluded himself in the White House disability having diminished his power and influence. Forming a strategy for re-election Wilson deadlocked the 1920 Democratic National Convention but his bid for a third-term nomination was overlooked. For his sponsorship of the League of Nations Wilson was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize the second of three sitting presidents so honored. unknown books
19294675Oxford: Clarendon Press 1929. Folio 36pp. 23 plates displaying 39 illustrations 2 double-p.; a fine copy in the dust-jacket. <br/><br/> Clarendon Press unknown books
199651142New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 1996. First American edition 8vo pp. 240; illustrated throughout much in color; original green cloth-backed decorative paper-covered boards printed label on upper cover gilt-lettered spine; fine. "The main focus is on the three most famous women binders of the period Sarah Prideaux Katharine Adams and Sybil Pye and the Guild of Women Binders but almost all the other women who exhibited bindings from about 1880 to 1920 are also included. Some of the less usual styles of binding such as those utilizing embroidery painting on vellum and modelled leather were revived by women binders in the late 19th century and these are covered separately. Since it would be unforgivable to omit from a book on women binders the thousands of women who laboured in the bookbinding trade another chapter is devoted to their work" Preface. <br/><br/> Oak Knoll Press and The British Library hardcover books
191436936Chicago 1914. 8vo pp. 90-114; reprinted from Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America v. 7 no. 3-4 1912-13; "This separate is limited to fifty copies". Front wrapper detached back wrapper worn with shallow tears interior fine. <br/><br/> unknown books
197657207Franklin Center Pa: The Franklin Library 1976. Edition limited to an unspecified number; 8vo pp. xxiii 1 273 1; original full green gilt-stamped morocco silk moiré endpapers silk ribbon bookmark a.e.g.; fine bright copy. <br/><br/> The Franklin Library unknown books
197845275Boston: Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston 1978. Edition limited to 1350 copies small 8vo pp. xi 1 36 1; b/w illustrations in text throughout; faint toning at eges of extremities else fine in original cream wrappers printed in green. Parker was the longtime curator of the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota. Maury A. Bromsen Lecture in Humanistic Bibliography no. 5. <br/><br/> Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston unknown books
192528256London: Hodder and Stoughton 1925. Second impression 8vo pp. xvi 475; errata slip tipped to flyleaf; 15 illustrations on 13 plates; contemporary full brown calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with quadruple gilt borders on covers enclosing gilt title thistles in the corners spine in 6 compartments gilt lettered direct in 2 thistles in 4 t.e.g.; minor rubbing; about fine. Nicoll a knighted Presbyterian minister born in Aberdeen was a close friend of J. M. Barrie and a collaborator with Thomas J. Wise in the preparation of Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century. <br/><br/> Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
196926910London: The Galahad Press 1969. Edition limited to 100 copies signed by the author small 4to pp. 125 1; frontispiece illustrations facsimile title-pages throughout text some printed in red & black; the boards a bit bowed otherwise a very good copy in dustjacket printed in red and black bumped at head of spine. <br/><br/> The Galahad Press hardcover books
16841208481684. Rare autograph land grant signed by the founder of the Province of Pennsylvania William Penn as the first governor of Pennsylvania. One page script on vellum the document is dated June 4 1684 and grants a tract of land in the county of Philadelphia to one of the earliest Quaker colonists to settle in Philadelphia county John Longworthy. Signed by William Penn at the conclusion of the document. Retaining the paper seal. In very good condition. Rare. In 1677 a group of prominent Quakers that included Penn purchased the colonial province of West Jersey half of the current state of New Jersey and soon East Jersey in 1682. With the New Jersey foothold in place Penn pressed his case to extend the Quaker region. Whether from personal sympathy or political expediency to Penn's surprise the King granted an extraordinarily generous charter which made Penn the world's largest private non-royal landowner with over 45000 square miles. Penn first called the area "New Wales" then "Sylvania" Latin for "forests" or "woods" which King Charles II changed to "Pennsylvania" in honor of the elder Penn. Penn then traveled to America and while there he negotiated Pennsylvania's first land-purchase survey with the Lenape Indian tribe. Penn purchased the first tract of land under a white oak tree at Graystones on July 15 1682 and drawing heavily from John Locke drafted a charter of liberties for the settlement creating a political utopia guaranteeing free and fair trial by jury freedom of religion freedom from unjust imprisonment and free elections. hardcover books
198450925London: Nine Elms Press 1984. Edition limited to 500 copies this no. 319 8vo pp. 4 15 5; blue patterened paper wrappers paper label on upper cover fine. Signed by Stransky. <br/><br/> Nine Elms Press unknown books
196033127Providence RI: Brown University Library 1960. First edition 8vo pp. iii 1 49 plus 16 plates; original green wrappers printed in red light fading and wear to extremities the top forecorner bumped and affecting all pages all else very good. Bookmark after design by Morris laid in. <br/><br/> Brown University Library unknown books
192481133The Nations Press Printing Co 1924. First edition of this tribute to the prominent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Octavo original cloth frontispiece. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "Mildred L. Wood May 30 1925 From Mrs. Villard." Fanny Garrison Villard was a co-founder with her son of the NAACP and active in women's suffrage and peace movements. She was the daughter of prominent publisher and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and the wife of railroad tycoon Henry Villard. In near fine condition with a touch of rubbing. William Lloyd Garrison was an American abolitionist journalist suffragist and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator which he founded with Isaac Knapp in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society and promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. The Nations Press Printing Co hardcover books
1913960121913. Rare original White House card inscribed by President William Howard Taft "For <span class="match">Robert</span> H. Schutz of Hartford with best wishes Wm. H. <span class="match">Taft</span> Feb 21st 1913." Double matted and framed with a medallion of Taft by Barber. The entire piece measures 14.5 inches by 9 inches. Rare and desirable. William Howard Taft served as the 27th President of the United States 1909-1913 and as the 10th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1921-1930 the only person to have held both offices. unknown books
195933848Austin TX: The Research Center The University of Texas 1959. Edition limited to 500 copies 8vo pp. 16; 3 facsimiles 2 full page 1 double page; original cream-colored wrappers printed in brown and black; very good. <br/><br/> The Research Center, The University of Texas unknown books
