Mason City, Iowa: Express Print, (1895). First Edition. Softcover. Full-color map, opens to 13" x 11". Population statistics for Iowa towns and cities, and location coordinates, printed in margins of the map. Folds into printed tan wrappers, 5.5" x 3.5"; covers spotted. More
1839. Original manuscript. One page, quarto, integral address leaf. Written in sepia ink. Goodman advises Rev. Proudfit that the Baring Brothers of London "instruct us to claim of you 6 months dividend...on 25 US Bank Shares in your name which they sold for your account on the 18th Augt /37... More
Des Moines, Iowa: Kenyon Printing & Mfg. Co. 1902. First Edition. Softcover. Full-color map, opens to 15.75" x 10.25". Population statistics for Illinois towns and cities, and map-location index, printed on verso. Folds into decorated tan wrappers, 5.5" x 3"; 1902 calendar inside back cover. More
1889. Original album. Hardcover. (44)pp of entries, varying from a few lines to full-page, beginning with a gift inscription, "Present to Gertie E. Waltz by her cousin John E. Earnst." Maryland place names of entries are Cedar Grove, Baysville, Centerville, Utica Mills, Daysville, and Walkersville. Surnames include: Waltz, Earnst, Hamburg... More
![THE ADVENTURES OF TELEMACHUS, THE SON OF ULYSSES. Translated from the French of Messire Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray, by John Hawkesworth, L.L.D. [Extra-illustrated]. Fenelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon.](/pictures/thumb/040016.jpg?v=1529097809)
London: Printed for the Author, by W. and W. Strahan, 1768. First edition thus. Hardcover. pp: xxxv, (i) errrata, 462; engraved frontispiece, illustrated title-page in French, 48 engraved head- and tail-pieces, extra-illustrated by the insertion of some 124 fine engraved plates from older editions, captioned in French. Scholarly notes in... More
![PARIS A CHEVAL [PARIS ON HORSEBACK]: Texte et Dessins par Crafty. Avec une Preface par Gustave Droz. Crafty, Victor Eugene pseud. Geruzez.](/pictures/thumb/040015.jpg?v=1529097809)
Paris: E. Plon et Cie, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. pp: xiii, (i), 404 with table of contents; plates and text illustrations throughout. Bound in half red morocco and marbled boards, panelled spine with gilt devices and lettering, double corner rules, top edges gilt, patterned endpapers. 11.5" x 8" Text in... More
London: Printed by J. Darby in Bartholomew-Close, 1704. Second Edition, Corrected. Hardcover. Folio. pp: (vi), 424, (47) Alphabetical Table [index], (1) printer's advert; frontispiece portrait of author. Bound in old calf with double-ruled gilt borders; expertly rebacked in modern calf, ribbed spine with gilt title. 12.25" x 8" [English Short... More
London / NY: Ernest Nister / E.P. Dutton, [1906]. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (26)pp on 26 leaves, printed on rectos only. Chromolitho color illustrations on every page, along with rhyming verse. Bound in cloth-backed pictorial boards, Printed in Bavaria. 11" x 9". Inner hinges opened and holding; spine ends and... More
Afton, I.T. Jeremiah Hubbard, 1894. First Edition. Softcover. 4pp, printed in a small and legible typeface. Self-wrappers. 9" x 6". The first 2-3/4 pages recount Quaker missionary Hubbard's train trip with his wife and young son from Afton, I.T. to Oakland, California, including a visit to the Midwinter Fair in... More
London: Mitchell & Hughes, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. pp: xii, 114 with index; frontispiece and 101 illustrations on text stock. Bound in gilt-stamped burgundy cloth, top edges gilt. 8.5" x 5". Tipped in at front is a two-page, handwritten letter (ALS) from the author to a John Townshend, New York... More
Washington DC: v.n. 1912-1913. First Editions. Hardcover. Contents: Belasco Theatre, Vol. 8, Nos. 1, 4-13, 15-28 [several ephemeral items laid in]; New National Theater, 7 undated issues; Columbia Theatre, 8 issues (Oct 1912 - Feb 1913, passim); Chase's Polite Vaudeville, 2 issues, fore-edges trimmed close. All bound into red leather... More
Washington DC: Venezuelan Boundary Commission, (1897). Original manuscript. Hardcover. Bound volume of 223 leaves, typewritten on rectos only, pages ruled in red. Addressed to a Mr. Mallet-Prevosti. Bound in brown morocco, gilt lettering on spine and cover. On the cover is "Hon. Richard H. Alvey of the Venezuelan Boundary Commission."... More
New York: Book-Lover Press, 1903. First Edition. Softcover. pp iv, 385-480, v-viii ads; frontispiece of Henrik Ibsen followed by a feature article on Ibsen Jessie Brochner. Also present are pieces on the Bronte novels, Dickens, Lafcadio Hearn, and other bookish matters. Bound in tan wrappers, printed in red and green. 12.5" x 9.5" More
New York: Book-Lover Press, 1903. First Edition. Softcover. pp iv, 193-284, v-viii ads; frontispiece of John Burrough's seated on a rock at Black Creek. Also here are a feature on Burroughs by Edward B. Clark, and pieces on Boston's Old Corner Book Store, Odd Book Shops, a 14th-century library, and... More
New York: Book-Lover Press, 1903. First Edition. Softcover. pp viii, 97-192, ix-xvi ads; frontispiece photogravure of The Old Manse in Concord. Contains numerous articles on various features of Emerson's life and work. Bound in tan wrappers, printed in red and green. 12.5" x 9.5" More
Richmond, Virginia: 1963. Original manuscript. (19)pp quarto, stencil from typescript of this thesis/dissertation. Text begins: "In April of 1865 the Confederate Army under General Robert E. Lee moved slowly out or Richmond, the fallen capital of the Confederacy...." 8.5" x 11". Paper-clipped, not bound. The author, a law professor, has... More
Quantico, Virginia: USMC, 1939. First edition thus. Softcover. 32pp; illustrations from photographs taken during training at Marine Barracks, Quantico, VA and Marine Corps Base, San Diego. Bound in pictorial blue wrappers. 9" x 6" More
Quantico, Virginia: USMC, 1938. First edition thus. Softcover. 31pp; illustrations from photographs taken during training at Marine Barracks, Quantico, VA and Marine Corps Base, San Diego. Bound in pictorial red wrappers. 8.5" x 5.75" More
Elkhorn, Wisconsin: Alvin R. Piper & Associates, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. (44)pp; illustrated from photographs of Holstein cows and bulls. Opens with "Foundation History of This Great Herd." Gives complete lineage and detailed descriptions of all 79 animals that were sold, with prices fetched written by hand. Included: Green-Pastures Bootsy... More
1943. Original album. Hardcover. (21)pp of entries, varying from a few lines to full-page, beginning with a page of Sara's personal data. Place names of entries are Middletown and Myersville, Maryland. Surnames include: Young, Hoffman, Brown, Freed, Martz, and Wise. Bound in brown leatherette with "Autographs" stamped on the cover... More
1883. Original album. Hardcover. (42)pp of entries, varying from a few lines to full-page. Begins with a chromolitho title-page, "Paragon Autograph Album." Ohio place names of entries include: Navarre, Mt. Vernon, Orrville, Leesville, Massillon, Richville, Surnames include: Maxwell, Herr, Arick, Westerfield, Cross, Oliver, Beck, Leeper, Camp, Duncan, Hester, Adair,Fry, Biddle... More
1889. Original album. Hardcover. (25)pp of entries, varying from a few lines to full-page. Place names of entries include: London, England; Somerville, MA; Boston, MA; Pretty Marsh, ME; Lumberville, NC; Leewood, NC; Roxbury, MA; Boston Highlands, MA; Oaks, NC. Surnames include: Oughton, Walter, Amable, MacKenzie, Waley, Bradshaw, Lombard, Lyman, Goldthwait... More
1897. Original archive. Softcover. The 26 thick, octavo notebooks are written in a neat European hand, dated consecutively from 1897 through 1914. The first 11 volumes are written in the Czech language. From the middle of Vol. XII on, Schwarz, who is by then living in New York, writes in... More
Denver, Colorado: Davis-Watkins Dairymen's Mfg. Co. circa 1910. First Edition. Softcover. 103pp with index; illustrated throughout in black & white, four pages in color. Contains descriptions and specifications of butchers' and packers' machinery, supplies, and market equipment, including: a variety of walk-in refrigerators, ice houses, roll-front refrigerator, scales, coats and... More
![DEGREE CEREMONIES ADOPTED BY THE GREAT COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES OF THE IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN, FOR TRIBES OF THE ORDER. Corn Moon, G.S.D. [Great Sun of Discovery] 406. Improved Order of Red Men.](/pictures/thumb/039993.jpg?v=1528837392)
s.l. s.n. (1897). Hardcover. 108pp; 20 diagrams. Contains instructions for Kindling the Council Fire, Order of Business, and Quenching the Council Fire, along with scripts for the Adoption Ceremony, the Warrior's Degree, and the Chief's Degree. Bound in blind-stamped red cloth; inner hinges cracked and holding. 7.5" x 5" [WorldCat... More