New Delhi: National Book Trust, India, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. pp: iv, 2, 51; color-illlustrations throughout, accompanying text. Bound in off-white linen, red lettering; pictorial dust wrapper a bit worn. 8.5" x 11" More
Philadelphia: American Chime Clock Co., (1923). Early edition. Softcover. (12)pp, including wrappers printed on inside and outside; illustrations from photographs throughout the text. Bound in pictorial tan wrappers; old vertical fold for mailing. 9" x 12.25" Contains descriptions, pictures, and prices of clock works and cases: Mission Hall Clock; Movement..... More
Philadelphia: Ringwalt & Brown, Steam-Power Book and Job Printers, 1874. First Edition. Softcover. pp: 22, (1)officers and committees. Printed plain wrappers. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.5" Addresses "the effects of the panic upon the American iron trade," and contains the..... More
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Atlanta, Georgia: Armour Fertilizer Works, 1950. First Edition. Softcover. (6)pp text, 32pp of unused pages for notes; 1950 & 1951 calendars inside covers. The text includes: Fertilizer placement; suitable ph range for various crops; measuring grain; double strength fertilizers; gestation table; rate of seeding and weight per bushel of farm..... More
Hannover: Hahnschen Buchhandlung, 1798. Second Edition. Original Boards. pp: (viii), 76; tables and geometrical drawings in the text. Bound in textured boards; covers scuffed, paper spine covering peeled, joints and hinges intact. 6.75" x 4" Knowledge of Arithmetic for the Use of School Teachers. Early signature of G. Tappert and..... More
Boston: Thompson, Brown & Co., (1870). First Edition. Leather-backed cloth. pp: (iii), 251. Bound in leather-backed black cloth, coated endpapers, marbled edges, spine stamped in gilt and blind; small chip from head of spine. 7.5" x 4.75" More
Paris: Panckoucke, [1824]. First Edition. Original Wrappers. 6pp; 12 b&w plates with tissue guards. Bound in printed salmon wrappers, furled at edges. 10.5" x 8.25" Text in French, describing the plates. [OCLC locates two holdings: San Diego State, College of Physicians of Philadelphia.]. More
Edgewood Arsenal, MD: Chemical Warfare School, April 1941. First Edition. Original Wrappers. 23pp text; 23 full-page illus from photographs. 9" x 6" Original user's name written on cover: Chief Gunner W. Mitchell. [WorldCat locates four holdings: Wayne State, Seattle Public, Cleveland Public, Military History Institute.]. More
New York: Chicopee Guano Co., 1894. First Edition. 8pp, printed on one foldout leaf of tan stock. Contains a detailed introduction to the Chicopee fertilizers, with details and prices of their brands: A-1; Farmers' Reliable; Potato Grower; Corn and Wheat Mixture; Fruit and Vine Success; Hope Manure. Folds to 6"..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1890. First Separate Edition. Softcover. (7)pp. Original printed wrappers. Removed from a pamphlet binder, spine reinforced with cloth. 9.75" x 6". Deaccessioned by the Museum of Comparative Zoology (withdrawn, clear title confirmed). "Proceeding by rail to Alexandria, Va., where arrangements had been made for a vessel..... More
s.l. s.n., 1853. First Edition. Softcover. (8)pp. Removed years ago, and spine reinforced with gray cloth. 9.25" x 5.75". Lightly spotted. More
Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Geographical Society, 1917. First Separate Edition. Softcover. (15)pp; foldout map bound at back, "The Coalfields of the United States, Worked and Unworked." Original printed wrappers. Removed from a pamphlet binder, spine reinforced with archival paper. 9.75" x 6". Deaccessioned by the Museum of Comparative Zoology (withdrawn, clear..... More
New York: Chemical Foundation, 1925. First book edition. Softcover. 102pp, printed on tanning pulp stock. Bound in printed gray wrappers. Removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.75" x 5.75" First printed in "The New York Commercial" in serial form. More
New York: Sarony, 1860s. Original document. Half-length sepiatone portrait of Field, wearing jacket, vest, white dickey and collar, and bow tie, looking slightly to his right. Printed under the image is "Sarony, 680 Broadway." Written in light pencil on the verso is "C.W. Field" [not an authentic signature]. Field (1819-1892)..... More
Paris: Menard et Desenne, Fils, 1818. Calf & Boards. pp: (iv), xxiv, 194, (4); frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, folding plate with tissue guard at rear, depicting the solar system with Herschell [Uranus] as the eighth planet. Bound in calf-backed marbled boards; gilt spine rules, devices and title; ends of..... More
Bloomington, Illinois: Funk Bros. Seed Co., 1954. First Edition. Softcover. 64pp, including 48 unused notebook pages. The text speaks to commercial growers: number and length of rows per acre; how to compute yields; how to correct for moisture content; computing capacity of cribs; capacity of silos; U.S. corn crop in..... More
Bloomington, Illinois: Funk Bros. Seed Co., 1949. First Edition. Softcover. 64pp, including 48 unused notebook pages. The text speaks to commercial growers: US corn crop for 1948; seed corn per acre; shelling percent of ear corn; how to compute yields; market corn requirements; data on fertilizer; etc. Bound in color-pictorial..... More
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: 1933-1934. Original documents. Included are: (1) Telegram of Oct 30, 1933 from Princeton, pressing Gapp to submit a title for his paper on the Princeton papyrus. (2) Five handwritten postcards and three full-page typewritten letters signed, one heavily annotated, re the papyrus and Gapp's work. (3) Three copies..... More
Galion, Ohio: Gledhill Road Machinery Co., circa 1930. First Edition. Original Wrappers. 8pp; text illustrated throughout from photographs; printed in blue and black. Small stamp on cover of a Central City, Colorado, Mining Engineer. Laid in is a two-page illustrated supplement for 1937. 11" x 8.5" "Produces smooth roads, level..... More
Trenton, NJ: State Gazette, 1872. First Edition. Softcover. 28pp. Bound in printed green wrappers, sewn; occasional offsetting from leaves once inserted into this booklet. 9" x 5.75" Reports on catches during 1872, especially of shad and black bass at various points in the Raritan and Delaware Rivers... More
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New York: Hubmark Rubber Co., 1913. First Edition. Softcover. 48pp; illustrated throughout, descriptions and prices. Includes: Hip Boots, Duck Boots, Jungle Boots, Firemen's Boot, Miners' Gaiter, Lumber Jacks, Sheep Booties, Railroad Walrus, Motorman's Gaiter, Storm King Arctic, Patrol Storm Slipper, Norwood Croquet, Women's High-heel Vetos, Women's Camden & Regis &..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1863. First US Edition. Original Cloth. pp: 150, (6) publisher's ads. Bound in brown cloth, covers ruled in blind, yellow endpapers; paper spine label effaced, joints tender and holding. 8.25" x 5" Comprises commentary on and advocacy of Darwin's "Origin of Species."... More
Los Angeles: Isbell Mining Machinery Co., circa 1920. First Edition. Broadside, halftone illustration of the machine, scant text. 10.5" x 8.25" Capacity: 50 to 100 tons of ore per day. [Unrecorded by OCLC.]. More
Edinburgh: Printed for Bell & Bradfute... 1815. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. pp: (iv), 555, (3) ads; three engaved plates. Chapters include: Instruments of Husbandry (plow, brake, harrow, roller, fanner); Farm Cattle and Carriages (horses, oxen, breeding cattle, wheel carriages; Farm Offices; Culture of Plants for Food; Rotation of Crops; Feeding Farm..... More
Boston: Bradlee Whidden, 1895. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. 40pp; illustrations of butterflies and moths throughout the text. 5.75" x 8.25" More