Pasadena: Vance Gerry: The Weather Bird Press, 1976 [i.e., 1978]. With an engraved headpiece and a full-page engraving by Vance Gerry. Linotype Fairfield on Curtis Rag wove paper. One corner slightly bent Otherwise a fine copy. Floral cloth over stiff card wrappers. With printed paper label. Octavo (4 ” x......
Basel: [ H. Petrus. 1551], First edition of Muenster’s final published work, lavishly illustrated. The text of the first part deals with geometry largely as applied to surveying and ballistics. The second part starting at p. 69 is an extensive treatise on sundials and horology. Some of the woodcuts are.....
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[ New York: [1948-1974]. With eighteen ephemeral items and seven photographs (laid in and pasted down) interspersed with a detailed typewritten report chronicling the work history of Caroline F. Jackson from 1948 to 1974. Stick-on labels identify dates and describe each item. The items include an order form for clothing.....
Philadelphia: People’s Publishing Company, 1879. Revised edition. Originally published in 1872. With all forty-four plates (including frontisportrait of Still), comprising seventy engravings. With portraits of important abolitionists like Lucretia Mott, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frances E.W. Harper (1825 – 1911), one of the first Black women to be published in.....
Paris: Jardin des Modes, [Impressions Paul Dumas,], [n.d., 1931]. First edition. Batik is an Indonesian relief dyeing technique in which wax is applied to fabric, which is then soaked in dye. The wax resists the dye, which allows the artist to later remove the wax with boiling water and begin.....
Newcastle upon Tyne: Andrew Reid, 1884. First edition. William Grey, a topographer and burgess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was the first to publish an account of his native town. He is known only for that account (featured here). With hundreds of charming woodcuts by Joseph Crawhall. The subjects include bridges, coats-of-arms, nature.....
Newcastle-on-Tyne: Mawson, Swan, and Morgan, 1888. First edition. The ALS from Joseph Crawhall reads, “I send two volumes asking the acceptance of Miss Levick and yourself – and wish you all the happiness which has fallen to my lot during 37 years. With all kind regards, very sincerely yours…” Ethel.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863, First American edition. A London edition was published in the same year. OCLC records no physical copies of the present edition and seven copies of the London (four in North America). Spine sunned. Spot of soiling to front board. Contemporary ink gift inscription to.....
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Geneva [New York}: John N. Bogert, 1840. First edition. Some foxing to ndpapers, as usual. Museum stamps and ink notation on front endpaprs. Some toning to title-page, small contemporary ownership signature on upper margin of title-page. Otherwise very clean nd fresh. A very good, bright copy of an uncommon book.....
[Sherman Oaks, California: Ninja Press, 2012]. One of 79 numbered copies signed by Dennis Phillips. The present book was designed, printed, and bound by Carolee Campbell at her Ninja Press with assistance from Karen Skove Chu in the bindery. Eight lettered hors commerce copies were also produced. With a letterpress.....
[ New York: Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, 1942. First edition of this children’s book that was sold to raise money for the Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies (CCFRS). It was written and illustrated by a class of French children from five to six years. The story follows.....
London: L.B. Seeley and Sons, 1834. First edition. With seven attractive engraved plates (including frontispiece). Some soiling to cloth. All edges gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. A clean copy aside from some dampstaining to endpapers. Ink gift signature (1835) to front flyleaf. A very good copy of a scarce work. Publisher’s.....
Portland, Oregon: Beattie and Co., 1948. First edition. With five plates of women in the American west, one for each of the five chapters: “The Ancients of These Lands,” “Strangers Came by Land,” “They Came by Sea,” “To Make Their Homes,” “And Build a Great Tradition.” Also with a roster.....
New York: European Publishing Company, 1898, First edition. With eleven plates, including a photo frontispiece of Stanton. Plates include portraits of Margaret Livingston Cady, many of Stanton’s other relatives, and Susan B. Anthony. The second page of ads is for both parts of The Woman’s Bible (1898). Dedicated to Anthony.....
Boston: L. Prang & Company, [ 1889 ]. First edition of “the first biography of the celebrated author, [which] includes important selections of Louisa May Alcott’s now lost diary on life at the Fruitlands commune—the ill-fated social experiment of… [her father] Amos Bronson Alcott,” (ANB). Note that, while the copyright date.....
New York: Fowlers & Wells, Phrenological Cabinet, 1848. First edition. The title-page identifies this as the “stereotype edition,” but we could not locate copies of any earlier editions. OCLC records only ten copies. With over forty remarkable illustrations by William Howland including numerous astronomical diagrams, star charts for eleven constellations.....
Oxford: Printed for the Roxburghe Club by John Johnson at the University Press, 1936. First edition. Note that the present item is seemingly the most thorough reproduction of the Bohun manuscripts to date. Images of the manuscripts, other than that made for Eleanor de Bohun, are still not accessible online.....
A Lille: Chez André-Joseph Panckoucke...Chez Tilliard... 1749. First edition of an often reprinted school book for young women, published by André-Joseph Packhoucke (1700-1753), the founder of the Packoucke publishing firm. The Panckouckes were known for publishing educational manuals and reference books. André-Joseph's son Charles Joseph published carried the company firmly.....
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[Boston: Monroe and Francis, 1843]. First edition, second printing. First printed earlier that same year. Toned. Contemporary ink signature (“Rev. T.J.G. Nichols”) to top margin of front cover. Quite fresh internally despite foxing. A very good, copy of a scarce, fragile item. Original printed paper self-wrappers, stitched. 5 in. x......
Philadelphia: Isaac Ashmead, 1845. First edition, second printing. Preceded by a Harrisburg printing earlier that year. Wrappers somewhat chipped and soiled. Contemporary ink signature (“State Library”) to top margin of front cover. Remarkably clean and fresh inside aside from some light foxing to first few leaves. A very good, internally.....
London: Macmillan, 1874. First edition of this collection of fable-like short stories illustrating economic principles. In the preface, Fawcett credits Harriet Martineau for “the idea, which she made so popular thirty years ago, of hiding the powder, Political Economy, in the raspberry jam of a story.”. With a text diagram.....
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1868. Third edition. OCLC records no copies of the first edition (1864) and only four copies of the second edition (Yale, Harvard, Duke, University of Toronto). With eight beautiful color-printed plates (including frontispiece) designed by the author. Also with over two dozen black-and-white illustrations, including numerous.....
Cincinnati: Press of Jennings and Graham, 1910. First edition. With a photo frontispiece and one photo plate. Minor wear to head and tail of spine and some toning to endpapers. A very good, bright, and fresh copy of a scarce book. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt. Octavo. 35 pp.....
London: Printed by HP for Charles Rivington, 1726. Third edition, largely unchanged from the first, of a cookbook containing followable recipes for “amulets,” “bullock’s cheek,” “ragoo,” “soop,” “pear-pye,” “biskets,” and many more savory dishes and pastries. It also includes recipes for candy, jellies, beer, mead, and ciders. Engraved frontispiece. Title-page.....
London: Printed for J. Hooke, 1729. Second edition, enlarged by the addition of some verses by “Strephon,” according to a reference in the text to inserting certain poems “in their proper Place, in this new Edition.” (The first edition extended to 131 pp.). Engraved armorial headpiece on A2, the start.....
