London: Groombridge & Sons, [n.d., ca. 1869-1872]. Later edition. The antecedent of this book is 'Telescope Teachings,' first published in 1859. With color frontispiece and 11 additional color plates. Also with in-text woodcut engravings on 12 pages and a decorative initial at the start of each of the 13 chapters.....
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. Second edition. With a new preface by Shirreff in which she defends her strategy for the education of girls from the criticism that the recommended lessons (in Greek, Latin, arithmetic, history, and more) were too challenging for the average girl (pp. iii-v). The work.....
[Harting, Petersfield, Hampshire: The Pear Tree Press, 1905]. Published in a small edition, though the exact number of copes is unknown. This is a presentation copy from the compiler. Title page printed in green and red; colophon printed in red. Illustrated with small green vignettes. Binding extremities lightly rubbed and.....
Omaha: Abattoir Editions, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1977. One of 253 copes printed at the University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Fine Arts. With engraved title-page vignette and twelve other striking engravings by Barry Moser. Printed from hand-set Bembo type and Moser’s original wood blocks in Gutenberg.....
London: Printed by William and John Innys, 1718. First edition of this collection that compiles Ray’s letters on natural history, philology, chemistry, and more with figures including Martin Lister, Hans Sloane, Henry Oldenburg, and Edward Lhywyd. Decorative headbands, tailpieces, initial letters, and two figures in text. Title-page attractively ruled in.....
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Oakland, California: April 1938. With thirty-two watercolor-and-ink illustrations (sixteen mounted and sixteen done directly on pages). Manuscript text in blue ink. Rubbing to edges of boards and some foxing. Blue cloth spine. Blue marbled endpapers. A very good, unique item. Original paper-covered boards decorated in watercolor. Quarto. [36] pp. In.....
[Easthampton, Massachusetts:]: Cheloniidae Press, 1986. One of two hundred copies (this copy unnumbered). Accordion format with elaborate blindstamped letters designed by Suzanne Moore. Printed by Harold P. McGrath on T.H. Saunders cold-pressed watercolor paper. Designed by Arthur Larson and James Robinson. Slight rubbing to front joint near head of spine.....
London: Read & Co., [n.d., ca. 1850-1860]. First edition. A lively book that combines caricatures with comic rhyming verse. For example, the panel for Henry VII reads: Henry the Eighth, a man of might, was never in a fix,/And we believe he loved a wife, for didn’t he have six!/His.....
London: Paul Jerrard & Son, [1859]. First edition. The first part of the present work, Entomology in Sport, was written to draw children to science with lively illustrations and easy-to-read prose and verse. The second part, Entomology in Earnest, presents more serious and scientific information staged as a dialogue between.....
[n.p., n.d., ca. 1940.]. These portfolios likely resulted from Doris Schnelder’s and G. Stommel’s work in a sewing course, likely in high school, junior college, or a design school. Schelder and Stommel probably studied at the same school, if not in the same course, as the two millinery fabric grids.....
Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press, 1998. One of two hundred copies designed, printed by letterpress, and hand-bound by Carol J. Blinn at Warwick Press. Signed on the colophon by Baskin, Blinn, and Perry Smith, and initialed by Harold McGrath. With eight wood engravings by Leonard Baskin, printed from the original blocks.....
London: Field & Tuer, [1884]. First edition of this attractive Leadenhall Press production covering the fashion of the period following the French Revolution (1798 – 1827). Twenty-four hand-colored plates by Halkett, 10 ff. catalogue printed on recto only. Spine sunned and cloth lightly soiled. With the original cloth ties. Two.....
London: Printed by J. Bettenham for R. Francklin... 1720. First edition, first issue, with engraved vignette of a seated muse with cherubs. Includes “The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina,” which Sabin notes is “the first instrument ever digested and written out, for the entire and perfect government of a political body.”.....
London: John Harris, [ 1827]. First edition. With six plates, including frontispiece, each with three panels illustrating educational scenes. Some rubbing to extremities and dustsoiling to boards. With printed bookseller’s label and small bookplate to front pastedown. Some light intermittent foxing. A very good copy. Publisher’s buff paper boards with.....
[n.p. 1938]. First edition. Vignettes, diagrams of reproductive organs, and photo reproductions throughout. Toning to covers and first and last few leaves. A very good copy of this rare sex ed manual. Publisher’s printed buff paper self-wrappers with photo reproduction of a woman on front cover. Quarto. [32] pp. Jardine.....
New York: I.B. Kleinert Rubber Co., [n.d., ca. 1900]. First edition. Approximate date from the patent date of the hook-on corset (Dec. 1899). Printed in full color on every page with attractive promotional images for Kleinert’s fashion products. Printing error involving a tracking wheel has caused a vertical line of.....
New York: The Ferris Bros. Co., 1905. First edition of this catalogue for the Ferris corset waist, “a health garment in which you feel well, a beautiful garment in which you look well, for ladies, misses, and children.” OCLC records one copy (New Jersey Historical Society). With over forty illustrations.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852. First edition, mixed issue. The present copy has characteristics of the first three printings (BAL): the binding matches the first printing (including the ” high type on spine), as do the signatures. There are no advertisements, as in the second printing, and W.H. Channing.....
Chicago: [Dr. M. Sayle Taylor Hygienic Orificial Co., 1928]. First edition. OCLC records no copies. Booklet titles are Natural Birth Control and Predetermination of Sex, How to Know Your Affinity: A Study of Glands, Facts for Wives: Plain Truths about Marriage, and Sex Knowledge for Children: A Parent’s Duty to.....
Fort Wayne, Indiana: Published by the Author, [1909]. First edition. OCLC locates two copies (Harvard and University of Rochester). Somewhat chipped and creased. Minor occasional foxing. A very good copy of this scarce promotional material for the mail-order business of a woman quack doctor. Original gray-blue printed paper wrappers. 5.....
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[ n.p. n.d., ca. 1900]. With fifteen full-page weaving samples in white and light blue paper. No text. Some darkening along edges of covers. Accordion-fold pages. Clean and bright internally. Very good. Original dark blue pebbled cloth with gilt title. 5 in. x 8 in. [18] ff. Froebel (1782-1852), the.....
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.....
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.....
