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.....
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.....
A Paris: Chez Didot, 1737. Spine a bit scuffed, just a hint of foxing. Tipped in bookseller's description. A very good copy. Late nineteenth-century quarter morocco over decorative boards, gilt spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers. Twelvemo. 4], xxiii, [1, blank], 270, [4, privilege du Roy], [1, errata] pp. First.....
Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, [1963]. One of 150 copies. Spine a bit faded, small bookseller's label on front pastedown. Near fine. Publisher's sea green cloth with spine stamped in gilt and front cover in blind. Quarto. ix, [1], [104] pp. Altschul, the founder of the press, notes in his foreword.....
Third editions of both works, the first "augmented with many hundreds of words, observations, letters, &c." Third edition, first issue of the second work, with the title printed in black (the second issue title page was printed in black and red). Ray states in the preface to A Collection of.....
London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. First edition. Many woodcut illustrations in the chapbook style throughout. With an extensive bibliography. Some rubbing to head of spine and some general shelfware. Dark green coated endpapers. Foxing and toning to edges. A very good copy. Original pictorial green cloth decoratively stamped in black.....
London: 1740. First edition. Issued in this form of separate parts by Peck himself. Apart from his valuable biographical researches, Peck included various pieces which he mistakenly at tributed to Milton on the basis of style alone. Despite this the two works together marked an advance in Milton studies in England.....
London: Griffith & Farran, [1858]. First edition of one of the scarcest of Stanesby’s works. Every page richly chromolithographed from Stanesby’s designs by Ashbee & Dangerfield. With decorative borders, initials, etc. Interleaved with protective blanks. Slight rubbing to extremities, though binding is still very attractive. Binding somewhat loose, as usual.....
Detroit: Pontiac Motor Division, General Motors, 1954. These posters were issued in conjunction with an advertising campaign for a new line of Pontiac models. Pontiac often depicted Native people in their advertisements, in line with the adoption of the name of Odawa war chief Pontiac, or Obwandiyag (ca. 1720 – 176. Beautifully.....
Rome: Istituto Poligrafico Dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1962. Facsimile of the first work on medicinal baths in the Pozzuoli region of Italy. Two volumes, consisting of a manuscript facsimile with seventeen full-page illustrations in gold and colors, blue and red initial letters, and text in Latin, and a text.....
[ Claremont, California ]: Scripps College Press, 2013. Out of an edition of 105 copies, this is number 44. The verso of one leaf contains Kitty Maryatt's and the students' ink signatures. Printed letterpress. The drawings were done by hand with a thin .038 Umbral Signo pen. The color was.....
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Waterbury, Connecticut: Waterbury Mfg. Co., 1941. This is a workbook of a student training to be a machinist. The lessons focus on fractions, physics, and geometry, as well as the practical use of specific machines. Lower cover detached. Soiling to boards. Some soiling and toning to leaves and some creasing.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley... 1769. First edition. Some rubbing to spine and extremities, as usual. Red speckled edges. Marbled endpapers. Ink signature of a James Ford (1849) to preliminary blank, along with a quote by William Cowper copied out in ink. Aside from some toning to first few leaves.....
Vancouver, BC:]: Heavenly Monkey, 2006/. One of twenty-nine regular copies. Five deluxe copies and three contributor copies were also produced. Signed on the colophon by Hodgson. With ten postage stamps and corresponding rubber stamps all designed by Barbara Hodgson. Type was hand-set in Gill Sans and Bembo by Hodgson and.....
[Vancouver, BC:]: HM, 2009. Printer’s copy. Total edition of twenty numbered copies and ten lettered hors commerce copies. Printed on double-fold leaves of black and gray paper. With nearly a hundred mounted postage stamps and nine mounted leather skivers hand-tooled in gilt and silver. The title page and colophon set.....
![Posters. ] Children from Many Lands. Mary S. Haviland, Fanny L. Warren](/pictures/thumb/16997.jpg?v=1622926444)
New York: National Child Welfare Association, 1923. First edition of these posters “showing the children of ten nations at work or play, dressed in native costumes and surrounded by characteristic scenery…and our own happy American boys and girls welcoming them all,” (Journal of the American Association of University Women, 1924.....
London: Printed and Published by Emily Faithfull and Co., Victoria Press, (for the employment of Women)... 1861. First edition of the first book printed at the Victoria Press, which was founded by Emily Faithfull (1835 - 1895) in 1860. Faithfull’s preface details her motivations in establishing the Victoria Press, the.....
Bologna: Lelio dalla Volpe, 1739. This is an interesting collection of 100 original fables by Giovanni Grisostomo Trombelli (1697-1784), a professor and theologian from the University of Bologna. Trombelli was a patristic scholar who also wrote a much-reprinted treatise on the dating of manuscripts. Engraved title-page vignette and five etchings.....
London: Printed for John Clark and Richard Hett, 1725. First edition. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Corners worn, nineteenth-century library armorial bookplates. A good, clean copy. Contemporary calf, rebacked in modern calf, gilt burgundy morocco spine label. [2], vi, [8], 534, [+2, errata] pp. "...throughout the years between 1728.....
