WALKERS OF THE CIVIL WAR
Halbert’s Family Heritage, 1998. Hard Cover. Bound in black leatherette with gilt lettering. No marks of any kind. Illustrated with occasional pictures.
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FLOWERS AND FLAG OF OUR COUNTRY. ILLUSTRATED.
Denver, CO: Western Lithographing Co., 1897. Hard Cover. A patriotic poem illustrated with several rather attractive chromolithographic plates. Repaired spine. A sturdy and serviceable copy of an uncommon book.
THE MUTUAL RIGHTS OF THE MINISTERS AND MEMBERS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. VOL. I. NO. 1-12. (ONE VOLUME)
Baltimore: Printed by John D. Toy, 1824. Half Leather. First Edition. The first 12 issues of monthly Methodist periodical, The Mutual Rights of the Ministers and Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in one volume. Contemporary bookplates and previous owner’s.....
THE NEW ENGLAND MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCER, AND GENERAL REPOSITORY; FOR THE PROMOTION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE AND EVANGELICAL DOCTRINE; VOLUME FIRST, FOR THE YEAR 1819
Concord: Printed by Hill and Moore, 1819. Disbound. Disbound booklet. Pages renumbered by hand. No other markings but some scattered foxing.
LA VENUS FECONDE ET CALLIPEDIQUE THEORY NOUVELLE DE LA FECONDATION MALE ET FEMELLE ... CALLIPLASTIE-ORTHOPEDIE. ART DE REDRESSER LES DEFORMITIES DU CORPS CHEZ LES ENFANTS.
Paris: E. Dentu, Libraire-Editeur, 1875. Hard Cover. Cinquieme Edition. Signed. In which M. Debay articulates the necessary conditions for having beautiful children, and supports the exercise of the “genital act” within marriage. Illustrations, including images of “monstrosities” -- two headed.....
THE TRAGICAL DEATH OF A APPLE-PIE. CUT IN PIECES AND EAT BY TWENTY-FIVE GENTLEMEN WITH WHOM ALL YOUNG PEOPLE OUGHT TO BE VERY WELL ACQUAINTED.
Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, [1904]. In the publisher’s pictorial glazed paper boards, backed in blue cloth. With a chromolithographic frontispiece. All other illustrations in black and white. Bound with “The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog”.....
ENGLISH LAKE SCENERY.
London: John Walker and Company, 1880. Hard Cover. A bright copy in the publisher’s red binding; with a lovely onlay of green cloth stamped in gilt, red and blue in a lozenge-shaped recess. With 24 quite attractive chromolithographic plates of.....
VOYAGE DE DEUX FRANCAIS En Allemagne, Danemarck, Suede, Russie et Pologne, Fait En 1790 - 1792 (5 Volume Set); Vol I; Vol II; Vol III: Vol IV; Vol V
Paris: Chez Desenne, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1796. Hard Cover. First Edition. Five volume set. 1 new spine label on volume V. Volume 1: Dans Le Nord De L'Europe. No pencil or ink markings in text. Boards scratched, scuffed; corners bumped with leather.....
DICTIONARUL GENERAL AL LITERATURII ROMANE. VOLUME A/B.
Bucuresti: Academia Romana, 2004. Quarto. Hard Cover. A clean copy of Volume A/B only. Bound in red hardback.
DICTIONARUL GENERAL AL LITERATURII ROMANE. VOLUME C/D.
Bucuresti: Academia Romana, 2004. Quarto. Hard Cover. A clean copy of Volume C/D only. Bound in red hardback.
GLI EX LIBRIS ITALIANI. CON 9 TAVOLE E 233 RIPRODUZIONI DELLE QUALI 29 ESEGUITE COI RAMI O COGLI ZINCHI ORIGINALI
Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1902. Original Wrappers. First Edition. Nice copy in the original card stock wrappers, which have been repaired at the spine. The dustjacket is present, and has been protected with a new mylar cover. There is some old.....
LEGENDS AND LYRICS
London: Bell and Daldy, 1866. Full Leather. New Edition, with Additions. Works by the popular 19th century poet, who began her careers writing for Dickens’ Household Words and All the Year Round.~Legends and Lyrics was first published in 1858, a......
DIE KINDER-CHOLERA ODER SUMMER COMPLAINT IN DEN VEREINIGTEN STAATEN, IHRE NATUR, VERHÜTUNG UND RECHTZEITIGE ERKENNUNG.
New York: B. Westermann & Co. | L. W. Schmidt, 1858. Hard Cover. First Edition. Previous owner’s blindstamp to a few pages of text. Textblock cracked in parts. Spot of discoloration to the front board, affecting the preliminaries. Embossed brown.....
THE LITTLE COOKIE BOOK: Thirty-One Favorite Recipes of a Minibibliophile
Woodstock, Vermont, U.S.A. The Lilliputter Press, 1960. Illustrated by: Helen B. Herrick. Miniature. Hard Cover. Decorated By Helen B. Herrick; No pencil or ink markings in text. Hardcover miniature cloth binding. ; Not Ex-Libary.
THE LIFE OF JOHN MARSHALL. VOL. I. FRONTIERSMAN, SOLDIER, LAWMAKER 1755-1788. VOL. II. POLITICIAN, DIPLOMAT, STATESMAN 1789-1801. (TWO VOLUMES)
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. Three Quarters Leather. First two volumes only, of four. Covering Marshall’s life from 1755-1801. Color portrait frontispiece, and additional plates: facsimiles, portraits, and illustrations. Text is reasonably bright. Front joint of Volume.....
EUROPEAN-LANGUAGE WRITING IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I & II.
Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1986. Hard Cover. A clean copy, complete in two volumes. Dustjackets are clean, with slight fading. Now protected in a mylar cover.
THE WORKES OF THAT FAMOUS PHYSITIAN DR. ALEXANDER READ, DOCTOR OF PHYSICK, AND ONE OF THE FELLOWS OF PHYSITIAN-COLLEGE, LONDON. CONTAINING I. CHIRURGICALL LECTURES OF TUMORS AND ULCERS. II. A TREATISE ON THE FIRST PART OF CHIRURGERY, WHICH TEACHETH THE RE-UNITION OF THE PARTS OF THE BODY DIS-JOYNTED; AND THE METHODICALL DOCTRINE OF WOUNDS. III. A TREATISE OF ALL THE MUSCLES OF THE BODY OF MAN. DELIVERED IN SMALL LECTURES AT BARBAR-CHIRURGIANS-HALL, UPON TUESDAIES APPOINTED FOR THESE EXERCISES, AND THE KEEPING OF THEIR COURTS. PUBLISHED IN HIS LIFE TIME IN SEVERAL TREATISES, AND NOW IN ONE VOLUME, CORRECTED AND AMENDED
London: printed by E. G. for Richard Thrale, 1650. Small Quarto. Half Leather. Second Edition. [8], [1]-161, 164-270, [6], 3-[206], [4], 1-[44]. According to Wing’s collation, this copy appears to missing a few leaves including: 2 preliminary leaves; leaf B1.....
SAMUEL ADAMS. FIREBRAND OF THE REVOLUTION.
Owl House Press, 2010. Full Leather. Numbered 52 of 150 copies. A history of the famous revolutionary and Founding Father. With a few reproduction illustrations of portraits. Blue leather with gilt lettering. 4.8 x 4.0 cm.
THE LADY WITH THE CAMELLIAS.
Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co., 1889. Three Quarters Leather. Alexandre Dumas Fils’ The Lady with the Camellias, translated into English, with illustrations by Albert Lynch. Collates complete, with ten engraved plates. Half title; title page vignette; additional title page, chromolithographic. Bookplate.....
A FEW WORDS ABOUT PIPES, SMOKING & TOBACCO
The New York Public Library, 1947. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. This being publication No. 1 of the Arents Tobacco Collection, and one of 500 copies Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by A. Colish. In the publisher’s paper-covered boards with.....
LE SURMALE. ROMAN MODERNE.
Paris: P.-A. Chavanne & Cie, 1948. Full Leather. Limited Edition. A beautiful production of symbolist writer Alfred Jarry’s Le Surmale [”The Supermale”]. Printed in green and black, with 19 drypoint etchings by Roger De Valerio. De Valerio is perhaps best.....
REASON, FAITH AND AUTHORITY IN CHRISTIANITY. BEING THE PADDOCK LECTURES FOR 1901-02.
New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1902. Hard Cover. First Edition. EX-LIBRARY. First Edition of Alfred Magill Randolph’s Reason, Faith and Authority in Christianity: Being the Paddock Lectures for 1901-1902. Library markings, including punch stamp, bookplate, inked call number, previous owner’s name.....
ALF’S CAT. SEPTEMBER, 1946-JULY, 1947. NO. 50-60. (ONE VOLUME)
Cranford, N.J. Alfred Penn Babcock, [1946-1947]. Hard Cover. Eleven issues of the humorous Alf’s Cat, specially crafted and printed by Alfred Penn Babcock and others, on miscellaneous paper with their footpress, “Josephine”. Numbers 50-60, bound together in one volume. Cocked.....
THE FOUNDATIONS OF DIALOGUE IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Blackwell Publishers, 1998. Hard Cover. First Edition. A clean copy with no marks of any kind, showing very little wear.
THE HOLY LIVES OF THE AZHVARS OR THE DRAVIDA SAINTS (Ananthacharya Indological Research Institute series)
Bombay: Ananthacharya Indological Research Institute, 1982. Hard Cover. 226pp. NOTE: This is the original printing from 1982, not a new reprint. Has folding table: The Hierarchy or Spiritual Pedigree of Saints and Sages from God Downwards”. Nice copy of quite.....