Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill, c. 1843-1854. Original Wrappers. 4" x 2.5." 16 pp., illus. As issued, sewn into original printed wrappers. Closed tear to the top edge of the front wrapper at the spine with transparent tape mend to the verso; light and scattered toning throughout. A charming book filled.....
Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912. Three Quarter Leather. Folio. 433, [1]; 419, [1] pp., ports. As issued, backed in morocco with corners and decorative paper over boards; handsomely presented volumes. Minor wear to the board edges; spines sunned; book plate on the front pastedown and previous owner name.....
London: Thomas Hatchard, 1856-1857. Original Wrappers. Octavo. Numbers are through paginated each with 4-14 preliminary pages of advertising (including wrappers) and concluding with 8 pages of "Monthly Extracts" which bears its own through pagination sequence. Some numbers have additional promotional material after the Monthly Extracts, paginated independently. Pagination available upon.....
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Richmond: George Dunn, 1864. Broadside. Broadside. 11.5" x 9." Remainder, never issued; back with transfer form. Edges are quite chipped, touching the top of the printed border, else affecting only the margins. Generally, quite fragile. Bonds were a largely insufficient means to help the Confederate government fund the Civil War.....
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Richmond: William F. Ritchie, 1862, 1863. Hard Cover. Octavo. 36, 154, 29, [1] pp. Confederate imprint. As issued, backed in tan cloth with paper over boards; printed paper title label on the spine. Binding is generally rubbed and soiled, but solid; foxing and toning to varying degrees throughout the text.....
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[Richmond]: 1862. Hard Cover. Octavo. xxvi, 254, [2], 317 pp. Backed in linen with marbled paper over boards and printed paper title label on the spine. Spine cloth shows wear, particularly at the tail of the spine, but the binding remains sounds. Boards are rubbed at the extremities and corners.....
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Charleston: Steam-Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1861. Hard Cover. Octavo. xvi, 272 pp., plates. First Confederate edition. In later cloth; lacking the first 6 of the 39 plates called for. Binding is fairly solid and with little notable wear and it presents well enough; contents are toned and foxed.....
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New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1884. Soft Cover. 12mo. [12] pp., illus. Stapled, as issued. Light wear, but largely well preserved; minor soiling throughout. A beautifully printed abecedary on sized linen. Covers printed in red, yellow, green, blue, and black. The contents are printed in black with red alphabet. A very.....
London: James Ridgway, 1860. Disbound. Octavo. 56 pp. Removed from volume. Library stamp on the title page; minor toning and soiling to the first and last leaf as well as some minor chipping to the fore-edge of the final leaf; original stitching holes in the inner margin; gentle vertical crease.....
Baltimore: G. Douglas, Bookseller, 1804. Full Leather. Octavo. viii, 40, 351, [1] pp. First edition. In contemporary marbled sheep. Binding is rough, but solid; front board has been reattached; spine desiccated with some loss; only a fragment of the morocco title label is present; boards worn; contemporary owner name on.....
London: Republished by Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1887. Original Wrappers. Octavo. [4], iv, [7]-29, [3], [8 (ads)] pp., frontis, illus. As issued, in stiff, printed wrappers. But for the final advertisements, leaves are printed on one side, only; thought pagination includes blank sides of each leaf. Archival tape.....
Germany. Fantastic die-cut fold-out card. Bright printing, limited wear.
1842. Disbound. 12mo. [1]-36; [37]-100 pp. Removed from volume. Separation between the January issue and the February and March issues. Pencil numerals on the cover titles, otherwise clean. A surprisingly uncommon Baptists periodical that was started by Samuel Collins in 1833 and ran well into the 1880s.
Sao Paulo: Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, 1979. Hard Cover. Quarto. 277 pp., illus. As issued in publisher's cloth with dust jacket. Rear hinge is starting to separate, but the binding remains sufficiently stable; binding is bright; dust jacket has some wear at the top of the spine that.....
Sindicato dos Trabalhadores nas Industrias Metalurgicas, Mecanicas e de Material Eletrico de Sao Bernardo do Campo e Diadema, 1987. Hard Cover. Quarto. [xvi], 272 pp. Red cloth titled in blind on the front cover; dust jacket is edgeworn but now protected in a mylar cover; inscription on the front pastedown;.....
New York: Printed by Edward J. Swords for the General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, 1828. Original Wrappers. 12mo. 36 pp., illus. In original printed wrappers. Wood engraving on the front wrapper and repeated on the title page. Some color to the title page vignette that appears to publisher issued.....
[France?]: c. 1800. Hard Cover. Oblong quarto. 265mm x 210mm. 17 maps, drawn and colored on the recto only; two are folding. Bound in later cloth-backed decorative paper boards. Front board with earlier oval pastedown label with printed border and printers name: "By de Weduwe de Moor en Zoon" ("by.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933. Hard Cover. Octavo. 53, [7] pp. As issued in black cloth. A bright copy minimal shelf wear; contents clean. A very nice copy of this memorial of the longtime Virginia Congressman.
Leisure and Cultural Service Department | Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2002. Soft Cover. Folio. Bilingual edition; catalog of more than 100 items almost all with several full color images; a beautiful production; light scuffing to the covers; digital images can be made available upon request.
Philadelphia: Kimber & Conrad, [1812]? Original Wrappers. Slim 24mo. [24] pp., illus. In original plain, stiff wrappers. An exceptionally nice copy. Inking is irregular meaning some pages are darker than others. Laid out in this unusually tall, slim format with two illustrations per page, one atop the other, each captioned.....
London: Printed for J. Mechell, [1742]. Disbound. 12mo. 38, [2 (adverts)] pp. Removed from nonce volume. Rear leaf separated; title page and verso of the final leaf are soiled; general age toning. First stand-alone printing of this satire on Sir Robert Walpole, taken from the Westminster Journal. Uncommon in commerce.....
Philadelphia: J. Crukshank, [1808]. Original Wrappers. 12mo. [36] pp. As issued, stitched in self-wrappers. Some wear to the margins of some leaves; some folded corners; soiling. All in all a well-preserved copy. Drake 10832.
Richmond: Samuel Shepherd & Co. for Ritchie and Cook, 1830. Full Leather. Octavo. iv, 919, [1] pp. First Edition. Full calf with later spine label. Largely, a solid copy; spine is a bit chipped at the ends and the leather is darkened. Front and rear free endpapers have some significant.....
Cleveland: Published by a Gentleman of Cleveland, 1874. Original Wrappers. Octavo. 295 pp. As issued in printed paper wrappers. Wrappers are a trifle chipped and soiled, though largely this is a presentable copy. Clean.
London: Bell and Daldy, 1863. Disbound. Octavo. 16 pp. First edition. Removed from volume. Generally clean. A tract that challenges the supposition make by a "distinguished English statesman: that "Turkey has made more progress in ten years than any European nation" (p. 3). The author dives into injustices suffered by.....