Philadelphia, PA: O.W. Gray & Son, 1882. F. One sheet, printed with 1 map, from the 1882 O.W. Gray National Atlas, New York Edition: Vermont. With hand-coloring in pastel tones and border outlining in red. Reverse with printed census information (Not Vermont's). Approx. 14" x 17 1/4" overall size; a......
New York: A.J. Johnson Company, 1894. Single-side printed map; drawn and engraved on copper-plate; Hand-colored; 7 1/2" x 10 3/4" approximate size; counties, cities, rivers; Boiling Springss; ample margins for framing; shrink-wrapped to archival foam core for protection and shipping; some faint foxing in margins; very good condition...
New York: A.J. Johnson Company, 1894. Single-side printed map; drawn and engraved on copper-plate; Hand-colored; 10 3/4" x 13 1/2" size; provinces, cities, rivers; with Balearic Islands & Strait of Gibraltar; decorative border; ample margins for framing; shrink-wrapped to archival foam core for protection and shipping; very good condition; an.....
New York, NY: Atheneum, 1992. F. . 40 pages; with useful index; illustrated in full color throughout. "...captures the excitement of space exploration...carefully explains some aspects of the space program...describes some of the designs scientists have worked out to make a livable habitat on the lunar surface..." (from the jacket.....
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover. vi + (2) + 280 pages; two different map endpapers; black and white illustrated section; useful index. Peter Matthiessen (1927 - 2014) American novelist, naturalist, explorer, and advocate for the life of the planet. (The Cloud Forest) "...Matthiessen functions.....
New York, NY: Mystic Fire Video - WGBH Educational Foundation, 1990. VHS. VHS. A 56 minute film, "...Peter Matthiessen - naturalist, author, and student of Zen - journeys with an old friend, Randy White, through the channels and rivers that form the wild beauty of the Ten Thousand islands of.....
Paris, France: Societe Litteraire De France, 1920. First Edition. Leather. 114 pages; signed by Francois Mauriac on the half-title page. French text; original stiff paper wraps with pink title-panel, bound in; many leaves unopened. Francois Mauriac (1885-1970) French novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1952, dramatist and.....
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1925. F. 48 pages; short poems and a group of sonnets; original green paper-covered boards, brown cloth spine; paper spine title label; some edge, tips wear to the binding; spine label darkened; very good condition.
New York, NY: MacMillan, 1989. F. 48 pages; colorfully illustrated with underwater diving photographs on Australia's reef by Jim and Martin Scheiner and the author. "...blends her own diving experiences with poetic science and uses her skill as a storyteller to bring readers a science story..." First American Edition &.....
1926. Menu. Soft Cover. A folding menu, in the shape of an engineer's measuring triangle. Cover with the title of the occasion and signed by several attendees; reverse with portrait, presumably of the dedicatee, with the motto, "Tout n'est que Vibration." Inner menu with illustration of a celebrating engineer, caliper.....
Washington D.C: American Automobile Association, 1941. 80 page guidebook; 4 1/2" x 9 1/4" approx. size; maps, itineraries, descriptions, historical background, black and white illustrations according to the AAA in 1941; black and white foldout map at back; back cover panel advertisement for Monte Carlo Cigarettes; edge, tips wear to.....
Damas Lebanon: Bazar d/Orient, B. Asfar, 1910. Color printed postcard. Unused, not dated and undivided back. Light wear; in very good condition.
Middle East Holy Land: 1910. Color printed postcard. Unused, not dated and divided back. Light wear; in very good condition.
Middle East Holy Land: 1910. Black and white printed postcard. Unused, not dated and divided back. Light wear; in very good condition.
Middle East Holy Land: 1910. Color printed postcard. Unused, not dated and undivided back. Light wear; in very good condition.
Italy: Edizioni Brogi. Views of Milan by this photographic studio, identified at bottom as: Piazza della Scala Coi Mounumento a Leonardo, Cariatidi, porzione della facciata della Cattedrale; Interno della Cattedrale (photo of a print of this interior); photos about 8" x 10", 2 mounted on old paper mount; no date.....
Japan. First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. Japan, circa 1935. (74) pages, printed on one side. A photographic history of the Japanese military invasion & occupation of northern China, through the activities of medical units. Black & white imagery throughout, with one color-plate of an illustration of a wounded Japanese marine.....
Cincinnati: Peter G. Thomson, 1880. First Edition. Hard Cover. ix + 235 + (4) pages of publishers' announcements at back. Copyright date states 1879. Containing a couple of illustrated document facsimiles: a Miami Land-Warrant and a page showing account certificates. Chapter information regarding the early settlement of the old Northwest.....
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of Monsignor Capel; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet;Thomas John Capel (1836-1911) British-born Roman Catholic priest "...Unusually, he did not attend a seminary.....
Paris, France. Les Bibliophiles Du Palais, 1926. Louis Jou. First Edition. Slipcase. iv + 282 pages; slipcased. Limited edition Exemplaire No. XIX of 50, of a larger edition of 200. This copy imprinted for Joseph Witenberg, member of the Societe Les Bibliophiles Du Palais. Tissue-guarded portrait illustration of Montesquieu in.....
London, England: W.G. Moss, 1824. First Edition. Leather. xiv + 206 pages + (1) list of twenty tissue-guarded engraved plates, including the folding Plan of the Town and Fort of Hastings. Text prefaced by a 4-page prospectus for the book; and with list of subscribers. Approx. 6 7/8" x 10.....
New York & London: Viking, 1965. F. 311 pages; (from the dustjacket information): "...story of an Irish family during the seven or eight tense days leading up to the doomed Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916..."; some light wear and rubbing to dustjacket; very good condition.
LaSalle, Illinois: The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc. - The Open Court Publishing Co., 1963. (38) pages; a critical essay on Carnap & his theories: "...despite the remarkable constructive power and ingenuity Carnap has brought to the reconstruction of inductive logic, he has not resolved the outstanding issues in the.....
Long Island, New York: Nassau County Athletic Association, 1921. (24) page booklet; lists regulations, committee members, events with names of participants; male & female entries; also notes the schools of the athletes; a couple of pencil notations, perhaps indicating the winner of events; running, jumping, relay events; couple of advertisement.....
Photograph portrays a three-masted sailing ship, under full canvas; framed and glazed; very tiny additional ship visible in distance; approximately a dozen crew members visible on deck; no ship name visible, no date but circa 1890 or so and flying Belgian colors aft; 16 3/4" x 28" visible image; approximately.....
