London: His Majesty's Stationery Office By Mackie & Co., 1904. F. viii + 439 pages; index; followed by ix pages Circular of the Commission, with a chronological list of their reports; this Vol. I only and with the index covering this volume, and concerning: the Monmouth Insurrection 1685-6; Letters of.....
London, England: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. First Edition. Leather. xx + 289 pages; errata slip at back; with the half-title. Illustrated with 10 copper-engraved plates, accompanying various articles. The Preface describes the "...nature and objects of this Institution, and the claims which it possesses to professional.....
A Gand: Chez P.F. De Goesin, Imprimeur De Sa Majeste, Pour Le Comte De Flandre, 1792. First Edition. Hard Cover. (2) + (1) blank + (2) + 161 + (1) pages. With two folding charts, of temperature measurements and of the length of time of previous ice ages. Text in.....
France: L'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, 1806. Extracted from Original Volume. Soft Cover. (71 -134) pages; extracted from the Memoires de l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts; French text. Set out in six 'memoires'; with a folding plate; Rumford's researches regarding experiments in heat. Sir Benjamin, Count Rumford in.....
London, England: John Churchill, 1838. First Edition. Hard Cover. xlvii + 154 pages; title page printed in red & black. Including the Expositions: Medical Topography of London; On Scrofula; On the Preservation of the Health of Children; On the Disorders of Old Age; and On the Efficacy of Cathartic Medicines.....
Liege, Belgium: Bulletins de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 1873. Offprint Edition. Soft Cover. 33 pages; French text. The author has inscribed and signed on the title page, "A Monsieur le professeur Hirn hommage a l'autor Folie" to Gustave-Adolphe Hirn (1815 - 1890) French.....
Tubingae: Jo. Georgii Cotta, 1801. F. (4) + 146 pages; Latin text throughout; Karl Christoph Hofacker (1749-1793) Faculty of Law professor of some note at the Lutheran Tubingen Germany University; this essentially a dictionary or index of Latin legal terms; OCLC notes one copy, held at Huntington Library Ca.; previous.....
Berlin, Germany: S. Fontane & Co., 1923. F. Limited edition, Number 74 of 1000; this being one of 200 very nicely done, printed on Holland van Gelder paper with hand--colored decorations and illustrations; being the play recounting the Resurrection of Jesus Christ; with 3 tipped-on colored illustrations, artwork of Albrecht.....
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1862. F. 80 + 39 pages; "Astraea..." being published in 1850, "...Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College, August 14, 1850"; Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) prolific American essayist, poet and long-time teacher, lecturer of anatomy at Harvard. (DAB), here stating in "Border Lines".....
Kjobenhavn: J.H. Schubothes Boghandling, 1835. 338 pages; title page with ornamental surround; the last 16 pages comprise the "Fortegnelsee over dei Dongeriget Norge vildvorende Troe earter og Bustvaerter" of Hr. Blytt; Danish text, in fraktur; the main text being plant classification & scientific work of Jens Wilken Hornemann (1770 -.....
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1900. F. 157 pages; translated by William Archer; one of the series of the The Green Tree Library books by this publisher, designed by Henry McCarter, giving the list of additional titles as the frontispiece; small book, approximately 4 1/4" x 7"; printed by.....
Islip Long Island New York: Town of Islip, Long Island New York, 1931. Collection includes: 1. Section I Bay Shore - Islip Including all of School District No. 2 and that portion of School District No. 1 East of Brightwaters...Dec. 1931 and adopted by the town 1932 (with) tipped-on newspaper.....
Milano Italy: Societa Editrice Sonzogno, 1898. F. 164 pages; black and white illustrations, maps, portraiture of Spanish & American military personnel (even a smaller line-drawing of Buffalo Bill) from this conflict and with a nice triple-panel folding color map 'Il Teatro Della Guerra Fra La Spagna e gli Stati Uniti'.....
Lucca, Italy: Francesco Baroni, 1832. F. 244 pages, with the offerings from this Luccan bookseller. With sections of books printed in Italian, Latin and French language (French to letter S). The entries provide author, date of publication, short description and pricing, volumes printed from the 15th - 19th century. Approx.....
New Haven Connecticut: Author Published, 1963. F. 52 pages; a prospectus or review of needs for the city of Milwaukee regarding their performing arts center, by George C. Izenour (1912-2007) the prominent lighting and stage designer and educator, author, inventor - noted for the Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored "...laboratory dedicated to the.....
London & Oxford: J. And C. Mozley, 6, Paternoster Row; and Parker, and Co., 1865. 3 volumes; not paginated, but hundreds of pages in each volume; Vol. I published in 1865, the second volume in 1870, Vol III with publication date of 1867; Christian religious instruction, disguised as novel or.....
Two letters; one typed and signed and the other entirely hand-written; the first on James Montgomery Flagg 340 West 57th Street New York City letterhead and typed, signed in red crayon "Monty", a very amusing and irreverent letter, obviously to a close friend, dated "Indegardampendence Day 1944" (1944 artistically spaced.....
London: Simms and M'Intyre, 1852. 432 + 288 pages; separate title pages for each novel, the latter dated 1850; George Payne Rainsford James (1799-1860) British novelist and historical writer, DNB states "... the style of his romances parodied by Thackeray..."; bound in marbled paper covered boards, black leather spine, gilt.....
Osaka Japan: Aoki Szandow, 1889. First Edition. Hard Cover. C. 120 pages; most of which have an illustration and sometimes two. Text in Japanese; titles given in English. Colin Franklin in 'Exploring Japanese Books and Scrolls' calls these publications an "…appealing series of guides… As travel within Japan had been.....
Gotha Germany: Justus Perthes, 1878. Map. Not Bound. Color map of this area, only. Approx. 10 1/2" x 16" overall size. from Petermann's Geographische Mitteilungen, Schnellpressendruck v. C. Hellfarth in Gotha. Small, faint previous ownership stamp on one of the back (blank) panels of the map of collector Dr. George.....
Chicago, Illinois: Rand, McNally & Co., 1887. Pocket Map. Hard Cover. Pocket map of Japan, printed in colors, detailing the Japanese island system in two separate maps: Northern Japan with an inset at top of Chishima; with the previous owner noting the location of the volcano Bandai-San. Approx. 13 3/4".....
Japan: Artist Published, 1950. F. Group includes two country landscape scenes in color, both signed lower left in black ink, both approx. 9" x 13"; (with) 2 ink and wash, heightened and accented with white paint, winter scenes, approx. 10" x 14 1/2", one signed lower right; (and) 2 ink.....
Japan: Otosaburo Moriizumi, 1972. F. 10 rubbings made by Otosaburo Moriizumi; these are printed in black and white on fine thin Japanese paper; each rubbing tipped-on by its corners to a thin cardstock backer and with a dark blue, gray or green stiff paper "window" surround; with a 4-sided folding.....
Japan. Two volumes; 255 + 266 pages; color, black and white illustrations, some folding, showing Japanese swords and sword-making techniques, blacksmithing, various sword furniture, tsuba, sheaths, decorative work, portraits of famous makers; text entirely in Japanese; part of a larger set; these are volumes numbered 6 & 7; approximately 7.....
Japan: 1881. A newsheet insert or separate broadside publication, printed one side only; approx.16 1/2" h. x 23" w., about a 1" margin surround; portraits of the British political worthies of the time; Japanese characters at top and bottom margins, with title in English as well; appears to be a......
