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".....
London, England: Published for the Committee of Council on Education By Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1880. First Edition. Hard Cover. xvi + 112 + 16 pages of advertisements at back (some unopened); black and white illustrated throughout; with text describing dozens of Japanese pottery-ware, the history of the kilns, types.....
A Paris: Chez J.-B. Bailliere, Libraire De L'Academie Royale De Medecine, 1837. First Edition. Leather. (2) + 424 pages; with the half-title. French text, the author's theories, especially those considering the influence of climate conditions on human development, medicine & the forms illness may take in varying temperature conditions; also.....
New York, New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1892. First American Edition. Hard Cover. xiii + 417 pages. Black and white illustrated frontispiece & throughout; with color folding "Map Showing M. Bonvalot's Route" in pocket at front, approx. 16 1/4" x 20" size. The Translator's Preface notes that "...Starting from the.....
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover. 207 pages + 7 + (1) pages of publishers' advertisements at back. With a useful alphabetically-organized "Index of Authorities" with page number citations at back. John Gamgee (1831-1894) presents his theories on epidemic disease and specifically Yellow Fever.....
Chicago, Illinois: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Publishers, 1889. First Edition. Hard Cover. 351 pages; with a useful index. Black and white illustrated throughout, with scenes, maps, views and an extensive advertisement section; laid-in is a folding color map of the "Denver and Rio Grande Railroad System" approx. 15" x 18".....
Venetiis: Typis Remondinianis, 1752. Editio Postrema Veneta Emendatissima. Leather. xxxii + 496 pages, with a few woodcut initial letters and tailpieces. The medical work of Giorgio Baglivi (1668 - 1707) an Armenio-Italian physician and scientist. This copy does not have the author's portrait; Pages 231-232 with woodcut figures; Dissertatio VI.....
Philadelphia, PA: G. Hills, & Co., 1842. Second Edition. Leather. 633 pages. With all eight folding plate illustrations, collated complete; Howes W-548. Previous owner name on endpaper. Approx. 6" x 8 3/4" size; bound in polished marbled-paper covered boards, red leather corners and spine, gilt spine titles, gilt rules, top.....
London, England: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883. First Edition. Hard Cover. vi + 76 text pages + 16 chromolithographic color plates of these flowers of Switzerland, collated complete; each large color plate is accompanied by a line-drawn tissue identification illustration, which gives the scientific & common name for.....
New York, N.Y. D. Appleton & Company, 1853. Later Printing. Leather. viii + 100 pages; engraved frontispiece of the author & 48 chromolithographic color plates of fruit, collated complete. This is the slightly later printing of the Boston first appearance of the book, which was later expanded to include two.....
New York, London, Paris: D. Van Nostrand et al, 1870. First Edition. Hard Cover. iv + 137 pages + (8) pages of publishers' announcements at back (adv. pages unopened). Inscribed and signed on the front endpaper by the author, "To Prof. Andre Pory With the Compliments of the Author. Stuckle.....
London, England: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1777. First Edition. Hard Cover. Twenty-two issues of this yearly British almanac, bound in one volume; consecutive and inclusive from the 1777 issue to 1797. These are printed in red & black, have the tax stamps on the margins of the title.....
Brooklyn, New York: Privately Printed, 1868. First Edition. Hard Cover. A presentation copy, the front free endpaper having the handwritten inscription, "Mr. Daniel Tredwell with regards of T.W.F." The author Thomas W. Field to his fellow Long Island historian Tredwell, author of "Personal Reminiscences of Men and Things on Long.....
Chicago, Illinois: L. Schick, 1891. First Edition. Flexible Cloth. Folding frontispiece plan of the inner city + 510 pages + (1) city plan showing the burned district of the Chicago Fire + (1) blank + 48 pages concerning the Suburban Stations, ports, cable rates, growth statistics, street railways & other.....
A Geneve: Chez J.J. Paschoud, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1807. First Edition. Leather. Complete in three volumes: xvi + 471 + (2) + 402 + (4) + (1) errata + (2) + 347 pages; all three volumes with their half-titles present. French text. Jean Senebier (1742-1809) Swiss botanist and naturalist who demonstrated that.....
New York, NY: Collins & Co. Published Under the Authority of the Physicians and Surgeons of That Institution, 1816. First Edition. Hard Cover. x + (2) contents + 180 + (2) Table IV (Finis) pages (last page blank). Title page with the ownership signature of James R. Wood at top;.....
London, England: R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, Strand, 1823. First Edition. Hard Cover. Complete in two volumes; xiv + 208 + (3) + 257 pages. All color plates accounted for, according to the contents list found in Volume I. Approx. 3 1/2" x 5 5/8" size; bound in later 19th.....
New York, N.Y. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co., 1876. Map. Hard Cover. Hand-colored folding pocket map, with decorative borders; the 1876 iteration of this popular map, originally copyrighted in this form in 1846 by Colton, with that date at lower edge of map, the later date of 1876 at.....
Richmond, Virginia: George L. Bidgood, 1865. Fifth Edition. Hard Cover. 162 pages; illustrated with small woodcuts; with alphabet, print & script handwriting, spelling and pronunciation & usage instruction for the young. "The sectional tensions in the1850s inspired among Southerners a drive to produce their own textbooks to counter the North's.....
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1864. First Edition. Soft Cover. lxxiv + 750 pages. Name of 'U.S.S. Itasca' on front cover. The extensive Index to Appendix at front is divided into the various U.S. Navy squadrons and their operations in this year of the Civil War, with detailed reportage from.....
Portsmouth, New Hampshire: O.M. Knight, Publisher, 1876. First Edition. Soft Cover. 84 pages. Giving a hundred-year history of this naval yard, with a prefatory list of the Commandants of the Yard & their dates of service and a "List of Vessels of War built at this Station" for the Royal.....
New Orleans Louisiana: Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office, 1861. First Edition. Soft Cover. 18 pages; the first page inscribed at top edge, "From Dr. J.L. Riddell April 8th 1863" With information on the history of the University and the faculty; the Chair of Chemistry is noted as.....
New York, N.Y. G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1831. First Edition. Leather. 258 pages; with a folding map frontispiece of the Mulgrave Islands. Hiram Paulding (1797- 1878) U.S. naval officer with a long and sometimes very distinguished and controversial career, on this occasion "... exhibited extraordinary bravery and presence.....
Santo Domingo: Imprenta De Garcia Hermanos, 1878. First Edition. Soft Cover. 79 pages; with a folding plate illustrating inscriptions of Don Cristobal Colon and several line drawings of the Catedral de la Santo Domingo depicting the changes in the building plans over the centuries, as well as a few other.....
Santiago Chile: Imprenta De La Libreria Del Mercurio De Orestes L. Tornero, 1872. First Edition. Soft Cover. 101 pages. Spanish text. In three sections: Las Propiedades de los jesuitas en el distrito de Santiago; Adquisiciones de los jesuitas en las provincias de Chile; Diversas industrias de los jesuitas. Part of.....
