Joliet, Illinois: P.F. Volland Company, 1922. (90) pages; color illustrations by John Rae; one of the "Nature Children Books" of this publisher, with a series listing at back; pictorial endpapers; original illustrated paper-covered boards binding; al little edge, tips wear to the covers, old discoloration of paper at top left.....
London & Edinburgh: William Heinemann, 1894. F. xiii + 157 pages a few at back unopened + 24-page publishers' catalog at back; poetry, sonnets and The Masque of Painters by Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928) British writer, one of the most prolific and powerful writers of his time (DNB); previous.....
New York: Graff & Company, 1883. Document partially printed and completed in manuscript for some of this company's offerings; approx. 4 ΒΌ" x 7" size; on back is a list of the equipment this firm repaired, including the Manhattan Furnace, Hot Blast Furnace, Burtis Furnace, Morning Glory F.P. Heater, New.....
Albany: Division of Canals and Waterways State Department of Public Works, 1927. 30 pages; black and white illustrated throughout, with views of locks & dam works along the New York State canal system, barges and motorships using the canals, including wooden and steel barges, the State Maintenance Plant, listings of.....
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1837. F. In two volumes; viii + 365 + iv + 418 pages; Howes G-449; contents including information on American manners, "Fashionable Coteries", Dandies, Aristocracy, domestic traits, various immigrant groups delineated, American theatres, painting, Wit, education, morality, literature, industry, commerce, agriculture, settlement.....
Lugduni Batavorum: Hackium, Boutesteyn, Vivie, Vander AA, & Lucthmans, 1696. F. Two volumes bound in one of this first collected edition of Giraldi's works; (20) + 772 + (26) + 928 + (30) pages Index Rerum et Verborum + (1) page Catalogus Amicorum Lilii, Quorum Meminit in epistola Direptionis Urbanae...;.....
Melbourne Australia. Invitation card for this social event, Mr. Peabody & Lady handwritten in; printed in black with gold armorial crest; Captain Kayser is notable as having explored part of Guyana as a young lieutenant in the 1900s; approximately 5 " x 6" size; matted, framed and glazed to about.....
London: MacMillan, 1922. F. 288 pages; previous owner's inscription on back endpaper; publisher's green cloth, gilt 'TH' in wreath decorative motif on front cover; gilt spine titles; some light wear to binding, spine titles dulled; some foxing to leaves; good condition.
Paris: Librairie Plon. 326 pages; preface by J.-H. Rosny Aine; text in French throughout; bound in marbled-paper covered boards, red leather spine, gilt spine titles; some browning to endpapers; some edge, tips wear to binding, front hinge of leather split, binding cords holding on; good minus condition.
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1914. F. 338 pages + (4) + 24 pages of publisher's catalog at back, some unopened; Frank Harris (1856-1931) British writher, perhaps the most colorful figure in contemporary journalistic circles, an incorrigible liar, a vociferous boaster an unscrupulous adventurer and philanderer, with the aspect.....
New York: The Bibelot Brothers, 1901. F. 272 pages; seemingly a mystery story set in New York, with a lot of money, the Stock Exchange, a handless man and a romantic interest; Percy William Edward Hart (1870-1935) Canadian author; an OCLC search at time of cataloguing indicates 3 listings for.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. F. 98 pages; illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece & other color plates by Arthur I Keller, and with elaborate decorations and ornaments gold-gilt, by him throughout; decorative colored endpapers; bound in green cloth boards, with illustrated paste-down; top edge gilt; some soiling, edge and tips wear &.....
Leipzig: Christian Ernst Hoffmann, 1846. F. 324 pages; German language text throughout; George Hezekiel (Johann George Ludwig Hesekiel) 1819-1874 German journalist and author, novelist; this piece evidently concerning the iconic German legendary "Deutsche Michel' figure and the time of the Thirty Years War; with the small rubberstamp of Greifswald C......
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.....
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1895. F. 714 pages + one page of publishers' announcements at back; tissue-guarded black and white frontispiece by C. De Grimm & other illustrations throughout; original publishers' cloth, decorative gilt spine and cover titles, bright and clean; slight edge and tips wear to binding; back.....
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".....
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1860. F. 410 pages, index; large-paper issue; dark brick-red pebbled-cloth blind-stamped covered boards, beveled edges, gilt spine titles, all edges gilt; some shelfwear to bottom of boards, spine ends slightly worn; front endpaper has a short (3/4") closed tear, unobtrusive; faint line of discoloration on first.....
Kyoto, Japan: The Society for Publication of Wall Paintings in the Kondo Horyuji Monastery, 1951. F. Contents include 36 large size tipped-on plates printed on heavy stock (the portfolio is large, 24" x 18 1/2" size) in color and collotype, showing views and details from this temple, in Hansetsu, Yotsugiri.....
New York: D. Appleton, 1845. F. 177 pages + (14) pages of publishers announcements at back, with pagination numbers on half of the pages only; frontispiece engraving of a funeral procession, shrouded casket and pall-bearers, in a country scene, illustrated title page vignette of horse & covered wagon and a......
Paris: J. Hetzel & Cie. 189 pages; text in French throughout; marbled-paper covered boards, dark blue leather spine & corners, decorated gilt spine, gilt titles, top edge gilt; old silk ribbon-marker; binder's stamp of Brentano's Paris; leaves a bit browned; some edge, tips wear & rubbing to binding; good condition.....
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.....
Roma: Ernesto Richter. Large card 'Cartolina Gigantesca'; 7 3/8" x 9 3/4" size approximate; with photographers' titles below; no date but circa 1890s or early 20th century; sharp and clear, good delineation; a little mount paper residue on back corners; very good condition.
London: J. Pearson & Co. A large priced catalogue given to this subject, with 88 pages of text + approximately thesame number of pages of black and white illustrations of the books, bindings, facsimiles of pages of the catalogued items, including books of hours, manuscripts, collections of first editions of.....
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.....
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.....
