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.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884. F. 191 pages + 8 pages of publisher's announcements at back; the story by Park Benjamin (1849-1922) son of the caustic editor and reporter of the same name, is interesting for its criticism of the U.S. Navy's lack of paying attention to innovation in.....
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of John Bright; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; John Bright (1811- 1889) British politician, an outspoken supporter of the Union during the.....
London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1890. A good likeness in colors of John Walter, Esq., M.P.; lithographed from a photograph "...in the collection of Messrs. Barraud & Jerrard, of Gloucester Place, Portman Square."; with a facsimile signature below; paper 8" x 11" sheet approx. overall; John Walter (1818-1894) British newspaper.....
Honolulu, Hawaii: Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1944. 117 pages; language lessons, Hawiian-English vocabulary list at back; (From the Preface): "...It is the hope that such a reich language as Hawaiian, rich in expressions of feeling and emotion and beautiful in phraseology, may be perpetuated by all those who are interested in Hawaiiana...";.....
Mechanicville, N.Y. C.W. Hughes, 1905. Divided back postcard; used, with [190(6)?] cancellation; light edge, tips wear, very good condition.
Baltimore: The Friedenwald Company, 1895. F. 93 pages; (from the Introduction): "...the Evangile aux Femmes is perhaps the most remarkable...this poem has never been lost sight of by the literary public of France...seems to have been a general favorite with the trouveurs and their jovial audiences..."; with information on authorship.....
New York: J.F. Taylor and Company, 1899. xxviii + 376 pages; limited edition # 17 of 350 copies; title page printed in red and black; with an Introduction by Maurice Kingsley; with the plates in two states, not called for; frontispiece not bound in, does not appear to have ever.....
London: MacMillan and Co., 1907. F. 91 pages, printed one side only; tissue guarded color frontispiece plate illustration by F.H. Townsend and with others by him in the text; (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) author, born in Bombay, wrote especially of the imperial race doing justice and upholding law, the two.....
Soldiers Field Boston Massachu: Baker Library Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1940. ix + 414 pages; index; Preface by Arthur H. Cole, Librarian, noting that "...The entries have been prepared in fuller style than is typical of the library short-title catalogue, since our purpose has been to indicate as.....
Harleyville, N.Y. Laidlaw & Wood, 1906. Undivided back postcard; used, with 1906 cancellation; light edge, tips wear, very good condition.
Long Island New York: Long Island Herald, 1955. 12 pages; black and white illustrations; Period Long Island small town news local newspaper, formerly "The Meadow Lark", with local news: St. John's University Opens New Long Island Division; Cakes by Murray Union Turnpike opens; boys invited to become members of the.....
Oyster Bay Long Island: 1825. Original document, Justices were William H. Jones, Daniel Feeks, James Hegeman presiding over the case; stating, among else: "...Coles Craft...Saith that on the 24th day of December 1824 - that Jacob Baldwin and Robert Ludlam were pushing each other about the store of Richard Cock.....
Baiting Hollow Long Island. Two interesting tiny fragments; in the original finders' manila pouch; handwriting identifies them on the pouch as "Baiting Hol. Sch. May 6, 1978 Sur. Col. Roadway Near Shed 2 Ceramic Frag." and in a different hand in pencil, "114.3 - 1 ceramic - (1) blue marble";.....
Indianapolis Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill, 1906. F. 188 pages; illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece & other color plates by Harrison Fisher, and with decorations by H. Stetson Crawford, throughout; decorative colored endpapers; bound in green polished decorative cloth boards, with American Indian motif; spine, cover gilt titled; some edge and tips wear-through &.....
