Florence Italy: Typographie Galileienne, 1861. F. 20 pages; biographical, scientific information on Galileo, text in French throughout: "...suivantes ont ete ecrites pour ceux qui desireront visiter et voir avec ordre ce nouveau sanctuaire scientifique, en suivant la pensee de celui qui l'a imageine..."; original paper wrap covers; light wear; very.....
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1887. F. 88 pages, including 5-page chart/listing of Mrs. Ewing's works at back; Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885), British writer for the young, wrote many soldier-stories. (DNB); bound in publisher's grey illustrated paper covered boards, with an (renewed) open-weave cloth spine, probably a type of.....
New York: John B. Alden, 1887. F. (5) + 224 pages; expounding and interpreting various topics, with a christian-educational aspect: Youth, Character, Companions, Success, Christianity, Reading, more; previous owner's initials and number on front endpapers; original publisher's dark blue cloth covered boards, gilt cover spine titles & decoratively black-stamped design.....
O.D. Case Hartford & John W. Fuller Utica, 1857. 178 pages; containing eight hand-colored maps, three double-page; including: The World or Hemispheres (dbl); North America; United States and Mexico (dbl); South America; Europe (dbl); Asia; Africa; Oceanica; double-page map size approximately 6 1/2" x 8", single maps half the width;.....
London & Edinburgh: W. Strahan; T. Cadell in the Strand; and W. Creech at Edinburgh, 1774. vii + 434 + 1) page errata at back; Alexander Gerard (1728-1795) philosophical writer and professor of natural history and divinity in Scotland and of some reputation for this book as well as his.....
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.....
Paris: Lawrence Drake, 1932. F. 71 pages; Grudin's criticism of Eliot along Marxian lines: "....essay written in answer (to Eliot's Poetry and Propaganda). The importance of Mr. Grudin's approach lies in the fact that dialectical method is called upon to parallel the advances made in other fields. The implications 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.....
Edinburgh: C. Stewart, 1809. F. Two titles bound in one: Il Pastor Fido, or, the Faithful Shepherd, a Pastoral Tragi-Comedy, Attempted in English Blank Verse, from the Italian of Signor Cavalier Giovanni Battista Guarini (Translated By William Clapperton) 239 pages; tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece of Guarini and illustrated engraved title with.....
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......
Port Said Egypt: Hippolyte Arnoux Photographer. Two good photographs on one mount, of archaeological and historical Near East interest; one a view of these architectural remains and the other a scenic view taken at some height of this area of Cairo; with the photographer's title, name & numbers at bottom.....
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.....
