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.....
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......
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.....
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.....
