New York & Tokyo: John Wiley & Son, 1873. F. 246 pages; illustrated in black and white; Ruskin evidently wrote these pieces for the London Architectural Magazine in the 1830s, writing as Kata Phusin; chapter information on the Lowland cottage in England & France, Italy; Mountain Cottage in Switzerland &.....
London & Edinburgh: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of Samuel Plimsoll; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898) British politician and shipping reformer, promoter of greater safety.....
Los Angeles California: M. Rieder Publ. 1906. Undivided back postcard; used; cancellation 1906; some edge, tips wear; one corner cracked; good condition.
Paris: Calman-Levy, 1905. 205 pages; with frontispiece and other illustrations in the text; George Sand, pseud. of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin (1804-1876) French novelist and memoirist; French text; with the illustrated bookplate of M & D. McBurney on the front endpaper, signed and dated in the plate by ex-libris designer W.F. Hopson.....
Los Angeles California: M. Rieder Publ. 1906. Undivided back postcard; used; cancellation 1906; some edge, tips wear; short closed edge-tear; good condition.
Innsbruck: Negozio Wagner, 1823. F. 32 pages of text; printed in German & Italian language, side-by-side columns; followed by 28 llustrated plates of statues of royalty, preceded by one un-numbered small circular portrait of Gregory Loeffler; the plates in black and white and engraved by Eichler after Schedler; Clodwig; Philip.....
Schenectady, N.Y. Charles Baum, 1909. divided back postcard; used, with 1909 cancellation; light edge, tips wear, very good condition.
Wien: Kunstverlag Anton Schroll & Co., 1920. F. 143 pages of text + 3 pgs musical piece 'Stucke des Bidermann'schen Automaten-Spinetts + section of gravure plate pages, with hundreds of well-illustrated ancient musical instruments of all types illustrated, cataloged, explained and identified as to makers and use; text in German.....
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1822. F. 3 Volumes; xlviii + 313 + 334 + 349 pages; with the half-title pages present in all; publisher's six-page catalogue at back of Vol. III; imprint leaf of Ballantyne on separate page at back of Vol. II; with the small lavender pink bookseller's ticket of.....
Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co., 1811. F. 122 pages + (2) pages of publisher's announcements at back; nicely printed by James Ballantyne in Edinburgh; half-title page present, with the old former owner stamp of F.W. Challoner Newcastle; bound in the original publisher's decoratively patterned green cloth, black leather spine label.....
Philadelphia: Seeing Philadelphia Automobiles. Folding brochure for this touring company in Philadelphia; they also went to Valley Forge; tours left at Keith's Chestnut Street Theatre; couple of small illustrations; 4" x 8" format folded; light wear; very good condition.
London: Seeley and Co., 1891. 336 pages + 4 pages publisher's announcements at back; black and white illustrations after Hogarth, Reynolds, Zuffany & others inlcuding a tissue-guarded frontispiece of Mrs. Thrale; much on the lady's background and social life, travels, involvement with Samuel Johnson, more; revious owner bookplate on front.....
New York, N.Y. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1898. F. 271 pages; tissue-guarded black and white frontispiece illustration. Previous owner name of Esther Wickwire on the front endpaper. Approx. 5 7/8" x 7 1/2" size; full brown suede leather soft cover binding, with pyrographic title, edge design, and illustration of.....
Boston: Henry Tolman, 1863. 5 pages; black and white title in a few type-faces with calligraphic flourishes; music & lyrics; inside title is "I Wait For Thee" or the War is Nearly Over; 'To be Sung in a Plaintive Style'; good Civil War era item, the war not being nearly.....
New York: H. Bailliere, 1855. Original hand-colored plate from Prichard and Norris' Natural History of Man; approx. 5 1/2" x 9" size; slight toning, old discoloration at bottom right corner, unobtrusive; very good condition.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1901. F. 289 pages; illustrated throughout in black and white; the author "...endeavoured to include as great a variety as possible of mood and expression in love...the moods of love being innumerable..."; contributions from Theocritus, Malory, de Reimes, Lyly, Peele, Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Fielding, Dickens.....
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of Sir Charles Hall; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; the Hon. Sir Charles Hall, Judge of the High Court of Justice (1814-1883).....
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of Sir James MacNaghten Hogg; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; James Macnaghten McGarel Hogg, first Baron Magheramorne of Ireland (1823-1890) British civic.....
London & Edinburgh: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of 1876 Woodburytype of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chief Secretary for Ireland; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, first.....
London & Edinburgh: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of Sir Richard Baggallay Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; Sir Richard Baggallay (1816-1888).....
Rue D'Orfeuil, 3. Chalons-Sur-: F. Thouille, 1882. 28 page pamphlet; French text; containing: "Reconnue d'Utilite Publique par Decret du 31 Aout 1863"; giving the history of this society, with dates and names of various persons who had written or been involved with the proceedings of the group at back, including.....
France: Mercier. An eight page pamphlet; French text; containing: Moyen de preserver le froment de la carie ou du noir: Premier Operation, Seconde Operation, Troisieme Operation Pour preparer six setiers de notre mesure, faisant en poids douze quintaux., 'A Chalons, el 4.e jour complementaire, an 6.e Allaire, president; Moignon, secretaire.....
London: Longman Green Longman and Roberts, 1849. Referred to as a miscellany or common-place book for this author and primarily remembered for the appearance at page 327 of the children's classic, "The Story of the Three Bears."; xl + 694 pages + 1 unnumbered-page engraving of Southey on back page;.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1895. F. Special, Limited edition No. 2. of 25 copies printed, signed by the artist George Wharton Edwards (1859-1950) American impressionist painter and illustrator and author of several books of travel and historical subjects, a member of the Cos Cob Art Colony in Connecticut; pages; title.....
Albany New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1897. F. 1282 pages; "...relating to the work of inspection and the enforcement of laws applying to all manufactories, bakeshops and mines which have been visited by the deputy inspectors...inspections aggregate 27,428..."; with much detailed information from each county of New York State.....
