101 selections from this year's new acquisitions, covering a wide range of publication dates and topics.
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1876. Hard Cover.
Pencil name on front paste-down endpaper of one volume. All volumes: Boards lightly rubbed, board corners bumped.
Complete four volume set. Red cloth, gilt and black titles and decorations. Engraved illustrations throughout. "The object of this series is to assist girls to.....
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1892. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. First state (no ads for other New World series titles). Ink name on second blank, rear hinge starting.
iv, 352, 12 pp. A historical tale based on the California Gold Rush, with black-and-white illustrations.
London / Cambridge: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper / C. Corbet / M. Cooper / D. Henry for J. Payne, and J. Bouquet / J. and P. Knapton / J. Bentham, etc. / J. Shuckburgh, 1750. Full-Leather.
Boards rubbed with a few discolored spots, lacks title label, ink.....
London: The Folio Society, 2013. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase. A few very minor scuffs to slipcase.
lviii, 540 pp. Color reproductions of historical illustrations, several regional maps precede text. This book presents the Persian Baburnama, a key primary source and the earliest record of Babur's memoirs. The translation.....
Worcester: Dorr, Howland & Co., 1839. First Edition. Full-Leather.
First edition. Leather rubbed, pages lightly foxed, some gatherings loosening but still holding.
624 pp. Sabin 3319. Howes B-123. Full leather with marbled endpapers. Illustrated with over 200 engravings, color fold-out map.
New York: The Century Co., 1905. Richardson, Frederick. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, first/second printing hybrid (rear endpapers are integral, but p. 171 illustration is light-brown and black, not light blue-green and black), no jacket as issued (Bienvenue 213-16). All plates included. Boards lightly soiled, endpapers toned as if.....
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1899. Black, Alexander. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. Paper illustration on front board chipped and loosening on one side, binding starting.
288 pp. With photographic illustrations by the author. "In the olden days people peered about in the world for the fountain of perpetual youth.....
Paris: Rue S. Jacques, Chez Antoine-Claude Briasson, 1741. First Edition. Full-Leather.
First French edition. Corners a bit exposed.
159; [160]-301, [3] pp. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations, French marbled endpapers, red edges. A work on chemistry by the influential Enlightenment philosopher best known for L'Homme Machine. La Mettrie's concepts.....
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Paris: Chez Gissey, Bordelet, Ganeau, 1739. Full-Leather.
A few faint spots on boards.
Two volumes in one. 157, [3]; 58, [3] pp. Full leather, burgundy morocco spine label, gilt titles and decorations, French marbled endpapers. French text. The author, Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant, was a French Jesuit historian. This work, first published.....
New York: The Magazine of Wall Street, 1926. 4th Printing. Hard Cover.
Fourth printing. Light general wear.
153 pp. Pre-Crash investment guide. CONTENTS: The Evolution of the Stock Exchange; Detecting the Beginning and Ending of Bull and Bear Markets; How to Detect Buying Points in Short Swings and in Individual.....
Cambridge: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1886. First Edition. Half-Leather.
First edition. Bookplate of John E. Thayer on front endpaper. Thayer was an industrialist active in western railroad development, and also an amateur naturalist, collector, and author. He sponsored several scientific expeditions.
22, [22] pp. 4to. Leather spine and corners, marbled boards.....
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. Cummings, Charles A. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Boards lightly rubbed, pencil initials on front free endpaper.
xiv, 323 pp. Top page ridge gilt. Bulfinch designed many public buildings in Boston, and James Monroe name him Architect of the Capitol.....
Columbus, Ohio: Camp and Trail, 1913. Stapled Binding.
Issues fair to good. Some wrappers nearly loose from binding, stains, tears, and chips to some volumes.
23 issues of Camp and Trail from 1910 to 1913. American weekly sporting journal. Issues include: January 22, 1910, Vol. I, No. 8; March 19.....
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1946. Leighton, Clare. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed without inscription by illustrator Clare Leighton on half-title page. Includes original jacket with $3.00 price on flap. Ink name stamp on front endpaper, board edges slightly faded, otherwise book is very well preserved. Jacket.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898. Seton, Ernest Thompson. Hard Cover.
Minor loss to spine head, top page ridge stained.
xvi, 195 pp. Newly illustrated with 75 color plates reproduced by lithography from illustrations by Ernest Seton Thompson. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine and front board.....
New York: Exposition Press, 1964. Signed Copy. Hard Cover.
Signed by author with inscription, "To Mary and Doug - who have united Big Moose Lake, Best wishes, Frances Alden Covey, October 1970." With letter from previous owner to a friend explaining getting it signed at Big Moose Lake. Jacket rubbed.....
Berlin: Die Gestalten Verlag, 2004. Signed Copy. Large Hardcover.
Limited edition, numbered 352 of 1250. Signed by multiple contributors. A fine hardcover in a near fine publisher sleeve.
Unpaginated. A monograph collection the typographic designs and graphic art of the influential studio. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Ken Barber is a professional.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1931. Ermakoff. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss, jacket toned, endpapers faintly foxed.
272, [3] pp. Red cloth, gilt titles. Dust jacket design by 'Ermakoff.' The story of two pairs of siblings, one aristocratic, the other.....
New York: William L. Allison Company, 1890. Half-Leather.
No date, circa 1890. Rear board of sixth volume repaired at joint, spines slightly faded, board edges lightly rubbed with tiny blemish to D of Deronda and light soil to top edge of the same volume.
Complete in eight volumes. 8vo. Leather.....
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New York / Philadelphia: Everts Publishing Co., 1912. Three-Quarter Leather.
Complete with all maps. Repaired with what appears to be a new leather spine and corners (in different colors), though not properly rebacked but rather affixed to the binding edge with adhesive of some sort. Somewhat crude, but not poorly.....
Newport: Davis & Pitman, 1882. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Ink name on front free endpaper.
204 pp. Deep green cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. EXCERPT: "I was born at Belfast, Waldo County, in the State of Maine. My father was a native of Bristol in the.....
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1916. Field, Roswell F. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Signed without inscription by Roswell F. Field and others on colophon. Limited edition, #98 of 150. Includes publisher's slipcase. Former copy of the Library of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Corners of slipcase rubbed, minor stain.....
London: Spottiswoode & Co., 1896. First Edition. Hard Cover.
Signed presentation copy. One of 500 copies. Bookplate of Cyrus Perrin Brown, who financed James Hill's Great Northern Railroad, on front endpaper. Boards lightly rubbed, some pages lightly foxed, minor pencil underlining.
xxxii, 127 pp. "The letters here for the first.....
Philadelphia, PA: G.M. Hopkins Co, 1935. Half-Leather.
All volumes complete, with thumb tabs intact. Interiors clean and bright, mainly aesthetic wear to spines and corners, though volume 2 has minor loss from the spine head and foot. Overall an excellent set of books that are very seldom found together.
Complete.....
Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1876. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed but not signed by the author on volume one front flyleaf ('With compliments of author'). The recipient was William D. Doan, author of Birds of West Virginia (1858). One page corner repaired with clear tape.....