Histoire de L'Académie Royale des Sciences, Année 1710 avec les Mémoires de Mathématique & de Physique, pour la même Année, tirés des Registres de cette Academie
Paris: Chez Gabriel Martin. Jean Bapiste Coignard, fils, 1732. Woodblock title vignette, 14 engraved plates (11 folding). [8], 166. 561 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary full brown calf, upper hinge tender, bookplate of Ormathwaite on pastedown. Woodblock title vignette, 14 engraved plates (11 folding). [8], 166. 561 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Article on shellfish by Reamur entitled "Du... Read More
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Gossip of the Century
London: Ward and Downey, 1892. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. Bound in three quarters red morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g., by Morrell. 2 vols. Royal 8vo.
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Typographia: An Ode on Printing
Roanaoke, 1926. This is no. 273 of 515 copies given to Members of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, as a Souvenir-a keepsake, signed by Stone. Photographic Facimile from the Williamsburg Edition of 1730. 1 vols. 8vo. Quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Spine slightly chipped at top and bottom, else fine. This is no. 273 of 515... Read More
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Five Photographs of the Chain Reacting File and Attached Instrument by Argonne National Labratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee: Atomic Energy Commission, 12/2/46. Declassified Document. MDDC 509. For use within the Atomic Energy Commission only. 10 pages, with 5 pages of photographs. 4to. Stapled self wrappers. VG. Declassified Document. MDDC 509. For use within the Atomic Energy Commission only. 10 pages, with 5 pages of photographs. 4to.
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Drawings: One entitled in reverse: "Priapus sive Pan
3 drawings. Signed lower left in an undecipherable hand. 12 x 8 inches. Fine. 3 drawings. Signed lower left in an undecipherable hand. 12 x 8 inches.
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The Correspondence of Mrs. Virginia Myers, (which have never before been published or even read in Court,) to Dudley Marvin Hoyt, who was murdered at Richmond, Sept. 28, 1846, by Wm. R. Myers and Two Others. Together with a Denial of the Truth of Mrs. Myers' Letter of Explanation of November Last, From Alta Vista. Likewise Added a Short Biography of D.M. Hoyt, By a Relative of the Deceased
Philadelphia, 1847. 63 pp. Printed in two columns. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue printed wrappers, with tears and minor loss, Signed L. M. Thorn on the upper cover. 63 pp. Printed in two columns. 1 vols. 8vo. McDade: "Dudley Hoyt had been intimate with Mrs. Myers in a hotel in Richmond, Virginia. Her husband, with his brother and a... Read More
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Vanity Fair, A Weekly Show of Politics, Social and Literary Wares
London: Vanity Fair" Office No. 27 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, W.C. Printed by Ranken and Co., Drury House, St. Mary-Le-Strand, 1872. Illustrated with Plate Numbers 13-269 in full-page color by Spy, Ape, etc. 10 vols. Folio. Original green cloth. Fine, minor rubbing. Bookplate of Fritz Hermann Jordan. Illustrated with Plate Numbers 13-269 in full-page color by Spy, Ape,... Read More
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Photo Album: Hunting, Fishing, Canoeing, and Outdoor Life
[N.p., American Northeast, 1900. 96 3 x 2 inch Kodak Brownie photographs, mounted 4 to a page. Oblong 8vo. Brown cloth album. Photographs generally fine. 96 3 x 2 inch Kodak Brownie photographs, mounted 4 to a page. Oblong 8vo. Includes deerhunting scenes, camping, fishing from a boat and netting fish near a dam, boating, canoeing; views of... Read More
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Biblical Museum. Collected from the Holy Land
New York: Paul S. Iskyian 42 Franklin Street. 22 round boxes and 5 rectangular ones. With 1 leaf description of facsimile coins. 1 vols. 10-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches. Laid in cloth box, with paper printed label. 22 round boxes and 5 rectangular ones. With 1 leaf description of facsimile coins. 1 vols. 10-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches.
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Our Private Car Party to Cobalt, Ontario The Richest Mining Camp in the World. Five Days' Round Trip from Galesburg
Galesburg, Illinois: Bates & Nead. 6 real photos tipped in. Printed by Republican-Register Print. [8]pp. Oblong 8vo. Blue gray wrappers. Fine. 6 real photos tipped in. Printed by Republican-Register Print. [8]pp. Oblong 8vo.
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Articles of Religion, as established by the Bishops, The Clergy, and Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in Convention on the 12th Day of September...1801
New York: Printed by T. & J. Swords, 1802. First Edition. 22pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled wrappers, GTS and Stinnecke Maryland Episcopal Library stamps. In red cloth slipcase and chemise. First Edition. 22pp. 12mo. Thirty-nine articles of faith of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Shaw & Shoemaker, 2942
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Rules, Orders, and Ordinances for the Fisheries in Thames and Medway
London: Printed by Arthur Taylor, 39, Coleman Street, Printer to the Honourable City of London, 1856. 36 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Half green calf over marbled boards, t.e.g., by Zaehnsdorf. Bookplate of Dean Sage. Very Good. 36 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. This edition not noted in Westwood & Satchell. No copy recorded in OCLC. Sage p. 197 (this... Read More
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Photograph album of Scouting, camping, and other outdoor subjects
1910. 236 black and white photos (most 2 x 3 or 6-1/4 x 4 in.), mounted to album leaves. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Black cloth. Fine. 236 black and white photos (most 2 x 3 or 6-1/4 x 4 in.), mounted to album leaves. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. A great visual record of outdoor activities from a vanished... Read More
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English Scrapbook
1830. Contains about 180 prints, dating from 1833 to 1835 by R. Ackermnann, Thomson, H. Ryall, Mercier, Zobel, etc; including 3 prints from the Beauties of Brighton. Pasted on to the recto, some full page and some 1/2 page, some smaller, including some relief prints. Bound in elaborate contempoary crimson morocco, with paper onlays, with wide crimson morocco dentelles... Read More
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Charter, By-Laws, Officers and Members of the Ristigouche Salmon Club
Matapedia, P.Q., Canada: [Privately printed], 1986. Illustrated. [2], 62 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Dark green morocco-grained cloth, upper cover titled in gilt. Fine. Book label of Charles B. Wood, III. Illustrated. [2], 62 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. “These little membership books, which were presumably issued every year, are rare as hen’s teeth” — Charles Wood, Bibliotheca Salmo salar.... Read More
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Mehlspeisen, Pasteten, und allerlei Backwerken [German Manuscript Cookery Book]
N.p. [Germany], 1825. Ink on paper, 21 pp. with two smaller leaves loosely inserted, 6 blank leaves at back. 1 vols. 8vo. Green lithographed wrappers with ornamental borders, titled in ink on front "Kochbuchlein ... 1825", back wrapper with view of Tempelhof, Berlin. Very good. Ink on paper, 21 pp. with two smaller leaves loosely inserted, 6 blank... Read More
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Arno Werner, One Man's Work. Introduced and edited by Carol J. Blinn
East Hampton: Warwick Press, 1982. One of 200, inscribed by Carol Blinn on colophon page. With hand water colored portrait of Arno on title page. 6 plates with 12 photos of bindings tipped in. Also with extra signature and 6 plates showing 12 bindings in color, printed on glossy stock. pp. [6], 15, [1], [14]. 1 vols. Small 8vo.... Read More
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La Vie Privée et Publique des Animaux. Vignettes par Grandville. Études de moeurs contemporaines par MM. De Balzac, George Sand, Cahrles Nodier, Stahl [et al.]
Paris: Chez Mm. Mareeseq et Compagnie; Chez Gustave Havard, 1852. Illus by Grandville. 217, [1]pp. 4to. Quarter contemporary green morocco with gilt emblematic tooling on the spine. Some textual staining. Bookplate of Lila Ross Hotz, later Lila Luce (signed Lila Luce August, 1931 on ffep) (Wife of Henry Luce) and then Lila Tyng. Illus by Grandville. 217, [1]pp.... Read More
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The Barb Wire Herald ... Iowa Barb Wire Co. Sole Manufacturers of Burnell's Patent Four-Pointed Barb Wire Fencing .
New York: Office & Warehouse 99 John Street, 1880. Printed on yellow paper, illustrated. 4pp. Bifolium, 19 x 14 inches. Old folds. Printed on yellow paper, illustrated. 4pp. Bifolium, 19 x 14 inches. Barbed wire was first invented in the late 1860s and became an indispensible tool for homesteaders in the settlement of the west. An early and... Read More
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[Psalms. Arabic] [Kitab Mazamir Daud al-Malik wa an-Nabi]
London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1819. First separate B.F.B.S. edition. Title page and text in Arabic. [2], 155 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary sheep. Title leaf with embossed stamp, University of Vermont library, with bookplate and release stamp. Minor rubbing at head of spine, very good plus. First separate B.F.B.S. edition. Title page and text in Arabic.... Read More
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The Shakspere Gallery, Containing the Principal Female Characters in the Plays of the Great Poet
London: Charles Tilt, 1835. 42 engravings. 1 vols. 4to. Three-quarter dark brown morocco over light brown, gilt portrait of Shakespeare on upper board, a.e.g. Rubbed, upper hinge cracked, title page missing. Some light foxing to plates. 42 engravings. 1 vols. 4to.
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The Parish of Shoddyville. Their new minister and How they got him.
1883. 38 pp. on lined paper 24 lines per page. Corrected and annotated. 4to. Fine, with ties, some toning. 38 pp. on lined paper 24 lines per page. Corrected and annotated. 4to. This manuscript is not for the book: Shoddyville. A social and political satire. By Paladin. [In verse.] Author: PALADIN, pseud. Publisher: London : Kerby & Endean,... Read More
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Case of 1799 re: Mannings Marsh and 17th c./18th c. acts re: tribal Indian lands
3 pp. Folio. Some edge chips, else VG. 3 pp. Folio. "Mannings Marsh was surveyd for Manning on the 29th March 1663, and was patented the 11th Sept. 1663 to Mr. Dorrington...
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Print: The Constitution of the United States
(New YorK): United States Sesquicentennial Commission, 1937. 1 vols. 16" X 21" (image size). Framed and glazed. Christy, Joel Chandler. 1 vols. 16" X 21" (image size). Inscribed on front lower left "Dr. William H. Rauchfuss/ with greetings and best regards/ Howard Chandler Christy/ March 22-38.
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Taconic Mountain Club
Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1893. 15, [1]pp., plus folding map. 16mo. Publisher's lettered wrappers. Small chip to lower left corner of upper wrapper, tape repair to spine. 15, [1]pp., plus folding map. 16mo. Organized in 1893 to promote the preservation of lands in Mount Washington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, the present pamphlet comprises the By-Laws of the organization... Read More
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