Manuscript album amicorum kept by Cecilia Beverly (Stearns) Houghton, with entries in poetry and prose from friends, fellow Methodists, and others related to Turin, NY, Red Creek Union Academy or nearby
New York State, 1845. Manuscript throughout, written on multi-colored paper. Approx. 40pp. (the rest being blank). 8vo. Contemporary half morocco and marbled paper boards, worn. Manuscript throughout, written on multi-colored paper. Approx. 40pp. (the rest being blank). 8vo. Cecilia Beverly Stearns (1812-1900) married Rev. Royal Houghton (1802-1881) in 1837, a minister in the Central New York Conference of... Read More
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The Criminal Recorder, or An Awful Beacon to the rising generations of both sexes
Philadelphia: Robert Desilver, 1824. Originally published 1810. With 6 copperplates. vi, 280pp. 12mo. Bound in quarter calf. Very Good. Originally published 1810. With 6 copperplates. vi, 280pp. 12mo. AI 15894
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The Spectator. Volume[s] the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh
London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, n.d.. Engraved frontispieces. 5 vols. 12mo. Contempory calf. Board detached, spines somewhat chipped. Engraved frontispieces. 5 vols. 12mo. Each signed “A. Cooke, Manchester … 1926”.
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Kling-Klang Gloria. Deutsche volks und kinderleider
Vienna & Leipzig: Tempsk & Freytag, 1907. First edition. Arranged by W. Labler. Printed music within black and white borders, illustrated with 16 beautiful color plates by HEINRICH HEFLER and JOSEF URBAN. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Decorated paper boards, cloth spine, decorated endpapers. Boards worn along edges, spine tips a little rubbed and inner hinge cracked. Interior very good.... Read More
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Pencil Drawing: House, Female Figure in Background
13 1/2 x 10 inches (Image Size). Matted. Fine. 13 1/2 x 10 inches (Image Size).
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The Library of Mary Queen of Scots, and of King James the Sixth [half-title]
[Glasgow: Maitland Club, 1834. Privately printed limited edition. 25, [1] pp. 4to. Period citron morocco, gilt. Covers rubbed. Privately printed limited edition. 25, [1] pp. 4to. A privately printed volume for the Maitland Club, a 19th century Scottish bibliophilic society.
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Wisdom in Miniature: or, Pocket Encycloedia of Common Sense
New York: G.G. Sickels Publsiher, 1830. From the 40th London edition. Hand-coloured frontis. (tipped back in facing the front pastedown) 106 pp. Original blue paper over boards with "Wisdom in Miniature" on upper cover. From the 40th London edition. Hand-coloured frontis. (tipped back in facing the front pastedown) 106 pp. Not an uncommon title, but unknown with this... Read More
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History and Anecdotes of the Elephant with Beautiful Engravings
New Haven, Connecticut: S. Babcock, 1840. 16 pp., seven full-page engravings, plus engraving on each wrapper. 48mo. Stitch bound illustrated blue wrappers, tender with some separation at lower spine, with inscription in pencil on inside cover, some rubbing on lower cover near foot of spine, soiling on verso at bottom corner near spine, some toning to pages, else a... Read More
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Colored pen drawing on 12 attached bamboo slats, with 12 2-sided flip panels revealing Kama Sutra positions
India, ca. mid 20th century. 14-1/2 x 13-1/4 inches. Fine. 14-1/2 x 13-1/4 inches.
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Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum sive Samscrudonicum
Rome: Typis. Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1772. First edition. 9 folding charts. xxviii, 100 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Recent morocco backed marbled boards, a.e.g. Fine. First edition. 9 folding charts. xxviii, 100 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. First type specimen of the Grantha or Malabar alphabet, now most frequently known as Malayalam. Birrell & Garnett 16;... Read More
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The Booke of Common Prayer: And administration of the Sacraments: And other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England
London: Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton, and John Bill, printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, 1629. Title within woodcut border. Calendar printed in red and black. Text in two columns, with ornament sectional headpieces and initials. [100] pp. Signatures: A⁴ B-H⁶ I⁴. 1 vols. 4to. Reddish-brown roan over bevelled boards tooled in blind, with contrasting gilt labels,... Read More
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The History of Almira. Designed to Show the Advantages of a Good Education. By a Youth
Merideth, [N. H.]: Published by Jason Lothrop (George Hough, Printer, Concord, [N. H.]), 1815. First edition. pp. [4](blank), viii, [9]-68. 1 vols. 64mo (measuring 3 1/4 by 2 1/8 inches). Paper over boards. Owner's small bookplate on inside front cover. A few surface abrasions, thin chip at crown of spine and top edge of front and rear covers, short... Read More
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Le Livre des Cent Ballades...avec une introduction, des notes historiques et un glossaire par le Marquis de Queux de Saint Hilaire
Paris: F. Maillet, Librairie-Éditeur, 1868. Number 291 of 500 copies. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, original vellum wrappers bound in. Number 291 of 500 copies. 1 vols. 8vo.
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The Gentleman Angler. Containing Short, Plain and Easy Instructions whereby the most ignorant Beginner, may in a little Time, become a perfect Artist in Angling ... to which is added the Angler's New Song ... ,By a Gentleman who has made Angling his Diversion upwards of Twenty-Eight Years
London: A. Bettesworth at the Red-Lyon in Pater-Noster-Row, 1726. First edition. [xii], 184, [5, index], [3, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound in half green nineteenth century morocco and marbled boards. Very good. With the ink ownership signature of "Willm Wilson/Oct 11th Anno/ p. 95." on the half-title and again on (Oct 12th) the title page. Bookplate of Frederick... Read More
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Yacht Racing Log. Foreword by Herbert L. Stone
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933. First Edition, one of an indeterminate number of copies. Log book of 140 pages, providing data for 70 races. 5 pages completed for August 1933 out of New Haven Yacht Club, Douglas Crocker, Skipper. 1 vols. 8vo. Original white canvas cloth, with blue printing and ornaments. Fine. Bookplate. Laid into a quarter crimson... Read More
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A Biographical Sketch of Gen. Joseph Warren, Embracing the Prominent Events of His Life, and his Boston Orations of 1772 and 1775; Together with the Celebrated Eulogy Pronounced by Perez Morton, M. M., on the Re-internment of the Remains by the Masonic Order, at King's Chapel, in 1776. By A Bostonian
Boston: Sheoard, Clark & Brown, 110 Washington Street, 1857. First edition. Frontis. portrait and another full-page plate. viii, [9]-85 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Pictorial tan printed wrappers. Fine. First edition. Frontis. portrait and another full-page plate. viii, [9]-85 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.
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The Hunter's Guide and Trapper's Companion. A Complete Guide in All the Various Methods by which to Capture all kinds of Game, Fur Animals, &c. … By an Experienced Woodsman. [And:] Hunter’s Guide Appendix
Hinsdale, N.H.: Hunter & Co, 1871. First edition, with an intermediate state of the Appendix. 58; [59]-74; [6, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Brown cloth stamped in gilt. Very good plus. First edition, with an intermediate state of the Appendix. 58; [59]-74; [6, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Includes chapters on the Birch Bark Canoe and on Fishing.... Read More
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Lakota 1891-1991
Barnard, Vermont: The Lakota Club, 1991. First edition. Illustrated with photographs, typographic decorations from flies tied by Jim Otranto. [x], 107 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth, spine titled in silver, upper board with vignette of leaping trout, pictorial endpapers bound by Robert Lewis. Fine. First edition. Illustrated with photographs, typographic decorations from flies tied by Jim Otranto.... Read More
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Bible in Hindostan. The New Testament in Hindostání. Sixth Edition. 8vo, cloth, printed paper spine-label; Calcutta, 1851. Not in Darlow & Moule
Calcutta, 1851. Sixth Edition. 12mo. Contemporary pebbled cloth, with paper spine label "New Testament in Hindustani", with Bowdoin Library withdrawal stamp, spine-ends frayed, library bookplate and ink stamp on front pastedown, embossed stamp on title, generally sound otherwise. Sixth Edition. 12mo. Not in Darlow & Moule
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Ensembles mobiliers. 1939, volume 4
Paris: Editions d'Art Charles Moreau, 1939. [vi], 48 plates in black and white. 1 vols. 4to. Sheets loose in portfolio with ribbon ties, as issued. Portfolio covers with markings, scratches, some rubbing. Preliminary leaves slightly stained. Plates near fine and well-preserved, a few a bit dark around the edges or with small tears/ minor foxing. [vi], 48 plates... Read More
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Farewell Speech of King Edward the Eighth Broadcast from Windsor Castle the Tenth Day of December MCMXXXVI, With the Instrument of Abdication & A Note by William Saroyan
San Francisco: Ransohoffs [at the Grabhorn Press], 1938. Illustrated by a colored wood-engraving of the lion & the unicorn by Mallette Dean. [ii], [26] pp. Folio. Bound in half pigskin, with cloth board. Fine. Illustrated by a colored wood-engraving of the lion & the unicorn by Mallette Dean. [ii], [26] pp. Folio. Heller and Magee 299
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The Gridiron Sporting Guide 1926
Washington, D.C.: Gridiron Club, 1926. First edition. Illus. 86, [6, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original white and black cloth, stamped in red cloth. Fine. First edition. Illus. 86, [6, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Inscribed by the Club president Clifford K. Berryman with a sketch of a Teddy Bear on page 6. Berryman was a Pulitzer-prize winning... Read More
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Men of Mark. A Gallery of Contemporary Porraits distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in Science, Literature and Art, the Army, Navy, Law, Medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper, F.S.A.
London, 1876. First Edition. 252 mounted woodburytype photographic mounted portraits (36 to each volume). 7 vols. 4to. Original uniform green gilt-decorated cloth. First Edition. 252 mounted woodburytype photographic mounted portraits (36 to each volume). 7 vols. 4to.
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Islamic Devotional Manuscript on paper, Arabic in 12-line naskhi script in black, fully vocalized, sectional titles in blue, with interlinear Persian translation in red nastaliq, within gilt and blue rule borders, catchwords in black nastaliq, polychrome gilt headpiece. Incipit: Haddathna as-Sayyid li-Ajli Najm ad-Din Baha ash-Sharaf …
[Persia, n.d., late 18th or early 19th century C.E.]. 139 leaves. Complete. With an added date in another hand at end, 22 Ramadan al-Mubarak 1245 [= 1829 C.E.]. 1 vols. 12mo. Nineteenth century pasteboard covers. Worn, spine with old cloth tape repair; first and last leaves backed. Opening page somewhat soiled.Marginalia in several neat hands. A few leaves loosened.... Read More
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Sir Francis Drake's Nautical Almanack 1546. with a foreword by Sir Alec Rose, Kt. on the occasion of the four hundredth anniversary of Drake's circumnavigation of the globe.The Accompanying explanatory sheet is by Commander Derek Howse of the National Maritime Museum
London: Npttingham Court Press in Assoc. aith Magadalene College, 1980. a facsimile taken from the rare copy in the Pepys Library. #77 of 400. Fold out colour map. 4 x 3 inches. Brown morocco and slipcase. Fine. Bound by Scolar Press. a facsimile taken from the rare copy in the Pepys Library. #77 of 400. Fold out colour... Read More
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