La Coltivatione di Luigi Alamanni al christianissimo Francessco primo
by Alamanni, Luigi (1495-1556)
Florence: Bernardo Giunta, 1546. Second edition, first to be printed in Italy. [1, blank], 102, [1] leaves. Woodcut device on title and verso of the terminal leaf. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. Second edition, first to be printed in Italy. [1, blank], 102, [1] leaves. Woodcut device on title and verso of the terminal leaf. 8vo. Second edition of Alamanni's... Read More
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Diario de un Testigo de la Guerra de Africa ... Con Vistas de Batallas, de Ciudades y Paisajes, Tipos, Trajes y Monumentos, con el Retrato del Autor y de los Principales Personajes Copiados de Fotografias y Croquis Ejecutados en el Memo Teatro de la Guerra
by Alarcon, D. Pedro Antonio de
Madrid: Imprenta y Libreria de Gaspar y Roig, 1860. Early edition (Title pages dated 1859 have been seen but the text includes events of 1860). Portrait of the author. Abundantly illustrated with steel engravings throughout. Text printed in two columns. 317, [3] pp. 1 vols. 4to. Twentieth century quarter morocco and marble boards. Spine toned; occasional tanning or foxing,... Read More
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The Three-Cornered Hat
by Alarcon, Pedro Antonio de
New York: H. Bittner & Company, 1944. One of 500 copies printed by hand by Victor & Jacob Hammer at the Wells College Press. 21 hand-colored woodcuts by Fritz Kredel. 149, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Mustard-yellow cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Fine in pictorial fine dj and glassine. Bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim. Kredel, Fritz. One of 500 copies... Read More
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Alaskan Boundary Tribunal. United States Atlas. Maps and Charts accompanying the Case and Counter Case of the Unites States
by (Alaska)
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904. 47 Colored & black and white maps, some double-page. 1 vols. Folio. Bound in quarter calf and pebbled black cloth, spine split. Ex Libris of James Wickersham. 47 Colored & black and white maps, some double-page. 1 vols. Folio.
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Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska, in Reponse to the Resolution of the House of Representatives of December 11, 1884
by (Alaska)
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1885. First edition. Numerous plates, including 3 color lithographs and 10 phototype plates. 695 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Three-quarters red morocco. Spine largely perished, boards detached but present. Internally Fine. First edition. Numerous plates, including 3 color lithographs and 10 phototype plates. 695 pp. 1 vols. 4to.
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Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Cession of Russian America to the United States
by (Alaska) Sumner, Charles
Washington, D.C.: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1867. First edition. Text in two columns. 48pp. Without the folding map (not issued in all copies). Stitched. First edition. Text in two columns. 48pp. Without the folding map (not issued in all copies). Sumner's important speech in support of the ratification oof the treaty with Russia which ceded what... Read More
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Frances Lake, Yukon. Dawson 1887 Hunter 1923
by (Alaska) Hunter, Fenley
Flushing, Long Island: [Marion Press], 1924. Copy #X of 50 copies. Printed at the Marion Press. Inscribed on the colophon page to Thomas A. Larremore April 2/26 from the printer Frank E. Hopkins. Larremore was the bibliographer of the Marion Press. Illustrated with folding map, folding view, numerous photographic plates and inserted sketch maps. Pp. 103, [1, colophon]. 1... Read More
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Autograph Letter, signed. To Mr. Miller
by (Alaska) Foster, John Watson (1836-1917)
Washington, D.C., 1899. 4 pp. 4to. Old folds, else fine. 4 pp. 4to. The letter traces the diplomatic claims of Great Britain in Alaska and goes into detail about the 2 contested parts, the "Portland Channel" and the parallel 50 degrees to Mt. St. Elias. He is grandfather of John Foster and Allen Dulles. He was also... Read More
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Manon Lescaut translated from the French of the Abbé Prévost by D. C. Moylan. Introduction by Arthur Symons
by (ALASTAIR) Prévost d'Exiles, Antoine François
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1928. 11 illustrations by Alastair. 1 vols. 4to. Blue cloth with red lettering on front cover and backstrip, uncut, top edge stained red. Backstrip faded, covers faded along top edge, else FINE. 11 illustrations by Alastair. 1 vols. 4to. Possibly a remainder binding. This volume includes the limitation (of 1850 copies), but... Read More
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Sebastian Van Storck
by (Alastair) Pater, Walter
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927. No. 556 of 1050 copies, with a plate signed by Alastair. Title page printed in red and black, illustrations in red, sepia, and black. 1 vols. Tall 4to. Original pictorial linen. Immaculate, unopened copy in half morocco drop box. Alastair. No. 556 of 1050 copies, with a plate signed by Alastair. Title page... Read More
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Sebastian Van Storck
by (Alastair) Pater, Walter
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1927. One of 1050 copies SIGNED at plate facing p. 54. Illustrated title page and 7 plates in red, sepia, and black; 67, [1] pp. 1 vols. Tall 4to. Original pictorial linen. In original slipcase, split. Alastair. One of 1050 copies SIGNED at plate facing p. 54. Illustrated title page and 7... Read More
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Autograph album with photographs and inscriptions of Albany Law School Class of 1860 and faculty
by (Albany Law School) Colony, Horatio
[Albany, 1860. 62 vintage albumen prints, comprising 60 oval gem portraits (1-1/2 x 1 inches), 1 larger oval portrait (2-1/8 x 1-5/8 inches) and 1 full-length (3-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches). 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary brown morocco autograph album, stamped in gilt and blind,W.B. Sprague blindstamp on ffep. A few portrait photos damaged, or loose, 2 inscriptions are without photos.... Read More
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Two Vagabonds in Albania
by (Albania) Gordon, Jan and Cora J.
London: John Lane, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927. First edition. Frontispiece and illustrations by the authors. Pp. [xiv], 304. 1 vols. 8vo. Original royal blue cloth with elaborate mosaic pattern in orange and black on upper cover and spine. Original dust jacket. Some tears and losses to jacket, some short tears or losses in margins of some... Read More
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Portrait photograph of Edward Albee
by (Albee, Edward) Van Vechten, Carl
New York, 1961. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978). Half-length, seated, in semi-profile. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 35 x 23 cm. (approx 14 x 8-3/4 inches). Fine. Verso docketed with holograph notations in pencil giving the name of the sitter, date of the photograph, and the the Van Vechten's reference to negative and print... Read More
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Portrait photograph of Edward Albee
by (Albee, Edward) Van Vechten, Carl
New York, 1961. Variant of the session portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Half-length, seated in profile. Gelatin silver print. 1 vols. 35 x 22 cm. (approx 14 x 8-3/4 inches). Fine. Verso docketed with holograph notations in pencil giving the name of the sitter, date of the photograph, and... Read More
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Collection of 16 autograph letters to John Albee from William James, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Todd Lincoln, Rowland Evans Robinson, Louise Imogen Guiney, A. Bronson Alcott, George Washington Cable, and others
by (Albee, John)
New Castle, New Hampshire, 1906. 17 leaves, folded, comprising 38 manuscript pages in ink, and 2 addressed and postmarked envelopes. All letters have been well kept; a very good collection with interesting associations. 17 leaves, folded, comprising 38 manuscript pages in ink, and 2 addressed and postmarked envelopes. New Castle historian and poet, John Albee (b.1833 - d.1915),... Read More
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Roosevelt and the Money Power. Responsibility of Dishonest High Finance for the Panic of 1907
by Albert, John C.
New York: Sulwarth Printing Company, 1908. 110 pp. 12mo. Publisher's printed pink stapled wrappers. Covers chipped and creased, lightly soiled. In half blue morocco and cloth drop box with red leather label. 110 pp. 12mo. The first financial panic of the 20th century.
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“A nun and a small peasant girl” entitled "From a Watercolour Sketch by E. Landseer
by Albert, Prince, after E. Landseer
1843. Signed lower left "Albert Jan. 10, 1843.". 1 vols. Approx. 7-1/4 x 6 inches. Etching by Prince Albert, matted. Signed lower left "Albert Jan. 10, 1843.". 1 vols. Approx. 7-1/4 x 6 inches. Rare - the plate for this print remained private and was never used for a published edition.
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Nuovo Dizonario Italiano-Francese
by Alberti
Genova: Presso Ivone Gravier, Stampatore-Librajo, 1811. 2 vols. Large 4to. Quarter contemp calf and marbled boards, chip to one head. 2 vols. Large 4to.
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Collection of chapbook and broadside cuts bound in an album
by (Bewick et al)
8 x 6-1/2 inches. Contemporary half calf, hinge off. Largely disbound, some proofs apparently extracted. 8 x 6-1/2 inches. Bound with two broadsides: 1. Cards Spiritualized: Almanack, Bible & Prayer Book. Printed and Sold by T. Bloomer Edgbaston-street, Birminghamn (13-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches) 2. The Christian Alphabet or, Parents' Guide & Childrens' Instructor ; T. Bloomer's, Cheap Juvenile... Read More
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Letters from a Portugese Nun to an Officer. Translated by W.R. Bowles
by [Alcoforado, Mariana]
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1817. Second edition. Bowles First edition was done in 1808. Frontis. xv, [i], 28pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original almost contemporary ribbed brown cloth, gilt spine. VG. Bookplate. Second edition. Bowles First edition was done in 1808. Frontis. xv, [i], 28pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Debate continues as to whether Mariana was the... Read More
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New Connecticut. An Autobiographical Poem
by Alcott, A. Bronson
Boston: Privately printed, 1881. First edition. 158 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Spine defective, chips to corner margin of front wrapper, stitching loose. Good plus. Owner note at top margin of title, “bought at a rummage sale, 1900”. First edition. 158 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Usually seen in cloth. Pp. 73-158 are notes by the editor,... Read More
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The Sword and the Pen. Vol 1, Numbers 1-10 (Complete)
by (Alcott, Louisa May) Chandler, Horace P., editor
Boston: The Sword and the Pen, 1881. First Edition. Illustrated. Large 4to. Quarter cloth and boards, some wear. Ex-Library bookplate only. First Edition. Illustrated. Large 4to. Includes: L.M. Alcott's short story Red Cap in Numbers 1-4. BAL 123 (A Bronson Allcott); 197 (L.M. Alcott)
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AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG. Shawl-Straps
by Alcott, Louisa May
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872. First edition. pp. [6], viii, 226 (followed by 6 pages of ads), illustrated. 16mo. Orange cloth, Light wear to cloth at extremities of spine and corners, tiny pin-hole on spine, slight bubbling to cloth on rear cover, short tear to lower edge of front flyleaf (archivally mended), else a very good copy. First edition.... Read More
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AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG. My Boys, Etc.
by Alcott, Louisa May
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1872. First edition. Illustrated. 215pp. 16mo. Blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Owner's contemporary ink name on second front flyleaf, dated in year of publication ("Oct. 1872"). Cloth is lightly worn (with bit of fraying) at tips of spine, tips of corners rubbed, else a very good, bright copy, with gilt lettering on spine fresh and... Read More
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