![[AGRICULTURE] DEVONDALE STOCK FARM. CATALOGUE OF PURE-BRED DEVON CATTLE. OFFERED AT A PRIVATE SALE. ADDRESS: L. R. C. HOWARD, ZANESVILLE, OHIO](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/515/726/1590726515.0.m.jpg)
[AGRICULTURE] DEVONDALE STOCK FARM. CATALOGUE OF PURE-BRED DEVON CATTLE. OFFERED AT A PRIVATE SALE. ADDRESS: L. R. C. HOWARD, ZANESVILLE, OHIO
Zanesville, Ohio: Steam Printing House of L. D. Sandel, 1875. Large 8vo.; stitched pamphlet in pale blue wrappers printed with decoration and titling printed in gold; 24 pages, with a History of Devon Cattle in America, followed by a listing of the Devondale Stock Farm Cows & Heifers "From the Patterson Importation" and "From the Wainwright Importation". Zanesville Ohio... Read More
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![[RICHMOND] SOUVENIR PROGRAM. THE 4th ANNUAL TOBACCO FESTIVAL. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. OCTOBER 16-18, 1952](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/463/859/1691859463.0.m.jpg)
[RICHMOND] SOUVENIR PROGRAM. THE 4th ANNUAL TOBACCO FESTIVAL. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. OCTOBER 16-18, 1952
[Richmond]: N/A, 1952. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. Program for the 4th Annual Tobacco Festival game in which U.Va. and V.M.I. faced off at Richmond Stadium on October 18, 1952 at 1:00 p.m.; 56 pages; in printed wrappers, with many Richmond ads. ~~Uncommon relic of “Tobaccoland’s Greatest Annual Celebration”. Very Good binding.
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![[MILITARY] HUMOROUS BROADSIDE; ALBERT J. RODGERS. TRANSPORTATION CORPS, LIVORNO](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/456/829/1266829456.0.m.jpg)
[MILITARY] HUMOROUS BROADSIDE; ALBERT J. RODGERS. TRANSPORTATION CORPS, LIVORNO
An elaborate and comic broadside. presenting an "Honored Degree of Genius of Mathematical Orders" to one Albert J. Rodgers -- "Marine Superintendent and Watcher of the Curveline for Missing Vessels". The "degree" is hand-lettered on a 32 x 20" piece of parchment, and has a seal emblazoned with a drawing of a sinking ship. Watercolor illustration... Read More
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![[RELIGION] [10th VIRGINIA] FORMAL FRATERNITY. PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCES OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH, IN 1872, 1874, AND 1876 AND OF THE JOINT COMMISSION OF THE TWO CHURCHES ON FRATERNAL RELATIONS, AT CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, AUGUST 16-23. 1876](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/249/108/1684108249.0.m.jpg)
[RELIGION] [10th VIRGINIA] FORMAL FRATERNITY. PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCES OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH, IN 1872, 1874, AND 1876 AND OF THE JOINT COMMISSION OF THE TWO CHURCHES ON FRATERNAL RELATIONS, AT CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, AUGUST 16-23. 1876
New York: Nelson & Phillips, 1876. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in brown flexible cloth boards titled in gold to the upper board; 87 pages; rebacked with new brown japanese tissue.~~This copy with the signature of J. S. Hutchinson, dated November 5th, 1874, and a later gift inscription to “Collins Denny, 1895.” Collins Denny was... Read More
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![[CHILDREN] FUN & FANCY FOR THE LITTLE ONES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/493/809/1584809493.0.m.jpg)
[CHILDREN] FUN & FANCY FOR THE LITTLE ONES
New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1890. Pictorial Boards. Very Good binding. A fragile late 19th century children's books in pictorial boards. There is some cracking to the spine, but it is essentially all present. The boards are bright, with the usual corner wear and rubbing to the extremities. Front hinge has been reinforced with japanese tissue. Glue residue... Read More
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THE LITTLE HOUSEWIFE. | BIBLE STORIES. (ONE VOLUME)
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1880. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. First Edition of The Little Housewife, together with Bible Stories, in one volume. Separate pagination. Illustrated title page for The Little Housewife, frontispieces, and additional illustrations throughout, many full page. Blindstamp, and faint contemporary owner's name on the front board. Toning to the spine,... Read More
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![[RICHMOND BOOK BUSINESS] LETTERHEAD OF LINDEN CORNER BOOK SELLERS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/993/627/1552627993.0.m.jpg)
[RICHMOND BOOK BUSINESS] LETTERHEAD OF LINDEN CORNER BOOK SELLERS
Approximately 8 1/2 x 14" letterhead on foolscap with text and image in green; the image showing Linden Row; Linden Corner was at First and Franklin "in historic Linden Row"; The five-digit phone number as 7-4737. The shop advertised itself as "In the American Tradition"; some discoloration at the top righthand corner.~~An interesting relic of a long-forgotten member of... Read More
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BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW: Volume XVIII - Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of PLYMOUTH COUNTY Massachusetts
Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. 638pp. Rare; copiously illustrated with black and white photos of prominent citizens; no pencil or ink markings evident in text; black leather binding, light edge wear to extremities; re-backed;. near Very Good binding.
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![[GUTENBERG] LIBER LIBRORUM. 500th ANNIVERSARY OF THE PRINTING OF THE GUTENBERG BIBLE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/044/028/1715028044.0.m.jpg)
[GUTENBERG] LIBER LIBRORUM. 500th ANNIVERSARY OF THE PRINTING OF THE GUTENBERG BIBLE
Stockholm Royal Library, 1955. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Portfolio in paper-covered boards backed in linen; with printed card stock pamphlet and 42 samples of printing of the Book of Genesis; the portfolio itself is rubbed and the linen is foxed; the 43 samples are fine. Very Good binding.
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OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1854
Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1854. Soft Cover. Poor binding. Sewn paperback, with significant paper reinforcement along the spine, and textblock and covers nearly fully separated and disbound. Folding diagram. Contemporary owner's name on the front cover. Poor binding.
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![THE MIRROR. A PERIODICAL PAPER ... VOL. II OF THREE [WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/253/622/852622253.0.m.jpg)
THE MIRROR. A PERIODICAL PAPER ... VOL. II OF THREE [WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION]
London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1787. Seventeenth Edition. Very Good binding. A copy with a Washington association. On the pastedown is the signature of S. Tayloe Washington, signed again on the title page as Sarah Tayloe. Sarah Tayloe Washington was the third wife of Capt. William Augustine Washington, whose father, Augustine Washington II was the... Read More
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![[WOMEN] [THEATER] CABINET CARD OF MISS IRENE WOODWARD](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/851/543/1680543851.0.m.jpg)
[WOMEN] [THEATER] CABINET CARD OF MISS IRENE WOODWARD
Richmond, VA, 1875. Chicago, IL: 1880s. 6 ½” x 4 ¼”. Fair.~~Cabinet card with printed signature of Miss Irene Woodward, “America’s Original Tattooed Lady”. Known as La Belle Irene, she toured America and Europe. She claimed variously to have been tattooed by her father or abducted by tribesmen in the “South Seas”, she was actually tattooed by Samuel F.... Read More
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![[CIVIL WAR] PETERSBURG | CHANCELLORSVILLE | GETTYSBURG. [PAPERS OF THE MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. VOLUME V]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/659/776/1684776659.0.m.jpg)
[CIVIL WAR] PETERSBURG | CHANCELLORSVILLE | GETTYSBURG. [PAPERS OF THE MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. VOLUME V]
Boston: The Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, 1906. First Edtiion. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Small quarto; in the publisher’s blue cloth with insignia in gilt to the upper board and titling to the spine; vi, [vii, viii], [2], 3-442; followed by 4 maps in the rear of the book: “Cold Harbor to Petersburg”; “Petersburg Fortifications”; “Petersburg to... Read More
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![[SAMMELBAND] VIRGINIA ISSUES 1848-1892. 19 PAMPHLETS BOUND TOGETHER IN ONE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/541/061/1298061541.0.m.jpg)
[SAMMELBAND] VIRGINIA ISSUES 1848-1892. 19 PAMPHLETS BOUND TOGETHER IN ONE
1892. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A collection of 19 Virginia pamphlets, published from the 1840's to the early 1890s. Being three female college catalogues, nine 'Proceedings' of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Virginia, three issues of the 'Educational Journal of Virginia,' a Senate document on 'Improvements to the State of Virginia' (1848), an early Reconstruction-era 'Constitution of... Read More
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![[PHOTOGRAPH] U.S.S. TRUMPETFISH GUPPY I.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/037/359/1175359037.0.m.jpg)
[PHOTOGRAPH] U.S.S. TRUMPETFISH GUPPY I.
A mounted photograph (7 1/2" x 9 1/2"; on 9 1/2" x 10 1/2" captioned mount), along with a patch for the Trumpetfish attached at the top of the mount. The USS Trumpetish, a Balao class submarine was launched in May 1945 and in 1947 underwent a GUPPY (Greater Underwater Propulsive Power) conversion -- increasing her... Read More
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THE LORD'S PRAYER. MATTHEW 6:9 THROUGH 13
The Press of Ward Schori, 1982. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. Oblong miniature books (1 3/8" x 2 5/8")maroon leather stamped in gilt; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Near Fine binding.
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![[CIRCUS] [MEXICO] MEXICAN CIRCUS PROGRAMS, 1946-1968](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/408/295/1617295408.0.m.jpg)
[CIRCUS] [MEXICO] MEXICAN CIRCUS PROGRAMS, 1946-1968
The bulk of this collection consists of 8 seasonal commemorations of the Circo Atayde Hermanos, published by the circus as advertisements for the following year. Included are the volumes from 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1957, and 1958. Also included are the c.1958 20th anniversary commemoration of the Circo Union containing 2 inserts from other circus acts, and... Read More
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ONE HUNDRED AND ONE VIEWS: MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT
London: Rock Bros. Ltd, 1900. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Small quarto; in publisher's red flexible leather with decorations and titling in gilt to the upper board; 36 unnumbered pages with 101 photographic images of Manchester and environs -- "The Fountain, Boggart Hole, Clough"; "Mosley Street and Art Gallery"; and many others. All are black and white, and... Read More
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BUDDHIST WALL PAINTINGS OF WESTERN TIBET (In Japanese)
1980. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good Dustjacket. Quarto; in the publisher’s pictorial boards; about 120 pages of glossy color photographs of Tibetan wall paintings and about 100 pages of text in Japanese; published in 1981 or prior as there is an old invoice for the book dated 1981 laid in;. Very Good binding / Very Good Dustjacket.... Read More
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![[BROADSIDE] [SPECIAL PRESS] AN EVYL AT THE COLLEDG. HARVARD COLLEGE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/446/101/1207101446.0.m.0.jpg)
[BROADSIDE] [SPECIAL PRESS] AN EVYL AT THE COLLEDG. HARVARD COLLEGE
Harvard Yard, 1968. No. 28 of 40 copies hand-printed in the Harvard Yard by the Primer Printers, December 1968. Printed petition to the Magistrates of the Massachusetts Colony, May 5, 1672: An Evyl at the Colledg. We desire the removal of an Evyl (as it appereth to us) at the Colledg. and that is ... in... Read More
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![[ENGINEERING] NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS. A READY REFERENCE FOR SCRAPS OF PRINT..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/847/819/1291819847.0.m.jpg)
[ENGINEERING] NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS. A READY REFERENCE FOR SCRAPS OF PRINT..
London: Marcus, Ward & Co. Late 19th century English newspaper cuttings album, chock a block full of steel engraved advertisements for well over a hundred pieces of equipment -- everything from engines for yachts, to steam ploughs, water heaters and revolving ventilators. 61 pp. The binder has been repaired and is quite sturdy.
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SHOP TALK. OFFICIAL ORGANIZATION BULLETIN OF THE MISSISSIPPI A. AND M. COLLEGE. JULY 1918 THROUGH JANUARY 1919. VOL. IV, NO. 1, TO VOL. VI, NO. 2
Mississippi: Mississippi A. and M. College, 1919. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The weekly issues of Shop Talk from July, 1918 through January, 1919. The typewritten bulletin of Mississippi A&M. With detailed information about the college, and statistics from the World War I era. Text is somewhat faded throughout, with toning to the pages. Bookplate on the front... Read More
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[MINIATURE] ‘CARTA’ (LETTER)
Mexico: Trifon Lecturas, 1979. 2 ½” x 1 ¾” light blue tome titled ‘Carta (Letter)’ by Mauricio Charpenal published through Trifón Lecturas, reprinting an historical letter. Charpenal is the author of a 1970 book about miniatures in popular Mexican art. The intro states that this letter was written by Niceto de Zamacois, a Spanish/Mexican historian, journalist, novelist, and poet.... Read More
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ABC BUCH UND LESE UND DENK-UEBUNGEN BEI DEM ERSTEN UNTERRICHT DER KINDER: NACH DEN BESTEN MUSTENR VON PESTALOZZI, STEPHANI UND ANDERN BEARBEITET. ERSTES BUCH
New York: H. Ludwig, 1871. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. An ABC book in German, with charming woodcut illustrations. In printed paper-covered boards, backed in blue cloth. Very Good binding.
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SMITHSONIAN MUSIC. DEFINITIVE VISUAL HISTORY
Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press, 2013. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. A hefty and lovely volume in full black leather, with decorations and titling in gilt, a colorful glazed pictorial pastedown of a harpsichord; all edges gilt; silk moire endpapers; a bound in silk ribbon marker; no ownership marks of any kind. There is a small and very... Read More
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