Eleventh year of the Saint Paul Institute. 1918-1919
St. Paul: [St. Paul Institute, 1919. 8vo, pp. [4], 129, [1]; full orange cloth; touch of soiling to boards, text clean and sound, very good. The institute was founded to "promote among all classes of people the knowledge and enlightenment which are essential to right living and good citizenship. It will seek to accomplish this purpose through lectures, instruction... Read More
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The log S.S. "Finland
N.p.: copyright by the Log Committee, 1915. 8vo, pp. unpaginated; text illustrations; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label; binding rubbed, spine edges chipped, hinges starting; a good, sound copy. 250 Harvard men, their relatives and friends sailed on the Finland steamer from New York to San Francisco via the Panama Canal in the summer of 1915. This... Read More
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Gazette and Courier. Vol. LXXI, No. 3694
Greenfield, Mass: S.S. Eastman & Co., Monday, June 23, 1862. 26¾" x 20¾", pp. [4]; 8 columns per page; creased where previously folded, early owner's signature, some dampstaining and small tears. Includes articles on the tenth Massachusetts regiment, terrible slaughter of the rebels in the Battle of Fair Oaks, and rebel tyranny; war news, including "A surgeon writing from... Read More
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The Providence directory; containing names of the inhabitants, their occupations, places of business and dwelling houses; with lists of the streets, lanes, wharves, &c. Also, banks, insurance offices and other public institutions; being a desideratum to almost every man in business. The whole carefully collected and arranged
Providence: H. H. Brown, 1830. 12mo, pp. 150, [5] ads, [1]; printed paper-covered boards neatly rebacked in black cloth; very good and sound. First published in 1824 and according to Bartlett, every two years up to 1850, after which it was issued annually. This edition not common: only 2 in OCLC (Buffalo & Erie P.L. and AAS); none in... Read More
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Hurricane pictures of greater Fall River
Fall River: Herald News, September, 1938. 8vo, pp. 64; illustrations of destruction throughout; covers lightly rubbed, else very good, clean, and sound. The famed hurricane of September 21, 1938 which ravaged Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts.
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Who's who of American returned students
San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center Inc, 1978. Reprint edition after the first, published by Tsing Hua College in 1917; 8vo, pp. [9], ii, [3], viii, vi, 215, [1], iv, iv, [22]; four folding tables; text in Chinese and English; brown faux-leather boards, gilt title on spine; fine in slightly soiled dust jacket with closed tear to upper panel. No.... Read More
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The bijou: or annual of literature and the arts
London: William Pickering, 1828. 16mo, pp. xiv, 319, [5]; 15 engraved illustrations including the frontispiece, vignette title page, and text illustrations; original red morocco over printed paper-covered boards, spine gilt, a.e.g.; minimal wear to binding, overall near fine. Includes works by Coleridge, Lamb, Scott and others. Previously owned by Sarah P. Pratt, a proprietor of the Boston Athenæum, with... Read More
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Ricordo di Pisa. 32 vedute [cover title]
[Milano: Cesare Capello, n.d.], 1930. Accordion-fold view book 6¾" x 4½" containing 31 photolithographic illustrations (1 double-page); map endpapers; captions on verso in English, Italian, German, and Spanish; original decorative color with pictorial pastedowns; lightly rubbed, else very good. On back cover: CCM (i.e. Cesare Capello, Milano), interlaced. Map after a drawing by Attilio Bartalini.
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Album of a Dozen Chinese Watercolors of Colorful Birds on Pith Paper, 19th Century
Silk covered boards. Good. N.d., circa 1850. 12mo, 16 by 12 cm. Each painting mounted on thin paper and framed with blue strips, as typical of such albums made presumably for the tourist and expatriate market. The paintings have a disarming naive quality. Yet in our view the paintings have more color and detail than the average such... Read More
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[Ephemera.]
v.p., v.d., 1990. Large quarto clamshell box containing approx. 60 items, including California Flora, Book Club of California, 1995 with 12 wood engravings by DePol; eight 8½" x 11" wood engravings by DePol, all but one numbered, signed and titled by him; two 9" x 5¾" wood engravings, each titled, dated, and signed by DePol; seven 8½" x 11"... Read More
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To John G. Curtis, Preston Armour, Asahel C. Stone, and Geo. W. Ellinwood, Esquires, commissioners of excise of the town of Smithfield, County of Madison, and State of New York
Smithfield [Peterboro?]: April 13, 1841. Quarto broadside approx. 9¼" x 8", previous folds; near fine. A plea not to grant tavern licenses. In the left margin is the vertically printed note: "Let this petition be signed and sent to the store of James Barnett, in Peterboro, by May 1, 1841." "How can further indulgence ... be vindicated in the... Read More
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The James Ford Bell Library: an annotated catalog of original source materials relating to the history of European expansion 1400 - 1800
Boston: University of Minnesota, 1981. 4to, pp. iv, 493, [1]; text in double columns, blue cloth with gilt title on spine; near fine; publisher's prospectus laid in. A complete inventory of the collection as of 1980.
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Collection of 25 pieces from the annual Rounce & Coffin Club Western Books exhibition catalogues
Los Angeles: Rounce & Coffin Club, 1971. 23 titles in 25 volumes (2 duplicates); illustrations; all in original printed wrappers with the exception of the 1971 number, which is bound in the original linen over boards in a grey printed dust jacket. Sizes vary, mostly 12mo or small 8vo; very good or better.
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Hozu Rapids
Kyoto Orimono Co. Ltd., n.d., 1900. Woven textile illustration of two people navigating the Hozu Rapids, a popular destination near Kyoto, Japan. Approx 13.5" x 17"; grayscale, a novel piece of advertising for the Kyoto Orimono Co., a local textile company; fine.
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NEW DIRECTIONS in prose and poetry, 16
[New York: New Directions, 1957. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 264; original bright red cloth, title on spine in white, some wear to extremities and browning to acidic pages, else very good in torn, tattered, and creased dust jacket. Contains Henry Miller's "Obscenity in Literature" and an excerpt from Jack Kerouac's On the Road before it was published. Shifreen... Read More
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John Henry Nash announces..
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, n.d., 1937. Small folio bifolium, approx. 12" x 8½", previous folds; very good. Announcing three books of California interest: John Bidwell's A Journey to California; Alexander Forbes's California: A History of Upper and Lower California from Their Discovery to the Present Time; and, San Francisco in the Seventies, by Guillermo Prieto. Requests for copies... Read More
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Providence Illustrated
Providence: H. S. Inman, 1886. Large 4to, consisting of a title leaf, table of contents, and 100 fine heliogravures, each appropriately captioned; publisher's heavy full blindstamped black morocco, double gilt rules on covers enclosing the title in gilt, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-decorated spine, a.e.g., silk moiré endpapers; some moderate rubbing; very good. Also published in 20 parts by the... Read More
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Rochester Homæopathic Training School. Examination topics
[Rochester: Rochester Homæopathic Training School, 1880. Bifolium, 8vo; self wrappers; previous folds, else fine. A list of topics for the six school examinations, ranging from bed-making, to using a catheter, to secretions and excretions, germ theory, and obstetrical nursing. The sixth and last exam "may be on any of the preceding subjects. The examiner must however confine himself to... Read More
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An anthology of Delaware papermaking With an introduction by Gordon A. Pfeiffer and four wood engravings by John DePol
New Castle: Delaware Bibliophiles, Oak Knoll Books, 1991. Edition limited to 200 copies, this the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy and out of series; 8vo, pp. 81, [3]; 4 mounted wood engravings, other illustrations in the text; original blue cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards; fine. Forty-Four B40.
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Palm leaf manuscript in Sinhala
[Sri Lanka, 1800. Buddhist manuscript of uncertain completeness, 2.5 x 23 in., 26 leaves, each page consisting of 7 or 8 lines of text; painted wooden covers; boards rubbed, binding string perished, some edgewear affecting text, good. From the James J. Hill Library. Palm leaf manuscripts were the standard form of book in South East Asia for most of... Read More
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Hatfield’s local addenda; or, companion to the almanack for 1830
Peterborough: Sold by G. K. Clifton, Printer, Bookseller, Stationer, Bookbinder, &c. Narrow Bridge Street, Peterborough, Dealer in Patent Medicines Wax Candles, &c, 1830. 7½" x 4¾", pp. xxviii, [4]; uncut; original blue printed paper self-wrappers, the second and next to last leaves also on blue paper with local ads; includes a unit reckoner, garden calendar, duties, recipes, market schedules,... Read More
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Commercial Aeronautics - 1 [cover title]
Chicago: Junior Air Service of America Inc, 1930. 8vo, pp. 58, [2]; text illustrations throughout; illustrated self-wrappers; small inscription in corner of upper wrapper, text clean and sound, near fine. A corporate product, with articles covering the history of aviation and important milestones,
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7 new titles: The Toothpaste Press
West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1980. 4¼" x 10" trifold letterpress catalogue for the 1980 new releases, green trim along right edge.
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Celebration of the Fourth of July during 18-- [manuscript drop title]
1900. Manuscript story on lined paper, 10½" x 7", pp. [12]; text on rectos only, an ink illustration on bottom of each page, stapled at top, blank cover leaf toned, the rest clean and near fine. A simple and childish story, notable mainly for the equally childish and entertaining illustrations. It describes speeches and picnics, naughty boys starting wars... Read More
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Souvenir de St. Gotthard [cover title]
Lucerne: C. F. Prell, n.d., 1880. 8 x 12.6 cm, accordion fold but preserving only 4 photo-lithograph (of at least 12) panels; original embossed blue cloth stamped in gilt; a little worn, but good or better.
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