Islamic carpets from the collection of Joseph V. McMullan
London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1972. First edition, large 8vo, pp. 59, [56]; exhibition catalog illustrated with 49 full color plates; green cloth boards with gilt lettering in front and spine; some discoloration to edges of dust jacket, otherwise fine.
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The Providence directory, containing names of the inhabitants, their occupations, places of business and of residence; with lists of the streets, lanes, wharves, &c. Also, banks, insurance offices and other public institutions, municipal officers of the city, &c., &c. The whole carefully collected and arranged
Providence: H. H. Brown, 1844. 12mo, pp. 246, [18] index and ads; original calf-backed printed paper-covered boards; lengthy ownership inscription on flyleaf cautioning against stealing this book, otherwise 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 3 in... Read More
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In the court for the trial of impeachments and the correction of errors. Daniel Simmons, who is impleaded with William Miller, appellant, and Oscar Tyler, respondent. Joint case, as agreed upon by the counsel of the respective parties
Albany: printed by Alfred Southwick, at the Elm-Tree Press, and Family Newspaper Office, 1838. 8vo, pp. 76; light dampstain throughout; original plain green paper wrappers, bookplate of the New York State Historical Association inside front wrapper, small ink accession number in the bottom margin of the title page; all else very good. Not in American Imprints, OCLC, or Cohen.... Read More
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Great sacrifice! 5,000 dollars worth of dry goods!!
New York: J. Rosenbery, 1850. Broadside, folio (481 mm.); a bit soiled, corners a bit creased, else a good copy. Printed advertisement accomplished in manuscript for reduced prices in "dry goods, silks, hosieries, gloves, shawls, embroideries, &c." from New York City. Not found in OCLC.
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![An address to Christian ministers of every denomination; also, to religious professors, who are in any way connected with West-Indian slavery. (Extracted from the Review of Buddicom's Christian Exodus, in the Christian Observer, for April, 1827.) [Drop title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/778/083/1325083778.0.m.jpg)
An address to Christian ministers of every denomination; also, to religious professors, who are in any way connected with West-Indian slavery. (Extracted from the Review of Buddicom's Christian Exodus, in the Christian Observer, for April, 1827.) [Drop title]
Bristol [England]: T. D. Clark, printer, St. Michael's Hill, 1827. Bifolium (approx. 13" x 7¾"), pp, [3]; last page blank except for a docket: "Joanna Buffinton's paper." Split at previous folds, with neat repair; all else very good. Not found in Afro-Americana. McGill only in OCLC.
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The ladies' keepsake, and home library. Embellished with numerous engravings
New York: Burdick & Scoville, No. 8 Spruce Street, n.d., 1860. 8vo, pp. iv, [1], 10-208; [1], 10-212;; 12 steel engravings, 4 hand-colored botanical plates; contemporary full brown morocco, gilt spine worn, but the binding is sound. Faxon, p. 42 notes that this is not an annual, but rather a magazine.
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Germany and the palm kernel trade
[London]: Reprinted for the Journal of the African Society, 1915. 8vo, pp. 193-198; original white printed wrappers (a bit soiled), edges toned, interior fine. Society notices and list of officers printed on wrapper versos. A short history of the German palm oil trade, suspended due to the war at the time of the essay's publication. Reprint no in OCLC.... Read More
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State of New-York. In the Court for the trial of impeachments and the correction of errors. Joshua Dyett and Jessy Ann his wife, impleaded with others, appellants, vs. The North American Coal Company, respondents
New York: printed by James Van Norden, 27 Pine-street, 1837. 8vo, pp. 108; original drab blue wrappers, bookplate of the New York State Historical Association inside front wrapper, small ink accession number in the bottom margin of the title page; all else very good. Tipped-in prior to the title page is a single leaf regarding "Points on part of... Read More
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![Juvenile concert, of vocal music, in Titcomb Street Church, Newburyport, on Thursday evening, Dec. 17, 1835. Under the direction of John R. Robinson [drop title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/662/661/1268661662.0.m.jpg)
Juvenile concert, of vocal music, in Titcomb Street Church, Newburyport, on Thursday evening, Dec. 17, 1835. Under the direction of John R. Robinson [drop title]
[Newburyport, Mass.]: print. of Hiram Tozer, 1835. 16mo (approx. 7" x 4¼"), pp. 12; stitching perished, sheets loose, some foxing, else very good. Lyrics to about 20 songs, without music. Not in OCLC or American Imprints.
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50 ex-libris taurinos de la coleccion del Excmo. Sr. Conde de Colombi
Madrid, 1962. Edition limited to 33 copies (this, no. 30), 8vo, stiff paper portfolio with title and imprint on one side, and containing a bifolium index to the bookplates plus 49 (of 50) separate reproductions of bookplates with bullfighting themes, the whole contained in a full blue Spanish calf slipcase; some blue from the slipcase offset onto the portfolio,... Read More
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The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments ... Stereotypeed by B. and J. Collins
Boston: R. P. and C. Williams, stereotyped by B. & J. Collins, 1818. Small 12mo (approx. 5¾" x 3½"), engraved frontispiece, sectional title page for the N.T.; contemporary full sheep, gilt borders on covers enclosing a central gilt panel, gilt-decorated spine with 2 morocco labels and fillets also with gilt decorations (the bottom one with an early owner's name... Read More
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The Irish Vincentians in China
Dublin: Dollard, Printinghouse, 1932. 12mo, pp. 7, [1]; printed paper self-wrappers; touch of spotting to wrappers, staples starting to rust, else fine. Not in OCLC.
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Nineteenth annual report of the Board of Commissioners for Reform Schools to the Governor of the State of Ohio, for the year 1874
Columbus: Nevins & Myers, state printers, 1875. 8vo, pp. 37, [1]; large folding tinted lithograph frontispiece (approx. 16½" x 20¾") of the Ohio Reform Farm School of which there is a lengthy 2-page description in the text; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; all else very good. OCLC, locating only the AAS copy, erroneously dates the Nineteenth Annual Report as... Read More
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From Chaucer to Gibbon: essays in memory of Curt A. Zimansky
Iowa: University of Iowa, 1975. First edition; 8vo; pp. [10], 408; frontispiece portrait; very good in faded gray cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Philological Quarterly volume 54 number 1.
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![マレー半島及シンガポールスマトラ要圖 / Mare Hantou Shingapooru Sumatora Youzu [Useful map of Malay Penninsula, Singapore, and Sumatra]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/135/415/1603415135.0.m.jpg)
マレー半島及シンガポールスマトラ要圖 / Mare Hantou Shingapooru Sumatora Youzu [Useful map of Malay Penninsula, Singapore, and Sumatra]
[Taipei]: Taiwan Governor's Foreign Affairs Department, 1941. Large folding color map in two sheets, each sheet 21.25 x 29.5 in.; showing roads, railways, cities, towns ports, shipping lines, and major resources such as tea, rubber and metals, insets of Singapore and greater East Asia; short closed tears and toning at folds, one small hole rubbed through paper in an... Read More
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![American Centennial [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/418/474/1200474418.0.m.jpg)
American Centennial [cover title]
Chicago: Rand, McNally, n.d., 1876. 10 x 14.5 cm, accordion fold viewbook containing 12 photo-lithograph panels showing views of the Centennial and Philadelphia; original decorative green pebble-grain cloth stamped in gilt; minor rubbing else fine, and preserving the original black paper sheath (small piece chipped away at one end). "In 1864, William H. Rand partnered with Andrew McNally to... Read More
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) an appreciation. An exhibition of books & graphic images held at the Huntington Library ... and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library..
Los Angeles: Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California, 1984. 8vo, pp. 46, [1]; 12 illustrations; fine in original pictorial printed red wrappers. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies at the Castle Press, Pasadena.
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William Carlos Williams / read by Allan Kornblum Tues. at The Sancuary
N.p., n.d. [West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1974. Letterpress broadside approx. 2¾" x 10", on olive paper, signed and dated by Allan Kornblum on the verso in pencil.
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The Massachusetts Centinel. Number 43, of vol. IX
Boston: published by Benjamin Russell, Wednesday, August 13, 1788. 14¾" x 9¾ ", pp. [4]; 3 columns per page; central fold, removed from binding. Front page Miscellany from the New York Museum "Virtue the Happiness of a People", foreign and domestic news, ship news, including a short description of "His Majesty of France" narrowly escaping a bullet while riding... Read More
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![陸軍刑法 / Rikugun keihou [= Military criminal law]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/849/450/1624450849.0.m.jpg)
陸軍刑法 / Rikugun keihou [= Military criminal law]
Tokyo: Buyodo, 1942. 4" x 3", pp. [4], 2, 44; bound with, as issued: 陸軍懲罰令 / Rikugun Choubatsurei [= Military orders of dicipline]. pp. [6], 27, [3]; original blindstamped limp black cloth; some toning of the text and light overall wear, owner's signature inside upper wrapper, but generally very good. A collection of military regulations, setting out the rules... Read More
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Glossographia Anglicana nova: or, A dictionary interpreting such hard words of whatever language, as are at present used in the English tongue, with their etymologies, definitions, &c
London: printed for D. Brown, T. Goodwin, J. Walthoe, J. Nicholson, B. Took, D. Midwinter, and T. Ward, 1719. Second edition, "with the addition of above three thousand words not in the former," 8vo, pp. [636]; [pi3] a2 B-R7 R-2L8 2M4 2N-2Q8 2R4; small woodcuts throughout, mostly of an heraldic nature; contemporary full calf, red morocco label on gilt-paneled... Read More
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![都市計画用語集. [Toshi keikaku yougoshuu] = Glossary of City Planning](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/766/382/861382766.0.m.jpg)
都市計画用語集. [Toshi keikaku yougoshuu] = Glossary of City Planning
Tokyo: Nihon Toshi Keikaku Gakkai, 1986. 8vo, pp. iii, [1], 509, [3]; black cloth; owner's signature on upper free endpaper, fine in lightly chipped green dust jacket; A Japanese - English - Japanese dictionary for city planning terms.
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![Desultory notes on the origin, uses and effects of ardent spirit. By a physician. [Six lines from Memoirs of the Duke of Sully]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/460/841/1474841460.0.m.jpg)
Desultory notes on the origin, uses and effects of ardent spirit. By a physician. [Six lines from Memoirs of the Duke of Sully]
Philadelphia: printed by Adam Waldie, Carpenter Street, 1834. 8vo, pp. 126; last gathering toned, light foxing; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; all else very good. "A friend placed in the hands of the writer of these notes three questions, proposed by the Pennsylvania State Temperance Society, united with several benevolent individuals, for a dissertation on the origin, effects and... Read More
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Magna vita S. Hugonis episcopi Lincolniensis. From manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the Imperial Library, Paris. Edited by the Rev. James F. Dimock
London: Longman, [et. al.], 1864. Royal 8vo, pp. 4, lxviii-[lxx], 416, 15 [ads]; ex-library copy with usual markings, hinges cracked, extremities and joints rubbed, crack in lower cover, small cracks in spine ends, else a good, sound copy in contemporary quarter brown cloth over black paper-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine. A life of St. Hugh (ca. 1135-1200), bishop... Read More
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![Compulsory military service: should the working class support it? [Heading title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/855/143/542143855.0.m.0.jpg)
Compulsory military service: should the working class support it? [Heading title]
[Glasgow]: Socialist Labour Party, 1912. 12mo, pp. 32; self-wrappers, uniformly toned, bottom corners a bit creased, else fine. "Under the auspices of the Socialist Labour Party and the National Service League, the following debate was held at Victoria Hall, Nottingham, on Sunday, March 31st, 1912.
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