Four volumes in the Printers' Valhalla series of biographies of famous printers, as published by Leo Hart
Rochester, NY, 1947. 4 volumes (all published), all with illustrations and facsimiles throughout, 8vo, essentially fine copies in the jackets. Included are: G.P. Winship's Daniel Berkeley Updike; C.K. Shipton's Isaiah Thomas; Bradford F. Swan's Gregory Dexter, and Dr. Lehmann-Haupt's Peter Schoeffer.
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![Acts, resolves and reports [spine title]. At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, begun and holden by adjournment, at Newport ... on the first Wednesday of May [1841 through January, 1843]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/683/461/1362461683.0.m.jpg)
Acts, resolves and reports [spine title]. At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, begun and holden by adjournment, at Newport ... on the first Wednesday of May [1841 through January, 1843]
[Providence: publisher not identified, 1841. 8vo, 10 so-called session reports individually paginated, all but three signed in ink at the end by Henry Bowen, as Secretary of the General Assembly, for May, June and October, 1841; January, March, April, May, June and October, 1842; and January, 1843; 10 folding tables; contemporary marbled boards rebacked in tan cloth, preserving the... Read More
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GERMAN LYRICS
Philadelphia: printed for private circulation only, 1892. First edition, 8vo, pp. [vi], 141; covers soiled, extremities rubbed, lower joint cracked, spine ends chipped to level of pages; good or better in printed pink boards. Presentation copy from author to Minnesota Historical Society. Lyrics translated into English; no texts in German. Ex-MHS.
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Illuminated books of the MIddle Ages and Rennaissance. An exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art January 27 - March 13
Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949. 4to, pp. xii, [2], 85, lxxx (black & white plates); frontispiece in color, addenda laid in, extremities have some light creases, spine ends a bit frayed, else very good in original purple printed wrappers with decorative upper cover.
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The proverbs of Solomon in Bengali. Translated from the original Hebrew, by the Calcutta Baptist missionaries
Calcutta: printed for the Baptist Missionary and the Bible Translation Societies, 1854. 16mo, pp. 55; original cloth-backed blue wrappers, decorative printed paper cover label; some shelf wear, else very good and sound. OCLC locates 4 copies, only Indiana in the U.S.
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BELGIUM: its institutions, industries and commerce. General notes collected and published under the direction of the General Commassariat..
Brussels: Em. Rossel, 1904. 8vo, pp. xx,528; illustrated throughout, original pictorial wrapper preserved; contemporary black cloth, green morocco label, very good; ex-MHS. Issued in conjunction with the Belgium exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904.
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![[Title in Greek:] He Kaine Diatheke. Novum Testamentum, juxta exemplar Joannis Millii accuratissime impressum](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/494/692/534692494.0.m.1.jpg)
[Title in Greek:] He Kaine Diatheke. Novum Testamentum, juxta exemplar Joannis Millii accuratissime impressum
Bostonae: Esaias Thomas, Jun. Typis Watson & Bangs, 1814. 12mo, pp. 478; vignette woodcut title page, text printed in Greek throughout, and in double column; contemporary tree calf, red morocco label. Very good. Mill's translation, first published in 1707, and here edited by Caleb Alexander. This is the second U. S. edition, first published in 1800 and printed by... Read More
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Obituary record of graduates of Yale University deceased from June, 1890, to June, 1900, presented at the annual meetings of the alumni, 1890-1900
New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co, 1900. 8vo, pp. 755; bound with: "Obituary record of graduates of Yale University deceased during the academical year ending in June, 1901, including the record of a few who died previously, hitherto unreported". Together in contemporary three-quarter red morocco over marble boards, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., marble endpapers; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual... Read More
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Quarto-millenary. The first 250 publications and the first 25 years 1929-1954 of the Limited Editions Club. A critique a conspectus a bibliography, indexes
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. First edition limited to 2250 copies (this, no. 1967), large 4to, pp. [2], xiii, [3], 295, [3]; illustrated with numerous facsimlies from the press; fine copy in black morocco-backed red cloth, black moerocco medallion on cover; fine copy in a slightly worn slipcase.
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Catalogue of an exhibition of the typographic work of Jane Grabhorn in the Albert M. Bender Room of the Stanford University Libraries March 4 to April 7, 1956
[Los Angeles]: Grabhorn Press, 1956. Edition limited to 500 copies, 8vo, pp. 27, [1]; device of the Colt Press on the title page printed in red, other devices and ornaments in the text; touch of wear and toning to covers, very good in original floral patterned wrappers, paper label on upper cover. In a new clamshell box.
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Agricultural almanac for the year 1871
Lancaster, PA: printed and sold by John Baer's Sons, 1870. 4to, pp. [36] unpaginated; looped cord in upper left corner for hanging, as issued; corners curled; otherwise very good. Contains astrological charts for each month, weather predictions, fables, anecdotes, and an assortment of other writings, including a "fable of an ambitious turtle.
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![英語自由自在 [Eigo jiyujizai] = English with freedom [cover title]. [Edited by Jyokichi Aida]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/526/124/261124526.0.m.1.jpg)
英語自由自在 [Eigo jiyujizai] = English with freedom [cover title]. [Edited by Jyokichi Aida]
Osaka: Isaburo Hamamoto, 1886. 12mo, pp. 4, 59, [1]; illustrated throughout; a fusion of western and Japanese book styles, with pages folded and bound fukuro style with the folds facing the fore-edge, but reinforced in each leaf with wastepaper to replicate western paper, and paginated western style, encased in cloth backed blue paper boards with a western illustration printed... Read More
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The old buildings of Chaozhou = 潮州古建築
[Beijing: China Building Industry Press (中国建筑工业出版社), 2008. First edition, folio, pp. [4], 218, [2]; illustrated throughout with architectural plans and full color illustration; text in Chinese with summary in English; original yellow printed paper-covered boards; corner bumped, else near fine. A lavishly illustrated architectural survey.
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The sights and sounds of the Edo pleasure quarters. Wesleyan University, March 28, 1997
Middletown, CT: Robin Price, 1997. Broadside (approx. 15" x 7½") limited to 100 copies, printed in four colors in Perpetual and Stradivarius on Tosa Hanga; fine. The ukiyo-e print at the top by Torii Kiyomine (17587-1868) was reproduced by Keiji Shinohara "whose reproduction print was used as the original source for the broadside." Counting on Chance, 58.
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California. A portfolio of pictures of the most attractive features of the great state whose marvelous mountain scenery and semi-tropic vistas lead the world among nature's show places
San Francisco: Passenger Department, Southern Pacific Company, 1906. One hundred and twenty-fifth thousand. Oblong 8vo, pp. [32]; 28 grayscale illustrations; color pictorial paper wrappers; ex-library, staple bound in stiff card with library labels on inner card covers, small closed tear to upper wrapper, very good. Featuring landmarks and a picture of Teddy Roosevelt and his party posing in front... Read More
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Minutes of the Warren Association held at the Baptist Meeting-house in Warren, September 10 and 11, 1805
Boston: Manning & Loring, 1805. First edition, 12mo, pp. 14, [2]; removed from binding, fore-margin of title page neatly infilled; text slightly toned. With a survey of Baptist elders and ministers throughout the Boston area, and two circular letters. Page [16] consists of Manning & Loring ads. American Imprints 7942; AAS only in OCLC.
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The Oddfellow World ... Official organ of North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming Grand Lodges
Aberdeen (later, Sioux Falls), S.D.: The World Publishing Company, 1906. 10 disparate issues, each approx. 11" x 8", each 12-18 pages; illustrated throughout; poetry, letters to the editor, current events, advertisements, news from local lodges, etc.; some toning but overall very good. Includes volume VI, no 11; volume X, no. 3, no. 5, no. 6; volume XII, no. 4,... Read More
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Columbian Centinel. Whole No. 2,525
Boston: Benjamin Russell, Saturday, June 11, 1808. 19½" x 13¼", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding, early owner's name above masthead, trimmed close with loss at bottom of second and third page, as well as edge of second page. Massachusetts government, an answer from the House of Representatives to the Governor's speech on foreign policy, European... Read More
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Iesu Keriso eda lohiabada bona eda hahemauri tauna ena Taravatu Matamatana
London and Sydney: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1963. 2 parts in 1, 8vo, pp. 528; 199, [1]; original black cloth, gilt-stamped upper cover and spine; fine. Reprint of the 1959 revised edition of the 1935 New Testament, translated and revised by W.G. Lawes and J. Chalmers, R.L. Turner and J.B. Clark, all of the LMS, further revised by... Read More
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The Indiana University bookman. December, 1977. Number 12
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Library, 1977. 8vo, pp. 92; origina grey printed wrappers, fine. Contents include "Victorian Drama" by John A. Degen; "General Histories, Guidebooks and Handbooks" and "Picturesque London" by Donald J. Gray; and "Dark London" by Martha Vicinus.
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1810. The true American Union prox. No land taxes - no standing armies - no embargo. His Excellency James Fenner, Esq; Governour. The Honourable Simeon Martin, Esq; Lieut. Governour..
[Providence]: printed at the Gazette Office, 1810. Broadside (approx. 9" x 5¾"), light toning, a couple of short tears in the margins (no loss); all else very good. Republican Party election proxy, which includes the names of ten candidates for the Senate (Moses Lippitt of Providence and William Reynolds of Bristol among them), and one name each for secretary,... Read More
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![A description of the Merrymount Press [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/895/053/978053895.0.m.jpg)
A description of the Merrymount Press [cover title]
Boston: Merrymount Press, 1921. Third impression, revised (first published in 1913; first illustrated in 1917); 12mo, pp. 24; largely unopened; 6 plates; original green printed wrappers; fine. While not credited, this is almost certainly designed by Daniel Berkeley Updike. Smith, Merrymount Press, p. 209.
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![New China & the church A. D. 1912 [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/079/306/1626306079.0.m.jpg)
New China & the church A. D. 1912 [cover title]
[New York: The Board of Missions, 1912. Second edition, 6¾" x 4¾", pp. 24; six full-page text illustrations after photographs; printed self-wrappers; upper wrapper soiled, text clean; very good. A fundraising pamphlet to help acquire land and build schools, hospitals, and missions throughout China, with each project described and the exact amount solicited for each project. This pamphlet appears... Read More
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Red-letter poems by English men and women
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1885. Thick 8vo, pp. vi, 648; engraved frontispiece, 23 plates; contemporary full maroon morocco, gilt-lettered spine in 6 compartments, raised bands, a.e.g., decorative cloth endpapers; ffep detached, spine and front hinge loose from text block, edges and joints rubbed from shelf wear, interior fine. Includes works by Butler, Coleridge, George Eliot, John... Read More
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The Oakgrove catalogue of Clydesdale horses. Property of John C. Huston, importer and breeder Blandinsville, M'Donough County, Illinois
Blandinsville, Ill: Lucien S. Reid, printer, 1886. First edition, 8vo, pp. 26; 3 wood-engraved plates of Cyldesdales; original printed pink wrappers; slight cracking at the spine, front cover with a two-inch tear entereing from the fore-margin (no loss), small previous owner's rubberstamp at the top of the front wrapper; all else very good. Not found in OCLC as of... Read More
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