The Connecticut Courant. Vol. LXXXV, no. 4370
Hartford: Saturday, October 21, 1848. 26" x 20", pp. [4]; 7 columns per page; central fold, removed from binding. Numerous ads, some with cuts, an endorsement for Taylor and Fillmore for President and Vice-President, with much on the upcoming election, an account of Taylor and Slavery, and Van Buren and the tariff, deaths, marriages, foreign news, and 5 columns... Read More
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The house of Harrison being an account of the family and firm of Harrison and Sons, printers to the King
London: Harrison and Sons, 1914. First edition, small 4to, pp., vi, [2], 118, [1]; laid in is a "Prefatorial Note" on 1 sheet dated April 6, 1914; engraved frontispiece, vignette title-page, and 24 illustrations, facsimiles, etc. on plates and in the text; spine a bit sunned, 3 light spots to the front cover, else a near fine copy in... Read More
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New-England mercantile union business directory. Part 5. - Rhode Island. Containing a new map of Rhode Island, an almanac for 1849, a memorandum for every day in the year, and a business directory for the state ... To which is appended a short advertising register. Carefully collected and arranged
New York: Pratt & Co. ... Providence: L. F. Baker [et al.], 1849. 16mo, pp. [3]-90, [18], 15, [1]; folding map of R.I.; original brown blindstamped cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover; top of spine with a small chip out, remains of small sticker on spine, otherwise very good. Sabin 52704 (for the complete series in 6... Read More
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Catalogue of works of art exhibited. Part 1: sculpture and antiquities. Part II: paintings, drawings, engravings, and decorative art
Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1882. 2 vols., 12mo, orig. printed wrappers, extremities chipped; ex-MHS. Accompanied by 2 other odd vols. of the same: Third Catalogue of the Collection Ancient and Modern, 1876; and, Sixteenth Catalogue of Works of Art Exhibited, Part 2, 1880.
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Nouveau dictionnaire du voyageur. François - Allemand - Latin, et Allemand - François - Latin, enrichi de tous les mots, et de toutes les expressions Françoises, & Allemandes, nouvellement introduites. Pour l'usage de ceux qui desirent d'aprendre ces langues. Nouvelle edition reveue et corrigée. Avec des augmentations considerables, tirées des meilleurs dictionnaires & auteurs françois
Frankfurt: Renard Eustache Moeller, 1744. Very thick 8vo, 2 parts in 1; pp. [8], 1062; 496; engraved frontispiece, printer's device on title page; contemporary full calf, rubbed and worn, leather on spine largely perished and revealing binding structure; joints cracked, but the binding remains reasonably sound and the text relatively clean. A popular and durable dictionary for travelers, first... Read More
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The library of the late Colonel Daniel French. First and second sessions Americana. Third and fourth sessions rare and curious books ..
Chicago: Chicago Book & Art Auctions, Inc, 1932. 8vo, pp. 123, [5]; printed gray paper wrappers; light sunning to spine, else fine. Sale no. 17, February 9-10, 1932.
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Le Japon au XIe Congres International des Sciences Historiques a Stockholm. L'etat ectuel et les tendances des etudes historiques au Japon
Tokyo: Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai, 1960. Large 8vo, pp. [4], iii, [3], xviii, [1]; text after the introduction entirely in English; printed paper wrappers; plastic dust jacket soiled, half title foxed, text otherwise clean and sound, very good. With the bookplate of Mykola Chubaty, likely the Ukrainian historian and civic leader.
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Catalogue of the Illinois State Library
Danville: Illinois Printing Co, 1903. First edition, 4to, pp. 712; ex-library copy with small sticker adhered to lower spine, bookplate stamped withdrawn, and perforated title-page; somewhat later library binding of green cloth lettered in black on spine, the spine a little darkened with a small stain, a little bit of wear to extremities.
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Coffee House Press letterpress imprints
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1993. 4¼" x 10" Coffee House Press catalogue detailing letterpress printing services offered and products available. Red ink trim along right edge.
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Transactions of the The Grolier Club of the city of New York from July eighteen hundred and ninety-nine to December nineteen hundred and nineteen. Part IV
New York: The Grolier Club, 1921. Edition limited to 404 copies, sm 4to, pp. xi, 178, [4]; photographic frontispiece, plates & illustrations in the text, uncut & unopened; fine in original cream paper wrappers over limp boards stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, dust jacket (darkened), publisher's slipcase (worn & cracked).
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The scrutiny: with a further dissertation upon Horace, the first ode. Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable the Lord Hallifax
London: printed for R. Burrough and J. Baker, at the Sun and Moon in Cornhill, and sold by E. Sanger, at the Post-House near Temple-Bar, 1708. 8vo, pp. 16; title within ruled border; a number of neat contemporary underlines in ink in the text, together with a short note referencing Cyder, by Mr. Philips; bound with its continuation, perhaps... Read More
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A vocabulary of such words in the English language as are of dubious or unsettled accentuation; in which the pronunciation of Sheridan, Walker, and other orthoepists, is compared
London: printed for F. and C. Rivington, G. and T. Wilkie, L.B. Seeley, and Goadby, Lerpiniere, and Langdon, 1797. First and apparently only edition, 8vo, pp. [2], iii, [1], [184]; lexicon in double column; contemporary calf boards recently rebacked, black gilt spine label; extremities rubbed. 19th century bookplates of William Howard, Hartley House, Devon; and Walter Stewart Howard on... Read More
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Allen W. Ward's Pills ... Allen W. Ward's life-saving buoy for ship-wrecked men. Swindlers exposed! A wide-open letter to that great army of weak men who have been hoodwinked and defrauded by the infamous rascals who disgrace the medical business
Avon, NY: Allen W. Ward, 1901. Broadsheet, approx. 19½" x 5½", with a wood-engraved illustration at the top, the text signed in print on the verso by H. O. Silver. Ten of these broadsheets are tied together with string at the top and I suppose were likely meant to be hung in a drugstore and made available one at... Read More
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拉-英-德-汉法律格言辞典 : 包括罗马法和教会法的格言 = Dictionarium de praeceptis legum Latine-Anglice-Germanice-Sinice = A polyglot dictionary of legal proverbs Latin-English-German-Chinese = Mehrsprachiges wörterbuch der rechtsregeln Latein-Englisch-Deutsch-Chinesisch
[Beijing]: China Religious Culture Publisher, 2008. First edition limited to 1500 copies; 10.25 x 7.25 in. 5 copies in OCLC, Indiana only in the US.
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![サクラ大戦スーパーコレクション / Sakura wars super collection [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/029/687/1522687029.0.m.jpg)
サクラ大戦スーパーコレクション / Sakura wars super collection [cover title]
[Tokyo: Shinkigensha, 2004. 4to, pp. 159; text illustrations; printed pictorial boards fine in fine dustjacket, unopened in shrink wrap. A collector's checklist of Sakura Wars merchandise "from new releases to the most nostalgic items.
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Open House at The Players ... Double barrelled Barrymore!!! Lionel, starring in Henry Irving's: The Bells. John, staring in Sea Scenes from: Moby-Dick
New York: The Players, 1965. Broadside invitation, 17 x 9.25 in.; illustrated by O. G. Estes; shallow tears at folds, else very good. A double-header invitation for a Buffet Dinner at The Players, NY to members, followed by showings of The Bells, and Moby-Dick, "A presentation of John Griggs' Bijou-Dream Theater." John Griggs' collection of early films would become... Read More
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Imprimeries clandestines. Le point: revue artistique et littéraires, XXXI, mars, 1945
Lanzac: Le Point, Souillac, 1945. Small, slim 4to, pp. 48, 16; black and white photographic illustrations throughout; stiff white wrappers laid into similar wrappers, toning, else fine. A moving homage to those who risked their lives printing banned books and pamphlets in Nazi-occupied France. No. 31 of the literary journal Le Point. Literary pieces bound at the end include... Read More
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Uncle Sam's navy
Philadelphia: Historical Publishing Co., April 5 - June 21, 1898. Original 12 weekly parts, issued as volume 4 in the publisher's Historical Fine Art Series; oblong folio, illustrated throughout largely from photographs, and mostly full-page; original printed tan and terracotta wrappers; a few small nicks at the extremities, but near fine and unusual thus.
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Vietnamese realities
Saigon: publisher not identified, 1969. 4to, pp. [14], [21]-196, [8]; 4 color plates including a color map and a color plate of the Vietnam flag, printed music, photographically illustrated throughout, a number full-page; original printed wrappers, spine sunned, else near fine. Translated by Jane Pratt. Prepared for distribution by the Vietnam Embassy. With a 6-page bibliography at the back.... Read More
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Mr. Tambourine Man: seven poems of Bob Dylan for voice and piano. Music by John Corigliano, lyrics by Bob Dylan
Milwaukee: G. Schirmer, 2003. First edition, small folio, pp. [6], 58; slightly faded along the edges else fine in original printed wrappers. "This work was commissioned for Sylvia McNair by the Carnegie Hall Corporation. The world premiere was given at Carnegie Hall, New York City on March 15, 2000 by Sylvia McNair, soprano, and Martin Katz, piano.
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The library of Dr. Gottfried Koehler with additions, comprising Americana, Illinois and the west, Chicagoana, American first editions and autograph material
Chicago: Chicago Book & Art Auctions, Inc, 1931. 8vo, pp. 50, [2]; yellow printed wrappers, old fold, light soiling to wrapper, short closed tear to one leaf, very good. Sale No. 11 October 6th, 1931.
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Manuscript resolution not to admit officers appointed by John Temple, Esq. (1732-1798) by Rhode Island colonial officials
N.p., n.d. [Rhode Island, 1760. Single sheet approx. 7½" x 6", 16 lines in ink; slightly browned, very good. John Temple, a British Imperial official, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1732, the son of Robert Temple, a colonial entrepreneur, and Mehitable Nelson. He grew up on the family "Ten Hills" estate near Boston; but spent much of his... Read More
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The wagon-boy; or trust in providence
New York: published by J. S. Redfield, [137 Nassau Street], n.d., 1845. 32mo, approx. 3½" x 2¼", vignette title page, 5 wood-engraved illustrations (4 full-page); original orange printed wrappers; spine half-way cracked; all else very good. Back wrapper contains Redfield advertisements. Issued as Second Series, no. 9 in their Toy Books series. Wood engravings signed by William Howland and... Read More
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彙集雅俗通十五音 / Lūi-chi̍p Ngée-sio̍k-thong Si̍p-ngó͘-im [Fujian rhyming dictionary of 15 tones]
[Shanghai]: Hui Wen Tang, 1912. Later edition, 8 vols., 6 x 4 in.; text in Chinese; printed paper wrappers; wrapper of first volume separated and third volume perished, paper toned, good. A study of southern Fujianese (Hokkien) phonology, originally compiled in 1818 and first published in 1869. It is based on the dialect spoken in Zhangzhou. Of this particular... Read More
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A new canting dictionary: comprehending all the terms, ancient and modern, used in the several tribes of gypsies, beggars, shoplifters, highwaymen, foot-pads, and all other clans of cheats and villains. Interspersed with proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &c... To which is added a complete collection of songs in the canting dialect
London: printed; and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1725. First edition of the second separately-printed dictionary of slang, 12mo, pp. [156]; later full speckled brown calf, a.e.g.; joints rubbed and tender. Largely based on the earlier A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew, (London, 1699) by "B.E.", this work is... Read More
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