![Souvenir of the Bon Marche Paris. Founded by Aristide Boucicaut. Plan of Paris and plan of the Exhibition of 1889 [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/291/080/512080291.0.m.jpg)
Souvenir of the Bon Marche Paris. Founded by Aristide Boucicaut. Plan of Paris and plan of the Exhibition of 1889 [cover title]
[Paris: printed by E. Plon, Nourrit & Co., n.d., 1889. 16mo, pp. 64; contents leaf mounted (as issued) on the verso of the front free endpaper; 2 portraits, 3 wood-engravings (1 double-page); tables in the text corresponding to a large color folding map of Paris to which is attached a pink ribbon (riveted through to the back cover) keyed... Read More
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The Princeton University Library chronicle. Volume XL, Number 3. Spring 1979
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1979. 8vo, pp. 193-275; illustrations and facsimiles throughout; original tan wrappers, fine; publisher's advertisement in the back. Contents include "Voyage to Ithaca: William Carlos Williams in Paris" by Noel Riley Fitch; "A Dandy's Diary: The Manuscripts of Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson" by Robert Viscusi; and "Poe, English, and The Doom of the Drinker" by... Read More
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Η Ιστορικη, αρχαιολογικη, και λαογραφικη ερευνα για τη Θρακη / He Historike, archaiologike, kai laographike ereuna gia te Thrake
Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1988. 8vo, pp. 449, [1]; text in Greek; text illustrations; printed paper wrappers; slightly musty, edges toned, text clean and sound, good. Papers given during the symposium for historical, archaeological and folklore research on Thrace. No. 217 in the Institute for Balkan Studies series.
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Hali: The International Magazine of Fine Carpets and Textiles, Issue 52, Vol. 12, No. 4
London: Hali Publications Limited, 1990. Softbound. VG, corners slightly bumped. Illustrated wraps. 224 pp. Numerous illustrations. Contents: Early Spanish Carpets at Vizcaya. Moj-Persian Tribal Flatweaves Stunning illustrations, colorful ads, scholarly research and editorial content.
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Massachusetts Mercury. No. 31, Vol. XIII
Boston: printed by Young and Minns, Tuesday, April 16, 1799. 20 " x 12½ ", pp. [4]; 4 columns per page; removed from binding. An account of a French ship firing at an American ship in the harbor of Curracoa (French forces invaded Curaçao a year later) in which ten men were killed and wounded; a letter defending President... Read More
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East India (progress and condition). Statement exhibiting the moral and material progress and condition of India, during the year 1913-14. Fiftieth number
London: printed under the authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, by Eyre amd Spottiswoode, 1915. Folio, pp. iv, 137, [1]; original printed blue wrappers, a few tears and light chipping at extremities; accession numbers at lower corner of front wrap; good copy. Notices of administration and legislation; justice and police; finance; land revenue; revenue from taxation and opium; agriculture;... Read More
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The useful arts and manufactures of Great Britain
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1848. 8vo, pp. [4], 36, 35, [1], 47, [1], 40, 48, 39, [1], 32, 52, 56, 48, 36, 24; text illustrations throughout with full-page engravings heading each section; contemporary green cloth, gilt title on spine; light wear to extremities, edges spotted, very good with contemporary inscription reading: "To William Saunders a small present... Read More
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![臺北帝國大學第臺回海南島學術調查報告 / ... Dai ikkai Kainantou gakujutsu chousa houkoku [= First Hainan Island science survey report]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/816/134/1586134816.0.m.jpg)
臺北帝國大學第臺回海南島學術調查報告 / ... Dai ikkai Kainantou gakujutsu chousa houkoku [= First Hainan Island science survey report]
Taihoku (Taipei): Taihoku Imperial University, 1942. Large 8vo, pp. [6], 588, [2]; 46 composite plates, plus text illustrations, and a folding chart; text in Japanese; full blue cloth; boards bowed, edges spotted, text clean with an addenda slip pasted on to title page and some plate images censored, possibly due to military sensitivities; very good in a torn but... Read More
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Webster's dictionary of quotations: a book of ready reference for all familiar words and phrases in the English language
New York: R. Worthington, n.d., 1880. 8vo, pp. 295, [1], [18] ads for Ward, Lock & Co. (London); original green cloth; spine stamped in gilt and black; hinges cracked, else very good.
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The Daily Wisconsin Union. Volume 1. Number 69
Madison, Wisconsin: Saturday, July 7, 1866. 23½" x 17½", pp. [4]; 7 columns per page; removed from binding. The Northwestern telegraph company defended, Washington reports, Milwaukee markets, the Norwegians in America, new trick of burglars, a little girl who strayed from home was found in the woods after a couple of days, a poem ' A Reverie-the Old School... Read More
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BOSTON PRINTS and printmakers 1670-1775. A conference..
Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1973. First edition, 8vo, xxv-[xxvi] & 294pp., 143 illustrations, fine copy in very good jacket. Volume 46 of the Society's publications. Review copy with slip laid in.
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![千代田図書館八十年史 / Chiyoda Toshokan hachijuunenshi [= 80 year history of Chiyoda Library]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/556/479/1578479556.0.m.jpg)
千代田図書館八十年史 / Chiyoda Toshokan hachijuunenshi [= 80 year history of Chiyoda Library]
Tokyo: Chiyoda ku, 1968. 8vo, pp. 3, [3], 3, [1], 337, [1]; 11 photoreproductive plates; text in Japanese; full blue cloth, gilt title on spine; glassine wrapper perished, else fine in original slipcase. Harvard only in US OCLC holdings, with British Library, Diet Library, Waseda and National Library of Australia in addition.
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Second annual report of the managers of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, in the city of New-York
New York: Mahlon Day, 1827. 8vo, pp. 62, [2]; removed from binding, loose frontispiece plate of a house of refuge for female juvenile delinquents; light foxing, good and sound. A general argument for separating juveniles from adult offenders, case studies, an address by society president Cadwallader Colden, and rules and regulations of the refuge. American Imprints 30656. 4 in... Read More
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Une amulette. Legende en vers de Sainte Marguerite, tiree d'un ancien manuscrit
Cologne, Bonne & Bruxelles: J. M. Heberle, 1851. 8vo, pp. 18; pages foxed, pages unbound and loose in original light blue wrappers; good. Legend of St. Margaret in Middle French. No information on the manuscript from which the poem is taken.
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![常用古文字字典 / Chang yong gu wen zi zi dian [= Dictionary of commonly used ancient characters]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/823/937/1445937823.0.m.jpg)
常用古文字字典 / Chang yong gu wen zi zi dian [= Dictionary of commonly used ancient characters]
Shanghai: 上海书画出版社, 1987. Large 8vo, pp. [2], 4, 806; reproductions of characters, often with multiple variations per entry; gray cloth boards, title in white on spine; minor rubbing and bowing to boards, owner's stamp on bottom edge and lower endpaper, very good and clean.
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![漢藏對照詞典 /Han Zang Duizhao Cidian / རྒྱ་བོད་ཤན་སྦྱར་ཚིག [= Sino-Tibetan comparative dictionary]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/548/451/1667451548.0.m.jpg)
漢藏對照詞典 /Han Zang Duizhao Cidian / རྒྱ་བོད་ཤན་སྦྱར་ཚིག [= Sino-Tibetan comparative dictionary]
[Bejing]: Publishing House of Minority Nationalities, 1991. First edition, large 8vo (approx. 10½" x 7½", pp. [2], 2, 2, 4, 26, 1448, [2]; lexicon in double column; some toning of the text, but in all, a very good, sound, and clean copy bound in the original gilt-decorated blue cloth.
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Новые данные о зарубинецкой культуре в Поднепровье / Novye dannye o zarubineckoj kulture v Podneprove
Leningrad: Nauka, 1969. Small 4to, pp. 168, [4]; text in Russian; text illustrations throughout, two folding maps; addenda tipped in; full brown cloth; corners bumped, text clean and sound, very good. Archaeology on the Zarubinets culture, which existed north of the Black Sea between the 3rd Century BC and 1st CE.
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Theocriti carmina ex codicibus italis denuo a se collatis. Tertium edidit Christophorus Ziegler
Tubingæ: in libraris H. Laupp, 1879. Thin 8vo, pp. xii, 200; slightly later black cloth lettered in gilt on spine, extremities somewhat worn and the joints cracking, but overall still good and sound. The text is in Greek; the introduction and extensive notes in Latin. This copy with bookseller's ticket of W. Heffer & Sons, Cambridge, on front pastedown,... Read More
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The sportsman's dictionary; or, the gentleman's companion: for town and country..
Dublin: printer [sic] by Peter Hoey, 1780. First Dublin edition, 8vo in 4s, pp. v, [1], plus unpaginated lexicon and 3 pp. of publisher's advertisements in rear; one folding table; full contemporary calf recently rebacked, new maroon gilt morocco spine label; about fine. An anonymous compilation providing "full and particular Instructions for Riding, Hunting, Fowling, Setting, Fishing, Racing, Farriery,... Read More
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Le bon docteur Franklin, the toast of Paris
New York: [Celebration of Printing Week,], 1970. 12mo, pp. 61; title-page vignette and wood engravings by John De Pol; very fine in orig. light green paper-covered boards, gilt.
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![Illustrated history of Buddhism [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/125/952/1669952125.0.m.jpg)
Illustrated history of Buddhism [cover title]
Rangoon: The Young Men's Buddhist Association, 1954. 16mo, pp. [2],65, [1]; staple bound printed paper wrappers; spot on upper wrappers spine worn but holding, textblock clean, very good. Despite the title, the text is not illustrated, and refers to a separate collection of paintings not included. The titles and descriptions of 65 images depicting the life of the Buddha... Read More
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Six poems
Prairie Village, Ks: The Crabgrass Press, 1968. Edition limited to 250 copies (this, No. 92); 12mo, pp. [14]; printed in red and black; "V12-7161" neatly written in pen on the back cover by private press printer, Emerson Wulling; otherwise a near fine copy in original orange wrappers printed in red. Six winners of the annual Kansas City Poetry Compitition.... Read More
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Daily Advertiser and American - Extra ... Memorial to the General Assembly, from the Antimasonic State Convention, Read January 12. And referred to a select committee
Providence: January, 1831. Large folio broadsheet (approx. 21" x 15¼"), text in 6 columns to a side; old folds, slight browning, some spotty foxing and stains. The first 5 columns are given over to the "Memorial" which is signed in type by Walter Paine, Jr., secretary, and approximately 65 other citizens. The remaining seven-plus columns are devoted entirely to... Read More
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China yearbook 1979
Taipei: China Publishing Company, 1975. First edition, 8vo, pp. [12], x, 811, [1]; 2 folding color maps at the back, illustrated, some in color; very good, sound copy in publisher's green cloth.
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General report to the king in council from the Honourable Board of Commissioners on the Public Records, appointed by His Majesty King William IV., by a commission dated the 12th of March in the first year of his reign; with an appendix and index
[London]: printed by command of His Majesty King William IV, 1837. First edition, folio, pp. [4], xxxiv, 516, [26]; ex-Philadelphia Mercantile Library with a few small, innocuous rubber stamps, the title-page trimmed and mounted and the first 5 leaves with gutter margins guarded, but all else clean and bright; a solid, sturdy copy in tasteful dark green buckram lettered... Read More
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