The Oriental collection of W. T. Walters, 65 Mt. Vernon Place
Baltimore: [privately printed at the Press of Isaac Friedenwald], 1884. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 127, [1], [7] leaves of plates; original limp brown cloth lettered on gilt on upper cover and spine, a.e.g. Ownership signature of Laura Van Alstyne. Sections include Chinese, Japanese, and Ancient & European pottery, porcelain, jade, lacquer, swords, bronzes, painting, carvings, etc. A wealthy railroad... Read More
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The Old Testament in the Bengali language, translated out of the original Hebrew by the Calcutta Baptist Missionaries with native assistants
Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1851. Second edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 812; text in double column; contemporary paneled calf, black morocco label on cover, spine and extremities rubbed, scattered foxing, otherwise very good. Bookplate of the American Bible Union. William Yates' version, revised by John Wenger, who had assisted Yates in the Bible of 1845. Darlow and Moule, Indian Supplement,... Read More
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Thirty: a selection of illustrations from the thirty titles which comprise the library of Benjamin Franklin Keepsakes, published in connection with the celebration of Printing Week in New York, and commemorating the birthday of Benjamin Franklin, printer
New York: Privately Printed, 1987. 12mo, pp. [48]; 30 wood engravings plus 3 vignettes printed in brown, original green paper covered boards with gilt title on spine and gilt image on upper cover, fine. John DePol was the engraver for each of the thirty keepsakes published, and produced 401 engravings in all for the series. Printed here is one... Read More
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Хинди-Русский словарь в двух томах: около 75 000 слов / Hindi-Russkii slovar
Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya, 1972. 8vo, 2 vols., text in two columns; full green cloth printed in black and gilt; spines sunned, corners bumped, good and sound.
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The John Brown House loan exhibition of Rhode Island furniture, including some notable portraits, Chinese export porcelain & other items
Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965. First edition, 4to, extensively illustrated; slip with additional sponsors and errata laid in; fine in original brown cloth lettered in black and white.
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The sportsman's dictionary; or, the gentleman's companion for town and country. Containing full and particular instructions for riding, hunting, fowling, setting, fishing, racing, farriery, cocking, hawking, &c. ... Also, the management of dogs, game-cocks, dunghill-fowls, turkies, geese, ducks, pigeons... Collected from the best authors, with very considerable additions and improvements, experienced gentlemen
London: Fielding and Walker, 1778. First published in 2 volumes octavo in 1735, and again in 1744, this is the first edition in quarto, considerably improved and enlarged, pp. viii, plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; engraved frontispiece and 15 engraved plates; 20th-century quarter green morocco, the spine a bit discolored, else very good. With the bookplate of Wm.... Read More
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![Pontiac the economy straight 8 [cover title]. Pontiac Economy Eight: the big straight 8 in the low price field [drop title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/250/265/1167265250.0.m.jpg)
Pontiac the economy straight 8 [cover title]. Pontiac Economy Eight: the big straight 8 in the low price field [drop title]
Lansing, MI: General Motors, 1933. Oblong 8vo, pp. [12]; 8 color illustrations, 7 of them full-page showing different models in country and urban settings; light soiling on the covers; very good.
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Couriers of the cross in China. Pilgrim of the Honan Road, Miss Minnie Shipley. Theology in the service of suffering, Rev. W. B. Djang, M. A., B. D.
Toronto: The United Church of Canada, 1940. 7.25 x 5 in., pp. 32; portrait frontispiece and illustration of Cheeloo University Chapel; yellow printed paper wrappers, fine. Also with: A bifolium programme for using the pamphlet in the use of worship services, with guidance to leadership on preparation, readings, and questions. Also with: eight pages of manuscript notes being largley... Read More
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![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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