FILM JOURNAL — 1957
[Sweden]: n.p., 1957. Near fine.. Stunningly executed manuscript diary of one year of film-going created by an anonymous Swedish film buff, with beautiful period hand-lettered titles and illustrations. Opening on New Year's Day 1957 (with Hitchcock's SUSPICION) and ending on December 28th, the anonymous creator of this engaging journal captures a landmark year in Swedish filmmaking, which saw... Read More
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The Psalms of David in Oriya
Cuttack: printed at the Mission Press for the Calcutta Auxiliary Bible Society, 1882. 12mo, pp. [193]; original green gilt-stamped cloth, unadorned spine, all edges red; minor shelf wear, Baptist Mission House Library bookplate on front pastedown; very good and sound. Reprint edition. Darlow & Moule 7164. Four in OCLC, only Harvard in the U.S.
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Schofield & Rhodes account book
[Providence], 1855. Folio, 25 manuscript pages in ink of accounts; stiff marbled paper wrappers; very good. An account book from the provisions business of Schofield & Rhodes in Providence. The business opened in 1855, at 118 Benefit Street with investments in foodstuffs and clothing from Thomas Harris Rhodes (1800-1876) and Albert G. Schofield (b. 1809). The account book shows... Read More
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Navy & Army illustrated: a magazine descriptive and illustrative of everyday life in the defensive services of the British Empire. Vol. 1
London: Hudson & Kearns, 1896. Folio, Vol 1, nos. 1 - 13; pp. [4], 316; large photographic portraits and images of ships and officers; later half calf over maroon cloth, spine rebacked in green tape; stain on upper edge, generally not touching text; good and sound. A bi-weekly serial which ceased publication in 1903.
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Gradus ad Cantabrigiam; or, a dictionary of terms, academical and colloquial, or cant, which are used at the University of Cambridge
London: printed by Thomas Maiden, Sherbourne-Lane, for W. J. and J. Richardson, Royal Exchange, 1803. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [8], 139, [1] errata; without the 6 folding lithograph plates; later green cloth, gilt lettering on spine; the missing plates aside, a very good, sound copy. Engraved armorial bookplate of Charles Newling; a British Library duplicate, with small stamps... Read More
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The village harmony: or, youth's assistant to sacred musick. Consisting of psalm tunes and occasional pieces, selected from the works of the most eminent composers. To which is prefixed a concise introduction to psalmody. Thirteenth edition, corrected and enlarged
Newburyport: E. Little & Co, 1816. Oblong 8vo, pp. [5], 4-331, [3]; contemporary paper-covered boards; spine perished; sewn on suede thongs; covers rubbed; textblock toned; good and sound. A collection of woodblock-printed short spiritual numbers designed for youth choirs, schools, and performance societies. The introduction provides basic musical vocabulary and instructions for reading sheet music. American Imprints 39669; Metcalf... Read More
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Collection of 12 legal documents pertaining to early Oil industry in Venango County, Pennsylvania
Venango, PA, 1879. Twelve manuscript legal documents, concerning leases, agreements, statements, and court opinions. Two pro-forma notices competed in manuscript, the rest full manuscript, likely copies. Between one and four pages each; old folds, generally very good. Venango county was the epicenter of the US oil boom. In 1859 Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a... Read More
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Official proceedings of the international commercial congress: a conference of all nations for the extension of commercial intercourse held under the auspices of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum..
Philadelphia, 1899. Folio, pp. [4], 442; plates (each with a series of portraits); good and sound, or better, in orig. blue gilt-stamped cloth; complete account of the 17-day event, with texts of papers submitted and biographies of the foreign delegates; ex-MHS.
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Now, even as then - ... Introduction by A. Edward Newton
New York, Wilmington, et al.: privately printed, Edie-Davidson, Inc, 1933. First edition printed in a limited but unspecified number at the Holmes Press, Philadelphia; 8vo, pp. 28, [2]; portrait frontispiece, 4 full-p. illustrations; fine in original green cloth-backed boards, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; glassine jacket a bit chipped and creased. The true and tragic story... Read More
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Faribault County 1855-1976 a panorama
Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Publishing [for] Faribault County Bicentennial Commission, 1977. First edition, 4to, pp. 299, [1]; text in double column; illustrated throughout; fine copy in original brown imitation morocco stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine.
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An authentic account of the value of property destroyed by the great fire in Fall River, July 2, 1843
Boston: Dutton & Wentworth, 1844. First edition, 8vo, pp. 33, [3]; tables in the text throughout; stitched, as issued; self-wrappers; title page soiled, top edge trimmed close; very good. Includes the names of the property holders, their losses, the amount of insurance, and the names of the insurers of each. Rare: only 3 in OCLC (Brown, NY Hist. Soc.,... Read More
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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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![In the court for the trial of impeachments and the correction of errors. Case on the part of the appellant. Nehemiah Rogers, executor of Archibald Gracie, deceased, impleaded with others, appellant. Vs. Alexander E. Hosack and Joseph Blunt, executor of Alexander H. Hosack, deceased, respondents. A. G. Rogers, Sol. and of Counsel for appellant. Joseph Blunt, Sol. and of Counsel for respondents... [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/319/905/1374905319.0.m.jpg)
In the court for the trial of impeachments and the correction of errors. Case on the part of the appellant. Nehemiah Rogers, executor of Archibald Gracie, deceased, impleaded with others, appellant. Vs. Alexander E. Hosack and Joseph Blunt, executor of Alexander H. Hosack, deceased, respondents. A. G. Rogers, Sol. and of Counsel for appellant. Joseph Blunt, Sol. and of Counsel for respondents... [wrapper title]
New York: J. M. Elliott, printer, 6 Little Green Street, between Malden Lane and Liberty, 1837. 8vo, pp. 65, [1]; light dampstain on last several leaves; original printed yellow 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. The last... Read More
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Eisenach und die Wartburg [cover title]
Cassell, [Germany]: Kunsiverlagsanstall Bruno Hansmann, n.d.. Oblong 4to (8½" x 11"), without text (as issued) and containing 16 captioned monochrome gravure illustrations of sights in Eisenach and Wartburg Castle; original brown embossed wrappers; very good. Not found in OCLC.
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[Zhizn Vikramy. Ili 32 istorii tsarskogo trona]
[Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Vostochnoi Literatury], 1960. 12mo, pp. 234; original blue cloth stamped in black and gilt in blue pictorial dustjacket, edges and corners a bit chipped and bumped, else a very good copy. Half-title reads "Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Institut Vostokovedeniya
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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 Book of Common Prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church … together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to being sung or said in churches
Oxford: Thomas Baskett, 1751. Thick 8vo, pp. [32], the balance uinpaginated; 48 engraved plates (one with tear in the corner affecting caption), tear in the foremargin of U4 in the Psalter causing loss to a few letters; bound with, as issued, A Companion to the Altar: Shewing the Nature and Necessity of a Sacramental Preparation… London, John Beecroft, 1751,... Read More
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Ancient Egypt: its monuments and history
New York: Carlton & Porter, 1870. 12mo, pp. 214, [2] ads; 3 plates including frontispiece map; original blue cloth stamped in blind, spine decorated in gilt, plate to front pastedown, ink stamp and name in ink to rear pastedown, light dampstain to rear endpapers, still a good, sound copy. The plates show the Sphinx and an Egyptian "slinger. ... Read More
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The new press law of Vietnam. Introduction by Nguyen Ngoc Phach
Washington, D.C.: The Embassy of Vietnam, 1970. 8vo, pp. 29; original white printed wrappers (very lightly soiled), fine. Viet-Nam Documents Series no. VII.
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The bill in equity, Charles T. James, vs. the Atlantic De Laine Company, et al. T. A. Jenckes, Esq., for complainant. R. W. Greene, Esq., A. Payne, Esq., Jas. H. Parsons, Esq., for respondents
Providence: Knowles, Anthony & Co., printers, 1861. 8vo, pp. 214; original printed front wrapper bound in contemporary quarter roan, gilt-lettered spine; spine rubbed and top of spine chipped; all else very good. With the ownership signature of John A. Garner, the attorney for Lyman B. Frieze, one of the respondents "The bill was originally filed by Charles T. James... Read More
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Mitteilungen aus der Freiburger Papyrussammlung. Literarische stücke herausgegeben von Wolf Aly. Ptolemäische Kleruchenurkunde herausgegeben von Matthias Gelzer ... vorgelegt von O. Gradenwitz
Heidelberg: Carl Winters Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1914. 8vo, pp. 78; 3 folding lithograph plates showing 8 speciments of papyrus from the Freiburg papyrus collections; very good in original printed orange wrappers with neat tape repair to top and bottom on spine. Literary Plays edited by Wolf Aly, and a Ptolemaic clergy certificate by Matthias Gelzer.
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Bi-centennial of the town of Bristol. Friday, September 24, 1880
[Bristol?]: Bi-Centennial Committee, 1880. Broadsheet (approx. 14" x 6"), previous folds, else fine. With the Order of Procession (starting on High St. and State St. at 10:00 a.m.) - five divisions in all, each with its Marshall and attendant aids and bands, the Chief Marshall being Col. Samuel Pomeroy Colt, and exhibitions of relics and portraits at the town... Read More
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The handbook. Vol. 3, No. 1, 1935-1936
New York: Student Organization, New York Hospital School of Nursing, 1935. 12mo, pp. 103; photographic frontispiece and fold-out plan of the hospital; original blue printed wrappers (some soiling), previous owner's name on front wrapper, very good; interior fine. Only Vol. 8, No. 1 in OCLC at the National Library of Medicine.
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Navā karāra
Hong Kong: United Bible Societies, 1988. 12mo, pp. 553, [3]; 2 maps; fine in original black cloth, edges stained red, gilt-stamped on upper cover.
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The life & trial of John Rann, alias Sixteen-string Jack, for robbery; to which is added, a narrative of the life & trial of William Cox, for a robbery
[London]: printed for and sold by J. Ker, No. 90, High Holborn... [et al.], 1800. 12mo, pp. 38; hand-colored portrait frontispiece; original plain blue paper wrappers; wrappers frayed with short tape repairs and manuscript math on upper wrapper, piece missing from top back outer corner, frontispiece coloring offset onto title page, textblock uncut, light foxing, good. Rann was a... Read More
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