Walt Disney's Bambi
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941. First Edition. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white, with 4 extra plates at the beginning which the dj blurb says are appropriate to be taken out and farmed. 1 vols. Lg 4to. Pictorial paper over boards, in like unclipped pictorial dust jacket, with tape marks on reverse. First Edition. Profusely... Read More
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Mémento Larousse. Encyclopédique & Illustré
Paris: Libraire Larousse, 1910. Nouvelle édition, aggrandie et augmentée. 13e mille. Illustrated throughout, 12 folding plates of maps. 730, [6, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth backed boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine copy in a full dark green morocco pull-off case by the Adams Bindery. Nouvelle édition, aggrandie et augmentée. 13e mille. Illustrated throughout, 12 folding... Read More
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Wohn's Service Station Main Street Park Ridge. Photographic album
In black album. Archive includes: History of the station and the Wohn Family; Photographs of the Station in 1940s and 1950s; Photographs of Wohn's 1937 Ford pick-up and other family vehichles; Photograpohs of Albert J. Wohn Jr. on his first motorcycle, a 1934 Harley Davidson; and more with some duplication.
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Receipts for Schooling of Mr. Preston's children Alice & Harriet and Master Jonathan by Miss Hinman
Salem, Mass, 1837. 14 pieces. 12mo. VG. 14 pieces. 12mo.
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The Gentleman Angler. Containing Short, Plain and Easy Instructions whereby the most ignorant Beginner, may in a little Time, become a perfect Artist in Angling … to which is added the Angler's New Song …
London: A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lyon in Pater-noster-row, 1726. First edition. [xii], 184, [8] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Late eighteenth-century quarter calf and marbled boards. Half title present, with two early owner signatures (small loss at top corner margin); somewhat closely trimmed (with occasional losses to headlines or page numbers). Spine lightly rubbed, upper joint repaired. About very good.... Read More
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Alaska
1944. With over 50 photos. Oblong 4to. Brown limp suede stamped in colors. Fine. With over 50 photos. Oblong 4to. Starting in Maryland and progressing to 'The Good Old 41st C.B." Transportation Group, with names and addsresses c 25 fellow 41sters.
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT MISSAL LEAF on vellum
Europe, c. early 16th century. One leaf, written in two columns with 20 lines in each. Written in Latin on recto and verso in two sizes of an upright Gothic script in black, blue, and red, with 6 illuminated initials in pink and blue with raised gold illumination. Central foliate decorations in vibrant colors on recto. 1 vols. 14-1/2... Read More
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![[Something concerning Nobody. Edited by Somebody. Embelliushed with fourteen characteristic etchings] (without title-page)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/452/812/9781243812452.IN.0.m.jpg)
[Something concerning Nobody. Edited by Somebody. Embelliushed with fourteen characteristic etchings] (without title-page)
[London: Robert Scholey, 1814. First Edition. 14 hand-coloured numbered plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Half green morocco, t.e.g., front hinge off, by Cecil & Larkins "Nobody" stamped in gilt on spine. Swann Sale 1440 lot 302 laid in. First Edition. 14 hand-coloured numbered plates. 1 vols. 8vo. "Incorrecrtly attrributed to G.M. Woodward (d. 1809) but perhaps by Marks." George ... Read More
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Dit Boecxken
[Twickenham, England]: Honey Dun Press [Printed by Kingprint, Richmond], 1978. Number 56 of 125 copies on English handmade paper. Illustrated. 1 vols. 4to. Case bound in quarter red morocco and marbled boards. Very fine in original box. Number 56 of 125 copies on English handmade paper. Illustrated. 1 vols. 4to. Facsimile of the 1872 edition privately printed for... Read More
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My Maiden Effort. Being the Personal Confessions of Well-known American Authors as to their Literary Beginnings. With an Introduction by Gellett Burgess
New York: The uthor's League of America, 1921. First Edition. 287pp. 8vo. Black cloth, worn, Bookplate of J.E. Knott. First Edition. 287pp. 8vo. Inscribed by Fannie Hurst on the title-page, Irwin Cobb on opposite page; Arthur Brisbane McGee; George Ade, Arthur Train on the half-title and Gelett Burgess on the ffep.
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![[SAMURAI WEAPONRY.] "Presentation of Samurai Accoutrements from a noble family.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/383/281/1289281383.0.m.jpg)
[SAMURAI WEAPONRY.] "Presentation of Samurai Accoutrements from a noble family.
[Kyoto: c.1780]. 4to. Wrappers. 4to. "A pictorial guide to the various Samurai garments, arms and hats worn, 48 pp manuscript, 8vo (230 x 160 mm), on rice paper, illustrated with over 90 sketches in pen and ink and colors, some light worming at upper margins, covers in thicker paper, upper cover worn; together: with 4... Read More
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Village Annals containing Austerus and Humanus. A Sympathetic Tale
Philadelphia: Published by Johnson & Warner. Griggs & Dickinson, Printers, 1814. First American edition. Embellished with 8 fine woodcut engravings. 35 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Drab boards. Fine. First American edition. Embellished with 8 fine woodcut engravings. 35 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. A famous Uncle Moses Pollock remainder. Rosenbach 514; Welch 1381: not in Hamilton
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[The Winds]. Collection of 74 mid-nineteenth century English lithographs depicting humorous phrases and themes dealing with the winds, windmills, etc.
[N.p., n.d., mid-nineteenth century]. Most plates signed in the plate “CAS”. 1 vols. 4to. Three quarter calf and boards, rebacked by Riviere. Rubbed at corners, scattered light foxing, else fine. Most plates signed in the plate “CAS”. 1 vols. 4to.
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RAPPORT DE L'ASSOCIATION DE LA PROPAGATION DE LA FOI, etablie a Montreal, en vertu d'un Indult du Saint Siege. Number 1
Montreal, 1839. First edition. 57 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed yellow wrappers. Fine. First edition. 57 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Rare. Number One of a Series of Annualk Reports. Howes R 66 "c" for all the Reports 46 Numbers
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[Vai M’nua Jii Kili]. [Cover title: Vai Kpoloe]
[New York City: De Pamphilis Press, 1944. First edition, variant issue in reddish-brown cloth [also seen in blue cloth]. [ii], 33 pp. 1 vols. 24mo. Reddish-brown cloth, a.e.g, glassine wrapper. Near fine. First edition, variant issue in reddish-brown cloth [also seen in blue cloth]. [ii], 33 pp. 1 vols. 24mo. The Vai langage is a Mande language of... Read More
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Sporting Anecdotes; Original and Select; Including Characteristic Sketches of Eminent Persons Who Have Appeared on the Turf, etc...By An Amateur Sportsman
London: Printed for James Cundee, Ivy Lane for Thomas Hurst; J. Harris and J. Wheble, 1804. First edition. Frontispiece & 15 other engravings.[ xvi], 542, [2] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound in full polished tan calf, gilt spine, a.e.g., by Riviere & Sons. Bookplate of Robert Winthrop. First edition. Frontispiece & 15 other engravings.[ xvi], 542, [2] pp.... Read More
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Erneuertes Reise und Hand- Büchlein Darinnen schöne andächtige Gebete zu finden / so beydes aufe der reise und zu Hause … zu gebrauchen. So wohl auch schöne Beicht- und Communion-Gebetlein. Wie auch mit schönen neuen geistlichen Lieder
Zwickau: Joh. Leonh. Stümpfeld, 1692. A-Bb8 [-A2?; -A8 ?cancel]. Pp. [1, title (verso blank)], [5]-403, [5, register]. 1 vols. Small 16mo. Contemporary black leather, boards ruled in blind, single bronze clasp. Binding a bit rubbed, title leaf with loss of text at upper corners and a few letters along gutter, laid down. Lacking one leaf [?A2] from the first... Read More
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The Protestant Song. "Thanks Royal York ...
London, Beaufort House, Strand: Published by Edward Dixon Pouchée, at the Office of "The English Gentleman". Whiting & Branston, Engravers and Printers to His Majesty for the Prevention of Forgery, 1825. 3 ff. printed on rectos only. 1 vols. Folio (17-3/4 x 13-3/8 inches). Sewn. In cream paper wrappers with richly embossed central gilt and red-printed panel surrounded by... Read More
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![Les Amours de Léandre et de Héro; Poëme de Muée le Grammairien; traduit de grec en françcois, avec le texte. [With:] Héro et Leandre, poeme en quatre chants, suivi de poesies diverses par P. Denne Baron, Troisième édition. Paris, 1806](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/129/710/581710129.0.m.jpg)
Les Amours de Léandre et de Héro; Poëme de Muée le Grammairien; traduit de grec en françcois, avec le texte. [With:] Héro et Leandre, poeme en quatre chants, suivi de poesies diverses par P. Denne Baron, Troisième édition. Paris, 1806
Paris: Chez Nyon Lejeune, Place des Quatre Nations, 1784. Frontispiece by Delaunay after Cochin (bound after the Advertissement) and extra-illustrated with 8 plates (2 in 2 states, one on China paper) and one original pencil sketch. ix, [1], 45; xx, 168 pp. (the first title with parallel text in Greek and French). 1 vols. 12mo. Later 19th-century full crimson... Read More
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The Anzac Book. Written and illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac. For the Benefit of Patriotic Funds connected with the A. & N.Z.A.C.
New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1916. First American edition. This first issue incorrectly attributes the poem `Trojan War, 1915' at p. 104 to J. Wareham instead to Arthur H. Adams. 11 colour & many b/w plates (including fold-out map of Anzac Cove at p. 90). xv, 170 pp. Printed by Cassels & Co., London. 1 vols. 4to. Original tan... Read More
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A Winter in the West Indies and Florida containing General Observations upon Modes of Travelling, Manners and Customs, Climates and Productions, with a Particular Description of St. Croix, Trinidad de Cuba, Havana, Key West, and St. Augustine, as Places of Resort for Northern Invalids. By an Invalid
New York, 1839. 12mo. Original green cloth heavily toned. 12mo. FIRST BOOK ON FLORIDA AS A RESORT. Sabin 104829; ; Clark 3, 257
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Ricordanza Memoir of Elizabeth Dalton; who died On the 16th December, 1812. Aged 59
London, 1813. 8vo. Bound in contemporaryfull bliue straight grained morocco, a.e.g. Laid into a fulll blue cloth dropbox , with red leather spine label. 8vo. With the manuscript note at front "Copy of an unfinished memoir selected for her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta/Abermarle Street 12th October 1813" and with the ex-library stamp of King Ernst Augustus of... Read More
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Florilège des Conteurs Galants du XVIIIième Siècle
Paris: Librairie de France, 1932. No. 261 of 300 copies on papier d’arches. Illustrations d'Adrien Bagarry. 2 vols. 4to. Original floral wrappers. Edges a bit chipped, else Fine. No. 261 of 300 copies on papier d’arches. Illustrations d'Adrien Bagarry. 2 vols. 4to.
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The Book of Job from the King James Bible. With wood engarvings by Gustav Wolf/and a Note by Alfred Young Fisher
The Cummington Press, 1944. One of 300 copies, #38. 4to. Publisher's quarter calf and boards, almost fine. Bookplate of Samuel French Morse. One of 300 copies, #38. 4to.
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