THE WEDDING GUEST
Boston: Henry Hoyt, n.d.. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A copy of The Wedding Guest, an anonymous children's book, with illustrations throughout. Minor foxing; smudging to the bottom corner of the preliminaries, affecting the title page; previous owner's name in pencil and a blindstamp on the front endpaper and the front flyleaf; binding cocked, with shelfwear. Blue decorated... Read More
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![[ARCHITECTURE] DUTCH INTERIORS FROM THE XV TO THE XVII CENTURY 48 PHOTOGRAPHS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/258/158/1669158258.0.m.jpg)
[ARCHITECTURE] DUTCH INTERIORS FROM THE XV TO THE XVII CENTURY 48 PHOTOGRAPHS
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co. Presumed First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. 4to; quarter bound in publisher’s dark blue cloth over a lighter blue linen weave; with horizontal gilt tilting on the spine; title pages followed by 48 printed photographic pages; some of the pages are bound out of order but all are present; minor stains and... Read More
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![[MOVIE STILLS; PHOTOGRAPHS] DIXIE. CHRONICLES OF AMERICA. 1924](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/444/829/1266829444.0.m.jpg)
[MOVIE STILLS; PHOTOGRAPHS] DIXIE. CHRONICLES OF AMERICA. 1924
Yale University Press, 1924. Two 8 x 10" movie stills from "Dixie", one of The Chronicles of America Photoplays, a series undertaken by the Yale University Press as attempt to translate their history books of the same name into film. The two stills show the beginning and end of the Civil War -- "With gay confidence, the... Read More
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ARMY APPROPRIATION ACTS. 1861 - 1885
Government Printing Office, 1885. Appropriations for the Army as passed at sessions of Congress, excised from the volumes of the Government Printing Office, and bound together in three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, with a morocco label letters in gilt to the upper board. There are dividers with morocco tabs for each year (some have broken off, though all... Read More
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![DER RHEIN. [RHEINPANORAMA]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/644/405/1015405644.0.m.jpg)
DER RHEIN. [RHEINPANORAMA]
Koln: H. Siebenhar, 1900. Perhaps from the turn of the century, a Rheinpanorama, printed in blue with black and white, postcard-like photographic images of sites along the course of the Rhine. The Rhine Valley was a tourist mecca, and the river made for leisurely touring. The map is 6 1/2" wide and over 4' long, folded accordion... Read More
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LEXINGTON GAZETTE: BI-CENTENNIAL ISSUE, 1738-1938. COMMEMORATING THE SETTLEMENT OF THE ROCKBRIDGE SECTION OF VIRGINIA BY THE WHITE MEN. A TRIBUTE TO THE SCOTCH-IRISH PIONEERS
[Lexington, Va.]: [Lexington Gazette], 1938. The historical record of Lexington Virginia, issued by the Lexington Gazette for the Bi-centennial of the town in five parts: Section One, 16 pages; Section Two, 16 pages; Section Three, 16 pages; Section Four, 16 pages; Section Five, 17 pages. In green cloth binding with the original printed wrappers bound in. Illustrated... Read More
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![[AGRICULTURE] DEVONDALE STOCK FARM. CATALOGUE OF PURE-BRED DEVON CATTLE. OFFERED AT A PRIVATE SALE. ADDRESS: L. R. C. HOWARD, ZANESVILLE, OHIO](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/515/726/1590726515.0.m.jpg)
[AGRICULTURE] DEVONDALE STOCK FARM. CATALOGUE OF PURE-BRED DEVON CATTLE. OFFERED AT A PRIVATE SALE. ADDRESS: L. R. C. HOWARD, ZANESVILLE, OHIO
Zanesville, Ohio: Steam Printing House of L. D. Sandel, 1875. Large 8vo.; stitched pamphlet in pale blue wrappers printed with decoration and titling printed in gold; 24 pages, with a History of Devon Cattle in America, followed by a listing of the Devondale Stock Farm Cows & Heifers "From the Patterson Importation" and "From the Wainwright Importation". Zanesville Ohio... Read More
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![[RICHMOND] SOUVENIR PROGRAM. THE 4th ANNUAL TOBACCO FESTIVAL. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. OCTOBER 16-18, 1952](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/463/859/1691859463.0.m.jpg)
[RICHMOND] SOUVENIR PROGRAM. THE 4th ANNUAL TOBACCO FESTIVAL. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. OCTOBER 16-18, 1952
[Richmond]: N/A, 1952. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. Program for the 4th Annual Tobacco Festival game in which U.Va. and V.M.I. faced off at Richmond Stadium on October 18, 1952 at 1:00 p.m.; 56 pages; in printed wrappers, with many Richmond ads. ~~Uncommon relic of “Tobaccoland’s Greatest Annual Celebration”. Very Good binding.
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![[MILITARY] HUMOROUS BROADSIDE; ALBERT J. RODGERS. TRANSPORTATION CORPS, LIVORNO](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/456/829/1266829456.0.m.jpg)
[MILITARY] HUMOROUS BROADSIDE; ALBERT J. RODGERS. TRANSPORTATION CORPS, LIVORNO
An elaborate and comic broadside. presenting an "Honored Degree of Genius of Mathematical Orders" to one Albert J. Rodgers -- "Marine Superintendent and Watcher of the Curveline for Missing Vessels". The "degree" is hand-lettered on a 32 x 20" piece of parchment, and has a seal emblazoned with a drawing of a sinking ship. Watercolor illustration... Read More
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![[RELIGION] [10th VIRGINIA] FORMAL FRATERNITY. PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCES OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH, IN 1872, 1874, AND 1876 AND OF THE JOINT COMMISSION OF THE TWO CHURCHES ON FRATERNAL RELATIONS, AT CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, AUGUST 16-23. 1876](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/249/108/1684108249.0.m.jpg)
[RELIGION] [10th VIRGINIA] FORMAL FRATERNITY. PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCES OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH, IN 1872, 1874, AND 1876 AND OF THE JOINT COMMISSION OF THE TWO CHURCHES ON FRATERNAL RELATIONS, AT CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, AUGUST 16-23. 1876
New York: Nelson & Phillips, 1876. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in brown flexible cloth boards titled in gold to the upper board; 87 pages; rebacked with new brown japanese tissue.~~This copy with the signature of J. S. Hutchinson, dated November 5th, 1874, and a later gift inscription to “Collins Denny, 1895.” Collins Denny was... Read More
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![[CHILDREN] FUN & FANCY FOR THE LITTLE ONES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/493/809/1584809493.0.m.jpg)
[CHILDREN] FUN & FANCY FOR THE LITTLE ONES
New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1890. Pictorial Boards. Very Good binding. A fragile late 19th century children's books in pictorial boards. There is some cracking to the spine, but it is essentially all present. The boards are bright, with the usual corner wear and rubbing to the extremities. Front hinge has been reinforced with japanese tissue. Glue residue... Read More
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THE LITTLE HOUSEWIFE. | BIBLE STORIES. (ONE VOLUME)
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1880. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. First Edition of The Little Housewife, together with Bible Stories, in one volume. Separate pagination. Illustrated title page for The Little Housewife, frontispieces, and additional illustrations throughout, many full page. Blindstamp, and faint contemporary owner's name on the front board. Toning to the spine,... Read More
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![[RICHMOND BOOK BUSINESS] LETTERHEAD OF LINDEN CORNER BOOK SELLERS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/993/627/1552627993.0.m.jpg)
[RICHMOND BOOK BUSINESS] LETTERHEAD OF LINDEN CORNER BOOK SELLERS
Approximately 8 1/2 x 14" letterhead on foolscap with text and image in green; the image showing Linden Row; Linden Corner was at First and Franklin "in historic Linden Row"; The five-digit phone number as 7-4737. The shop advertised itself as "In the American Tradition"; some discoloration at the top righthand corner.~~An interesting relic of a long-forgotten member of... Read More
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ONE HUNDRED AND ONE VIEWS: MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT
London: Rock Bros. Ltd, 1900. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Small quarto; in publisher's red flexible leather with decorations and titling in gilt to the upper board; 36 unnumbered pages with 101 photographic images of Manchester and environs -- "The Fountain, Boggart Hole, Clough"; "Mosley Street and Art Gallery"; and many others. All are black and white, and... Read More
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BUDDHIST WALL PAINTINGS OF WESTERN TIBET (In Japanese)
1980. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good Dustjacket. Quarto; in the publisher’s pictorial boards; about 120 pages of glossy color photographs of Tibetan wall paintings and about 100 pages of text in Japanese; published in 1981 or prior as there is an old invoice for the book dated 1981 laid in;. Very Good binding / Very Good Dustjacket.... Read More
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![[BROADSIDE] [SPECIAL PRESS] AN EVYL AT THE COLLEDG. HARVARD COLLEGE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/446/101/1207101446.0.m.0.jpg)
[BROADSIDE] [SPECIAL PRESS] AN EVYL AT THE COLLEDG. HARVARD COLLEGE
Harvard Yard, 1968. No. 28 of 40 copies hand-printed in the Harvard Yard by the Primer Printers, December 1968. Printed petition to the Magistrates of the Massachusetts Colony, May 5, 1672: An Evyl at the Colledg. We desire the removal of an Evyl (as it appereth to us) at the Colledg. and that is ... in... Read More
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MAP OF TURIN FROM MAPS MODERN AND ANCIENT
London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1830. A map of the city of Turin, with three engraved views of the city at the bottom edge. Measuring about 14 x 16.5 in.
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![THE POLITICAL STATE OF EUROPE, FOR THE YEAR 1795. CONTAINING AN AUTHENTIC AND IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE OF EVERY MILITARY OPERATION OF THE PRESENT BELLIGERENT POWERS. NINTH VOLUME [9]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/658/437/925437658.0.m.jpg)
THE POLITICAL STATE OF EUROPE, FOR THE YEAR 1795. CONTAINING AN AUTHENTIC AND IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE OF EVERY MILITARY OPERATION OF THE PRESENT BELLIGERENT POWERS. NINTH VOLUME [9]
London: J. S. Jordan, 1795. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. This volume contains the complete copy of the "Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America". 634 pp. plus "Index to the Ninth Volume". Bound in diced half-calf over worn marbled boards; with rules and titling... Read More
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![[CIRCUS] [MEXICO] MEXICAN CIRCUS PROGRAMS, 1946-1968](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/408/295/1617295408.0.m.jpg)
[CIRCUS] [MEXICO] MEXICAN CIRCUS PROGRAMS, 1946-1968
The bulk of this collection consists of 8 seasonal commemorations of the Circo Atayde Hermanos, published by the circus as advertisements for the following year. Included are the volumes from 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1957, and 1958. Also included are the c.1958 20th anniversary commemoration of the Circo Union containing 2 inserts from other circus acts, and... Read More
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![[ENGINEERING] NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS. A READY REFERENCE FOR SCRAPS OF PRINT..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/847/819/1291819847.0.m.jpg)
[ENGINEERING] NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS. A READY REFERENCE FOR SCRAPS OF PRINT..
London: Marcus, Ward & Co. Late 19th century English newspaper cuttings album, chock a block full of steel engraved advertisements for well over a hundred pieces of equipment -- everything from engines for yachts, to steam ploughs, water heaters and revolving ventilators. 61 pp. The binder has been repaired and is quite sturdy.
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SHOP TALK. OFFICIAL ORGANIZATION BULLETIN OF THE MISSISSIPPI A. AND M. COLLEGE. JULY 1918 THROUGH JANUARY 1919. VOL. IV, NO. 1, TO VOL. VI, NO. 2
Mississippi: Mississippi A. and M. College, 1919. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The weekly issues of Shop Talk from July, 1918 through January, 1919. The typewritten bulletin of Mississippi A&M. With detailed information about the college, and statistics from the World War I era. Text is somewhat faded throughout, with toning to the pages. Bookplate on the front... Read More
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[MINIATURE] ‘CARTA’ (LETTER)
Mexico: Trifon Lecturas, 1979. 2 ½” x 1 ¾” light blue tome titled ‘Carta (Letter)’ by Mauricio Charpenal published through Trifón Lecturas, reprinting an historical letter. Charpenal is the author of a 1970 book about miniatures in popular Mexican art. The intro states that this letter was written by Niceto de Zamacois, a Spanish/Mexican historian, journalist, novelist, and poet.... Read More
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ABC BUCH UND LESE UND DENK-UEBUNGEN BEI DEM ERSTEN UNTERRICHT DER KINDER: NACH DEN BESTEN MUSTENR VON PESTALOZZI, STEPHANI UND ANDERN BEARBEITET. ERSTES BUCH
New York: H. Ludwig, 1871. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. An ABC book in German, with charming woodcut illustrations. In printed paper-covered boards, backed in blue cloth. Very Good binding.
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SMITHSONIAN MUSIC. DEFINITIVE VISUAL HISTORY
Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press, 2013. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. A hefty and lovely volume in full black leather, with decorations and titling in gilt, a colorful glazed pictorial pastedown of a harpsichord; all edges gilt; silk moire endpapers; a bound in silk ribbon marker; no ownership marks of any kind. There is a small and very... Read More
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![RE-PRINT [REPRINT] OF BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, THE METROPOLITAN, AND THE FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW. JANUARY TO JUNE, 1833. VOL. I.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/208/879/945879208.0.m.jpg)
RE-PRINT [REPRINT] OF BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, THE METROPOLITAN, AND THE FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW. JANUARY TO JUNE, 1833. VOL. I.
New-Haven, [Conn.]: Peck & Newton, 1833. Very Good binding. In the publisher's plain printed sewn wrappers. With the Index, followed by pages 207 through 240. With printed Notice about Subscription, with list by state of Agents for the Reprint of Blackwood &c, along with Terms. Uncommon; not found on OCLC. Very Good binding.
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