A GLANCE AT THE GRIMANI BREVIARY Preserved in S. Mark's Library, Venice

Venice: Ferd. Ogania, 1906. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover. Fine. English edition limited to 500 copies, 110 full page plates including four chromolithographic plates all with tissue guards, several various colored silk ribbons tissue wrapped for protection, bound in deep red velvet, central gilt portrait medallion with florets, pictorial orange endpapers, top edge gauffered, all others uncut. Previous owner's... Read More

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THE RADIO TRADE DIRECTORY, Volume 1, August, 1925, Number 4

New York: McGraw-Hill Co., Inc, 1925. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. A classified directory of the radio and allied industries published quarterly. Illustrated, 188(1)pp., illustrated endpapers are ads; bound in gray cloth stamped in black and red, spine lettering black; a few small spots to cloth. A very good clean copy.

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THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, Translated Out of the Original Greek: And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised By Her Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches

Oxford/London: Oxford University Press/Henry Froud. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 32mo. circa 1900. A near fine copy bound in leather spine and olive wood boards. Gilt lettering spine. All edges gilt. Owner inscription ffep. A beautifully bound little new testament. 464 pp.

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L'ALBUM DE LA GUERRE. Histoire Photographique et Documentaire Reconstituee Chronologiquement a L'aide De Cliches et De Dessins Publies Par L'Illustration De 1914 A 1921. Volume Two

Paris: L'Illustration, 1923. Full Leather. Very Good. Folio. VOLUME TWO ONLY. A very good volume bound in full maroon leather with gilt lettering and decoration spine and covers. Color foldout map "Le Estapes de la Victoire" rear. All color tipped-in portraits present some laid-in. Cover edge wear. A history of World War I as published by L'Illustration... Read More

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THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER and Administration of the Sacraments

Cambridge; nd (ca.1875): C.J. Clay & Sons. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Octavo. And Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the Church of England, together with The Psalter, Or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches; and the form and manner of making, ordaining and consecrating... Read More

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The Bible, 1608 Geneva Bible, "Breeches" Bible with The New Testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ, 1610

London 1608, 1609, 1610: Robert Barker. Full-Leather. Very Good. Small quarto (8 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in contemporary suede covered boards; the "Breeches" Bible, so called from the passage in Genesis 3:7, "they sewed figge tree leaves together and made themselves breeches." Bound together with The Book of Common Prayer (lacking title page), The Apocrypha, The New... Read More

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TOPOGRAPHY OF MAIDSTONE and Its Environs and Directory of the Glergy, Genry, Tradesmen, & C. Of Maidstone

Maidstone: J. Smith, 1839. Hard Cover. Very Good+. 108pp., 38pp. directory, [26]pp. ads at rear, bound in original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind, contains frontis map and one folding map, one plate; spine slightly faded; neat owner name to front fly leaf; internally very clean; light foxing to folding map. a very good + bright copy.... Read More

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ANIOL STROZ. Albo Ksiazka Do Nabozenstwa [Polish Book of Devotion]

Chicago: Ecclesiastical Goods, 1926. Full Leather. Very Good++. Bound in full black leather with leather strap and metal snap, gilt lettering spine, gilt floral design and cross front cover, all edges gilt and with colored floral gauffered edges, gilt inner dentelles, cross inserted front pastedown, ribbon bookmark. Fading to gilt lettering spine, leather slightly worn on strap, offsetting... Read More

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THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated Out of the Original Greek and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised By His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches

London: Collins Clear-Type, 1957. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Collins Minion Clear-Type M06. Gift Testament. King James Version. Bound in "Yellow Leatheroid" with gilt lettering spine and front cover, all edges gilt, silk ribbon book mark, marbled endpapers. Housed in original publisher's gift box. A near fine copy with minimal scuffs to edge gilt.

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Illuminated Manuscript Leaf on Vellum, Book of Hours, France c 1450

by ??

France (ca. 1450). Fine. A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, on vellum; 115mm x 83mm; verso and recto. Gothic littera bastarda script, in red and dark brown, or black ink; single column, 14 lines. One-quarter panel border decoration of rinceaux, with burnished gold ivy leaves and floral motif in tempera. A fine example from... Read More

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A Treatise on the New York Air Brake. Prepared for Students of the International Correspondence Schools

Scranton: The Colliery Engineer Co, 1901. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. Brown 3/4 morocco, marbled end papers; original plain brown paper dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black and white; a fine copy in a very good + dust jacket.

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U STOP JEZUSA. Ksiazeczka Do Nabozenstwa, Zawierajaca Modlitwy Na Najwazniejsze Uroczystosci Koscielne [Polish Prayer Book]

Warszawa: Zaklad Katolick. Wydawnictw I Drukarna, 1900. Full Leather. Near Fine. Near Fine Polish prayer book bound in black patent leather with brass clasp, all edges red and gilt, cross inserted front paste-down. Offsetting from cross to ffep. 320 pp.

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BRITISH SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN Modern Commerce, Transport Motoring and Aviation

London; c. 1920: Sports & Sportsmen, Ltd. LIMITED EDITION. Full-Leather. Fine. Folio. Limited to 1000 copies (#615); 537pp., bound in full burgundy morocco double ruled and lettered in gilt, raised bands with compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. all edges gilt. 15 photogravures with tissue guards and other illustrations throughout. A beautiful copy... Read More

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THE MANUAL OF THE SEVENTH REGIMENT, National Guard S.N.Y.

Np: The Board of Officers, 1868. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Octavo. Frontispiece of the Seventh Regiment Armory, 166pp. plus a listing of the Roll of Honor of members of the Seventh Regiment who served as volunteer officers in the Army and Navy of the United States during the Great Rebellion. Previous owner's name and dated 1871, a near... Read More

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THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, And Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode Bible Warehouse. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4.5 x 3 Inches. Bound in limp black leather with silver front cover depicting a portrait of five cherubs by Sir Joshua Reynolds and signed with the hallmark WC for William Cummings silversmith. All edge gilt. Gilt lettering spine. A very good copy with ffep missing, owner name... Read More

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Balalaika (Russian Folk Music in Cyrillic)

Mockba (Moscow), 1962. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. octavo, 115 pages; publisher's tan cloth printed in orange and brown; in Cyrillic. Illustrated in black and white, with music notes for a number of Russian folk tunes. internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. Very good indeed.

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THE COSMETISTE. A Textbook on Cosmetology with Special Reference to the Employment of Electricity in the Care of the Hair, Scalp, Face, and Hands, Also Permanent Waving and Hair Curling

Chicago: The Wm. Meyer Co, 1936. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Octavo. Ninth Edition. Bound in red flexible faux leather. Near fine copy with owner inscription ffep. A very nice copy. 529 pp.

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THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. With Engravings on Wood from Designs of Fra Angelico, Pietro Perugino, Francesco Francia, Lorenzo Di Credi, Fra Bartolommeo, Titian, Raphael, Gaudenzio Ferrari, Daniel Di Volterra, and Others

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, 1865. Full Leather. Very Good+. Large Quarto. A very good+ copy in full red leather binding signed by Leighton Brewer. Raised bands spine, gilt lettering spine, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Tastefuly owner book plate front pastedown. Mild cover edge wear, foxing endpapers, slight discoloration front cover. 540 pp. Text... Read More

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The Shoe House Nursery Rhyme Book. The Pages Talk. Teaches Children How to Tie Laces

by [???]

New York (1957): Novelty Import Co., Inc. First Edition. Near Fine. A book shaped like a shoe, with holes and a shoe lace, for teaching children to tie laces. Pictorial boards, red spine, 4 stiff cardboard pages, which when squeezed, make the sound of a barnyard animal; various nursery rhymes printed inside. Pictorial shoe-shaped slipcase, with a minor... Read More

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The Comic Blackstone

by A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott

London: Punch Office, 1844. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. John Leech. 12mo. Part I Only of 2 parts. 92 pages, frontis. Original pictorial boards with wear. Binding tight, text clean.

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The Comic History of England

by A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott

London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Three-Quarter Leather. Fine. John Leech. Octavo. c.1870, xviii [320] 304 pages. Two volumes in one book. Twenty hand-colored plates and 200 woodcuts in the text. Beautifully bound in 3/4 red morocco, with gilt decorated panels on spine; top edges gilt.

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Surgical Observations on Injuries of the Head; and on Miscellaneous Subjects

by Abernethy, John

Phildelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1811. First Edition. Very Good-. Octavo, 299 pages, 2 pages of ads at rear; contemporary full leather binding, red leather label on spine, lettered in gilt. One plate, facing page 105, dampstained, offsetting to adjacent leaves. End blanks stained, neat owner name on title page; front and rear boards slightly warped.

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A New Signature of Shakespeare

by Adams, Joseph Quincy, PhD

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1943. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Original Wraps. Very Good. Octavo, 4 pages plus facsimile in black and white, of signature, purported to be Shakespeare's. Bookplate of Jerry D. Melton. Very good.

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Mostly Harmless (Signed)

by Adams, Douglas

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. First Edition. Fine. Frank Mayo. octavo, 277 pages; publisher's blue full-leather binding, decorated in gilt; all edges gilt, silk bookmark. Silk moire end papers. SIGNED by the author on a front end paper. As new.

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Adams' Illustrated Panorama of History [Together with] A Key or Explanation of Adams' Panorama of History

by Adams, Sebastian Cabot

London & Paris: A. H. Walker, 1878. Hard Cover. Very Good. Large folio (27 1/4" x 13"), "Third edition and Twelfth-Thousand carefully and critically revised and brought down to 1878." Twenty-one color lithographs (each 27" x 13"), conjoined to make a folding panorama of approximately 22 feet long, when unfolded; simply spectacular. One can behold all of mankind's... Read More

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