The Clarendon Press: Dawson, Bensley and Cooke, Oxford, 1799. 7.5 x 5, gilt ruled straight grain leather, aeg, Sss(6), covers well worn, outer hinges starting, extremities bumped and worn, hinges loose, front inner cracked, ink name and date (1806) of former owner on front blank, minor toning and spotting ele..... More
np (Cincinnati), nd (1876). Dozen color chromolithographs, oblong 5 x 6.75, wraps w/ silk ties, unpag. Covers soiled, stained, creased, tears, light soiling and spotting to contents else good. Some of the homes featured: Longfellow, Emerson, Whittier, Hawthorne, Byron, Tennyson. Printed on the back cover, "Centennial Souvenir with Compliments of..... More
Paris: Chez L'Editeur. 1818. Thirteen hand-colored plates by Mlle. Prudhomme, 5 x 3.5, full olive-green leather, hightly gilt decorated covers, spine and edges, raised bands, gilt spine lettering, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 192 pp. Covers rubbed, sunned, warped, corners well worn/bumped, light wear to spine tips, foredge rubbed, front..... More
Charles Keene, Phil May, L. Raven Hill. "Punch" office: London n.d. (circa 1890's). REPRODUCTIONS OF THESE THREE ARTISTS' WORK, 8.5x6.5", leather backed cloth, 80, 80; 80pp, top edge gilt, foredge dented, some corners bent and frayed, text block browning, spine frayed with joint cracking. More
George C. Leighton: London. 1858. Well illustr, 16 x 11.5, half leather w/ marbled boards, 627 pp. Covers poor, lacking spine cover, almost disbound, pencil numbers on endpapers, intermittent pencil scribbles, text block cracked, loose signatures and pages, tears, scattered spotting, waterstaining, soiling, pieces missing out of margins, fold creases..... More
George C. Leighton: London. 1860. Well illustr, 16 x 11, half leather w/ marbled boards, 638 pp. Covers poor, lacks most of spine cover, disbound, free front endpaper almost detached, ink name and address and stamp on each issue, a few pages missing a small chunk of margin mainly due..... More
Collectible Newspapers: Lansing, MI, 1985. 5.5 x 3.25", pict stapled wraps, 58pp, minor edge wear else a nice little pocket-size reference. SCARCE. More
(Berkeley, CA), (1973-1984). 7 issues. Each 10 x 7", color pict stapled wraps, unpaginated, minor shelf wear else nice copies; issue #2 has a "75 cent" sticker on cover. More
The Genesee Pure Food Company: LeRoy, 1924. Illustr, oblong 4.25 x 6, pict stapled wraps, hole at upper corner with string attached, 18 pp. Covers soiled, small coffee ring on the front cover, offsetting on rear cover, light creasing, contents very good. Attached is "Jell-O Ice Cream Powder," four pages..... More
The Jell-O Company: Leroy, NY n.d. (1914?). 7 x 5', pict wraps, 16pp plus Jell-O Ice Cream Powder 4pp supplement, partially stained, loose. WITH COLOR DRAWINGS BY ROSE O'NEILL. More
The Religious Tract Society: London, nd. "With Numerous Illustrative Engravings," 7 x 4.25, gilt ruled and embossed green morocco, aeg, with "B. West Binder, Clerkenwell, London" book ticket inside rear cover, 467 pp with index, covers a little worn and darkened, extremities bumped and lightly fraying, spine darkened and dull..... More
D. Appleton & Co: NY 1878. 8 x 5", leather backed printed boards, 82pp, covers partially stained, a soiled copy with verey rubbed extremities. More
Curtis Publishing Co: NY, 1930. 14.5 x 11, publishers blue boards w/ silver trim and medallion, black lettering, 258 pp. Entire magazine bound inside the boards, boards are rubbed, soiled, scattered light spotting, corners and spine tips bumped and worn, cover margins and interior edges of boards browned (nicotine?), slight..... More
John Sharp: London, 1819. Hardcover. Portrait; engraving, 5.5 x 3.5", full straight grained green goatskin with gilt tooling, aeg, 167; 153pp with indexes, EX-LIBRARY (no outside markings), inner hinges cracked, front endpaper detached, original bookplate of Margaret Manning Couzens plus library bookplates (deaccessioned), spine worn, foxing at front, in custom..... More
Thomas Boys: London, 1820. Hand-colored engraved title and frontis + 11 (of 12) full page handcolored plates by Cruikshank, 9.5 x 6", recently rebacked half leather; marbled boards, 240pp, covers worn, extremities bumped and chipping (new spine nice but plain), pp foxed (esp. plates) and soiled, still and interesting and..... More
1822. Two volumes. Foredge, text illustr, 5.25 x 3.25, blind tooled red straight grain goatskin, gilt decorations and ruling on covers, raised bands, gilt ruled panelling on spine with gilt decorations with gilt illustr of a ship on three of the panels, gilt lettering, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt..... More
London. 16 x 11.5", half leather; marbled boards, engravings (none in color), 429-652 and 1-444, disbound, spine lacking, covers somewhat duct taped to each other, covers fair, loose signatures, text block splitting, spotting, smudgind, soiling, tears, foxing, creasing, approx 3 engravings partially colored-in, leaves pressed in , missing pp 221-236..... More
np (Chatelain, Amsterdam), nd. (4 various editions were published between 1705 - 1739, map is from ?) 17.5 x 38, printed on two sheets and joined at the center, uncolored. Toned, scattered spotting, creasing, chipping, small tears, approx 3" of upper area where map sections were attached has become unsealed..... More
The Map Collector: Hertfordshire, 1980-1982. Illustr, 11.75 x 8.25, pict wraps, 72, 74, 76, 76, 76, 86, 80 pp. Covers have light wear, scratches, creases, corners and spine tips bumped, paper peeling on the spines of a few issues, contents good/very good. Articles by R.V. Tooley, Madeleine B. Stern, Heather..... More
Cowperthwait, Desilver & Butler: Philadelphia, 1854. Colored map, oblong 16 x 25.75", folds down to 5.25 x 3" with gilt-lettered embossed faux leather case, toned, folds, browned at folds, one fold torn (at bottom margin); case is worn at extremities and wrinkled at spine; otherwise a nice brightly colored map..... More
Humphrey Phelps: NY, 1832. 16 x 20", folded into a 5 x 2" gilt-lettered leather folder, colored in outline, one tear at a fold repaired and now browned (at right margin and into the Atlantic Ocean, not at land) else a nicely preserved example; map shows the US to Arkansas..... More
The University of Michigan, The University Library. 1976. 11 x 8.5, stapled sheets, 16 one-sided pages. Light soiling, toning, chipping, creasing else good. "This bibliography was prepared for the seventeenth AXRL Rare Books and Manuscript Collections" which was held 14 - 17 July 1976 at the University of Michigan, Ann..... More
The University of Michigan, The University Library. 1976. 11 x 8.5, stapled sheets, 16 one-sided pages. Light soiling, toning, chipping, creasing else good. "This bibliography was prepared for the seventeenth AXRL Rare Books and Manuscript Collections" which was held 14 - 17 July 1976 at the University of Michigan, Ann..... More
The University of Michigan, The University Library. 1976. 11 x 8.5, stapled sheets, 16 one-sided pages. Light soiling, toning, chipping, creasing else good. "This bibliography was prepared for the seventeenth AXRL Rare Books and Manuscript Collections" which was held 14 - 17 July 1976 at the University of Michigan, Ann..... More
Gebbie & Barrie: Philadelphia, 1876. Illustr: Volume I. 46 steel engravings (including unlisted frontis) plus 172 wood engravings for a total of 218; Volume II. 1 copper engraving plus 436 illustr (including 1 unlisted vignette) for a total of 437; Volume III. 1 steel engraving plus 335 illustr for a...... More