Lithographic plate; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 28 pages; Disbound from Vol II of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Original monograph lacks title wraps and is sewn together with a single looped thread. Lower front corner has about 10 leaves creased/dogeared. Light soiling to title page and back of final leaf. Includes the large lithographic plate called for. A candidate for recasing in wraps or boards. Contents neat. G+ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
Angell's Union Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 296 pages; Revised stereotype edition. Bound in original full speckled calf with gilt tooled morocco title label to spine. Boards splayed slightly at front edge. Modest skinning to leather along edges; light surface rubbing mid-spine. Short, incipient split in the leather over the front hinge. Scattered moderate spot soiling to text. Prior ownership inscriptions to front and rear endpages. 1850's Bookplate of a University "Philosophical Society" mounted to the front pastedown. Solid copy. VG- View More...
Engravings, lithographs, diagrams; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 383 pages; Oversize HC. Snug and solid in original navy blue cloth with pictorial design and title lettering brightly in gilt to cover; gilt at spine a little dulled. Cloth lightly rubbed at tips and spine ends. Just mild shelf soiling to front and rear covers. Minor foxing to endpages. Profusely illustrated with lithographed views and photographs of steam boilers and works in factories and applications. Many fine figures and pictorial diagrams demonstrating the use and applications of steam and steam boilers in industrial applica... View More...
B & W photographs, drawings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 726 pages; 1974 Frost Free Library. Limited edition of 1000 copies, a facsimile of the 1881 original edition. Pictorial paper covered boards and gray cloth backstrip, lettered in silver. Square, solid and neat. Issued without dust jacket. Contents clean and unmarked. Just a touch of superficial shelf/handling evidence to externals. Illustrated with photographs & drawings. VG+ View More...
Engraved ads; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1524 pages; The 1892 edition of the most comprehensive record of Philadelphia business and residence listings. Complete copy with 1386 page primary text divided among a 706 page "residence and copartnership" directory, a [689] 707- 1386 pages business directory organized by business type/concern, an 86 page City Register and a 52 page Street and Avenue Directory. The whole lavishly populated with engraved business advertisements tipped in on colored paper, printed in-text and appended as premium ads at front and rear. This example of the very un... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 300 pages; HC in publisher's brown cloth over boards with title lettering in gilt to spine and ruling in blind to boards. A sound, decent copy. Boards rubbed at edges with cloth chipped from spines above the level of the page block; board showing through cloth at corners. Cloth weak in the hinge gutters with a partial split starting top front hinge. Scattered light to moderate soiling and toning. Chip from the lower corner of page 47/48 has result of loss of first letter or two from several lines of text. G+ View More...
Maps & B&W Illustrations; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 332 pages; 1847 Uriah Hunt & Son HC 1/2 leather and pictorial paper covered boards. 2nd edition. Soundly bound copy; leather spine rubbed and chipped at crown of spine; leather across lowermost cord chipped away. A few pin holes to leather; gilt tilting partially rubbed away. Paper boards rubbed and water spotted with cover illustration and titles partially rubbed away. Binding sound; wood-cut engraved maps of each county inset in text. Full page frontis map of the state and a number of partial page wood cut pictorial illustrations. M... View More...
Maps, folding; engraved ills; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 298 pages; Substantially revised edition, from the 1866 1st edition. Small, pocket sized, format HC in publisher's pebbled terra cotta colored cloth. Binding sound and contents clean. Prior ownership in manuscript to front endpage; text unmarked. This is the preferred, substantially revised edition, with the additional folding plates of the Mill River Diaster and the pictorial folding plate at rear of the New Haven Line steamer, "C. H. Northam." Burt's extensive travel guide by rail through the Connecticut Valley. With numerous... View More...
Good. No dust jacket as issued. Well bound but with rubbing through binding fabric at several spots along the edges and corners. Light fray at spine ends. Light foxing endpages. G+; 509 p. Early reprint in decorative victorian blind-stamped covers, gilt stamped spine; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 509 pages; Good. No dust jacket as issued. Well bound but with rubbing through binding fabric at several spots along the edges and corners. Light fray at spine ends. Light foxing endpages. G+ View More...
Partial maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 360 pages; Bound in original green cloth with borders in blind to boards and titles in gilt to spine. Light general mottling to cloth boards; boards rubbed at corners and spine ends with mild rub through at tips and modest fray at spine ends. Both folding maps missing large prtions with only partial single page stubs remaining. Split to the rear endpage joing; front free endpage appears to have been removed - liekely to excise ownership or gift inscription/ Text complete and generally clean with only modest foxing and light soiling to endpages and light... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 275 pages; 1895 Arena Publishing Company. HC 1st edition. Original blue cloth with title lettering and a cover pictorial element in gilt. Scarce novel that delves into the esoteric fields of spirituality, eastern religion, spiritism and theosophy. This copy is sound and complete in the text, though lacking the front free endpage. Some shelf soiling to boards. Cloth splitting along the rear spine edge, chipped at spine ends and with several small areas rubbed through at the board edges. Binding a little shaken. First few leaves toned. Scarce in the original edition. F... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 289 & 276 pages; Very uncommon Tauchnitz published edition, issued concurrently with the Chatto London edition. 2 vols in 1. Bound in 1/4 red leather with marbled paper covered boards. Spine slightly cocked; spine edges and surfaces of raised bands are lightly rubbed. Marbled paper boards lightly rubbed corners. Binding firm and enpages neat. Silk bookmark sewn in. Chatto & Windus published the work in 3 vols, 1879; Tauchnitz in 2 vol edition simultaneously. Tauchnitz, who was a personal friend of Collins, was an important publisher of English literary works ... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; Set of 7 cassettes in clam shell case - part 2 of 2. Cassettes appear very fresh; from the prior owner the statemnt that he listened to them once only. Case immaculate. Appears as new ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 623 pages; 1st American edition. Original heavy yellow cloth with title designs in maroon and gilt. Tile lettering rubbed abd moderately dulled at spine. Soundly bound and unmarked but with spines of both volumes lightly cocked. Light dust spotting/shelf soiling to board edges both vols. Uncommon 1st edition. VG- View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 276 pages; Philadelphia. HC in original green cloth. Gilt stamped morocco leather title label to spine. A scarce early American issue of one of Dick's most influential works intersecting religion and science. This copy snugly bound and complete with original endpages sound and intact. Cloth chipped at crown of spine and rubbed at tips and edges. 1835 gift inscription from a Morrison to a JD McCutch[e]on. Text unmarked with some light to moderate foxing scattered throughout. A simple hand-numbered, private library call label mid spine; this copy at one time in the l... View More...
Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 347 pages; HC in brown cloth with titles in gilt to spine. 1st edition. Soundly bound copy with rules and decorative monogram in blind to front and rear boards. Gilt title lettering at spine dulled and legible with effort. Mild bumping to board edges; cloth crimped and a little thin at spine ends and corners. Tips lightly bumped/bruised. Light to moderate silverfish evidence to page block edges. Light general shelf soiling to boards. One signature slightly sprung but in general the contents are clean and well preserved aside from expected light toning. A pro-C... View More...
B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 248 pages; HC in original aqua green cloth with pictorial design in orange and black to cover and spine; title lettering in black to cover and in gilt to spine. Soundly bound and generally bright. Binding slightly shelf cocked in the spine; mild shelf rub at board tips. Light dust spotting to top edge of page block and superficial shelf soiling to rear board. Minor toning to front and rear endpapers. Prior owner's name penned neatly to front endpaper. Illustrated with B/W etchings. VG- View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 317 pages; [No date given] Circa 1928,. Little, Brown and Company. HC. Snug, solid and neat in black cloth with title lettering in gilt to spine. Printed on laid paper in Edinburgh by the Riverside Press. Cloth at spine a little toned and gilt title lettering dulled but legible. Mild crimping to cloth at spine ends and superficial bumping at corners. Very light notations to two pages. Slight offsetting to front endpaper. From the library of American author, book collector and rare book dealer Herbert F. West, with his bookplate mounted to the front pastedown. VG- View More...
Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 450 pages; HC in publisher's pale green cloth with title lettering in gilt to spine. 1st American edition aftyer the 1859 British publication. Square, sound copy; there are no ownership marks, though the front free endpage has been removed. Gilt to spine dulled but readily legible. A 2 1/2 long by 1/2 inch wide ink splotch along the lower rear spine edge. Contents bright and clean with only occasional mild toning. Patedowns are ads for Lippincott published titles. VG- View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages; [SIGNED] 1850 John C Robb: Philadelphia. Hardcover. 1st edition. Inscribed to the top corner of the front endpage by the author to E. J. Brooks. Red cloth with decorative ruling in blinf and titles to cover in gilt. Base of spine missing 1.5 inches of cloth with a shallow chip missing at crown. Corners a litte rubbed and rounded. Binding sound. Page stock clean and supple. Uncommon volume of cerse, presumably of a Philadelphia author. Signed 1st edition. G+; Signed by Author View More...
