8vo 8" - 9" tall; 746 pages; Passau, Mangoldischen Hofbuchdruckerei; 1791. 2 volumes bound as 1. Paged continuously [4] 1 - 746; with seperate title pages for the volumes. Squat, stout volume in period patterned paper over boards. Binding sound and snug with boards sound in joints. Paper over boards rubbed over spine edges with flaking and light chipping; boards visible at spine edges but remaining well bound. Scattered toning and foxing to text is generally mild. Spine panel unlettered but a rectangular paper label is mounted near crown with a hand lettered 3 digit numeral. Sound and... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 173 pages; 7th edition. Period calf leather. Rear board detached; upper board tenuously attached by cords. Boards chipped at corner and spine ends; some shallow chipping from leather along the rear joint. Decorative monogram in manuscript to front pastedown. Half-title and frontis present but front blanks lacking. Damp staining to top margins of the page stock. Binding or restoration copy. Fair only thus View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 294 pages; 1967 Russell & Russell HC in blue cloth binding. Square snug copy; deaccesioned from an academic college library with call lable base of spine, bookplate front pastedown and mild card pocket removal scar rear pastedown. Solid clean copuy appears perhaps never checked out or read. VG- View More...
Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 114 pages; [SIGNED] 1925 Carpenters' Company. Limited edition, #537 of an unstated limitation. Lengthy inscription to front free endpage by the 1926 Carpenters president A Raymond Raff. Royal blue cloth binding with titles very brightly in gilt to cover and spine, Sharp edges and corners. Illustrated with photographs. Hint of shelf rub at spine ends. Very handsome example. NF; Signed by Partner View More...
Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology: No. 41; Photographs, facsimile engravings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 103 pages; 1979 Smithsonian Institution Press. Oversized paperback. Solid, clean copy with mild rub to spine edges and light general shelf evidence. A trifle sunned at spine. Prior owner's small name stamp in the gutter of page iii. Uncommon volume is illustrated throughout with photos of unusual early devices as well as facsimiles of drawings and engravings. Outstanding set of notes and bibliographic references. VG View More...
Maps, photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 459 pages; 1908 Rumford Printing; Concord, NH. 1st edition in a printing of only 1500 copies. Original heavy black cloth with titles brightly in gilt to spine and rules in blind to boards. Binding snug and contents very neat. No marks. Just minimal shelf rub to cloth at spine ends. A tiny bump/nick to the lower edge of the cover board. Illustrated with numerous portrait photographs. Fold-out map at rear is immaculate. Lovely copy. VG++ View More...
B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Oversize HC/DJ. Reprint. Snugly bound and neat in clean crisp edged dust jacket. Just mild wear to jacket edges. Boards slightly shelf tapped at corners. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. Neat unmarked copy. NF/NF ...Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
Maps; engraved portraits & views; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1101 pages; Massive 4to HC in original 1/2 leather backed spine and corners with heavy pebbled cloth boards. Decorative title designs in gilt to cover and spine. Hinges professionally strengthened with some minor professional repairs to leather spine. 1st edition. Contents clean and neat; all folding maps, lithographed views and engraved portraits present and in very attractive condition. Shelf rubbing to leather at spine ends and corners with evidence of light reapirs. Generally solid and well preserved copy in original binding materials.... View More...
Maps; engravings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1101 pages; Massive 4to HC in original cloth boards with a basic heavy leather rebacking. 1st edition. Contents bright and neat; all folding maps, lithographed views and engraved portraits present and in attractive condition. Some tissue guards chipped or missing. The heavy leather repair/rebacking is too stiff for the joints and there is separation between endpages at front and rear with the front split nearly complete. A basic rebacking with more pliable leather or cloth would be deisrable, but on balancethe contents are very well preserved. Al edges gi... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 176 pages; Leipzig, J Wendler; 1755. Bound in contemporary hand marbled paper covered boards. Sound and complete with bright clean pages. Prior owner surname penned to margin of title page. 19th century bookplate of the Gettysburg Theological Seminary mounted to the front pastedown. Faded, hand lettered paper label at crown of spine. Head and tailpieces. Paper over boards rubbed and lightly chipped at spine; corners a little bumped. Overall a neat and clean copy in attractive hand finished paper covered binding. VG. Scarce; located in 12 University libraries search... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 1851 without printer or place given. In self-wraps with title page cover and a plain blue paper spine, as published. Light soiling to cover; blue paper over spine partially split but largely intact. Contents complete, clean and well sewn. Devotes on page per year to forecasts for weather, planting and harvesting conditions, vermin and illness etc. Scarce mid 19th century almanac; only one copy found among institutional holdingings, a copy at Harvard. VG View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 218 pages; Full calf binding with black morocco title label to spine. Front board and first two blank detached but present. Half-title page bound in. Printer's pagination error for page 14 (41) has been corrected by a prior owner. Text block sound with moderate general toning and some occasional hand soiling. Lower front corner of pg 157/158 torn away but not affecting any text. Prior ownership of Mary Creigh in manuscript to pastedowns and title page. Paged xii, [1], 14- 218, [6]. Includes several meditations on nature, gardens, the stars and moon along with other more dir... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 208 pages; A-N8. Original leather boards with an institution's reinforcement of brown cloth tape over spine. Period hand painted patterned endpapers and pastedowns. Contents bright and clean. Evidence of a call label base of spine and residue of a removed bookplate to the front pastedown. Leather boards have webbed surface stress cracking with some several flakes of the very surface of the leather missing. Corners rubbed with boards peeking through. A solid and complete copy with minimal evidence of prior institutional ownership. Could easily be rebacked with sympa... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 236 pages; Soundly bound in contemorary panelled polished calf boards and a rebacked spine late 19th or early 20th century. Red leather title label to spine. Endpages refreshed contemporary to the rebacking/restoration. Signatures A-Q4, R2. Pagination error with 142/143 misnumbered as 144/145. Partial internal split between signatures at H8 and I1 and mild gapping at K7/K8. Old bookseller inkstamp to front pastedown and 20th century ownership in pen top edge same. Mild crazing to leather at board edges. Paged continuoulsy but with separate title pages. Apparently the... View More...
frontis; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 280 pages; HC in navy cloth with titles brightly in gilt to spine. 1st UK edition. Top edge gilt. Square, sound and clean; no marks. Tissue guarded gravure frontis. A handsome copy. NF View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1895 Little, Brown & Company. 12 volumes, complete thus. Uniformly bound in 1/2 green morocco over marbled paper sides. Top edges gilt. Leather color shifted at spine to olive green; raised bands over several volumes scuffed and rubbed. Here and there some rubbing and scuffing to bottom front corner tips. Some few pages in nearly every volume bear the remanants of an ill-advised attempt to mend short tears with old scotch tape; short edge tears to scattered leaves caused by roughly opened pages. Old tape had ossified and discolored leaving stains to page edges and light offs... View More...
[With] Minutes of the Grand Committee of the Whole Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 246 pages; [1790] Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Philadelphia. Folio; full leather. Includes 2 of the 3 parts which recorded minutes and notes of the deliberations, votes and texts of the changes to the PA State Constitution at the Convention in Philadelphia, which began on Nov 24, 1789 and continued well into the year of 1790. This copy includes "The Minutes of the Convention [First Session]" and "The Minutes of the Grand Committee of the Whole Conventio... View More...
Copper plate; 12mo 7" - 7" tall; 695 pages; [No date fiven] Circa late 1790's. 3 small volumes, complete, uniformly bound in speckled calf with red morocco title labels. Xxxvi, 199; 240; 220 pp. 6 copperplate engravings in Vol I and only one in each of Vol II & III. Engraved head and tailpieces. Mild splitting to leather at joints but all still sound. Light rubbing to leather st apine ends. Attractive. VG- thus View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 382 pages; 4th edition of the Second volume of Sermons by Porteus. Binding of period calf with remantns of the red leather title label laid in at front. Upper board nearly detached; lower board tender in the joint with partial splitting to the leather. Text block snug, sound and neat. Prior ownership inkstamp to front pastedown and a small ink bookstore stamp to the front flyleaf. Leather chipped at crown and rubbed at edges. Moderate crazing to leather at spine. G+ thus View More...
