London: Printed for A. Millar, 1754. First Edition. 2 vols., 4to. Elegant contemporary French blue morocco, smooth spines gilt (faded to chestnut brown), vol. 1 with special label at the foot of the spine gilt with the author's name, place of imprint, and date, inner dentelles gilt, marbled pastedowns and..... More

Rochester, NY: Rochester Lithographing Co., 1867-1936. Together 12 nurseryman's guides + one 1861 American pomology guide (see below). SIXTY YEARS OF ART IN THE SERVICE OF COMMERCE: AN EXCEPTIONAL COLLECTION OF 12 AMERICAN NURSERYMAN'S SEED CATALOGUES DEPICTING, IN VIBRANT COLOR-STENCILED CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS, FRUITS, TREES, AND FLOWERS. THESE WERE HEAVILY USED AS..... More

London: [Printed in Leipzig for] The British and Foreign Bible Society, 1895. First Edition. 8vo. 421 pp. Original green cloth embossed in black and blind, gilt lettering in Persian on front cover (some foxing and age toning, minor water-staining on the edges and endpapers, endpapers with old annotations in Ottoman..... More

Madrid: Francisco Laso, 1714-1715. Together 3 vols., small 4to (208 x 146 mm). A few small closed repairs, even toning throughout, in some instances foxed or quite browned as is true in all copies of this edition on account of the paper stock, but the paper is strong; erased inscriptions..... More

Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1824. 8vo. 234 pp. Contemporary polished calf, outer frame rolls in blind and gilt, in central panel a large rectangle, diamond, and "X" composed with black lines, at each conjunction a small or large gilt flower; four raised bands on spine profusely gilt, central compartment lettered direct;..... More

Glasgow: J. & M. Robertson and J. Duncan, 1786. 24mo. 120 pp. consisting of a frontispiece (1 f., here pasted inside the front cover); title-page (1 f., verso blank); the text and pagination begins on p. 5 ("To all good little masters and misses..."). Lacking pp. 25-26, but with all..... More

Arlington, Florida: Norman Studios, 1926-1928. First Edition. Together 4 large color-printed promotional broadsides of equal size. 4 pp. 22" x 14" (unfolded) and 11" x 3.4" (folded to create a multi-paneled mailing brochure). Trifle wear to unfolded specimens (evidence of horizontal fold to "The Flying Ace"), a few short tears..... More

Poughkeepsie, NY: Eastman National Business College, 1882. Oblong 8vo. (100 x 170 mm; 4" x 7"). 102 leaves (fol. 12 blank, fol. 98 loose). "Autographs" album bound in contemporary full green morocco (spine expertly rebacked). ALBUM AMICORUM MANUSCRIPT FROM THE HUDSON VALLEY, NEW YORK, CA. 1872, FEATURING FIVE EXCEPTIONAL EXAMPLES..... More

s.l. (Pittsburgh?): 1940s (?). 7 glossy black and white prints on paper (3 3/16 x 4 1/2 inches), on versos the paper numbered M001, M220, and M349. Some general wear (creasing from handling, soiling on versos, one small tear). ODD, CLAUSTROPHOBIC INNER-CITY VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 1940s. Depicted here are..... More

London: Newton and Co., 1909. First Edition. 8vo. [8], 215, [5] pp. (including index and Price-list). COMPLETE with all 28 plates and requisite 27 printed tissue sheets (there are 2 tissue guards for plate V). Original publisher's green ribbed cloth, spine gold-stamped, patterned-paper pastedowns and endpapers. Some foxing here and..... More

Paris: Chez Claude Morlot, ruë de la Bucherie, aux vieilles Estuves, 1649. First Edition. Small 4to. 8 pp., collated: [A]2 B2 (A2v blank). Title-page woodcut (see below). Recent wrappers of old paper; possibly a washed (?) copy. FORESEEING AMERICA AS A WORLD POWER IN 1649; NOT IN ALDEN-LANDIS. This curious..... More

New York: Mahlon Day, 1837. Second edition. 8vo. 260 pp. (pp. 257-260 wrongly bound following title-page, some inherent foxing or blemishes). Original publisher's diapered maroon cloth (fading along spine and irregular section of the back cover, minor wear along extremities). The binding is TIGHT and the are hinges PERFECT, with..... More

England: 1876 (ca.). 4to. Notebook ruled in plummet, containing 79 pp. of very neat written text (the remaining pages blank). Laid in are 4 additional leaves with 7 epitaphs written by other hands (see below). Bound and/or sold by by Abraham Johnson, Stationer, Hull: original flexible black roan, comb-marbled endpapers..... More