San Pablito Pahuatlán in Puebla state, Mexico. Square accordion format, handmade and handbound: 18 x 14 cm. 28 numbered "pages," all but three featuring cutouts of deities as issued. Both sides of the "accordion" with a pair of gold-colored ribbon. Excellent condition. An extraordinary hand-made Mexican book of Healing ritual... More about Otomí Manuscript on amate bark "paper"]. Historia de la curacion de Antigua de San...

London: Printed by T[homas] C[otes] for the Company of Stationers, 1635. 16mo. Collation: A-2E8, COMPLETE. 439, [9] pp. Final two gatherings waterstained, fols. E3 and R5 partially torn away with loss of some shoulder notes. Bound in contemporary British (Scottish?) brown calf, lacking first binder's blank, worn and shaken but... More about The Whole Booke of David's Psalmes [Book of Psalms

Paris: Mond-Hare (i.e. Mondhare), ca. 1762-1765. First Edition. Folio (405 x 260 mm). Allegorical engraved title-page + 68 plates numbered 1-68 (upper portion of plates 63-68 partially detatched, not loose or loosening; a little dusty, some pale and minor traces of damp here and there; signs of age; front blank... More about Architecture de jardins. Dédiée à Monsieur Joly de Fleury, conseiller d’État

Rome: Eucharius Silber, 1494 (Oct. 24 - Nov. 3). Small 4to. (209 x 155). Collation: a-p4 q6 r-x4 y2. Containing 4 (of 5) tracts, lacking the fifth (Onosander - see below). 40 lines and headline. Type: 10:91R. Woodcut initials throughout; troop formations and military strategies presented typographically on 23 pages... More about SCRIPTORES REI MILITARIS. Contains: Vegetius, De re militari. ¶ Sextus Julius Frontinus,...

S.l. s.n., n.d. (ca. 1900). Miniature brass "book," 1.1 inches tall (3 cm) containing a "leporello" folded to produce a frontispiece and 8 images depicting the life of Joan of Arc. Brass lightly dust-stained. Leporello folds lightly rubbed. Very good+. A miniature "leporello" enclosed in a tiny brass book-object with... More about La Vie de Jeanne d'Arc

Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1841. First Edition. 12mo. viii, [1], 18-322 pp. + 6 pp. of advertisements. Illustrated with frontispiece, engraved title, and six engraved plates with tissue guards (foxed throughout). Original publisher's tan leather binding, large central and corner ornaments gilt, a.e.g. Signed "S Moore Binder Phil." Binding sympathetically... More about The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1842 (contains Poe's "Eleonora"

Paris: George Cres et Cie. 1914. First Edition. Small 4to. Woodcut frontispiece printed in black and sepia by P.-Eug. Vibert. Contemporary Art-Deco binding by Madeline Gras: full smooth green calf, front and back covers inlaid with two rectangles of brown calf, gilt with the title (upper cover) and oblong ornaments... More about Lettres a l'Amazone

Dublin: Printed for Sarah and John Exshaw, 1750. 8vo., pp. [3], 112-164, woodcut vignette of London on title, text clean and bright, one page of engraved music. Attractive recent marbled wrappers. In this, the March 1750 issue of "The London Magazine," are valuable, strictly contemporary accounts of the earthquakes that... More about Earthquakes]. The London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer For March 1750

Marlin, Texas: Ca. 1944. Small promotional brochure, folded once to produce 4 pp., small illustration of the Majestic Hotel on the front panel. Scarce promotional brochure for the Torbett Clinic and Hospital, a private corporation founded in 1936 in Marlin, Texas, which was -- and is now -- famous for... More about Hygenic Rules for Your Health to Help You Get Well and Stay Well

Baltimore: 1920. First Edition. Small 4to. Complete volume 53. Library buckram, a little worn, original wrappers (soiled) bound in. Ex-library copy, priced accordingly. Groundbreaking experiments that earned George Whipple the Nobel prize for his discovery that liver fed to anemic dogs reverses the effects of the anemia, leading directly to... More about "Blood Regeneration following Simple Anemia" (Parts I-V, complete) in: The American...

London: Printed for J. Worrall (and 3 others), 1755. Seventh edition. 8vo. [viii], 24 pp., disbound (removed from a nonce volume). Front cover a little soiled, water mark at fore-edge and bottom throughout otherwise a good copy. Preserved in a mylar L-sleeve backed with lig-free board. Curious sermon occasioned by... More about An Alarm to a Careless World: A Discourse occasioned by the late Earthquakes, Preached November...

London: Printed for the Author, 1744. First Edition. 8vo, xliii, [2], 206, [2] pp. Frontispiece (Cesi's three bees: the first drawing of bees made with the aid of a microscope, 1625) and four copperlate engravings, one folding. Contemporary brown English calf, covers ruled in gilt with double fillet. Early ownership... More about Melissologia [M ], or the female monarchy, being an enquiry into the nature, order and...

New Jersey: 1940s. Photographs measure 4.5 x 3.25" -- preserved in a string-tied Album. ADDED: blueprint of an array of 5 radio towers. Unusual vernacular photo album which documents, in painstaking detail, the construction of an array of five (5) New Jersey radio towers. While the location of the site... More about Photo album containing 82 mounted b/w photographs of 5 Radio Towers under construction