![SUMO WRESTLER - ORIGINAL 1857 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT]. Kimenzan Tanigaro. TOYOKUNI IV / UTAGAWA...](/images/noimage.png)
Edo (Shiba Myojin-mae), Japan: Wakasaya Yoichi, 1857. Broadsheet (364 x 245 mm). Censor seal is dated "1857 Fourth Month" (巳四). Three horizontal folds, wrinkled, edges frayed, two holes filed with japanese tissue on verso. This is an original woodblock print; NOT a reproduction! When Utagawa Kunisada II (i.e. Toyokuni IV)..... More
![Two Complete Plays Extracted from the FOURTH FOLIO 1685]: Life and Death of RICHARD II [together...](/pictures/thumb/3567.jpg?v=1632965403)
London: [Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley], 1685. Fourth edition. Folio (341 x 222 mm). Pages 1-40. Collation: Bb-Dd6 Ee2, COMPLETE THUS. Bound in retrospective paneled calf in the 18th-century "Cambridge" style. With faults: partial reinforcement in blank lower margin on recto of 2B6-2D5 and 2E1-2, blank..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912. First Edition, 2nd printing. 8vo. [8] 334 [1] pp. Complete with frontispiece and 3 full-page illustrations. Original brown decorative cloth with pictorial onlay (somewhat worn, spine dulled, top edges dust-soiled; slight shelf lean; some offsetting to pages opposite the three plates; title-page tissue guard..... More
![The Bible in Miniuture [i.e. Miniature], or a concise history of the Old & New Testaments....](/pictures/thumb/3565.jpg?v=1632877863)
London: E[lizabeth] Newbery, 1780. 64mo (binding size: 41 x 30 cm = 1.5" x 1.25"). [2], 256 pp. With engraved general title, engraved New Testament title + 14 engraved plates. Contemporary English red morocco, gilt, in centers of both covers the IHS holy monogram gilt on green leather oval onlays..... More
![MAPPING THE WEST - COMPLETE SET IN PERFECT CONDITION]. Mapping the Transmississippi West,...](/pictures/thumb/3491.jpg?v=1632522679)
San Francisco: Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-1963. First Edition. Together five vols. in six. Large folios (355 x 260 mm). Original publisher's dark green buckram over gray linen, spines gilt-stamped; standard offsetting inside boards / front flyleaves from publisher's "temporary" brown shipping wrappers that were designed by the printer to..... More
![METHODIST MISSIONARY'S VOYAGE TO INDIA, TYPESCRIPTS 1920-1921]. "Travel Letters August 1920 -...](/pictures/thumb/3507.jpg?v=1632282182)
1921. Quarto (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches). 46 leaves, including 4-page "Circular Letter" to friends (detached) and 1-page text "What Drought Means in India" (detached, text incomplete). With a few handwritten corrections and additions. WITH: Autograph letter signed: Deaville Walker to his son, written from Ceylon, dated Sept. 20..... More
![PRESENTATION COPY]. My Winter in Cuba. W. M. L. Jay, pseud. of Julia Louisa Matilda Woodruff](/pictures/thumb/3564.jpg?v=1631807480)
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1871. First Edition. 8vo. 296 pp. + 4 pp. ads at end ("New Books to be Published in the Fall of 1871" which also includes the present title). Original publisher's green cloth, blocked and gilt, abrasions on front fore-corner and upper joint, affecting cloth, other binding..... More
![PRESENTATION COPY WITH ALS AND ORIGINAL MEDAL]. Under the Guns: A Woman's Reminiscences of the...](/pictures/thumb/3562.jpg?v=1631807472)
Boston: E.B. Stillings & Co., 1895. First Edition. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait, 7 ff. (including title-page), 272 pp. Original publisher's green beveled cloth, gilt front cover and spine, a.e.g. trifle scuffing on cloth (mostly on lower edge of front cover), patterned pastedowns and endpapers, tissue guard between frontispiece and title-page foxed..... More
![THE FIRST DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE LIZZY BORDEN TRIAL]. The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the...](/pictures/thumb/3561.jpg?v=1631807463)
Fall River: Press of J.D. Monroe, 1893. First Edition. 8vo. [2], 312 pp., numerous illustrations in the text including portraits, diagrams, and photographs of the crime scene (soiling and signs of age and use throughout). Title-page detached, lacking pp. 249/250 (facsimile leaf loosely inserted) otherwise complete with all illustrations. Original..... More
Mexico City: 1829 (January 12). Broadside. Folio (420 x 255 mm). Tear along inner margin with loss of several letters (see images), filled in with Japanese tissue, evidence of folding (not objectionable). GRAPHIC RESULTS OF RAW PARTISAN CONFLICTS, ALARMINGLY MODERN IN NATURE. IN THIS IMPORTANT DECREE, DATED JANUARY 12, 1829, THE..... More
![MAP / CEROGRAPH, 1845]. Mexico. [Inset]: Central America and Yucatan. Sidney Edwards Morse,...](/pictures/thumb/3558.jpg?v=1631745103)
S.l. n.d. [1845]. Engraved map (305 x 410 mm), original outline color, relief shown by hachure. Very slight toning, top margin with four short tears (not touching image), evidence of previous adhesion to matte, horizontal crease and wrinkle. This map appeared as No. 35 in "Morse's North American Atlas," 1842..... More
![COMPLETE WITH THE ATLAS]. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec: Being the Results of a Survey for a...](/pictures/thumb/3556.jpg?v=1631504905)
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1852. First Edition. Together 2 volumes including Atlas. Text volume: 295 [1 blank] pp. (small errata slip bound in between pages 294 and 295). COMPLETE with 1 folded lithograph map of the world, 1 folding diagram (thermal curves), 1 plan, 14 tinted lithograph plates..... More
![NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN AUTHOR]. Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims. Edited by Mrs....](/pictures/thumb/3368.jpg?v=1631504885)
Boston: For sale by Cupples, Upham & Co.; G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York; and by the Author, 1883. 8vo. 268 pp. Bound in green publisher's cloth with Greek-style printed border in black along top and bottom of covers. Edges slightly worn, corners bumped, minor tears at head and foot of..... More
London: Nathaniell Butter, 1611-1624. First Edition. 4to (254 x 173 mm). Three works in one volume, bound in late 19th- or early 20th-century reddish-brown hardgrain morocco, turn-ins gilt, marbled pastedowns and endleaves, a.e.g. (lower corner of front cover inexplicably worn, minor wear to other extremities). Blank leaves in all three..... More
![MEDIEVAL CRIMINAL LAW]. De Maleficiis (full title of Part 1: Angelus de maleficiis / repertorium...](/pictures/thumb/3549.jpg?v=1629065217)
Lyons: Benoist Bonyn for Jacques and Francois Giunta, 1544 (Part 1) and 1542 (Part 2). 8vo. 2 volumes in one. Collation: [pi]8 aa-cc8 dd12 a-z8 [et]8 [con]8 [rum]8 A-CC8 DD12 (O8 blank); AA-BB8 aa-nn8 oo12. Pagination: [36], ccccxxviii, [16], cxv, [1] ff. Upper corners of four leaves (fols. clxxxiii-clxxxvi) have..... More
![MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY CATALOGUE 1831]. Bibliotheque de Fourqueux / Catalogue des livres de la...](/pictures/thumb/3540.jpg?v=1629065186)
Chateau de Fourqueux (Yvelines, France): 1831. Large folio (418 x 263 mm). Manuscript on paper. 1 f. (calligraphic title-page) + 1 f. (Avis) + 64 pp. catalogue entries written on ruled paper (the majority of the pages are completely full) + 8 blank pages (numbered 65-72) + 1 fol. ("Table..... More
![IRISH BINDINGS BY THE HILLINGDON BINDER]. The History of the Life of King Henry the Second and of...](/pictures/thumb/3537.jpg?v=1629065141)
Dublin: Ad I-IV: George Faulkner, 1768-1772; Ad V: J. Williams, 1775, 1768. 5 vols. 8vo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2"). Contemporary Irish tree calf by the Hillingdon Binder: spines elaborately gilt tooled in six compartments with contrasting gilt lettered labels, boards with gilt rolled borders and gilt tooled edges, marbled..... More
![SAMMELBAND OF MEXICAN POLITICAL AND MILITARY MANUSCRIPTS]. "Documentos" (spine title). Gen....](/pictures/thumb/3525.jpg?v=1629065121)
Mexico: 1848-1860. Folio. Unpaginated (but 126 ff.) Late 19th- or early 20th century quarter sheep over buckram, red morocco spine label with title and author in gold letters, corners bumped, edges a little frayed, front hinge and joint cracked but holding. Browned and brittle on account of the poor paper..... More
![WOMAN PRINTER, 1626]. Quadragena de Sermones en loor de la Virgen Maria, y de Christo Senor...](/pictures/thumb/3493.jpg?v=1630001966)
Valladolid: Por la viuda de Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba: a costa de Antonio Vazquez de Velasco, 1626. Folio. [8], 448 [i.e. 446], pp., 1 blank f., [40] pp. (pagination skips 264-267, register continuous - see below). COLLATION: [ ]4, A-Z8, 2A-2E8, [para]8, 2[para]8, 3[para]4, COMPLETE BUT VERY WORN (see below)..... More
![CARTA EXECUTORIA MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM- Madrid 1769]. Certification of Arms and Genealogical...](/pictures/thumb/3541.jpg?v=1627181177)
Madrid: 1769. 4to (12 x 8 1/2 inches). Manuscript on vellum. 18 fols. = 1 f. (illuminated coat of arms, verso blank, large repair to outer margins, soiled) + 1 f. (illuminated title-page) + 33 pp. manuscript genealogy including 4 illuminated initials and 2 illuminated vignettes (some red borders in..... More
Providence, RI: The Providence Journal Print, 1892. First Edition. 8vo. 421 pp., with numerous illustrations. Recent wrappers. THE FIRST MURDER IN U.S. HISTORY COMMITTED THROUGH THE POSTAL SERVICE. THE SENSATIONAL TRIAL OF DR. THOMAS THATCHER GRAVES FOR THE MURDER (BY POISONING) OF JOSEPHINE A. BARNABY. DENVER, COLORADO, 1891, ILLUSTRATED WITH..... More
London: For T. Davies and T. Cadell, 1771. 2 vols. in one, 4to. vii, [1], 319, [4]; [4], 246, [2] pp. COMPLETE with 2 frontispieces and 15 plates (numbered 1-9 and 1-6), several engraved ornaments in the text, some dust-soiling or light browning; occasional staining (not objectionable). Contemporary calf, rebacked..... More
Lancaster, PA: Printed and sold by William Dickson for The Benefit of the Authoress, 1808. 12mo. 220 pp. Bound in full contemporary mottled sheep. Wear and tear along edges, corners bumped, front hinges cracked but holding. Smooth spine with double gilt roll dividing compartments, red morocco spine label in the..... More
Watertown, New York: L. Ingalls & Co., 1862. First Edition. xii, 13-294. Bound in tan ribbed publisher's cloth by John W. Gorse & Co. Corners bumped, small stains on front cover, hinges cracked (lower cords broken), wear to binding extremities. Foxing throughout as is true in all copies, pages 117-122..... More
![POLITICIZING THE VIRGIN DE GUADALUPE]. Defensa guadalupana. Manuel GOMEZ MARIN](/pictures/thumb/3479.jpg?v=1622764083)
Mexico City: Valdes, 1819. First Edition. 12mo. [10], 55 pp. Recent sympathetic wrappers. POLITICIZING THE VIRGIN DE GUADALUPE. The text of this scarce Mexican pamphlet is unusual. In it, the author Gomez Marin seeks to refute an attack on the plausibility of the apparition of the Virgin de Guadalupe, written..... More
