![Item #3882 [BINDING - PHILADELPHIA CA. 1865]. The Photograph Album. Anonymous](/pictures/thumb/3882.jpg?v=1666718379)
Philadelphia: W.W. Harding, 1865 (or after). Album 5 x 6 x 2.5 in. Title-page (a little foxed, verso blank), Index to portraits (2 pp.), followed by 25 thick cards creating 50 slots; all are filled, with 47 cartes-de-visite, 2 views, and one chromolithograph (a little foxed). Bound in original blue-green..... More
![Item #3878 [AFRICAN-AMERICANA - FILM]. Promotional Broadsheets for Owners of "Colored" Movie...](/pictures/thumb/3878.jpg?v=1666718345)
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
![Item #3877 [UKRAINE - TWO UNRECORDED NAZI WEHRMACHT FIELD PRINTINGS OF KYIV]. "Blick v.d. Lissa...](/pictures/thumb/3877.jpg?v=1666718343)
Kyiv: 1941 (before Nov. 3). Together 2 views (205 x 325 mm; 8" x 13") printed on cheap, thin paper (Ad 1: long closed tear through image without loss, light staining creasing, edges a little frayed; Ad 2: short closed tears along edges, two small holes in blank area at..... More
![Item #3875 [ALBUM AMICORUM MANUSCRIPT - AMERICAN CALLIGRAPHY 1872-1882]. "Autographs" (cover...](/pictures/thumb/3875.jpg?v=1666718338)
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
![Item #3870 [AFRICAN-AMERICANA - VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS]. Small collection of 7 original...](/pictures/thumb/3870.jpg?v=1666718327)
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
![Item #3867 [ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT]. Neurotic Inanimates. WITH: a copy of the printed book of the...](/pictures/thumb/3867.jpg?v=1666718306)
New York: Richards Rosen Press (published version), 1960s (and 1964). First Edition. MANUSCRIPT: Somewhat worn notebook of black cloth (210 x 130 mm), title scratched onto the front cover. With typewritten "introduction" and 11 original pastel illustrations, each with typewritten captions, the remainder blank. ADDED: published version: 8vo. [96] pp...... More
![Item #3864 [HARMONOGRAPHS]. Harmonic Vibrations and Vibration Figures. Joseph Goold](/pictures/thumb/3864.jpg?v=1666718296)
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
![Item #3862 [ANTIQUARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY]. [BOOK AUCTION, VIENNA 1777]. Verzeichniss verschiedener...](/pictures/thumb/3862.jpg?v=1666718284)
Vienna: Gedrucht bey Joh. Joseph Jahn, 1777. First Edition. 8vo. 51, [10] pp. + 1 blank p. Stitched (front wrapper lacking, back wrapper of old drab paper). Title-page quite soiled and with evidence of adhesive tape residue, corners curled, text-block browned (but not brittle), early inscription on title-page: "Beermann" (?)..... More
![Item #3857 [WOMEN AUTHORS]. [MANUSCRIPT BEREAVEMENT COMMONPLACE BOOK, 1856 AND 1874]. Anonymous...](/pictures/thumb/3857.jpg?v=1666718243)
England: 1856 and 1874. 8vo. Bound notebook, with writing on 98 pp., the remaining leaves blank (first leaf torn out). Original blue roan (worn and shaken, boards almost detached, spine defective, depredation to bottom edge of front cover), marbled endpapers and edges, double gilt lines to boards and spine. Text..... More
![Item #3856 [MANUSCRIPT RECORD BOOK OF EPITAPHS, ca. 1876]. Epitaphs](/pictures/thumb/3856.jpg?v=1673876583)
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
![Item #3853 [SINGLE MOTHERS AND CHILD NEGLECT, England 1871]. Arrest Warrant For Elizabeth...](/pictures/thumb/3853.jpg?v=1666718229)
Leek, Stafford County, England: 1871. Single sheet (340 x 210 mm), printed on pale blue paper, completed in MS, folded 3 times and docketed in MS, signed by. PUBLIC "SANITATION," CHILD NEGLECT, AND IMPOVERISHED SINGLE MOTHERS IN 1871. Striking Arrest Warrant for Elizabeth Ainsworth for child neglect, executed in October..... More
![Item #3843 [FRENCH LAW, PROVENCE 1539]. Ordonnances du treschrestien [i.e. tres chrestien] Roy de...](/pictures/thumb/3843.jpg?v=1666718196)
Avignon (and Lyon): Jehan de Channey (and reissued in Lyon by Thibaud Payen), 1540. Small 4to. Collation: A-T6 (lacking two leaves at end, including colophon on T6v). Foliation: cv, [7] (of 9) ff. Woodcut title-border and initials throughout (see below). Bound in modern (Italian?) full vellum, title in calligraphic manuscript..... More
![Item #3841 [STRANGE FLICKER BOOK]. Sex Efficiency Through Exercises. Special Physical Culture for...](/pictures/thumb/3841.jpg?v=1666718187)
London (and New York): Ad 1: William Heinemann (Medical Books); Ad 2: Covici-Friede, 1933 and 1931. First English edition. Together 2 vols. Ad 1: 8vo. xviii, 164 pp. With 58 full-page illustrations and 480 flicker cards bound in to produce 12 "cinematographic films." Two flip cards with short tears (not..... More
![Item #3839 [BINDINGS - BELFAST]. Rienzi, The Last of the Tribunes. Edward Bulwer LYTTON, Sir](/pictures/thumb/3839.jpg?v=1666718173)
London: Saunders and Otley, 1835. First Edition. 8vo. In three volumes. [5], xiii, [1], 302; [2], 364; [2], 356pp. With tipped-in errata slips but without half-titles. BOUND BY JOHN TATE OF BELFAST in contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges (trifle rubbed, some gatherings inexplicably proud)..... More
![Item #3835 [ANTI-SMOKING IN 1687]. De morborum curationibus tractatus curiosus (D. M. E. P....](/pictures/thumb/3835.jpg?v=1666718157)
Lugduni (imprint false: likely printed in Germany): 1687. First Edition. 8vo (180 x 100 mm). [8], 295 pp. Later German quarter calf over decorated blue paper boards (actually two different sheets were utilized), printed waste utilized as spine lining (the text is in Latin and French), vellum corner tips, black..... More
![Item #3832 [SAMOAN SIAPO / TAPA BARK CLOTH "PAPER"]. Large circular Siapo decoratively painted...](/pictures/thumb/3832.jpg?v=1666718147)
Samoa: 1900-1940 or earlier. Tapa bark cloth 65 cm. diameter (approximately), painted in both sides. Worn, with bark surfaces rough, edges frayed and partially separating, Tapa curling, some small unobjectionable holes visible. SAMOAN TAPA BARK CLOTH "PAPER" WITH BOLD GEOMETRIC PATTERNS, WITH CURIOUS TONGAN FLORAL MOTIFS ON THE BACK. Polynesian..... More
![Item #3828 [FEMINIST LITERATURE / EUGENICS 1928]. [Dear Enemy]. Sevgili Düşman. [سه...](/pictures/thumb/3828.jpg?v=1666718140)
Istanbul: Selamet Matbaas, 1928. First Edition in Turkish. 8vo. [2], v, [1], 395 pp. illustrated with line drawings by the author herself. Original wrappers with illustrated cover by JEAN HEE (text evenly browned on account of the paper stock, marginal water staining in last half of the text, most pronounced..... More
![Item #3827 [BOUND BY TIMOTHY ELY]. 1961. Georges Hugnet](/pictures/thumb/3827.jpg?v=1666718131)
Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1961. First Edition. Bound by Timothy Ely (stamp-signed inside front cover): full black morocco, upper cover with raised onlay remarkably tooled to suggest a "ribbon tied in a bow," two raised bands onlaid onto spine, relief chased metal date of "1961" on front cover, top edges stained..... More
![Item #3826 [DEVO / DE-EVOLUTION]. The Beginning Was the End. Man came into being through...](/pictures/thumb/3826.jpg?v=1666718124)
London, Dusseldorf, Vienna: Michael Joseph / Econ Verlag, 1971-1973. First Edition. Together 2 vols., 8vo. Ad 1: 236 pp. (top edge dust-soiled). Original cloth, original dust-jacket printed in red, black and silver (the latter with some abrading along spine and extremities). Ad 2: 242 pp., [1] f. (ads). Original cloth..... More
![Item #3825 [RENEWABLE ENERGY IN 1911]. "The Commercial Utilization of Solar Radiation and Wind...](/pictures/thumb/3825.jpg?v=1666718122)
New York: Scientific American, 1911 (Jan. 21). First Edition. Single sheet (398 x 275 mm), with large illustration reproduced from the Illustrated London News (two short tape repairs to outer margins, not affecting text); clippings of the accompanying text (2 columns) loosely inserted. Preserved in mylar sleeve with lig-free board..... More
![Item #3817 [CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT]. On Collecting John P. Marquand. William . Marquand White, John...](/pictures/thumb/3817.jpg?v=1666718106)
1951. Typescript (3 pp.) with substantive and editorial corrections throughout. Two pronounced horizontal folds, 1" tear to p. 3. ADDED: cloth chemise in which the folded typescript was contained for many years, accompanied by a note from the editor of "The Amateur Book Collector" (see below). Surely this typescript belongs..... More
![Item #3816 [ANTIQUARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY - PRICED]. Valuable collection of Americana formed by Wm. R....](/pictures/thumb/3816.jpg?v=1666718101)
Philadelphia: Henkels, 1902. First Edition. Small folio. [2], 140 pp., 997 lots, neatly PRICED throughout. Original printed wrappers (toned; chipped where extending over the fore-edges and bottom edges). Written on front cover: "Priced Catalogue / Priced by lot" and in another hand an early census of copies. ADDED: Contemporary NY..... More
![Item #3815 [CRIME AND PUNISHMENT]. [WYOMING PRISON]. "Escaped Convicts Wanted - $300.00 in...](/pictures/thumb/3815.jpg?v=1666718099)
Rawlins, Wyoming: 1912. 8vo (6" x 8.5"). 4 pp (one sheet folded vertically to produce 4 pages); five reproductions of photographs and detailed physical description of all five convicts. Trifle toning on the fore-edge of the first page, two old horizontal folds (not objectionable). Rare 4-page WANTED! circular issued by..... More
![Item #3813 [AFRICAN AMERICANA]. [WHITE SUPREMACY]. [COMMUNISM]. "The Red-Tagging of Negro...](/pictures/thumb/3813.jpg?v=1666718095)
New York: NAACP, 1957. 8vo. [2], 325-333, [1] pp. Original self-wrappers, stapled as issued. Some toning around the edges but the paper stock is strong and crisp. Written 65 years ago, this little-known article is just as thought-provoking today, as Americans respond to the Black Lives Matter movement and related..... More
![Item #3812 [AFRICAN-AMERICANA / EBONICS / SONG SHEET]. Bob-Tailed Nag (a.k.a. Camptown Races)....](/pictures/thumb/3812.jpg?v=1666718093)
Philadelphia: T.M. Scroggy, 1853-1857. 8vo. leaflet (9.5" x 5.25"). Type surrounded by typographical border (paper toned). One of the best known American minstrel songs, "Camptown Races" (a.k.a. "Bob-Tailed Nag") has for us been memorialized by the cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn, who sang portions of it many of his Looney Tunes..... More
