Mexico City: Imprenta de la Casa de Correcion, 1844. First Edition. 12mo. (165 x 110 mm). [4], [1] 2-21 [1, blank] pp. Original yellow printed ornamental wrappers. Upper right corner supplied in expert facsimile, unimportant occasional foxing. URGING THE RECONQUEST OF TEXAS -- "WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME" -- BEFORE..... More
Chicago: DeBower-Elliott, 1904. 10 vols. 8vo. Containing altogether 4126 pages (!), frontispieces in each volume, plus numerous full-page plates (some color), all with original tissue guards present; half-titles and title-pages printed in green and gold. Original publisher's half morocco over green buckram (spines repaired), top edges gilt. A monumental undertaking..... More
![CHIVALRIC ROMANCE - GUY OF WARWICK]. The Renowned History (or the Life and Death) of Guy Earl of...](/pictures/thumb/3373.jpg?v=1611322213)
London: Printed by A.M. for C. Bates, at the Sun and Bible (etc.), 1710 (circa). Quarto (189 x 155 mm). 79 pp. + 1 p. ads. Illustrated with 16 woodcut illustrations (4 of the woodblocks are repeated). Last line of imprint cropped with loss of the words: "Spur-street, and by..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1883. First Edition. Two vols., large 8vo. Vol. I: Frontispiece of Pike's Peak with tissue guard, xviii, 39 [1 blank], [17], 42-48, [3], 50-103 [1 blank], [23], 106-118, [5], 120-141, [10], 144-153, [6], 157-171, [10], 174-293 [4], 296-809 [1 blank] pp. With 114 figures in..... More
Mexico City: Escalante, 1877. First Edition. Folio. vii, 214, [86] pp. With a frontispiece portrait + 1 folding table. Contemporary red half-sheep over marbled boards (binding extremities worn, spine apparently with "leather dressing" applied at an early date, now quite darkened and dry, inner hinges repaired). Frontispiece foxed with offsetting..... More
![Early American Scaleboard Binding]. The French convert: being a true relation of the happy...](/pictures/thumb/3350.jpg?v=1610633524)
Amherst, N.H. Printed by Samuel Cushing, 1796. 12mo. 1 f. (title-page), pp. 11-90 pp. (i.e. lacking pp. 3-10). Text browned and foxed on account of the paper stock. Bookplate removed. A defective copy, priced correctly. A popular anti-Catholic text, the title of which reads like "the plot of a Gothic..... More
![BIBLIOMANIA]. Le Bibliomane. Vingt-quatre compositions de Maurice Leloir. Charles Nodier, Maurice...](/pictures/thumb/3355.jpg?v=1610557501)
Paris: [Imprimerie Generale Lahure for]: Librairie de L. Conquet, 1894. 12mo. Contemporary burgundy levant morocco gilt extra by H.E. Laskine: triple gilt fillet around sides enclosing a blue morocco inlaid frame, turn-ins similarly gilt and inlaid, silk moire pastedowns and endpapers, the verso (and the recto opposite) of comb-marbled paper..... More
Boerne, Texas: J.C. Reinhard, 1905 (?). Photograph (163 x 105 mm) in good condition (tiny portion of top edge nicked); mounted on thick gray card (215 x 155 mm) in good condition (edges worn, abrasions affecting two letters of the photographer's name R[EI]NHARD). RARE AND EXTREMELY EARLY PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW OF..... More
![EARLY MEXICAN HISTORY / MEXICO]. Epistolario de Nueva España 1505-1818. COMPLETE SET of all 16...](/pictures/thumb/3353.jpg?v=1610166723)
Mexico City: Antigua Libreria Robredo, 1939-1942. First Edition. 4to. 16 vols. COMPLETE. Contemporary Mexico sprinkled sheep, red and black labels, marbled endpapers (vol. 16 in original wrappers, uncut). Bindings with some scuffing and minor shelf-wear, but an attractive set, internally excellent. From the second series of the "Biblioteca historica mexicana."..... More
Worcester (Mass.): Printed by Daniel Greenleaf, 1802. 64mo (97 x 60 mm). 75 pp. (p. 69 cropped along fore-edge with loss), blank page [76] pasted onto back wrapper. Contemporary sprinkled wrappers (worn and partially defective). Loosely inserted into contemporary red morocco wallet, lined with fabric (partially defective). With faults, and..... More
New York: G.E. Perine & Co. (engraver), 1880s. Engraving (160 x 103 mm) foxed; floated in frame slightly thicker paper, apparently extracted from a book judging from the left margin. Signature quite clear and unblemished. Fine signature Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), the formidable American abolitionist, social reformer, and women's rights activist..... More
S.l. 1840-1860 (?). Small photograph (89 x 58 mm), irregularly trimmed; mounted on card (99 x 61 mm), likewise irregularly trimmed. Identified on card verso and recto in two different hands; on verso "Taken at the time UTC written." Print thumb-soiled; on subject's face a small portion of print flaked..... More
Lowell, Mass. [Printed by Joel Taylor for] Misses Curtis & Farley. Boston: Jordan & Wiley, 1845. Tall 8vo. [4], 284. Complete in the ORIGINAL 12 PARTS (Jan. 1845 - Dec. 1845), original illustrated wrappers (lacking in Parts 2, 6, 11), each wrapper with DIFFERENT texts by the editors on verso..... More
![Women's Magazine]. The Hesperian. (Vol. II, No. 5). Mrs. F. A. Day, Hermione](/pictures/thumb/3347.jpg?v=1610661063)
San Francisco: Mrs. F.A. Day, 1859 (July). First Edition. Large 8vo. (253 x 170 mm). [193]-240 pp., 8 pp. ads at end. With a two-color lithograph portrait of Isaac J. Sparks; hand-colored lithograph of a Bearded Jay. Original illustrated wrappers (repaired), the front cover being a steel engraving by the..... More
![CALIFORNIANA]. Bugle Peals: Or Songs of Warning for the America People. Eliza A. Pittsinger, "The...](/pictures/thumb/3346.jpg?v=1609739522)
San Francisco: Edward A. Weed, 1882. First Edition. 8vo. 33, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers (soiled, fragile spine worn and partially defective, upper wrapper starting). NOT ex-library! TOXIC, BIGOTED "SONGS OF WARNING" WRITTEN BY A RABID ANTI-CATHOLIC KNOWN AS "THE CALIFORNIA POETESS." The inexplicably gushing Wikipedia entry for Eliza Pittsinger was..... More
Chicago: M.A. Donahue & Company, 1900. 8vo. [2], 247 pp. Textblock weak and age-toned as is true of all copies on account of the cheap quality of the paper. Original publisher's green cloth, decoratively stamped in black and red (worn and somewhat soiled at head and tail, but generally in..... More
London: Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, 1632. [The Second Impression]. Folio (305 x 210 mm; 12 x 8"). Paginated 277-303. Large woodcut headpiece. Bound by Bernard Middleton in full calf antique, tooled to a Cambridge design: contrasting paneled boards with outer frame and inner panel sprinkled, fillets and corner ornaments..... More
Northampton, Mass. Smith College, 1932. First Edition. Large folio (460 x 315 mm). [6], 95, [2] pp. With 2 small photographs in the text and 32 large photographs numbered I-XXXII (most measuring ca. 255 x 150 mm). Original blue cloth stamped in white (minor shelf-wear as expected with such a...... More
![VINTAGE COSTA RICA PHOTOGRAPHS]. Collection of 47 original photographs and photographic prints of...](/pictures/thumb/3341.jpg?v=1609520402)
San Jose, Costa Rica: Paynter Bros. 1898 (ca.). 47 black and white photographs and photographic prints of Costa Rica, mounted on heavy card stock (bowed, worn, and brittle, some corners defective). Photographs: 7.5" x 9". Cards: approximately 12.5" x 10". Numeric notations in the negative; occasional identifications / annotations on..... More
![SLAVERY]. [WOMAN AUTHOR]. Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color....](/pictures/thumb/3338.jpg?v=1609379823)
New York: Stereotyped for and printed by order of the Trustees of the Residuary Estate of Lindley Murray. M. Day, Printer, n.d. [after 1839]. 8vo. vi, [1], 8-408 pp. Contemporary American sheep, worn, spine defective; gatherings 27 and 28 sprung and held by thread; stain between pp. 334/5 spread through..... More
![WOMAN PRINTER OF THE AMERICAN WEST]. Billhead from Mrs. John L. Howe, publisher of the "Folsom...](/pictures/thumb/3337.jpg?v=1609369476)
Folsom, California: Folsom Weekly Telegraph, 1875. Billhead (118 x 210 mm), printed on recto only, docketed on verso in MS: "No. of. Cred. $5.00 Folsom Telegraph." Evidence of folds (not objectionable). SEE IMAGES. PRINTED BY A WOMAN IN THE GOLD RUSH TOWN OF FOLSOM, CALIFORNIA, UNKNOWN TO ALL BIBLIOGRAPHERS ON..... More
Lampasas, TX: ca. 1890-1892. Cabinet card photograph mounted on thick studio paper (163 x 105 mm). Faded and slightly scuffed, otherwise very good condition. A beautiful and important photograph executed by the first professional female photographer in Texas, which in addition may be linked two other early women photographers of..... More
New York: United States Book Company, 1891. First American edition. 8vo. [2], 272, [1] pp. + 6 pp. advertisements. Original green quarter cloth over light green cloth boards, spine stamped in gilt, upper cover stamped in green (spine leaning, front board nicked, trifle wear at spine ends, minor toning or..... More
![Shahnameh [Shahnamah / Shahnama]. Calligraphic text leaf, in Persian, superbly illuminated in...](/pictures/thumb/3330.jpg?v=1609003269)
India (?): 1830 (ca.). Extremely large illuminated leaf, in Persian. Atlas folio (545 x 305 mm) written on paper and illuminated in gold and color, verso blank. Preserved in a mylar L-sleeve supported by lig-free board. Provenance: Dorothy Sloan Rare Books (purchased in 2020). A gigantic and prestigious illuminated calligraphic..... More
Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1988. First Edition. 2 vols., folio. 382; 414 pp. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of title-pages throughout. Original publisher's cloth, original dust-jackets (spines sunned). THE STANDARD BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ART BOOKS PRINTED IN MEXICO FROM 1554 TO 1760. Each item is meticulously described and there are..... More
