![Item #2911 [AMERICANA]. MANUSCRIPT Tax Records for the Town of Quincy, Massachusetts for the year...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2911.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1674943767)
Quincy, MA: 1813 (Dec. 24). Manuscript. 20 pp. 165 x 200 mm. Stitched as issued. At some point folded to pocket size and thus retains large fold down middle of pages, small chips and tears along edges, some age-toning, a few pages very browned. An ownership inscription on the front..... More
![Item #2876 [SAN FRANCISCO CHILDREN'S BATHS, ca. 1890s]. Sutro Baths, School Children's...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2876.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1572791144)
San Francisco: Louis Roesch Co., c. 1890s. Single leaf, red-brown color, some tears and small chips along the edges. Advertisement for a school children's "Play Day" at the Sutro Baths in San Francisco, which included bell ringing, acrobatic feats, dancing, and a special performance from the London Patomime and Comedy..... More
![Item #4600 [WOMAN BOOKBINDER]. Les Nuits. Alfred de Musset](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4600.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781627104)
Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, F. Ferroud, 1912. 8vo. 54, [2] pp. Fine engraved frontispiece, vignettes by Leon Lebegue. Contemporary red niger morocco (upper cover with two light scratches), lower turn-in with gilt pallet-stamp "M. Marshall" upper cover with the monogram, crest and motto of the first owner Lily E.C. Routh..... More
![Item #4227 [MANUSCRIPT]. [FIRST WORLD WAR TRENCHES DIARY]. Diary of a British soldier of the 49th...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4227.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1723422252)
France, Belgium, England: April 12 - Dec 19, 1915. Oblong 8vo. Small "Walker's Service Notebook" (154 x 94 mm), lined, 26 pages filled with neat entries in pencil and pen (final page of diary loose), the remaining portion of the notebook (i.e. about 2/3) blank. Original limp cloth covers, worn..... More
![Item #4018 [INDIAN PAINTING ON MANUSCRIPT LEAF: WESTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL BIRD]. Painted in gold and...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4018.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687819089)
India: 19th or 20th century. Painting on manuscript leaf (ca. 270 x 160 mm), hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, matted (matte size: 367 x 250 mm, some spotting on the matte). Manuscript leaf with some damage outside painted area; a very attractive ornithological painting. A delicate..... More
![Item #4019 [INDIAN PAINTING: AN IMAGINARY "DYNASTIC" SCENE WITH IMAGINARY WRITING]....](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4019.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687967770)
India: 19th or 20th century. Painting with extensive gold, applied on a partially printed leaf with some manuscript annotations (ca. 358 x 260 mm), hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, matted (matte size: 475 x 327 mm). Minor staining to the paper, but the painting is in..... More
![Item #4020 [TWO INDIAN PAINTINGS OF PROCESSIONAL SCENES AT TWILIGHT]. Painted in color and...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4020.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687970350)
India: 19th or 20th century. Painting with extensive gold, applied on a partially printed leaf with some manuscript annotations (ca. 354 x 164 mm), mounted on card, matted (matte size: 460 x 278 mm). Each painting has a scratch to the surface area (SEE IMAGES), overall in very good condition..... More
![Item #4211 [CHILDREN'S BOOK]. A manuscript album of colored drawings and b/w sketches of...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4211.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718036414)
s.l. (Germany or Austria?): s.d. (late 19th or early 20th century?). 64mo (70 x 55 mm). Homemade binding, cloth spine (loosening, front cover perished); back cover: board covered with glazed paper, present on the pastedown inside (detaching) but the glazed paper on the outside is torn away. VERY WORN (see..... More
![Item #4138 [BOOK ARTS - DECORATED PAPERS]. Large Archive of 132 Decorated Papers, including...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4138.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757547966)
Black semi-flexible vinyl portfolio album (625 x 485 mm) containing 48 mylar sleeves, of which 46 contain decorated paper specimens (132 altogether). Some paper specimens have adhesive on verso from previous mounting and/or previous binding. Overall in excellent condition. AN OUTSTANDING SELF-CONTAINED ARCHIVE OF AN UNUSUALLY BROAD ARRAY OF DECORATED..... More
![Item #3623 [BINDING - MADRID, FRANCISCO CIFUENTES]. Siglo de oro en las selvas de Erifile. [Bound...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3623.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1638895408)
Madrid: Ibarra, Impresor de Camara de S.M., 1821. 8vo (183 x 125 mm). [1] f., xvi, 240, 99, [1] pp. With an engraved portrait of the author. Title-page with 6 inexplicable pin-sized wormholes, front flyleaf with one (present nowhere else in the volume). Contemporary Madrid binding by Francisco Cifuentes: sheep..... More
![Item #3709 [INDIAN CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE 1867]. Life and adventures of William Filley: who was...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3709.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1648944722)
Chicago: [Western Book Manufacturing Co. for] Filley & Ballard, 1867. Second edition. 8vo. 110 pp. (of 112, lacking final leaf which is the end of a poem and also has a small woodcut) including 8 (of 8) plates on pale yellow paper. Stiched, original illustrated front wrapper present, paper along..... More
![Item #4258 [NATIVE AMERICAN CHIEF AND A RABBI]. John Dorn Promoter. Charles Eugene BANKS](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4258.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729469294)
Chicago: Monarch Book Co., 1906. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Illustrations by August Abelmann. Original brick-red publisher's cloth, blocked in gilt, ochre, and black. Some dust-soiling on the top edges and front binder's blank, otherwise unmarked and free from ugly stamps. A lovely copy, the text and binding in crisp and fresh..... More
![Item #271 [SCOTTISH CHIPPENDALE BINDINGS 1794]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/271.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681219772)
Edinburgh: Assigns of Alexander Kincaid, 1787. Two works in two volumes. Large Octavo (211 x 130 mm). Collation: BIBLE: A-4A8, complete. PSALMS: A-E8, complete. Contemporary Scottish bindings: red morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt to a "Chippendale" motif, smooth spines gilt; marbled endpapers, a.e.g. (in vol. 1 the front joint expertly..... More
![Item #3986 [NATIVE AMERICANS]. [METHODISM]. Typescripts of Two Speeches Given About Native...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3986.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681821181)
[New York]: 1921-1922. Two typewritten speeches (15 pp. + 6 pp.), both measure 8.5" x 5.5" and both with manuscript corrections. Leaves toned and dust soiled, some wrinkling, paper-clip remnants and evidence of stapling. TWO TYPESCRIPT SPEECHES DOCUMENTING A METHODIST MINISTER'S EXPLORATIONS INTO THE HISTORY OF NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE..... More
![Item #3968 [INDIAN WARS / WESTERN AMERICANA / OHIO VALLEY]. Letter of Col. Bomford on Ordnance...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3968.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681219772)
Washington DC: Printed by Order of the House of Representatives by Gales & Seaton, 1823 (Feb. 24). First Edition. 8vo. 6 pp. Offprint (NOT extracted from a larger volume), with running numeral "83" crossed out and renumbered "42" in ink, usual age toning on account of the paper stock. Recent..... More
![Item #2514 [PHILADELPHIA (?) BINDING]. Das Allgemeine Gebet-Buch wie auch die Administration der...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2514.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1737131705)
The Hague: C. Fritsch, 1718. 8vo. xliv, 728, [2] pp. (text lightly foxed). Collation: a-b⁸ c⁶ A-2Y⁸ 2Z⁶ (-2Z6, a blank) as per the Emory Pitts copy. Bound in 18th-century red morocco, boards elaborately gilt à la dentelle, spine elaborately gilt with raised bands, morocco label, a.e.g. (spine and extremities..... More
![Item #2884 [MORMONS AND MORMONISM]. The Millennial Harbinger 1830-1831 (COMPLETE SET IN...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2884.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1570646375)
Bethany, Virginia: Printed and Published by the Editor, 1830-1831. First Edition. 2 volumes, 8vo (202 x 120 mm = 8" x 4.75"), contemporary Kentucky sheep, morocco spine labels. COMPLETE unbroken monthly run of the first two volumes, from Volume I, Number 1 (January 4, 1830) to Volume II, No. 12..... More
![Item #4040 [SOUTH CAROLINA TRIAL 1805]. Report of the Trial of Joshua Nettles and Elizabeth...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4040.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696975880)
Charleston, South Carolina: Printed at the Office of the Charleston Courier, 1805. First Edition. 8vo. [3]-127, INCOMPLETE: lacking half-title, title-page (here in facsimile), and pp. 93-127 (paperstock browned throughout, p. [5] stained and a little soiled). Recent sympathetic wrappers, title written in ink on upper cover. Described in 1893 as..... More
![Item #4607 [PUNK ZINE]. [USED-BOOK TRADE IN NYC]. Cometbus #56: A Bestiary of Booksellers....](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4607.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1783611603)
New York: The Author, 2015. First Edition. 8vo. 112 pp. Original illustrated wrappers. WE IMMEDIATELY READ THIS BOOK COVER TO COVER. IT IS A REMARKABLE AND VERY INTELLIGENTLY WRITTEN PUNK 'ZINE THAT IS TANTAMOUNT TO A LUC SANTE-INSPIRED, PARTLY TRUE, PARTLY FICTIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CYNICAL USED-BOOK SELLER IN GRITTY..... More
![Item #2600 [MEDICINE - 16TH CENTURY SURGICAL ILLUSTRATION]. Della cirugia [...] libri sette:...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2600.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553284546)
Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1574. First Edition in Italian. Folio. [18] ff., 296 pp. Collation: *8 **6 ***4 A-Z6 AA10, COMPLETE. Ziletti's device on title, 5 large woodcuts showing operations (2 on the battlefield), numerous woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments and heads with incisions, occasional staining or soiling; title with outer..... More
![Item #4444 [POST-INCUNABLE ~ 1508]. [Opus in evangelium Ioannis]. Opus insigne beati patris...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4444.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757547966)
Paris: Printed by Wolfgang Hopyl for himself, Jean Petit and Thielmann Kerver, 1508 (January 10). First Complete Edition. Folio. a-o8 p3 A10+1 B-G8 H10 q-z8 A-C8 D4, COMPLETE. Inconsistent foliation: 115, 64, 116-223 (i.e. 222) ff. With Wolfgang Hopyl's elegant title-page woodcut (Sylvestre, Marques typographiques 1066) depicting two eagles displayed..... More
![Item #4422 [RENAISSANCE BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS]. Comedia di Dante Aligieri con la nova espositione di...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4422.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757547966)
Venice: Francesco Marcolini for Alessandro Vellutello, 1544. First edition thus. 4to. AA-BB8 CC10 A-Z8 AB-AZ8 BC-BI8 = 442 ff., COMPLETE with integral final blank. An early issue, without the ink-stamp (textual correction) on fol. V7. Illustrations: 87 woodcuts of which 3 are full-page (these illustrate the beginning of the Inferno..... More
![Item #3533 [GONE POSTAL, 1892]. Death in The Mail. A Narrative of The Murder of a Wealthy Widow...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3533.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1625806618)
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
![Item #2143 [CRIME]. Murder Will Out. The First Step in Crime Leads to the Gallows. The Horrors of...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2143.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553284438)
Cincinnati: s.n., 1867. FIRST EDITION. Softcover. Original publisher's printed pale green wrappers (chipped). 128 pp. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". Some general wear & soiling. A touch of foxing. Unsightly abrasion to rear wrapper, resulting in some loss. OHIO CRIMEWAVE NARRATIVES "FOR THE FAMILY." Herein are described, in graphic detail, over..... More
![Item #4429 [VOYAGE AROUND THE CAPE OF GOOD HORN]. Boston to San Francisco in Winter of 1862-1863....](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4429.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757547966)
S.l. Privately Printed, 1919. 8vo. 76 pp. + one folding map at end (final page of text browned). Original stiff wrappers (fore-edges untrimmed as issued) a trifle dust-soiled, but a tight copy, signed "Compliments of W[illard] N. Drown," the author's son (and ghost editor of the book), and Francis L...... More
