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New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892. Front cover lettered in gilt with vignette in black. Corners and spine extremities show only minimal wear. Cover and spine are crisp and bright. Book-plate front free endpaper. Several small areas of black spotting on top edge and top of fore-edge. Eight pp. advertisements at the conclusion. See BAL 3434.. First American Edition.. Green Cloth. Minor Wear./No Jacket. Octavo.

London: John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1663. Rebacked by master binder, red leather spine label. Covers with double fillet gilt borders, central panel with French fillets and corner royal monograms. Hinges repaired. The title continues, "and there continued till the nineteenth of May, in the 14th year of His Majesties Reign: and thus prorogued to the 18th of February in the 15th year of His Majesties Reign." Chapter heads are decorated with floral devices, as are first letters. Various chapters include: an act for repairing highways, an act for the punishment of unlawful cutting of wood, an additional act for the better ordering the forces in the several counties of the Kingdom, an act for the encouragement of trade, an additional act for the better ordering and collecting the revenue arising by hearth-money, an act for regulating the herring and other fisheries, among a number of others. Black letter printing. Some pages show old faint water-staining, never heavy. A very kindly-restored… Read More

Ludlow: Richard Jones , 1839. Edge worn, paper spine damaged with about 60% remaining. (See photos). Hand-colored frontispiece plate showing 30 different flies. Chapter head vignettes in black and white. Protected in a custom box, lined in watered silk. Chapters on trout, pike, perch, carp, tench, gudgeon, eel. Also fly-fishing, fly-making, worm and maggot fishing (including how to preserve maggots!), and much more. 154pp. . New Edition.. Printed Paper-Covered Boards. General Wear./No Jacket. Octavo.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1934. Dust jacket shows slight darkeneing of the spine with small closed tears at top without any paper loss. Covers are essentially without wear. Quite a clean and crisp copy. Map endpapers. Portrait frontispiece and 20 additional illustrations. Three maps including the route of the Pony Express. This is "the life story" of Broncho Charlie Miller, the last of the Pony Express riders. 316pp.. First Edition. Brown Cloth. Almost No Wear/Minor Wear Only. . Octavo.

London: Clarendon Press 1766-1769. Four volumes in 1/2 butterscotch calf over marbled boards. Rebacked. Maroon morocco spine labels, gilt. Spine with raised bands. Random foxing particularly to preliminary leaves. A nice wide-margined set, with the majority of the text fine and fresh. The first volume is a SECOND EDITION, the remaining three volumes are FIRST EDITIONS. The foundations of English law rest extensively on this important work. (Printing And The Mind Of Man 212).. First Edition. Light Edge Wear.. Quarto.

Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1817. Spine lettered in gilt. Small paper library label near top of spine (1/4). Half-title. Twelve full-page engravings through the text. Some off-setting of plates onto adjacent pages. General mild to moderate foxing throughout as is usual. (See photos). This is the first American edition from the second London edition. A first printing of the American edition was published a year before, in 1816. 108pp. John Bell (1763-1820) was a prominent Scottish anatomist and surgeon, the older brother of Sir Charles Bell, also of significant importance in the history of medicine and surgery. A talented artist, he illustrated his own works.. First American, Second Printing. 1/4 Red Leather Over Boards. General Moderate Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Quarto.

Dallas, Texas: Lee Trevino Enterprises Used golf glove signed by Lee Trevino. Together with a signed card "with compliments". Purchased at a charity auction in the late1980's.. Used.

London: R.H. For Arthur Jones, at the Flying-Horse, 1686. Panelled spine with old leather label. Both joints professionally repaired. Hinges re-inforced. Front free endpaper repaired at lower edge. . Old ink inscription on front flyleaf. Heraldic book-plate of ther Hare of Docking on front pastedown. Title-page printed in red and black. Previous owner's names in old hand. Small brown stain at bottom, affecting the "o" on London. Done into English by Dr. Nalson. (20), 410 pages collated complete. Light water-stain at lower corner and fore-edge of pp. 43-48. Paper imperfection p.279. Occasional creasing. Wide margins with occasional foxing at periphery. The first edition was published one year earlier as "The History of the Crusade". See Wing M291. British Museum Catalogue #4570. We find seven libraries worldwide holding this book. One copy has sold at auction in the past 30 years, a broken copy in 1996. The author (1610-1676 was a Jesuit historian. . Second Edition. Full Brown… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Committe on Arrangements, 1949. A small collection of items from the Inauguration Ceremonies of Harry S. Truman, January 20, 1949. Included are an engraved invitation with envelope, a ticket to the President's Platform with envelope and same number as the engraved invitation, and an admission ticket to Stand 8 north of the Treasury. (See photos). A rather scarce bit of Presidential ephemera, well-preserved.. First Edition. Nearly Fine.

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1933. Three volumes uniformly bound. Blind-stamp vignette front covers, top edges gilt.Spines lettered in gilt. This New edition was edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, Volume 1 published in 1933 and the following two volumes in 1934. A total of 123 full-page color plates, two photogravure portraits, and two folding color maps. The color plates are protected by captioned tissue-guards. Collated complete. A clean set throughout. Originally published 1836-1844. The original oil paintings from which the color portraits were copied were destroyed in the 1865 Smithsonian fire! See Howes M129 for a general hgistory of the printings.. New Edition. Blue Cloth. Minor Edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jackets. Large Thick Octavos.

London: Chappell and Company, 1893. Front cover is detached. Fore-edge chipped. Covers are faded but still readable. Internally quite clean and fresh throughout. 52pp. with advertisements (an issue point). This comedy operetta, a collaboration between two friends opened at the Savoy Theatre on 13 May 1893. It was not well-received and was considered a failure. Green and Gibson C2.. First Edition, Fourth Issue. Light Green Wrappers. Covers Faded/No Dust Jacket. Thin Octavo.

London: E. Bell and J. Osborn, 1720. "To which is added, AN ESSAY ON THE DIFFERENT CAUSES OF PESTILENTIAL DISEASES, AND HOW THEY BECOME CONTAGIOUS: WITH REMARKS ON THE INFECTION NOW IN FRANCE, by John Quincy, M.D. Paper shows peripheral toning, never heavy. This copy does not include the fold-out "Table of Funerals" for the parishes of London. It is supplied in facsimile. Hodges (1629-1688) first wrote his account of the plague in Latin in 1672. John Quincy translated it into English in 1720, adding an essay on spread of the plague to France. Hodges was one of the few physicians who remained in London during 1665, to record observations and test the effectiveness of various treatments. According to Garrison-Morton 5121, Hodges was physician to the City of London and the medical hero of the great epidemic. 288pp. Please see photos.. First Edition. 1/4 Calf Over Marbled Boards. Rebound in 1/4 Brown Calf/No Jacket. Octavo.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1911. Six full-page color plates and six full-page black and white plates. Text illustrations throughout. A very clean copy. Chapters include: the aeroplane, Mars, the moon, the sun, toyland, Santa Claus, and all aboard for home. 96pp.. First Edition. Color Illustrated Boards.. Corners and Edges Worn/No Jacket. Quarto.

Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1926. Previous owner's western motif book-plate front pastedown. Top edge gilt. Seven full-page plates with tissue-guards and a folding map, all in fine condition. 361pp. Chapters on establishment and early development of postal service, the Ocean Mail, Butterfield Overland Mail, the Pony Express, Indian peril, days of the stage-coach, and more. See Howes H-11 and Rittenhouse 267. . First Edition. Green Cloth. Minor Edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Large Octavo.

Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, 1807. Fold-out frontispiece plate, "The age of a horse by his teeth". 27 pages + 4-page index. Paper is toned, rarel light staining. 79 conditions and maladies of the horse and their remedies are listed; among them a "pissing ball" to promote urine- rosin three ounces, three ounces of salt of prunel, a sirup of marsh mellows on eounce, oil of turpentine three drachms. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and slipcase with black leather spine label. Quite an unusual manual on the care of horses, rare to have survived in this condition. . We found one for sale at auction in the past 30 years. . First Edition. Marbled-paper Wrappers. Edges Worn. 4' x 2 5/8".

New York: Bartlett and Welford, 1844. A fine early twentieth-century binding SIGNED BY STIKEMAN. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Covers bordered in two gilt fillets. Spine in six panels with raised bands. Lettering and elaborate floral panel designs in gilt. Inner dentelles. Sewn-in blue silk page marker. A clean, crisp copy throughout. This first collected edition of Moore's poems, published at the request of his children, contains the first book appearance of his poem, "A Visit From St. Nicholas" ("Twas The Night Before Christmas") in a collection of his own work. This rare first edition is a PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Moore on the half-title page, "The Rev. Dr. Barry, with the respects of the author, Mar. 1846". Moore, a professor of Hebrew, wrote this poem in 1822 as a Christmas gift for his children. A house guest copied it in the fall of 1823, and later sent her copy to the editor of the Troy (NY) Sentinel, where it was first published anonymously, December 23, 1823. It first appeared… Read More

New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. Map endpapers. INSCRIBED, SIGNED, DATED BY THE AUTHOR on half-title page WITH HAND-DRAWN DOODLES. See photos. Laid-in are two letters from the author to the previous owner of this book thanking him for providing information used in the book. Eight illustrations. Off-setting from old newsprint pp. 14-15. Otherwise a very clean copy. A well-researched history of the Pony Express. 319pp. See Six-Guns 412, Howes C-291, Rader 657.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Tan Cloth. Nearly Fine/Lightly Chipped Jacket. Octavo.

New York: Harper Collins, 2008. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on title-page. Glazed boards. Tiny bump top edge rear cover, otherwise fine. Illustrared by Denise Brunkus. Signed by Author. First Edition. Color Illustrated Boards. Nearly Fine/No Jacket. Quarto.

Beirut: Published By Van Gulik, 1958. Front cover has two blemishes, stain from now-missing small label at top and a small brown stain near bottom at free-edge. Otherwise quite clean throughout. Frontispiece illustration. Van Gulik translated this rather obscure treatise, "A Chinese Treatise on Scrolls and Forgers, Shu-Hua-Shuo-Ling", written by Lu Shih-hua, an 18th century collector who devoted his life to the collecting of antique books and pictures. The "Scrapbook" is presented in complete translation, together with an introduction, notes, and a reprint of the Chinese text. Errata sheet at the conclusion with one typed addition glued in. Robert Van Gulik (1910-1967) was a Dutch diplomat, orientalist, musician, and writer best known for his Judge Dee mysteries. He was stationed in Beirut, Lebanon during the 1958 Civil War, thus the place of publication. A reprint edition was published in Thailand by Orchid Press in 2006. 84 +16 pages. . First Edition.. Tan Wrappers. Light Edge… Read More

London: Robert Scott, Richard Chiswell et al, 1706. Panelled spine, red spine label. Covers with blind-stamp double fillet borders, central darker panel, corner florettes. Engraved frontispiece of the author, done 50 years earlier. Title-page variant with a comma after Evelyn. Front cover is loosened but remains intact. "as it was delivered in the Royal Societt the xvth of October, MDCLXII..." "Silva" is in two books in same volume. Together with four additional accounts: "Terra, a philosophical essay of Earth", 1706, third edition; "Pomona, or an appendix concerning fruit-trees...", 1706, fourth edition; "Acetaria, or a discourse of sallets...", 1706, second edition, and "Kalendarium Hortense, or a gardener's almanack", 1706, tenth edition. Clean copy throughout with wide margins. John Evelyn (1620-1706) was a well-known English writer, gardener, and dfiarist, a comtemporary of Pepys. . Fourth Edition. Full Contemporary Calf. General… Read More