Search Results: Titles starting with I from Howard S. Mott, Inc

SIGNED BY CHARLES ASTOR BRISTED, AMERICAN SCHOLAR, AND JOHN JACOB ASTOR'S GRANDSON
TENNYSON, Alfred. Idylls of the King. Small 8vo, original blind stamped green cloth (spine lightly faded), pp. 8 (ads), [viii], 261, untrimmed. London: Edward Moxon, 1859.
First Edition, first issue, without printer's imprint on verso of title-leaf. "Probably these copies were the earliest bound."-Ashley Library VII, pp. 120-121. Ownership signature on title of Charles Astor Bristed (1820-1874), favorite grandson of John Jacob Astor, American scholar, philologist, and Foley author. Inner hinges cracked at folds, else nearly fine.
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III-415. Tinker 2077. Sterling 924.

AN AMAZING EARLY 19TH CENTURY PROVINCIAL ANGLING BROADSIDE ADVERTISEMENT
[ANGLING]. HOOPER, William Tackle-Maker. Important Intelligence to all Lovers of Angling, in the British Empire, and Challenge to the World. Hooper, Loughboro', most respectfully presumes to communicate tot eh Royal Family, The Nobility and Gentry, That he has brought o equisite [sic] Perfection, his celebrated unequalled, or Imperial, Transparent, Inimitable, Incomprehensible and Infallible Fishing Lines, Manufactured on a new principle...The Best Fishing Tackle in the World, and warranted to take fish throughout the year...Parties on a Fishing Excursion to the fine Streams of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, The Lakes or other prolific Waters, are recommended to send, or Call at Hooper's for the best Angle Rods, Ladies' and Gentlemens' extra neat walking Stick Rods, Gold Heads, &c. Lines to take very kind of River Fish, From the diminutive Prickle Back, to the Noble Salmon... [with 25 additional lines of text]. Folio… Read More

[FUNERAL BISCUITS]. PARKER, Elizabeth, confectioner. In Memory of Martha, the Wife of Richard Slater, of Birkett, in Rowland, Who departed this life May 20th, 1855, In the Eighty-sixth Year of her Life, And was interred at Bolton Church, on the 24th Instant. 4to broadside, 11 1/2 x 8 5/8", with evidence of black seal wax at two edges, within very decorative printer's ornamental border, surmounted by cemetery woodcut; framed. Clitheroe: James Fielding, Printer [1855].
Funeral biscuits have had a long tradition, and the traditional death notice merged with the funeral biscuit to become its wrapping, and our broadside is probably the wrapping that someone kept as a souvenir, a keepsake of the deceased. These ornately printed biscuit wrappings were sometimes sent with the biscuits as a means of alerting people to the death of a loved one. Elizabeth Parker made the funeral biscuits for Mrs. Slater's funeral, and… Read More

INSCRIBED TO CHRISTOPHER MORLEY WITH AN AUTOGRAPH NOTE BY HIM ABOUT THE INSCRIPTION
[WYLIE, Elinor]. Incidental Numbers. 16mo, original printed boards (hairline crack in front hinge), pp. 43. London: Printed by Wm. Clowes & Sons, 1912.
First Edition. The Frank Hogan copy. One of 65 copies of the author's first book, printed as a gift from her mother. This copy inscribed by the author on recto of free half of front end paper: "To Christopher Morley from his friend The Author who will so remain only so long as his anonymity is faithfully preserved." Inside front cover is an autograph note by Morley: "(Elinor Wylie's first book—inscribed by her in a disguised hand to avoid recognition—in the character of 'Adam Kinser Tutler', a pseudonym that she & [her husband] W[illiam] R[ose] B[enét] and I occasionally used for purposes of sport--) Christopher Morley." Morley was a close friend of the poet and her husband, with… Read More

GILLMEYER, Jacob.
Interest Tables calculated at Six per cent, per annum, showing the interest on all sums, from one dollar to ten thousand...With directions. Also, Banking time-tables in twelve series...with directions. 12mo, original full dark green morocco, front cover-title and author's name stamped in gold, thin chain decorative gold borders, pp. 6, [72]. [Baltimore?] 1836.

Only Edition of "an abridgement of a large work, by the same author, which has been highly approved, and for which, among others, the following testimonial has been obtained...," according to a pink "Printed Advertisement" pasted inside front cover, bearing a testimonial from officers of the Bank of the United States, November 18, 1834. At the bottom of that slip Gillmeyer offers a $300.00 reward to anyone who can find the "first fair detection of an error of ONE CENT in the interest calculations..." The author's "large" work of 53-pages, is Banking Time Tables, in twelve series (Washington, D.… Read More

OVER 1000 PAGES OF MANUSCRIPT CONSTRUCTION RECORDS AND ACCOUNTS IN THIRTEEN FOLIO VOLUMES OF AN IMPORTANT FREDERICK, MARYLAND, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY IRISH IMMIGRANT ARCHITECT AND MASTER BUILDER, INCLUDING THOSE OF HIS SONS, WHO WERE HIS PARTNERS AND SUCCESSORS, KEPT OVER A PERIOD OF FIFTY YEARS, 1790-1840
McCLEERY, Henry (1749-1819), Irish-American architect and master builder in Frederick, Maryland, who built most of Frederick's significant structures in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Tall folio ledger book, original flexible boards (worn & soiled), signed on front cover: "Henry McCleery/his Book/1790 January 1st," then again, "Henry McCleery His Book," with dates "1791/1792/1793," and "Alegheny Lotts in this Book 1790 page 20," over 320 pages of manuscript in 4 sections, crudely side-sewn and bound as one, ca. pp. [76] + [76] + [80] + [90], each section with alphabetical list of clients/customers + 12 simple original sketch plans of buildings with dimensions, written on laid paper, with… Read More

[PUTNAM, Israel]. Israel Putnam Eqer. Major General des Troupes Ameriquames de Connecticut...Commandoit en Chef a la Premiere Action contra les Anglois a Bunckerhill pres Boston le 27Juin 1775. 10 x 7" overall (image 6 5/8 x 4 1/2") line engraving bust portrait, in uniform with hat inside oval, with word "Li/ber/tas" above, with draped flags over cannons. Not in WorldCat, Carson, Holden, Mitchell, or Cresswell , although the latter's #179, published by Esnauts et Rapilly, and probably by Dupin, is similar. Fine. We have other 18th century engravings of Revolutionary War figures, American, English and French. Please enquire.