Rare books from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Text in two octavo volumes: Volume one, Paris: Chez L'auteur, 1847, vii & 842 pp; volume two, Paris: Chez J-B Bailliere, 1855 [4] & [1] - 1108 pp With the atlas volume: Paris: Chez J-B Bailliere, 1855 Folio (17" x 12"), 28 pages of text & 30 lithographed plates by Delahaye. Text volumes in contemporary one-quarter brown calf & marbled paper by S. Wardwell of Bridgeport, Connecticut, the atlas in contemporary gilt-lettered one-quarter black morocco & marbled paper. Text in French Garrison & Morton/ A Medical Bibliography: An Annotated Check-List of Texts Illustrating the History of Medicine 4417 Text volumes ex library with the bookplate (marked discarded) of the Bridgeport Public Library at the front pastedown of both volumes (no other marks), rubbed & scuffed, shallow losses at spine extremities, spines darkened, gilt lettering very dull, scattered foxing, small bookbinders' label at rear pastedowns, Good or so & still quite serviceable. Atlas volume rubbed & scuffed, foxing throughout affecting the… Read More

Charlestown, [Virginia]: Head Quarters, Banks' Division, Charlestown, March 5, 1862. First edition.Folio (13.5" x 10"), letterpress broadside printed on thin paper in black ink Accompanied by a manuscript version of the text (single sheet, 2 pages) which includes corrections as reflected in the published version, almost certainly contemporary Corona & Shetler/ West Virginia Imprints 805, citing this copy.
Broadside with old folds, edge wear, tears, & a couple of old tissue repairs on the verso, good or better. Manuscript folded & foxed.
General Nathaniel P Banks, via Assistant Adjutant General & Major of Volunteers R Morris Copeland, condemns the actions of troops for "depredations on property, disturbance of peaceful families and the most reprehensible infringement upon the rights of citizens" and warns of the consequences:
"To countenance, excuse or tolerate such crimes, is to impair and destroy the discipline of the army and injure the holy cause, that we have left our homes to sustain The… Read More

New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition, this copy inscribed, signed, and dated in ink by Corbett on the recto of the frontis. 8vo, xiv & 329 pp. plus 16 plates. Publishers gilt-lettered green cloth in pictorial dust jacket.
Page 329 roughly opened causing small losses in the margin (text unaffected), otherwise fine in moderately edge worn dust Jacket (including short tears and small loses), lightly browned at the spine and folds, otherwise very good."We cannot help but feel that The Roar of the Crowd will be read as long as the world loves a clean, honest, and courageous fighter, both within the ropes and in those harder battles of life outside the ring." (Excerpted from the dust jacket).

London: J & DA Darling, 1848-1849. First edition, in the original 12 monthly parts preceding publication in book form. Octavos, continuously paginated, 407 & vii pp. plus large folding engraved plate in part I, 23 other engraved plates throughout (all on thick paper), plus an engraved title page in part XII, & four pages of illustrated ads printed in red & blue in part VIII. Publisher's pictorial tan wraps housed in a later maroon slipcase & chemise lettered by hand in black ink on the spine Although relatively common in book form, OCLC finds two copies only in parts (British Library; British Library Reference Collection) as of 5/22/2020.
Moderately soiled, edge wear (particularly the first & last parts) including small cracks, chips, tears, etc, partial loss at a few spines, rear wrap detached & spine perished on part XII (with old repair using perforated small labels), still Good or so, given particularly the fragile nature of the format
Roswell (1800 - 1852), musical composer, author of works on… Read More

Ithaca: Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, (1992). First edition, one of 1000 hardbound copies, this one of 200 issued with an original lithograph signed, dated, & numbered by the artist. Small folio, xiii & 192 pp, illustrated throughout in color & black & white. Laid in and enclosed in a folding sleeve is the untitled lithograph, number 7 of 200, measuring 11.75 inches by 8.75 inches. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver on the spine & upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with slight edge wear and soiling Issued in conjunction with an exhibition at Cornell University's Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, this catalog of conceptual artist Agnes Denes' work is visually stunning. Includes essays by Peter Selz, Lowery Stokes Sims, Robert Hobbs, and Donald Kuspit. The lithograph, printed in blue ink on thick, deckle-edged paper, is not titled but represented on page 51 as "Model for Probability Pyramid - Study for Crystal Pyramid."

London: Printed by H Meere, for S Briscoe, and sold by J Nutt, 1705. First edition. 8vo, [12], xiv, [6], & 192 pp, which include a four page catalog of books available from John Nutt following the table of contents, and a separate title page preceding part two. Contemporary full brown calf with a gilt-lettered maroon leather spine label, the spine & covers decorated in gilt Ribbon marker sewn. in ESTC T144140. Binding rubbed, upper joint just being to crack, short tear & small hole at v/vi (not affecting text), p 39 with brief bracketing in ink, moderately toned & foxed, otherwise very good. A splendid gathering of satirical sketches which, as indicated by OCLC, are "intended to be comic, but also reveal a great deal about attitudes and the behaviour expected of women" Selections include: "The Character of a Wanton Woman", "a Modest Woman", "a pretended Godly Woman", "a Religious Woman", "A Gaming Woman", etc as well as a collection of poems perhaps best represented by the infamous "A Satyr upon a… Read More

No place [Wilmington, Vermont ?]: Unpublished, various dates 1950s - 60s. Manuscript in bound volume. Octavo, 9.5 inches x 6.5 inches, original red cloth with an unrelated printed paper spine label. Binding lightly faded & soiled, corners bruised, otherwise Very Good. Internally, a bit age toned, otherwise Fine. Pages 1 through 69, recorded in different inks excepting 4, are hand-numbered, very occasionally dated, with several initialed "L.D.C." presumably written sequentially between the mid to late fifties & early sixties (as suggested primarily by correspondence). Pages 53 & 54 comprise a poem entitled "Two Graves" which are typed & pasted in. Page 65 provides a tipped-in TLS on "Old Sturbridge Village" letterhead dated November 26, 1962, signed by editor & author Catherine Fennelly accepting for publication Mrs. Chambers poem, "Covenant," which is supplied in manuscript on the adjacent page. Page 69 features a tipped-in TLS from August Derleth on his letterhead dated November 17, 1962 accepting… Read More

No place [Yokohama?], no publisher, no date (ca. 1890s). Oblong Folio (12.5" x 15.5"), contemporary pictorial black lacquered boards inlaid in relief with bone, containing fifty hand-colored albumen photographs measuring generally 7.75 " x 10" mounted recto and verso to 25 thick card leaves, with tissue guards interleaved. Forty-four of the images are titled in the negative. Binding worn: spine perished, boards and ffeps detached (boards remarkably well preserved although lacking two small inlaid pieces), most tissue guards creased and torn, mounts with slight wave and sporadic foxing/ soiling, 3 photos with minute losses at the edges, a few slightly faded or under exposed, most fresh and rich in tonal quality.Although quite probably a composite album representing photos from different studios, certainly many of the images are from the Yokohama studio of T. Enami. Presents views in Tokyo, Nagasaki, Kyoto, Yokohama, and elsewhere featuring architecture, temples, street scenes, ceremonies, occupations,… Read More

Berkeley & Jefferson Counties, Virginia (now West Virginia): not published, 1786 - 1842. Group of ten folio manuscript documents and one partially printed document completed in manuscript involving the real estate transactions of Charles & John Yates in the upper Shenandoah Valley. Approximately 29 pp. in total, all docketed.
Each exhibits expected wear including original folds with associated splits and separations (one document with a small area of archival tissue repair), creasing, tears, small losses (occasionally briefly affecting text), soiling, toning and foxing.
Charles Yates (1728 - 1809) emigrated from England in 1748, first to New York and then, in 1752, to Fredericksburg, Virginia. A prosperous merchant and importer, he was also deeply involved in real estate speculation in Berkeley and Jefferson Counties (now West Virginia). Advancing in years, unmarried and childless, he solicited his brother, John Orfeur Yates of Liverpool, to send one of his sons as heir apparent. Young John Yates… Read More

Chicago: The Civics Society, (1913 -1914). First edition. Complete in 13 volumes including an apparently unrecorded volume titled on the spine "Sample Pages" which probably preceded the other 12 volumes. Small octavos (7.75" x 5.25") 3,189 pp, including illustrations, continuously paginated excepting the Sample Pages volume (which is erratically paginated). Original gray stiff paper wraps with yapped edges, each volume with illustration from a woodcut or linocut on the upper cover depicting Ella Buchanan's most famous sculpture, "The Suffragist Trying to Arouse Her Sisters." Several nicks & small losses along the yapped edges, wraps lightly soiled & toned, easily very good or better.Comprising, in addition to the Sample Pages volume: Political Science by Jesse Macy (vol 1 - 3); Practical Politics by Ford H. MacGregor (vol 4 - 6); Woman Suffrage by Carrie Chapman Catt & others (vol 7); Woman & the Law by W.W Willoughby & others (vol 8); Woman & the Larger Citizenship by Jane Addams & others (vol 9… Read More

No place [in or near Charlestown, Virginia, now West Virginia], May 14, 1857. Manuscript Document Signed, "Articles of Partnership, F. Yates & Co." Tall 4to (12.5" x 7.75"), single sheet, approximately 221 words recorded in ink on laid paper, signed by Francis Yates, Charles Aglionby, & John Yates Beall (apparently for sister Janet M. Beall). Docketed in pencil on the verso.
Folded twice vertically & once horizontally, moderately soiled, couple of short splits along the horizontal fold, small archival tissue repair on the verso, otherwise very good.
Text transcribed in full below:
"G.W. Fox owed Francis Yates $4688.50, Charles Aglionb $2912.67, & John Y. Beall $494.00. He failed & gave deed of trust on the Halltown Mill property to secure them. On the fourteenth of May, 1857 Francis Yates, to avoid the delay & expense of a Trustee's sale, bought the above mentioned property for the sum of $15,480.67 to be paid as follows - $7377.50 to the estate of J. Yates, dec'd and for (?) $8.00 cost of deed - &… Read More

Boston, Massachusetts: [S.N.], "Reprinted on the Occasion of the XIIIth International Physiological Congress, 1929," this copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink by neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing at the ffep. 8vo (9" x 5.75"), xl & 280 pages, with frontis portraits, charts, & tables. Original light brown paper over boards backed in dark brown cloth with a printed title label on the spine, in printed dust jacket. Laid-in is the programme for the New York Academy of Medicine's "Stated Meeting, October 5, 1933" [in] "Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Publication of William Beaumont's "Experiments and Observations." (Bifolium, 8vo, 4 pp., on thick card stock, with photograph of the Chester Harding portrait of Beaumont tipped to the upper cover, with ink presentation & illegible signature).
Trace of shelf wear, otherwise near fine in good only dust jacket, rubbed & browned mostly at the spine, soiled, with tears, losses & archival tissue repairs on the verso. Programme with edge wear & browning, good… Read More

New York: Carleton, Publisher; London: S. Low, Son & Co., MDCCCLXIX (1869). First edition, this copy with presentation in ink by the author at the ffep: "A M[onsieur] Chabot/ avec les compliments/ de M'elle Kraft."
12mo, viii, [9] - 316 & 8 (ie 6) pages of publisher's ads plus 5 mounted albumen photographs. Publisher's rust/ brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Not found in The Truthful Lens.
Recently rebacked preserving original spine, long tear at the ffep now repaired on the verso (presentation not affected), binding moderately rubbed & soiled, scattered foxing, a very good copy.
Ms. Kraft departed Paris on December 1, 1868 in the company of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Ferris (her sister and brother in law) and traveling companion J.S. Rogers. The group arriived in Egypt on December 11. As she notes in her prologue,"In presenting this little work for the perusal of my friends, I beg to remind them that I have, as nearly as was consistent, adhered to the original design of giving a "diary"… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906 - 1913. Limited edition, one of 1250 sets, this hand numbered 61. Twenty-six volumes, I through XXVI (of 28), octavos (8.75" x 6.25"), variously paginated, each volume illustrated with plates from paintings, engravings, etchings, drawings, photos, maps, etc., including frontispieces, with tissue-guards. Publisher's three-quarter crushed dark blue morocco & marbled paper over boards by Haddon & Company (signed), the spines in six compartments separated by raised bands, lettered or decorated in gilt in all compartments. Top edges gilt, the others uncut.
Occasional very minor rubbing mostly affecting raised bands, one volume with slight wear at the top of the spine, a bit of toning to marbled paper, hinge started in volume one (still secure), otherwise near fine.
Issued serially, the first 23 volumes were published in 1906, volumes 24 & 25 in 1910, & volume 26 in 1913. Volumes 27 & 28 (not offered here) were not published until 1920 (per Pacific Book Auctions).… Read More

No place [Yokohama?], T. Enami & others, no date (ca. 1890s). Oblong Folio (12.5" x 15.5"), contemporary pictorial black lacquered boards inlaid in relief with bone, containing fifty hand-colored albumen photographs measuring generally 7.75 " x 10" mounted recto and verso to 25 thick card leaves, with tissue guards interleaved. Forty-four of the images are titled in the negative.
Binding worn: spine perished, boards and front free endpapers detached (boards remarkably well preserved although lacking one small inlaid piece), most tissue guards creased and torn, mounts with slight wave and sporadic foxing/ soiling, 3 photos with minute losses at the edges, a few slightly faded or under exposed, most fresh and rich in tonal quality.
Although quite probably a composite album representing photos from different studios, certainly many of the images are from the Yokohama studio of T. Enami. Presents views in Tokyo, Nagasaki, Kyoto, Yokohama, and elsewhere featuring architecture, temples, street scenes,… Read More