Bohn's Hand-Book Of Washington
Washington DC: Casimir Bohn, 1861. 6 x 4", blue printed wrappers, folding map in rear. Toning and foxing to pages, soiling and chipping to covers.
Washington DC: Casimir Bohn, 1861. 6 x 4", blue printed wrappers, folding map in rear. Toning and foxing to pages, soiling and chipping to covers.
Hanau, Germany: Gebrueder Illert G.m.b.h. Imprimerie Lithographie, Circa 1920. 14 x 10", string tied card covers with printed title label reading "Catalogue des Etiquettes de Stock" (Catalog of Stock Labels), containing 234 pages with approximately 1400 labels. A large sample album of labels by a German lithography company, including wine.....
New York: George F. Cooledge, Circa 1840s. Octavo, tan printed wrappers, 47 pp, illustrated throughout. Chipping to wrappers, damp staining to upper corner of text, creasing to pages, crude hand coloring to illustrations.
Various Places: 1869-1871. Quarter morocco binding with marbled boards measuring 13.5 x 8.5", containing 127 pages of class notes and 19pp of diary entries. The book belonged to Joseph Tatnal Baily of Paterson, New Jersey, a civil engineer who graduated in 1870 from Rochester Polytechnic Institue. The bulk of the.....
Missoula, Montana: Smead & Hershey, [1905]. Stapled booklet measuring 6.25 x 3.5", [12] pp, black and white photographic illustrations. A very good copy with mild creasing and soiling. A rare booklet promoting the sale of lands on the Flathead Reservation in Montana to white settlers. According to the preface, the.....
New York: American Bible Society, 1865. 6.25 x 4.5", embossed black morocco leather binding with gilt spine lettering, text block edges gilt. A lovely 19th century American bible. A few keepsakes (antique ribbon, a flower, etc) laid in. Wear to binding, especially spine, damp staining to margins of first and.....
Salem, Oregon: 1899 to 1920s. Ledger binding of gilt accented red morocco, 9 x 6", containing 284 numbered pages, of which 88 contain manuscript recipes, with three additional recipes laid in. Manuscript index present at end, and various pasted in culinary clippings and ephemera laid in. Inscribed "Mrs. E.C. Patton.....
San Francisco: 1868. Bound volume of weekly newspapers measuring 15.5 x 11.5", 26 issues, each 16 pages. Includes Volume 4, Nos. 1-26, from January 4, 1868 to June 27, 1868. A scarce volume of this "Odd Fellows' Official Organ" published in San Francisco. According to "The Half Century of California.....
Boston: T.G. Bradford, 1838. Original hand colored map measuring 14.25 x 11.5", originally published in Thomas Gamaliel Bradford's "An Illustrated Atlas, Geographical, Statistical, And Historical, Of The United States And The Adjacent Countries." In nice condition with a bit of toning, foxing, and creasing.
Stanislaus County, California: 1951 to 1954. String tied brown faux leather photo album binding, 14 x 10", with 36 black paper leaves containing 199 black and white photographs, most captioned in the margin of the image, together with various ephemeral items and clippings laid or pasted in. A compelling vernacular.....
Various Places, Mainly California: 1942 to 1945. String tied photo album binding of cream leatherette covers with illustration of airplane to front cover, 16 x 12", containing 263 black and white photographs, as well as several ephemeral items. Most images cornered in, with 21 loose images present as well. Numerous.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1905. 9.5 x 6.25", stapled booklet, 34 pp. A pamphlet issued by the United States government related to the leasing of allotted Cherokee lands in Indian Territory (today Oklahoma). Allotment, "the federal policy of dividing communally held Indian tribal lands into individually owned private property, was.....
Philadelphia: C.G. Henderson & Co, 1854. 6 x 5", green pictorial boards with brown cloth spine. 24 page leporello, with a hand colored illustration on each page depicting costumed residents of the various nations of Europe, i.e. a Serbian shepherd, English and French peasants, gypsies, etc. Wear and staining to.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1914. Octavo, original brown cloth boards, titles to spine gilt, blind stamp design and titles to front cover, black and white illustrations throughout. A lovely vintage copy of this enduring tale of girlhood. Cloth with some light surface wear to boards and along spine, corners.....
London: J. M. Dent & Co. Aldine House, 1899. 8 x 6.25", color illustrated cloth cover, 539 pp, numerous illustration plates as well as illustrations within text. Translated by Mrs. E-Lucas and illustrated by Thomas, Charles and William Robinson. Rebacked with original spine laid on and new endpapers. Rubbing and.....
London: Hutchinson and Co., N.d. Small quarto, original brown cloth with ghost illustration blocked to front cover, titles in black on spine. A collection noted for its 17 stories of horror and the supernatural by Blackwood, Hartley, Walpole, Machen De la Mare, D. H. Lawrence, Sinclair, and others. Includes the.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915 and 1916. 8vo, tan boards with brown cloth spine, 155 pp. This copy signed by Buswell on the front endpaper, dated November, 1917. Additional inscription by G.K. Crockett, 2nd Lieutenant 7th M.Q. Battalion, Company D at Camp Greene, Charlotte, North Carolina. The.....
New York: Cameron Publishing Co., Inc, 1927. Small pamphlet measuring 6 x 3.5", orange wrappers, 117, [7] pp. A scarce book on movies with sound by a New York based textbook writer who also wrote guides on motion picture operation and projection. The first part of this book prints a......
Casa Grande, Arizona: Dispatch Print, 1930. 9 x 6", yellow stapled wrappers, 39, [1] pp, local advertisements. A cookbook compiled by the Minnehaha Camp Fire Group of La Palma, Arizona, collecting prize winning recipes from the Pinal County fair, together with some additional recipes "we thought would be used and.....
Boston and New York: Houghton MIfflin Company/The Riverside Press, 1891. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, 211 pp. This copy inscribed by the author, Charles Colcock Jones Jr, who was a prominent Georgia politician, attorney, and author, as well as the the mayor of Savannah immediately prior to Sherman's March.....
New York: Schuman's, 1943. Small 4to, green cloth, 264 pp. Second edition. An excellent copy with bumping to corners.
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press, 1914. First Edition. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration, 214 pp, photographic illustrations, two folding maps at rear. Gift inscription to front endpaper, from one mining engineer (W.R. Crane) to another (C.W. Wright). A good, bright copy with.....
Des Moines: Mills & Company, Printers and Publishers, 1876. 8vo, dark green boards lettered in lighter green, 278 pp. Early Iowa community cookbook published by a Church auxiliary group as their Bicentennial Project. From the preface: "This little book is an outgrowth from the experience of many who wait upon.....
Charleston, South Carolina: Walker, Evans and Co, 1860. First edition. 8vo, original black decorative cloth with gilt lettering to center of front cover, 190pp plus a section of blank leaves with printed headers at the end. The text faithfully records each gravestone inscription in the cemetery. This copy inscribed by.....
New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Hardcover, black cloth, with unusual blue and yellow dust jacket, 517 pp. Early edition, circa 1930s, listing Hemingway's novels up to "In Our Time." A very good copy with toning to pages, chip to upper corner of front endpaper, jacket price-clipped, soiled.....