London: 1902 to 1917. Hardcover. Quarto, quarter tan leather with orange cloth, gilt and morocco spine label reading "Customs and Excise Printed Papers," "Confidential" in gilt to front cover, embossed stamps to endpapers reading "H.M. Board of Customs & Excise Library," variously paginated. A sammelband of 44 pamphlets, many marked.....
London: T. Osborne, 1752. 6.75 x 4.25", disbound text block, [3], iv-viii, 302, [2] pp. Chipping to endpapers, mild toning and foxing to pages, upper portion of text damp stained with some pages partially sticking together, lower portion of pages 297 to 298 chipped with loss to text, binding separated.....
United Kingdom? Circa 1860s to 1880s. Octavo, 7.5 x 5.25", stitched, 16 pp. A rare pamphlet of songs by a blind individual, possibly a mendicant who sold this pamphlet to support themselves. We were unable to find the text of the titular poem published anywhere else. The only clue as.....
London: J. Newman, 1843. Octavo, 7.75 x 5", blue cloth with gilt, [4], 52 pp, frontispiece and six engraved plates. A good copy with offsetting, soiling and bit of staining to covers, toning and foxing to pages, owner inscription to front endpaper, chipping to cloth at spine ends.
England: Hills & Saunders, 1890s. Commercially produced photograph album by the notable Hills & Saunders studio of England. Consists of 22 albumen photographs, each captioned in manuscript and measuring 8 x 6", in a blue cloth album titled "Views of Cambridge" in gilt on the front cover. A striking series.....
New York: Appleton and Company, 1905. Hardcover, original decorative red block further decorated in gilt, 527 pp. An excellent copy with toning to pages and owner inscription to front endpapers. The memoirs of Napoleon III's dentist, Dr. Thomas W. Evans, in a lovely example of an American decorative publisher's binding.....
New York: The Spanish Child Welfare Association of America, 1938. Wraps. Octavo, original red printed card covers with title and illustration in blue, spiral bound, 72 pp. Published for the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) with profits going to children affected by the war. Contains 60 drawings by schoolchildren collected.....
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates and Co, 1902. Hardcover. Octavo, 8 x 5.5", purple cloth with gilt illustration, in the original purple dust jacket, 393 pp, illustration plates. A lovely antique decorative binding, with the scarce dust wrapper. In excellent condition with bit of staining to text block edges, jacket corners.....
London, New York, and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co, Circa 1885. 7.5 x 5.5", blue decorative cloth with gilt, 425 pp plus ads. A very attractive copy with bookplate to front endpaper, slight wear to covers.
Birmingham, Alabama: Birmingham Publishing Company, 1949. 9 x 6", stapled booklet with cream covers and black lettering, 68 pp. A first-person account of a family of six as they toured around Europe shortly after the end of World War II. According to her obituary, Noland would have been 24 when.....
New York and London: John Lane, 1915. Hardcover, original red cloth with gilt spine lettering, 271 pp. With sixteen illustrations. First edition. An attractive copy with owner inscriptions to front endpapers, mild discoloration to covers and mild toning to pages.
Amsterdam: Evert Visscher, 1727. Quarto, vellum binding with inked titles to spine, [14], 538, 80, 556 pp, engraved plate before title page, separate title page in Dutch. Ownership inscription of William H. Caslon, managing director of the Caslon Foundry. Bookplate of historian Jim Axtell. Bookplate of Beinecke Library, Yale. 1766.....
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1920. Two volume set. Hardcovers, salmon cloth, 423 pp and 382 pp. Good plus with foxing and toning to pages, book plates to front pastedowms, owner inscription to front end papers, mild soiling and wear to covers, spines slightly cocked.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947. First Edition. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket, 386 pp. Very good with bit of toning to pages, some wear and discoloration to covers, dust jacket corners trimmed, some wear and closed tears to jacket.