Monographia Poacearum Japonicarum Bambusoideis Exclusis by Honda, Masaji - 1930

Memphis, Tennessee: Southwestern at Memphis, 1967. Folio sized hardcover; 304 pages, dark brown endpapers. Brown leatherette style cloth with embossed name and design on front cover; the background of the design is gilt. The spine has the embossed name, year and volume in gilt. Full color photograph inset of one of the school's buildings is also on front cover. Black and white photographs throughout, green endpapers and color photo illustrated title page. Yearbooks are always a fascinating snapshot in time memorializing hairstyles, fashion and social conventions. This book is very well photographed with some interesting and thoughtful compositions. Founded in 1848 the oft renamed school began: in 1848 as the Masonic University of Tennessee in 1850 was renamed Stewart College in 1850 to honor its then president William M. Stewart in 1875 was renamed Southwestern Presbyterian University in 1925 was renamed Southwestern in 1945 was renamed Southwestern at Memphis (which was its name at the time… Read More

A Comic Romance. To which is prefixed The Life of the Author. xiv+578 pp. 12,8x7 cm. London, 1808.
--- Half leather. Covers are detached. Text in english. Engraved frontispiece. Pages bright and clean. Unmarked. No foxing.

London, UK: George Bell and Sons, 1902. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 131pp; Red Half Leather (Suede) with gilt titling to spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, a few nicks to suede on rear board, gift inscr. to flyleaf, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Antique finely bound edition of Dante Alighieri's The Vita Nuova or New Life. Translated by Frances De Mey. Decorated borders by Christopher Dean.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1889. Very nice copy of this first edition. Hardback with illustration to front and rear board. Yellow end papers. Half title, frontis illustration and title with vignette. Good clean condition. A little darkening / marking to the boards. Internally clean. 64 pages. 235 by 190mm (9¼ by 7½ inches).

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Wendell Endicott on the front flyleaf. An avid sportsman, Endicott (1880-1954) attended Harvard University (1899-1901) and served as a director of Sears, Roebuck and Company in Chicago during the 1920s and '30s. This book includes his reminiscences of battling the "Silver King" (Atlantic tarpon) and other game fish along the Florida Keys, as well as a selection of fishing facts and suggestions. Octavo: 273 p. with 80 illustrations from photographs by the author. Original dark green cloth-covered boards over a light green spine, with gilt stamping. Just a hint of foxing to the prefatory and concluding pages, with some faint evidence of moisture along the top edge of the last three dozen pages. Tiny period bookseller's label to the front flyleaf. The spine is a touch faded, with some rubbing to the corners and tips; else about very good.

London, 1790. Cornelii Nepotis Vitae Excellentium Imperatorum: Cum Verifione Angelica, in qua Verbum de Verbo, quantum fieri potuit, redditure: Notis quoque Anglicis, & Indice Locupletissimo or Cornelius Nepos's Lives of the Excellent Commanders: with an English Translation as Literal as possible with English notes and a large index by John Clarke (late master of the Publick Grammar School in Hull [England]) In Pursuance of the Method of teaching the Latin Tongue, laid down by him in his Essay upon Education. Private Press: J.F. and C. Rivington, et al; London; 1790; Fourteenth (14th)Edition A copy of this volume is in the collection of the National Trust; Carlyle's House, London. 8vo size full calf leather; 280 pages. Red title block on spine with bright gilt titles and decorations. The long "S" is used throughout the text. The pages are styled in two columns, with the Latin language text on the left side and the English language text on the right side. The… Read More

Folding maps, v, xi, 414p. dj. 24cm. Facsimile of the rare 1857 edition with a New Introduction (2 1/2p.) by Robin Bidwell.

New York: Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. John Tenniel. 154pp. No date c1920, New Era Edition. Blue cloth, gilt and black lettering to cover and spine. Very light rubbing to spine ends, spine is sunned but readable, former owner's bookplate on front pastedown, interior is clean and sound, and book is in overall very nice condition. Printed in the intermediate stage of Pitman's Shorthand. Text is in Pitman Shorthand and ilustrations throughout by John Tenniel.

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1874. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 80pp. Rust boards, gilt lettering. Corners lightly rubbed, former owner's name stamp on front free endpaper, text is clean and sound, and the binding is tight. Dr. Fowler was a member of the faculty at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York.

Soc. For Christian Knowledge. Brighton, 1891. Very good. 12 17 2.5. Red leather spine with gilt decoration and banding. title plate missing. Red cloth boards with gilt King Edward VI grammar school emblem on the front board. Spine scuffed, title plate missing