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Glasgow: Simpson, Lawrence & Co., 1914. Paperback. Good+. 320, [6] pp., with 1 cancel leaf. Oblong 4to., bound in half blue cloth, printed paper over boards. New Edition. An extensive and thorough illustrated catalogue of yacht fittings and other marine equipment, containing many beautiful examples of marine design. There are sections on stoves and kitchen equipment, compasses, telegraphs, steering wheels, clocks, barometers, binoculars, whistles, horns, bells, levers, lamps, pumps, filters, capstans, anchors, mooring gear, w.c.'s, brackets, shackles, furniture, sinks, tables, lockers, flagpoles, gramophones, yacht pianos and much more. Spine repaired, otherwise a very nice copy in its original decorative boards.

in aedibus Thomae Wight, 1605. Hardcover. Very Good. Half dark brown morocco and black cloth, gilt-stamped lettering in spine compartments (5 raised bands); folio (285x190mm); 2 title-pages with ornamental woodcut border, and numbered leaves (1-5, 1-25, 1-19, 1-4, 1-4, 1-9, 1-46, 1-24, 1-8, 1-9, 1-94, 1-26, 1-17, 1-39, [1] (second title-p., n.d.), 1-14, 1-12, 1-13, 1-9, 1-11, 1-15, [10] (Table)) with woodcut decorative initials, printed in blackletter. With 15 smaller, later manuscript leaves tipped-in between sections. Boards rubbed; light scuffing at spine tips, along joints and edges of boards. First title page toned and dust-soiled, and lightly chipped along the edges; second title-page is fine; text block a bit brittle along the edges; a few pages loose, laid-in. Bookplate of the New York City Bar Association. Covers regnal years 1399-1422, under Henry IV and Henry V. With an index of cases, side-notes and cross-references. An extremely important source for our knowledge of medieval common law.

London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1620. Hardcover. Very Good. Half dark brown morocco and black cloth, gilt-stamped lettering in spine compartments (5 raised bands); folio (288x193mm); title-page with ornamental woodcut border, and numbered leaves (1-10, 1-29, 1-28, 1-44, 1-8, 1-12, 1-32, 1-25, 1-53, 1-19, 1-11, 1-21, 1-9, 1-8, 1-33, 1-12, 1-8, 1-30, 1-10, 1-19, 1-84, 1-51, [39] (table)) with woodcut decorative initials, printed in blackletter. With 16 smaller, early manuscript leaves tipped-in between sections. Boards rubbed; light scuffing at spine tips, along joints and edges of boards. Title-page somewhat browned, and lightly chipped along the edges; text block a bit brittle along the edges; some foxing or browning throughout. Bookplate of the New York City Bar Association. Covers regnal years 1461-1483, Edward IV With an index of cases, side-notes and cross-references. An extremely important source for our knowledge of medieval common law.

Londini: in aedibus Thomae Wight, 1601. Hardcover. Very Good. Half dark brown morocco and black cloth, gilt-stamped lettering in spine compartments (5 raised bands); folio (298x195mm); title-page with ornamental woodcut border, and numbered leaves (1-58, 1-60, 1-10, 1-13, 1-16, 1-34, 1-56, 1-53, 1-62, 1-34, 1-38, 1-39, 1-51, [2] (title-p. "Syntomotaxia," dedication and direction), [50] (table)) with woodcut decorative initials, printed in blackletter. With 10 smaller, later manuscript leaves tipped-in between sections. Boards rubbed; light scuffing at spine tips, along joints and edges of boards. First title page toned and dust-soiled, and lightly chipped along the edges; "Syntomotaxia" title-page is fine; text block a bit brittle along the edges; just a little foxing or browning. Bookplate of the New York City Bar Association. Covers regnal years 1442-1461, Henry VI. With an index of cases, side-notes and cross-references. An extremely important source for our knowledge of medieval common law.

London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1619. Hardcover. Very Good. Half dark brown morocco and black cloth, gilt-stamped lettering in spine compartments (5 raised bands), black topstain; folio (294x184mm); title-page with ornamental woodcut border, and numbered leaves (1-80, 1-59, [1], 1-62*, 1-79, [1], 80-[88]**, 46-100, 1-49, 1-32, 1-37, 1-38, [1] (Candidi Lectori), [28] (Le Table)), with woodcut decorative initials, printed in blackletter. Printed pagination sometimes incorrect, with corrections in manuscript -- correction at leaf 57 in third section* appears to be incorrect, and appears to be missing leaf 83**. With 7 smaller, later manuscript leaves tipped-in. Boards rubbed; light scuffing at spine tips, along joints and edges of boards. Title page toned, and lightly chipped along the edges, with early ownership signature and stamp; text block a bit brittle along the edges. Bookplate of the New York City Bar Association. Covers regnal years 1343-1366, Edward III. With an index of… Read More

Londoni: In Aedibus Ianae Yetsweirt relictae Caroli Yetsweirt armigeri, 1596. Hardcover. Very Good. Half dark brown morocco and black cloth, gilt-stamped lettering in spine compartments (5 raised bands), black topstain; folio (294x198mm); 404 leaves, title-page with ornamental woodcut border, woodcut decorative initials, printed in blackletter. Boards rubbed; light scuffing at spine tips, along joints and edges of boards. Title page toned, and lightly chipped along the edges, with early ownership signature along top margin; third leaf (first page of text) detached, laid-in; later manuscript leaf tipped-in (at fol. 22). Bookplate of the New York City Bar Association. Covers regnal years 1326-1335, Edward III. With an index of cases, side-notes and cross-references. Edward's long reign of fifty years saw vital developments in legislation and government, in particular the evolution of the English parliament. An extremely important source for our knowledge of medieval common law.

Londoni: in aedibus Thomae Wight, 1600. Hardcover. Very Good. Half dark brown morocco and black cloth, gilt-stamped lettering in spine compartments (5 raised bands); folio (286x193mm); title-page with ornamental woodcut border, and numbered leaves (2-49, 2-31, 1-26, 1-36, 2-46, 2-28, 2-34, 2-26, 1-34, 1-27, 1-27, [26] (Table)), with woodcut decorative initials, printed in blackletter. (Complete, even where pagination begins at 2.) With 2 smaller, later manuscript leaves tipped-in. Boards rubbed; light scuffing at spine tips, along joints and edges of boards. Title page toned and dust-soiled, large closed tear (with tape repair on the verso), and lightly chipped along the edges, with faint stamp; text block a bit brittle along the edges. Bookplate of the New York City Bar Association. Covers regnal years 1366-1377, Edward III. With an index of cases, side-notes and cross-references. Edward's long reign of fifty years saw vital developments in legislation and government, in particular the evolution… Read More

London: Unicorn Press, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Grey paper over boards; glassine dust jacket; pp. 91, [8] (ads). Boards a little scuffed; spine tips rubbed; corners bumped. Tissue dust jacket is in remarkably good condition, with just some light creasing at spine tips, corners, and along edges. Illustrated throughout, with numerous contributors (Laurence Housman and W. B. Yeats amongst them) providing entries on architecture, literature, art, and music.

London: Macmillan, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Original cloth in dustwrapper (not price-clipped). An excellent copy.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Ornate gilt-stamped cloth by Althea Gyles; tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait. Boards gently rubbed; spine tips and corners a little frayed; front hinge starting.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Cover and title page with Aubrey Beardsley illustration. 8vo, original off-white wrappers printed in black, backstrip perished but signatures firm in wrappers, dust soiling and toning, rubbing to extremities. First edition, presumed earliest issue, with 1 fleuron on front wrap and 4 on title. With half-title, publisher's advertisements at end. The sole book collaboration between Yeats and Beardsley. Wade 10.

Dublin, 1944. Hardcover. Fair. Woodcut of Giraldus on title-page. Thin 8vo, publisher's ¼ cloth; front hinge cracked with cloth separated from textblock, bookplate. Internally, very good. Limited edition, one of 250 copies. Sold as is.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Black cloth; photo-illustrated dust jacket; 4to; pp. 157, with photo-illustrations in b/w and full-color throughout. Boards lightly rubbed, otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket a little scratched on front panel; some light wrinkling along the edges; price-clipped. Poems and photographs.

New York: Random House, 1945. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Cloth, paper spine label; full-color illustrated dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 184, plus b/w photo-illustrated plates. Some very light rubbing and bumping at spine tips and along edges of boards; small spot of faint soiling on rear board; ownership signature on front paste-down. Dust jacket lightly wrinkled along the edges; somewhat tanned on rear panel and along spine; not price-clipped ($2.00); VG+ in mylar.

New York: D. T. Valentine's, 1852. Ephemera. Very Good+. Single leaf, colored lithograph, about 15x9 inches, showing Manhattan from about midtown down. Some light chipping along the edges, not infringing upon the map itself.

New York: n.p., 1867. Pamphlet. Very Good+. Sewn pamphlet, printed yellow wraps; pp. 11, [1], plus facsimile of handwritten ledger (folding) at rear. Closed tear along rear joint (about 1" long); some light creasing at corners; VG+, a nice, clean example of this scarce pamphlet. Lists incorporators, as well as the rules and regulations of the charter.

New York, 1904-c.1950s. Hardcover. Very Good+. Collection of 182 b/w or sepia photographs (silver prints); ranging in size from about 7x9 to 11x14 inches; mounted in two albums, or loose, sometimes with heavy cardstock mount or paper backing (from having been removed from an album, see below); offers exteriors views of the hotel from construction to completion, and interior views of private and public rooms in the hotel, from its construction in 1904 to a later remodel in perhaps 1935 (the hotel was remodeled again in 1949, but these images don't seem to extend that late -- there are just a few images showing the Sheraton-Astor, when it was briefly bought and renamed in 1954). The collection breaks down as follows: Large album of 42 mounted photographs from around the newly-opened hotel, circa 1904, almost all credited in mount and negative to Joseph Byron of New York, a few to Drucker & Co. (half morocco oblong folio; lacking front board, several photographs removed ) /// Large album of 33… Read More

late-18th and early-19th centuries. Very Good. Assortment of 15 engraved and etched plates, some heightened in white, including maps, landscapes, landmarks, portraits and scenes, relevant to New York. Average size is about 7-by-9 inches, pulled from unidentified sources. Includes Champlain's attack on the Iroquois fort and a facsimile of his map of 1632, Gracie Mansion, a map of Burgoyne's Campaign, and more. Some light foxing and dust-soiling.

Hardcover. Good. 500 pages handwritten in original folio-sized, log book binding.

Lockport, New York, 1851. Ephemera. Near Fine. Single leaf, folded for mailing. Addressed to Hon. F. Follet, W. Dayton recommends Frederick F. Hoyer for office of Collector. A short note is added at the end, in another hand, "I concur with Judge Dayton in the above / J. S. Wood."