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London: John R. Priestly, 1837. Latin edition. Tooled calf. Very Good. pp: xxii, 592; engraved frontispiece from bust of Terence. Bound in polished tan calf, gilt-decorated spine with leather label, gilt-ruled boards, dentelles, marbled endpapers and edges. 7.25" x 4.25" Plays are in Latin, extensive Explanatory Notes in English. Provenance: Inscribed on the blank flyleaf to "Alfred C. Murton / Xenophon Prize / Thomas James Scale / Wellesley House / July 1846.

London: Geo. B. Whittaker [et al], 1826. Gift Edition. Calf & Boards. Very Good. pp: 664, 28 index. Bound in half black calf and marbled boards, gilt spine decorations and lettering, double gilt rules on covers, marbled endpapers and edges. 8.5" x 5.25" Text in Latin.

Leipzig: Caspar Fritsch, 1789. First edition thus. Calf & Boards. Very Good. Four volumes, thick octavo; engraved decoration on each title-page, 22[?] engraved headpieces in the text. Bound in half calf and sprinkled boards, ribbed spines with gilt devices, black and tan labels with gilt lettering, hand-marbled pastedown endpapers, all edges rubricated. Few old, small ownership markings and light foxing on endpapers. 8" x 5

Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort for Oregon Historical Society, 1950. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: (viii), 381; interleaved throughout with blank leaves for notes, not used. Bound in red cloth over heavy boards, gilt lettering on spine and cover; spine faded. 10.25" x 6.75" Contains 11,298 entries: Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, and Yukon, to 1948.

New York: Loyal Publication Society, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First editions of all 44 pamphlets, here compiled by the Society, and with a general title-page. Original printed wrappers are present for all but 12 numbers (probably excluded because those papers are short). Bound in half black leather and marbled boards, gilt lettering on the spine; upper portion of front joint started, and holding. 8.75" x 5.75". // Pamphlet titles [here abbreviated]: #1, Future of the Northwest, by Robert Dale Owen; #2, Echo from the Army; #3, Union Mass Meeting; #4, Three Voices--Soldier, Farmer, Poet; #5, Voices from the Army--Letters & Resolutions of Soldiers; #6, Northern True Men...Connecticut Soldiers...; #7, Speech of Major General Butler; #8, Separation--War without End; #9, The Venom and the Antidote; #10, Loyal Women; #11, Failure for the North; #12, Address to King Cotton; #13, How a Free People Conduct a Long War; #14, Preservation of the Union; #15, Discord in Secessia, Vulgarity of… Read More

Fort Augustus, Scotland: Williamson, 1900. First Edition. Original Boards. Very Good. Strip map in full color, image 27" x 7.5". Pictured are landmarks on shore along the Canal. Printed at The Hills Press, Sunderland. Tipped into a folder of red leatherette, gilt cover lettering. Pasted inside the cover is a leaf of descriptive text. 4.75" x 8.5" [WorldCat locates only the National Lib of Scotland holding, although U Wisconsin has a similar title with variant imprint.].

Birmingham: John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson in London, 1760. Tooled morocco. Very Good. pp: lxxii, (ii) Table of Contents, 390. Each part of the text has a separate half-title. Bound in old black morocco, elaborate gilt-tooled spine, borders, dentelles, all edges gilt, with later black and red leather labels. 9.75" x 6

Paris: E. Plon et Cie, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: xiii, (i), 404 with table of contents; plates and text illustrations throughout. Bound in half red morocco and marbled boards, panelled spine with gilt devices and lettering, double corner rules, top edges gilt, patterned endpapers. 11.5" x 8" Text in French. The author, Victor Eugène Geruzez (1840-1906), specialized in books on horses and hunting. "The contents of the book are divided into sections: 'Cavalry of Paris,' 'At the Bois de Boulogne,' 'At the Races,' and 'The Art of Falling from the Horse.' These satirical and witty observations highlight the transactions and tricks that surrounded acquiring a horse from a Parisian horse dealer. It takes a comical view of French society, the racing world, the horse show, and dressage. There are many drawings and caricatures of the equestrian world and horse racing. It contains reflections and drawings depicting Parisian society on horseback in the morning, afternoon, and evening. This… Read More

Washington DC: Printed at Congressional Globe Office, 1865. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 14pp. Broadsheet, folded to octavo, edges untrimmed. 9.5" x 6.25" Raymond urges constitutional measures to return the Confederate states to the Union.

London: Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, 1929. First UK edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 255pp. Bound in blue cloth, endpaper maps, in the scarce dust wrapper. 7.5" x 5

Washington DC: L.I.P. & B.A., 1912. First Edition. Fine. Display type surrounds a cartoon (7.25" x 12.25") that shows farm families in financial straits. A farmer is saying to his wife, "The factories closed, everybody is idle and penniliess! Soon there'll be no home market for our crops." Other areas of the cartoon show idle factories, empty boxcars, a mobbed crowd at the employment agency, a closed mine, long lines at the soup house, rundown cottages, sullen family members, etc. Overall size is 14" x 14", minor spot on date. Shrink-wrapped on slightly larger foam core. Chandlee was a Washington newspaperman, illustrator, and political pundit. Here, he defends the policies of Senator Boies Penrose (1860-1921), chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party, a partner in the Utah Copper Company, supporter of Taft over Theodore Roosevelt as the Republican nominee in the 1912 presidential campaign, etc.

Worcester, Mass: Worcester Steam Heating Co, 1885. First Edition. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. 8pp; two full-page engraved illustrations. Contains a description of the furnace and boiler, prices of various sizes, views of boilers in portable form and for brick setting, and a long list of parties using the Pentecost Heater. 9" x 5.75" Printed by O.B. Wood. [WorldCat does not record this title, and does find several holdings of two other publications by this company. Company is not in Romaine, American Trade Catalogs.].

New York: New Directions, 1926. [1949 edition]. Original Cloth. Good/Fair. pp: (xii), 273; frontispiece portrait, two plates. Bound in light blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover; In the original tan, pulp-paper dust jacket printed in blue, a two-inch piece gone from the shelfback, and tanning of the cloth and endpapers; prior owner's bookplate on front pastedown. 8.5" x 5.5" [Gallup, Ezra Pound Bibliography A27b: A reprint of PERSONAE (1926) with the addition of two appendices, indluding poems not previously collected and now added in 1949.].

(Washington): Blair & Rives, printers, 1840. First Edition. Removed. Very Good. 4pp, drop-title, neatly removed from a nonce volume. 9" x 5.75" Signed by some 150 residents of the State of Missouri, stating: "That many of us entertain a desire to emigrate to the Territory of Oregon, provided the obstacles which now render such removal inexpedient, should be removed by the legislation of Congress...." Seeking land grants for settlers in Oregon, the petitioners point out the difficulties of emigration, "...to exile ourselves from the land of our nativity...to encounter the toil and fatigue of traversing the long and wearisome distance...pilgrimage through a barren wilderness...climbing the mountain's brow, and stemming the current of mighty rivers...[not to mention]...Indian treachery and British insolence and domination...." [OCLC locates holdings at UCal-Berkeley, Yale, Missouri Hist Soc.

(Washington): Blair & Rives, Printers, 1840. First Edition. Removed. Very Good. 3pp, drop-title, neatly removed from a nonce volume. 9" x 5.5" The extended title says it all. Signed in type by 44 male residents of Indiana, meaning to attract settlers to the Oregon Territory and to ease the journey. [Eberstadt 138:581.].

NY: Wittemann Bros, 1880. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 16 panels of views from photo-lithographs in accordion-fold (leporello) format. Views include: Philadelphia, seen from West Philadelphia, identifying the Art Gallery and Main Hall Exhibitions; Independence Hall; Independence Chamber; Public Buildings; New Post Office; Masonic Temple; United States Mint; Chestnut Street; New Academy of Natural Sciences; Academy of Fine Arts; Horticultural Hall; Academy of Music; University of Pennsylvania; Girard College; Fairmount Water Works; Girard Avenue Bridge; Folded into a red cloth case, decorated in blind and gilt. 3.25" x 5

Philadelphia: Exhibition Committee, 1919. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. 32pp; occasional illus from photographs. The cover shows Betsy Ross making the stars and stripes; pencilled notes on cover. 9" x 6" Articles include: The Knights Templar Conclave; The Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce; Philadelphia--City of Homes; The World's Greatest Workshop; Philadelphia's Amusements; along with the list of about 70 exhibitors. [Not recorded in OCLC.].

Philadelphia: Printed for the Philobiblon Club at the Bird & Bull Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. pp: 38, (2) The Prynter to the Reader, printed on laid paper. Bound in white vellum and green patterned boards, gilt lettering on spine. 9.25" x 6". Mounted inside the cover is the small, printed book label of the original owner, Abel E. Berland, the noted Chicago collector of books & manuscripts, whose library fetched more than 14 million dollars at Christie's in 2001. This is #142 of 275 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press. Bound by Fritz Eberhardt and his wife, Trudi.

1925. Original photograph album. Very Good. Oblong, string-tied album of black cardstock leaves, 11" x 13", photographs mounted on 35pp, blanks at the rear. Bound in black, flexible boards with an embossed sailing ship and gilt lettering (Photo-Album) on the cover. Pasted in are 116 albumen and silver gelatin prints, ranging from small candids to 8 ½" x 10 ½" group portraits, a few fading, overall sharp and clean. Laid into the album are a Japanese news article, a small head-shot of an older gentleman, and a watercolor portrait (10" x 8 ¼") of a man's face. Most of the photographs in this album. circa 1895-1925, were taken in Mie-Ken (or "Mie prefecture"), part of the Kansai region on the main island of Honshu. The group and individual portraits reflect new social and economic developments and cultural norms that emerged during this period. Subjects are shown in either traditional Japanese garments or in Western dress. Group shots often depict people wearing both styles within the same picture.… Read More

Centennial, WY: Snowy Range Lodge, 1937. Original edition. Very Good. Vintage card with photos on both sides, showing Snowy Range Lodge and a mountain lake. Handwritten comments: "Was a sight to see - Was here - Snow - and I put my hands & feet in it." 3.5" x 5.5" Snowy Range Lodge dates back to the early 1900s, and is still in operation.