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Philadelphia: J.J. Allen's Sons, 1886. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 24pp; three engraved illustrations. "Composed of bones, blood & meat, rendered highly soluble." Bound in pictorial wrappers. 5.75" x 3.5" This booklet tells us why Quaker City Phosphate is the best and the cheapest, how to use it on various farm crops, the reports of leading chemists, and dozens of testimonials from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York.

London: Henry S. King & Co, 1875. First Edition. Morocco. Fine. pp: viii, 278. Bound in green morocco, ribbed spine with gilt lettering, title and Reg. Schol. Ardmach gilt-stamped on cover, yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. 6.75" x 4.25" School Prize Binding from the Royal School at Armargh, Ireland, inscribed on the blank flyleaf: "Mervyn Le Ban Kennedy / Greek Prose Prize / Sixth Form / presented by E.V. Forstall / R.S.A. / Christmas 1875." [With the first-edition point, the first word on page 125 is misspelled "Behled.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1908. First edition thus. Original Cloth. Very Good. 30pp. Bookplate of the Essex Institute with a note that this book was presented to them in March, 1908. 5.75" x 4.75" Details the assemblage and planting of underwater mines as well as protective measures against them.

Philadelphia: American Iron and Steel Association, 1897. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 43pp. Printed green wrappers. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and lacking back cover. 8.5" x 5.5" Addresses the history of tariff legislation in the US, the duties on iron and steel, the drawback provision, Bessemer pig-iron production, &c.

Philadelphia: American Iron and Steel Ass'n, 1885. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 43pp. Printed blue wrappers; removed from a nonce volume, back cover gone; spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.5

Philadelphia: American Iron & Steel Ass'n, 1893. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 16pp. Printed green wrappers. Neatly removed from a nonce volume; back cover gone. 8.5" x 5.5" Swank was General Manager of the American Iron & Steel Association.

London: Aeneis tabvlis Incidit Johannes Pine, 1737. First edition thus. Tooled morocco. Very Good. Two volumes, octavo. pp: (32), 264, (2) + (24), 191, (15). All text and illustrations engraved exquisitely on copper by John Pine. Impressive lists of subscribers in both volumes. Bound in full black morocco by Zaehnsdorf, elaborately gilt-tooled spines, four corners of upper and lower boards, turn-ins, gilt-patterned endpapers, top edges gilt. Internally fine. Front joints of both volumes just started at top. 9" x 5.25". An impressive set. Notes from OCLC: "First edition, first issue, from the Cambridge octavo of 1701. (See references below.)./ Illustrations and text printed from engraved copper plates./ "Figvrarvm Explicatio": Vol. II, p. [193-205]." Ours is the first edition, second issue, with "potest" in the medallion on page 108 of Volume II. [PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 620: "This edition of Horace was printed wholly from copper plates engraved by John Pine. The text was first set in type, and… Read More

London: Harding, Mayor & Lepard, 1824. Hardcover. Very Good. 338pp; engraved frontispiece and pictorial title-page. Bound in black morocco, raised spine bands with gilt title, gilt-decorated turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; front board detached and present. 6.5" x 4" Text in Latin, and in a pleasant typeface.

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1846. Hardcover. Very Good. 319pp. Pencilled notes in English on several pages. Bound in black morocco with all-over blind-stamped decorations, gilt spine title. 5.75" x 3.75" Text in Latin.