A THURBER GARLAND by Thurber, James - 1955

New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1906 Bound in pictorial gilt decorated green cloth over boards. Thick 4to. (7.5"x10"). The First American Edition. Illustrated with Fifty tissue-guarded, tipped-in colour plates and additional monochrome motifs and decorations by Arthur Rackham. A bit of rubbing to head and tailpieces,the mildest hand soiling to covers,usual edge chipping and/or short tears and/or wrinkling to some tissue guards, else a Fine, bright, exquisitely crisp copy of this most desireable rendering of Barrie's timeless story.

Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana Apud Balthasarem Moretum et Viduam Ioannis Moreti et Io. Meursium, first edition., 1623. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine engraved title with globe, cherubs & gods, second engraved showing angry men with torches & axes and a hydra monsteer by Cornelis Galle (1576-1650) after Rubens + 44 full-page copperplates by Collart and others + 55 nice initials with figural & anima. Three Volumes in Two folios. Full vellum with yapp edges and old ink titles to spines (Vol.I-II with vellum repair to split front hinge of spine, both Vols lack ties, some marks but mostly well-preserved, clean vellum). Vol.I half title + 1st engraved title +[32]pp prelims +409(recte 411)pp +[1]p blank; Vol.II half title +415-707 +[1]p cherubim & motto +[113]pp index with privilege at end + colophon dated 1623 + Plantin printer's device to last leaf. Vol.III half title + 2nd engraved title +[4]pp prelims +678pp + [107]pp index + colophon dated 1623 + printer's device to last leaf. Some page mis-numbering,… Read More

1873 1ed Races of Mankind Eskimos INDIANS Navajo Japan China Africa Illustrated
Robert Brown's "Races of Mankind" is a late 19th-century masterpiece of descriptions of the people of the world. First published in 1873, this book covers people groups from China, Burma, Japan, India, Polynesia, South Africa, Peru, and America – most notably Eskimos and Native American Indian tribes such as:
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Mohicans
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Comanche
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Apache
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Navajo
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Seminoles
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Choctaws
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Indians of California
Item number: #13322
Price: $950
BROWN, Robert
Races of Mankind
London; Paris; New York: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, [1873-1875]. 1st edition

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Collation: Complete with all pages; 4 volumes
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Vol. 1 – viii, 320
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Vol. 2 – viii, 320
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Vol. 3 – viii, 320
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Vol. 4 – viii, 320
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More than 500 illustrations!
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight & secure
· Size: ~10.5in X 7.75in (26.5cm x 19.5cm)
· Rare and… Read More

Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Subtitle: A COMPENDIUM OF A HALF CENTURY OF PRINCETON WIT AND HUMOR, IF ANY, IN PROSE, PICTURE AND POETRY. Limited to 1000 copies, 4to, black tight-weave linen, gilt titles in scarce pictorial dustjacket, which is moderately worn, book and internals almost as new. The humor annual was ultimately disbanded in 1961, after a brief aborted efforts by a student editorto transform it into a publication of serious articles and fiction. (NYTimes articles laid-in).

1849 British China Opium War Japanese China Sea Battle Siege Cannon Illustrated
A rare, 19th century Japanese woodblock print of "Kaigai Shinwa Shūi". Kaigai Shinwa Shūi is a semi historical text of the Japnaese view of the Opium War between China and Britain based on actual events with embellishments to appeal to a broad audience in Japan. The embellishments also depict the fear of foreigners from japan's isolation.
This rare text is written in a column format with furigana for easier reading and includes illustrations of Chinese warriors, burning of British ships and opium, map, cannons, weapons, ships, and much more!

Item number: #18547
Price: $950
Mineta Fuko
New Chats on Overseas, continued (kaigai shinwa shūi ni) 海外新話拾遺二（かいがいしんわしゅういに）
[Edo: Kaei 2, 1849]

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· Collation: 5 volumes
o Illustrated throughout
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single plate and text wanting in volume 5
· References:
o Iwanami, Kokusho So Mokuroku 16773
o Waseda University… Read More

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2002.. Edition of 10. 11 x 16.5" with three section compound binding. Hand colored silk-screen prints with collage. This book's pages are composed of portraits of the fifteen birds listed by the state of Maine as Threatened or Endangered.

Nattali and Bond. London. No Date.,Circa 1850. THREE VOLUMES. Tall 8vo (10.2 x 6.6 inches). Text and plates taken from the Ninth edition. Complete set of this famous trilogy, with 80 fine hand-coloured, full page, aquatint plates, the colouring still strong and bright, by Thomas Rowlandson. Some minor spots of foxing to a few leaves in each volume but generally clean and bright copies in the scarce original publisher's brown cloth bindings, with gilt lettering and decoration on spines. Decorative blind stamped panels on boards. Original yellow coated endpapers. Previous owners bookplates to front paste downe endpapers. Some rubbing to top and tail of spines and fore-edges, and a couple of the hinges with neatly repaired splits (about 1.5 inches) but generally these are very good examples. Slight uniform fading to spines but overall a very attractive set of this classic work with Rowlandson's humourous plates. Uncommon in the publishers original decorative cloth bindings.:

Macmillan & Co. New York. 1889. New edition. 12mo. (7.5 x 5.2 inches). xii, 192, 12 pp publishers catalogue. Also an extra gathering bound in so that pages 117 to 124 appear twice. One gathering slightly sprung. Publishers dark green cloth with gilt and black decorative band across the top of the front board and the top and bottom of the spine. Black decorative roll to the bottom of the front board. Title on gilt to the middle of the front board. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Rear board with blind stamped floral roll to the top and bottom. Floral decorative endpapers. Neat two line inscription to the front free endpaper. The rear endpapers have an early previous owner's name and address written in red crayon to the free endpaper and a few short lines to the pastedown. Cloth a bit rubbed to the edges and a couple of small marks to the boards but overall a very good copy. An uncommon and attractive nineteenth century edition, printed in New York by J. J. Little and Co. This 1889 new edition was… Read More

Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. London. 1846. FIRST MACLISE EDITION. 4to. (10.7 x 7.8 inches). Fully illustrated with frontis, decorative title page and 218 pages with decorative engraved borders and many with engraved vignettes inside the border, all by Daniel Maclise. A few small marks to a handful of pages but generally a very bright and clean copy throughout. Finely bound in nineteenth century full red morocco. Spine with double raised bands, each with a wide gilt line between them. Compartments ruled, lettered, and fully decorated in gilt. Both boards with double gilt ruled borders and decorative design within. Board edges bevelled. Marbled endpapers. Elaborate gauffered pages edges, gilt. Decorative gilt turn-ins. Armorial bookplate to the front paste down endpaper. Some rubbing and marking to the binding but overall a lovely copy of this beautiful book.

Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Subtitle: A COMPENDIUM OF A HALF CENTURY OF PRINCETON WIT AND HUMOR, IF ANY, IN PROSE, PICTURE AND POETRY. Limited to 1000 copies, 4to, black tight-weave linen, gilt titles in scarce pictorial dustjacket, which is moderately worn, book and internals almost as new. The humor annual was ultimately disbanded in 1961, after a brief aborted efforts by a student editorto transform it into a publication of serious articles and fiction. (NYTimes articles laid-in).