Recent Arrivals from Legacy Books II

Washington: GPO, 1916. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 16pp extract, illustrated with a full-page plate, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ending June 30, 1915. From the opening paragraph, "It is now the consensus of opinion of all informed ornithologists that the Eskimo curlew (Numenius… Read more about this item

Print. VG. No Binding. No date, circa 1900, sized about 9 x 12 inches, very sharp, clean, and bright, suitable for framing. Rochester, NY, ship-builder..

Nashville: Gospel Advocate Publishing Co., 1891. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo. 400pp, profusely illustrated with drawings, index, index of illustrations, brown pebbled cloth with gilt titles at spine, blue pastedowns and endpapers, moderate general wear and soiling, foxing and toning at pastedowns and endpapers, front inner hinge holding by cords, occasional light foxing at text, extremities worn thru, front… Read more about this item

NY: The Century Company, 1909. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo. 4pp story, printed in double columns, minor damp staining noted at some edges, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXVIII, #5, September, 1909. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

Print. VG. No Binding. No date, circa 1900, sized about 9 x 12 inches, very sharp, clean, and bright, suitable for framing. Subject, of Rochester, NY, was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served one term as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1935 to 1937..

Print. VG. No Binding. No date, circa 1900, sized about 9 x 12 inches, very sharp, clean, and bright, suitable for framing..

Kingsport: Privately Printed, 1932. Book. VG. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo. xiv, 364pp, index, illustrated with historical photographs, including a number of portraits in a section at rear of biographical sketches, blue cloth with gilt titles at spine, overall very bright and clean, with a very small spot of white out at very bottom edge of dedication page, a bump at… Read more about this item

Print. VG. No Binding. No date, circa 1900, sized about 9 x 12 inches, very sharp, clean, and bright, suitable for framing..

Washington: GPO, 1916. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 16pp extract, illustrated with a 13 full-page plates, including a folding ground plan, sized 12.5 x 13 inches, of the localities excavated up to 1914, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ending June 30, 1915. From the… Read more about this item

Print. VG. No Binding. No date, circa 1900, sized about 9 x 12 inches, very sharp, clean, and bright, suitable for framing. Includes 3 pages of biographical info.

NY: The Century Company, 1894. Print. Illus. by A. Castaigne. VG. No Binding. Sized 6.5 x 9.5 inches, very clean and bright, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XLVIII, No. 4, August, 1894..

NY: The Century Company, 1907. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo. 8pp article, printed in double columns, illustrated with 11 photographs by the author, water staining noted at page ends, final page-only was damaged and is here presented in reproduction, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXIII, #5, March, 1907. From the opening paragraph, "In… Read more about this item

Print. VG. No Binding. No date, circa 1900, sized about 9 x 12 inches, very sharp, clean, and bright, suitable for framing. Includes 2 pages of biographical info..

Print. VG. No Binding. No date, circa 1900, sized about 9 x 12 inches, very sharp, clean, and bright, suitable for framing. Includes 3 pages of biographical info..

NY: Wayte Raymond, Inc., 1936. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 139pp, over 250 illustrations, stiff printed wraps, light general wear and soiling, toning noted at edges, minor water stain noted at spine edge, contents clean and bright. Scarce..

Print. VG. No Binding. No date, circa 1900, sized about 9 x 12 inches, very sharp, clean, and bright, suitable for framing..

NY: The Century Company, 1907. Book. Illus. by H. C. Merrill, Engraver. VG. No Binding. Sized about 6.5 x 9.5 inches, engraved by Merrill, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXIII, #4, February, 1907. The noted botanist and horticulturist..

Print. VG. No Binding. No date, circa 1900, sized about 9 x 12 inches, very sharp, clean, and bright, suitable for framing. Includes 8 pages of biographical info..

Alexandria: Self-Published, 1996. Book. Good. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. 4to. 42pp, appendices, illustrations, maps, genealogy chart, stiff printed plastic laminate with brass binder clips at spine, three strips of red masking tape noted along spine edge of rear cover, apparently holding binder clips stable, otherwise a fresh, bright, clean copy, unmarked inside and out. Ignatz Ruschman was born March 26,1821… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1949. Magazine. Illus. by George Leavens. Good. Soft cover. Folio. Entire issue, July, 1949, in original wraps, light general wear, lower corner dog-eared, spine thumbed at ends, else fully intact, no mailing label. Article is 7-pages, illustrated with color and black and white photos by Leavens. From the subtitle, "Fighting a really big fish in… Read more about this item