Rare books from Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB

New York: [Commandery of the State of New York], 1922. First edition. Three quarter morocco over red boards, four raised bands ruled in gilt, gilt titles; one volume matching cloth. A very good set with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedowns of most volumes, shadow of sticker on foot of most backstrips. spine ends and joints scuffed on most volumes, well bound, most circulars quite clean.. 8vo. The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, begun in Philadelphia in 1865, was modeled on the Society of the Cincinnati, and formed to protect the republic amid rumors of a plot to destroy the government after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Among its members were Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, and William McKinley. By 1899 it had over 8000 members which included nearly every officer of note. The New York Commandery was the second formed after… Read More

Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: excudunt Henricus et vidua Theodori Boom, Joannes & Aegidius Janssonii a Waesberge, Gerhardus Borstius, Abraham a Someren, Joannes Wolters; Et Ultrajecti : Guiljemus vande Water, 1698. Editio nova. Later vellum over marbled paper-covered boards, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Vellum soiled, boards rubbed, a few tears and splits to the vellum, small shallow chip to the head of the spine on one volume, shadows of spine labels, some edge wear, small institutional book plate to front pastedowns, leaves with some scattered staining and soiling, often at the rear of the volumes, one volume with minor marginal worming, partially repaired, two leaves at rear of one volume reattached, occasional repair, one leaf with marginal tear, leaves mostly clean, folding maps are without tears but some minor soiling or staining, one plate creased, one with extra fold, a few with dampstain to edges, one scuffed at top and repaired on verso, overall a very good set of this important… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. First edition printed in color. Publisher's red pictorial cloth decorated in black and gilt. Very good copies, boards slightly scuffed and bumped, Vol. II rejointed, recased, and endpapers renewed, plates and text bright.. viii, 264 pp; viii, 266 pp. Illus. with 180 chromolithograph plates (incl. 3 maps, 1 folding) many with multiple images. Sm. 4to. The classic work on the American Indian covering all aspects of their lives with the images taken from the close to 600 paintings Catlin produced while visiting nearly fifty tribes. First published in 1841, this is the first edition to have the plates printed in color (though a few hand-colored copies were produced earlier). "One of the most original, authentic, and popular works on the subject. Humboldt characterizes the author as 'one of the most admirable observers of manners who ever lived among the aborigines of America'," (Sabin). Howes C241. Lipperheide 1618. Pilling 689. See Sabin 11537 (1866). Streeter Sale 4277… Read More

Boston: Printed for S. Gerrish in Cornhill, 1726. First edition. Rebacked to style, brown morocco, boards ruled in gilt with floral corners, four raised bands, spine decorated and titled in gilt. A very good copy in a fine binding, new endpapers, foxing throughout, intermittent marginal wear, leaf Ee2 slightly defective with minute loss of text, latin inscription with owner's name on first blank, same owner's name on title with "by Cotton Mather" inked below title, occassional margin pencil lines.. [1 lv], iv, 10, 207, [3] pp, blank. 12mo. Includes the introduction by Increase Mather, postscript & errata, and the table of contents (and the last blank lacking in Church's copy). "An important exposition of the tenants of congregationalism that carefully reaffirms the principles of the Cambridge Platform. Mather actually finished the work in 1701 according to his Diary, stating that it would 'have a mighty Tendency to praeserve our Discipline. and procure a beauty to the Exercise of it in all… Read More

Madrid: En la Imprenta Real de la Gazeta, 1786. First edition. 18th-century mottled sheep decorated in gilt with morocco lettering pieces, edges stained red. Sizes not uniform; some dampstaining, mainly to the edges of the first and last two dozen leaves in volume 1 and the top edge in volume 2, minor worming in blank margins, 19th-century institutional stamp on first text page in each volume; unidentified branded ownership mark on top edges, otherwise leaves quite bright.. [34], 668, [168]; [10], 748, [1] pp., including half-titles and final errata leaf in Volume 2. Folio. Tomo 1. La noticia de los escritores rabinos españoles desde la epoca conocida de su literatura hasta el presente; Tomo 2. La noticia de los escritores gentiles españoles, y la de los christianos hasta fines del siglo XIII de la iglesia. An important work by Rodriguez de Castro (1739-1799) which contains much material usually not found elsewhere. Volume 1 covers Iberian Rabbinic authors writing in Spanish, Hebrew, or any other… Read More

[Philadelphia]: Published by F. Bouclet, 1861. First edition. A very good copy, small, faint stain on left margin, minor edge wear with a few tiny tears, colors vibrant.. Sheet size: 27 x 21 (68 x 53 cm); image size: 24 1/2 x 18 3/4 (62 x 47.5 cm). Chromolithograph on wove paper. A large, patriotic, and symbolic print issued around the time of Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration containing a central allegorical scene surrounded by oval portraits of the first sixteen presidents of the United States, with George Washington at the top and a beardless Abraham Lincoln at the bottom which may explain why, though now a considered one of the most beautiful prints of the images of American Presidents, it did not sell, as the new president was sporting a beard, and not clean-shaven as he was when Matthew Brady took this image on February 27, 1860, the day of his speech at Cooper Union in New York. The print "both commemorates Lincoln's election and recognizes the challenges and opportunities facing the 16th… Read More

[Tacubaya], 1853. First edition. Loose leaves disbound from a later made-up volume. Overall very good.. [77 pp.] on 43 leaves, some folded. Folio. Beginning on June 1, 1853, shortly after Santa Anna's return to Mexico as dictator, and ending December 29, 1853, just two weeks after he extended his rule indefinitely and had himself given the title of "most serene highness," these documents cover a period of three leaders in the Ministry of War and Navy: Jose Maria Tornel y Mendivil, Juan Suárez y Navarro, and Lino J. Alcorta; all prominent santannistas. Eight are issued by Tornel, the most federalist of Santa Anna's advisors, who fell ill and died in September 1853; ten are issued by Juan Suárez y Navarro, chief administrator of the Ministry of War -the first document noting "por enfermedad de su S. E., J. Suarez Navarro" on September 10th- who coveted the position as Minster of War and Navy, but broke with Santa Anna just three weeks later when Lino J. Alcorta was appointed minister in his stead,… Read More

[Lima]: En la Imprenta nueva de los Niños huerphanos, por P. Gonzales, 1759. First edition. Contemporary brown calf, embossed boards. A good copy; tissue repairs to backstrip, boards edge worn and moderately scuffed, bookplate of Félix Francisco Martín y Herrera on front pastedown, lacking front endpaper, inked notations on front blank, reattached, and rear endpaper, joint cracked, title page worn and torn at inner margin, with two small stains affecting, but not obscuring the text, repaired tears on corners of last page of index, marginal dampstains, mainly to the upper corners, and fingersoilings, a few wormholes, but text is quite good.. [2] leaves, 84 pp., [5 pp. indice], blank. Sm. 4to. Rare first edition of coinage ordinances for the mint in Lima, modeled on Mexico's, published just four years earlier, but adapted to the needs of Lima. See Manuel Moreyra: "Apuntes sobre la historia de la moneda colonial en el peru," republished in La moneda colonial en el Perú (1980). Both the later 1788… Read More

Madrid: En la Imprenta Real de la Gazeta, 1784. First edition. Contemporary mottled calf, compartments decorated in gilt, red morocco spine label titled in gilt, sewn in green silk ribbon, marbled endpapers. A very good copy, head band worn with a small chip and a tiny split at the joint, owner's bookplate and booksellers engraved plate on front pastedown, contents quite bright and clean.. 104, 91, 135, 144, [4], 74 pp. 4to. Five volumes bound in one. Parts 1, 2, 3 set in condensed type; parts 4 and 5 in expanded type. Royal decrees from Charles III and instructions, decisions, and regulations issued by the Consejo en el Extraordinario and its president, the Conde de Aranda (and others)--concerning the expulsion of the Jesuits. "These collections contain the documents relative to the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Spanish dominions, and the confiscation of their property, including the names of the colleges and houses of the order, the application of the confiscated property, &c. A complete… Read More

Madrid: n.p., 1783. First edition. Full contemporary cat's paw vellum. Boards worn with some loss to the tail of the spine hinges split though firm, dampstained along bottom edge, some ink smudges especially to edges of frontispiece, section titles in manuscript on each page, otherwise contents quite sharp, and overall about very good.. [2 lvs], xlvi, 214 pp. Illus. with an engraving by Joaquin Fabregat of the Spanish arms and depicting mining implements. Folio. Signed in ink with Galvez' paraph under his printed name. First edition of this "rare and valuable compendium of the old mining laws and mineral customs, printed only for the use of the parties concerned," (Sabin) and meant to govern the workings of silver mining in New Spain. Galvez was a special Minister of the Indies who was instructed to reform the mining laws of Mexico. In this work, which could only be owned by Spanish-born miners, he not only transcribed all the royal decrees concerning mining in New Spain but also provided… Read More

Madrid: Antonio Balbas, 1756. Segunda edicion. Full contemporary vellum with manuscript titles on spines, ties. Very good copies, some minor wear and rubbing at the edges, slight loss top corner of volume III, vellum soiled, occasional but minor dampstain at the edge, title leaves repaired at lower fore corners, private library stamp of owner on endpapers, occasional tick mark in text.. [6], 299; [3], 298; [3], 302; [2], 364 leaves. Illus. with title page vignettes of the royal coat of arms of Charles II by Juan de la Peña. Folio. "Initiated by order of the Council of the Indies in 1624, [Recopilacion de leyes de los reynos de las Indias] tried to systematize laws promulgated since Columbus's exploration of the New World. Antonio de León Pinelo was the principal author of the work, but Juan de Solórzano Pereira's contribution in settling the final form of the collection also deserves recognition. The draft was completed in 1636, but several successive financial crises prevented its publication… Read More

México: Bindu Impresion de Arte, 2019. First edition. Aluminum boards with inset photo illustration, green cloth spine, in illuminated electronic translucent clamshell display case. A fine copy. As new.. 31 leaves. Illus. with 21 b/w photos of which 7 are double page panoramas, one inset kodachrome slide, five colored translucent sheets, one white lace paper leaf. 20.4 x 22.3 cm. Artists' book. Signed by the author. 1 of 12 copies. Photographs by Lorena Velazquez. Text by Francisco Segovia. Translation by Fionn Petch. Printed by Carme Yael Diaz, Carolina M. Escobar y Francisco Lara on Hahnemuhle 200 gr. paper. Green translucent illuminated box stamped in red made by Corona Display. Velazquez's briliant creation - a mix of metal and lace paper, photographs and translucent papers, illuminated case- play with the shifting perspective of reality that matches and incorporates Segovia's powerful poem of the coordinates that define our life, our relation to the world, and our death, the three axis that… Read More

Weimar: Verlegt von dem Gebr. Hoffmann, 1821. First edition. Contemporary three quarter calf over marbled boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy, rebacked to style, boards worn, small dimple at fore edge,minor foxing, one inner margin offset,. [6], xviii, [4], 91, [6], 96-168; 176; 240, [1] pp. Illus. with 20 copper-engraved, aquatint plates (19 boldly colored on thick wove paper, 4 are double-page, one with tissue guard), 6 copper-engraved maps (5 folding), and 2 folding tables. 4to. The Von Schrickell copy, listed on the subscriber's list as one of 88 copies of Examplare 3. Most likely a variant as page thickness measures 5.25 cm rather than 7 cm as called for by Forbes. All but one image highly and brightly colored. Subscriber list inserted after the preliminaries in Vol. 1 as in the Peabody-Essex copy. "This second Russian expedition into the Pacific for scientific exploration, sponsored by Count Romanzoff, was commanded by Lieutenant Kotzebue, and also included the famous artist Ludovik… Read More

1891. 44 pp. In the last decade of the 19th century Lily Braun, feminist and writer, was beginning her research on Weimar in Goethe's era and her family's relationship to Goethe and Napoleon, which would become her book about her grandmother, "Im Schatten der Titanen" (1908). But in 1891, the time of the letters written to her by her uncle, Carl von Gersdorff, she was just beginning to uncover the relationship between her great uncle, Ernst Christian August von Gersdorff (1781-1852), Minister of State for Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach from 1819 to 1848 and a participant in the Vienna Congress, and Goethe. The first set of manuscripts, in Ernst Christian August von Gersdorff's hand, are a long letter to his daughter, and some spiritual notes. The second set of manuscripts, in Carl von Gersdorff's hand, are copies of private letters between Goethe and Ernst August von Gersdorff, from 1822 and 1830; and the last set of manuscripts, are letters from Carl von Gersdorff to Lily Braun concerning this material.… Read More

Most items very good but see details for thorough description of condition.. Eugene Golomshtok (born Eugenii Alexandrovich Golomshtok, Russia, 1897-1950) was a Russian émigré anthropologist, photographer, and authority on permafrost. He studied archaeology with Bruno Adler in Russia before he received his MA from University of California at Berkeley in 1923, where he was also the photographer of Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, studied under Speck at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in the late 1920 where is he received his Ph.D. in 1935. In 1933 he was one of a few young anthropologists who were allowed to travel and study in Leningrad, and was part of a joint team of the University of Pennsylvania and the State Academy for the History of Material Culture, Leningrad excavating Esske-Kermen, one of the 'cave cities' in the Crimea which had been identified with Douros, the old capital of the Goths. He taught courses in the Anthropology and Archaeology of Siberia at Columbia University.… Read More