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Various: Various, 1755. Bound volume containing six sermons dated from 1755 to 1788: I. Lyman, Joseph. A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency James Bowdoin, Esq., Governour; His Honour Thomas Cushing, Esq., Lieutenant-Governour...of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, May 30, 1787, Being the Day of General Election. Boston: Adams and Nourse, 1787, 61 pages, front cover used as pastedown for the volume, with some old insect damage to pastedown and margins of first two leaves. II. Cumings, Henry. A Sermon Preached in Billerica, on the 23rd of November, 1775, Being the Day appointed by Civil Authority, for a Public Thanksgiving Throughout the Province of Massachusetts-Bay. Worcester, Massachusetts-Bay: I. Thomas, 1775. 29 pages. Final two leaves dampstained but very readable, next-to-last leaf has margin chip. III. Morrill, Isaac. The Soldier exhorted to Courage in the Service of his King and Country, from a Sense of God and Religion: in a Sermon Preach'd at Wilmington, April 3, 1755,… Read More

Albany, New York: J. Newlands, P. Sim et al, Printed By Charles R. Webster, 1787. Published at Albany, NY, 1787. Evans 25030, exceptionally rare. Plain gray softcover, stitched binding, 40 pages. Includes A Scheme of Prayer, beginning at page 36. Covers worn, creased and lightly chipped, probably restitched long ago, contents age-toned but clean with some minor edge chipping and minor dampstaining to upper edges of final few pages, name [Lucy Burn or Burk?] inside front cover.. Soft Cover. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London: W. Bowyer, 1730. First edition [1730]. One of 1500 copies printed. Includes on the verso of the title page the armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Brand, Knight, "Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod and Gentleman Usher Daily Wait to His Majesty Anno 1735". Large engraving on page 288, and engravings on chapter titles and tailpieces. Early to mid 19th century binding in brown leather with reddish brown spine label, raised spine bands, 21 cm (8 inches) tall, xxiv, 686 pages. Covers rubbed and lightly scuffed with some darkening to the leather, crack to lower end of front joint, covers well attached, text block sound, pages clean with only occasional light foxing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

St. Petersburg, Russia: Fiat et al, 1913. In Russian. Complete run, 90 numbers in 72 issues, 1913-1917. Illustrated throughout, including tipped-in color plates. In original illustrated covers except for 1915 (no. 25-48) which is bound without covers in a contemporary cloth binding. First plate of no. 8 absent. Condition ranges from fair to good, several issues with spine neatly strengthened with paper tape, some covers detached but present, a few issues with pages detached but present, general edgewear. This periodical documents the lost masterpieces of Russian architecture and applied arts as well as the lost world of pre-revolutionary high society. The first ten issues were printed in very limited numbers and are particularly scarce. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Lipsiae: Imprimebat Iohannes Steinman, 1584. In Latin. Parts III and IV in one volume. Well preserved book on Lutheran theology and doctrine, controversial literature published during the Protestant Reformation. Each part has a title page. Part III includes: 1. De lege Diuina; 2. De peccato; 3. De libero arbitrio; 4. De Iustificatione; 5. De bonis operibus. Part IV includes: Continens Doctrinam de Ecclesia, Sacramentis, Poenitentia, Invocatione, cruce, libertate Christiana, magistratu politico & coniugio. Full decoratively stamped vellum or pigskin with M E C and 1584 stamped on the front cover, raised spine bands, 8.25 inches tall and aout 7 inches wide. [viii], 420, [6], 1-545, [3]. Includes ten woodcuts (two of them on colophons) and numerous decorative woodcut initials, tailpieces and other printer's embellishments There is also a printed appeal to Augustinus [Augustine of Hippo] in Latin mounted on the front pastedown. Covers have some age-darkening, especially to the spine, very minor… Read More

Shanghai, China: The Commercial Press Ltd, 1926. Rare original softcover book describing the products made and sold by The Commercial Press Ltd of Shanghai, China for the Sesquicentennial World's Fair Exposition in Philadelphia in 1926. In English. Softcover with brown silk covers printed in gilt, stitched along one edge, double folded paper, pages decoratively bordered in red, one folding plate of the company's organizational chart. Measures about 8 inches tall and contains 56 pages plus a 15 page section of black and white photos showing art prints and similar products. Text pages include an introduction to the company, a listing of the many exceptional publications printed by the company in a myriad of languages, plus several pages of lab and other equipment they sold, illustrated with engravings, most noteworthy being the first commercially produced Chinese language typewriter. This was a revolutionary product developed in association with inventors Zhou Houkun and Shu Zhendong. Very good… Read More

Hungary: N.P., 1807. In Latin. Laws passed by the Hungarian Assembly of 1807, a tumultous time in this region, with the Imperial Seal of Francis II of the Holy Roman Empire, later Francis I of Austria. Although the transition was made in 1806, this is still signed as Franciscus II. There is an additional signature below the seal, Comes Josephus Erdody [?]. Title page includes an additional inscription by Reverendo Petro Klobuviczky. Full brown leather with decorative borders, 13.5 inches tall, [2], 32 pages. Covers worn with some worming to the covers, hinges good but lower of the two binder's cords has separated, endpapers age-toned with a modern note about the identity of Franz II neatly written at the bottom of the rear endpaper, pages very clean. . Hard Cover. Good. Folio - 12" - 15" Tall.

New Haven, CT: Manuscript Notes, 1828. Series of handwritten notes by an unknown student of a Materia Medica course taught at Yale University by Professor Eli Ives (1779-1861). Ives was one of the originators of the Yale School of Medicine, one of the first five professors, and chaired the Materia and Medica and Botany until 1829. The notes consist of about 400 pages (about 200 written on both sides) on six long thin stitched pads about 8 inches tall and 3.25 inches wide, mostly from 1828-29 but one part dated 1824. Generally good condition with just a few partial leaves either separated from or at the top of the pads. The notes describe properties and uses of mainly botanicals and some other substances (ether, cobwebs, skunk oil, petroleum etc.), and the first section alone includes notes on more than forty medicines. We purchased it with a piece of white fabric tape around the grouping, fastened with a straight pin as pictured.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" -… Read More

London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1932. First edition, 1932. Great association copy with a handwritten inscription by Lady Ottoline Morrell to her half-brother, William Arthur, Sixth Duke of Portland, with his armorial bookplate inside the front cover. Lady Ottoline was a great patron of literature and frequently hosted the Bloomsbury group, including Virginia Woolf, and developed a stormy relationship with her. In her memoirs, Lady Ottoline said: "She seemed to feel certain of her own eminence. It is true, but it is rather crushing, for I feel she is very contemptuous of other people. When I stretched out a hand to feel another woman, I found only a very lovely, clear intellect." Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, no dustjacket. Some modest shelfwear, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages. The inscription on the front free endpaper reads: "From Ottoline to my loved Brother" dated Dec 28 1932 (looks like 1922 but that is before the book was… Read More

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. First edition available to the public, 1845. Five volumes, lacks the atlas. Publisher's original cloth, five imposing volumes with page size approximately 11" x 7", some volumes with a large number of unopened page edges. Includes all the steel plate engravings and maps called for in the five volumes of text, half-titles included in each volume. Dark brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and gilt vignettes of eagle, shield and ship on covers and woman with map and ship on spine, additional cover decoration in blind, edges untrimmed. Good to very good condition with expected rubbing to covers, some spine chipping and wearthrough to corners, good hinges sound text blocks, lightly age-toned but clean pages with some occasional light foxing, modest semi-circular transparent stains to far outer margins of a few plates (images not affected), top margins of last 50 or so pages in volume III have transparent tide marks that do not affect printed areas,… Read More

London: Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson; J. And P. Knapton et al, 1754. The sixth edition, Two hefty volumes, 1754 and 1755. Includes 132 plates, maps and plans, with 70 in the first volume (30 folding) and 62 in the second volume (42 folding). Massive set, the books nearly 17 inches tall, rebound late 20th century (likely 1980s), three quarter dark brown thin leather over lighter brown cloth, dual spine labels in tan and black, raised spine bands bordered in gilt with gilt compartment decorations, all edges tinted yellow, renewed marbled endpapers, title pages in red and black, a few vignette engravings in the text. Volume I: xx, [8], 1-758 plus plates; Volume II: [3], 4-838, [14]. Externally very good with a very minor non-structural surface crack to the top 4 inches of the front joint of volume I, hinges good, text blocks sound. Some professional repairs, likely done when rebound, with repaired fold to large folding frontis plate in first volume, minor repairs to first title page, repairs to… Read More

New York: Samuel Stansbury and Co, 1805. Poor condition but with important folding map in good to very good condition. First American edition, part of a 25 volume series of Universal History. First published in English, the text shows a distinctive British attitude towards the United States shortly after the Revolution. This volume is devoted to the known portions of the Western Hemistphere and features a large folding map titled America (approximately 17.5 x 13 inches, engraved by Scoles and printed by Reynolds. The map features the eastern United States and Canada and identifies states and territories, cities, settlements and forts, and Native American tribes. It also includes the short-lived areas known as Morgania located west of the Mississippi river and Franklinia in eastern Tennasee [Tennesee]. The map is age-toned and has a three inch closed tear extending from the binding stub and an inch closed tear along one fold line, a couple of pinholes at intersecting folds. The book itself is fair to… Read More

Hartford, CT: N.P., 1877. First edition, 1877. In a move unthought of for women of their time, the author and her sister Abby Hadassah Smith sued the town of Glastonbury, Connecticut when it attempted to levy a tax directed at single and sidowed women. The sisters argued that because they could not vote, this represented taxation without representation. The courts did not decide in their favor and the town auctioned off their cows to pay the debt. Softcover, 94 pages, frontis woodcut of Abby and the cows. Fair to good with covers chipped with some staining and a crease to the front cover, rear cover detached, binding sound, some old dampstains to few outer margins, a few pages with darkened top margins, pages otherwise clean and unmarked. The author Julia Evelina Smith is best known for publishing the first translation of the Bible by a woman, in 1876, and an advertisement for this Bible is printed inside the front cover. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Richard Phillips, 1802. Twenty five (25) volumes (complete) published from 1802 to 1804, printed by various printers, apparently issued as separate volumes or small sets. Petite set in uniform period bindings of speckled calf leather with red spine label and spine decorated with gilt ruled compartments decorated with three sailing ships and what appears to be an eagle design in the fourth, speckled edges, frontis plate and series title page in each volume in addition to title page for each volume, publisher's ads at the rear of some volumes, books approximately 5.75 inches tall. Folding maps in volume I [2], 3, 5, 11, 13, 14, 19, 23. 24 First map in volume 1 has a closed tear with no paper loss, same with the maps in volume 11 and 23. Series title page in volume IX has a closed tear to the bottom which has been stitched back into place. Otherwise a remarkably well kept set that has been in the same family likely since first published, and which has seen little apparent use. Only light… Read More

Brooklyn, NY: Press of Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1886. Original brochure and program for the Brooklyn Cyclorama, one of four such 360 degree continuous panorama paintings of the Battle of Gettysburg - Pickett's Charge that were on display in the United States beginning in the 1880s. The brochure includes a folding diagram of the cyclorama, a battle map, biography of the painter, explanation of the painting, and historical information about the Battle of Gettysburg including officers present from Brooklyn, Long Island and New York Regiments and a roster of the Federal Army engaged there, all illustrated with engravings. Printed softcover with an engraving by Philippoteaux, rear cover engraving of General W. S. Hancock and Staff, 26 pages plus six page roster. Very good condition with only light shelf rubbing, sound binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. The Brooklyn Cyclorama was the last of the four original Gettysburg paintings to be completed. It opened in October of 1886 and closed in… Read More