First American edition. An appealing copy of Conrad’s 2nd book, inspired by his experience as mate of the steamer Vidar. Appleton’s Town and Country Library series, No. 198. REFERENCES: Keating 6; Cagle A2(b)2. CONDITION: Very good, with early ownership inscription in ink at head of chapter one.
An unrecorded and splendidly illustrated trade catalog advertising sealing waxes for letters, packages, and bottles (champagne, etc.); sulfur wicks and powders for sterilizing wine barrels; and inks. The chromolithographic plates were produced by master printer Charles Verneau, the Parisian publisher of many famous posters, including most of the oeuvre.....
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A volume of French syntax from the library of George and Martha Washington’s granddaughter (and adopted daughter) Eleanore Parke “Nelly” Custis, with her signature, monograms, sketches, and a witty comment in the margin of one page. Nelly’s signature with conjoined initials reading “EPCustis” is on the front pastedown along.....
A scarce proposal for a new dry dock system, illustrated with a large and impressive lithograph, based on a drawing by Paul Hodge and entitled Proposed Plan of a Sectional Floating Dry Dock and Permanent Stone Basin, Connected With Bed and Sliding Way. The lithograph depicts a three-masted ship in.....
A scarce work, published for commercial purposes, on the history and chemistry of ink; the definition and etymology of the word ink; writing inks; writing instruments; the importance of good ink, and more. The plates illustrate writing samples from the "oldest Hieratic writing extant—about the 15th century B.C." to the.....
A scarce pamphlet offering practical advice on uterine and vaginal disorders, and promoting Davis’s Vaginal Syringes and Wafer Pour Les Femmes. Orin Davis M.D. (1823–1911) was a pathbreaking medical reformer who organized the very first class of female medical students in Rochester, New York, which included his wife. In 1854.....
An unusually handsome, wide-margined copy of this marvelous collection of views of early eighteenth-century Vienna. The series begins with a beautifully designed allegorical plate consisting of a panoramic view of the city in the form of a relief panel on a monument surmounted by an eagle, with two figures.....
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Ticknor and Fields published a series of extracts of Dickens’s works, as edited and read by the author on his 1867–1868 tour of America. Included in this volume are A Christmas Carol; Bardell and Pickwick; Doctor Marigold; Bardell and Pickwick [duplicate]; Nicholas Nickleby; Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn; David Copperfield;.....
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First Swedish edition of Douglass’s last book, exemplifying the author’s abiding international reputation long after the fight to end slavery in America had ended. It concludes with chapters mainly devoted to his role as Consul General to Haiti, and records his death on February 20, 1895, the year this edition.....
First edition of this play set in a mythical ancient Egypt. Alexander Dow (d. 1779) spent much of his life serving in the British army in India. According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature in 1768 Dow “joined the fashion for Oriental Tales with Tales....of the Inatulla of Dehli.....
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A pair of African shipwreck/captivity narratives, both published as part of no. 3, vol. II of the publisher's [New] Voyages and Travels (1819–1823), but also sometimes found as separate pamphlets or bound together, as here. “Dumont was wrecked in Oct. 1782, on the coast between Oran and Algiers. He was captured.....
A scarce jail cell catalogue by one of the world’s largest wire and iron works manufacturers. Established 1866, E. T. Barnum Wire and Iron Works of Detroit custom-made cells and cages in various sizes and numbers to meet a wide range of needs. This catalogue announces: “we make a......
First American edition, first issue. BAL 5211. CONDITION: Good, lightly soiled, two small ink spots on rear cover.
First American edition, first issue. BAL 5211.
Second edition of this important regimental history, first published in 1891, revised and corrected, with an appendix on the treatment of African American POWs. An account of the first regiment consisting entirely of free black volunteers from the North, and the most renowned of the African American units to fight.....
A delightful 1884 travel guide that includes chapters on Greenville, Mt Kineo, The Ascent of Mount Katahdin, Camping Out Advice, Game and Fish Laws, Lists of Hotels, Rail and Steamboat Routes, Table of Fares and more. The fine fold-out map by M. M.Tidd, dated 1884, is entitled Farrar’s Map of.....
Third and best edition. "One of the first published accounts of the gold discovery in book form "--Streeter. The first and second editions were published in 1848, and included only a small woodcut map. Included here is a larger folding map entitled “Map of the United States Mexico &c Showing.....
First edition. A work of didactic fiction chronicling the demise of a young atheist. It was evidently popular. Wright records four editions. Mary Anna Fox's only other recorded work is The Discontented Robins (1842). OCLC records eight copies. REFERENCES: Wright 999. CONDITION: Very good, early ownership inscription dated.....
An account of the founding and initial operation of the first hospital established in the English colonies, with a revealing autograph letter of transmittal and solicitation to one Thomas Worth signed by Hospital managers John Smith and John Reynell. Written by Franklin at the request of the Hospital trustees, the.....
Centennial edition. Limited to 41 copies, 26 being lettered copies bound in full calf. This copy letter “K.” With two evocative photographic illustrations by Larry Hayden, one illustrating Home Burial and the other After Apple Picking. The third illustration, which appears at the head of the colophon page, reproduces an inscribed.....
First limited edition, printed from the same plates as the trade edition in the same year. Limited to 350 copies signed by Frost; this copy #16. One of Frost’s earliest and most memorable books, including such classics as Fire and Ice, Nothing Gold Can Stay, and Stopping By Woods on.....
Archaeologist William Gell’s marvelous volume of hand-colored etchings and aquatints depicting “that part of the Troad, which is more particularly connected with the Iliad of Homer.” The introduction includes Gell’s account of his journey, and is followed by the plates and maps, each of which is accompanied by descriptive text.....
A powerful account of William Wilberforce’s introduction of the motion to immediately abolish the English slave trade in the British House of Commons, and a response to objections and counter-proposals, including “gradual abolition.” English Anglican priest, poet, and natural philosopher Thomas Gisborne (1758–1846) was a central figure in the.....
A scarce illustrated guide to the Cyclorama of the Battle of Vicksburg, for distribution at its ongoing exhibition at 7th Avenue and 55th Street, New York. The Vicksburg cyclorama was painted by French artists Joseph Bertrand and Lucien Sergent. Bertrand spent several months on the Vicksburg battlefield, sketching, consulting.....
The scarce, first edition of this influential work advocating the use of whole grain flour for bread-making. Reverend Sylvester Graham (1794–1851) was a vegetarian and the inventor of “Graham bread,” known to us today in the rather corrupted form of the Graham cracker. His advocacy of whole grains and.....