![The Ariel: A Semimonthly Literary and Miscellaneous Gazette [bound volume containing vol. 5, no. 1-25 -- April 30, 1831-March 31 1832]](/pictures/thumb/005901.JPG?v=1512777305)
Philadelphia: Edmund Morris, 1831. Hardcover. 400 p., 12 leaves of engraved plates: illustrations; 26 cm. Modern spine of bonded leather, with gilt-tooled spine label. Contemporary marbled paper over boards. Older repair of hinges. Error in pagination: adjacent but different pages are numbered 306 and 307. Contains poetry, fiction, and nonfiction... More
Paris: Le Décor d'Aujourd'hui, 1951. Hardcover. [14], 324 p.: 21 color plates tipped in on heavy, captioned stock, and many black-and-white photographs, drawings, and plans; 30 cm. Buff linen spine with black-stamped spine title; buff paper over boards printed in black with a leaf pattern. Grey endpaper. Lacking dust jacket... More
London: Mark Baskett and the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1767. Hard Cover. [220] p.; 19 cm. Signatures: A-N12 O4. Contemporary full calf; five spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt borders on spine and on boards. All page edges red. Title printed within double rule. A leaf formerly attached to front... More
Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson, printers, 1850. Paperback. 32 p.; 23 cm. Green wrappers with black wrapper title. The Union Benevolent Association was established in 1831 to provide assistance to Philadelphia residents by lending stoves to help heat their homes during a harsh winter, along with wood and coal. The intention... More
Lebanon, Pa. s.n. 1895. Hardcover. [4], 51, [1] p. [i.e. 108]; 24 cm. Contemporary calf boards, with modern calf spine. Every leaf of text is interleaves with a blank leaf for notes; in this volume the blank leaves remained blank. Former owner's inscription on front fixed endpaper: Warren G. Light... More
![This Is the Army [program from stage performance at Civic Opera House, Chicago, Jan. 1943]](/pictures/thumb/006005.JPG?v=1515805456)
Chicago: Civic Opera House, 1943. Paperback. [24] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Stapled white wrapper printed in red and blue with American flag on front. The Army Emergency Relief was established in Feb. 1942 to assist soldiers and their dependents. In July 1942 "This Is the Army" by Irving Berlin opened... More
London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1779. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes in 1: [8], 368, [14] p.; [4], 344, [16] p.; 29 cm. Signatures: A-3C4 (-3C4) pi2 B-2Y4 (4to). Dark brown cloth spine and corners (20th-century?) with printed paper spine label; marbled paper (19th-century?) over boards. Matching marbled endpapers... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1863. Baring-Gould, Sabine. Hardcover. xlviii, 447 p.: color frontispiece, 15 additional leaves of plates (some color), and 1 folded map of Iceland with the author's route indicated in red; 26 cm. Half contemporary morocco with six spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled spine title. Marbled... More
![Michael Collins and Making of a New Ireland by Piaras Beaslai [provenance: James H. Rowe]. Piaras Beaslai.](/pictures/thumb/004877.JPG?v=1472082391)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926. Hardcover. 2 volumes: xv, [1], 458 p.; vii, [1], 484 p., 2 frontispieces and 16 leaves of plates; 23 cm. Grey cloth with printed paper spine labels. Bookplate of James H. Rowe, designed by Lyon, on each front fixed endpaper. James H. Rowe (1909-1984)... More
Boston, Mass. Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1831. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Second Edition with Additions. xv, [1], 521, [1] p.: folded frontispiece, 21 additional leaves of plates (4 folded); 25 cm. Attractive modern rebinding in 19th-century style: calf spine with five spine compartments between gilt Greek key rolls; green leather... More
Philadelphia, Pa. Imperial Publishing Co. 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Title page continued: "Centuries of oppression--Moslem and Christian--sultan and patriarch--broken pledges followed by massacre and outrage. The Red Cross to the rescue." Assisted by Cyrus Hamlin and E.A. Grosvenor; with an introduction by Frances Willard. [2], 574 p.: 1 folded leaf... More
![Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son; With Some Account of His Life [vol. 1] [provenance: Jane Buchanan Lane]. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield.](/pictures/thumb/005514.JPG?v=1495836831)
New York: C.A. Hinkley, 1824. Hardcover. Vol. 1 only. xix, [1], 405 p.; 15 cm. Contemporary tree calf with five spine compartments between double gilt rules; red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Chesterfield's Letters. Blank leaf following front endpapers inscribed, in two different hands: "?. S? Buchanan"... More
Philadelphia, Pa. William Cobbett, 1796. Second Edition. viii, [1], 10-56 p.; 20 cm. Signatures: pi4 B-G4 (8vo). Disbound. Evans, 30213. William Cobbett complains about everyone, including Benjamin Franklin and various Philadelphia printers and booksellers, and defends himself against accusations that he was in the pay of the British while living... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1865. Hardcover. xi, [1], 254, [2], 32 p.; 20 cm. Publisher's red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; blind-stamped center medallion and border on each board. Dark brown endpapers. Bookdealer's label on front fixed endpaper for T.W. Arthur, Carlisle. Bookdealer's label on back fixed endpaper for... More
![Les Caractères de Théophraste et de La Bruyère, avec des Notes par M. Coste [2 volumes]. Pierre Coste.](/pictures/thumb/002166.jpg?v=1472082227)
Paris: Laurent Prault [and] Bailly, 1769. Hardcover. Nouvelle édition. 2 volumes: [4], xlviii, 479 p.; [4], 552 p.: frontispiece in vol. 1; 17 cm. Original speckled calf with six spine compartments between raised bands; red and black morocco labels with gilt-tooled title and volume in the second and third compartments... More
London: J. Johnson, 1805. Hardcover. Second Edition. Printed for J. Johnson by C. Mercier and Co. 3 volumes (vi, [2], 375, [1] p.; [2], 368 p.; [4], 393, [1] p.); 17 cm. 19th-century half speckled calf with five spine compartments between gilt rules. Red leather label in each second compartment... More
![Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay [Mill Hill School prize book]. Amy Fay.](/pictures/thumb/005656.JPG?v=1502912422)
London: Macmillan and Co. 1893. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 328 p.; 19 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Black leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title; gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Gilt-tooled armorial emblem of the Mill Hill School on the front board; both boards... More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. Flint, William Russell. Hardcover. 123, [5] p.: color frontispiece, color title vignette, many in-text and full-page illustrations in sepia; 31 cm. Full scarlet morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled spine title and gilt-tooled Golden Cockerel emblem on... More
![Contributions to Electricity and Magnetism: No. II On the Influence of a Spiral Conductor in increasing the Intensity of Electricity from a Galvanic Arrangement of a Single Pair, &c. by Joseph Henry [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 5 New Series, Article X]. Joseph Henry.](/pictures/thumb/005012.jpg?v=1474052494)
Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. [1], 224-231, [1] p.; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. Read before the Society on Feb. 6, 1835. Joseph Henry (1797-1878), one of the founding fathers of electrical technology, was the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In this paper... More
![Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, made under direction of the Navy Department, by Wm. Lewis Herndon and Lardner Gibbon [Part I w/ map volume]. William Lewis Herndon.](/pictures/thumb/004913.JPG?v=1472082393)
Washington, D.C. Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853. Hardcover. 2 volumes: 414, iii, [1] p., 16 leaves of plates: tables; 3 folded maps of varying sizes; 23 cm. Contemporary burgundy morocco-grained cloth. Text volume has gilt-stamped spine title and blind-stamped emblem on each board with "U.S." in the center. Map volume... More
Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 1986. DePol, John. Hardcover. 34, [2] p.: wood engravings; 24 cm. Green cloth spine with green-and-white paper over boards printed from a pattern by John DePol. Printed paper spine label. Green endpapers. With original glassine dust jacket and Errata slip signed by Neil Shaver. This... More
Venetiis [Venice, Italy]: Laurentium Basilium [Lorenzo Baseggio], 1764. Paperback. Editio prima Veneta, juxta ultimam Londinensem. 2 volumes bound together (vol. 1: [6], xxx, 161, [1], 38, [6] p.; vol. 2: xx, 208 p.): copperplate engraved frontispiece of a compass rose and cardinal points; 21 cm. (8vo). Original stiffened paper covers... More
New York: Macmillan, 1896. Batten, John Dickson. Hardcover. xii, 224 p.: tissue-guarded photogravure frontispiece, 6 leaves of plates, many in-text illustrations; 23 cm. Publisher's red-on-white cloth. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., London & Edinburgh; photogravure frontispiece by the Swan Electric Engraving Co. First American edition. Front free endpaper inscribed... More
Paris: Jean Jost, 1649. Hardcover. [4], 586, [30] p.; 24 cm. Signatures: [pi]2 A-3H4 (4to). 19th-century? half calf with five spine compartments between raised bands; marbled paper over boards. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment; gilt-tooled decoration at head and tail and on raised bands; blind-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Title... More
![Debates in Parliament [vol. 2]. Samuel Johnson.](/pictures/thumb/003197.JPG?v=1472082278)
London: John Stockdale, 1787. Hardcover. Vol. 2 only, of 2 volumes. [6], 516 p.; 22 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules. Red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Johnson's Debates. Volume number in third compartment. Board edges are gilt-tooled. Former owner's name on... More