Poughkeepsie: Printed for the Author, 1812. First edition. 12mo, original wrappers, 119, [1] pages. “And so important did I conceive these things to be in the Christian world, that when taken ill last fall in New-York, and apprehensive that I should not live, it was on my mind to commit..... More
Birmingham: [n. p.], 1870 [& 1868]. Published in Arber's English Reprint series, these evidently Birmingham issues. 2 vols in 1, small 8vo, early half calf, marbled boards, xvi, 272, 120 pages, title pages printed in red and black. Two fine scholarly editions of early English works. With the English Reprints..... More
Fredonia, N.Y. W. B. Archibald, Author and Publisher, 1892. Likely a reissue of the first edition; the publication copyright date is a pasted-on cancel slip. Large 8vo, original black pebbled half cloth, blue cloth sides, printed paper label, 228 pages. Mounted leaf of index key on the title page. A..... More
[Waltham, Mass., ca. 1900-1915?]. Oblong 8vo, quarter calf, pebbled cloth sides, 52 pp. autograph notes on Greek and Roman architectue, 63 pp. autograph notes on mechanical drawing. Illus. throughout (esp. the mechanical drawing lectures), with an additional 14 inserted plates of mechanical drawing examples. The detailed notes on two courses..... More
(Bay City, Michigan: The Aladdin Company, 1920). Stated second edition. 8vo, original decorated red leatherette over flexible boards, 160 pages (including fold-out double page illustrations) plus inserted order leaf. Illus. An early catalog (the first was 1908) from this pioneer in pre-fabricated kit homes. Includes floorplans of the different styles..... More
![Abgaru zroyts`e Movses Khorenats`woy Patmut`ean mej . . . [transliterated from Armenian]....](/pictures/thumb/17779.jpg?v=1481918657)
Vienna: Mkhit`arean Tparan, 1897. First edition in Armenian. 8vo, original printed gray-green wrappers, 15, [1], 107, [2] pages. Unopened. From the early French linguist and Armenian studies pioneer comes this study of the Armenian source of the legend of King Agbar, healed by Thaddeus at the behest of Jesus, published..... More
[K. Polis, i.e. Constantinople]: Tpagr. Kiwt`emperk, 1913. First edition in Armenian. 8vo, contemporary plain black cloth, 12, 627 pages. Driault’s La question d’Orient depuis ses origines jusqu’à nos jours (originally published in 1898 and republished several times through 1914), here relevant to the Armenian question. Translated by Er Srmakeshkhanlian. Small..... More
![Hamarhrot patmut`iwn Hayots` . . . [transliterated from Armenian]. Armenia, Heinrich. Grigoris...](/pictures/thumb/17780.jpg?v=1481918658)
Vienna: Mkhit`arean Tparan, 1897. First edition. 8vo, original wrappers, 133 pages. Unopened. A translation of Gelzer’s short history of the Armenians, but largely of interest for the appended bibliography of books on the 1894-1896 Armenian massacres, compiled by Galemk`earean. No. 25 in the series Azgayin matenadaran. More
![Dransiluanioy Hayots` metrapolise . . . [transliterated from Armenian]. Armenia, Grigor Govrikean](/pictures/thumb/17778.jpg?v=1481918657)
Vienna: Mkhit`arean Tparan, 1896. First edition. 8vo, original printed pink wrappers (somewhat sunned), 9, [1], 352, [2] pages. Plates, illus. Unopened. Further studies of the Armenian diaspora in Transylvania. Number 19 in the series Azgayin matenadaran. More
![Hayk` hEghisabet`upolis Dransiluanioy . . . [transliterated from Armenian]. Armenia, Grigor...](/pictures/thumb/17776.jpg?v=1481918657)
Vienna: Mkhit`arean Tparan, 1893. First edition. 8vo, original printed yellow wrappers, 10, 533 pages. Plate, illus. Unopened. The first volume in a work evidently on Armenians in Hungary and Transylvania (this covering 1680-1779), that stretched through three volumes apparently separately published between 1893 and 1904. The eleventh entry in the..... More
Vienna: Mkhit`arean Tparan, 1898. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 56 pages. Unopened. A study of recent sources on Movses Khorenatsi (or Moses of Khoren). No. 27 in the series Azgayin matenadaran. More
![Azgabanut`iwn aznuakan zarmin Tiwzeants` . . . [transliterated from Armenian]. Armenia, Gabriel...](/pictures/thumb/17775.jpg?v=1481918656)
Vienna: Mkhit`arean tparan, 1890. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 50 pages. Large folding genealogical table tipped into the rear. An account of the Duzian family. Evidently the second title in the series Azgayin matenadaran. More
K. Polis [i.e. Constantinople]: Tp. K. Artsagangi, 1919. First edition in Armenian. 8vo, plain peach wrappers (lacks rear wrapper), wire stitched, 60, [1] pages. Small manuscript shelf label to the wrapper. The Armenian language edition of Pinon’s La suppression des Arméniens: méthode allemande, travail turc (Paris, 1916), an early work..... More
![Erkameay pandkhtowt`iwn i Hapeshstan . . . [transliterated from Armenian]. Armenia,...](/pictures/thumb/17773.jpg?v=1481904079)
Herowsalem [i.e., Jerusalem]: I Tparani Arak`elakan At`oroy S. Hakovbeants`, 1871. First edition? 2 vols in 1 (as published), original pictorial blue wrappers bound into later black cloth, [16], 168, [4], 157, [3] pages. Inserted plate. Also published at the same press, theh Typographie Arménienne du Couvent de Saint-Jacques in 1871..... More
![Sew Tsovu rusakan ezerk`e . . . [transliterated from Armenian]. Armenia, Arhak`el Sarukhanian,...](/pictures/thumb/17777.jpg?v=1481918657)
Vienna: Mkhit`arean Tparan, 1895. First edition. 8vo, original printed pink wrappers (somewhat sunned), 189 pages. Unopened. Travel in the Black Sea region of the Ukraine. Number 18 in the series Azgayin matenadaran. More
Göttingen: (Pennsylvania German Society), 1989. First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, original white linen printed in red, 1245 pages in total. Frontis in each volume, illus. A standard reference and a useful bibliography, issued as nos. XXI-XXII in the Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society. Previous owner's neat ink signature to..... More
![The Compound Oxygen Treatment. Its Action as a Revitalizing Agent [caption title]. Timothy Shay...](/pictures/thumb/15339.jpg?v=1465913976)
[Philadelphia: Starkey & Palen, ca. 1880]. First edition? 16mo, unbound pamphlet, [8] pages. A promotional brochure from one of the better-known home oxygen treatment cures, this with two testimonial letters from temperance author and editor T. S. Arthur, who notes here in a letter dated January 1, 1878, "At that..... More
Paris: Chez Jacques Barois, 1744. First edition. 12mo, contemporary half calf, subdued paste paper boards, xviii, [4], 293, [1], 96 pages. Frontis. An extensive auction catalog from one of the leading Parisian art dealers of the period, this copy priced fairly extensively in an early hand. Besides the paintings, prints..... More
![Look! Look! [caption title]. Art, E. P. Williams, proprietors G. W. Duncan, Kentucky](/pictures/thumb/18260.jpg?v=1512579399)
[N. p., but Murray, Kentucky?]: n. p., 1886. First edition. Broadside handbill, 8.75 x 5.75 inches. “The great Bible Scenery, Young America No. 2, is cmoing to Murray, and will exhibit in that city on Monday night, Aug. 23, 1886, at the Court House, and will be conducted by Rev..... More
Paris: Aux Librairies Protestantes, 1890. First edition. 16mo, original printed blue wrappers, 78, [1] pages. Small map. Evidently an annual report on the work of the pioneering Protestant asylums founded by Calvinist pastor John Bost in La Force in the Dordogne, which took in abandoned and orphaned children, the mentally..... More
[London: J. Sewell? 1792-1793]. Perhaps first edition of each number. 5 numbers extracted together from a nonce volume, still bound together with traces of calf along the spine, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16 pages. General title lacking, presumably not printed (along with the prelims) until the completion of the first..... More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1940. First edition. 8vo, original patterned red buckram, 254 pages. Illus. by Ann Kelley of the Tennessee Art Project. Original pictorial dust jacket. Tall-tales and folklore of Tennessee, with much in the way of regional vernacular and color. More
[N. p., but U.S.A.? n. p, ca. 1920]. Five cotton 48-star flags (approx. 4 x 6 inches) on black-painted sticks, plus the enameled red, white, and blue shield mount and all the original hardware. In the original printed pictorial carton. Childe Hassam run through the Duchamp grinder and patted into..... More
Boston: James Means, 193 Beacon St. 1913. First edition. 12mo, original self-wrappers, [12] pages. Illus. "Mental automatism in balancing may be illustrated by the experience of the novice learning to ride the bicycle." From this aeronautical pioneer (best remembered for his Aeronautical Annuals, published from 1895 to 1897) comes this..... More
