[Bloomington, Illinois, ca. 2010-2018]. 20 signs on card stock measuring 40 x 28 inches; 20 signs on card stock measuring 28 x 20 inches. Additional signs on foam board, cardboard, and an example on corrugated wax box stock with a wooden handle attached. The signs measuring 40 x 28 generally..... More
Firenze [Florence]: Per Gaetano Cambiai Stamp. Granducale, 1779. First edition in Italian of Cavallo's first book. 8vo, contemporary decorated paper boards, backed with contrasting block-printed paper and an autograph spine label, xx, 511, [1] pages, untrimmed. From this Italian-born English physicist, the Italian translation of a work first published in..... More
Belleville, Ill. Published by N. A. Randall, 1852. First edition. 12mo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering, 348 pages. Byrd notes that most of the titles by Reynolds were printed on a press in his own law office by compositors hired as needed; the charming if rough and ready presswork suggests..... More
[N. p. n. p., 1840]. Colored lithograph portrait of Van Buren, approx. 5 x 3 inches plus moveable printed tab. A handsome moveable piece of political ephemera: a smiling Van Buren holds a cup that, when captioned “A beautiful goblet of White-House champagne,” bears the initials “M.V.B.” Upon sliding the..... More
Boston: Printed for the Author, at the office of S. N. Dickinson, Washington-st. 1831. First edition. Small 8vo (6.19 x 3.88 inches), contemporary (likely original) maroon sheep spine, drab boards, gilt lettering, 191, [1] pages. “Reader, I will now say to you, that last November, after having taken legal advice..... More
Boston: Printed by Edward Mudge & Son, [1857]. A later edition. Original printed green wrappers, 7.38 x 4.63 inches, [1-2], [2], 3-16 pages. Growing out of a project of lectures begun by pioneering physician Harriot Hunt in the 1830s, instituted in 1848 and incorporated in 1850, this organization sought "to..... More
Boston: American Metric Bureau, 1877. Second edition. 8vo (9.25 x 6 inches), original brick red cloth, gilt lettering, 70, 13, [1] pages. Folding color plate, illustrations in the text. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper, “Prof. E. C. Pickering with compliments of Jno. Pickering Putnam.”..... More
London: Printed and Sold by the Booksellers, [ca. 1750]. Stated tenth edition. 12mo, recent plain drab boards, [4], [iv], 156, [4]. Frontis, one folding plate. As the ESTC catalog entry has it, "Not in fact by Aristotle; the attribution is spurious." This title page one of at least three variants..... More
London: Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick Lane, 1737. First edition. 8vo, recent half calf and marbled sides, leather label on the upper board lettered in gilt (Farmer on Demoniacks), viii, 116 pages. “The Reader will find every Passage both in the Old Testament and the New, (except those of..... More
Philadelphia: Gedruckt bey Conrad Zentler, Für Daniel Bräutigam, No. 193, in der Zwenten Strasse, oberhalb der Wein-Strasse, 1818. A later “improved” edition of a Zentler ABC, this one of four issues published in 1818. Contemporary drab paper spine, decorated boards, 6.75 x 4.13 inches, 32 pages (pages [1] and [32]..... More
