Harrisburg, Pa. Gedruckt und zu haben bey G. S. Peters, [ca. 1835-1839?]. Original printed pictorial glazed orange wrappers, 5.88 x 3.5 inches, 16 leaves printed on one side only. Fifteen color-printed illustrations. A nice copy of an early edition of the Peters edition of the Joseph story (the first evidently..... 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
[Nice? Monte Carlo?], n. d., but ca. 1920s. 2 pages on a single leaf of blue stock, 10.5 x 8.25 inches, approx. 145 words. A breezy letter redolent of fashionable Bohemian wealth living slightly beyond her own means, a presumably English woman on the Riviera thanking one Sir James for..... More
Philadelphia: n. p., 1853. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, contemporary (original?) blue paper spine reinforcement, 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 20 pages. "We visited the house of an astrologer in Small Street, below Seventh. 'Crazy Nancy' is the soubriquet borne by an old Negro woman who professes to 'read the stars,' and..... 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
