Aux Quatre-Éléments: De l’imprimerie des Quatre-saisons [i.e., Paris: Duchesne], 4444 [i.e., 1760]. First edition, the 114-page issue (priority not known). 12mo, contemporary calf, gilt spine, red morocco label, gilt lettering, [4], xxiv, [1]-26, [2], 27-114 pages. Title page vignette (Athena). A lovely book printed, as the title might suggest, in... More
Salem, Mass. [William Cook], January, 1860. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, stitched, [9]-16 pages as issued. Two plates (included in the pagination) of views of Broad Street in Salem, and of the District Schoolhouse in South Danvers, Mass. Another lively and striking example of the self-published and self-printed verses... More
Pasadena, Cal. Published by his Father, Rev. Charles Taylor, 1917. First edition. 8vo, original drab cloth, black lettering, 80 pages. Frontis portrait. [With:] Four promotional pictures postcards of the young Charles Forbes Taylor. [With:] A pictorial portrait ticket for a two-house lecture from Charles Forbes Taylor at Euclid Avenue Baptist... More
![The Aonian-Bee: Being a Collection and Selection of Poetical Miscellanies. [Device:] FG. Commonplace, Poetry, François?, F. Grimm.](/pictures/thumb/18070.jpg?v=1497405900)
Dordrecht, 1812—, 1817. 8vo, contemporary half sheep, marbled sides, various gatherings of autograph verses bound together and paginated in ink, [2], 200, [4] pages. With an additional ink note on the title page beneath the device, “(i.e. F. Grim my most dearly beloved and regretted brother. J.W.G.),” with the signature... More
Flushing, N. Y., February, 1865 (with additions). 33 pages, ruled leaves approx. 12 x 8 inches written rectos only, with an interpolated smaller page 13-1/2 and another small interpolated page. With the original cardboard tube in which Prince carried his lecture notes, the tube inscribed with the title and Prince’s... More
Boston: Etheridge & Bliss, 1807. Contemporary green morocco spine and tips, labeled in gilt “Atlas,” blue-green boards, approx. 12 inches high. 10 engraved maps after d’Anville, some coloring. Apparently a nonce atlas, this copy with an early ink ownership signature of Julia M. Russell, Troy, May 1827 [perhaps 1821] to... More
[Belfast: n. p. 1837]. First edition. Small handbill slip poem, approx. 6.38 x 3.63 inches, typographical border. Thomas Greer Jacob (1797-1837) had dedicated himself to the reform of Belfast prostitutes, with his Ulster Female Penitentiary doing what it could to take women off the streets; he also edited and published... More
Brookline, Mass., Aug. 20, [n. d., but ca. 1849-1852]. 3 pages, unlined blue bifolium, 10 x 7.5 inches, nearly 900 words. Clear red cancels. A jaunty note on the return to Brookline from vacation in the country, with Harvard gossip, from James Pierce (11/20/1825-5/23/1853), Harvard Student (A.B., 1849; S. Div... 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
![Stowe’s Bible Astrology. [With:] Stowe’s Bible Astrology. Astrology, Eccentric, Michigan, Lyman E. Stowe.](/pictures/thumb/18064.jpg?v=1497405900)
Detroit: Lyman E. Stowe, (1907). Two entirely different editions, heavily revised. 12mo, original black cloth, silver decoration and lettering, [16], 239, 12, [1], 3, [3] pages, illus., including a color plate included in the pagination. Folding pictorial chart, “The Story Among the Stars,” 28 x 21.25 inches on onionskin paper... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1858. First edition. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth stamped in gilt, with additional contemporary lettering stamped in gilt to the upper board, “Metropolitan Hotel,” [i-ii], [7], iii-xvi, 439, 4, 16 pages. Frontis, four inserted plates, illus. An important work from the English gunsmith and inventor Greener... More
Bristol, September 2, 1743. Four leaves of parchment fastened together along the lower edges, approx. 26.5 x 31.75 inches, plus attached certificate of probate with stamps, approx. 8 x 8.25 inches. A detailed look at library presumably built on gin: Arthur Taylor was a distiller of some substance who owned... More
Philadelphia: n. p., June, 1835. First edition. Broadside, approx. 12.13 x 7.75 inches. “In all the relations of an extensive mercantile business, where as in the City of Philadelphia, is concentrated the trade of a vast extent of country, nothing serves more to impair confidence, and weaken those relations which... More
New York: Edwin C. Walker, 1902. First edition. 16mo, original translucent pink glassine over self wrappers, 16 pages, wire stitched. “Because the slayer of Mr. McKinley called himself an Anarchist—while at the same time positively denying any co-partners in his crime—several peaceable citizens, men and women, avowing themselves Anarchists—’we are... More
Jackson, Maine, July 7, 1848. Lined blue bifolium, approx. 9.88 x 7.75 inches. 2 pages of text, integral address, docketed in ink on the verso. Early temperance activism in Waldo County, Maine, and some hint of the political organization leading up to the passage of the Maine Law of 1851... More
Philadelphia: Herausgegeben von G.W. Mentz und Sohn, Buchhändler, 1835. A later edition of this German Reformed catechism. 12mo, original unbleached muslin spine, decorated boards, 108 pages. Frontispiece. Though ordinarily one might not rush to catalog a stereotype edition of a Philadelphia German catechism, examples of decorated boards as here on... More
Leominster, Massachusetts: Printed by John Prentiss & Co. for Thomas Thacher, Princeton [Mass.], 1798. First edition. 12mo, original sheep, red leather label, gilt lettering, 114 pages. A posthumous selection of sermons from Rev. Peter Thacher (1716-1785) of Attleboro, one of a long line of Congregationalist Peter Thachers, this collection put... More
Chicago: North-Western Pulpit, 1860. First edition. 8vo, original printed yellow wrappers, 13 pages. “The substance of the following Sermon was first preached as an Introductory Sermon, at an Annual Meeting of the Cleveland, or Rocky River Association, in Ohio. . . . The Sermon has since been revised and materially... More
Lancaster [Penna.]: Printed for the Author and Publishers, John Bear, Printer, 1840. Second edition. 12mo, contemporary calf, gilt ruled spine, tan morocco label to the lower portion of the spine lettered in gilt, 303 pages. A handsome copy of a detailed botanic physician handbook in the manner of Thomson, a.... More
Philadelphia, August, 1845 to May, 1864. 8vo, blank book, original quarter sheep and boards of marbled sheets over printed waste (evidently the subject index to an unidentified pious book of addresses), 156 pages of text plus a few additional notes. A nice example of binder’s waste turned into marbled paper... More
Berlin: Im Rembrandt-Verlag, (1958). First edition. 8vo, original linden-green cloth, [95] pages, illus. Original dust jacket. East and West Berlin as seen in photographs by two American photographers. Text in German and English. Early secondhand price in felt-tip pen to the front free endpaper. More
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1989). First edition. 4to, original black cloth, silver lettering, 141 pages + 100 illustrations. An excellent survey of the daguerreotype. This copy without the dust jacket. More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, (1977). First edition. Folio, original silver-stamped black cloth, 540 pages, extensive illus. Original dust jacket. A substantial book. Old camera store price sticker to the inside front flap of the jacket. More
(New York): HarperStyle, (1996). First edition. Folio, original glazed paper boards, 143 pages, illus. Original fold-out dust jacket. A vaguely fetishistic look at the white t-shirt in photograph and history. More
(Oxford): Basil Blackwell, (1985). First edition. 8vo, original black cloth, 261, [1] pages. Illus. Original pictorial dust jacket. An academic study of the psychology and conventions of photography. A few contemporary ink notes in the rear. More
