(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
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
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
(Philadelphia: n. p., 1799). First edition. Unbound pamphlet, 9 x 6 inches, 7, [1] pages, untrimmed, A proposal in two sections (each signed in type at the foot with Latrobe’s name and dated March 2, 1799), a fairly early American project from the architect and important scheme to pump Philadelphia’s..... More
London: Charles Griffin and Company, 1895. First edition. 8vo, original pebbled maroon cloth over flexible heavy card-stock wrappers, gilt lettering, vii, [1], 51, [1], 32 pages. Color frontispiece, illus. Inserted folding table. “The subject being one which concerns the general public as well as its scientific and technical members, the..... More
![Item #18543 “Boxcar Art.” [In:] Railroad Magazine. Vol. XXVI, No. 2. July, 1939. Graffiti,...](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/18543.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1527108330)
New York: Frank A. Munsey Company, 1939. First edition. 8vo, original color pictorial wrappers, 144 pages on pulp, illus. Incunabular American graffiti tagging, a three-page article on early railroad car graffiti artists and a survey of the artwork and stylized signatures of the hobos and railroad workers who marked up..... More
