New York: Captain Thomas S. Baldwin, [ca. 1906]. First edition. Originsl pictorial pink wrappers, scant 6 x 3.25 inches, 16 pages. “I have no secrets, but am anxious to promote and give to the world my knowledge of aeronautics and airshipping. I manufacture and have for sale balloons and airships..... More

London: Printed and Published by A. Bonner, 1887. First edition. Self-wrappered pamphlet, 7 x 4.75 inches, 20 pages. “Commerce is an eloquent peace preacher; the frequent and more complete intermingling of unarmed peoples begets distaste for war; national prejudices die away under frequent contact; explanations are easier as peoples know..... More

Pittsburgh: (Myers, Shinkle, & Co., Printers), 1896. Large 8vo, rebound in stiff wrappers with the original substantial fragments of the worn printed wrappers laid down, with a facsimile long-distance map and a facsimile C.D. & P. telephone ad mounted on the front and rear inside wrappers, 288 pages. An early..... More

(New York: W. N. Oliver & Co., Printers, 12 Vesey St. 1885). First edition. 12mo, original light brown wrappers, 11, [1] pages. Illus. With an ad on the rear wrapper, “E. B. Benjamin, Importer and Manufacturer of Chemical and Physical Apparatus, Rare Chemicals and Laboratory Supplies of Every Description. 6..... 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

Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1874. Fourth edition (the first appeared in 1866), with a new foreword and revisions. 8vo, contemporary half roan, marbled boards, 109, [1] pages. Numerous illus. A manual and handbook for the use of the microscope. Nice early binder's ticket for Courier Book Binder, Ann Arbor..... More

Reading: Gedruckt bey Carl A. Bruckman, 1818. First edition. 12mo, contemporary calf spine, marbled boards, [12], 169, [11] pages. Per Brindle and Unger (as quoted in the Atwater catalog), this early Hohman collection of recipes (many medical, and preceding his "powwow" book, Der Lang Verborgene Freund, first published in Reading..... More

Stockholm: Svesk Travaru-Tidnings Forlag, (1886). First edition. 8vo, contemporary dark blue half roan, green cloth sides, 76, [1] pages. 13 folding plates. An engineering manual on the construction of timber structures in rivers and streams, with diagrams of dams, flumes, rafts, etc., with information on the transportation of timber via..... More

[New York]: Press of Gutenberg, Faust & Schoffer, 1889. First edition. Original printed stiff red wrappers, 9.63 x 6.88 inches, [9] pages. Frontis, illustrations from comical stock cuts. A wonderful and uncommon jeu d’esprit celebrating an Edison patent legal victory, executed as a pastiche of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”..... More