Fredonia, N.Y. W. B. Archibald, Author and Publisher, 1892. Likely a reissue of the first edition; the publication copyright date is a pasted-on cancel slip. Large 8vo, original black pebbled half cloth, blue cloth sides, printed paper label, 228 pages. Mounted leaf of index key on the title page. A..... More

Cambridge: The MIT Press, (1990). First American edition. Hardcover. Original black cloth, 11.75 x 9.5 inches, 223 pages. Illus. Original pictorial dust jacket. 223 photos (with a brief history and technical overview) of blast furnaces. More

Boston: Innes & Niles, Printers, 1866. First edition. 8vo, original gilt-stamped maroon cloth, 80 pages (rectos only), a.e.g. Engraved frontis, 14 woodcut plates. A lengthy historical poem on the Merrimac Valley, ranging from Indian legends to the development of industry, with much praise for the benefits of technology and the..... More

Paris: de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1751. Third edition. 12mo, contemporary marbled calf, gilt stamped spine, red morocco label, gilt lettering, xii, 144 pages. 4 folding plates, one engraved headpiece. First published in 1749 and then in a second edition in 1751, this third edition might well marks the first “handy” guide..... More

Chicago: Alberts Whitman & Co., 1941. First edition. 12mo, original pictorial cloth, 48 pages. Illus. An ex-library copy, with their scattered stamps and circulation pocket in the rear. Published in the Federal Writers’ Project W.P.A. series of children’s educational books. With a portion of the original dust jacket mounted to..... More

New York: T. and J. Swords, 1828. First edition. 12mo, original pink linen spine, drab boards, printed paper label, x, 196 pages, untrimmed. An important early American horticultural manual from this prominent early American professional nursery family. Early institutional bookplate partially removed from the front free endpaper, with an early..... More

(London: Associated Newspapers, 1936). First edition. 8vo, original printed blue-green wrappers, 80 pages. Illus. The collected articles of a three-year campaign by Lord Rothermere's fascist-leaning popular newspaper to increase the might of Britain's air force. With much on Rothermere's own "Britain First" airplane, which he had constructed as a prototype..... 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

Philadelphia: Published by Heller & Brightly, 1878. First edition. 8vo, original printed orange wrappers, [1-2], [1]-16, [1-2], 2-8, [1], [3]-10, 13, [14-16] pages, plus 6 inserted leaves and one inserted folding map. Illustrated technical trade catalog for this Philadelphia manufacturer of surveying equipment and transit telescopes, of eccentric pagination but..... 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