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

Ipswich [Mass.], ca. 1834. 3 pages on a two-leaf folio measuring 9.75 x 7.88 inches on laid paper watermarked J. Green and Son 1831. Approx. 325 words in total. “Behold this Bridge of lime and stone / The like before was never known / For beauty and magnificence —— /..... 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 and proprietors of the first commercial American nursery. Early institutional bookplate partially removed..... 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

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