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

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

Pittsburgh: Pittsburg Water Heater Company, May 1922 to October, 1923. 8 numbers, all in original pictorial self-wrappers, 7.25 x 5.25 inches, [16] pages each number, wire stitched. Illus. This group includes May, 1922; April, 1922; September, 1922; November, 1922; January, 1923; March, 1923; June, 1923; October, 1923. A broken run..... 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