Puebla [ Mexico ]: S. Felipe Neri 1850. 46, [1] pages. 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches. Marbled paper wrappers (detaching at base of the spine). Tear to pages 13/14 affecting text (no loss). Red ink stamp inner margin of page three "STE & STI 6 Aug 1941". Otherwise clean..... More
Prov. R. I. [ Providence, Rhode Island ]: Henry L. Tillinghast [circa 1855]. First Edition. Broadside. Single leaf, printed on recto only. 9 x 6 1/4 inches. Wove paper with no watermarks. Cleanly trimmed (with minor variation on upper edge). A nice impression noting some ink ghosting (presumably from other..... More
![Item #27427 [Broadside, Photography] Daguerreotype Saloon. The Subscriber having located his...](/pictures/thumb/27427_1.jpg?v=1561345576)
Cambridge: At the University Press 1878. First English Edition. xxiii, [1-blank], 466, [2], 24 pages. 2 leaves (pages 309-12) with shallow horizontal tears at the top margin not affecting text. Original publisher's brown cloth. Carefully erased ink signature from title page resulting in thinned paper. Acid ghosting from endpapers on..... More
[London]: [ C. Davis ] [ 1753 ]. First Edition. 289-296 pages. 4to. 19 x 24 cm. (7 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches). An extract from "Philosophical Transactions Giving some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World ... Vol..... More
Braunschweig: Henry Litolff's Verlag circa 1858. Zehn Bändes im Zwei [Ten volumes bound in two]. Volume One: [2], 159, [2], 154, [2], 154, [2], 150, [2], 151 pages. Contains Bändes I-V, each with separate title page and contents. Imprint is Braunschweig, Henry Litolff's Verlag. Volume Two: [2], 159, [3], 149..... More
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger for the Library Committee of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania 1875. First Edition. xv, [17]-236 pages. Plus thirteen plates with albumen photographs by Frederick Gutekunst. 8vo. Publisher's vibrant blue cloth with highly decorated gilt spine. #991/1000 copies. A bright clean copy, noting old tape repair..... More
Okayama, Japan: Atelier of Yu Fujiwara 1979. Not paginated. 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. Quarto. Publisher's cloth binding with pictorial dust jacket in the original cardboard slipcase. Minor wear overall, but a very presentable copy. Laid in is a copied letter from Fujiwara thanking his lifelong friends for their..... More
[ no place ]: [ no publisher, but the American Society of Microscopists ] 1883. First Separate Edition. 6 pages plus printed green wrappers. 8vo (5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches) An author's offprint of this paper published in the Proceedings of the American Society of Microscopists. INSCRIBED by author..... More
Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea 1877. First Edition. Complete title: The Obstetrical Journal of Great Britain and Ireland Including Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children. A bound exlibrary volume including issues of this journal from April 1877 through March 1878, with American Supplements. 851 pages of the journals followed..... More
Troy, [NY]: Moffitt & Lyon 1802. First Edition. 285, [3] pages. 12mo. 4 x 6 1/4 inches. Polished calf with black spine label "Electricity" with minor loss. Light wear to the extremities. Minor worming in the gutter base of spine affecting a few letters in the Preface. No flyleafs (as..... More
A. Marseille: Chez Jean Mossy 1773. x, [2], 460 pages including tables + 11 illustrations on 5 plates. 8vo. 1/4 leather over marbled boards. Marbling worn, overall minor wear to the binding. Marbled endpapers dampstained. Marbled page edges. Unobtrusive occasional marginal dampstaining throughout. (pages 157-160 mis-numbered or bound out of..... More
Hartford: Elihu Geer for the Hartford Steam Printing Company 1886. First Edition. [2], vii-xii, 13-16, [folding map], 31-501 pages. 4 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches. Publisher's brown cloth with embossed decorations and titles. Spine titles in copper. Front pastedown is calendar for 1866/67. Front flyleaf is Title page. Last page..... More
Portland, ME: Geo. C. Frey Surgical Instruments c 1900. 6 pages in two parts. First part is on thin yellow paper, folded single sheet, newspaper size (10 1/2 x 17 inches folded). The second part a single leaf printed both sides on blue paper, same size. Both folded multiple times..... More
Morrisville: J. & E. Norton 1840. First Edition. 16 pages. Extracted from a bound volume of other works. A separate wrapper, if issued, is not present here. Remnants of glue at spine, light overall soiling. Good. Wraps.
OCLC notes eleven copies as of this writing. Rare Book Hub indicates..... More
[ Menasha, WI ]: American Mathematical Society 1951. First Edition. Volume 1 (Issues 1-2): [2], 286 pages + Volume 2 (Issues 1-2) [2], 334 pages + Vol 2 #6 : 839-998 pages. A collection of 5 issues of the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society bound in one physical volume..... More
[ New York ]: 1900-1902. First Edition. 3 1/2 inches by 6 inches. A small lined notebook with Grant's address on the inside cover noting 232 exposures which he took, Each entry includes the Date of Exposre, Plate used, Exposure, Time of Day, Stop Lens and Light. Images taken include..... More
![Item #23056 [Manuscript photography] Exposure Records of Amateur Photographer Grant R. Oliver...](/pictures/thumb/23056_1.jpg?v=1504285696)
London: Holland Press 1976. Reprint. xvii, [1 blank], [2], iii, [1 blank], 304 [2] pages; Frontispiece, [2], [305]-609, [1] pages. Publisher's green cloth. Dust jacket is price clipped and spine sunned as usual. Several tape repairs to dust jacket, creasing, and overall wear. Clean internally, a sound working copy. Very..... More
New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories 1950. First Edition. 675 pages. 8vo. Blue cloth with previous owner name (C. K. Birdsall) printed at base of spine panel and signature on front wrapper of January issue. Bound privately from separate issues, this copy does not have a volume title page. The entire..... More
Washington, D. C. American Registry of Pathology 1987. Later printing. [2], [1]-xx, [2], 244 pages. 7 7/8 inches by 10 1/4 inches. Light grey paper wrappers with green border, lettering, and microscope illustration. Later printing of the second and best edition published in 1974. 475 figures, mostly black and white..... More
Worcester, [MA?]: Self published 1856. Single sheet, 4 3/4 x 7 5/8 inches. Blank corner torn off, minor soiling. Folded for mailing. A printed letter from Agent O. F. Harris, noting that Dr. Nye of Weymouth [MA?] "has just concluded a series of successful experiments in the manufacture of Colored..... More
Erwin Hoyt Austin. [ Kinderhook, NY ]: James W. Hatch 1956. First Edition. [3], 2-[40] pages. 14 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches. Comb bound. Thick cardboard covers, set up as a flip-chart for teaching. The text is presented towards the teacher, and the artwork related presented to the children. Small..... More
Massachusettts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) 1922. First Edition. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Blue buckram binding. This is what appears to be a very early set of class notes for a course on Machine Design in 1922. It contains several hundred pages of notes, mostly mechanically reproduced, with..... More
Troy: Luther Pratt 1797. Second Edition. ix, [2], 12-180 pages. 4 x 6 1/2 inches. Frontispiece engraving "The AUTHOR Relating the HISTORY of his TRAVELS to his Friend" present (often missing). Full leather binding with red leather label and simple gold ruling on spine. Previous owner name "John S. Popkin..... More
Waterbury, CT: American Office - Print[ers] [circa 1860]. First Edition. Broadside. 12 x 10 inches. 25.3 x 30.5 cm. Decorative borders. Imprint is "American Office - Print - Waterbury CT." Circa 1860. A strong impression with a nice decorative border. Minor browning and offsetting to verso. An excellent example. Fine..... More
![Item #28939 [Broadside, Photography] SPLENDID DAGUERREOTYPE MINIATURES, TAKEN IN EVERY STYLE, BY...](/pictures/thumb/28939_1.jpg?v=1656111305)
C. E. Cook. Lynn [ Massachusetts ]: Josiah W. Heal [ 1879 ]. First Edition. [100] pages. Not paginated. Oblong 12 x 9 inches. New leather spine and corners over original cloth boards gilt. Fifty thin pasteboard leaves affixed to binding structure with linen hinges. The entire book is dampstained..... More
