Material we exhibited at the first ever ABAA Virtual Bookfair June 4-7 2020
Paris: Henri Plon 1869. Second Edition. 451, [1] pages. 4 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches. 1/4 leather over cloth boards (minor wear to high points). Spine red leather gilt, page edges speckled, marbled endpapers, green reading ribbon. Includes both the fold-out frontis and multi-fold colored map (minor tear near attachment..... More
Washington DC: Gibson Bros., Printers and Bookbinders 1890. Second Edition. [1]-7 pages. Grey printed wrappers, string tied. Several stains on the covers, folding, and a short edge tear. Card "With the compliments of Alexander Graham Bell, 1336 Nineteenth Street, Washington, D. C." folded in. Good. Wraps.
Prints an Address..... More
[ New York, NY ]: Special Committee of the existing system of Recreational Spaces July 1930. First Edition. 45 pages plus pocket in rear containing four folded maps. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Stapled green wraps with pocket (torn) in rear. Fading to wrappers, spotting to a few pages. Rear..... More
![Item #27903 [ cover title ] New York City's Parks, Playgrounds and Parkways and their Proposed...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27903_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1590825482)
Princeton, New Jersey, Toronto, London, New York: D. Van Nostrand Company. Inc. 1959, 1958. mixed edition set. Three volumes. Vol One: xxxvii, 661 pages. Vol Two: xiii, 701 pages. Vol Three: xiii, 416 pages. Volume One is a second printing (first was April 1958, here January 1959),, the other two..... More
![Item #27935 Transistor Technology [ 3 volumes in the scarce dust jackets ]. Biondi. F. J., H. E....](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27935_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591149280)
[ Burlington, Maine ]: Not published 1879-1909. First Edition. 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Stiff thin boards (nearly detached) with marbled paper and bits of remaining thin black paper spine. A worn, re-purposed lined notebook containing the manuscript notes from the obstetric practice of Samuel W. Bragg, M. D...... More
![Item #27929 [ Medical Manuscript ] "Obstetric Practice of Samuel W. Bragg, M. D." Samuel W. Bragg](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27929_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1590823245)
Tambobong: Pequeña tipo-litografía del Asilo de huérfanos 1894. Later printing. xviii, 270, [6] pages. 6 1/4 x 9 inches. Leather spine over marbled boards. Binding bent upper corner. Paper browned throughout, approaching brittle. Spine leather chipped and worn affecting titling. Good. Boards.
OCLC describes this work as a grammar..... More
![Item #27878 [ Grammar ] Arte de la lengua bisaya-hiligayna de la isla de Panay. compuesto por el...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27878_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1589164504)
[ Poughkeepsie, New York ]: [ Vassar College ] 1921. First Edition. 2 leaves plus wrappers, stapled. With facsimile inscription on cover and photomechanically reproduced image of Curie tipped in to rear inside wrapper. Some spotting, folded as if for mailing. Good. Wraps.
Madame Curie "conferred a special honor..... More
Geneve, Paris, Bruxelles: L Held, L. Hachette et Cie, A. Lacroix van Mennen et Cie 1860. Authorized French edition. XVI, 285 pages. 8vo (5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches) Frontispiece is steel engraving of Humboldt. 1/4 leather over marbled boards w/gilt spine titles. Light overall wear to the binding. Uniformly..... More
133 and 135 Wabash, Chicago: Duncan Brotherss, Publishers and Homoeopathic Pharmacists [ 1884 ]. First Edition. 64 pages. 6 x 9 inches. Green wrappers, string tied, printed in blue and red. Folded (as if for mailing). Lower portion of spine perished, front cover detaching in that area. An interesting catalogue..... More
![Item #27932 [ Homoeopathy ] Catalogue and Descriptive Price Current of Books, Medicines, and...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27932_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1590950513)
[ no place stated ]: [ General Motors Acceptance Corporation ] 1960. First Edition. 14 x 15 inches (dimensions of artists' board). Illustration extends almost to the board extremities. Taped to the rear of the artist board is a copy of the magazine cover it was used on. Artist is..... More
![Item #27899 [ Original art ] Cover art for GMAC MIC [General Motors Acceptance Corporation's...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27899_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1590640191)
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
Boston, Massachusetts: W. B. Clarke & Co. 1895-1910. First Edition. Four volumes,all published. Bindings are 6 x 9 1/8 inches. Wrappers are a thin linen glazed paper. No 1: 172 pages + XVI plates (including colored frontis). Pages 141-159 reprints a pamphlet "The Problem of Manflight" by Means from 1894..... More
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, Inc. 1965. First Edition. Red buckram ex-library binding, properly discarded, containing issues Jan 11 through April 19th 1965. 8 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches. The individual issue covers (often missing in library bindings) are present, some with paper mailing labels. Occasional library markings (stamps on front..... More
Maryland: [ no publisher noted ] [ unknown date ]. 11 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches (dimensions of artists' board). With original croplines, glue residue outside of illustration. Very Good.
Original illustration on artist's board depicting the activities at an unidentified MARYLAND resort. Activities depicted include winter hunting, skiing..... More
![Item #27898 [ Original art ] MARYLAND's Mountain Top Playground. no artist noted](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27898_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1590640190)
[ no place ]: [ Popular Astronomy: A Review of Astronomy and Allied Sciences? ] [ before 1922 ]. [16] pages. 8vo (6 1/2 x 10 inches). Tan printed stapled wrappers. Previous owner stamp "H. Dickson Ash" and inked school name (Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA 9/21/21" on front wrapper. Double..... More
[no place]: [no publisher] circa 1910. 13 1/4 x 11 1/8 inch green tinted matte with laid down silver print size 8 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches. Photograph is bright and clean, with one small circular blemish at the upper edges, and a touch of rubbing at the extremities. The..... More
![Item #27937 [Photography, Industrial] Silver print of a Bell foundry showing eight very large bells](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27937_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591146423)
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1805. Three volumes. Vol I: xl, 515 pages. Vol II: viii, 567 pages. Vol III: viii, 590, [2-ads] pages. 8vo, full calf, earlier rebacking preserving original boards, renewed endpapers. Red spine labels gilt, basic gilt tooled compartments but without raised bands. Leather overall a...... More
New York, NY: Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. 1956. First Edition. 64 pages. Self wrappers. First page (and front wrapper) printed in red black and white. Stapled wrappers. Three hole punched (not as issued). Very Good. Wraps.
An rare survival from the early days of computing. This catalog from Sylvania..... More
Coldbrook Springs, Massachusetts: F. T. Viles c1880. 8 x 17 1/2 inches. An advertising assemblage related to the Holcomb Speaking Telephone, washed and laid down on archival tissue, in the form of a broadside. The top and bottom portions of the assemblage are lighter in appearance, the center portion shows..... More
![Item #27688 [ Advertising "broadside" ] No More Monopoly by the Bell Telephone Company ......](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27688_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1581305930)
Troy, N.Y. W. & L. E. Gurley 1899. Cloth folder 6 5/8 x 6 1/2 inches. Gilt titling. Some wear to the central fold, with some separation starting head and tail. Still sound and usable. Inside front shows great illustration of a Gurley surveying instrument with some nice advertising copy..... More
![Item #27930 Stadia Computer [ cover title ] Cox's Stadia Computer [ volvelle title ]. W., L. E....](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27930_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1590824682)
New York: The Macmillan Company 1930. First Edition. Vol 1: xix, 853 pages. Vol 2: viii, 899 pages. 7 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. Publisher's cloth. An ex-library set, with bookplates, spine lettering and glazing, rear pockets, bindings scuffed, and occasional embossed stamps throughout. Sound and generally clean. Properly discarded..... More
