London: Theosophical Publishing House, (1928). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original blue cloth spine and cream boards, ix, 41 pp., pictorial dustjacket. Frontispiece and jacket illustration by Phoebe Stabler. The second book in the author's series of the angelic heirarchy. More
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Bütten-Kupfer-Druck- und Werkdruckpapiere
n.p. Papierfabrik Zerkall bei Düren Renker & Söhne, nd (1930s?). Paperback. Decorative wraps, 23.5 x 16.5 cm, 10 leaves including 4 with illustrations. Samples of text papers and card stocks. Illustrations depict papermaking and printing in old times. Scarce. OCLC/Worldcat finds 3 copies with this title and publisher though all..... More
MATRIMONIAL CEREMONIES DISPLAYED: Wherein are exhibited the various customs, odd pranks, whimsical tricks and surprising practices of near one hundred different kingdoms and people in the world, now used in the celebration and consummation of matrimony, collected from the papers of A Rambling Batchelor. With a variety of remarks by him, serious and humorous, to which is added the comical Adventures of Sir Harry Fitzgerald, who had seven wives, with the character of each, - a genuine story; also an epigram on matrimony, in English and Latin.
London: Printed for H. Serjeant and G. Woodfall, no date (1880s?). Early reprint. Hardcover. (104) pp., small octavo, blue cloth spine and marbled boards. An irreverant look at matrimonial practices around the world and down through the ages, with the farcical "Adventures of Sir Harry Fitzgerald" for dessert. More
LE ROI DES MONTAGNES
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1861. Fifth edition overall, first edition with Dore illustrations. Hardcover. Octavo, dark green morocco and boards, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, 3 fl, 363 pp., 3 fl. All edges gilt. 158 engraved illustrations by Gustave Dore, including 12 fine full-page illustrations. Slight wear..... More
A TREATISE ON THE ART OF MAKING WINE FROM NATIVE FRUITS: Exhibiting the Chemical Principles upon which the Art of Wine Making Depends the Fruits Best Adapted for Home-Made Wines and the Method of Preparing Them.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1823. Second edition. Hardcover. Original tan and blue paper over boards, printed spine label, 12mo, viii, (9)-92, xxiii, [1] pp., title page engraving. Recipes for making wines from virtually every fruit available in Britain at the time. The first edition was published..... More
THE NEW LUCILE COOK BOOK: Compliments of Acker. Merrall & Condit Company
(Boston: P. R. Warren Co., Printers, 1906). First edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth, octavo, 303 pp., including several leaves of advertisements. Mild wear to covers, else fine. A basic book of home cooking offered by Acker. Merrall & Condit Company, a large grocery firm with several stores in New York..... More
Veduta del Campidoglio sul Monte Capitolino sopra del quale salivano i Vittoriosi Romani . . . (copperplate engraving from Raccolta di No. 40 Vedute Antiche e Modern Della Citta di Roma e Sue Vicinanze)
Rome: Agapito Franzetti, [1816]. Original copperplate engraving, image size 7.25 x 9.25 inches on 10 x 15 sheet. Matted. Engraved by Giuseppe Acquaroni (1780-1847). Signed in the plate Gio. Acquaroni inc. Caption text also in French. More
Veduta dell' Avanzi del Foro Trajano, e Colonna la quale su eretta dal Senato Romano in onore dell Imp. Trajano . . . (copperplate engraving from Raccolta di No. 40 Vedute Antiche e Modern Della Citta di Roma e Sue Vicinanze)
Rome: Agapito Franzetti, [1816]. Original copperplate engraving, image size 7.25 x 9.25 inches on 10 x 15 sheet. Matted. Engraved by Giuseppe Acquaroni (1780-1847). Signed in the plate Gio. Acquaroni inc. Caption text also in French. More
Veduta della Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano primo e principale Templo del Mondo . . . (copperplate engraving from Raccolta di No. 40 Vedute Antiche e Modern Della Citta di Roma e Sue Vicinanze)
Rome: Agapito Franzetti, [1816]. Original copperplate engraving, image size 7.25 x 9.25 inches on 10 x 15 sheet. Matted. Engraved by Giuseppe Acquaroni (1780-1847). Signed in the plate Gio. Acquaroni inc. Caption text also in French. More
TO AND FRO IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA with Sketches in Arizona and New Mexico.
Cincinnati: W. M.B. C. Press, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. 288 pp., 12mo, original dark brown pictorial cloth with cover design and lettering in gilt and black. Compiled from letters to "certain Eastern journals - chiefly to the Cleveland "Leader & Herald" written during 1884 and 1886. The author was a...... More
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC: His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints.
NY: Abrams, (1965). First edition. Hardcover. Original orange cloth, folio (10 x 13.5 inches) , xxxviii pp tex and 370 plates. 54 of the plates are in full color. More
ADTYPE WORK BOOK: a complete showing of hundreds of type faces in current use, each in complete fonts and in all available sizes. linotype, monotype, foundry, photo lettering and associated photo processes.
Los Angeles: Adtype, (1956). First edition. Hardcover. Folio (14.5 x 13 inches), black cloth 4-ring metal-hinged binder; v, 498 pp. 2 index tabs at fore-edge. A massive mid-century type catalog. Text, display, and ornamental types of all sorts. OCLC locates only 6 copies. More
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
NY: McDowell, Obolensky, (1957). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Original blue cloth with title and cover ornament in silver and green, title page printed in blue, 339 pp. Mild wear to covers, small stain to bottom edge, else near fine in lightly edgeworn jacket. Typo on page 80: "Walking" instead..... More
1830. ON THE AMBITIOUS PROJECTS OF RUSSIA IN REGARD TO NORTH WEST AMERICA, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO NEW ALBION & NEW CALIFORNIA
San Francisco: Book Club of California. Printed at the Allen Press, 1955. First edition, limited to 350 copies. Hardcover. Original white parchment and blue-gray boards printed in red; octavo; 79 pp. Map. Text was originally published anonymously in London in 1830 in reaction to (and borrowing freely from) Otto von..... More
THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTHONY.
(Kentfield): The Allen Press, 1974. Limited edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with a full-page reproduction from a wood engraving of Saint Anthony and 24 additional engravings from various sources, (83) pp; quarto (13.5 x 9.75 inches), bound in Fortuny cloth hand-blockedf in a Persian floral pattern; text handset in Menhart Unciala and..... More
THE FIRST CALIFORNIAC: Being a Reprint of PROSPECTS OF CALIFORNIA, Written by Dr. Victor H. Fourgeaud for the April 1, 1848 Issue of "The California Star," San Francisco's First Newspaper, of Which Samuel Brannan Was the Publisher.
San Francisco: The Press of Dorothy and Lewis Allen, 1942. Limited edition. Hardcover. Half calf and decorative boards, 12mo (7x 6 inches) (xv), 44, [1] pp., frontispiece and 2 full-page illustrations. Edition of 225 copies. The second book from the Allen Press. More
ROUGHING IT IN CALIFORNIA.
Kentfield: The L - D Allen Press, 1953. Limited edition. Hardcover. 90 pp., 6 full-page woodcut illustrations by Mallette Dean printed in 3 colors; 8vo (10 x 6.5 inches), bound in wood veneer over boards with rose Fabriano paper spine. Prospectus laid in. The 12th book from the Allen Press..... More
"In Bookbinding Then." (Golden Rules for the Bookbinder).
n.p. The Allen Press for the Roxburgh Club, 1968. First edition. Handset broadsheet with decorative woodcut initial by Malette Dean, 12.5 x 8.5 inches, mounted in double folded plain paper wrapper. Reprint of the 1900 Doves Press broadsheet as a keepsake for Roxburgh Club members for the April 16, 1968..... More
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND TREATMENT OF THE GRAPE VINE: Embracing Its History, with Directions for its Treatment in the USA, in the Open Air and under Glass Structures with and without Artificial Heat.
New York: C. M. Saxton, 1855. Third edition - enlarged and revised. 330 pp. + 6 pages adverts at rear, frontispiece and 2 engraved plates, many engraved illustrations in the text, small octavo, black cloth embossed in gilt and blind. John Fisk Allen is credited with producing and marketing the..... More
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND TREATMENT OF THE GRAPE VINE: Embracing Its History, with Directions for its Treatment in the USA, in the Open Air and under Glass Structures with and without Artificial Heat.
Boston: Dutton & Wentworth, 1848. Second edition - enlarged. 247 pp, frontispiece and 2 engraved plates, many engraved illustrations in the text, octavo, original printed wrappers. Originally published in 1847. John Fisk Allen is credited with producing and marketing the first hybrid between the native American grape "Vitis labrusca" and..... More
BY HORSE, STAGE, AND PACKET: The Far West Letters of Joseph Pratt Allyn.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original decorative boards with paper spine label; xxiii, 192 pp., frontispiece and 10 monochrome plates. 17 letters written by Joseph Pratt Allyn (1833-1869) to the Hartford (Connecticut) Evening Press from various points in the West during the years 1863-1866..... More
BASKERVILLE AND CASLON OLD FACE IN THE ENGLISH MONOTYPE CUTTINGS.; A Showing of 2 English Monotype Book Faces
New York: American Book Bindery-Stratford Press, nd (1930s?). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original pale brown boards with black cloth spine, gilt cloth lettering piece on front board, 79 pp. "This brochure is the advance showing of our 'English-cut Monotype Caslon and Baskerville' prior to the compilation of a type specimen..... More
THE NURSERY BOOK FOR A CHILD THAT LOVES TO LEARN. Revised by the Committee of Publication.
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, (1833). Paperback. Original decorative printed wrappers, 6 x 3.75 inches, 24 pp., engraved illustrations. Copyright statement dated 1833./ The American Sunday-School Union was at this address from 1827 to 1853./ This title was listed in American Sunday-School Union catalogues from Jan. 1832 to Jan. 1858./ One..... More
MODERN SENSORY METHODS OF EVALUATING WINE (Hilgardia, Vol. 28, No. 18. June, 1959)
Berkeley: University of California, 1959. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 9.25 x 6 inches; 477-567 pp., 2 color photo plates. Hilgardia: A Journal of Agricultural Science Published by the California Agricultural Experiment Station. Vol. 28, No. 18. June, 1959. Gabler 13370. More
TABLEAU COMPARE DES ECRITURES BABYLONIENNE ET ASSYRIENNE: Archaiques et Modernes. Avec Classement des Signes d'Apres Leur Forme Archaique. Deuxieme Edition.
Paris: A. Welter, 1902. Second edition. Hardcover. xvi, [1], 141 pp., octavo, original green cloth with gilt spine. Entire text is a photo-lithographic facsimile of the authors' manuscript tables. English Hittite scholar and Assyriologist O. R. Gurney's copy with his bookplate to front fixed endpaper. More