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Claremont, New Hampshire: Published for the Subscribers, 1880. CALIFORNIA. First Edition and a Rare Variant with Original Wrappers Bound In [IDE, Simeon]. [Scraps of Califonia History. Never Before Published]. A Biographical Sketch of the Life of William B. Ide: With A Minute and Interesting Account of One of the Largest Emigrating Companies, (3000 Miles Over Land), From the East to the Pacific Coast. And What is Claimed as the Most Authentic and Reliable Account of "The Virtual Conquest of California, in June, 1846, by the Bear Flag Party," as Given by its Leader, The Late Hon. William Brown Ide. [Claremont, New Hampshire]: Published for the Subscribers, [1880]. First edition, and an interesting variant as noted by Streeter 2992 with the original printed wrappers, and ten additional preliminary pages of text. Sixteenmo (6 7/16 x 4 1/4 inches; 164 x 110 mm). [8],[2], [2, half-title: Scraps of California History Never Before Published, verso blank], [1]- 239, [1, "The Inscription"] pp. Inscribed to… Read More

London: Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes Maiestie, 1580. BIBLE IN ENGLISH; BARKER, Christopher|HERREY, Robert F.. A Rare First Edition of Herrey's "Concordances" [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. [BARKER, Christopher]. [HERREY, Robert F., compiler]. Tvvo right profitable and fruitfull concordances, or large and ample tables alphabeticall. The first contayning the interpretation of the Hebrue, Caldean, Greeke, and Latine wordes and names scateringly dispersed throughout the whole Bible, with their common places following euery of them: and the second comprehending all such other principall words and matters, as concerne the sense and meaning of the Scriptures, or direct vnto any necessarie and good instruction. The further contents and vse of both the which tables, (for breuitie sake) is expressed more a large in the preface to the reader. Collected by R.F.H. London: Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes Maiestie., [1580]. First Edition. One of two issues of the same year, priority unknown. Our… Read More

Lyons: Per Johanem Crespin, 1529. BIBLE IN LATIN. Lyons: Per Johanem Crespin], 1529. Second Crespin edition, reprinted from the 1527 edition. Folio (13 15/16 x 10 inches; 354 x 252 mm.). 304 leaves ([18], CCLXVIII, [18] leaves). Complete with final blank leaf. Gothic type. Text in double columns within rule borders. Title printed in red and black with small woodcut of St. Jerome (repeated three times in the text with Jerome's prefaces) within a four-part woodcut border showing God the Father and two angels in a tympanum, the six days of Creation, and the Last Supper. Large six-part Creation woodcut at the beginning of Genesis, half-page woodcut of King Solomon at the beginning of Proverbs, full-page Nativity woodcut at the beginning of the New Testament, and 121 small text woodcuts (including twenty-three repetitions): ninety-one Old Testament woodcuts within strip borders (including eight repetitions) and thirty New Testament woodcuts without borders (including fifteen repetitions). Decorative… Read More

En Leon [i.e. Strassburg]: en Casa de Sebastian Grypho [i.e. Augustin Fries], 1550. BIBLE IN SPANISH; ENZINAS, Francisco de. First Edition in Spanish of Ecclesiasticus [BIBLE IN SPANISH]. [ENZINAS, Francisco de, translator]. [Ecclesiastics]. Libro de Jesus Hiio de Syrach, qu'es llamado, el Ecclesiastico. traduzido de Griego en lengua Castellana En Leon [i.e. Strassburg]: en Casa de Sebastian Grypho [i.e. Augustin Fries], 1550. First edition in Spanish of Ecclesiasticus. Small octavo (6 x 3 5/8 inches; 151 x 91 mm). [3], 109 leaves. With numerous woodcut initials. With an imitation Gryphius woodcut device printed in reverse on title. We could only locate 3 copies at libraries, Cambridge, Madrid and Copenhagen. No other copy besides this present copy has been at auction in the past 50 years. Early 19th-century mottled sheep. Boards tooled in gilt. Spine stamped in gilt. With red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some minor dampstaining, mainly to… Read More

Mainz: Johann Gutenberg, 1455. BIBLE IN LATIN; LEAF BOOK|GUTENBERG, Johann|NEWTON, A. Edward. A Leaf from the Gutenberg Bible- Numbers 21-23. The Story of Balaam, a Donkey and an Angel [BIBLE IN LATIN]. [GUTENBERG, Johann]. Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, 1450-1455. [Biblia Latina] [Leaf 76, Numbers 21-23.] [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg, Johann Fust, and Peter Schoeffer, 1455]. Original large paper leaf from the Gutenberg Bible. Folio, (15 7/16 x 11 1/4 inches, 392 x 286 mm). [1] leaf of text, printed on both sides. Black gothic letter, forty-two lines, double columns. Two, two-line capitals, one printed in red, and one in blue. With page headings and chapter numbers in red and blue ink. Capital strokes in red. Leaf 76, containing one column and six lines of the end of Chapter 21, all of Chapter 22, and four lines of the beginning of Chapter 23. Edges stained red. A bit of light toning around edges and some residue from removal along one edges. Leaf in a mylar sleeve, viewable on both sides, housed in a… Read More

England, 1688. [INDENTURE]. . Thompson's Mortgage to Adam Barnes. England: October 18, 1688. This manuscript document is an indenture for a mortgage from October 18, 1688 between H. Thompson and Adam Barnes. The manuscript is two sided on vellum. The manuscript is mounted with a floating mount and framed and glazed along with an envelope above it and the reverse side of the frame with a window so that the back side can be viewed. Envelope is printed with "On His Majesty's Service" and "War-Office." as well as being hand addressed to "Lieutenant General Jefferson[?]" The vellum document cut at the top in the typical wave pattern, first letter of the text is embellished. It is signed by Thompson at the foot where the bottom margin has been folded up about one-inch and sealed with a vellum tie. The reverse with numerous witness signatures as well as other manuscript notation. Document size is approximately 21 x 11 1/4 inches. Folded up envelope is approximately 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Opening on the… Read More

New York: David Longworth, 1807. First Edition of All Parts, With the Rare First State of Part I. [IRVING, WASHINGTON] Salmagundi; or the Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, ESQ. And Others. New York: David Longworth, 1807-1808. First edition of all 20 parts of Salmagundi, bound together in two small octavo volumes (5 5/8 x 3 1/2 inches; 143 x 90 mm). With the rare first edition, first state of part I, with "Dress he!" and other parts in mixed first edition states as usual. With the frontispiece portrait in the first state without caption. With BAL title-page B in volume I and BAL title-page A in volume II, according to BAL "No sequence has been determined" for the title-pages. All parts have been collated against BAL and match as follows: Part 1- Rare first state with "Dress he!" On page 20. Part 2- Matches BAL, no states noted. Part 3- First printing, with early printing notice, and last words on pg 39 "conversation with the" Part 4- With signature mark A4 (unknown sequence) and in… Read More

New York: C.S. Van Winkle, 1819. [IRVING, Washington]. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. New York: Printed by C.S. Van Winkle, 1819[-1820]. First edition, first issue of all parts. Two octavo volumes (8 x 5 inches; 203 x 128 mm), bound together from the original seven parts. Volume 1 is parts 1-4, volume II is parts 5-7. BAL describes parts 1, 6, and 7 as having additional first printing points, of which our copy has all points as described in BAL; and state B (no priority) of the text on page 240 of part III in first volume, line 12: "on the". Collates exactly according to the BAL. iv, [5]-94; [97]-169,[-170, blank]; [171]-210, 203-242; [243]-301[-302], [2], [303]-335,[-336, blank]; [337]-443, [1, blank]; [1]-120; [1]-123, [1, blank] pp. Part 2 without the anti-piracy slip (not required for a complete collation). Bound without final blank in Part I as usual. Almost uniformly bound in full mottled tree calf, but not with exact gilt stamping. Elaborately stamped in gilt on boards and spine.… Read More