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New York, 1867. 8vo. 245 x 155 mm., [9 ½ x 6 inches].  40 pp.  Stitched as issued.; some dust soiling to the title leaf, edges a chipped; generally in good condition. Although undated, on the verso of the title there is subscription advertisement for an edition of Hazlitt's Handbook  offered for sale through John Russell Smith of London and Sabin in New York.  The advertisement is dated 1867. This is a general catalogue of books, including general Americana, a good assortment of American travelers to Europe, English literature, classics, and a smattering of Continental literature and history.  A first edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson was priced at $10.00, and a grangerized edition of the same work dated 1831, filled with letters and engravings, from the libraries of Jos. Haslewood and the editor J. W. Croker was offered at $80.00.  There was a 29-volume set of British Classics, $115.00, an extra-illustrated set of Irving's Life of Washington $500.00, Schoolcraft's History . . .of the… Read More

Paris: Ches Basan rue du Foin, et ches St. Aubin Graveur rue des Mathurins au petit Hotel de Clugny, 1770. Folio half sheets.  320 z 205 mm., [12 ½ x 8 ¼ inches].  Engraved title and 7 engraved plates, designed by Augustin de Saint-Aubin and engraved by J.-B. Tillard; the final engraving without signature of the engraver.  Fine impressions, some light soiling to the paper stock. Only edition of Saint-Aubin's series of "cries", complete with architectural and landscape backgrounds and interiors.  Following in the tradition of 18th century French book illustration and etching, Augustin de Saint-Aubin [1736-1807] amplified the design characteristics of Gravelot, Cochin, Eisen, and especially J. M. Moreau.  In addition to his numerous portrait engravings and title-pages for book illustrations, he is best remembered for his drawings of contemporary life as exemplified by this rare series of etchings  of depicting Savoyards, young boys who offered their services on the streets of Paris as letter… Read More

Salem: Printed at the Office of the Gazette, 1842. 8vo.  255 x 150 mm., [10 x 6 ¼ inches].  xvi, 171 pp.  Missing front wrapper; spine and lower wrapper with some chips; clean copy with partially unopened text block. The Salem Athenaeum, incorporated in 1810, was formed by the union of the Social and Philosophical Libraries, which had their origins in the 1760's.  A very brief history of the Athenaeum appears in the "Introductory Remarks", which is followed by the Act of Incorporation and the By-Laws and Regulations of the institution.  The catalogue lists about 9,000 volumes and was published to celebrate the move of the institution to a permanent home on Lawrence Place in Salem.  The catalogue is organized systematically by subject and a detailed "synopsis" lists the subject and sub-category classification system of the library.  Main topics are Theology, Jurisprudence, Government, and Politics, Science and Art, Belle Lettres, History, and Pamphlet Volumes. The pamphlet section of the… Read More

Madrid: For Joachin Ibarra, Impresor de Camara del Rei Nuestro Señor, 1772. Folio.  350 x 265 mm., [13 ¾ x 10 inches.  pp. [2], pp. 337-378, [2] pp.  Illustrated with three full-page engraved plates and images of coins and calligraphy throughout the text.  Bound in full Spanish morocco, double fillet borders on boards, raised bands, red leather title label; marbled paper pastedowns and end leaves; some minor rubbing to the binding and some minor discoloration to the edges of the paper. Very nice copy with very large margins, printed on thick paper.  Translated from the Latin into Spanish by Gabriel Antonio Bordón, Infante of Spain.  Beautifully produced archeological work by the Infante of Spain, that reproduces the ancient language of the Phoenicians from reliques, coins, and papyrus fragments.  The appears to be the final chapter printed in folio of  the Ibarra edition of Sallust's La conjuracion de Catilina y La guerra de Jugurta  originally printed in quarto.  The Harvard College… Read More

Firenze: Presso Giuseppe Molini, 1793.  4to. 242 x 180 mm., (9 ½ x 7 inches).  Illustrated with one engraving one final leaf.  Contemporary decorated paper paste paper wrappers; some soiling and minor foxing to the text. Only edition of this rare bibliographical study, which poses that printing began in Lucca in the year 1468 and offers evidence that Lucca follows Subiaco and Rome as the birthplaces of printing in Italy.  His Congetture is a challenge to Ferdinardo Fossi's, bibliography, Catalogus codicum Saeculo XV (3 volumes, 1793-95), which give Florence precedence over the city of Lucca. Count Giacomo Sardini was from a noble family in Lucca, a collector of Lucchese history, whose archive was incorporated in the State Archive of Lucca at its formation in 1804. According to OCLC there are copies at Yale, Newberry, Morgan, Grolier Club and Columbia. .

London: Trübner & Cie, 1858. 4to. 265 x 210 mm. (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches). [ii], vi, 202 pp. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page (with the date 1859 in the imprint), and 16 full-page engraved plates after original sketches by Moritz Rugendas. Original brown cloth, decorated in bind and gilt; rebacked sympathetically, some fading of the cover and some sporadic foxing to the tissue guards and to a few plates; with faults quite a good copy. The first edition of Sartorius's Mexico was published in Darmstadt in 1855 in nine parts, followed by editions published in London and New York in 1858-59. Satorius's book is one of the key travel books which illustrates the landscape and people of Mexico. Satorius was a refugee who left Germany looking for political and religious freedom. He became a wealthy miner and businessman and spent the later years of his life exploring and writing about his adopted country. Working with the artists Moritz Rugendas, they produced an image of the… Read More

London: Printed for and by William Savage, 1809. Three volumes, plus the first part of volume four, No. 19. 8vo. 218 x 130 mm., (8 x 5 inches). iv, 236, [2] plus 2 engraved plates; iv, 286, [2] pp., iv, 286 pp.; 48 pp. Bound in full English calf, decorated gilt spine and bands, boards with embossed and gilt fillet borders, all edges gilt; edges rubbed boards lightly rubbed, joints with minor cracks but sound. All published of this short-lived bibliographical journal, thought to have been started by the Greek scholar Richard Porson, Principal Librarian at the London Institution, and taken up by his assistant James Savage after his death. Porson, renowned for his publications on classical writers was also a distinguished calligrapher and the two engravings in this volume that illustrate his work. His letter forms were adopted by Oxford University Press and became the mostly commonly used type face used in the production of their Greek texts. The short essays that makeup the content of The… Read More

Boston: Printed by Nathan Hale, 1827. 8vo.  210 x 135 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches].  30 pp.  Disbound. Boston School Board, organized originally in 1798, issued updated regulations which show the improvements and innovations of the educational system in the city.  The text begins with the rules of the School Committee, followed by the regulations common to all the public schools, regulations for teaching English grammar and writing skills, regulations governing the high school for girls, and regulations for the Latin Grammar School, with a list of books used in educating Latin School students.  James Savage with the Secretary of the School Committee. Shoemaker,  Checklist of American Imprints, 28233.

8vo.  200 x 180 mm., [8 x 6 ¾ inches].  302 pp.  Manuscript text in neat hand.  Bound in half-leather and marbled boards, gilt rules on spine. Some rubbing to spine ends, a later ownership name stamp on front pastedown. Manuscript lecture notes from Prof. Leonard Woods' class in theology, taught at the Seminary in Andover.  The student introduces the lectures in the first two pages: "West Chester Society Colchester Conn. -- In view of an examination preparatory to my ordination I presented to the Council the following confession of faith...." He follows this information with a nine page table of contents for the lectures, which begins with "On the inspiration of the Scriptures." In clear prose, he recounts what he was taught by Prof. Woods while he was a student at Andover for those several years. Although unsigned, these lecture notes most likely belong to Jacob Scales (1788-1873). Scales was born in Freeport, Maine, graduated from Dartmouth in 1817, and went on to Andover Theological… Read More

New York, 1867. 8vo.  230 x 150 mm., [9 x 5 ½ inches].  40 pp.  Stitched as issued in original printed wrappers; some soiling to the wrappers and sun fading; a few small chips to spine, and tear at fold of back wrapper; otherwise a good copy. Priced catalogue of books in all fields of science, industry, and manufacturing.  Included are subject specialties architecture, carpentry, building, astronomy navigation, shipbuilding, chemistry, physics; civil, mechanical, and marine engineering; drawing and painting; geology, minerology, mining and metallurgy; hydraulics, mathematics, and military engineering.

Chicago: Laird & See, 1906. 8vo. 190 x 130 mm., [7 1/4 x 5 inches]. 186 pp. Illustrated throughout with half-tone photo reproductions. Original decorated printed wrappers; edges and spine of wrappers chipped, but sound and not an unattractive copy. Profusely illustrated with characteristic pictures of the horrible storm of fire and flames -- many fascinating and terrible scenes of falling buildings, government troops dynamiting mammoth steel structures, escaping refugees and other interesting views of the appalling havoc wrought by the earthquake in San Francisco, Santa Rosa, San Jose, Napa and other California cities. "With sorrow for the dead, pity and sympathy for the injured, hope for those who have been stricken with poverty, and full confidence in the ability of the people of San Francisco and other unfortunate towns to replace in magnificent newness all that has been destroyed, this tragic tale of weird events following the dawn of the memorable 18th of April, 1906, is… Read More

Munich: Anton Dreer, 1816. Broadside sheet, large folio.  775 x 590 mm., [30 ½ x 23 inches].  Engraved with calligraphic samples, with five engraved vignettes.  Printed on thick wove paper, deckle edge.  Fine condition. A splendid and rare type specimen sheet, beautiful printed and fortunately beautifully preserved.  The imprint states that it was 'composed, engraved, and published by J. B. Seitz'.  Seitz was an engraver for the Royal Bavarian Bureau of Statistics and Topography (Königlichen Bayrischen Statitisch-Topographischen Bureau), which was responsible for the manufacture of official maps, charts, and plans.  He was one of the first technicians to work on the trial production of lithographic maps and considered a leader in the field of cartographic design and printing. The present rare specimen-sheet was presumably printed for cartographic institutes, publishers, and mapmakers.  The sub-title "Alphabets of Languages the most Customary" is in German, English, French, and Italian,… Read More

Napoli: Tipografia nel Reale Albergo de'Poveri, 1848. 4to.  260 x 220 mm., [10 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches].  [viii], 136 pp.  Bound in contemporary leather backed spine over marbled paper boards, title gilt on spine; edges a bit rubbed but sound and attractive. First edition.  Vincenzo Semmola (active 1825-1850), was a botanist who published works on the classification of confer and cypress trees, grafting of figs trees, the diseases of grapes, and this work on the enology of grapes on Mount Vesuvius. This work on grape culture and the varieties cultivated on Mount Vesuvius includes chapters on the terroir  of Vesuvius, classification of the varieties grown there, methods of cultivation, and the steps required to make a fine vintage of read and white wine.  Semmola's research identifies 112 varieties, each described as to the characteristics of the vine (vigorous, gentile, hardy, old vines), their distinctive qualities in relation closely related varieties, the dimensions of shape of the grape leaves,… Read More

Bordeaux: Imprimeur de la Revue Catholique, 1843. 8vo. 218 x 133 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches). 15 pp. Later wrappers. Inscribed copy by the author to Omalius d'Halley, member of the Belgian senate. First edition (not an offprint). Important scientific argument advocating the unity of all mankind, with specific reference to African race. Serres published this affirming pamphlet during a turbulent period of history where racism and the superiority of Europeans over African, Middle Eastern, and Oriental races was rampant. Marcel de Serres was a geologist and mineralogist at the University of Montpelier. He was also a physical anthropologist and astronomer. His most famous work, De la creationn de la terre and des corps celestes, was the first work of its kind to challenge creationism based on recent observations of stellar distances from Earth and the Sun. Not is OCLC, BNF, or NUC. (122).

New York: Broadway Books, 2002. 8vo.  210 x 140 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches].  [10], 242, [3] pp.  Original buff paper boards with red cloth spine, dust jacket.  Price sticker on rear wrapper of dust jacket, otherwise a very good copy. First American edition, originally published in Italian in 1995 and again in Milan in an English language edition in 2001.  "In the wry but affectionate tradition of Bill Bryson, Ciao, America! is a delightful look  at America through the eyes of a fiercely funny guest -  one of Italy's favorite authors who spent a year in Washington, D. C." .

London: Bell and Dalby, 1866. Shaw, Henry. Handbook of the Art of Illumination, as Practiced During the Middle Ages. With a description of the metals, pigments, and processes employed by the artists at different periods. London: Bell and Dalby, 1866. $ 135.00 Tall 8vo. 270 x 180 mm. (10 3/4 x 7 inches). Illustrated with 16 wood engraved plates, illustrated throughout. Original decorated cloth, expertly rebacked; some light foxing throughout. Bookplate of Sturgis Library, Barnstable, Massachusetts, with red ink stamp on all the plates. One of the earliest works in English to provide information on the methods practiced by medieval illuminators, with an emphasis on their artistic skills, design motifs, tools, paper, vellum and the composition of the pigments used to decorate the manuscripts. Standard work, a working copy. (318).

Boston: Boston: Sold Wholesale and Retail by L. Deming,, 1832. Broadside 8vo. 225 x 180 mm., [9 x 7 inches].  Songs printed in two columns, separated by a decorative border with the imprint in small type.  Paper stock brown, a few stains, and edges rough, otherwise sound and attractive. I courted lovely Mary, at the age of sixteen, Her waist it was slender, and her carriage genteel; Till at length a young weaver come thee, her to see, And stole the flower of this country, the Rose of Ardee AND My Kate she is a bonny wife There's none more free from evil, Except upon a washing day, And then she is a devil. The very kittens on the hearth, Thjey dare not even play, Away they jump with many a thump, Upon a Washing Day OCLC cites a one copy at the American Antiquarian Society.

New York: Published at Fulton Street, (for the Author?), 1842. 12mo.  180 x 110 mm., [7 x 4 ¼ inches].  72 pp.  Illustrated throughout with woodcut images of the planets.  Disbound, trimmed to outer margin. First edition. "No. 1.-To be Continued Annually."  This appears to be the only edition printed.  "The loadstone, the magnet, magnetism, and the mariner's compass, have been known to the ancient eastern nations from time immemorial.  They called the two opposite forces in the magnet male and female and taught that everything was formed and moved by the combined action of these male and female forces.  Little, however, was known on this subject among the Europeans. . ." OCLC list nine copies of this edition only. .

Wolfeboro, N. H., 1836. Tall Folio.  385 x 155 mm., [15 ¼ x 6 inches]. 68 pp. Contemp. marbled boards, leather spine; some minor deterioration to parts of the calf spine, a few signatures sprung, otherwise a good, sound ledger. Cobbler David H. Whitehouse (1807-1839) lived primarily in Wolfeboro, Carroll County, New Hampshire. This volume of records appears to have kept up to his death at age 33. His wife was Mary M. Giles Whitehouse (1806 - 1899) and they had two children; Joseph and Abigail. Whitehouse's customers came mostly from Carroll County, including the towns of Brookfield, Conway, Moultonborough, and Wakefield.  Whitehouse's signature appears on the front fly leaf and on the folio numbered 27. Entries include the date, cost, and job including various types of shoes; slippers, calfskin shoes, repairing boots, boots, and women's shoes. Whitehouse also purchases material for his trade including a shoemaker's seat and tools. The book also includes some household expenses and foodstuffs,… Read More

Philadelphia, 1835. Folio broadside. 360 x 265 mm. (14 ¼ x 10 ½ inches). Illustrated at center with a woodcut of the Carpet Hall by N. Johnson and with circular emblems of the 24 States of the Union arrayed as a border cut by Pease. Trimmed to the image margins, with outer border removed, slightly affecting a few state names on the left side; repaired at the center fold tiny hole above one letter of the title. Matted. Rare illustrated sales broadside for Carpet Hall, with "3000 pieces of Wilton, Brussels, Imperial, Ingrain, Damask and Venitian Carpetings [sic]" on sale. Jones' establishment was located at Carpet Hall, 18 & 20 North Second Street, one door below Christ Church. In his research on the textile trade in Philadelphia Philip Scranton writes that Jones ran a factory on South Street in the 1850's that produced carpet yarn for handloom weaving that was marketed through his showroom at Carpet Hall. Jones seems to have quite a long career as he is… Read More