Montgomery, Al. Richards Film Services, Inc., 1918. Panoramic photograph, 16 x 61¼ inches. A few creases and moderate wear. 13½-inch closed horizontal tear into the image area from left edge, 2½-inch closed horizontal tear at right edge just touching image area. Overall good condition. A substantial and striking large-format panoramic.....
Boston: Haskell & Post, 1886. Two volumes. [1],vii,152; [1],[3],[153]- 308pp., plus 130 plates including frontispieces. Half titles. Folio. Contemporary three- quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands, a.e.g. Boards and morocco scuffed. Dampstain in lower margin of rear eight leaves in first volume, not affecting images or text.....
New York: A.O. Moore, [ca. 1860]. 378pp. including twenty plates (including frontispiece) and numerous in-text illustrations, plus 12pp. of advertisements. Frontis. Contemporary cloth, stamped in blind, spine stamped in blind and gilt. Cloth sunned, light foxing on frontispiece and titlepage, else near fine. Later stereotype edition of the work (originally.....
St. Augustine. July 9, 1837. [4]pp. autograph letter, signed, on a folded folio sheet, addressed for mailing and with a circular “St. Augustine” postal stamp on the fourth page. Old folds. Remnants of wax seal on fourth page. Short, closed splits along a few folds, with no loss of paper.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. [2],96pp. plus 5pp. of advertisements. 12mo. Original green cloth, stamped in red. Cloth bubbling. Light stains in printed endpapers. Overall very good. Number 3 in the Appleton HEALTH PRIMERS series. Detailed recommendations for house building and maintenance with regard to health, covering "Soil.....
Philadelphia: T.K. and P.G. Collins, 1848. 15,[1]pp. Dbd. Spine reinforced. Later short pencil annotation on titlepage. Light toning at edges. About very good. James Barclay was a prominent advocate for prison reform in Philadelphia. In this dedicatory address he explains that although a shelter for juvenile delinquents had been established.....
Philadelphia: Howard Challen, [copyright 1857]. 132,[2]pp. plus thirty-eight lithographed plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Tall octavo. Original cloth. Spine ends chipped. Front cover rather dampstained, with some bubbling. Some moderate foxing, mostly in text. Clean three-inch tear in plate 17 (no loss). Else good. An interesting 19th-century American work of.....
Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros. & Co., 1886. 152pp. including two hundred in-text illustrations, plus forty-four lithographic plates and [2]pp. of advertisements. Original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spine frayed at ends and nicked at edge. Front hinge loosening. Internally very clean. Overall a very good copy. Second edition, "enlarged and.....
Greenfield: Thomas Dickman, 1800. [36]pp. plus thirty-five (of thirty-eight) plates, one folding. Lacks frontispiece and plates 25 and 32. Small quarto. Contemporary calf, remnants of leather label. Binding moderately worn, but sound. Moderate toning and foxing to titlepage. Scattered offsetting from plates, foxing and soiling. Light wear. Plate 29 torn.....
[Boston. July 3, 1815]. [4]pp. on a single folded folio sheet, with blind embossed paper seal intact, docketed on verso of second leaf. Old folds with separation starting at most folds, two small holes (no loss of text), slight chipping to edges, light tanning, a few spots of soiling. Good.....
New York: Bicknell & Comstock, 1880. [3]-80pp. including numerous illustrations. Original cloth, stamped in black, blind, and silver, spine gilt. Cloth edgeworn; upper front cover soiled. Ex-lib. (Oblate House of Studies, Saskatchewan), with neat ink stamp on titlepage. Overall very good. About equally a publisher's catalogue and a conventional pattern.....
New York: Henry L. Hinton, 1870. 16pp., including in-text illustrations, plus engraved frontispiece. Titlepage vignette. Original pictorial wrappers. Front wrapper detached (but present), moderate wear and chipping to edges, minor dust soiling, spine chipped. Light occasional foxing. Good plus. A scarce and handsomely illustrated pamphlet on Edwin Booth's 23rd Street.....
[Boston. 1891]. One page of letterpress and thirty albertype plates. Folio. Thirty-one leaves in original green cloth portfolio with title stamped in gilt. Light spotting on front cover, else near fine. Number twenty of the limited edition of 500 copies. Similar in appearance and presentation to the 1883 SKETCH BOOK.....
Boston: Published by Charles Stimpson, 1829. Handcolored folding map, 8 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches. Folding into contemporary roan gilt binding, 3 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches. Map trimmed to the neatline, minor splitting along some folds. Contemporary ownership inscription of "Cap’t Crofton Vandeleur 34th Reg't" on verso (see below).....
Boston: Printed by Order of the City Council, 1882. 175pp. plus plates (including a few photogravures). Tall octavo. Original gilt cloth. Light fraying to head of spine. Else very good. Nicely illustrated guide to the old state house in Boston. Illustrated with beautiful photogravures of the interior as it looked.....
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Georgetown, British Guiana: James Thomson, Argosy Office, [ca. 1900]. Twenty-four photographic reproductions on [16]pp., bound in accordion style. Original blue publisher's cloth, front board gilt. Light shelf wear. Pressed leaf laid in. Internally clean. Very good. A scarce volume of images of British Guiana from approximately the end of the.....
New York. 1853. 264,[14]pp. In-text illus. Decorated cloth stamped in gilt. Spine sunned, head and toe worn and a bit chipped. Internally quite nice and clean with a few marginal pencil notations and a few pages darkened. Good plus. Attributes the beginning of architecture to the European immigration, and includes.....
Boston. 1863. 204,2pp. Original cloth. Some minor fraying at head of spine. Bit tanned. Still very good. Styled third edition on the titlepage, after the first of 1860. An early American manual on metalworking, with directions for preparing various metal finishes, Japanning, lacquers, etc.
San Francisco & Chicago: California Photogravure Co., 1900. Twelve parts. 24pp. plus 130 photogravures on 109 leaves. Folio. Original textured burgundy leatherette wrappers, gilt title on front wrapper. Light wear to extremities of all volumes, minor soiling to covers of a few volumes. Occasional light foxing (images not affected). About.....
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1858. 30pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine and edges of wrappers chipped. Ex-lib. from the New England Historic Genealogical Society, with blindstamp on titlepage, card bound in at end, and date inkstamped on wrappers and rear leaf. Apart from the chipping, a very good copy. Hitchcock.....
Boston: Bates, Kimball & Guild, 1892. [5]pp. plus fifty plates from photographs. Folio. Fifty-three leaves loose in original three-quarter cloth portfolio with marbled boards. Portfolio scuffed and worn, lacking spine and ties. Light early dampstain in corner of preliminary leaves, not affecting text; and in seven plates, slightly affecting images.....
Philadelphia: Published by C.G. Childs, Engraver, 1827-1830. [42] leaves, including an extra engraved titlepage, acknowledgements/directions to binder leaf, and two leaves of subscribers' names, plus twenty-eight fine engraved plates, as issued (with blank guards) and twenty-four variant or later plates laid in. Folio. Modern half red calf and late 19th-.....
Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1868. ix,186pp. including in-text illustrations, plus two plates (including frontispiece). Original gilt cloth. Spine faded, spine ends frayed. Light stain in corner of second plate, not affecting image, otherwise clean internally. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown. Overall very good. With a frontispiece portrait of the author.....
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1895. 9pp. Original printed wrappers. Ex-lib., with call number inscribed in upper inner corner of front wrapper, else near fine. Discusses the Capitol, Capitol terraces, Capitol grounds, United States Botanic Garden, the Court House, and the Pension Office Building, and gives a statement of expenditures.....
New York: Macmillan Co., 1894. xxxi,387,iv pp. Contemporary cloth, spine gilt. Inner hinges cracked, else very good. With the ownership inscription of "W.H. Cadwell, New Britain Ct" on verso of front free endpaper; William H. Cadwell was "New Britain's most famous architect" ("Downtown New Britain..."). T.M. Clark was a fellow.....
