Boston: Published by J. Norman, 1814. [2],xiv,179pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with leather label. Binding moderately rubbed, ink stamps on fore edges. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage; top corner of titlepage torn away with no loss of text. Light foxing and soiling. Good plus. An interesting compendium of trade secrets.....

Washington & Boston. 1877-1882. Approximately 150 documents comprising 250pp., plus one CARTE DE VISITE. Mostly quarto and octavo sheets. Some light wear. Near fine. A remarkable archive of service reports and other documents related to the Bell Telephone Company, from the papers of George C. Maynard (1839-1918), related to his.....

Boston. 1839. [2],179,8pp. plus frontispiece. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Extremities rubbed, front hinge tender. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Light scattered foxing. About very good. An interesting work on early American technology, the autobiography of Timothy Claxton, English mechanic and inventor. Claxton spent several years in America, during.....

[Washington. 1847]. 14pp. plus folding plate. Original printed wrappers, rear cover lacking, stitched as issued. Moderate staining to lower edge of text. Good. Patent issued to Samuel G. Cornell of Greenwich, Ct. for the invention of "a new and useful improvement in lead pipe machinery." Includes the description of Cornell's.....

[Np, but likely Washington. 1813]. Broadside, 11 1/2 x 18 inches. Large woodcut seal of the United States in upper blank margin. Backed with tissue paper. Light fold lines, light foxing. Good. Expertly matted, and protected with Mylar sheet. This copy bears the faint signature in the lower margin of.....

Hartford: D.W. Kellogg, 1834. Two volumes in one. [3]-20; 55pp., plus thirty-six and thirty-two (of thirty-four) plates. Large folio. Modern half green morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Titlepage to second volume with loss along fore edge and several small closed tears; laid down on later paper. Several leaves with.....

[London. 1813]. [1]p., measuring 6 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. Lightly creased, very minor soiling. Near fine. A trade advertisement declaiming "The superiority of the American Fluid over oil," as manufactured and distributed by W. Webb of 46 King Street. The advertisement contains a testimony from an officer at the.....

Cambridge: Published by the Author, 1889. Three volumes. [1],xxiv,766pp. plus color frontispiece portrait; [1],x,[1],[767]-1774pp. plus folding map and tinted frontispiece portrait; [1],vi,[1],[1775]-1958pp. plus eighty-nine plates (ten in color), each with corresponding text leaf, two color folding maps, one color map with corresponding text leaf, and engraved frontispiece portrait. Quarto. Later.....

London. 1912. [2],74pp. Folio. Dbd. Minor wear. Very good. In a blue cloth folder. Uncommon first edition of the official report on the sinking of the Titanic, providing a full accounting of the ship's technical specifications, its journey, and the disaster which took it to the bottom of the North.....

[N.p., but possibly Massachusetts. n.d., but ca. 1810-1820]. Broadside, 7 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches. Old folds. Separated at center fold, minor soiling. Contemporary manuscript notations. Else about very good. A recipe for removing the grease or lanolin from wool, with contemporary notations amending the recipe. The recipe reads, in.....