Montgomery, Al. Richards Film Services, Inc., 1918. Panoramic photograph, 16 x 61 1/4 inches. A few creases and moderate wear. 13 1/2-inch closed horizontal tear into the image area from left edge, 2 1/2-inch closed horizontal tear at right edge just touching image area. Overall good condition. A substantial and.....
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: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1850. 83pp. plus sixty-six plates. Quarto. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Hinges cracked, extremities worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Some light scattered foxing, but generally clean and fresh. Good plus. Originally published in 1839, this was the sixth of Benjamin's works. As.....
Boston. 1832. 119pp. plus sixty-four engraved plates. Quarto. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Extremities worn, boards scuffed. First few leaves moderately dampstained, some light foxing and toning. Good. Third edition, first published in 1830, of one of the classics of American architecture. After embracing the fundamental elements of Grecian.....
[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 Theatre.....
[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: 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.....
Worcester: Edward Livermore, 1852. 148pp. plus seventy-one plates. Illustrated throughout text. Quarto. Modern half calf and marbled boards, original leather label. Some light toning and scattered soiling. About very good. Fifth edition of this popular building guide, first published in 1848. It contains a brief origin of the principles of.....
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.....
Salinas, Ca. Green Studio, 1926. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph, 8 x 44 inches. Captioned in the negative in Japanese. Minor bumping, creasing, and some spotting along the right edge including a short closed repaired tear, a few creases, a tiny hole in the grass portion of the image area, light.....
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.....
London. 1887. xxxii,514pp. plus folding map, many engraved plates and in-text illustrations. Frontispiece portrait. Tall octavo. Contemporary gilt morocco. a.e.g. Some minor edge rubbing. Old English school-prize bookplate. Some tape repairs on verso of map, else near fine. The English translation of Charnay's account of his travels and adventures in.....
