Rare George Routledge & Sons publication with unusual cover of a black child and white playing together. Pictorial paper boards. Lithographs throughout by Beatty & Co. Lith. Covers detached, although interior signatures are intact. Losses to spine and overall wear (see images). Pencil markings to endpapers. Unpaginated. 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. View More...
This Everybody's Magazine features the urgent topic of women's suffrage and rights years prior to the long overdue passing of the 19th amendment. The cover features two young girls setting off a Votes for Women rocket in the spirit of the 4th of July. Corners and sides are worn and interior contains a slight water stain, but otherwise in good condition with no other markings. View More...
Pictorial jacket over white paper boards. A pictorial crest to front cover. Wear to head and tail of jacket's spine and corners (see images). Numerous colored photographs throughout. Attached bookmark is present. Minor foxing to rear. No previous owners' names or other markings. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Chocolate brown cloth and gilt illustration to cover. Contains half-tone illustrations of the World's Fair palaces and other Chicago buildings, as well as accounts of Chicago's early history, tinted maps of various states and nations, information regarding the American Indian, and the Chicago fire. Binding is shaky and slight soiling to first few pages, but otherwise contains no previous owner's names or other markings. Wear to corners and heads of spine. 11 x 8 in View More...
May 20th 1889- November 10th 1890. Vol. XII No.44 to Vol. XIV. No.12. Marbled paper boards with plastic pastedown on cover and spine. Library stamp on first page, previous owner's stamp on front fly and first page, and pastedown on front fly. Spine detached. Otherwise clean interior and a rare find. 8.25 x 11 in View More...
Metallic paper covered boards. Text is in Arabic. A scarce copy with numerous colored photographs throughout of the fair between the years of 2007-2013. Wear to bottom of spine not affecting pages (see image). Small glue remnant to foredge. No previous owner's name or other markings. 11.25 x 12.75 in View More...
29 x 19". Minor separations at folds contained with tape on verso. Creasing in middle on both left and right sides of map. Early subdivision map of Shaker Heights Village, May 1914 for the Van Sweringen Company with the F. A. Pease Engineering Co. For sale by Green, Cadwallader and Long. Includes indications of Rapid Transit railroad, Streets with improvements in or legislated, and Grounds (Public, Semi-Public, and Parks). Also shows in bottom left corner Transportation Facilities under construction at the time with approximate duration of travel along them. Scarce. View More...
Deep blue wraps. Fold marks. Losses to top front corner right edge, head and tail of spine. Rear wrap taped to spine. Otherwise, inside in very good condition, without previous owners' names or markings. 335pp. View More...
Scarce. Green cloth with gilt-stamped decorations to front board and particulars to spine. Stamped fleur de lis rule to boards. All edges gilt. Contains twenty-eight vivid hand-colored lithographs of British plants, primarily floral in nature, presented alongside dialogues on British botany. Staining to boards; fading to spine; chipping to head and tail of spine (see image). Spine is slightly skewed. No previous owners' names or other inscriptions. 4.3 x 6.6 inches. View More...
Contains the confessions of the youthful Cooke and Tomlinson, who were executed on the basis of burglary in 1812 despite the pleas for mercy from their victims. Quarter red calf over marbled boards. 8 pages of text and an additional 22 blank pages in rear (for binding substance). Clean interior with no previous owner's name or other significant markings. 5 x 7.25 in View More...
Embossed dark green cloth boards with gilt title to front cover. Contains a previous bookstore's stamp to front fly. A otherwise clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 4.5 x 7 in; 104;8 pages. View More...
Dark blue pebbled cloth with Greek key borders and gilt title to cover and spine. Rather scarce limited eight volume edition of only 468 copies of which this is number 18. WorldCat shows but four sets in libraries world wide. Discoloration of middle spine and rear cover to Volume three. 16 x 11 1/4 inches. This is a very large and very heavy set, please expect possible extra postage. View More...
Half calf over marbled boards with gilt title to spine. Four raised bands and marbled endpapers. Hinges cracked, but still attached. January 1894, Vol. 1 No. 4. A clean copy without previous owner's names or other markings. Pp. 488 5.75 x 7.75 in View More...
Vol XII-XXI Nov.- Oct. Half black sheep. Vol XX, chip to head and tail of spine, hinges cracked. All internally clean and serviceable copies. First Edition. View More...
Full sheep with embossed celestial angles. Lacks frontis portrait; light moisture mark pp.131-232 (see final image); chip to head of spine; lacking corner to index page not affecting text; light worming to rear pastedown; otherwise Very Good. Includes bright engraving of Copernicus as frontis to his vita. Half title in red and black. Painted edges. Contains unpaginated double page plate " tabula ascensionum rectarum" loosely inserted between p. 176-177. Floriated initials; woodcut illustrations. ; Octavo; LX, 373, [11] pages; Additional images and further information provided upon req... View More...
16 1/2" x 22 1/2". Represents three fetal skeletons in field with arch and obelisk in background: figure 1 at c. 8 months, figure 2 at 5 months and figure 3 at c. 4 months. Thiroux d'Arconville's great improvement upon Monro's 1726 Anatomy of the Human Bones. Includes folio key plate and four explanatory pages. A very good deep impression on heavy stock. First Edition. View More...