Boston: Burroughs & Co, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. 70 pages. Seventy photographs of old homes, mostly in Massachusetts. This is photographic essay with no text. Many of the houses depicted are no longer extant. More
Boston: D Lothrop Company, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. 117 pages. 28 x 21,5 cm. Text by a host of authors, all are women including Sarah O Jewett, Celia Thaxter, Kate Putnam Osgood et al. Interior contents as new. All illustrations in black and white. Front cover decorated in silver with..... More
Boston: Hill Publishing Company, 1972. First Editions. Hardcover. 30.5 x 23.5 cm. A complete set of this periodical for 1972. The magazine targeted to hip intellectuals and literary arts aficionados. The publication presented literature and illustrations by novelists, short story writers, poets and screenwriters, including six Nobel prize winners: Maya..... More
Boston, New York & Philadelphia: Lilly, Wait, and Co., Goodrich and Wiley, T.T. Ash, 1834. First edition. Hardcover. 102 -212 pages. 17 x 13.5 cm. Index and List of Illustrations, latter are black and white engravings. Owner inscriptions front free endpaper, scattered light foxing. Back cover announces Periodical Publications Supplied..... More
New York: Borroughs Wellcome & Co., 1934. First edition. Hardcover. 160 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. Describes every explorer, traveler, and missionary that carried with them a Tabloid Medical Kit. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs both in black and white and color. Crisp, exceptionally clean copy. More
Chicago: Decorators Supply Corporation, 1941. Original Wraps. 12 pages. 30 x 22.5 cm. Profusely illustrated, multiple images per page with price list. Illustrates carvings for mantels, cabinets and architectural trim, reproductions of hand carved patterns. Letter from the company dated March, 1941 laid-in. Front and back cover slightly toned, interior..... More
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 403 pages. 22 x 18 cm. Hundreds of halftone illustrations. Presents fifty-four essays by various authors: Joy Wheeler, Claude Bragdon, Harriet Monroe, Edgar Metcalf, Ralph Adams Cram, et al. Printed by the Lakeside Press. Covers a host of American homes..... More
London: J. Richardson for Samuel Titmarsh, 1688. First edition. Hardcover. 6, 223, [1]. 81, [1], 34 pages. 18 x 12 cm. The anonymous author of this work attempts to refute the "slanderous imputations" of the work Justification of the Directors of the Netherlands East-India Company (reprinted here in full, with..... More
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable And Company, 1818. First edition. Hardcover. 344 pages. 19 x 11 cm. Included herein: trial of Andrew Wilson, William Hall, and George Robertson, before the High Court of Justiciary.; Authentic extract of the proceedings in the trial of Captain John Porteous.; Proceedings in the trial of William..... More
London: Macmillan, 1870. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 31 x 25 cm. Twelve chromolithograph full page illuminations to the parables by H.R. McEntry. Frontispiece by John Jellicoe, and the illuminated borders are from the Bevario Grimani. The illuminated texts and title-page designed by Lewis Hind. Interior contents generally clean. Beveled..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., (1872). First edition. Hardcover. 112 (2) pages. Small folio, 32 x 25 cm. Engraved frontispiece of the Anchor Line offices in New York at Bowling Green, nine more engravings and five engraved vignettes, folding map of the Anchor Line's steamship routes to the United..... More
New York: Cuban Land And Steamship Company, 1902. First edition. Wraps. 32 unnumbered pages. 23.5 x 15 cm. Illustrated with photo engravings. An attempt after the Spanish-American war to sell "liberated" Cuban real estate to the US public. The publisher calls Cuba "The Garden Spot Of Our New Territory," with..... More
New York: The Chinese Porcelain Company, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 257 pages. 32 x 23.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color plates printed on high gloss stock. Bibliography. More
Utica: William E. Gray Company, Nd. Stiff Wraps. 71 pages. 25 x 17.5 cm. "Etruscan Bronze -- so named because first used in a crude form by the inhabitants of ancient Etruria, has long been known to metallurgists, but only in recent years has it been successfully used in the..... More