John Adams 1735-1826
New York: Doubleday, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 1170. 24 x 15.5 cm. Illustrated. Extensive Index. More
New York: Doubleday, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 1170. 24 x 15.5 cm. Illustrated. Extensive Index. More
Np: 1903. First edition. Hardcover. 42 pages. 26.5 x 18 cm. Engraved frontispiece of Farmer. The first women to become president of a major educational institution, Wellesley College at age 26. In the early 1890's she became the first president of the new University of Chicago. Throughout her academic career..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 415 pages. Small folio, 33 x 22 cm. Illustrated with eighteen colored and 136 black and white plates, together with numerous other illustrations showing the work of more than 100 different craftsmen from every part of America. Index to Alphabetical List Illustrations..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Doran, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 404 pages. 30.5 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 460 of 501, and designed by Ernest Reichl. Plate numbers 143-319 with a list of plates. Part III: Checklist of all known prints of N. Currier, C. Currier, and Currier & Ives..... More
Philadelphia: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 164 pages. 28 x 24. Signed in ink by author on title page. Illustrated with photographs, prints and drawings of most of Smith's buildings. He designed sunken marine constructions that kept the British navy out of the Delaware River. More
Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1970. Hardcover. 249 pages. Color and black and whitephotographs by Thomas M. Jarrett. Introduction by A.W. Robertson. A cultural history of Western Pennsylvania. More
1843: E.H. Butler, Philadelphia. First edition. Hardcover. 320 pages. 16 x 11 cm. Half title, frontispiece and host of full page black and white steel engraved plates with tissue guards. Scattered, intermittent foxing, mostly marginal, yellow endpapers. Covers and spine decorated in gilt and blind with spine in gilt arabesques..... More
Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826. First edition. leather_bound. 353 pages. 14.5 x 9 cm. Literature by James Kirk Paulding, William Cullen Bryant, Catherine Sedgwick et al. Paulding who served as Secretary of the Navy probably authored "Biographical Sketch of Admiral Paul Jones." Contents contain twenty-four titles of varying..... More
Salem: Peabody Museum, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. xii, 110 pages. 25.5 x 18 cm. Limited edition, one of 400 on special rag paper printed by the Southworth Anthoensen Press. An historical overview of the Pond with the source material first collected by Arthur C. Pickering. Illustrated with photographs. Appendices. As..... More
Philadelphia: Cary and Hart, 1845. First edition. leather_bound. 300 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Second issue without date on title or copyright date, and without printed title. First appearance of THE PURLOINED LETTER, with twelve steel engraved plates including frontispiece with tissue guards. Also included are works by Emerson, Longfellow..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 274 pages. 285 of Father Point's paintings, 232 full-color are reproduced.. Translated and introduced by Joseph P. Donnelly, with an Appreciation by John C. Ewers. Bibliography. Father Point's paintings offer the only first hand information we have on the ethnology..... More
Topsfield: Walpole Society, 1932. Hardcover. 323 & 331 pp. 8vo, Series I-II, total of seventy-one illustrations. Indexes in each volume. Limited editions: First Series, one of 500 and Second Series, one of 400. A mine of information for the antiquarian. KARPEL K66-K67. Entries are arranged according to the last name..... More
Chicago: Radford Architectural Co., 1903. First edition. Hardcover. 255 pages. 20 x 16 cm. Perspective views and floor plans of 100 low and medium priced houses. Every plan illustrated presents complete working plans and specifications. Adverts at rear. A bright, fresh and very clean copy. Owner stamp front cover pastedown..... More
Coral Gables: Univ. of Miami North-SouthCenter, 1989. First edition. Paperback. 168 pp. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", Basic Bibliographical Information regarding Protestant clergy currently in Cuba or who have ministered there. This book presentsan overview of the Protestant community in Cuba, and describes the origin and development of the Protestant..... More
Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 388 pages.26 x 18 cm. More than seventy illustrations. Names of Buildings. Locations of Buildings. Architects and Engineers. General Index. A detailed history of the structures, the foundation engineering and construction methods, and the planners and builders who developed Chicago from..... More
New York: The Publisher's Printing Co., 1939. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 270 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Illustrated. Index. More
WestIslip: Ulae Inc., 1981. First edition. Original Wraps. Approx. 90 pages in text. Forty-five full-page photographs by Rauschenberg printed recto only. Introduction by Richard Ackley. More
Brooklyn: Long Island Historical Society, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 206 pages. 25.5 x 18.5 cm. Title page printed in red and black, eighteen plates printed on glossy stock, a centennary celebration with the publication of this book to commemorate and delineate the outstanding features of its holdings. Manuscripts, maps and..... More
San Francisco: The California Academy of Sciences, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 86 pages. List of Officers, 1930-1960. Membership Roll. Biographies of deceased pastpresidents, fifteen in total. Index. Partly unopened. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. More
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp. 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 272 pages. 33 x 25.5 cm. Signed presentation copy in blue ink, "For Jack Holiday with best wishes for finding a great undiscovered masterpiece for your collection." John Holliday, Jr. was the great-grandson of W.J. Holliday, who came to Indianapolis in..... More
Washington, DC: U.S.Commission of Fine Arts, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 161 pages. 241 illustrations including photographs, drawings and maps. Bibliography. Index. KARPEL B870. "Selections from the Historic American Buildings Survey Series, No. 10." More
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 221 pages. With 101 illustrations in black and white, including many maps and plans. Notes on the illustrations.Bibliography. Index. KARPEL B882. "An intensive investigation of Washington from L'Enfant to the present, this is a definitive work." More
Richmond: Commonwealth of Virginia, 1951. Hardcover. 105 pages. Prefatory Note by Wilmer L. Hall. With a full Index which was lacking in the original document. A reprint with correction published ina Limited edition one of 200. More
Coral Gables: Univ. of Miami North-South Center, 1991. First edition. Paperback. 118 pp. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", this work is designed to be an analysis of the extent of Havana's involvement in the revolutionary process in Latin America over the course of the past thirty years. Index. More
New York: New York Historical Society, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Dorothy C. Barck. Index. An important primary source for naval operations during the Revolutionary War. Vol. I:Letter-Books July 6, 1780- Feb. 4, 1781; Dec. 10, 1781; Dec. 10, 1781 - Sept. 21, 1782. Vol. II: Order-Book July, 1781;..... More