The buying's been good. We wear masks, make good offers, and cart off books to the warehouse. There we cull out the books to be cataloged, others to be sold in the shop, and a third group: donations and gifts. The c-de-la-c can be found here.
Easton Press, Ca. 2004. Hardcover. 100 Greatest Books, all collated complete, with over 90 still in original shrinkwrap, fine to mint, watered silk endpapers, gilt tooled leather, all fine. The standard postal amount given is for single volumes; postage calculated at point of sale.
London: Scatcherd and Whitaker, 1784. Print from Cook's Third Voyage. Visible area of sheet measures 17 x 11 inches; frame measures 24.5 x 19 inches. Light soil to bottom margin of sheet else fine, double-matted, framed and glazed to high archival standards. Unalaska is in the Aleutian Islands, and Cook's.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo, dark brown cloth, gilt spine, very good, light wear and soil, typical foxing, slight spine lean.
Map of the the southern part of Sweden and of Denmark with presumably contemporary hand coloring, map measures 5.5 x 4.25 inches, the verso of the map also visible; p. 1007 of a French edition of the Cosmography, ca. 1550, with text in French and woodcut showing a coastal Danish.....
Paris: Michael Toulouse for Denis Roce, 1499. Hardcover. 8vo (8 inches tall) bound in quarter niger over marbled boards. Leaf size 186 x 127 mm. a-g6, h5; 38-40 lines per page. Incomplete, 47 of 76 leaves; leaves VIII, IX, X, and XI bound out of order between leaves V and.....
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1906. 12mo, original wraps, good plus with some wear and tanning to covers, contents good to very good, iv, 126 pp, folding charts. Very RARE, and only 1 copy located by OCLC: US Army War College. This copy with ink note on inside front cover.....
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1907. 12mo, leather-backed printed boards, good copy, with some rubbing and light loss along spine, 96 pp. Very RARE witj OCLC locating only one holding: War Memorial Library, Australia. At the time of this book, the French had retained colonial control over several parts of.....
London: Alex Hogg, 1784. Image measures 13 x 8 inches; frame measures 20 x 16; professionally double-matted, frame and glazed to museum standards. Image appeared first in Cook's Third Voyage (1784-1785) and was republished in the nearly simultaneously issued Hogg edition of the voyages of Cook in 1784-1786. Not examined.....
Lancaster etc. New Era Printing Company, 1910-1916. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, in half red morocco, raised bands and handsome gilt compartments, near fine, with presentation from Hensel's daughter to a friend in 1916. Bound by Zucker in Philadelphia. The essay on Scotland is the longest at 41 pp. Other papers have.....
Lugduni [Lyon]: Ioannem Frellonium [i.e., Jean Frellon], 1560. Hardcover. 12mo (6.75 inches tall; 17 cm), old vellum, good copy with some spotting and darkening to binding and spine is slightly wrinkled, text good to very good, some tanning, etc., and early owner's brown ink streaks to perhaps 30-40 pages (see.....
Sunday Press, 2005-2008. Hardcover. 2 volumes, folios (21 x 16 inches), cloth backed pictorial boards, sewn bindings, fine copies, still in shrinkwrap. Rarely found together.
From a German edition of Munster's "Cosmographia." In a heavy frame, double matted, with window in back showing small portion of verso of map. Visible sheet measures 15 x 12 inches; map measures 13.25 x 10 inches (34 x 26 cm); frame measures 25 x 22 inches, beautifully framed to.....
Baltimore: H. Niles, 1814. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, nicely rebound in recent dark brown leatherette and smooth deep caramel boards, new endpapers, contents very good, toned and light foxing. 448 pp.
Baltimore: H. Niles, 1815. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, nicely rebound in recent dark brown leatherette and smooth deep caramel boards, new endpapers, contents very good, toned and light foxing. 452 pp, index, plus 192 pp. supplement.
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. Part of the Sportsman's Library. Small quarto (10.25 inches tall), half rose morocco and red cloth boards by Bayntun, raised bands, gilt sporting decorations in spine compartments, very good with just a bit of surface rubbing and freckling to the cloth, contents very nice and clean.....
Measures 12 x 9.25, good with some foxing and folds. Unrecorded: no copies found in any institution. Almost certainly from Jefferson Clollege, ca. 1860, later Washington & Jefferson, the three column poem lambastes and mocks fellow graduating classmates either by name or nickname: Traitor Zack, Ten Mile Yelper, Bombastic Freeman.....
Philadelphia: The Centennial Historical Committee of Roxborough Lodge, 1913. First printing. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, limp textured black leather, gilt, good plus with light rubbing to edges and light abrasions along fore-edge of front cover, contents very good. 299 pp, illustrated. OCLC locates three holdings: AAS, Free Library of Philadelphia, and.....
Abingdon, VA: S. S. Miles, 1849. Hardcover. 8vo, original embossed deep maroon leather, recent cloth spine and paper label, light rubbing to edges, contents very good, 700 pp, 13 plates as called for, including several folding (all b/w). Foxing to outermost pages.
London: B. Took, 1719. Hardcover. Eigth edition, corrected and improved. 8vo, paneled calf, (12) 646 (18) pp. Very good clean copy with light rubbing and wear to binding.
Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, (1842). Hardcover. Vol. 3 of 13 volumes Lea published occasionally between 1834 and 1874. Quarto, original printed boards, in remarkable condition with just slight rubbing and wear at bottom of front board, 88 pp, 23 fine lithograph plates of shells, contents bright and clean. Lea.....
Tokyo: Soju-sha, 1973. First printing. 16 x 12 inches, paper portfolio folder, signed on the front by Smith, housing 12 photographic prints plus one smaller sheet in English giving biographical details about Smith. Folder very good, light soil and wear, photos are all near fine with the slightest bump to.....
Paarl, South Africa: D. F. Du Toit & Co., 1902. First printing. Hardcover. 12mo (6.25 x 5 inches), gray cloth, good to very good light wear and soil to covers, 276 pp, 4 pp. ads, some minor pencil notes on words to rear flyleaf, very rare in commerce and only.....
London: Alex. Hogg, 1784-1786. Print from James Cook's voyages as published by Alex. Hogg in 1784-86. Visible area measures 13.75 x 9.5 inches, double matted, framed and glazed to high archival standards; frame measures 20 x 15 inches. Light soil and two small holes along bottom edge of visible area.....
London: C. Cooke, 1789. Image measures 13 x 7.75 inches; frame measures 20.75 x 16 inches. Not examined outside of frame. Professionally matted, framed and glazed, museum quality. The plate shows the locale of where Cook was killed in Hawaii. The print was first published in Cook's Third Voyage (1785).....
A map from Drayton's "Poly-Olbion" published in 1612, with presumably contemporary hand coloring, 13 x 10 inches visible, handsomely double-matted, framed and glaze, to archival standards; not examined outside of frame. Shows the NW of Wales. Frame measures 20 x 17 inches.