A selection of newly catalogued items that deserve attention -- and new homes. Have a look!
Sheridan, PA: Lechner & Stump, (1866). 13.75 x 7 inches, single sheet, unprinted on verso, very good, with two engraved illustrations.
Allentown PA (?): 1896. Single sheet (8.75 x 5.75 inches) on yellow "oatmeal" paper, very good, tiny nick to bottom edge and two gentle horizontal creases, tiny pinholes at each corner. As usual, the text in the "dialect" associated with the poor. In 1896 these poverty poverties were all the.....
Wien und Leipzig: Friedr. Wolfrum, (1907). First printing. Hardcover. Folio, 17.5 x 13 inches, boards with cloth spine loosely housing title page and 60 plates, counted complete but not put in order, phototypes of modern German sculptures, busts, bronzes, etc. Light edgewear, stains and soil to several of the plates.....
Pittsburgh: 1903. Housed in original 10.5 x 8 inch card tray box with lid with onlay printing title and greentone depiction of the new Beaux-Arts theatre on Sixth Ave. downtown Pittsburgh. The program is bound in limp white glove leather stamped in gilt with a pictorial depiction of a French.....
Pittsburgh: Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, 1930-1958. All but one measure approximately 7 x 5 inches, wraps, generally good to very good condition, bit of soil and dustiness you often find in old Pittsburgh collections. Although it is generally assumed that Andy Warhol changed his name from Warhola to Warhol on.....
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1933. First English language edition. Hardcover. 12mo, cloth in dust jacket, very good copy, light wear to the jacket, owner's name on pastedown, hidden by jacket flap. 150 pp. the author lived from 1806 to 1849 and wrote at least two books on medical psychology.....
London: Marsh & Miller, 1830. First printing. 12mo (6.5 x 4 inches), original printed tan wraps, very good, some offsetting from a tanning "dust jacket" that was put on this book, light wear to spine, contents very good, with all 6 engraved plates, ads at rear. Anonymous silliness by Southey.....
Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1885. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, slightly later buckram backed marbled boards, very good. x, 167 (1) pp. Faint blindstamps on title page and one other page of Harvard Library; we are assuming legitimate deaccession. Bookplate of Theodor Flatau (1860-1937), a German-Jewish physician who specialized in voice.....
Paris: Theodore Girard, 1683. Hardcover. Early edition of this epistolary novel, 12mo, original dark brown calf with raised bands, gilt spine compartments, frontispiece, very good clean copy, old owner's name scratched out with brown ink on title page. After the novel, there is a selection of Boursault's poetry: satires, epigrams.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1933. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket with original (yellowed) glassine French-folded over the dust jacket. Book very good with small spot to top edge of text block and light smudging to one or two pages; dust jacket with modest wear and a few.....
Paris: Chez Abouin, Emery & Clousier, 1687. Hardcover. Early edition. 12mo, original calf, very good with handsome gilt spine; minor rubbing, contents very clean. 365 pp. A Catholic theologian and historian, he earned the respect of both Louis XIV and his court and of French Enlightenment figures. Voltaire thought this.....
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1888. First printing. Hardcover. First collected edition of the three parts issued separately in 1887-8. Folio (15 x 11 inches), pictorial teal cloth gilt, good copy with some wear along spine including bottom three inches replaced with newer cloth, light wear to corners.....
Philadelphia: Harrison Hall, 1825. Hardcover. Appears to be the full issue of March 1825, lacking the original wraps which would have had the publisher's information, etc., now bound in modern cloth, gilt stamped on front cover, paginated 177-264, with "Letters from the West no. XIV, the Missouri Trapper" printed on.....
Central Pennsylvania: 1860-1861. Paperback. 7.75 x 6.5 inches, wraps with woodcut border and rooster on front and various woodcut images on rear, approximately 50 pp. of phrases and sentences that the schoolboy Umberger copied about twenty times, including "California the state capitol is Sacramento" and "The teacher loves the scholar.....
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Amsterdam: by de wed. van Michiel de Groot, en Gijsbert de Groot, 1683. Hardcover. 8vo (8 x 6.25 inches; 200 x 160 mm), contemporary vellum, very good, some light wear, spotting and darkening to vellum, contents very good, six titles with title pages for each, various paginations, with fine engraved.....
New York: Brewer & Warren, 1930. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good, jacket fair with chipping, wear and loss, especially to fine. Inscribed, "To Stefansson -- this story of a timid adventure toward his latitudes, is inscribed by his friend, Rockwell Kent, 1935." With Vilhjalmur Stefansson's.....
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920. Hardcover. 7th revised issue, printed in an edition of 500 copies. Tall 8vo, dark blue cloth stamped in gilt, good copy with wear to flyleaf, repairs to front and rear inner hinges, with Lanman's stamp and his handwritten note on flyleaf, "C. R. Lanman's copy.....
Nuremberg & Leipzig: Endter / Hoffmann / Groschuff, 1714-1716. Hardcover. 8vo (7.8 x 6.5 inches; 195 x 165 mm) in contemporary vellum, very good, some restoration to spine, contents very good to fine. 76 pp, five engraved plates, four folding, the first monograph on pineapples; 104 pp, with engraved frontispiece.....
NP: Lux Toilet Soap, Ca. 1930s. 17 x 12.5 printed envelope (somewhat worn) containing 38 reproductions of paintings on stiff sheets, for Lux Toilet Soap salesmen and women to build their soap sales, with a number of duplicates. The reproductions are in very good to fine condition. The paintings were.....
London: John Murray, 1818. Hardcover. 2nd edition, 8vo, early half leather and marbled boards, recent leather spine to period style and supplied endpapers, contents very good, minor occasional foxing, 5 hand colored aquatints plus b/w frontispiece. 323 pp.
Detroit: 1907-1908. Hardcover. 9.25 x 7 inches, cloth, 560 pp. illustrated. Bound volume of a journal produced in conjunction with the learning-reading-lecture programs in the Chautauqua Movement style given at this historic resort community located on the northern coast of Michigan, part of the Methodist Camp Meeting movement and modeled.....
New York: American Tract Society, 1850s. Hardcover. No date, ca. 1850-1860 based on binding style. 2.125 x 1.5 inches, russet cloth, 128 pp, pious extracts from Scripture for each day of the year. About fine clean crisp copy.
(New York): The Museum Press, 1945. 7.5 x 5 inches, stapled wraps, 12 pp, very good, light soil and yellowing, two horizontal gentle crease lines. RARE, only a microfilm copy located at NYPL, no other copies found by OCLC. It was also later reprinted in the October 1945 issue of.....
Paris: Chez Humblot, 1769. First printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes, 8vo, original calf with raised bands, fine gilt spines, school prize bookplate on verso of flyleaf from 1809, a very crisp bright set. 532 & 574 pp. Bergier was known for his engagement with the atheist philosophes of the 18th century.....
12 x 10 binder packed with snapshots, 8 x 10 studio shots, etc. mainly from the 1950s-60s. The photos are all affixed to the stiff backing sheets and might be impossible to remove. Album looks like it got a bit damp at one point -- there's some gentle rippling and.....