BASEBALL IN BLACKVILLE from HARPER'S WEEKLY
New York: Harper & Brothers, 27 July 1878. Print. Folio (11" x 16") extracted from an 1878 issue of HARPER'S WEEKLY, the woodcut image is quite likely the first depiction of blacks playing America’s game.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 27 July 1878. Print. Folio (11" x 16") extracted from an 1878 issue of HARPER'S WEEKLY, the woodcut image is quite likely the first depiction of blacks playing America’s game.
New York: V. G. Audubon, 1851-1851-1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Octavo Edition of the first volume, First Editions of the second and third. Three volumes in modern half black morocco leather with matching corners, retaining the original marbled boards, all edges marbled; 6-3/4" x 10-3/8"; viii, 383, [1] pages; [2].....
New York: V. G. Audubon, (1849)-1856. Early Edition. Hardcover. Early Octavo Edition of the first two volumes, lacking the third volume. Two volumes in publisher's full brown morocco leather elaborately embossed and stamped, the spine with five raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; 7" x 10-3/4" with half-title pages.....
Dublin & London: William Robertson/Simpkin, Marshall & Co., [1860]. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio (14-3/4" x 10") bound in publisher's gilt-lettered and blindstamped flexible bright blue cloth. With illustrated title page and 19 pages, each with multiple illustrations with captions and tissue guards.
Paris: Dumoulin, 1866 - 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Two large, heavy quarto (11" x 14") volumes bound together in worn contemporary 1/4 red morocco leather and marbled boards, now loose in binding; viii, [ii], 1022, [1] pages. Illustrated with small heraldic coat-of-arms in the text. One of 350 copies printed.....
Washington DC: (J. H. Eastburn), 23 December 1837. First Edition. Pamphlet. String-tied pamphlet; 15, [1] pages. Addressed to the people of Boston regarding the establishment of a National Bank.
New York: Greeley and M'Elrath, 1856. First Edition. Pamphlet. Pamphlet in self wraps; 32 pages. Illustrated with a portrait of Fremont taking more than the first half of the front page and two full-page engravings. A short life of Fremont from his early childhood to his presidential nomination in 1856.....
(Berlin): 1803. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5-1/2" x 9"), uncut, bound in later linen-backed boards retaining the original plain wraps; (22), 246 pages. Dedicated to King Fridrich Wilhelm III of Prussia.
London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer & Co., 1809. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in full early calf leather with blind-stamped borders to covers, gilt-lettered and blind-stamped spine with five raised bands, all edges decorated; xvi, 287, [1] pages. Complete (despite "Vol. 12" on spine).....
New York: Lewis Nichols, 1834. First Edition. Softcover. Plain blue wraps (3-1/4" x 5-1/4"); 68 [1] pages. With errata slip. Apparently the other parts were never published. The author attempts to simplify the science of numbers to enable one to make computations more quickly and easily .A scarce little book.....
London: John Murray, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8" x 10-1/2") bound in full polished calf leather by Casa Calero Madrid with gilt-lettered spine with four raised bands, all edges marbled; xii, 382, [1] pages. Complete with large folding engraved map and 17 hand-colored lithographic plates after Lyon, by M......
Middletown, (CT): E. & H. Clark, 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto (5-3/8" x 8-3/4") bound in original full calf leather with a red morocco spine label. 484 pages.
Washington: A. & G. Way, 1814. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps; 18 pages. Appears to be removed from a collection of pamphlets. Prepared by Monroe during his brief term as Secretary of War, this document presents four proposals to recruit men to strengthen U.S. military forces. We are not very.....
Dublin: Thomas Courtney, 1826. Early Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (3-1/2" x 5-1/4") in original calf-backed boards titled in gilt on the spine; 180 pages. Frontispiece engraving (laid down on inside front board, as issued?), 4 full-page plates, and several text engravings. A collection of bizarre but true stories, apparently aimed at.....
New York: American Foundation for the Blind, (1955). First Edition. Hardcover. Pamphlet in a hardcover pamphlet binder; 65 pages.
New York: Appleton & Company, [1875]. First Edition. Hardcover. Two (of 3) folio (9-3/4" x 12-1/2") volumes bound in publisher's full gilt-decorated black morocco leather. Volumes 2 and 3 only. Illustrated with 2 steel- engraved title pages and 39 (of 60) fine steel-engraved views.
London: W. Tombleson and Company, 1832. W. Tombleson. First Edition. Hardcover. Two small quarto (5-3/4" x 9-1/2") volumes bound in gilt-decorated and blind-stamped full black morocco leather. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages and 137 fine steel-engraved views as well as a long folding panoramic map of the Rhine from.....
London: The Leadenhall Press, 1899-1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's decorated cloth; xvi, 440; 30 pages. Illustrated with 250 cuts and facsimiles of title pages.
London: George Virtue, 1840. W. H. Bartlett. First Edition. Hardcover. Two 8-1/4" x 10-3/4" volumes in publisher's gilt-decorated full green morocco leather, all edges gilt. Beautifully illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait and map, 2 engraved title-pages, and 117 steel engravings after W. H. Bartlett, all with tissue guards.