[London]: Day & Son, Ltd., 1874 - 1900. First Edition. Disbound. A collection of 6 chromolithographed plates (10-1/2" x 15" including margins) of various public figures published as prints by VANITY FAIR with descriptive text either on the verso or on a separate sheet. Included are "The Safe Man," British.....
Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1827. New Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (3-3/4" x 6-1/2") in original sheep-backed boards; 167 pages. Shoemaker 28348. Illustrated with small woodcuts, about half of which are crudely colored by hand. The title page bears a large woodcut of a variation of the United States Presidential Seal, similar.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in the original brown cloth. This copy is SIGNED by the President on the first blank months before his election to his historic nonconsecutive second term to "John P. Irish/from/Grover Cleveland/May 1, 1892." John Powell Irish (1843-1923).....
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.
New York: A. J. Johnson, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Large folio (15" x 18-1/2") bound in original decorated cloth with gilt-lettered and decorated brown morocco leather spine and corners. Complete with 105 numbered hand-colored maps (many double-page) including insets; 2 unnumbered hand-colored maps; 2 hand-colored plates showing world time differences.....
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.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-decorated green cloth; 143 pages. A collection of poetry with a few short prose pieces by a woman who lost her sight due to disease as a teenager and began to write poetry.
[@1910]. Framed Broadside. An attractive 15" x 19" framed presentation of a 9-1/2" x 10" printed card in honor and remembrance of Nightingale with an inset photographic portrait of her and another of her home.
New York: American Foundation for the Blind, (1955). First Edition. Hardcover. Pamphlet in a hardcover pamphlet binder; 65 pages.
London: John Murray, 1807. Second Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo (3-3/4" x 6-1/8") bound in recent calf-backed marbled boards with a gilt-stamped black morocco spine label; [xxii], lvii, 486 pages, with engraved frontispiece and nine engraved plates. The First Edition of 1806 had only 290 pages; this Second Edition, while not.....
London: Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Large folio (15" x 22") bound in modern 3/4 green morocco leather with marbled boards and endpapers, a gilt-lettered and decorated spine with five raised bands, all edges gilt. With lithographed dedication and plate list on the verso. Illustrated.....
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.
