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The London Cook, or The Whole Art of Cookery Made Easy and Familiar ...
Gelleroy, WilliamDublin: T. and J. Whitehouse, 1762. First Irish edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [3], iv, [21], 2-246, [2] pp. Contemporary full calf with the spine in six and a half compartments, a maroon leather label lettered in gold on the spine. Lacks the elusive frontispiece. Completing the title page: "Containing a great.....
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Kate Greenaway
Spielmann, M.H.; Layard, G.S.New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xix, [1], 1-300, [6] pp. Three-quarter twentieth-century morocco over decorative patterned cloth, boards ruled in gold, spine in six compartments with gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a color frontispiece.....
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Victorian Women Chromolithograph Calendar
[Victorian Women; Calendars; Chromolithography]Chicago: The Winters Co., 1896. Sheets. Chromolithograph calendar, 4 chromolithograph sheets. 8” x 11.25” (or 20 cm by 29 cm). Each drawing has a lady dressing for winter, spring, summer, and fall (in the latest fashion of the day). The winter sheet was a supplement to the Boston Herald, issued.....
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The Trumpet of Conscience
King, Jr., Martin LutherNew York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [10], xi-xii, [2], 3-78, [6] pp. Black publisher's cloth with the publisher's device in gold on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the.....
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Boswell, James, Esq.Oxford: William Pickering and Talboys and Wheeler, 1826. First Pickering edition. Hardcover. 4 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xix, [2], 2-394, [2]; [5], 4-416; [5], 2-395, [1]; [7], vi-xi, [2], 2-428 pp. Full contemporary calf (tree calf on volumes three and four), the spines have been rebacked in period style, twin gold.....
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Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1871; 1872; 1873; 1874; 1875
[Lee, Major General Charles; Pattison, James; Various; Washington, George]New York: Printed for the Society, 1872; 1873; 1874; 1875; 1876. First edition. Hardcover. 5vol. 8vo. [12], 494, [4]; [10], 494, [4]; [12], 494, [4]; [13], 2-500, [2]; [9], x, [5], 2-553, [5] pp. Bound in green pebbled cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the spine. Several leaves unopened.....
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Portraits of Washington
Eisen, Gustavus A.New York: Robert Hamilton & Associates, 1932. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 4to. [4], xi-xxxii, [4], 3-323, [1], [one unpaginated plate], [2]; [4], xlv-liii, [3], 331-733, [one unpaginated plate], [2]; [4], lxv-lxxii, [2], 743-1021, [1], (one unpaginated plate concludes the volume) pp. Quarter-bound in green leather over tan cloth, top.....
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Evolution and the Diversity of Life; Selected Essays
Mayr, ErnstCambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-ix, [4], 2-721, [3] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Tan endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with several in-text black and white diagrams. Inscribed by Mayr to Bill (William) Coleman, a former historian.....
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In Darkest Africa; or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria
Stanley, Henry MortonNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First American edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], iv-xiv, [1], 2-547, [3]; [3], iv-xvi, 1-540 [2] pp. Bound in original green cloth with outline of Africa embossed on the front boards in dark green and black with gold lettering and facsimile of Stanley's signature.....
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Henderson the Rain King
Bellow, SaulNew York: The Viking Press (1959), 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 3-341, [1] pp. Quarter tan cloth over orange cloth with lettering in black, silver, and orange on the spine. First issue book with yellow topstain. Jacket design by Bill Preston. Jacket is either married or second issue since.....
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A Double Barrelled Detective Story
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 3-179, [5] pp. Bound in red cloth with gold decorations and lettering on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Decorative green and beige endpapers and pastedowns. Title page printed in red and black. With a frontispiece and.....
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An Easy Introduction to Astronomy for Young Gentlemen and Ladies; Describing the Figure, Motions, and Dimensions of the Earth...
Ferguson, JamesGlasgow: Gray, Maver & Co., 1804. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [5], 10-182, [4] pp. Full contemporary calf, spine in six compartments with a red morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine. Illustrated with seven beautiful fold-out copper plates. Intended as a textbook for young people to learn about.....