Newport News, Virginia: The Mariners' Museum, 1939. First edition. Pamphlet. 8vo. ix, [1], 90 pp. Green wraps printed in black. Illustrated by a frontispiece and several in-text illustrations, all photographs of the vessels discussed in the pamphlet. Replete with charts. Includes a bibliography. Publication number 5 from The Mariners Museum..... More
West Allis, Wisconsin: Burbach Auto Sales, 1959. Postcard. 47.5 cm x 27 cm. Postcard. Orange paper printed in black. The recto states: Gala Showing only at Burbach's; The All New 1959; Plymouth: if it's new Plymouth got it! October 16; Desoto: the 1959 quality car October 24; Burbach Auto Sales;..... More
n.p. Published exclusively for The Interstate Company, n.d. Wraps. Oblong 8vo. 29.5 cm x 23.5 cm. [3], a full-page map, [25] plates. Tan wrappers printed in black and gold with a color illustration inset on the front, decorations in gold and black. Staple-bound with ties. Price of $1.50 on the..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company [1929], 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], vii-xiv, [2], 3-314 pp. Bound in grey cloth with the title and the publisher blocked in navy cloth and embossed in gold lettering on the spine; grey topstain. Lacks the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [8], 1-88 pp. Dark red cloth with black lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Price of $1.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a full-page map. Jacket has a closed tear..... More
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Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, 1870. First edition. Hardcover. Royal 8vo. [7], 4-612 pp. Twentieth-century quarter blue morocco over blue cloth, boards ruled in gilt with the spine in six compartments, gilt lettering on the spine; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Title page..... More
Chicago: F.B. Higgie, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [8], 9-392 pp. Black leather over flexible boards with gold lettering and gold decoration on the front board; all edges red. Brown floral endpapers and pastedowns. Full-page black and white photographs and a map and with a color illustration of flag signals..... More
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-viii, 1-468, [2] pp. Twentieth-century half red morocco over orange cloth with the spine in six compartments, gold lettering and decorations on the spine; top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in Bath. Illustrated with a...... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press [1957], 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [3], 3-248, [4] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with four plates of black and white photographs. A history of..... More
London: Cha. F. Cheffins, 1835. Map. 29 3/8" x 61.5". Linen-backed map, done on two sheets. Map printed in black, pink, yellow, and green, hand-colored. Housed in a 8" x 5.5" green case with gilt lettering and a gilt device on the front board, the front of the case states..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], iii-iv, [3], 2-285, [1], [3] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [1] pp. Blue publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine, gilt rules on the spine. With a map of Europe in color. Without the dust..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xv, [2], 18-380 pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece and twenty-six additional plates with black and white photographs on them. A history of the Great Lakes and rivers upon..... More
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1921. First Four Seas edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [10], 11-127, [1] pp. Quarter grey cloth over grey paper boards, pictorial front board lettered in blue with decorations in white, black, and blue. Illustrated by a frontispiece and seventeen additional plates, photographs of where Nichols was..... More
London: Allan Wingate (1955), 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xii, 13-239, [1] pp. Blue publisher's cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 17s 6d net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with several plates, black and white photographs. Just a...... More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xviii, [3], 4-560 pp. Navy cloth rebacked with the original spine laid down, gold decoration of a ship on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Later endpapers and pastedowns with the original free front endpaper present. Illustrated..... More
Winnipeg: The Western Land and Townsite Co. Limited, 1911. Map. 55 cm x 86 cm. Map. Printed in red and black. The map directs the reader to the townsites on that year's construction, which they state: "practically all of which will afford excellent openings for all lines of business necessary..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 4-628 pp. Brown cloth with borders in blind on each board, with the binder's stamp (U.S. Government Bindery) on the rear board, gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated with two fold-out maps and a third folding map laid in the..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], vi-xv, [1], 1-311, [3] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine; navy topstain. Price of $3.00 on the rear flap of the dust jacket. Title page illustrated with a pictorial border. Illustrated with several in-text and full-page..... More
[London]: National Maritime Museum, 1981. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. [12], 1-212 pp. Blue glossy wrappers printed in black on the front and spine. With two double-sided plates of color photographs of graphic medical imagery. Also illustrated with in-text black and white images. The proceedings of an international symposium held at..... More
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1907. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], viii-xxiv, [1], 2-406 pp. Bound in maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on the front board and spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece and fifteen color plates by Frank Southgate, R.B.A. Includes an index. A fascinating example of an..... More