‎Collectibles‎

‎Taylor, Bayard (editor)‎

‎Picturesque Europe: A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Natural Features and the Picturesque and Historical Places of Great Britain and the Continent Vol. I II III Complete‎

‎New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1875. Book. VG. Full-Leather. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Complete in three 3 volumes uniformly bound in full dark brown morocco lettered in gilt elaborately decorated in embossed black designs 4 raised bands beveled edges with dentilled inner edges text block fully edged in gilt marbled endpapers with reinforced hinge original to issue. An elegant production here nicely preserved with relatively minor cosmetic wear. Corners joints and bands a bit rubbed slight exposure to several corners nicer than typically found. Bindings firm hinges fully intact interiors bright and unmarked. Photos available upon request. viiv488 iv460 iv491 pp. copiously illustrated w/ 63 steel engravings many additional reproduced throughout text. D. Appleton and Co. Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 063633

‎Moe, Ole Henrik (fwd, pref)‎

‎Sonja Henie - Niels Onstad Collection‎

‎Oslo Norway: Sonja Henie - Niels Onstad Foundations 1968. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff silver wraps French flaps. Modest handling wear mild rubbing along joints and fore-edges. Firm binding unmarked interior. 1st ptg. xiv226 pp. illus. Sonja Henie - Niels Onstad Foundations Paperback‎

Referencia librero : 063842

‎Kent, Rockwell‎

‎This Is My Own‎

‎New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce 1940. Book. Illus. by Rockwell Kent. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Tan cloth lettered/illus. in dark blue deckled text block edges. Spine panel and portions of both covers tanned irregularly suggesting that the darkening may actually be moisture staining but in any case confined to exterior only. Endpapers tanned interior otherwise clean and bright binding firm. 1st ed. stated. xv393 pp. illus. Color illus. dust jacket Good with shallow chipping to spine extremities and closed tear extending 3" from head of spine onto upper front panel tanning and mild soiling spine panel somewhat darkened by age now in mylar. Duell, Sloan and Pearce Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 065466

‎Nicholas, Grosvenor, and C Wheaton Vaughan‎

‎Winning Backgammon: Problems and Answers‎

‎New York and London: D. Appleton and Co. 1930. Book. VG. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth lettered/illus. in silver. Minor white speckling along a portion of front cover fore-edge a few slight surface marks. Text block edges typically a bit dulled top edge mildly darkened by age. Firm binding clean interior. xii103 pp. 1st ptg. Very scarce. D. Appleton and Co. Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 065507

‎Morrison, Richard, and Shelly Morrison‎

‎Best Books on the West: A Guide to a Core Collection Texas and Western American Maps Catalogue Prices 1987-1990 Western Americana Catalogue Prices Vols. 6 1992 7 1993 Texana Catalogue Prices Vols. 10 1992 11 1993 6 Volumes Total‎

‎Austin TX: Richard Morrison 1989. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Six 6 volumes as specified publications ranging 1989 to 1993 all from W M Morrison Books Austin. All volumes softcover in clear PVC covers. Dated prices but still useful bibliographical references for Western Americana specialists and collections. 82 45 222 200 118 134 pp. Minor handling wear. Price is for the lot; not offered individually. Richard Morrison Paperback‎

Referencia librero : 066084

‎Smith, William, AM, Rector of Trinity in Chester A M‎

‎Dionysus Longinus on the Sublime. Translated from the Greek with Notes and Observations; and Some Account of the Life Writings and Character of the Author‎

‎Dublin Ireland: Printed for W. Sleater E. Smith and W. Hallhead 1777. Book. Good. Full-Leather. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Full original brown calf lettered in gilt on dark red spine title label decorated cover edges. 2242 pp. Rubbed along edges and joints leather with areas of scuffing minor surface loss at corner. Front board loose but still held by binding cords. Title page signed by Rev. Samuel Magaw 1794 vice-provost of U Penn in the 1780s along top edge by John Redman Coxe M.D. professor of chemistry and medicine at U Penn 1809-35 along hinge; private ex-libris label J. P. Hiester Jones 1870 mounted inside front cover. Scattered internal foxing/soiling generally light with a few inked notations and some marginal brackets in pencil. Printed for W. Sleater, E. Smith, and W. Hallhead Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 066456

‎de Lambert, Madame la Marquise‎

‎La Metaphysique d'Amour la suivra qui voudra The Metaphysics of Love‎

‎Paris France: Etienne Ganneau Librairie 1734. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Full original deep brown calf 6 spine panel compartments with clamshell device 5 raised bands edges decorated in gilt. Leather nicely intact with surface loss along portions of back cover fore-edge mild rubbing to back cover and rear joint. xiv751 pp. with errata printed on final page of text. Etienne Ganneau Librairie Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 066933

‎Metropolitan Museum of Art at Home: Greece and Rome - Egypt and the Ancient Near East - Europe in the Middle Ages - The Renaissance in Italy and Spain - The Renaissance in the North - Europe in the Age of Monarchy - Europe in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution - Modern Europe - The United States of America - Asia - The Islamic World - The Pacific Islands Africa and the Americas Complete in 12 Volumes Cloth-Bound Edition‎

‎New York NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1987. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Complete in twelve 12 volumes bound in various colors of cloth tan brown pink blue olive etc. each volume with color front cover pastedown illus. 10 volumes of 12 in original translucent dust jackets. All 12 volumes essentially as issued. Some of the DJs show minor shelf wear such as short closed tears one with some wrinkling from moisture contact overall thus Near Fine. Please note that this set is the cloth-bound edition issued by the Metropolitan Museum of Art not the embossed leather edition issued by the Franklin Library. Metropolitan Museum of Art Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 067891

‎Varkaris, Jane, and James E Connell‎

‎Early Canadian Timekeepers‎

‎Toronto Ontario Canada: Boston Mills Press-Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd. 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Dark blue cloth-effect boards lettered in silver foil. 272 pp. illus. As issued. Color pictorial dust jacket Near Fine with minor surface rubbing now in mylar. . Boston Mills Press-Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd. Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 068181 ISBN : 1550460730 9781550460735

‎Superior, Roy (prologue); Richard R Goldberg, Steffanie Dotson, Albert and Tina C LeCoff, Joshua Lane, Nora Atkinson, Jasper Bri‎

‎On the Edge of Your Seat: Chairs for the 21st Century‎

‎Atglen PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd./The Center for Art in Wood 2016. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Glossy pictorial boards. As issued. Translucent dust jacket VG with moisture ring on upper front panel otherwise about as issued. 1st ed. 288 pp. illus. Schiffer Publishing Ltd./The Center for Art in Wood Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 068520 ISBN : 0764351699 9780764351693

‎Wood, Neil S (editor)‎

‎Evolution of the Pedal Car and Other Riding Toys with Prices 1884-1970's Vol. 2 Vol. 3 Complete in 3 Volumes‎

‎Gas City IN: L-W Book Sales 1989. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Complete in three 3 volumes bound respectively in stiff light blue hot pink and sea green color illus. wraps. All 3 volumes essentially as issued with square bindings unmarked interiors. vii218 xiv184 ii251 pp. illus. Vol. 1 is 1st ptg. 1989 Vol. 2 2nd ptg. 1992 Vol. 3 1st ptg. 1992. Pedal cars sleds scooters tricycles and more. Outdated in terms of prices but still useful in providing photographs of many rare and obscure examples. L-W Book Sales Paperback‎

Referencia librero : 068754 ISBN : 0891454004 9780891454007

‎Bracewell, Michael (text); Gordon Burn (interview); Damien Hirst‎

‎Beautiful Inside My Head Forever Complete in 3 Volumes Slipcased‎

‎London: Sotheby's 2008. Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Complete in three 3 volumes uniformly bound in stiff color pictorial wraps. All 3 volumes as new/as issued; slipcase Near Fine with minor surface rubbing. 287 lots illus. w/ color plates throughout. Lacking the two slim volumes that originally accompanied The Kingdom and The Golden Calf. Sotheby's Paperback‎

Referencia librero : 068838

‎The Dick Claus Nautical Toys & Boat Collection - Part II Nov. 10 2012‎

‎Vineland NJ: Bertoia Auctions 2013. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black color pictorial boards oblong format. 1st ptg. As issued. 160 pp. lots 211-584 illus. in color. Bertoia Auctions Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 068978

‎Reiff, Daniel D‎

‎Houses from Books: The Influence of Treatises Pattern Books and Catalogs in American Architecture 1738-1950: A History and Guide‎

‎University Park PA: Penn State University Press 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Burgundy cloth-effect boards lettered in gold foil. Price sticker mounted on upper front flyleaf otherwise as issued. Pictorial dust jacket Near Fine with mild sunning along spine panel now in mylar. 1st ed. xi412 pp. Penn State University Press Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 069134 ISBN : 0271019433 9780271019437

‎Winckler, Elsner, Heintze, Mierzinski, Jacobsen, Koller, and Heinzerling, with additions by Willam T Brannt and William H Wahl‎

‎The Techno-Chemical Receipt Book: Containing Several Thousand Receipts Covering the Latest Most Important and Most Useful Discoveries in Chemical Technology and their Practical Application in the Arts and the Industries‎

‎Philadelphia and London: Henry Carey Baird and Co./Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1889. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red cloth lettered and illus. in black and gilt. Early printing copyrighted 1886 this copy issued 1889. xxxii49632 pp. illus. w/ 78 engravings. Covers modestly soiled with mild rubbing along joints exposure to bottom corners spine panel cloth somewhat faded. Thin diagonal streak of dye lightening on front cover extending from top binding corner. Text block edges typically dulled by age. Firm binding both hinges neatly mended. . Henry Carey Baird and Co./Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 069249

‎Aspen, Nelson Page‎

‎A History of Bermuda and its Paper Currency - Sterling and Decimal 2nd Edition INSCRIBED‎

‎Nelson Page Aspen Printed by Taggart Printing Co. West Chester PA 2000. Book. As New. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. INSCRIBED. Green leatherette lettered in gold foil. New/as issued dust jacket now in mylar. 2nd ed. 224 pp. illus. Inscribed by author on blank verso of front flyleaf full signature personalized. Very scarce. Nelson Page Aspen [Printed by Taggart Printing Co., West Chester, PA] Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 069390

‎Rowe, C Francis, James A Haxby, and Robert J Graham, with contributions by Ross W Irwin, Robert C Willey, Norman W Williams, and‎

‎The Currency and Medals of Newfoundland Canadian Numismatic History Series Vol. I‎

‎Willowdale Ontario Canada: Numismatic Education Society of Canada for J. Douglas Ferguson Historical Research Foundation 1983. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Brown buckram lettered in gold foil. As issued. Color illus. dust jacket Near Fine with minor surface rubbing 1" closed tear along bottom front edge now in mylar. 1st ed. xi117 pp. illus. Numismatic Education Society of Canada for J. Douglas Ferguson Historical Research Foundation Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 069392 ISBN : 0969147503 9780969147503

‎Roberts, Jane (editor); Christopher Lloyd, Jonathan Marsden (essays)‎

‎George III & Queen Charlotte: Patronage Collecting and Court Taste‎

‎Royal Collection Publications 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Red cloth lettered in gold foil. As new/as issued color illus. dust jacket now in mylar. 1st ed. 408 pp. 479 color illus. Royal Collection Publications Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 069574 ISBN : 1902163737 9781902163734

‎Whisker, James Biser, with Steven P Petrucelli; Stacy B C Wood, Jr (intro)‎

‎Pennsylvania Clockmakers Watchmakers and Allied Crafts‎

‎Cranbury NJ: Adams Brown Co. 1990. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Glossy blue pictorial boards. Mild surface rubbing to boards scratches to back cover. Firm binding clean interior remnant of address label on upper front flyleaf. 1st ed. vi246 pp. illus. Adams Brown Co. Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 070525

‎Weiss, Steven (intro, text)‎

‎My Passion: Vintage Mechanical Banks and Toys Ron Black Collection‎

‎Ron Black 2020. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Dark blue cloth lettered in gold foil front cover color pastedown slipcased. As issued with slipcase showing just a hint of shelf wear. 1st edition limited. vii120 pp. illus. w/ color plates. Scarce. Ron Black Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 070675

‎Cayetano Fornell‎

‎1852 Matanzas Early Cuban Internal Passport Colonial Travel Permit for Tailor Alejandro Eliseo Santana Signed by Cayetano Fornell‎

‎Matanzas Cuba Havana. Good with no dust jacket. 1852. Non-Book. On offer is an original colonial travel authorization certificate issued in Matanzas Cuba on October 29 1852 to Alejandro Eliseo Santana a 32-year-old sastre tailor signed by Don Cayetano Fornel Celador del barrio acting under the authority of the Excelentísimo Señor Gobernador y Capitán General. This document served as an official “pase” an internal passport allowing the bearer to travel from Matanzas to Nueva Bermeja a rural district known for its sugar estates and mixed free-labor population. The left column labeled Filiación gives a detailed physical description: “estatura alto edad 32 años pelo y cejas castañas ojos negros nariz boca y barba regulares. ” Santana is described as tall brown-haired dark-eyed and of regular features—a standardized phrasing in police and identity registers of the period. The entry is marked GRATIS suggesting the pass was issued free of charge possibly as part of routine occupational movement for registered tradesmen. Cuban colonial travel passes like this one were part of a bureaucratic system designed to control population movement particularly of free people of color artisans and laborers decades before the abolition of slavery in 1886. Every traveler had to be documented with physical traits marital status and occupation and the pass had to be shown at checkpoints when moving between jurisdictions. Nueva Bermeja today Unión de Reyes was a key inland hub for the sugar economy of Matanzas Province and this record offers a vivid example of mid-century surveillance practices within that system. Beautifully preserved this partly printed and partly manuscript document measures approx 8x6 inches. It bears Cayetano Fornel’s signature twice—once at the heading identifying him as Celador del barrio and again at the bottom attesting to the authenticity of the pass “libro el presente en Matanzas á 29 de Octubre de 1852”. Spanish language. ; Manuscripts; 1 pages; Signed by Author . unknown‎

Referencia librero : 0012129

‎Multipe Authors‎

‎1865 Voyage Archive of the Spanish Coolie-Ship “encarnación” Including Arrival Notice Telegram Quarantine Actas Mariel Certification the Signed Manifest and More‎

‎Havana Cuba Macao China. Good with no dust jacket. 1865. Non-Book. On offer is a rare and tightly focused five-day administrative archive created between March 20–24 1865 documenting the Cuban colonial state’s full processing of the Spanish barque Encarnación and the 283 Chinese indentured labourers she carried from Macao. The archive contains thirteen manuscript documents all docketed to File No. 539 tracing every step of the arrival-to-assignment cycle: arrival notice medical inspection mortality reporting judicial review of contractual status police authorization sanitary clearance internal administrative circulation and the early phase of labour distribution. The Encarnación is well documented in scholarship. As John Asome notes in Coolie Ships and the Chinese Diaspora 1846–1874 the vessel made eight coolie voyages between 1853 and 1871 transporting 2547 migrants with an average mortality rate of 4.91%. Her 1864–65 voyage departed Macao on November 23 1864 and reached Havana on March 16 1865 landing 274 survivors from the 283 who embarked. The Mariel medical reports describe a voyage marked by ophthalmia dysentery ulcers anasarca pulmonary fevers and a single death from tuberculosis. This archive records with unusual precision how Cuban authorities evaluated certified and redistributed this human cargo upon arrival. Despite being unified under one file number the documents originate from at least six separate offices: Junta Local de Sanidad de MarielJunta de Sanidad de La HabanaGobierno PolíticoGobierno Superior CivilDirección de AdministraciónMerino Gilledo y Cía. And Gelledos y Cía. consignees and brokers What survives is not a stray fragment but a working colonial dossier showing in real time how the Encarnación moved from newly arrived vessel to a documented source of indentured labour within Cuba’s plantation economy. The Chinese coolie trade 1847–1874 brought over 125000 Chinese labourers to Cuba under contracts that although legally framed as “free ” often masked coercion restricted movement and conditions approaching slavery. By the mid-1860s under intense diplomatic criticism Spain developed an elaborate regulatory apparatus intended to prove that these workers were “free contractual migrants. ” That apparatus — medical inspection judicial evaluation mortality accounting manifest verification and authorization for disembarkation — is captured here with exceptional completeness. Within this archive the two Mariel medical actas the mortality note the judicial referral the police authorization and the four-folio passenger manifest together reveal the lived administrative reality of the trade: illnesses documented in precise categories; the single death noted; consignees defending their conduct; and Chinese names transliterated paired with imposed Christian names and absorbed into Cuba’s indentured labour regime. For institutions or collectors building holdings in Chinese diaspora history Cuban colonial history transpacific migration Caribbean labour systems or the slavery-to-post-slavery transition this archive offers an unusually rich and granular look at how the coolie system was operationalized. For collectors it is a rare survival: a concentrated administrative file created over just five days showing the entire process from arrival to assignment. March 20 1865 is the most active date in the archive when both Mariel and Havana offices processed the Encarnación simultaneously. On that single day were produced: the Havana arrival notice; the Guanajay telegram; the internal forwarding memorandum; the formal Merino Gilledo petition; the four-page certified Mariel medical report; the separate one-page Mariel acta; the mortality declaration; and the fully signed four-folio passenger manifest. The subsequent days continue the administrative cycle: judicial review on the 21st police authorization and final Mariel clearance on the 22nd departmental forwarding on the 23rd and labour assignment orders on the 24th. Together these documents form a sharply coherent internally consistent file tracing the Encarnación from first notices of arrival through medical and legal examination and onward to the issuance of cédulas for the first group of 36 labourers. Document Overview by DateMarch 20 1865Arrival notice from the Havana Junta de Sanidad reporting the Encarnación from Macao. Telegram from Guanajay declaring the ship “del todo perdida” condemned/unseaworthy. Internal administrative note circulating the telegram within Havana. Formal petition of Merino Gilledo y Cía. reporting 283 embarked / 274 arrived nine lightly ill requesting exemption from Article 15 deposit. Four-page certified Mariel medical report summarizing voyage conditions provisioning ventilation one death and 39 medical cases ophthalmia ulcers dysentery anasarca pulmonary fever. Signed by Dr. Luis José Márquez. Separate one-page Mariel acta Acta No. 110 confirming observation-period findings and listing 38 sick colonos. Mortality note from Merino Gilledo y Cía. Summarizing deaths and illness patterns. Four-folio fully signed passenger manifest listing all 283 colonos by Chinese and assigned Christian names with ages. 21 March 1865Judicial referral ordering determination of whether the colonos qualify as libre contratación. 22 March 1865Authorization from the Political Governor instructing police not to obstruct disembarkation or residence. Final Mariel sanitary clearance affirming no contagious disease and permitting the ship to proceed. 23 March 1865Forwarding note transmitting the Mariel papers to the Section of Agriculture Industry & Commerce. 24 March 1865Labour-distribution order from the Superior Civil Government assigning 36 colonos through Gelledos y Cía. And ordering the issuance of cédulas. Condition: Very good for active nineteenth-century administrative material. Expected folds docketing and edge wear; ink consistently strong and legible. The four-folio manifest is complete and structurally sound; both Mariel actas clear and fully legible; no text loss. ; Manuscripts; 15 pages; Signed by Author . unknown‎

Referencia librero : 0012130

‎Elia‎

‎A Masque of Days from the Last Essays of Elia‎

‎London Paris New York and Melbourne: Cassell & Co. Ltd. 1901. Book. Illus. by Walter Crane. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Goldenrod 1/4 cloth color illus. paper covered boards. Respectably preserved copy shows modest soiling along joints and pastedown edges along joints with mild surface rubbing corners a bit rubbed with very slight exposure. Mild foxing to text block fore-edge. Firm binding a few minor internal soil marks but generally clean interior with light toning/foxing to flyleaf versos and adjacent pages. 44 pp. bound Japanese-style with two-color first title and final page color double second title 40 color plates. One leaf shows a professional repair to a closed tear. Cassell & Co. Ltd. Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 051171

‎Bitting, Katherine Golden‎

‎Gastronomic Bibliography‎

‎London: Holland Press 1981. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Dark magenta cloth-effect boards lettered in gold foil. No. 420 of an edition limited to 500 copies. Very slight discoloration along text block fore-edge otherwise essentially as issued. Dust jacket lightly tanned with a bit of rubbing along top edge and mild sunning to spine panel now in mylar. xiii718 pp. Facsimile reprint of original 1939 edition. Holland Press Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 051601 ISBN : 0900470984 9780900470981

‎Gordon, Thomas F‎

‎A Gazetteer of the State of Pennsylvania: Part First Contains a General Description of the State . . . Part Second Embraces Ample Descriptions of its Counties Towns Cities Villages . . . To Which is Added a Table of All the Post Offices in the State . . . and the Names of the Post Masters with a Map of the State‎

‎Philadelphia PA: T. Belknap 1832. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Full original calf spine panel lettered/decorated in gilt. Leather shows typical surface rubbing with some flaking to spine panel minor exposure at corners. Firm binding toned text block edges interior typically foxed generally light in places ranging to moderate. 508 pp. Seldom-seen folding hand-colored frontis. map present and mostly intact with several blue pencil marks denoting mountain ranges from Luzerne into Schuylkill and Dauphin counties minor separation along one fold minor foxing/soiling with a few older tape repairs to verso. T. Belknap Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 051675