2 168 résultats
1838réf. 54908Philadelphia PA: Haswell Barrington and Haswell 1838. First American edition first published in London 1834. 16mo. 208 8 pp. Wood engravings throughout text by Neville Johnson of Philadelphia. On the title page the author is described as "Late Staff-Surgeon in the Belgian Army." Publisher's catalogue. Preface: "He has studied to render the work equally valuable to the Army and Navy Surgeon the general Practitioner and the Student." Original brown cloth rubbed stained spine ends and corners frayed gilt spine title. Old tidelines through text but a good solid copy. 1736. Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell unknown books
1945réf. 21561San Francisco: World Trade Center Authority 1945. Pictorial boards. Very Good. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY LELAND CUTLER CHAIRMAN OF THE SAN FRANCISCO WORLD TRADE CENTER AUTHORITY on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1945 1st edition. Tight and VG in its light-blue boards with mild scuffing to the rear panel and light closed splitting along the base of the spine. Tall quarto crisp photos and plans throughout for a project that never came to fruition. World Trade Center Authority unknown books
réf. 3928Art Commerce. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine. Impressive photography/artist's book circa late 90s capturing mindnumbing Texas suburbia. 16mo square unpaginated. A very clean Near Fine copy. Art + Commerce unknown books
1949réf. 542195New York: Watson-Guptill Publications 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 80pp. Illustrated. Metal spiral bound illustrated glossy boards. Light rubbed near fine. Watson-Guptill Publications hardcover books
1999réf. 535701Brooklyn NY: Brooklyn Botanic Garden 1999. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Wrappers. 111adspp. Color photographic illustrations. Fine. Brooklyn Botanic Garden unknown books
1960réf. 410328Lincoln Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press 1960. Softcover. Very Good. Magazine. Quarto. 94pp. Perfectbound. Soiling and light foxing very good. Notable contributors include Kay Boyle Bruce Cutler Hazel E. Barnes Nolan Miller Felix Clowder Ihab H. Hassan A.M. Tibbetts and more. University of Nebraska Press unknown books
réf. 284766New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1944. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Fine in near fine price-clipped dustwrapper. HarperCollins Publishers hardcover books
1930réf. 4653New York: Halcyon House 1930. Reprint/First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ. Reprint/First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Foreword by Charles Francis Adams. Reprint of the 1930 Putnam edition in a larger format. Overall a handsome copy. Light shelf/edge wear touch of spotting at rear board hint of toning to leaves else tight and unmarred. Blue cloth boards gilt lettering and decorative elements in blind decorative elements map endpages frontispiece teal topstain. 4to. 592pp. Illus. b/w plates. Halcyon House hardcover books
1952réf. TB16382Mystic Conn.: The Marine Historical Association 1952. First Edition. First printing Very good in heavy green paper wraps over an adhesive binding The outer edges of the wraps are slightly faded as is the spine area. An erratum slip is laid-in at the front of the text. 114 pages of text. The author provides sections dealing with Rate of Speed Days' Runs noon to noon Transatlantic Passages Sectional transatlantic runs North-South Atlantic Passages Atlantic-Pacific Passages North Atlantic-India Passages North Atlantic-China and Manila Passages Atlantic-Australasian Passages and American Coastwise Passages. The Marine Historical Association paperback books
1930réf. 124419New York: Random House. Very Good in Poor dust jacket. 1930. Hardcover. A Very Good edition with a previous owner's name inked on the front pastedown and some general wear. The dust-jacket is in Poor condition and separated into pieces and tucked into the volume; The Story of the American Clipper Ship Greyhounds of the Sea follows the adventures of the Greyhounds of the Sea a famed clipper ship that sailed the high seas in the mid 1800s. This fast and furious ship was known for its skilled sailors and its deadly speed. The Greyhounds of the Sea was a crucial part of the American shipping industry and its story is a testament to the determination and bravery of the people who sailed on her.; 592 pages . Random House hardcover books
1728réf. 250790London: James Knapton 1728. Sea Chart. Uncolored engraving. An alternate projection of the globe as a flat map to the prevailing Mercator Projection. Includes rhumb lines and coastal details. From Atlas Maritimus a commercial sea atlas was published as a guide to British global commerce. Good condition with some stains along lower center fold. Sir Edmond Halley 1656--1742 was an English astronomer geophysicist mathematician meteorologist and physicist known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain after John Flamsteed. John Senex 1678 to1740 was an English cartographer engraver and explorer who worked prominently in the 18th century. He is especially known for his maps of the world some of which have added elevations and minuscule detailed engravings. Globular Projection maps were invented by Halley Harris and Senex. James Knapton unknown books
1800réf. 35297Boston: James Cutler 1800. Elephant folio broadsheet folded to 12-1/4" x 20-1/2". 4pp. Old folds several fox spots untrimmed. Good. This issue is No. 4 of volume IX. The Gazette is filled with advertisements; a several-column list of wholesale prices current at Boston; commercial news; and several items of "Political Miscellany." Of the latter one is from Cato discussing President Adams and the fall from grace of Timothy Pickering. James Cutler unknown books
1985réf. 628240Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1985. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Square quarto. 239pp. Heavily illustrated. Illustrated wrappers. Moderate edgewear and soiling very good. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts unknown books
1812réf. 12378Boston: Charles Williams 1812. First Edition. Full leather. Good. First edition of A Topographical Description of the State of Ohio by Major Jervis Cutler. Twelvemo v 1 7-219pp. Full leather title in gilt over red morocco spine label five gilt-ruled bands. Boards rubbed edges lightly worn. Toning to pages occasional foxing. Both hinges solid but starting to separate. Missing a single leaf pages 97-98. Lacking errata slip as is common. Complete with 5 full-page illustrated plates including the first engraved view of Cincinnati in 1809. Sabin 18170 Howes C984 Thomson 298 Graff 963 A scarce work on early Ohio. Charles Williams unknown books
1916réf. 4714New York: Monographs of the Rockefeller Inst. for Med. Res. 1916. OFFPRINT. Original grey printed wrappers. Near fine. 4to. There are text illus. throughout. This is a description of the Torula histolytica infection in man. G - M #5537. Monographs of the Rockefeller Inst. for Med. Res. unknown books
1747réf. 3765Boston 1747. Fair condition. unknown books
1930réf. 2340139New York: Greenberg Publisher 1930. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Limited edition. Number 168 of 1050 copies. No jacket. Boards soiled spine label rubbed with some loss bookplate on front endpaper pencil marginalia. 1930 Hard Cover. xi 171 pp. Authors included: Maurice Baring; James M. Barrie; Max Berrbohm; Rupert Brooke; Lewis Carroll; Joseph Carroll; Joseph Conrad; John Davidson; Walter De la Mare; Norman Douglas; Ernest Dowson; A. Conan Doyle; John Drinkwater; Lord Dunsany; Ronald Firbank; James Elroy Flecker; John Galsworthy George Gissing; Thomas Hardy; Maurice Hewlett; W.H. Hudson; Aldous Huxley; Rudyard Kipling; D.H. Lawrence; Richard Le Gallienne; Arthur Machen; Katherine Mansfield; John Masefield; A.A. Milne; George Moore; Walter Pater; Theodore Francis Powys; George Bernard Shaw; James Stephens; Robert Louis Stevenson; John Addington Symonds; Francis Thompson; H.G. Wells; Oscar Wilde; William Butler Yeats. Greenberg Publisher hardcover books
1991réf. 18073New York: Dutton. Fine in Near Fine dj. First Edition. Hardcover. no discernable wear to book itself; jacket shows a trace of surface rubbing very minor wear along bottom edge of front panel. INSCRIBED to veteran TV writer Mel Tolkin and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. The second adventure of private-eyes-to-the-stars Rayford Goodman and Mark Bradley who narrate this tale of a Tinseltown murder in alternating chapters. Signed by Author . 1991. Dutton hardcover books
1838réf. 1415471Philadelphia: Haswell Barrington and Haswell 1838. First American Edition. Hardcover. 6mo 299 5 71 5 32 4 92 4 80 4 72 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in full brown leather with two light brown labels to spine bearing gilt titling. Spine has gilt fillets moderate wear to leather throughout a chip to head and light splitting to top of rear joint. Boards have significant wear to edges exposing the boards in some areas heavy bumping to lower fore corners an area of heavy peeling to the leather around the fore edge of the rear board and rubbing throughout. Text block has decorative speckling and moderate age-toning to edges age-toning and foxing to endpapers creases to corners of a few leaves slight mis-trimming to bottom edges of the first two leaves of "The Surgeon's Practical Guide in Dressing" a spot of material transference from one leaf to another on the edge of the last page likely due to an area of adhesive being pulled apart light foxing throughout and light penciling throughout. Shelved in Room A octavo overflow. Part of the "Select Medical Library" series by a publisher in Philadelphia this book is an example of a trend in the 1830s and -40s where American publishers frequently printed European medical texts in monthly installments and then offered them bound together into annual volumes for doctors and medical students. Before international copyright laws and fast transatlantic shipping were established these American reprints helped local physicians stay up-to-date at an affordable cost. 1415471. Special Collections - Upstairs. Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell hardcover books
1935réf. 21358New York: Privately Printed. India House Inc 1935. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. A beautifully produced book produced by India House a prestigious private club founded in 1914 at 1 Hanover Square in Lower Manhattan that closed for good during Covid. Its art collection gave the club the patina of having been a very old institution with roots in the China trade but in fact it was founded in 1914 albeit in the former Hanover Bank Building which opened in 1854. 4to. 33 by 27 cm. xxxiv 2 137 2 pp. 35 plates independent of pagination and also not including blanks at end. One plate folding and eleven of the plates are color plates including the folding plate. Most of the artwork is of ships but also a few portrait and architectural and panorama plates -- a panoramic view of the harbor in Canton and a portrait of Houqua a prominent Hong merchant. A few white lines or scuffs on front and rear cover possibly entirely cleanable. Even with this minor issue a very beautiful copy. Privately Printed. India House, Inc unknown books
1882réf. M11205Boston & Cambridge:: Houghton Mifflin & the Riverside Press 1882. 1882. 8vo. 4 ff. 65 pp. 9 plates. Green cloth gilt-stamped cover and spine titles; extremities rubbed inner hinge mended. Previous owners' rubber stamps. Very good. Houghton Mifflin & the Riverside Press, 1882. hardcover books
1940réf. 1415382New York: The American Journal of Surgery Inc 1940. 48/250. Hardcover. Octavo 75 pages. In Good condition. Bound in the publisher's dark green cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards have moderate wear including sparse whitish spotting faint damp staining and minor fraying to the spine edges. Text block has modest wear including age toning to the edges and slight damp staining to the head edge with previous bookshop's small stamp to the rear pastedown. Gift inscription to the front end paper. Illustrated. Number 48 of 250 limited numbered copies. NOTE: Shelved in Column N. 1415382. FP New Rockville Stock. The American Journal of Surgery, Inc hardcover books
réf. 19804AUDSLEY George and Thomas Cutler. THE GRAMMER OF JAPANESE ORNAMENT. London: Studio Editions 1989. Small folio. Cloth dust jacket. 250 pages; 37 plates. Featuring the finest examples of oriental ornamentation in a range of media: lacquer carving metalwork embroidery enamel pottery textiles painting and drawing. Well illustrated with over 100 color plates. The text is taken from excerpts from Cutler's A Grammar of Japanese Ornament and Design 1879-1880 and Audsley's The Ornamental Arts of Japan 1882-1885. Very good. unknown books
1976réf. 109105Boston:: Cahners Books International. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. Black and white illustrations throughout. First edition. Very good in a very good sun fading along the spine dust jacket.; 250 pages . 0843601531 . Cahners Books International, hardcover books
1964réf. 294060Los Angeles: One Inst. of One Inc 1964. Newsletter. 16p. includes covers 5.5x8.5 inches editorial Photo Feature booklist social services letters very good digest-size newsletter/magazine in stapled wraps. House organ of the homophile organization that published One Magazine. One Inst. of One, Inc unknown books
