101 selections from this year's new acquisitions, covering a wide range of publication dates and topics.
![Cloud Crystals; a Snow-Flake Album [Snowflake]. A Lady, Mrs. Frances A. Chickering](/pictures/thumb/2310505.jpg?v=1644908111)
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1864. Hard Cover.
Bottom edge stained, one inch tear to rear joint, ink gift note on second blank.
158 pp. Given as a gift by American librarian, educator, and bibliographer Joseph Green Cogswell. Plates showing snowflake design. A collection of poetry and essays on.....
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1876. Hard Cover.
Pencil name on front paste-down endpaper of one volume. All volumes: Boards lightly rubbed, board corners bumped.
Complete four volume set. Red cloth, gilt and black titles and decorations. Engraved illustrations throughout. "The object of this series is to assist girls to.....
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1892. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. First state (no ads for other New World series titles). Ink name on second blank, rear hinge starting.
iv, 352, 12 pp. A historical tale based on the California Gold Rush, with black-and-white illustrations.
London / Cambridge: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper / C. Corbet / M. Cooper / D. Henry for J. Payne, and J. Bouquet / J. and P. Knapton / J. Bentham, etc. / J. Shuckburgh, 1750. Full-Leather.
Boards rubbed with a few discolored spots, lacks title label, ink.....
London: The Folio Society, 2013. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase. A few very minor scuffs to slipcase.
lviii, 540 pp. Color reproductions of historical illustrations, several regional maps precede text. This book presents the Persian Baburnama, a key primary source and the earliest record of Babur's memoirs. The translation.....
Worcester: Dorr, Howland & Co., 1839. First Edition. Full-Leather.
First edition. Leather rubbed, pages lightly foxed, some gatherings loosening but still holding.
624 pp. Sabin 3319. Howes B-123. Full leather with marbled endpapers. Illustrated with over 200 engravings, color fold-out map.
London: Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1850. Second Edition. Full-Leather.
Second edition. Edges rubbed, owner bookplate and ink name and date on front endpapers, ink gift note on front flyleaf dated Easter 1857 at Eton.
vi, [2], 218 pp. Full leather, all edges gilt, gilt titles and decorations. Illustrated with.....
New York: The Century Co., 1905. Richardson, Frederick. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, first printing, no jacket as issued (Bienvenue 213-16). All plates included. Boards lightly soiled, endpapers toned as if from the presence of a colloquial cover (now absent), ink name on front endpaper, 1 inch closed tear.....
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1899. Black, Alexander. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. Paper illustration on front board chipped and loosening on one side, binding starting.
288 pp. With photographic illustrations by the author. "In the olden days people peered about in the world for the fountain of perpetual youth.....
Paris: Rue S. Jacques, Chez Antoine-Claude Briasson, 1741. First Edition. Full-Leather.
First French edition. Corners a bit exposed.
159; [160]-301, [3] pp. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations, French marbled endpapers, red edges. A work on chemistry by the influential Enlightenment philosopher best known for L'Homme Machine. La Mettrie's concepts.....
![Amusement Philosophique sur le Langage des Bestes. [with] Lettre de Madame de *** a Monsieur de...](/pictures/thumb/2308994.jpg?v=1644908083)
Paris: Chez Gissey, Bordelet, Ganeau, 1739. Full-Leather.
A few faint spots on boards.
Two volumes in one. 157, [3]; 58, [3] pp. Full leather, burgundy morocco spine label, gilt titles and decorations, French marbled endpapers. French text. The author, Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant, was a French Jesuit historian. This work, first published.....
New York: The Magazine of Wall Street, 1926. 4th Printing. Hard Cover.
Fourth printing. Light general wear.
153 pp. Pre-Crash investment guide. CONTENTS: The Evolution of the Stock Exchange; Detecting the Beginning and Ending of Bull and Bear Markets; How to Detect Buying Points in Short Swings and in Individual.....
Cambridge: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1886. First Edition. Half-Leather.
First edition. Bookplate of John E. Thayer on front endpaper. Thayer was an industrialist active in western railroad development, and also an amateur naturalist, collector, and author. He sponsored several scientific expeditions.
22, [22] pp. 4to. Leather spine and corners, marbled boards.....
London: The Folio Society, 2011. Firmin, Hannah. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase. Top slipcase edge lightly bumped.
1751 pp., paginated continuously between all three volumes. Collected and edited by Katharine M. Briggs, with a preface by Kevin Crossley-Holland, color frontispieces and black-and-white illustrations by Hannah Firmin.
London: The Folio Society, 2011. Firmin, Hannah. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase. Top slipcase seam repaired with archival adhesive.
1396 pp., paginated continuously between all three volumes. Collected and edited by Katharine M. Briggs, with a preface by Kevin Crossley-Holland, color frontispieces and black-and-white illustrations by Hannah Firmin.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. Cummings, Charles A. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Boards lightly rubbed, pencil initials on front free endpaper.
xiv, 323 pp. Top page ridge gilt. Bulfinch designed many public buildings in Boston, and James Monroe name him Architect of the Capitol.....
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1944. Burroughs, John Coleman. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition (Heins LT-1). Endpapers very faintly foxed, minor wear to jacket corners with clear tape reinforcement at a few points on reverse.
422, [4] pp. 8vo. Red cloth, black titles, uncolored top edge. Frontispiece and three.....
Columbus, Ohio: Camp and Trail, 1913. Stapled Binding.
Issues fair to good. Some wrappers nearly loose from binding, stains, tears, and chips to some volumes.
23 issues of Camp and Trail from 1910 to 1913. American weekly sporting journal. Issues include: January 22, 1910, Vol. I, No. 8; March 19.....
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1946. Leighton, Clare. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed without inscription by illustrator Clare Leighton on half-title page. Includes original jacket with $3.00 price on flap. Ink name stamp on front endpaper, board edges slightly faded, otherwise book is very well preserved. Jacket.....
Toledo, O. and Boston, Mass. The Locke Publishing Co., 1881. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minor general wear.
600 pp. A domestic guide for household recipes, cookery, beekeeping, holistic cures, hygiene, etc. CONTENTS: Accidents and Poisons; Bee-Keeping; Cement, Glue and Paste; The Cook; Disinfectants; For Farmers; Flower and Gem.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898. Seton, Ernest Thompson. Hard Cover.
Minor loss to spine head, top page ridge stained.
xvi, 195 pp. Newly illustrated with 75 color plates reproduced by lithography from illustrations by Ernest Seton Thompson. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine and front board.....
New York: Exposition Press, 1964. Signed Copy. Hard Cover.
Signed by author with inscription, "To Mary and Doug - who have united Big Moose Lake, Best wishes, Frances Alden Covey, October 1970." With letter from previous owner to a friend explaining getting it signed at Big Moose Lake. Jacket rubbed.....
Berlin: Die Gestalten Verlag, 2004. Signed Copy. Large Hardcover.
Limited edition, numbered 352 of 1250. Signed by multiple contributors. A fine hardcover in a near fine publisher sleeve.
Unpaginated. A monograph collection the typographic designs and graphic art of the influential studio. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Ken Barber is a professional.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1931. Ermakoff. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss, jacket toned, endpapers faintly foxed.
272, [3] pp. Red cloth, gilt titles. Dust jacket design by 'Ermakoff.' The story of two pairs of siblings, one aristocratic, the other.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. Second American Edition. Hard Cover.
1894 second American edition (does not include 'The Card-Board Box,' as the 1894 first American edition did). Includes all plates (one is loose, another just beginning to loosen). No jacket. Faint smudge on front board, spine every so slightly.....