San Francisco: The Wine Advisory Board, [1942?]. Pictorial map. Singe sheet 31 1/2" x 41", professionally mounted on linen to 35" x 44 3/4" One of the more famous of the colorful pictorial maps by brilliant artist of the genre, Ruth Taylor White. In this gorgeous map, commissioned by California's..... More
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1927. Limited edition, #288 of 500 sets. Illustrated by E. Œ. Somerville. Cloth over boards. Octavos. "Somerville and Ross" was the joint pen name of the female writing team of Edith Anna Œnone Somerville and Violet Florence Martin. This special edition of their foxhunting stories..... More
London: Printed by T. Bensley for Vernor and Hood, et al, 1802. New edition. Black and white plates. Three quarter leather with cloth sides. Tall octavos. A beautiful and sturdy set of this 1802 "New Edition" translated by Pope. Bindings feature blue leather spines and fore corners, marbled endpapers, with..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1976). First edition. Drawings by Gorey, some color. Hardcover. Oblong duodecimo. [64] pages. A collection of Edward Gorey's drawings relating to bicycling From the dust jacket, "This book combines, with breath-taking cleverness, two objects of consuming interest: postcards and bicycles." The endpapers advertise the..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Daniel Boone Edition, #138 of 200 sets. Black and white plates, maps, some folding. Full leather over boards. Quartos. Over 1,500 pages. Roosevelt's historical account of the exploration and settlement of the United States, from the Alleghanies to the Pacific Ocean... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1943. Early printing. C. S. Lewis's now classic Christian apologetic novel that revolves around temptation and resistance. The title character is a senior demon, and his letters are to a young apprentice demon who is his nephew, Wormwood. Thus mentored by his uncle, it is Wormwood's..... More
New York: Chemical Publishing Company, Inc., 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 464 pages. A wealth of information on the properties and production of pyrotechnic materials, including sections on flame and glow, light, smoke, noise, and more. Also includes a manufacturing formulary, extensive glossary, and complete reference section. More
Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke, 1822. First edition. Engravings. Paper over boards with leather spine. Duodecimo. 155 pages. This manual is an early attempt to introduce a uniform system cavalry of exercise and movements for the U. S. military. Illustrated with eight copper-plate engravings. Includes significant instruction on swords. More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1931. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 294 pages. Drumond did extensive research in newspaper sources, which brought valuable material to light in this study of the various premises upon which various groups of Southerners based their resistance to the Federal Government. Includes a good..... More
[Washington?]: 1970. Color map. Single sheet. 19" x 25" Pictorial map of the lower Potomac River, featuring illustrations marking various points of interest and historic sites. The course of a Prohibition era bootlegger's vessel--the E. T. Somers--is marked between Leonardtown, Maryland and McQuire's Wharf, Virginia. Other decorations include characteristic sailing..... More
[New York]: McClure's Magazine, (1912). Full cloth. Octavo. [vi], 243 pages. The title story in this well-known but scarce collection eerily foreshadowed the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, though it was originally published in 1898. Morgan Robertston's novella "Futility" tells the story of a gigantic, "unsinkable" luxury..... More
London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1892. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [i]-viii, [9]-256 pages, 8 page publisher's catalogue. This Conan Doyle novel concerns alchemy and philanthropy. Raffles Haw has discovered the secret to turning lead into gold. After building himself a fine mansion he uses..... More
Washington: Microcard Editions Books, 1973. First edition thus. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xxxviii, 336 pages. A detailed photographic facsimile of Fitzgerald's handwritten manuscript of "The Great Gatsby" located in the Princeton University Library. The Introduction by Bruccoli sets the stage for this visual exploration of Fitzgerald's composition process. Includes sample..... More
[Annapolis?]: (S.n.), [1832]. Single sheet, folded in half to 7 5/8" x 12 1/4" Typeset and printed draft of a substitute bill which was adopted by the Maryland General Assembly on March 8, 1832. The bill was to supplement to Maryland's law regarding elections, originally enacted in 1812... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. First edition. Engraved plates. Original cloth over boards. Quarto. viii, [2], 10-444 pages. Detailed report which is inscribed and signed by Gustavus Fox on a preliminary blank leaf. The inscription reads: "Miss S. L. Tucker / with the regards of / G. V...... More
London: Printed for the author, 1792. First edition. Morocco and marbled paper over boards. Octavo. [50], 455 pages. William Eddis arrived in Annapolis in 1769, having secured a position as surveyor of customs through the patronage of Maryland's last Royal Governor, Sir Robert Eden. His letters back to England are..... More
Loncon: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797. First edition. Leather over boards. Octavo. [6], cxiv, [errata leaf], 596 pages. Jonathan Boucher was staunch Loyalist yet a friend of George Washington's, and his is an important perspective on the American Revolution. Boucher came to America from England in 1759..... More
Boston: Harvard Business Review, 1996. Magazine. Pages 100-109. Theoretical economist W. Brian Arthur's article in this issue of the Harvard Business Review popularized a concept that has forever changed Silicon Valley, and is one of the HBR's most influential articles ever. And it was edited by Arthur's friend, Cormac McCarthy..... More
Hartford, Conn: Park Publishing Co., 1882. 18 engraved plates (2 steel, 16 wood). Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [i-iii], iv-xx, [xxi-xxii], (13)-518 pages. Frederick Douglass's third, final, and most complete autobiography. His earlier books were published prior to the Civil War, while still technically a fugitive slave, and therefore still..... More
London: Luke Hansard & Sons, 1812. Second edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavos. xxxii, 344 and [iv], 499 pages. Thomas Twining had produced the first useable English translation of Aristotle's Poetics in 1789. This is the second edition of 1812, edited by his nephew. This 2-volume set has..... More
Cambridge: Moses King, Publisher, 1883. Second edition. Over 200 original illustrations by various artists. Original decorative cloth over bevelled boards. Octavo. x, 276, xi-xxix pages. Profusely illustrated Victorian era travel guide to Boston and environs. Both illustrations and text are indexed at the front. Contains numerous advertisements at front and..... More
[Philadelphia]: Privately printed, 1929. Edition limited to 950 copies. Black and white frontispiece portrait, facsimile letters. Hardcover. Quarto. [viii], 39 pages. Why did Thomas Hardy, at the height of his career as a novelist, give up fiction and devote the last 30 years of his life to writing poetry? Famous..... More
Albany: Edward Leslie, Printer, 1865. First edition. Disbound. Octavo. 20 pages. Rev. Dyer was the chaplain at the Albany Penitentiary. His memorial sermon, given in the prison's chapel, coincided with Lincoln's funeral in Washington on April 19th. He finds the circumstances of Lincoln's death to be "of a painfully instructive..... More
New York: The Rudder Publishing Company, 1904. First edition. Diagrams, plates of drawings. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 77 pages plus plates and ads. First edition of this now classic work. Norman L. Skene was a graduate of MIT in naval architecture and worked with Starling Burgess, the designer..... More
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1914. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 242 pages. Miller was an important African American intellectual, mathematician, and Dean of Howard University. This is a collection of Miller's essays dealing with the principles which he thought were fundamental to any solution to the..... More