New York: E. M. Blunt, (Proprietor,) and Samuel A. Burtus, 1817. 1/2 leather. Octavo. xvi, [2], 274, 280, [555]-597, [13] pages. Early edition of this important work on navigation. The extensive tables have in this edition been stereotyped for the first time, at significant expense. This is the first and... More

[New York]: (s.n.), (1961). Softcover. Octavo. 42 pages. Taylor Mead, beat film actor, poet, muse of Andy Warhol... This is the first and most scarce of his published diaries. Photographs of Mead on front and rear covers by Lenora Miller. Prior owner gift inscription on inside front cover reads "... More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1938). Hardcover. Octavo. xx, 408 pages. First published book by a man who became one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers and futurists. Buckminster Fuller took a comprehensive view of the world's problems and devoted his life to innovative solutions to do more with... More

London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811. Sixth Edition. 3/4 leather. Octavos. The revised and augmented sixth edition. Beautiful 4 volume (complete) set in 3/4 leather over boards with marbled paper sides. Gilt stamped spines. Bindings tight, gilt bright. More

Dover, MA: Hired Hand Press, 1979. Limited Edition. Black & White Photographs. Full cloth. Square octavo. 87 pages. Premier reference and complete study of the photographs of John Wilkes Booth. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by both authors on half title, SIGNED by both on limitation page at rear. The book reproduces... More

(s. L. ): (S. N. ), [1945]. Limited Edition. Wrappers. Octavo. 24 pages. This racist satire originally appeared shortly after publication of Elizabeth Keckley's "Behind the Scenes or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House" in 1868. This is #69 of a 1945 facsimile edition limited... More

New York: Smith & Stanton, 1895. First Edition. Drawings. Full cloth. Oblong quarto. 500 pages. Superb collection of drawings depicting a century's worth of American steamers, from Robert Fulton's Clermont in 1807 to the St. Louis, built by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, in 1894-1895. Stanton reproduced the older vessels... More

Boston: Henry Tolman & Co., 1861. Paper covers. Folio. [3 ] pages. Unusual copy of the "Star Spangled Banner, " printed with Oliver Wendell Holmes' fifth stanza in place. Holmes' lyrics are very much of their moment at the outbreak of the Civil War, as seen in this sample: "If... More

Cambridge: Peabody Museum, 1937, 1942. Black and White Photographs, Drawings, Maps. Paper covers. Folios. xviii, 327 and xiv, 292 pages. These are volume VII and VIII, "Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. " Superbly illustrated large format volumes in tan printed paper covers. Covers show... More

Albany: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1886. First Edition. Original cloth. Octavo. 446 + errata sheet pages. Good history of the development of the Virginia Colony during the Carolan period, based on rare printed documents of the period and unpublished papers in the British Museum, Her Majesty's Public Record Office, the Virginia... More

Washington: E. A. Waters, 1861. Wrappers. Octavo. 13 pages. President James Buchanan declared January 4, 1861 a national day of fasting and prayer in an effort to calm both sides in the brewing secession crisis. This was the earnest sermon preached by Reverend Chew to his flock in Prince George's... More

Fairhaven: Edward J. Lefkowicz, Inc., 1983. Limited Edition. Black and White Sketches. Full cloth. Folio. [56] pages. Gilkerson's portfolio of studies for his ink and watercolor wash drawings in "American Whalers in the Western Arctic. " This edition consisted of 120 copies of which 100 were for sale. This is... More

(forty Fort, Pa): Self Published, (1966). Black and White Photographs. Comb binding. Quarto. 120 pages. Detailed study of this single-operator, single-truck, lightweight safety-equipped streetcar. Includes tables of information on individual cars from across the country, including information on operating companies, gauge of the company, builders, specifications, date of completion, ultimate... More