LARGE COLOR PLATES. A Contribution to the History of the Fresh-Water Algae of North America by Wood, Horatio C - 1872

Philadelphia, Pa.: Printed, Not Published, By the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies. Very Good+. 1905. Limited 1st Edition. Hardcover. "Copy # 45 issued to Public Service Corporation of New Jersey for....excusive use, and should be treated as strictly private and confidential information". A convention of electric companies from across the USA, including General Electric, held at Hotel Champlain, Lake Champlain, N Y Sept 12-14 1905. Papers presented on all aspects of power generation & equipment. Loaded with B/W photographs, diagrams, graphs & drawings (many fold-out). Clean green cloth decorated with gilt. Text tight, clean & intact. [xv], 393pp. A few small paper tears along hinges. Technical; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 393 pages .

Trenton, N. J: John L. Murphy Publishing Co.. Very Good. 1889-90. Hardcover. Geological Survey of New Jersey. Volume II, parts I & 2. Catalogue of minerals found in New Jersey; of plants; of insects and vertebrates. Clean black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Texts tight, clean & intact . Part 2 with lightly bumped top corner and slightly darkened gilt lettering. Geology ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1466 pages .

First edition. Printed for B. MacMillan for G. Nicol, Pall Mall. 1798. Octavo. Half title, title, xvii, (1: errata), 597pp. 2 hand coloured folding maps, one folding table. Printed note to the contents: "The Author intended to have inserted a plan of an orchard ... but as it turned out to be inconvenient in point of size, and being of small importance, the idea was given up". Later utilitarian quarter calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands with uneven black rules, gilt lettering, sl. rubbed to head and foot; slightly marked cloth boards. All edges speckled. Apart from a little light sporadic foxing a nice crisp clean copy, firmly bound. Priced to accommodate cost of rebacking which would greatly enhance the volume.
John Middleton (1751 – 1833), surveyor, pioneering and inventive agriculturist, commissioner for enclosures. "The best of all the [board's] surveys of English Counties'". ODNB. An all-encompassing work in the spirit of the age, including the state of property, commons and… Read More

Washington DC: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1914. First edition. Hardback. Good/No jacket. 1816 4to. Ex-library, University of Hull, with a donation label from the author. Green cloth-covered boards, 341 pages, many illustrations from photographs. Two folding maps, one as frontispiece and one bound in with text block. Condition notes: Boards bumped and worn, with some spottiness, especially to the front board. Small split to back board/spine joint (about half an inch, at the top). Wear and fraying to extremities of spine strip. Library labels, stamps and remnants to front paste down, with library's blind stamped and subsequent withdrawal stamp to title page. Both maps in excellent condition.

London:: Printed for the Author, 1803., 1803. 8vo. [iv], xxvii, [1], 360, xxxi, [1] pp. 4 engraved plates of apparatus (Plate II acts as frontispiece, all plates are unnumbered), index. Crudely rebound in quarter calf, marbled paper over old boards. Armorial bookplate of Aske's Boy School, Haberdasher's Livery Company. Ownership signature on title of Jas. Law Jones, "rec'd from Messrs. Rickers staff & Jones -- 15 Sept. 1803". Scarce. First edition, vol. II only. With added paper (laid in): A Manual of Analytical Mineralogy. Review. Quarterly Review, 1809. 9 pp. pp. 153-161. "This clearly written and well organized book is called the first textbook of general chemistry written in the English language to be based on Lavoisier's new chemistry. The principles are illustrated with experiments." -- Cole. / Accum (1769-1838), born in Germany where the family operated a small soap boiling business. In 1793 Accum came to London to take a position at Brande, apothecaries to George II. He became friends with… Read More

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. Hardcover, dust jacket. 7.5 x 10.75 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 256 pages. "The texts of the three lectures are given with a plethora of well-reproduced visual aids: almost every manuscript, piece of printed matter or artefact that Walker referred to is illustrated close to the reference, from a wide variety of sources." - Sebastian Carter, Journal of the Printing Historical Society Sir Emery Walker (1851-1933) was a leading figure of the Arts and Crafts movement and the inspiration for the revival of fine printing in Britain, the Continent, and America. His November 1888 address to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society (summarized in Appendix 1 of this book; the original text of the speech is lost) prompted William Morris to found the Kelmscott Press. With Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, Walker established the Doves Press in 1900, and Walker advised other fine presses as well. In 1935 Charles Harry St. John Hornby wrote, "Walker was a mine… Read More

An early work by Rick Bass, Wild to the Heart. First edition.Fine book in near fine jacket. Jacket is housed in a protective mylar sleeve.

Syracuse, New York: Merrell-Soule Company, 1927. 12mo: 54, [2] p. Printed on yellow stock and bound with staples in illustrated brown paper wrappers (3" x 5"). A previous owner's name has been inked out on the first leaf; else an excellent copy. OCLC locates only one holding, at Virginia Tech. A recipe book for the then new and growing pastime of camping. All of these recipes make use of Klim dehydrated whole-milk powder. To make it more attractive to male consumers, the company chose seven famous adventurers to provide the recipes: Morris Ackerman, Charles S. Kirstead, James Tandy Ellis, W.H.H. Chamberlin, Harry C. Phibbs, George L. Catton, and Major Townsend Whelen. Includes a brief biography of each contributor. Klim was developed as a dehydrated whole-milk powder for use in the tropics, where ordinary milk tended to spoil quickly. It soon became a staple of scientific explorers, geologists, soldiers, and other jungle travelers who needed a lightweight dry ration that would keep for several days… Read More

Cache Lake Country, Life in the North Woods by John J. RowlandsA very good + book in a good jacket. Jacket has chipping, and creases throughout. Photo is of actual jacket.

Nurnberg: Verlag Hans Carl, 1948. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. VG+ in Fair only dw (lacking spine). 8vo, 216pp, orange cloth stamped in gold, printed dustwrapper. First trade edition of this important occult work (which had been privately published in 1936). Text in German. Unmarked copy, the fragile dustwrapper is present but spine is lacking, interior pages have toning of acidic postwar paper stock.