Matthewnim Taaiskt. The Gospel According to Matthew, translated into the Nez Perces language by H. H. [Henry Harmon] Spalding - 1871

Basil: Printed and fold by J. J. Tourneisen, 1800. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by George Lyman Kittredge on flyleaf. One-quarter calf with tortoise-shell paper sides and green corner-tips; tooled spine. Marbled endpapers. 8vo. 96 pages. Front matter includes the Preface to the Second Edition (1767) and the Advertisement prefixed to the Third Edition (1789). George Lyman Kittredge's copy. Kittredge (1860-1941) was a Harvard professor, best known for his authoritative edition of Shakespeare's works. Also, inscribed ''Ex Libris / Antonio Alfredo Giarraputo / et amicorum / 28.VIII.57''. Antonio ''Tony'' Giarraputo (1923-1989) was born in Boston, served in WWII, graduated from Harvard in 1950, and studied in Florence, Italy, as a Fulbright fellow. He was a known poet in Boston, and taught in its schools for more than two decades, including at the Boston Latin School, English High School (his alma mater), and the Lincoln School.

London: Sands & Co., 1898. Hardcover. Good. Brown cloth spine with papered boards. Front cover features a printed illustration. Boards are edge worn. Pages are foxed. 35 pages, each printed on one side, alternating text and color illustrations. Oblong. 8.75 x 11.75 inches. Illustrations printed by the Lemercier lithography firm in Paris. Placed in an archival mylar sleeve. An unusual and rare, late Victorian children's book. This illustrated fable, told in rhyme, features multiple eccentrically conceived characters. One imagines that the author was very likely raised on the works of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. The two main characters, named the Spoofah and the Antidote, are kindly old men who are the best of friends (the Spoofah, although a man in actuality, has the head of an elephant and the body of a bicycle; the Antidote has very long ears and wears roller skates in order to keep up with his wheeled-friend). Together they go on an adventure in order to prove the existence of the… Read More

Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Achey & Gorrecht, 1918. Hardcover. Very Good+. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Very small nick on spine; light soiling on rear cover; corners pushed, else fine. Interior is bright, clean and unmarked. Thirteen illustrations on plates, displaying the Kromayer Lamp and the Alpine Sun Burner. xiii, 162 pages. The first American book to address the efficacy of ultra violet rays in the practice of dermatology. Written by Dr. Ralph Bernstein (1877-1948) a homeopathic physician and veteran professor of dermatology at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. He provides a brief and clear presentation of the clinical application of UVL in the treatment of many cutaneous diseases, based on case experience from private practice, the Skin Section of the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia, and various other institutions with which Dr. Bernstein was connected. Contents: [I] The Evolution of Artificial Light Rays. [II] Physical Effects, Histological Changes and… Read More

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1873. Hardcover. Good. Ex-library (non-circulating). Publisher's green cloth boards decoratively stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover. Call number on spines. Labels on front pastedowns; no pockets. Each volume has pinhole library stamps on the frontispiece, title-page, and each of the illustrated plates/maps. Complete plates: ten illustrations and twelve maps (2 color, 3 fold-outs); several in-text illustrations. 19.4 x 13.6 cm. Octavo. pp. Vol. I: x, 483. Vol. II: vi, 529, plus [6] advertising. Placed in archival mylar sleeves with a small, loose slip of acid-free paper to mask the call number. In his African Sketch-Book, Reade compiled a variety of materials with the intention of illustrating both African life and his experiences. He includes a recapitulation of his travels in Equatorial Africa, Angola, and Senegambia during 1862 and 1863; essays on the slave trade, African exploration, and the progress of Islam in Western Africa; an detailed… Read More

Roma, 1905. Hardcover. Good. Eight issues in two bound volumes. Library bindings, green cloth with marbled sides (rubber stamp of Berliner Verein fur Luftschiffahrt (Berlin Airship Association) on initial issue; bookplate of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base). Bindings show some edgewear. The 1906 volume has five pages with surface damage where pages had been stuck together (leaving a few words effaced); one leaf has a large chip to the fore-edge margin, affecting the last letters of some words; otherwise, the issues are in good condition. Full-year indexes at the end of each volume. Illustrated with many photographs and diagrams throughout. Scarce. Early Italian aeronautics periodical (1905-1906), extensively illustrated, chronicling the research, development, and experiments with gliders, air balloons, dirigibles, as well as airplane and helicopter prototypes. Includes aerodynamic studies; records of flights in Italy; notes on developments in the United States and Europe; reports of displays… Read More

Basil: Printed and fold by J. J. Tourneisen, 1800. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by George Lyman Kittredge on flyleaf. One-quarter calf with tortoise-shell paper sides and green corner-tips; tooled spine. Marbled endpapers. 8vo. 96 pages. Front matter includes the Preface to the Second Edition (1767) and the Advertisement prefixed to the Third Edition (1789). George Lyman Kittredge's copy. Kittredge (1860-1941) was a Harvard professor, best known for his authoritative edition of Shakespeare's works. Also, inscribed ''Ex Libris / Antonio Alfredo Giarraputo / et amicorum / 28.VIII.57''. Antonio ''Tony'' Giarraputo (1923-1989) was born in Boston, served in WWII, graduated from Harvard in 1950, and studied in Florence, Italy, as a Fulbright fellow. He was a known poet in Boston, and taught in its schools for more than two decades, including at the Boston Latin School, English High School (his alma mater), and the Lincoln School.

London: Sands & Co., 1898. Hardcover. Good. Brown cloth spine with papered boards. Front cover features a printed illustration. Boards are edge worn. Pages are foxed. 35 pages, each printed on one side, alternating text and color illustrations. Oblong. 8.75 x 11.75 inches. Illustrations printed by the Lemercier lithography firm in Paris. Placed in an archival mylar sleeve. An unusual and rare, late Victorian children's book. This illustrated fable, told in rhyme, features multiple eccentrically conceived characters. One imagines that the author was very likely raised on the works of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. The two main characters, named the Spoofah and the Antidote, are kindly old men who are the best of friends (the Spoofah, although a man in actuality, has the head of an elephant and the body of a bicycle; the Antidote has very long ears and wears roller skates in order to keep up with his wheeled-friend). Together they go on an adventure in order to prove the existence of the… Read More

Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Achey & Gorrecht, 1918. Hardcover. Very Good+. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Very small nick on spine; light soiling on rear cover; corners pushed, else fine. Interior is bright, clean and unmarked. Thirteen illustrations on plates, displaying the Kromayer Lamp and the Alpine Sun Burner. xiii, 162 pages. The first American book to address the efficacy of ultra violet rays in the practice of dermatology. Written by Dr. Ralph Bernstein (1877-1948) a homeopathic physician and veteran professor of dermatology at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. He provides a brief and clear presentation of the clinical application of UVL in the treatment of many cutaneous diseases, based on case experience from private practice, the Skin Section of the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia, and various other institutions with which Dr. Bernstein was connected. Contents: [I] The Evolution of Artificial Light Rays. [II] Physical Effects, Histological Changes and… Read More

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1873. Hardcover. Good. Ex-library (non-circulating). Publisher's green cloth boards decoratively stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover. Call number on spines. Labels on front pastedowns; no pockets. Each volume has pinhole library stamps on the frontispiece, title-page, and each of the illustrated plates/maps. Complete plates: ten illustrations and twelve maps (2 color, 3 fold-outs); several in-text illustrations. 19.4 x 13.6 cm. Octavo. pp. Vol. I: x, 483. Vol. II: vi, 529, plus [6] advertising. Placed in archival mylar sleeves with a small, loose slip of acid-free paper to mask the call number. In his African Sketch-Book, Reade compiled a variety of materials with the intention of illustrating both African life and his experiences. He includes a recapitulation of his travels in Equatorial Africa, Angola, and Senegambia during 1862 and 1863; essays on the slave trade, African exploration, and the progress of Islam in Western Africa; an detailed… Read More

Roma, 1905. Hardcover. Good. Eight issues in two bound volumes. Library bindings, green cloth with marbled sides (rubber stamp of Berliner Verein fur Luftschiffahrt (Berlin Airship Association) on initial issue; bookplate of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base). Bindings show some edgewear. The 1906 volume has five pages with surface damage where pages had been stuck together (leaving a few words effaced); one leaf has a large chip to the fore-edge margin, affecting the last letters of some words; otherwise, the issues are in good condition. Full-year indexes at the end of each volume. Illustrated with many photographs and diagrams throughout. Scarce. Early Italian aeronautics periodical (1905-1906), extensively illustrated, chronicling the research, development, and experiments with gliders, air balloons, dirigibles, as well as airplane and helicopter prototypes. Includes aerodynamic studies; records of flights in Italy; notes on developments in the United States and Europe; reports of displays… Read More