Rare Ethnobotanical Ephemera by BPC Botany & Chemistry - 2001: Botanical Preservation Corps Catalog formerly "OF THE JUNGLE"

American Greetings, 1999. Embossed Card & White Envelope which reads The White House on Front, Fine Condition, 8 X 6 in., Front Card reads The White House, An American Treasure, North Portico, 1999 & inside Our Family Wishes You & Yours a Blessed Holiday Season filled with Treasured Memories of Past traditions & Joy & Peace in new Millennium. First Edition. Unbound.

Chapel Hill: Lillabulero, Spring 1967. Signed by Russell Banks on title page. First edition / First printing. Stapled blue wrappers. Very good. Sunning and light wear to covers, short tear to top front cover, no loss. Includes Portfolio 2: The Shaker Dove, by Daniel Patterson inserted into a sleeve on inside rear cover. Also includes William Faulkner: a Story and Five Poems. Poetry by Lucius Shepard, Dabney Stuart, etc.

1952. Magazine: Vol. 2, July-Sept. 1952 No. 6; an 8vo size staple bound magazine, paginates from 220-262 with black and white illustrations and photographs. Contents include: The Serpollet System The Late Mr. R. H. Bolsover The Scott-Newcomb Steam System Doble Steam Cars British Light Steam Power Society Steam Launches and Their Machinery, 1909 Firing Monotube Steam Generator with Solid Fuel A 1920 Stanley Steamer wtih Modern Boiler and Burner Thermodynamics of Vapour Power-Plants for Motor Vehicles Some rubbing wear to covers, staples in binding have rusted and there are rusty areas a staple insertion points, particularly in the center fold and top back cover. There are some light wrinkles on back cover and on page 229 and wear to top of spine. Ephemera includes: 1. Published sheet, circa 1951, titles Modern Steam Power Development. There is an underlined sentence and a folded edge on the right side. 2. Published Legal size sheet, also circa 1951 with some information on Modern… Read More

Hauer delin. et Sculpsit [Johann Thomas Hauer, 1748-1820]. Optical view, 1 leaf.Prospect in Hamburg / Vue de la Ville Hambourg. Se vend a Augsbourg au Negoce comun de L'Academie Imperiale d'Empire des Arts libereaux avc Privilege de Sa Mageste Imperiale et avec Defense ni d'en faire ni de vendre les Copies. Augsburg: [Kaiserliche Franziskische Akademie], [1775-1779]. Series: Collections des Prospects. Copperplate engraving, hand colored. Single leaf, plate size: 400 x 300mm [15.75 x 11.8 inches], paper size: 455 x 340mm [17.9 x 13.4 inches]. Condition: a very good impression with bright coloring, with little darkening of paper. Outside of the impression there are generous margins that were in contact with an acidic matte. These margins are darkened by the acid of the matte board but are still supple. The print was attached to the matte with paper tape, a 0.25 inch is attached around the edge of the back of the print (see photo). This print is an exemplar of the "Optical Print/Vue d'Optique." These… Read More

1928. Softcover. Very good. 4" x 9" (folded), [16] pp, with illustrations from photographs, double-page "Relief Map of the North-of-Bay Country." One leaf loose from staples, otherwise very good. A scarce and attractive brochure describing outdoor recreational opportunities accessible via the routes of the Golden Gate Ferry Company and the Vallejo-San Francisco Ferry (Monticello Steamship Co.). Written by John F. Greathead of the Trail & Mountain Club, Vallejo, the brochure provides 1928 ferry schedules and describes hikes to Mount Veeder Volcanic Crated, Lokoya Lodge, Green Valley Falls, Atlas Peak, Wooden Valley, Sulphur Springs Mountain and Lake Hermann, Mount Vaca, The Calistoga Geyser and Petrified Forest, Bald Mountain, Alpine Lake, and the North Shore of the Golden Gate. OCLC lists one copy of a similar 1927 brochure and no copies of this 1928 edition.

FLASHING B/W Photo Approx 7 X 5 inches, plasticized Frame is etched in design around Edges, FINE/F-, AS-IS, Suitable for Display on your Table or Dresser. Unbound.

1891. Book. Very Good. 8 x 10 inch, matted and framed photogravure print of Schooner America, from a photograph taken August, 1891. some minor spots on image, else in very good condition in a sound black frame with silver surround.Overall dimensions 12 x 14 inches. An 8 x 10 " glass negative of the same image is held by the Library of Congess. Only partial image shown in scan since the item is too large for my scanner..

Rob Hower Film / Connoisseur Art Collection / Image Entertainment 1975 1989. Signed by Director Paul Verhoeven on the cover. First edition / First printing. Laserdisc in laminated pictorial sleeve. Very fine disc in very fine sleeve. The acclaimed Dutch director's third film.

Compania Litografica Nacional. HARDCOVER. 1991. 9586380319 :Medellin, Colombia: Sociedad Colombiana de Orquideolgia. Spanish language edition. Photography by Jorge Mario Munera B. Good in like jacket. Glossy leaves a little wavy, probably resulting from exposure to high-humidity but no adhesions nor musty odor. Pictorial Boards. Jacket a bit wavy and dust scratched but o/w Good, 288pp. 9586380319 . Good. 1st.

Privattryk, 1972 BOOKPLATES. EXEMPLAIRE NUMÉROTÉ no. 41. Cet album contient 10 ex-libris originaux en couleurs contrcollés de Jorgen Lindhart Rasmussen. Les textes en danois et en allemand sont du grand collectionneur d'ex-libris Vagn Clemmensen. En prime sur page titre, un ex-libris du graveur d'ex-libris de Québec, Louis Fréchette.. Illus. by Lindhart Rasmussen, Jorgen. Edition originale. Couverture souple. Neuf/Neuf.