Recent Arrivals from Archway Books

12mo in contemporary leather, 3.5 x 6 inches; frontispiece, xii, 384, [30]; worn, rear board scorched with damage to last two leaves of text; binding loose. A well used non-institutional copy that has not been messed with. This is the first edition in English of the only parts ever published of Bacon's projected natural history -- his more or less… Read more about this item

Single sheet measuring 9.5 x 4.75 inches, very good condition. The work of Arthur E. Belyea, a Canadian-born Bostonian who hawked his poems door-to-door and also performed as a magician. WorldCat locates Brown and Harvard only.

Small octavo, 172 pages including 4 engravings, cloth boards, moderate wear and staining. A rather scurrilous anti-Roma childrens' book consisting of uncredited passages from various writers, some sympathetic to the Roma, but mostly not Sources include George Borrow, Sir Walter Scott, Chambers's Miscellany, et al. The editor, Daniel Parish Kidder (1851-1899), served as corresponding secretary and editor of Sunday… Read more about this item

The Russo-Japanese War: Taken by the Photography Department of the Imperial Headquarter, Numbers 1-14; published in Tokyo, 1904-05, by K. Ogawa. 14 large format (10 x 14 inch) pamphlets recently bound together in hardcover. Original wraps bound in, occasional foxing throughout, good condition overall. 224 full page half-tone photographs taken at the front by Ogawa Kazumasa (1860-1929).… Read more about this item

Thirty-one engravings, all clipped from issues of Памятная книжка (Pamaiatnaia knizhka), an annual almanac of military, naval, imperial court and civil officials, published in Saint Petersburg by Военной Типографий (The Military Press). Each annual contained six to ten plates, mostly of places in the empire outside of Russia proper, reflecting contemporary Russian expansionism. During the period of this… Read more about this item

Silk-screen on 17.5 x 15 inch sheet; "Tonight" scrawled in black marker across image; some light creasing, staple holes at corners. Tuesday, February 1, is undoubtedly 1977. At this time Leary was just out of prison and had embarked on a college lecture tour on space colonization entitled "The American Culture (1945-1985)."

Single sheet, 6 x 10 inches, light creasing. Over 100 workers, many of them women and children, were killed in the collapse and subsequent fire of this underbuilt and overloaded textile plant. Jason E. Cowden (1837-1884) is enumerated in Amesbury, Massachusetts, as a mill worker (1855) and as a hat factory worker (1860, 1870, 1880). WorldCat Locates AAS, Boston Athenaeum, UNC.

Real photograph printed in gold on a lacquered wooden board, from the Yokohama studio of Mizuno Hanbei, circa 1895. Mizuno patented this process that used a photosensitive adhesive of potassium bichromate, gum arabic and honey to attach gold dust to lacquer. The photograph of geisha and maiko relaxing on a Kyoto riverside terrace was taken by Tamamura Kozaburo.… Read more about this item

The Card-Player's Companion: A Description of the U.S. Playing Cards and Games Best Adapted to Our Cabinet , No. 707 –– First Edition. Published in Cincinnati, 1887, by Russell & Morgan Printing Company. 32-page pamphlet, 4.5 x 6 inches (11.5 x 15.25 cm). This is the first edition of the first catalog of Russell and Morgan… Read more about this item

Borba mirov [The War of The Worlds] Large octavo, 7 x 9.5 inches, 91 pages; covers worn, stamp of tsarist era Tbilisi High School and other library markings on title page, pages toned and brittle, one leaf detached but present. Translation by K.K Tolstoy. Off-print from Novyi Zhurnal Innostrannoi Literatury, where the novel was printed serially earlier in 1898. Later… Read more about this item

Second published Russian translation of the Innocents at Home portion of Mark Twain's Roughing It, 1911, with the Frank Fraser illustrations from Routledge's UK edition. Octavo, paper boards, 5.5 x 8 inches, 196 pages; moderate external wear, contents in good condition for such cheap paper. Translated by revolutionary critic Mikhail Alexandrovich Engelhardt (1861-1915), translator of Locke, Poe, Dickens, Flaubert, Doyle, Kipling,… Read more about this item

Correspondence between the Secretaries of War and the Treasury, on the Subject of a Deficiency of Funds, Confederate States of America, War Department, Richmond, Va, December 29, 1864. Single folded 9.5 x 12 inch sheet; light toning, starting to split at fold. Very faint rubber stamp, "Record Division, War Department, Rebel Archives." Parrish & Willingham 2315. War Secretary James Seddon… Read more about this item

Single sheet, 6 x 9.25 inches, 1.25 inch closed tear at upper edge, edges chipped, horizontal fold, toning to lower quadrant. A blog entry by Nancy Noble, archivist/cataloger at the Maine Historical Society, identifies the poet A. W. Harmon (1812-1901) as a Scarborough carriage smith who published at least fifteen broadside poems on a variety of subjects.

Du Caire à Philae, Décembre 1898 A Bord du Cheik Fadl. 97 heliotype photographs, each printed on a separate sheet with printed captions and collected in a cloth-bound portfolio. Most sheets are light card measuring 6 x 9 inches, but about 15% are on plain paper measuring 6 x 8. A few are chipped at the edges, but… Read more about this item

Illustrated wraps, 10.5 x 7.5 inches; wraps detached, signs of use, ocasional foxing, browning of the wax tissue guards. 100 tenugui designs printed two on a page in two or more colors, 16 furoshiki (gift wrapping cloth) designs and a dozen banten (workmen's decorated jackets) designs.

Silver gelatin print mounted on card, 4.75 x 7.25 inches, edges chipped as visible in scan. Manufactured in Marion, Ohio, Marion shovels were a world-wide fixture in mining and excavation from the 1880s through the 1980s. This photo of a Marion Model 61 in Russia may be during the construction of the mammoth iron mining and steel refining city of… Read more about this item

First edition, preceding the edition published in Milan by Ricordi. Oblong folio, 13.25 x 10.25 inches (33.5 x 26 cm); [2], 96, [2], 97-141 pages; quarter-vellum, marbled paper boards; moderate external wear, contents lightly foxed, good overall. Ownership stamp of Pio Braschi-Onesti (1804-1864), Duke of Nemi, on front paste-down. Vocal score with piano of this opera seria by Giovanni Pacini (1796-1867), which… Read more about this item

Vermehrter und im Druck verbesserter Trost der Armen : Das ist: Schlechte, jedoch bewährte Haus-Mittel, dadurch fast in allen Zuständen und Zufällen des nenschlichen Leibs dem Landmann und Armen, ohne oder mit geringem Zuthun der kostbaren Apothecker-Büchsen kan geholffen werden. Mit beygedruckter Beschreibung des Kissinger Sauer-Bronnens und Wasser-Cur in Francken. Contemporary leather binding; 4.25 x 6.75 inches; 708, 16, 76… Read more about this item

Biographie W.A. Mozart's : nach Originalbriefen, Sammlungen alles über ihn Geschriebenen; mit vielen neuen Beylagen, Steindrücken, Musikblättern und einem Fac-simile Large octavo, 5.25 x 8.5 inches, pper boards recently rebacked; xliv, 702, 226 pages; very good condition. As in most copies, the large family portrait is lacking; all the other prints, facsimiles, etc are present.. This collection of family letters,… Read more about this item

Stapled magazine, 6.75 x 9.75 inches, sixteen pages including wraps, light vertcal fold, else good condition. This is the first issue of հոկտեմբերԻԿ Hoktemberik, the Armenian magazine for Little Octobrists, the Soviet organization for primary-age children. It was published continuously through 1950, when it was apparently folded into the magazine for the older Pioneers. These illustrations are some of the earliest… Read more about this item