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Paris: Goubaud et Cie, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. 380pp. Contemporary marbled boards. With twelve hand-coloured wood engravings depicting various styles of clothing, and numerous b&w in-text illustrations including embroidery styles. Articles on home economics, travels, beaux-arts, history, the Louvre and the Tuileries Palace, and much more. Front board is detached (with title page and two leaves), internally mostly clean… Read more about this item

Toronto: Rose-Belford Publishing Company, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Precedes the British edition published by Chatto & Windus. 225pp. Green cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine, in blind on the rear. Brown endpapers were professionally replaced, spine ends reinforced. Contemporary name in pencil on the title page, a few smudges and occasional foxing to leaves, some… Read more about this item

Milano: Società Editrice Libraria, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition from this publisher. viii, 447pp. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, edges sprinkled red. Engraved title page, full page and in-text engravings, two foldout maps (Guanabara Bay and a railway chart of Rio de Janeiro, S. Paulo and Minas Geraes). A first hand travel account of Brazilian life with… Read more about this item

Boston: Frederic S. Hill, 1831. First US Edition. Hardcover. 285pp. Original green cloth with paper label affixed to spine panel. Engraved title and three inserted plates with etchings. Wear to cloth, chips to label. Contemporary owner's name on front free endpaper, pencil markings on endpapers, scattered foxing throughout. A good+ copy.; 12mo.

Edinburgh / London: W. Blackwood / T. Cadell, 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. lviii, 279pp + errata slip. Original boards. The spine was amateurishly repaired with a piece of cloth and the label redone. Front hinge partially split, some wear to extremities. Internally clean. A good+ copy.

Boston: William C. Brown, 1846. First Edition. Printed wrappers. Two issues in the original wrappers. Laid in is a receipt signed by the publisher and editor William C. Brown for a 3 year subscription. Subscriber's name and address on one of the covers (Mrs. Stover of Schuylerville, NY). Light overall wear and a couple of faint spots. Very good+.… Read more about this item

Madrid: Por D. Antonio Espinosa, 1788. First Spanish Edition. Hardcover. 93pp. Contemporary quarter leather over boards. The defense by Cagliostro in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace that landed him nine months in the Bastille and for which he was subsequently acquitted. Text in Spanish. Translated from the French. Very old annotations in Spanish on the margins of some… Read more about this item

Providence, RI: John Carter, 1787. First Edition. Self-wraps. iv, 60pp. Contemporary plain wrappers. Early landmark legal case establishing judicial review. Lacks pages 51-54. Heavy foxing to the first four leaves, pages 3 and 4 are pasted together, some annotations in pencil throughout, heavy wear and stains to covers. A poor copy. Comes with an original invoice from the Charles… Read more about this item

Jamestown, NY, 1891. First Edition. Ephemera. 4pp. Self-wraps. Includes bill of fare and several short ads for local merchants including Clark Bros., Druggists, Tucker & Marvin Shoes, M. Blanchard & Co., Groceries, etc. ; Octavo.

Philadelphia: Elliott & Beezley, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. 416pp. Brown pictorial cloth stamped in black and gold on the front and the spine, color illustration affixed to front panel, all edges gilt. Floral endpapers. With several portrait illustrations. Light wear to spine ends, mild fading to spine. A bright near fine copy. ; Quarto.

New York: The Athenaeum Society, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. 30 volumes bound in half morocco over marbled boards, top edges gilt, others uncut. Includes The Caxtons, My Novel, Pelham, Falkland, Rienzi, The Last of the Barons, Harold, The Last Days of Pompeii, Zanoni, Ernest Maltravers, Alice, The Parisians, A Strange Story, Night and Morning, What Will He Do with… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. 478pp + 2 pp of advertisements. Brown cloth stamped in blind on the sides and in gold on the spine. The author was professor of Gastronomy and founder of the New York Cooking Academy. Private library number on front pastedown endpaper, name on front free endpaper and flyleaf. Two… Read more about this item

Paintings. Late 19th Century. Lovely portrait of Beatrice Cenci after the painting attributed to Guido Reni. Oil on porcelain. Measures roughly 12.5 x 8.5 cm. In excellent condition. In a vintage frame from the J. O. Krumbholz Fine Arts shop of Milwaukee, WI that measures 13.5 x 17.5 cm and has three nicks to the edges.

1865. Ephemera. One sheet of paper with another sheet with the oath of identity attached to the back (the photocopy of the oath is part of the papers that will come with the document). Allen St. John enlisted as a Private on August 18, 1862, was promoted to Corporal on November 4, 1862, and to Sergeant on March 23,… Read more about this item

New York / London: Cassell & Company, Limited / Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. v, 138pp + note. Brown cloth lettered in gold on the front panel and the spine panel, all edges gilt. Printed on laid paper. Signed and inscribed by Charles M. Dickinson to Reverend L. R. Dickinson of West Park, NY,… Read more about this item

Cincinnati: E. C. Middleton, 1864. One of a series of thirteen chromolithographs depicting portraits of United States Presidents. In this particular series fine oil colors were added to the printing process to make the final products look like actual paintings. Measures roughly 22¼ x 19¼". The back of the canvas is stamped with E. C. Middleton printing information. Comes… Read more about this item

St. Paul, MN / Chicago: Ingersoll View Company / The World Wide View Co. Photographs. Late 1890s. A neat small collection of nineteen stereoviews featuring Indians. Includes Gray Eagle and Family, Group of Black Foot Braves, Family Group of Sioux and Lodge, Jake Nahnami, Old Sioux Chief, and Jukawcauh Disca, A Bunch of Buffalo on the Plains, Chippewa Squaws,… Read more about this item

Meadville, PA: Keystone View Company. Photographs. Nice collection of eigthy-one stereoviews from Keystone View Company, The Universal Photo Art Co., H. C. White, and others. Most are b&w, some in color or hand-colored. Includes views of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, the Brooklyn Bridge, water front of New York from the Brooklyn side, the… Read more about this item

Chicago: The World Wide View Co. Photographs. Nice collection of 83 stereoviews from The World Wide Series. They include scenes of family life, African American life, Japanese life, views of the Coliseum, Blarney Castle, Nevada Falls, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite Valley, the Cliff House in San Francisco, St. Peter's, St. Mark's, banana plantations in the Philippines, gold digging in… Read more about this item

Meadville, PA / New York: Keystone View Company / James M. Davis. Photographs. They include Looking Towards the Bay from Russian Hill Over a Vast Area of Ruins, General View of Burned Area (Market St. on the Left) from Ferry Tower, Tried in the Crucible of Fire and Earthquake -- the Call Building, and Twisted and Wrecked by the… Read more about this item