Recent Arrivals from THE FAMILY ALBUM

Beysam, Lodz (Poland): ., 1918 126 p. [Blanks bound between at pgs. 87-91]. Illustrated. 4to. 280 mm. Original wraps bound in. Paper browned. Full buckram binding. Bookplate and manuscript ownerships of Israel Stiefel (1898-1966). He was Chairman of the Caucus of Democratic Senators during his tenure as a Pennsylvania State Senator (1936-1964). In addition to his Senate career, Israel Stiefel… Read more about this item

Thomas Ruddiman, Edinburg: ., 1732 pp. ([4], 12 [i.e.8]) Small 4° Thick paper Latin text. Interesting decorated endpapers with old repairs to the front flyleaf. Wonderful full leather Scottish Wheel Binding, tooled all over in gold gilt. Very Good. Contains the 'graduation' thesis of Robert Dundas of Arniston, the younger from the University of Edinburgh. He was educated first at… Read more about this item

Apud haeredes Melchioris Sessa, Venetiis (Venice): ., 1589 213 p. 16mo in 8°. 160 mm. Last leaf with a paper fault and the loss of a blank portion (2" x 2.5"). Latin italic. Early stiff paper wrapper. Spine title hand lettered. Date 1763 in manuscript on title page. Woodcut rococo Sessa family printer's device of a cat with mouse on… Read more about this item

R.H. Russell, New York:, 1904 11 unnumbered pages + 87 portraits. Large folio. 53 x 43 cm. 87 Wonderful photogravure portraits of many of the female social headliners of the era - including: Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Payne Whitney, and many many others. The powerful photogravure photo prints were mainly by Rudolf Eickemeyer, Histed, and others.… Read more about this item

Printed in Philadelphia. Reprinted in London, and sold by T. Sowle, in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-street: ., 1700 Full title: GOD'S PROTECTING PROVIDENCE, Man's Surest Help and Defence, in Times of the Dreatest Difficulty, and Most Eminent Danger. Evidenced in the remarkable deliverance of Robert Barrow, with divers other persons, from the devouring waves of the sea; amongst which they suffered… Read more about this item

The Forest Press, ., 1909 212 p. Small 8vo. Loose in original cloth backed boards. Autograph ownership of Anjeanette Kenney Smith, Worcester, MA. Excellent literary and folk tales about: London; Charles & Mary Lamb; Edward Fitgerald: Oxford; and Ireland. ENGLAND 1. Hardcover. Good.

Henry Holt, New York: 1911, 1911 Hardcover. Very Good.

(Per Joannem Gruninger ex Argenterato veteri) [Strasbourg, France ]., 1515 Ca. 640 p. **Wonderfully illustrated with woodcuts. Title within woodcut ornamental border, colored in sepia. Early manuscript bibliographic notes. Woodcut chapter heads and marginal diagrams. Numerous full-page and other woodcuts of significance. Includes musical notation and Hebrew language typography, etc. Folding diagram (with loss) mounted at front. Xerox facsimile of… Read more about this item

Reeves & Turner, London: ., 1872 Reprint of TWENTY Tracts from the 17th Century. Some text in red and black. 8vo. Half leather. Spine detached. ExLib. Baxter Library, Rutland VT. Contents include: V. 2. How the Good Wife taught her Daughter; King James's Counterblast to Tobacco (1604); The Arraignment and Execution of the Late Traitors, &c. (1606) -The penniless Parliament… Read more about this item

Little, Brown and Company; Boston: . Little, Brown, and Company, 1902., 1902 pp. (10), 292 + 2p. Ads for Ramona and other books by H.H. Jackson. With 38 illustrations. 12 mo. Original pictorial full cloth binding, with only slight wear. Contents include: Father Junipero and His Work; The Present Condition of the Mission Indians in Southern California; Echoes in the… Read more about this item

xi, 362 pages illustrations 26 cm, 1911 pp. xi, 362. Illustrated. 4to. 26 cm. Original full cloth binding. Henry Holt and Company, New York: 1911. American nature series. Group II. Classification of Nature. Ms. presentation from the author to S. W. Stratton. Armorial bookplate of Morris Addison Parris. W133. Signed by Author(s). Hardcover. Very Good.

Little, Brown and Company: ., 1884 73 p. 16 mo. Paper covers with original dust jacket, darkened and soiled . "Medicus" was the pen name of Daniel Denison Slade, an American physician and author. During the civil war he was appointed one of the inspectors of hospitals under the United States sanitary commission. Despite his medical success, Dr. Slade gradually… Read more about this item

Lachmu?ller, Bamberg: ., 1837 pp. xvi, 404. 8vo. 220 mm. Text in Hebrew; preface and notes in German. Johann Georg Riegler (1778-1847) was a Catholic theologian and educator. He was one of the most prolific Catholic theological writers of the 19th century. Adam Martinet (1800-date of death uncertain) was a professor in the lyceum of Bamberg. He is most famous… Read more about this item

Editio Stereotypa C. Tauchnitii Sumptibus, Ernisti Bredtii, Lipsiae / Leipzig: ., 1911 pp. xx, 1392, 24. 8vo. 220 mm. Original full leather binding, worn at extremities. The brief introduction (dated 1831) is in Latin. The rest of the text is in Hebrew. This version of the Torah was mainly based on that of Everardus van der Hooght (1642?-1716); and August… Read more about this item

Bernard Misintina (For Angelus Britannicus), Brescia: 1497, 1497 ff. [302] leaves. Loss of a few letters from the headline on s7. Small 4to. (in 4s and 8s). 185 mm. Latin black letter text. Neat later full vellum binding. Fuller information: Completed New Years Eve Day, 1497. Imprint from colophon on leaf N6 recto. art I, contents: Title page, a1r; Table… Read more about this item

Charles Scribner, New York, ., 1861 pp. [xi], 298. 12mo. 19cm. Handsome half leather over marbled boards. Marbled edges. Very good. Donald Grant Mitchell (1822-1908) was an American essayist and novelist who usually wrote under the pen name I.K. Marvel. Throughout his life he showed an interest in agriculture and landscape gardening, which he followed at first in pursuit of… Read more about this item

Homann Heirs, Nuremburg: CA: ., 1740 Four maps inset on one large engraved sheet. 510 x 610 mm. Some outline and sectional color. Excellent condition. Based upon earlier maps by Herman Moll, published in London (1700-1750). The individual map titles are: New Engelland New York New Yersey und Pensilvania; Carolina neksteinem Theil von Florida; Virginia und Maryland; and New Founland… Read more about this item

A. Macintosh (et. al.), London: ., 1826 186p. 24 mo. 120mm. Original straight grained black leather binding, broken at rear joint. All edges gold gilt. Small printed label for D. Appleton & Co., New York. Early ms. Ownerships of Jas. Dodd and Joel Parker. Bought by Edwin Wolf II from William Salloch in 1984. The small size of this Hebrew… Read more about this item

Charles Scribner, New York, ., 1861 pp. [vii], 336. 12mo. 19cm. Handsome half leather over marbled boards. Marbled edges. Very good. Donald Grant Mitchell (1822-1908) was an American essayist and novelist who usually wrote under the pen name I.K. Marvel. Throughout his life he showed a particular interest in agriculture and landscape gardening, which he followed at first in pursuit… Read more about this item

In aedibus Richardi Tottyll. Cum priuilegio, London: []., 1570 Standard collation: [36], 200, [4] leaves. 16 mo. 137mm. OUR COPY: Lacks: Title page; a leaf from the table *1; and at the end Bb7-8; and Cc1-4. Other leaves with a few old repairs, dampstain, and darkening, without much loss. **Nice manuscript ownership of Robert Jones, 1580: "Rober Jonnes oweith this… Read more about this item