Search Results: Authors starting with D from James Arsenault & Company

New-York: Charles Starr, 1824. Hardcover. 24mo (6.25" x 3.75"), full calf. viii, 9-240, includes Samuel Green's "Practical Accountant" at the back. Early ownership inscription of one "John S. Starknells, His Book Bought Lately 1898" on ffep. Starknell's name also inscribed on rear endpaper. CONDITION: Good, minor rubbing to cover/spine and corners lightly bumped, inner hinges cracked but binding tight, foxing throughout, stains from inscriptions onto front and back paste-downs. Later revised text of a volume originally printed in 1811.

New York: Printed by Jared W. Bell, Corner of Nassau and Ann Streets, 1844. Mess [ieurs] Dodge, Burgess, Moody & Bacon, lithographers. 8vo (8" x 5.5"), no wrappers, removed from sammelband. [1], 32 pp., folding lithograph, 15"x 29", signed in the image "P. R. Hodge C. E." CONDITION: Good, plate with 9 cm fold separation and a 5 cm tear. A scarce proposal for a new dry dock system, illustrated with a large and impressive lithograph, based on a drawing by Paul Hodge and entitled Proposed Plan of a Sectional Floating Dry Dock and Permanent Stone Basin, Connected With Bed and Sliding Way. The lithograph depicts a three-masted ship in an elaborate floating dry dock adjacent to a Navy Yard pier. A nearby ship house accommodating a single ship and three sets of ways is surmounted by a U.S. flag. Various elements of the image are lettered and a corresponding key appears on the page opposite the plate. The text describes the development of Navy docks, and the need identified by Thomas Jefferson to preserve… Read More

Rouseville, Venango County, PA, [1870]. Illustrated broadside, 11" x 7.5". One word inscribed on verso. CONDITION: Good, staining, chipping at margins, partial separation at middle old folds, one puncture at middle. A broadside issued during the Pennsylvania oil rush by a Rouseville, Pennsylvania inventor advertising a flue scraper and wiper designed to address an inefficiency in boiler used in the oil fields. This broadside relates that $10,000 was lost by the owners of steam boilers and engines in the oil regions during 1870 by burning fuel to make steam in boilers, the flues of which were seldom if ever cleaned. While this may seem a large estimate, it is noted that if any one experiments upon it a little, they will soon be convinced that is a fact. The broadside goes on to note that, with all the soot and scale removed from its glues, a boiler will make the same amount of steam, with between 10 to 20 per cent less fuel than when not properly cleaned. Thus all users of boilers should get a glue… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1893. Hardcover. Sm 4to (10" x 7"), white cloth, pictorial gilt and silver on upper cover, deckled edges. Frontis., [9], 263 pp., 10 color plates with tissue guards, early inscription on ffep reading "Francis M. Livingston. June 15th, 1896. From J. B." CONDITION: Good, spine sunned, bumped corners, cloth toned and somewhat soiled, foxing to preliminaries, inside hinges starting to crack but stable, light foxing throughout, several pencil notes in margins. Limited edition. "This edition, consisting of Two Hundred and Fifty Copies on Large Paper, was printed in the month of October, 1893. This Copy is No. 177. [signed] John Wilson and Son.

New York: Printed and Published by J. & J. Harper, No. 82 Cliff-Street, 1832. Hardcover. Sm 4to (10.25" x 6.5"), half black leather, marbled paper boards. viii, [1],10-157 pp., 20 fold-out plates signed "E. Proud'homme." Early ownership inscription on ffep reading: "Herbert Quirk Ferguson, August 1st, 1834, New York. H. Shaked." Inscription on title reads "Herbert Quirk Ferguson, 81 Willet St., N. Y." CONDITION: Good, extremities worn, 2.5" split in back hinge at lower spine but binding intact, moderate foxing throughout. First edition, first printing. REFERENCES: Checklist of American Imprints 12088.

London, 1915. 11" x 8.5", printed blue wrappers. 132 pp., numerous photographic reproductions and facsimiles. A powerful compilation of images, report extracts, letters and more documenting the atrocities of the World War I German Occupation and the Belgian resistance. CONDITION: Good +, wrapper spine partially perished, bumped corners, sound binding, text clean on coated paper.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1917. Hardcover. No jacket. Sm 8vo (8" x 5.5"), green cloth, paper title label on spine. Frontis., xvi, [2], 19-40 pp., [2] blank leaves, b&w illus throughout. Pictorial endpapers. Author inscription in ink on front free endpaper, reading "To Ernest, with all my heart, Bob, 1918." CONDITION: Very good, slight wear at extremities, a few light spots to covers, a few light stains to preliminaries. First edition. An early depiction of cyborgs and technologically modified humans from the early years of the 20th century. Inscribed by Davis to etcher and poster artist Ernest Haskell. Includes a facsimile of a typed letter from T. Roosevelt expressing his hearty congratulations.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1925. Hardcover. 8vo (7.5" x 5.25"), black cloth, gilt title and red pirate design on upper cover. xi, 310 pp. Stated first edition in appealing pirate-themed dust jacket. A humorous colonial tale of the pirate Dixy Bull who terrorized the Pemaquid, Maine peninsula, by Maine poet, filmmaker, and journalist Day, author of Up in Maine, Squire Phin, King Spruce and others. Scarce in the first edition, especially in jacket. CONDITION: Very good, discreet private library number (242) in upper right corner of front paste-down and flyleaf; dj good with private library label numbered 242 on spine, pencil numbers on spine as well, chipping, tears and creases at extremities.

London: B. T. Batsford; New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1909. Hardcover. 8vo (8.75" x 6.25"), green cloth. 126 pp., numerous b&w plates and other b&w illus. CONDITION: Very good, slightly cocked, light cracks on hinges, light wear at extremities, offsetting from bookmarks on pp. 50-51 and 94-95.

[London]: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. 8vo (8.125" x 5.25"), full limp vellum, gilt title at spine and decorative gilt stamping at upper cover. ix, 138 pp., colophon. Bookplate of Wyman Parker at lower left corner of front paste-down. CONDITION: Very good, corners slightly bumped. Nonesuch Press edition of this work first published in 1686, first translated into English by John Glanvill in 1688. Declaring to those aware of recent developements in Natural Philosophy that he does "not pretend to instruct, but only to divert them by presenting...in a gay and pleasing dress, that which they already know," Fontenelle's A Plurality of Worlds is a classic of popular-scientific writing from the Age of Reason. First published forty-five years after Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy and a century after the Copernican revolution, this dialogue not only explains the Cartesian dualism of mind and body with respect to terrestrial and intergalactic bodies, but like Descartes before him, Fontenelle's writing… Read More

New York: Atheneum, April 1965. Hardcover in dj. 8vo (9.75" x 8"), red cloth, pictorial upper cover. Color and b&w illus. Owner inscription of "Abigail Nancy Aldridge" in ink on front pastedown. CONDITION: Very good, extremities rubbed, dust spotted top edge, pristine interior; in good dj with paper tape repair on the inside of the jacket of break or split to back panel and foot of spine, worn at extremities, lightly foxed. Third printing.

New York: A. D. F. Randolph & Co.; Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1871. Hardcover. 16mo (6.5" x 5") decorative green cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, ornaments stamped in black on spine and covers, beveled edges. Frontis. photograph (albumen print), [7], 280 pp., numerous head and tail pieces. CONDITION: Good, small loses to head and foot of spine, some edge wear, contents clean and tight. First edition of DeCosta's second book on Mount Desert Island, illustrated with an original frontispiece photograph of Eagle Cliff and Eagle Lake. Includes fifteen chapters with such titles as "Bird's-Eye Views," "Mount Desert," "Somes' Sound," "Among the Mountains," "Beach Rambles," "Frenchman's Bay," etc. Copies of this book have been noted in green, brown, red and purple cloth. Born in Charleston, Mass., Benjamin Franklin De Costa (1831-1904) was a minister, writer, and traveler who crossed the Atlantic ocean twenty-two times. Of his thirty-five historical works, he is best remembered for his… Read More

Aug. Vind. [Augsburg] : J.A. Pfeffel, [1719]. Oblong folio, half calf and original speckled brown paper over boards, recently re-backed, raised bands with gilt floral ornaments in seven compartments. 29 (of 30) leaves comprising 2 engraved titles and 27 plates; lacking typographic privilege leaf, as is often the case. An unusually handsome, wide-margined copy of this marvelous collection of views of early eighteenth-century Vienna. The series begins with a beautifully designed allegorical plate consisting of a panoramic view of the city in the form of a relief panel on a monument surmounted by an eagle, with two figures nearby leaning on overturned urns from which water flows in cataracts to the bottom of the scene. Subsequent plates depict façades, squares, monuments, great houses, gardens, etc. These include "Der Schotten Platz," "Prospect des Wienerischen Neu-Marckts," "Die Furste Lichtenstainische Pallast," "Prospect eines Wienerischen Platzes der Hoff genannt," "Prospect des Hohen Marckts zu… Read More

Brussels: Editions Arcade, 1967. Hardcover. Large 4to, beige cloth with title gilt-stamped at spine. [iv]-xxxi, 324 pp., b&w and color illus. throughout. Richly illustrated in both b&w and color, with multiple fold-out illustrations. CONDITION: Near fine, one small rectangular area of discoloration to an image, in good dust jacket with good slip-case.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. Softcover. Sm 8vo (8.5" x 5.5"), early rebinding in linen. [2], 126 pp. CONDITION: Good, missing frontis.

Metz, [France]: M.M. Gangel et P. Didion, [ca. 1870]. 8vo (7.8" x 5.25"), printed red, green, and blue pictorial paper wrappers. Title leaf, 114 wood engraved plates, 102 hand colored and 12 b&w. CONDITION: Very good, rebacked with green paper, some chips to edge of upper wrapper, faint foxing and offsetting throughout. A rare and charming French "blow book" or trick book consisting of nine alternating scenes, eight of which are hand-colored. Each scene in this volume comprises two plates facing each other: two young women and a girl opposite two men (one blowing smoke into the other's face); a large-headed dandy facing a similarly bobble-headed woman, holding a bouquet with two small children behind her; a man with performing monkeys, and another (with a rather terrified expression) with a muzzled, dancing bear; Punchinello vis-à-vis a harlequin, both with frolicking children in tow; a French versus a Middle Eastern soldier, both with long rifles; silhouettes of performing acrobats, facing those of… Read More

New York: Walt Disney Productions, 1940. 4to (12.75" x 9.5"), pictorial color wrappers. [28] pp., numerous color and b&w illus. A profusely illustrated souvenir theater program, designed by Gyo Fujikawa for the 1940 Fantasia road show. Features annotations for each composition performed, head shots of Disney, Stokowski and Deems Taylor, stories about all the writers, actors and musicians involved in the productions as well as visitors to the set such as Igor Stavinsky, George Balanchine, Dr. Edwin Hubbell, Thomas Hart Benton and more. CONDITION: Good, damp stains to wrappers, end papers and several inside hinges, 1" tear on top left corner of front wrapper, toning along spine of front wrapper, wear at extremities of back wrapper, included .5" tear and .25" chip, interior clean and appealing.

New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856. Sm 8vo (7.75" x 5.5"), brown cloth, gilt spine title, blindstamped covers. Frontis., xxxi, [32]-464 pp., bookseller ticket of "John S. Andrews, Bookseller & Stationer No. 140 Nassau-St. New York" on front pastedown. Early ownership inscription reading "Elijah Holton's book, Hack. Grant" on ffep. Engraved frontis. port. by "J.C. Buttre from a daguerreotype." With facsimile signature below port. CONDITION: Good, extremities worn, foot of spine chipped, spine sunned, some spotting to spine and front cover, lower front inner hinge cracked but sound binding overall, frontis. tissue guard and title foxed, moderate foxing thereafter. An 1856 printing ("Seventeenth Thousand") of Douglass's renowned autobiography which first appeared the previous year, a profound critique of the injustices of slavery and among his greatest literary achievements. One of the most popular slave narratives of the nineteenth century (the first printing sold around 5,000 copies… Read More

London: Printed for T. Becket, the Corner of the Adelphi, in the Strand. MDCCLXXIV. 8vo, disbound. [4], 75, [1] pp., all leaves inlaid. First edition of this play set in a mythical ancient Egypt. Alexander Dow (d. 1779) spent much of his life serving in the British army in India. According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature in 1768 Dow "joined the fashion for Oriental Tales with Tales....of the Inatulla of Dehli, a series of flamboyant and ribald stories which met with some success. In the same year he published The History of Hindostan; two dramas, Zingis and Sethona followed in 1769 and 1774." The advertisement leaf in Sethona states that "Colonel Dow, when he sailed for India, left the following Tragedy in the possession of Mr. Garrick. The event has shewn, that the reputation of an absent author could not have been trusted in safer hands. He spared no expence as a manager, no pains as a man of taste...." The play relates the plight of Sethona, daughter of Seraphis, the king of Egypt,… Read More

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1955. Hardcover. 4to, black cloth. 286 pp., numerous b&w illus. Near very good, spine slightly cocked, in a good dust jacket.