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N.p.: N.p., ca. 1918. A very attractive depiction of the Liberty Eagle constructed entirely of birth feathers. 12 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches. Original frame. Very good.This was a popular image for the Spanish-American War and WWI.

Wein: Verlag von L.W. Seidel & Shon, 1912. First edition. Narrow octavo. 238, [1], [12, ads for aviation products] pp. Illustrations from photographs. Publisher's flexible salmon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Some fading to cloth and tips a bit bruised but a very good copy.Includes a list of members, list of competitions and awards and various articles relevant to flight at that time. The great engineer Alexander Cassinone was vice-president of the Areo-Club of Austria at that time. He was involved in submarine design and in the construction of the Airship M.III. "For M.III, the Austrians went with a local design by Alexander Cassinone, general director of Körting Österreich. She made her first flight in January 1911, and immediately proved successful. Powered by two 75-horsepower engines, she was the only Austrian airship with a radio and carried a crew of seven. On 20 June 1914, while she hovered over Fischamend testing new camera equipment, an Army pilot flying a new French-made Farman… Read More

Chicago and Grand Rapids: Bud Morriss Airplane School, 1916. Original photograph of "Bud" Morriss, and his chief engineer Tony Stadlman, at the controls of his flying boat. Photograph measures 3 x 2 1/2 inches. It is in the original frame and with the original label on the verso which reads; "This is an authentic photograph taken in Grand Rapids, 1915, of P. G. B. (Bud) Morris at the controls of his Benoist Flying Boat, accompanied by his Chief mechanician Tony Stadlman, who later became Superintendent of the Lockheed Airplane Company of Burbank." Together with an original stickpin for the school in brass and blue and with an image of a biplane. It reads "Bud Morriss Airplane School Chicago 1916." The original celluloid covering the photograph is still present. Rare mementos of an early and influential aviator and his aviation school.Percival George Brockhurst Morriss (1884-1944), a native of England, learned to fly at Brooklands racetrack in 1909. Soon after that he came to the United States. A… Read More

San Francisco: California Botanical Club of the California Academy of Science, [1950]. First separate edition. Octavo. 8 pp. Publisher's printed gray wrappers. Signed by the author. A very good copy.[With]EASTWOOD, Alice. The Albert Prager Herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Botanical Club, 1952. In; Leaflets of Western Botany. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's printed gray wrapper. Signed by the author. Very good.[with]EASTWOOD, Alice. A Collection of Popular Articles on the Flora of Mount Tamalpais. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's printed orange wrappers. A very good copy of this series of articles that originally appeared in the Mount Tamalpais Conservation Club publication 'California Out-of-Doors'.[with]EASTWOOD, Alice. The Oaks of Mount Tamalpais. San Francisco: Tamalpais Conservation Club, 1920. Contained in the October issue of the 'California Out-of-Doors'. Four-page newspaper. Very good. Plus the August 1919 issue of the 'California… Read More

San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1905. First edition. Tall octavo. 86 pp. of text plus 57 full page plates. Publisher's printed buff wrappers. Covers reattached. Minor edge chipping to wrappers and upper corner bumped. A very good copy.The last book printed by the venerable printing firm of Edward Bosqui before his factory went up in flames in the great fire of 1906 and judging from its scarcity the majority of the copies of this title went up in smoke as well.In 1890 Eastwood took a vacation to southern California, where she studied the plants of the region. The following year she worked for several months as an assistant in the herbarium at the California Academy of Sciences. She was offered a position as joint Curator with Katherine Brandegee in 1892, and left both Colorado and teaching behind for California and botany (MacFarland x). In 1894, with the retirement of Mrs. Brandegee, Eastwood was advanced to Curator and Head of the Department of Botany, a position she kept until… Read More

Philadelphia: R. G. Kennedy & Co., 1900. First edition. Connoisseur Edition (no. 529). Octavo. Ten paper folders containg 75 Dickens-related prints. Each folder with a printed paper cover label. Hosed in the original quarter cloth over boards portfolio, front cover with printed paper label and black and red designs, original ties. Tips a bit bumped and short tear to uper spine of porfolio, else a lovely and clean copy.

Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1957. First edition. One of 500 copies. 168 pp. with frontispiece portrait and fold-out map. Publisher's rust cloth with black spine label lettered in gilt, Very bright and clean.A miner who joined the volunteer Mariposa Battalion, Eccleston was the only one of some 200 men who kept a diary as whites pursued Indians through the High Sierra. "This brief diary gives an illuminating insight into life in the southern mines of California in 1850-1851. Robert Eccleston's journal tells the reader much more than merely what happened in an unimportant little 'war' between two hundred militiamen and some unhappy Indians. By close reading of this well-edited document one can gain a good understanding of the personalities, prejudices, and habits of the miners who made up the militia companies, and who were quite like and other California miners. One can also learn much about the physical hardships and dangers characteristic of the period and region" (R. Paul).

Chicago: The Book & Art Exchange, (1907). First separate edition (first published in The Ladies' Home Journal, 1907). 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches, French-fold of [16 ] pp. of which only [8] bear type. Publisher's string-tied decorative wrappers showing clusters of grapes (printed in purple and green) as a frame for the title. A sweet little publication made sweeter by its elusivity.In typical Eddy fashion: "To me Christmas involves an open secret, understood by few - or by none - and unutterable except in Christian Science. Christ was not born of the flesh. Christ is the Truth and Life born of God - born of Spirit and not of matter. Jesus, the Galilean Prophet, was born of the Virgin Mary's spiritual thoughts of Life and its manifestation.."

Darmstadt: Darmstadter Verlag, 1928. First edition. One of 125 numbered copies, signed by the artist (Pinder) and the publisher (Joseph Wurth). This copy additionally inscribed by Pinner to a professor and dated 1928. Quarto. 29, [1, colophon; this copy labeled "P"). French-fold and with Pinner engravings embedded within the text. Publisher's quarter white parchment over orange boards with a Pinner design on the front. Manuscript lettering on spine and previous owner's blind-stamp in two places and distinctive signature on upper margin of title page. Some soiling to board edges and a bit of tip wear but a very clean and presentable copy.The previous owner was Arthur Teller, M.D. Arthur Teller was a practicing psychiatrist in the Bronx for 54 years. In 1975 Teller was shot by a distraught parent visiting his children a Jewish Children's placement center. He died in 2016."Erna Pinner began her education as an artist at the Stadel Art Institute in Frankfurt when she was just sixteen. From 1908 to… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. Second edition. Octavo. xix, [1], 325, [1], [2, ads] pp. plus three full page illustrations and numerous textual illustrations. Publisher's orange cloth. gilt cover lettering within a stamped red and green and gilt border, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt. Some minor wear to extremities, 1892 presentation inscription, chip to tissue over frontispiece. A clean and attractive copy.

New York: Greenwich Book Publishers, [1959]. First edition of this elusive science fiction novel written by a 15 year old Canadian youth. Octavo. 113, [1] pp. Publisher's red cloth with white spine lettering. In the original jacket with only minor edge wear. A very clean and handsome copy.

London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1821. First edition, second issue, with the following second issue points (per Cohn): there is a footnote on page 9 and the first sheet of music is numbered. Octavo. xvi, 376. Thirty-six hand-colored aquatint plates by George and Robert Cruikshank and three folding leaves of music, printed on both sides. An original printed front wrapper bound in at the rear.Handsomely bound by Morrell of London in full crushed red morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet borders, spine compartments densely gilt and with gilt lettering, gilt fillet board edges, gilt turn-ins, pale red endpapers, top edge gilt, remainder uncut. Dedication leaf a bit toned and joints slightly weak, but a very clean and wide-margined copy in a deluxe binding.Cohn 262. Tooley 198.

New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1961. First trade edition. Signed by Eggenhofer on the half title. Octavo. 184 pp. Eggenhofer illustrations throughout. Publisher's brown cloth with spine lettering in black, pictorial endpapers, pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped). An excellent copy.From the library of noted Western artist William F. Reese with his estate stamp on the front pastedown.

Paris: Maloine, 1911. First French edition. Octavo (9 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 232 x 155 mm). X, 171, [1, blank], [1, Table], [1, blank] pp. With five photographic plates and three folding tables. Original blue, green, and grey printed paper wrappers bound in. Modern full leather binding. Excelent.A fine copy of the first French edition of Ehrlich's account of the development of Salvarsan, the first chemical to be used as part of a chemotherapy treatment.Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) "made outstanding contributions to bacteriology, immunology, hematology, and chemotherapy. His researches in hematology led to the introduction of the differential white cell count as a diagnostic tool and to the establishment of methods for detecting leukemias and anemias, while his investigations into immunological processes resulted in his 'side-chain' theory that postulated the production of immunologically specific antibodies against invading organisms. Much honored during his lifetime, he shared the Nobel Prize for… Read More

New York: Fahim Kouchakji, 1933. Small folio. 22 pp. with color frontispiece and numerous illustrations from photographs. Publisher's cloth with blue cover lettering. Original printed dust jacket with some edge wear and light chipping. Laid in is a loose color plate of the chalice with ordering information for the book on the verso. A very good copy.This silver chalice was discovered on a dig in Antioch in 1910. This book is an abbreviated version of the two volume work of the same title.

Philadelphia: Ringwalt & Brown, 1868. First edition. Octavo, 23 [1] pp. Publisher's stabbed and sewn self wrappers. Some toning to tile page and ealry bookseller's stamp to title but a very good and clean copy.American economic theory in the second half of the nineteenth century was eerily familiar to the situation that now confronts Americans. The protectionists vs the free trader, or in the lingo of the time; the Cobdenite-Listian battle. Followers of German economist and philosopher George List were in favor of nationalism, protectionism and the expansion of colonies where the the followers of Richard Cobden were for free trade and an early sort of globalism. William Elder, a Treasury Department employee, gives full voice to the Listian arguments in this pamphlet where he urges the imperial acquisitions of new markets in the "tropical regions" for Western farm surpluses. Three years earlier Elder published another pamphlet entitled "How out National Debt Can Be Paid" and he was the biographer… Read More

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1948. First edition. Octavo. 126 pp. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Light yellow dust jacket (not clipped) printed in red and black. Small chip to head of jacket spine and sunning along edges of cloth. A very good copy.

Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Freemason, 1908. First edition. Octavo. Contained in Vol. 13, No. 3 of The Los Angeles Freemason. Pp. 71-100. Illustrated from photographs. Numerous ads for local businesses. Entire issue present. Original blue wrappers printed in dark blue and red. Wrappers with slight sunning but , overall, a bright, clean and crisp copy.Arguably the most important issue of this periodical dealing with freemasonry in Southern California. The cataloger happens to know that Arthur Ellis was the author as he saw the notebooks used.

New York: The Mentor Association, 1916. Complete and in the original printed green wrappers. Includes all laid in chromolithographs of Yosemite. Each chromo with abundant commentary on the verso. Some edge wear to wrappers and splitting along spines. Inserted plates in good condition. Altogether. worth owning. This is a special issue of the Mentor and it only contains the one article and the loose plates. Inner front cover with a long quotation from John Muir.

[Worcester]: Denholm & McKay Co., 1905. First edition. Oblong octavo. [64] pp. including frontispiece the Old South Church. Well illustrated with woodcuts. Publisher's wrappers with the entire front cover taken up with a portrait of an Indian and the title, all in light red ink. Some light toning to wrappers, else a very good and clean copy.