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Chicago: A. Warner & Co.. Very Good. 1889. Print. 1 pages; A steel engraved portrait of Dominick O. Cunningham extracted from Cushing's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Including its Early Settlement... also Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men. Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1889. The portrait measures 10" by 7" with the image and facsimile autograph centered; protective tissue guard in place. Dominick O. Cunningham was president of the D. O. Cunningham Glass Company of Pittsburgh. He was born in Norway in 1834 and received early training in the glass business. The Cunningham family's glass business was originally established in 1849 as Pittsburgh City Glass Works by Wilson Cunningham, father of Dominick. In 1865 the firm became Cunninghams & Ihmsen and in 1878 the interest of Dominick Ihmsen was purchased and the firm became Cunninghams & Company; two years later Dominick Cunningham was the sole owner. The political affiliations of Mr.… Read More

Cambridge: American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Near Fine. 2024. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences; 284 pages; Clean and secure in original glossy printed wrappers. Contributing Authors include: David Baltimore · David S. TatelAnne-Marie Mazza · Eric H. Holder, Jr.Marcella Nunez-Smith · Kirsten N. MorehouseMahzarin R. Banaji · Kate A. RatliffColin Tucker Smith · Andrew N. MeltzoffWalter S. Gilliam · Jennifer T. KubotaManuel J. Galvan · B. Keith Payne · Rebecca C. HeteyMarYam G. Hamedani · Hazel Rose MarkusJennifer L. Eberhardt · Anthony G. GreenwaldThomas Newkirk · Jack Glaser · Jerry KangAlexandra Kalev · Frank Dobbin · Wanda A. SigurNicholas M. Donofrio · Alice Xiang · Darren WalkerThomas D. Albright · William A. Darity Jr.Diana Dunn · Rayid Ghani · Deena Hayes-GreeneTanya Katerí… Read More

Boston: F. Gleason. Very Good+. 1854. First Edition. Print. Gleason's Pictorial ; 1 pages; A beautiful vintage print, hand-colored. This first page of the August 19, 1854 issue of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. Image measures 10 X 14 inches; matted print measures 22 X 14 inches. Beautiful coloring. The top image is the bannerhead of the publication which depicts Boston (City on the Hill) and Boston Harbor with two steam paddleboats and several sailing boats and ships. The central text serves as explication of the lower image which depicts AUGUST - three dairy-maids churning and molding butter under a vine covered area near the dairy barn. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion was a 19th-century illustrated periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1851– 1859. The magazine was founded by Frederick Gleason in 1851. The publication name was changed to Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion in 1855, after managing editor Maturin Murray… Read More

New York: Harper And Brothers. Very Good. 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. vi, 273, (6) pages; New York: Very Good. 1885. First Edition. Vi, 273, (4) plates, (2) ads pages; Contents clean and secure in original decorative green cloth binding with interesting geometric pattern stamped in gold and brown, illustrated with musical notations and four full page plates. Two pages of publisher's ads at rear. Rubbed at spine ends and corners. Former owner's tiny nameplate on front pastedown endpaper "George H. Snader". OCLC 559109331 A very attractive example of this delightful 19th century book on dance by Allen Dodworth (1817-1890) . Allen Dodworth and his brother Harvey were important in the NY brass band and dance music scene from the 1840s through the 1880s. They composed music and sold musical instruments in addition to performing. Dances described include Waltz, Knickerbocker, Polka, Racket, Quadrille, Minuet, Virginia Reel, Plonaise, Cotillion, etc. . ; Americana and… Read More

Chicago: A. Warner Co.. Very Good. 1889. Print. 1 pages; A steel engraved portrait of Daniel Bushnell extracted from Cushing's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Including its Early Settlement... also Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men. Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1889. The portrait measures 10" by 7" with the image and facsimile autograph centered; protective tissue guard in place. Engraved by A. Warner & Co. Daniel Bushnell was born in 1808 in New York City where his father worked as a ship-carpenter in the same yards where Robert Fulton built his first steamboats. In 1813 the Bushnell family moved to Pittsburgh whence Daniel's father was dispatched by Fulton to aid in building steamboats for the Western waters. In 1839 Daniel Bushnell embarked on the coal business on the Monongahela River just north of Pittsburgh. Through many trials and tribulations, Bushnell developed new methods and vehicles for transporting the coal and built the towboat… Read More

Washington: Dumbarton Oaks. Very Good. 1978. Paperback. Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology, No 19; 78 pages; Former owner's blindstamp at bottom of titlepage, otherwise clean and tight in original printed tan wrappers. .

Beauvais: Gallerie Nationale de la Tapisserie et d'Art Textile. Near Fine. 1983. Paperback. 36 pages; Clean and tight in original pictorial wrappers. Exhibition catalogue. Illustrated with photographs of dozens of Daquin's textile works. OCLC: 32106356; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

New York: Viking. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First American Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; 503 pages; Clean and tight, unmarked, appears unread. Signed by the author on the first blank page. Another in the fabulous series of Matthew Shardlake Tudor mysteries. Riveting, historically accurate, delightful reading. ; Signed by Author .

Oxford: The Clarendon Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. (x), 280, plates pages; Contents clean and secure in original tan cloth binding in edgeworn dustjacket. Illustrated throughout, including folding plans of the buildings at end of text. Large heavy book may acquire increased shipping. Dartington Hall in Dartington, near Totnes, Devon, England, is an historic house and country estate of 1,200 acres (4.9 km2) dating from medieval times. The group of late 14th century buildings are Grade I listed; described in Pevsner's Buildings of England as "one of the most spectacular surviving domestic buildings of late Medieval England", along with Haddon Hall and Wingfield Manor. The medieval buildings are grouped around a huge courtyard; the largest built for a private residence before the 16th Century, and the Great Hall itself is the finest of its date in England. The west range of the courtyard is regarded nationally as one… Read More

Norwalk, CT: C.R. Gibson & Co. Very Good. 1950. Paperback. Stand-Up Stories; 12 pages; This seven panel "stand-up book" retells the story of the Israeli shepherd boy who saved his country from Philistine invaders by killing the giant Goliath with a stone from his sling accompanied by colourful illustrations. OCLC: 51247786 Small bookseller's stamp at lower edge for Christian Book Store, Thomaston, Georgia. Regarding the publisher of this book, the founders of what became C. R. Gibson and Company immigrated from York, England to the U.S. in 1850. Printing was the Gibson family business, so they brought along a French handpress to start their business in America. The brothers -- Robert, Stephen, George and Samuel and John Gibson -- established two printing companies: one propelled by the outbreak of the Civil War in 1860 and the other which they purchased in 1870. The second company , John Gibson Company, evolved into C.R. Gibson and Company and continues to operate today. . Read More

Wander. Very Good. 1949. Pamphlet. 17 pages; 16 page booklet with recipes and suggestions for Dawa Gel - a gelatin product produced by Wander company which also invented Ovaltine (originally Ovomaltine) German Language; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop. Very Good. 1944. First Edition. Paperback. 48 pages; Clean and tight in original printed wrappers. 281 items, including a Manuscript Book of Hours w/ 24 miniatures for $600 and a couple dozen incunabula. .

Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington. Very Good+. 1917. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Carnegie Classics of International Law; Edited by and introduction by Ernest Nys. Translation of text by John Pawley Bate. Revised Text, With Prefatory Remarks, list of Errata, and Index of Authors Cited by F. Wright. Clean and tight in original tan cloth binding with lettering in black at spine. Small scrape at lower outer edge of rear board. Former owner's name on front pastedown endpaper: "F. X. Dwyer" Francis Xavier Dwyer was co-author of a widely used textbook: "Introduction to the Study of Law," by Edmund M. Morgan and Francis X. Dwyer, and was a librarian at the Law Library of Harvard University and later for decades at the Law Library of Library of Congress. Franciscus de Victoria (1483-1546) was a Spanish Renaissance Roman Catholic philosopher, theologian and jurist, founder of the philosophical School of Salamanca, and dubbed by some as the "father… Read More

Oxonii: E Typographeo Clarendoniano. Good. 1821. Hardcover. iv, (3 folding tables), 410 pages; Former owners' names on ffep "Chas. E. Howard"; "Rev. Sidney N. Ussher"; "J. J. McElhinney"; contents clean and securely stitched; bottom half of backstrip missing; hinges tender. Green cloth binding with printed title label at spine (much eroded). Latin text with extensive notes and commentary. .

Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana. Very Good. 1617. First Edition. Hardcover. 227 pages; Secure in later patterned-paper covered boards. First edition of this first history of writing and the work of the scribe -- bound with two other contemporary tracts. OCLC: 17838634 Herman Hugo (1588 – 1629) was a Jesuit priest, writer and military chaplain. In addition to this primary work on the history of writing and scribes, he wrote a spiritual emblem book which was extremely popular. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Londres: William Darton et Fils. Very Good. c1838. Nouvelle. Hardcover. 280 pages; Contents unmarked and secure in contemporary binding of quarter leather and marbled boards. Free endpapers and initial blank are missing, lower corners and edge of boards worn. Frontispiece engraving depicts a scene from the chapter "Description d'un Incendie" showing a family fleeing from a raging fire near the Vatican. This collection of brief essays on many topics ("My Pastimes") offer a broad selection of readings for young people learning the French language. Topics range from Jealousy to Caligula, The Catacombs to the Seasons of the Year to Ann Boleyn. In the Preface, the author recommends the volume for its breadth of interests and its transportability, providing readings which can be completed in a quarter hour or entertain for a longer journey. There is no date printed on the title page (nor elsewhere in the volume). The publisher William Darton et Fils, 58 Holborn… Read More

Washington, DC: GPO. Very Good. 1842. First Edition. Paperback. 3 pages; House of Representatives, Treasurer's Dept; Document No. 254; 27th Congress, 2nd Session. A statement of the debts of the City of Washington mid-year 1842. . ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

New York: Dodd, Mead. Very Good-. 1911. Stiff Card Wrappers. 81 pages; New York: Very Good-. 1911. 81 pages; Separate printing, originally included in his collection of essays INTENTIONS. Contents complete in original stiff boards in blue printed French dustwrapper worn along spine. Offsetting to title page from newsclipping and owner's bookplate mounted to opposite page; rear wrapperadhered to last blank page. A charming press edition. OCLC 6179380 Wilde presents the essay in a Socratic dialogue between Vivian and Cyril, two characters named after his own sons. Their conversation, though playful and whimsical, promotes Wilde's view of Romanticism over Realism. According to Vivian, the decay of Lying "as an art, a science, and a social pleasure" is responsible for the decline of modern literature, which is excessively concerned with the representation of facts and social reality. He writes, "if something cannot be done to check, or at least to modify, our monstrous… Read More

London: Adam and Charles Black. Near Fine. 1911. Hardcover. ix, 174 pages; Illustrated with Folding map, 20 colour plates after paintings by Robert Anderson. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration in brown, white and gilt. Toning to endpapers, else a very nice copy of this beautiful book. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Springfield: Milton Bradley and Co. Very Good+. 1883. Print. 1 pages; Fabulous chromolithograph depicting Gen. Braddock's defeat at the Battle of Monongahela. Image measures 8.75 X 7.75 inches; matted print measures 14 X 11 inches. The Battle of Sullivan's Island or the Battle of Fort Sullivan was fought on June 28, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. It took place near Charleston, South Carolina, during the first British attempt to capture the city from American forces. It is also sometimes referred to as the First Siege of Charleston, owing to a more successful British siege in 1780. Arriving near Charleston in early June, 1776, British troops were landed near Sullivan's Island where Colonel William Moultrie commanded a partially constructed fort, in preparation for a naval bombardment and land assault. The land assault was frustrated when the channel between the two islands was found to be too deep to wade, and the American defenses prevented an amphibious… Read More