1852. HUC, M. RECOLLECTIONS OF A JOURNEY THROUGH TARTARY, THIBET, AND CHINA, DURING THE YEARS 1844, 1845, AND 1846. (Appleton's Popular Library). New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1852. Later printing, complete in two volumes. 12mo., red cloth; vol.1: 245pp. + ads, vol.2: 248pp. + ads.. Spine-pieces missing. Otherwise good. More
1878. BOSTON HERALD AND ITS HISTORY. 1846-1878. Boston, 1878. 8vo. 93pp. 6 plates. Brown cloth, stamped in gilt and black to front and blindstamped to rear. Moderate wear to extremities. Corners lightly bumped. Interior of front hinge starting to crack but still tight. Bookstore sticker to front pastedown, stamp to... More
1837. CODEX PHARMACOPEE FRANCAISE Redigee par Ordre du Gouvernement par une Commission Composee de Mm. les Professeurs de la Faculte de Medecine, et de l'Ecole Speciale de Pharmacie de Paris. Paris: Bechet Jeune, Libraire de la Faculte de Medecine de Paris, 1837. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 535 pp. + [4]... More
1740. THE LADIES DISPENSATORY: or, Every Woman her own Physician. Treating of the Natures, Causes, and various Symptoms of all the Diseases, Infirmities, and Disorders, natural or contracted, that most particularly affect the Fair Sex, in all their different Situations of Life, as Maids, Married Women, and Widows. London: James... More
1828. LECTURES D'UN PERE A SON FILS ou Choix de Lectures Instructives, destine a l'education des jeunes gens. Par un Professeur de l'Universite. Paris, a la Libraire de la Jeunesse, chez Eugene Balland, 1828. 8vo. 262pp. Edifying readings on history, religion, morality, natural history, etc., by a "University Professor" to... More
1795. PHARMACOPEIA NOSOCOMII REGII EDINBURGENSIS [The Medications used in the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary]. Edinburgh, 1795. 12mo. vi,63pp. This pharmacopeia is divided into three parts: a list of "simples" (single substances, mostly herbs), a list of mixed medications with recipes, and dosage ("posologia") instructions. The introduction gives weights, and cautions the... More
1794. PHARMACOPOEA HISPANA. Madrid, Typographia Ibarriana, 1794. First edition. Engraved title. xiv, 212, [22],16 pp. 8vo., full leather that is rubbed and edgeworn, with small losses at spine ends, and shaken. Beautifully printed on fine paper. Internally fine except for library markings, which are limited to the front pastedown and... More
1795. VALUABLE SECRETS CONCERNING ARTS AND TRADES or, Approved Directions from the Best Artists, for the Various Methods of engraving on Brass, Copper or Steel, of the Composition of Metals and Varnishes... etc. etc. Norwitch, Thomas Hubbard, 1795. Octavo. xxii,240pp. First American Edition. Ex-lib stamp on front pastedown and title... More
1847. [PERIODICALS] THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, VOL. IX, NO. XVII PART 2, 1847. London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1847. 8vo, printed wrappers. Good, some chipping to wrappers. Articles on Persian poets, Hindu kings. More
1946. FERVAL, Claude. POEMES: LA TRACE DE SES PAS DERNIERS VERS. Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard, 1946. 274 pp. 4to., wrappers. Very good. 1 inch closed tear to bottom of spine; light foxing to wrappers, endpapers. Top edge unopened. In original glassine dust jacket, which is quite chipped at spine. More
1870. 19TH CENTURY. TUDOR WHARVES ICE: THE SHIPS ANAHUAC, LUCY S. WILLS AND ANNA DECATUR. (Photographer unknown). ca. 1870. Matted framed original photograph (matted to 11 x 17 inches). Diagonal vista: The ships Anahuac, Lucy S. Wills and Anna Decatur load ice at the Tudor Wharves, Charlestown, Massachusetts. The first... More
1893. [19th Century]. photograph - portrait and letter: Phillips Brooks silver gelatin[?] print measures 4" x 5.5". Reverse side of card dates the photograph "Copyrighted 1893 by H G Smith, Boston, MA." and includes studio's logo. photograph is clean and includes second card with a letter by Brooke, a notable... More
1869. [19th CENTURY]. PHOTOGRAPH OF ADMIRAL D. G. FARRAGUT. 1869. measures 3.5" by 5". photograph originally frontispiece for OUR ADMIRAL'S FLAG ABROAD THE CRUISE OF ADMIRAL D.G. FARRAGUT, COMMANDING THE EUROPEAN SQUADRON IN 1867-1868. photograph is clean and sheet shows only minor aging. An interesting specimen. More
1901. AN UNCOMMON SET COMPLETE KINGSLEY, CHARLES. CHARLES KINGSLEY, HIS LETTERS AND MEMORIES OF HIS LIFE. London and New York: Macmillan Co., 1901. Limited edition of 525 copies; complete in 19 volumes. Frontispieces in first four volumes. 8vo., red cloth stamped and decorated in gilt to upper board and spine... More
1896. HADAWAY, W. S. ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. FRIAR JEROME'S BEAUTIFUL BOOK. Illustrated by W. S. HADAWAY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1896. 8vo., tan leather stamped in brown, with two green ribbon ties on each fore-edge, front and rear. Endpapers have offset tanning. Moderate wear to edges. Thomas Bailey Aldrich's... More
1882. HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, Sr. AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED. 17 lines, 1 1/2 pages, octavo. Written from Beverly Farms, [Massachusetts], September 19th, 1882, and addressed to the writer and editor H. E. Scudder. Holmes states that he is busy making arrangements for lectures at present and "had better not make any... More
1933. (FRENCH LITERATURE). LE LIVRE DE DEMAIN. Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard, 1933 - 1938. 23 vols. 4to., decorated yellow paper wraps. A selection of 23 vols. from this series that includes works by Georges Duhamel, Gustave Flaubert, Colette, Georges Immann, Andre Gide, and others. Each vol. illustrated throughout with original... More
1808. NOEL, Fr. DICTIONARIUM LATINO-GALLICUM | DICTIONNAIRE LATIN-FRANCAIS. Paris: Chez le Normant, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1808. Second edition. [viii] + 1026 pp. + 8 pp. publisher's ads. Thick 8vo., vellum with gilt red paper spine label. Vellum is lettered on both boards in ink, mostly illegible, not unpleasant. Ink ownership to front... More
1954. ZENGER, John Peter. ZENGER'S OWN STORY: A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF THE CASE AND TRYAL OF JOHN PETER ZENGER PRINTER OF THE NEW-YORK JOURNAL: A LITERAL REPRINT OF THE ORIGINAL PAMPHLET PRINTED BY ZENGER IN NEW YORK IN 1736. 45 pp. 4to., b/w patterned paper covered boards with printed paper... More
1656. COMENIUS, Johann Amos. LATINAE LINGUAE JANUA RESERATA. Rerum & Linguarum Structuram exhibens... The Gate of the Latin Tongue Unlocked. Exhibiting in a natural order the structure of Things, and of the Latin Tongue (according to the Rules of the newest Method of Tongues.) With an Etymological Index of the... More
1851. LEECH, John. A BECKETT, Gilbert Abbott. THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME. Illustrated by John Leech. (London): Bradbury, Evans, and Co., (1851). First edition bound from original parts. Illustrated with 10 full-page hand-colored steel etchings and with smaller wood engravings in text. Octavo. xii,308 pp. Full calf skillfully rebacked, with... More
1859. (A Reporter of the New York Press). MATRIMONIAL BROKERAGE IN THE METROPOLIS; Being True Narratives of Strange Adventures in New York, and Startling Facts in City Life. New York: Thatcher & Hutchinson, 1859. First editon. Illustrated. 8vo., brown cloth stamped in blind; spine in gilt. Spine is sunned, slight... More
1774. A SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS. THE BUILDER'S MAGAZINE: OR MONTHLY COMPANION FOR ARCHITECTS, CARPENTERS, MASONS, BRICKLAYERS &C. ... [ALPHABETICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE TERMS OF ART WHICH ARE USED IN BUILDING; FORMING ALSO A COMPLETE BUILDER'S DICTIONARY, 2 VOLS]. London: Printed for the Authors; and sold by F. Newbery, 1774. [4]... More
1934. A TORY. FRANKIE IN WONDERLAND. With Apologies to Lewis Carroll, the orginator and pre-histroian of the New Deal. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1934. Small 8vo., printed wrappers; 24 pp. Mild soiling to wraps, slight nick to one page. About very good. More