Category: Reference

Third Reich Daggers, 1933 to 1945

Price: $132.50

Publisher: London, Imperial Publications : 1990

Seller ID: 17061912

ISBN-13: 9781871498028

1st ed., illustrated boards, 8vo. 485 pp..Pristine hardcover edition. A guide to identification and values. New copy; issued without dust jacket. Numbered and signed by both author and illustrator. [edition size unknown but believed to be 500]
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Savage Automatic Pistols

By: Carr, James

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Privately Printed : 1969

Seller ID: 111101

1st ed. 8vo, copper cloth, 131 pp. Classic reference work on the 32 Savage automatic pistols [1907-1922]. Pristine copy in a lightly rubbed very good dust jacket. No tears or chips.
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A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution....

By: Charles Duff

Price: $62.50

Publisher: Hale, Cushman & Flint, New York : 1929

Seller ID: k200325a

Condition: Very good

FULL TITLE: A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution, and Containing Much Useful Information on Neck-Breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; As Well as Data and Wrinkles for Hangmen, an Account of the Late MR. Berry's Method of Killing and His Working List of Drops; To Which Is Added a Hangman's Ready Reckoner and Certain Other Items of Interest; All Very Proper to Be Read and Kept in Every Family ##### New York: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1929. First Edition. 16mo; Black cloth with printed spine label. 129pp + hangm...
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Manual of the Corporation [Common Council] of the City of New York, for 1866

By: D. T. Valentine

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Edmund Jones & Co., NY : 1866

Seller ID: k200329a

Condition: Very good

1st ed., 12mo.. [xvi], 820 pp. Color chromolith title page and 12 city views [4 folding] plus dozens of b/w engravings, 2 folding maps, 2 folding charts, 2 folding signature facsimiles. Rebound in modern tan library binding. The "Manuals of the Corporation" [contain extensive historical and contemporary records of New York City and are an indispensable source of early New York City history. Valentine (1801-1869) served as the Deputy to the Clerk of the Common Council for thirty-seven years. He published these books annually between 1841-1866; they include detailed information on the meeti...
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Image for COLLECTANEA ADAMANTAEA. - XII.
A Collection of Epitaphs and Inscriptions, interesting either from historical associations or quaintness of wording (2 Vols.).

COLLECTANEA ADAMANTAEA. - XII. A Collection of Epitaphs and Inscriptions, interesting either from historical associations or quaintness of wording (2 Vols.).

By: Edmund Goldsmid , editor

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Edinburgh: privately printed by E & G Goldsmid : 1885-1886

Seller ID: k200301g

Condition: Good

A Collection of Epitaphs and Inscriptions, interesting either from historical associations or quaintness of wording (2 Vols.). Edinburgh: privately printed by E & G Goldsmid 1885-86. 12vo. 54; 48pp; Limited to 275 copies. head and tail-pieces, title-pages printed in red and black. One of 275 small paper copies (total edition of 350). Printed parchment paper wrappers. A two-volume compilation of graveyard epitaphs. Condition: Good; covers soiled and toned, that of volume I chipped and partially split at spine. Interior clean and bright overall, with soiling to half-title and title page of vo...
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Napoleon 1er et la Garde Imperiale. [Costumes Of The French Militaire.]

By: Eugene Fieffe

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Paris, Adolphe Elahays : 1860

Seller ID: k200824e

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

First edition, first printing. (1859 on title page; 1860 on front wrapper) Imperial 4to, ¾ cloth with original paper wrappers bound in. Color plates engraved on steel by Ch. COLIN after RAFFET. 171 pp. Frontispiece, title vignette on India paper and 20 colored plates by Raffet. Text in French by Eugene Fieffe. The color plates show the uniforms of the various regiments of the Imperial Guard; frontispiece of Napoleon in uniform on horseback. The last 80 pp. are a list of all the officers of the Imperial Guard in 1813, the composition of the Guard on Elba Island, text of the decrees relat...
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GARRISON ARTILLERY DRILL, VOL. I

By: Her Majesty's Stationery Office

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office : 1895

Seller ID: k200814b

Binding: Hardcover

16mo, 553 pp. 3.75±”x5.25”. Detailed instructions on Gunner, ammunition, Material, Drill, Care of Armament and Stores, Coast Defence, Practice. Illustrated with dozens of figures, tables, and several fold out plates and diagrams. Condition: Ex-lib, but a good copy. Bound in burgundy cloth with typical library markings, part of original leather cover inset on front board. A clean tight copy overall; several small tears and tape repairs to advts at front and back; contemporary owner’s signature and date on title page.
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Image for Bancroft's] Hand-book Almanac for the Pacific States: An Official Register and Business Directory of the States and Territories of California, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho and Arizona; and the Colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, for the Year 1864

Bancroft's] Hand-book Almanac for the Pacific States: An Official Register and Business Directory of the States and Territories of California, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho and Arizona; and the Colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, for the Year 1864

By: Knight, William H.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: San Francisco, H.H. Bancroft and Company : 1864

Seller ID: m210411a

Binding: Boards

Condition: Good-

4.25" x 6.5", [4] advts. pp 440 + [9] (advts), with additional advertising printed on endpapers. Third and final year of publication for this short-lived series. Includes considerable detail on each state or territory's government (listing elected and appointed officials at the state and county levels), post offices, courts, justices of the peace, schools, banks, churches and ministers, etc. Includes a 14-page narrative section by Alexander B. Taylor describing the "History and Present Condition of the Indian Tribes of California" which does not appear in the 1862 or 1863 editions. Sabin 3143;...
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Image for Bibliographie Instructive Ou Notice de Quelques Livres Rares Singuliers Et Difficiles Trouver, Avec Des Notes Historiques, Pour Connotre Et Distinguer Les Diffrentes Editions, Et Leur Valeur Dans Le Commerce; disposee par Francois de Los-Rios, Libraire a Lyon. [Unique and Hard to Find Rare Books With Historical Notes To Distinguish the Different Editions, And Their Value In The Trade.]

Bibliographie Instructive Ou Notice de Quelques Livres Rares Singuliers Et Difficiles Trouver, Avec Des Notes Historiques, Pour Connotre Et Distinguer Les Diffrentes Editions, Et Leur Valeur Dans Le Commerce; disposee par Francois de Los-Rios, Libraire a Lyon. [Unique and Hard to Find Rare Books With Historical Notes To Distinguish the Different Editions, And Their Value In The Trade.]

By: Los-Rios, Jean Francois de.

Price: $450.00

Seller ID: 150310

Avigon et Lyon, Seguin et chez l’auteur, 1777. 12mo, full vellum. 207 pp. An early guide to rare-book collecting; a priced-catalog of books sold by Jean-François de Los Rios, with annotations. de Los Rios (1727-1820) was a noted bookseller in Lyon, famously taking advantage of the dispersion of Jesuit libraries after the order was expelled from France in 1764. The Bibliographie instructive was one of his early works, published after more than 17 years as a bookseller in Lyon. The bilbiografía is organized as a directory with 639 entries briefly discussed and 190 references in the included supp...
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Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler / A Checklist and Bibliography of Their Paperback Appearances

By: Lovisi, Gary (ed.)

Price: $65.00

Seller ID: 040306

Brooklyn: Gryphon Books, 1994. 8vo, wrappers. 84 pp. Pristine copy; 1st edition of this indispensable reference for Hammett and Chandler collectors. limited to only 500 copies. As-new.
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Image for A Guide to Practical Navigation. Containing the Rules and Methods of Solving Problems in the Most Practical Manner; the Simplest and Most Complete Method for Finding a Ship's Position at Sea, as Well as a Thoroughly Approved Method of Finding the Latitude and Longitude at the Same Instant of Time. By Double Altitudes

A Guide to Practical Navigation. Containing the Rules and Methods of Solving Problems in the Most Practical Manner; the Simplest and Most Complete Method for Finding a Ship's Position at Sea, as Well as a Thoroughly Approved Method of Finding the Latitude and Longitude at the Same Instant of Time. By Double Altitudes

By: McNevin, Captain Edmund

Price: $150.00

Publisher: San Francisco: , A. L. Bancroft & Company : 1878

Seller ID: k200614b

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

1st ed., 8vo, original black cloth with a mariner’s compass blocked on upper cover, leather spine and corners. 324 pp. [16 advts] + one leaf with a Mariner’s Compass inserted between pages [8]-9 and four pages of testimonials inserted before the title leaf. Profusely illustrated with charts and nautical tables. Captain Edmund McNevin was born in Ireland left for the US in 1847 on The Great Western. For nearly twenty-five years he commanded a variety of ships. He moved to San Francisco in 1874 and opened a school for Navigation. This is one of several authoritative nautical works he publishe...
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A True Description Of All Trades Published in Frankfort in the Year 1568

By: Merganthaler Linotype Co.

Price: $32.50

Publisher: Brooklyn, NY, Merganthaler Linotype Co : 1930

Seller ID: dg17121606

Condition: Fine

12mo. One of 400 copies printed in Linotype Granjon on Kelmscott hand-made paper. Quarter parchment with marbled paper-covered boards." Reprint of the original which was published in Frankfort in 1568. Six engraved illustrations representing the printing trades: the printer, bookbinder, type-founder, papermaker, draughtsman and woodcutter as well as the original verses by Hans Sachs, a popular Nuremberg poet. With an additional leaf loosely laid in showing the text of two short letters to the publisher explaining the disposition of two copies of this book to the Bodley library. Pristine copy.
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1918-1923 German Hyperinflation

By: Palmer, Marjorie

Price: $185.00

Publisher: Traders Press, New York : 1987

Seller ID: k200312a

Condition: Near Fine

1st ed. 24mo, 2-5/8”x3”,78 pp. Limited to 2500 copies. Printed at The Little Press of Jack R. Levien. Bound in pictorial boards depicting a 10,000 mark note, paper label on frontis. ,Engraved half-title and frontispiece, b/w photos, and with several charts recording the daily value of the mark in relation to the dollar from 1919 to1923. A near-fine copy. Small, light stain on the front cover label, prior owner’s book seal at bottom of ffep.
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Willy Pogany's Drawing Lessons [Signed]

By: Pogany, Willy

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, David McKay Company : 1946

Seller ID: s201123d

Binding: Illustrated boards, spiral bound

Condition: Good+

1st thus. Revised and enlarged edition including sketches and studies. 4to, not paginated. [Approximately 100 pp. with several hundred drawings and sketches.] Illustrated boards, spiral bound. "The aim of this book is to paint the way for those who want to learn to draw. I have endeavored to convey to the student the main principles in a simple, constructive way. Follow the sequences as laid out in these lessons. Begin with the Dot and follow through conscientiously to the last page. You will be pleasantly surprised at the results." His lessons emphasize the human body. Condition: Good+; inter...
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Sacramento City and County Directory, 1869

By: Robert E. Draper

Price: $525.00

Publisher: Sacramento, H.S. Crocker & Co, Steam Printers and Stationers : 1869

Seller ID: k181231h

Condition: Fair

Sacramento: H.S. Crocker & Co, Steam Printers and Stationers. 1869. 1st ed.. 8vo, cardboard covers with advtg, 275 pp. . list of Post Offices on the Pacific Coast, Money Order Offices, General Directory, City Business Directory, State Offices, Sacramento City Government, County Directory, local history and statistics, hundreds of advts. Ex Libris William Neely Johnson, with his signature on p 13. Johnson was Secretary of Californiaâs Board of Land Commissioners, was the Stateâ's second appointed State Librarian [an interim appointment for 4 months in 1870], and brother of Gov. John Neely Johns...
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Image for Manners & Customs of the French. Fac-simile of the scarce 1815 edition. With ten whole-page amusing and prettily tinted illustrations printed from the original copper plates

Manners & Customs of the French. Fac-simile of the scarce 1815 edition. With ten whole-page amusing and prettily tinted illustrations printed from the original copper plates

By: ROTCH, Benjamin.

Price: $115.00

Publisher: London, The Leadenhall Press for Henry Sotheran : 1893

Seller ID: k190114g

Condition: Good.

8vo. Original half linen over blue boards, decorated spine and cover; pp. [viii], 43, 15 (advertisements) ten hand-colored engravings; A facsimile of the 1815 publication “Letters from France: written by a Modern Tourist”, re-using the original copperplates which were then destroyed. A humorous look at life and society in Paris during the brief period Napoleon's was on Elba. 'Who the author was is doubtful; but the writer [Henry Sotheran] has heard his father say that he was one Benjamin Rotch, a Middlesex Magistrate' (from the preface). No. 250 of 250 numbered copies, signed by H.C.Millard, S...
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Image for Die Handfeuerwaffen, ihre Entstehung und technisch-historische Entwicklung bis zur Gegenwart. [The handguns, their origin and technical-historical development up to the present.] mit einem atlas, 56 Tafeln mit uber 400 Zeichnungen in Farbendruck enthaltend.

Die Handfeuerwaffen, ihre Entstehung und technisch-historische Entwicklung bis zur Gegenwart. [The handguns, their origin and technical-historical development up to the present.] mit einem atlas, 56 Tafeln mit uber 400 Zeichnungen in Farbendruck enthaltend.

By: SCHMIDT, Rud.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Basel, B. Schwabe : 1875

Seller ID: k211216a

Condition: Good

First edition, 4to, ¼ leather marbled boards. (4), 157; (4), Illustrated with 56 pages of color engravings. Military pistols, rifles, and a few cannon. The first part only of Schmidt's classic work, lacking the separately published 1878 supplement. OCLC locates six copies of this first volume in the U.S.CONDITION: Good. Edges worn, corners rubbed, spine rubbed. Front hinge cracked but fully intact. The text block was printed on thin pulp paper; margins yellowed; a few chips in fep and title page. This condition extends to some of the 56 pp of tables, but about 2/3 were printed on better quali...
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East African Annual 1931-32.

By: The East African Standard Ltd.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Nairobi, The East African Standard Ltd. : 1932

Seller ID: k200824d

Condition: Good

1st ed. 4to (11 x 15.5 inches). 166 pp. Library binding, orange cloth. With original pictorial covers bound in. Hundreds of period photographs and advertisements illustrate East African agriculture, hunting, architecture, natural history, sports, etc. [Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Zanzibar]. This was the second year of publication. Ex-libris Paramount Pictures Research Department with the film studio’s ink stamp and library pocket inside front cover. Condition: Good; Covers fair -- well worn and soiled. Interior very
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Mission Cattle Brands

By: THOMAS, Frank J.

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Los Angeles,, The Ten Finger Press : 1967

Seller ID: k210909b

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Miniature book 2 3/16" x 2 7/8". 62 pp. Illustrated with linocuts by Frank J. Thomas, printed in several colors. Original full vellum, paper label on spine; marbled endpapers.
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No. 75 of 100 copies. This is copy "P"
The second of three miniatures from the press of Frank and Phyliss Thomas.
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CONDITION: Very good; a clean bright copy overall. Two 1/8" light stains at edge of front board.
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On Writing

By: Willa Cather

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Knopf, New York : 1949

Seller ID: k210109d

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1st ed., 8vo. A Very Good- near fine copy but in a dulled and lightly soiled dustjacket with several small edge nicks, darkened spine; not price-clipped.
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Category: Reference