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![Image for Nombres Geográficos de México: Catálogo Alfabético de los Nombres de Lugar Pertenecientes al Idioma "Nahuatl / Estudio Jeroglifico. [Catalog of Mexican Geographic Names]](/assets/images/product/k191122j_1)
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Mexico: Oficina Tip. de la Secretaria de Fomento: 1885
Edition: 1st ed
Seller ID: k191122j
Condition: Good
1st ed., small 4to, marbled boards, gilt leather spine with 5 compartments. 2 volumes in one. 260 pp. [4] ; Atlas of plates [2] xxxix. An etymology of place names in the Nahuatl language and an analysis of the gylphs from the Codex Mendoza. Main title page printed in black and red; Atlas title is chromolithographed followed by 39 chromolithographed plates illustrating the glyphs for 462 place nahuatl names. Dr. Antonio Peñafiel (1830-1922) was the founder of the Natural History Society of Mexico and a member of a number of societies dedicated to the cultivation of human and social science... View more info
By: Bowman, J.A.
Price: $132.50
Publisher: London, Imperial Publications: 1990
Seller ID: 17061912
ISBN: 1871498023
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] View more info
By: Caius, Johannes
Price: $185.00
Publisher: London, A Bradley: 1880
Seller ID: 07151
A reprint of the earliest book on dogs in the English language, first published in 1576. Published in May 1880. 8vo. 1/4 cloth, gray boards. Leather imprinted spine. 1st thus. Good; a 1" diagonal crack across the upper right corner of front cover; front cover sunned. . Interior clean and bright. Title page only is in facsimile; the rest has been reset in new type View more info
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. View more info
By: Charles Duff
Price: $62.50
Publisher: Hale, Cushman & Flint, New York: 1929
Edition: 1st edition
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... View more info
By: Cooper, Thomas
Price: $650.00
Publisher: London, 1584
Seller ID: c170370506
Thesaurus linguae Romanae & Britannicae, tam accurate congestus, ut nihil penè in eo desyderavi possit, quod vel Latinè complectatur amplissimus Stephani Thesaurus, vel Anglicè, toties aucta Eliotae B̆ibliotheca : opera & indistria Thomae Cooperi Magdalenensis; etc. etc. London: 1584. Thick folio. 867 leaves, text in double columns. unpaginated. Woodcut device on title page; woodcut initials. Early suede cover heavily worn with loss, notably loss of spine, [appears to be burn or smoke damage at top, not affecting text] front joint and hinge cracked; endpapers heavily toned and foxed;... View more info
![Image for Manual of the Corporation [Common Council] of the City of New York, for 1866](/assets/images/product/k200329a_1)
By: D. T. Valentine
Price: $200.00
Publisher: Edmund Jones & Co., NY: 1866
Edition: 1st edition
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... View more info
By: Dingman, Larry
Price: $57.50
Publisher: Dinkytown Antiquarian Bookstore: 1986
Edition: First
Seller ID: 021801
Condition: Fine
1st edition (1986)97 pp. A limited edition of 447 copies, the book contains 444 reproductions of original book store marks, mostly from the late 19th century through World War II. Three original marks are tipped in. With an essay on Booksellers' Marks by Michael Adams and introduction by Dingman. Fine copy without d/w, as issued. View more info
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Edinburgh: privately printed by E & G Goldsmid : 1885-1886
Edition: 1st edition
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... View more info
![Image for J.A. Danzii [hebrew lettering], sive, Interpres Ebraeo-Chaldaeus : omnes utriusque linguae idiotismos dexterè explicans : ad genuinium Scripturae Sacrae sensum ritè indagandum accommodatus.](/assets/images/product/k190114i_1)
By: Johann Andreas Danz [J.A. Danzii]
Price: $300.00
Publisher: Jena: Bielck [Ienae: In officina Bielckiana], 1745
Edition: 5th ed.
Seller ID: k190114i
Condition: Good
A Hebrew/Aramaic grammar, with latin text by Johann Danz -- German theologian and Hebraicist. Professor of Oriental languages at the University of Jena. He was considered by contemporaries to be the greatest Hebrew scholar and his several works on Hebrew grammar, including this one, remained standard works for nearly a hundred years. (Jewish Encyclopedia). 12mo, vellum covered boards. 361 pp plus another 60 or so pages of indices. Good condition: a clean, tight copy overall but age-toned, light foxing throughout. Title hand-written on spine in black ink. View more info
![Image for Manual of the Corporation [Common Council] of the City of New York, for 1868](/assets/images/product/k200120a_1)
By: Joseph Shannon
Price: $200.00
Publisher: Edmund Jones & Co., NY: 1868
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: k200120a
Condition: Fair
1st ed., 8vo. publisher's embossed brown cloth with seal of New York on front and spine. [xiv], 912 pp. The first of a new series, enlarged, with new engravings and smaller type so that the book contains nearly double the aount of matter in forer compilations. Chromolith title page, 8 color plates [2 folding] and dozens of b/w illustrations, maps [several folding], and tables. Condition is fair: Text block is clean and tight overall with only very occasional foxing. Frontis fold-out map of New York is hand colored; larger b/w fold-out map is torn but intact. Oversized chromolith of Tammany H... View more info
Price: $200.00
Publisher: Moses King, Boston: 1982
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: k190125d
Condition: Good
1st ed., with title page in red and black. 8vo, 928pp. Original tan and brown pictorial & gilt cloth. More than 800 photographs, many full page. A good copy of this comprehensive nineteenth-century guide to the city. CONDITION: Good; edges and corners lightly worn and bumped, spine ends lightly rubbed, front hinge cracked, inked gift inscription at top of title page. View more info
![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.]](/assets/images/product/150310_8da4796f67f01d6adb3b66114cbbcb09.jpg)
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 ... View more info
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. View more info
By: Martin, George A. (Editor)
Price: $40.00
Publisher: O. Judd Co., New York: 1887
Seller ID: k190126g
Condition: Good.
1st ed. 12mo, dark green decorated cloth, titles. Nearly 250 woodcut illustrations of farming instruments. Good: front hinge cracked, otherwise the text block is near fine. Prior owner’s signature on ffep. Moderate wear to covers, spine ends rubbed. View more info
Price: $32.50
Publisher: Brooklyn, NY, Merganthaler Linotype Co: 1930
Edition: 1st thus.
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. View more info
By: Palmer, Marjorie
Price: $185.00
Publisher: Traders Press, New York: 1987
Edition: 1st edition
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. View more info
By: Robert E. Draper
Price: $650.00
Publisher: Sacramento, H.S. Crocker & Co, Steam Printers and Stationers: 1869
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: k181231c
8vo, cardboard covers with advtg, 275 pp. i-iv, 1-275 Includes 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 California’s Board of Land Commissioners, was the State’s second appointed State Librarian [an interim appointment for 4 months in 1870], and brother of Gov. John Neely Johnson [1856-1858]. Condition: Covers heavily worn; ... View more info
By: ROTCH, Benjamin.
Price: $115.00
Publisher: London, The Leadenhall Press for Henry Sotheran: 1893
Edition: 1st ed.
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.Millar... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, Peter Garnett: 1951
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: k0226f
Condition: Near Fine.
1st ed. Small 4to, blue cloth lettered in gilt, 102 pp. Color frontispiece and 46 plates (6 color). Near fine copy in original marbled slip-case. The book itself has browning to end papers and half-title page, otherwise fine. Slip-case is very good with some toning and light edgewear. No d/w issued. View more info
