The Horse in Health And Disease; or, Suggestions on His Natural and General History, Varieties, Conformation, Paces, Action, Age, Soundness, Stabling, Condition, Training and Shoeing With a Digest on Veterinary Practice.
Winter, James W. London, 1846 Quarter bound brown leather over marbled boards. 8vo. Frontispiece [viii] pp 376 with nine b/w plates and one color plate. Overall good condition with some wear to the boards and light moisture marks to the plates. Two page corners professionally repaired. Rear free end paper excised. The author, James W. Winter was a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and of the Association Litteraire D'Egypt and late Veterinary Surgeon to Mehmet Ali and Ibrahim Pasha.- $500
- $500
Frossardi, Nobilissime Scriptoris Gallici, Historiarum Opus Omne, Iamprimum et Breviter Collectum et Latino Sermone Redditum
Froissart, Jean Parisiis, 1537 First edition abridged and translated from French into Latin by Johannes Sleidanus. 16mo, 6-7/8" x 4-3/8", [16],115, [1] leaves. Signatures A-B^8 a-o^8, p4. Printer's device on title page. Palimpsest vellum spine over marbled paper covered boards. All edges tinted red. Occasional marginalia in an old hand (Latin) with some loss to trimming during an early rebinding. Former owner's inscription to ffep "Ex libris belliducis Rottiers, Antr., A. 1839." Light damp staining throughout. All edges worn. From the library of Joseph A. Sadony, with his blind stamp at top of title page. The chronicles of Froissart have been considered, for centuries, as the ultimate expression of the chivalric rebirth of France and England in the fourteenth century, as well as a valuable source of information about the Hundred Years War.- $650
- $650
Journal of a Voyage to Greenland in the Year 1821
Manby, George William London, 1822 [Travel & Exploration] Quarto: [vii] 143pp. with fold out hand colored map and 20 b/w lithographed plates, many of which show finely detailed "action scenes." Other b/w illustrations throughout. Rebound half calf over original marbled boards and new end-papers. Gilt titling to spine. Foxing to the map and first pages and then occasionally throughout. Boards show wear, heavy at corners. Notable is the appendix which outlines the technical details and advantages of Manby's new harpoon gun. The first of its kind. Manby's spirited account of an Arctic whaling voyage with Scoresby aboard the Baffin, taken ostensibly to test a new harpoon gun that he had developed. After meeting with continued lack of cooperation and obstruction from the crew, who believed the new harpoon gun to be a threat to their livelihood, Manby turned his attention to narrating the whaling activities of the voyage and studying and recording the local wildlife.- $3,500
- $3,500
The Liqueur Compounder’s Handbook of Recipes For the Manufacture of Alcoholic Cordials and Compounded Spirits.
Bush, W.J. & Co Hackney, London E.8., 1921 Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth over boards with gilt titling and border. All edges gilt. 57pp with a blank leaf headed "Memoranda" between every leaf of recipes, plus 15pp of product advertisement. Eighth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Ink stamp of previous owner, F.L. Bassett of Baghdad, dated 1926, appears on the first three pages. Cover shows moderate wear with evidence of a small piece of tape having been removed from front cover. A prohibition era guide to the methods and techniques of compounding on a commercial scale. Over 100 specific liqueur recipes with weights and measures in three different systems, English Imperial, Metric and the Liquid Wine Measure of the United States.- $550
- $550
The Political History of Slavery in the United States.
George, James Z. New York, 1915 Octavo. [xxiv] 342pp. Portrait frontispiece. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Half title page starting and minor foxing to last few pages otherwise very good This copy presented to his friend Col. Dillingham by William Hayne Leavell, United States Envoy Extraordinary Guatemala, who wrote the book's foreword and financed its publication. Laid in is a handwritten letter from Leavell to Dillingham on paper embossed "Legation of the United States of America" in which he explains how he he undertook the labor and expense of preparing the author's manuscript for publication. James Zachariah George (1826-1897), known as Mississippi's "Great Commoner," was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi and later a United States Senator for the same State.- $400
- $400
The Family Book; Or Children's Journal.
Berquin, M. [Arnaud] London, 1799 London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly., 1799. Later printing. Full leather. Good. Fourth edition. Full leather over boards. 12mo, Frontispiece xi, [1] 294pp [6] advertisements. Gift inscription to ffep in ink. Occasional Foxing. Covers show wear to edges and corners with a small open tear to front and beginning of separation of the back board at the top hinge. Berquin's stories consisted of events that might happen to children in their everyday lives... His books envision childhood reading as a familial exercise; for example, some of his "stories" are actually plays with parts for every member of the family. Berquin's books helped solidify the creation of the nuclear family, for "if Berquin's work has a theme, it is that parents and children live in a perfect symbiosis, the parents looking after their children's interests and the children, if behaving properly, filling their parents with joy." Introductory essay to L'Ami des Enfans.- $600
- $600
Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander
Mahaffy, J. P. London, 1874 London: Macmillan & Co., 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Hard cover. Brown cloth with ivy leaf design in black at top of front cover wrapping around the spine which has title in gilt. 8vo. [xii] 390pp plus 56pp of Catalogue of Works in Belles Lettres, including Poetry, Fiction, etc. Some wear to top and bottom of spine. Rear hinge starting. Small loss to top corner of ffep. No signs of previous ownership. In the preface the author thanks his old pupil Oscar Wilde "who have made improvements and corrections all through the book." John Pentland Mahaffy was he first holder of the Chair of Ancient History in Trinity College Dublin (from 1869). Wilde helped Mahaffy in his house in Howth, Co. Dublin, with the proofs of Greek Social Life from Homer to Menander (1874). The book caused controversy, since it was the first to deal frankly to a large English-language readership with the widespread custom in classical Greece for men both to be married and to have relations with beautiful youths. It refers to the ‘strange and to us revolting perversion’ of what is now called homosexuality. The passage did not appear in subsequent editions. (Patrick Sammon - Conference of the European Society of Modern Greek Studies.)- $750
- $750
Wynne. The Art of Al and Lou Wynne
Felix, Tracy. Co-Curator Denver, 2008 Denver: Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, 2008. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Very good. Catalog of the exhibition of fine art and pottery by Al and Lou Wynne held at the Kirkland Museum of Fine Art, Denver from Oct. 1, 2008 through Jan 4, 2009. Stapled pictorial wraps. 8" x 8" 56pp. Very good condition. Al Wynnes work has been featured in major exhibitions from Colorado to Washington D.C., south to Texas and north to Alaska. His work has been presented in both individual and group shows. Paintings, calligraphy, and sculptures are held in museums and in private collections around the world. Al was listed in Whos Who in American Art starting in 1959. In June 2013, the majority of Al's life's work was destroyed in the Black Forest Fire. All that remains are pieces held by the family and in collections.- $125
- $125
Kennebec
Coffin, Robert P. Tristram New York, 1937 New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Maitland De Gogorza. First edition, early printing. Hard cover 8vo. Illustrated by Maitland De Gogorza. Very good in a good price clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. .First volume in the Rivers of America series.- $50
- $50
Only The Brave and Other Poems
Rice, Grantland New York, 1941 New York: A.S. Barnes and Company,, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Blue cloth with gold letterring in red panels. A collection of poems inspired by the threat of war in 1941. Previous owner's name to half title page. Spine slightly faded. No dust jacket.- $50
- $50
The Art of Farriery Both in Theory and Practice, Containing the Causes, Symptoms, and Cure of all Diseases incident to Horses…
Reeves, John London, 1771 London: Carnan and Newbery, Stanley Crowder and B. Collins, 1771. Full leather. Very good. Third edition. 8vo. Full contemporary leather. [i] 416pp with one folding and three full page plates. Front and back hinges starting. Leather rubbed in places. Handwritten notes and recipes/remedies to front and rear endpapers and eight small hand written sheets of various case notes tipped in.- $400
- $400
Political History of Slavery in the United States.
George, James Z. New York, 1915 New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with title, author and publisher in gold on the spine. This copy presented to his friend Col. Dillingham by William Hayne Leavell, United States Envoy Extraordinary Guatemala, who wrote the books foreword and financed its publication. Laid in is a handwritten letter from Leavell to Dillingham on paper embossed "Legation of the United States of America".Very good with minor foxing to last few pages and light shelf wear to cover.- $400
- $400
The Holy Bible Containing The Old and New Testaments, with Original Notes, Practical Observations, and Copious Marginal References
Scott, Thomas Philadelphia, 1804 Philadelphia: William W. Woodward, 1804. First American Edition. Full leather. Good. First American, From the Second London Edition. Complete in five volumes, with original cloth backed map accompanying the five. Contemporary full leather with five raised bands and dark red lettering piece to spines. Contains family history of the Thompson - Howell family of New York. Covers a little rubbed. Some toning and occasional foxing. A half page of family history excised. Hand colored "Map of Palestine or Holy Land from the Best Authorities" Engraved for Whiting & Watson's edition of Dr. Scott's Bible by Peter Maverick, Newark shows toning with some foxing.A fine example of a very early American printed Bible.- $1,250
- $1,250
A Hebrew Grammar, Without Points
Smith, John Boston, 1810 Boston: John West & Co., 1810. Quarter leather. Very good. Contemporary quarter leather bound over marbled paper covered boards. Hand written paper label to spine. 8vo. 56pp. Edges a little rubbed. Pages evenly tanned with occasional foxing.- $200
- $200
Popular Manual of Phrenology
Bridges, Frederick London, 1860 London: George Philip and Son, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Small 8vo. 96pp. Green pictorial embossed cloth over boards. Light tanning throughout and old stain to rear end papers.A seemingly scarce volume on phrenology, a pseudo-medicine primarily focused on measurements of the human skull, based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions or modules. Although both of those ideas have a basis in reality, phrenology extrapolated beyond empirical knowledge in a way that departed from science.- $100
- $100
Poker Face
Alberts, Ulvis Hollywood, 1981 Hollywood: Angel City Books, 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Special edition number 80 of 500 boldly signed by Alberts. Large square quarto hardcover. Gilt stamped green cloth with matching slip case. Book in very good condition with a little rubbing to spine. Slip case mottled and partially split on two edges. In the 1970's, there was only one tournament game the professional gamblers waited for all year and that was the "World Series of Poker" at Binion's Horseshoe casino in downtown Las Vegas. Alberts photographs of these events and his candid pictures of legendary players, including Johnny Moss, "Amarillo Slim" Preston, Stu Unger, Jack "Treetop" Strauss, Doyle Brunson, Benny Binion and many others, form the story of those iconic early years.- $2,000
- $2,000
The Tree Named John
Sale, John B. Chapel Hill, 1929 Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1929. Hardcover. Very good/fair. Joseph Cranston Jones. Green cloth over boards with gilt design and lettering. 8vo. [xii] 151pp. Some offsetting of silhouettes otherwise near fine in a dust jacket that is separated with about a 35% loss of upper spine. Now stabilized in a Brodart sleeve.- $35
- $35
Christmas In The Black Belt and other Stories from the Mission Fields At Home and Abroad
Polack, W.G. New York, 1920s New York: Ernst Kaufmann, 1920s. Hardcover. Very good. 64pp. 8vo, Illustrated pastedown over grey cloth hardcover, containing thirteen stories of missionary work in the American south, China, Africa and among the Apache. Collected and published by W.G. Polack, then curator of the Concordia Historical Institute, and notable for a certain political incorrectness. Very good with a pencil gift inscription to front paste down and a little rubbing to edges.- $50
- $50
Yes, No – One, Zero
Esso Standard New York, 1958 New York: Esso Standard, Division of Humble Oil & Refining Company, 1958. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Near fine. Staple bound wraps. 15pp paginated in binary number system 0010 to 1111. 10 1/2" by 8". Fine condition.Prepared by the publisher for teachers in the nine states that Esso had offices this booklet provides an explanation of the binary system as a language for early computers and also asks questions such as "What are these devices? In what sense do they think? Will they replace the human brain? A fascinating glimpse into early electronic computer technology.- $125
- $125
Mayflies: An Angler’s Study of Trout Water Ephemeroptera
Knopp, Malcolm Helena, Montana, 1997 Helena, Montana: Greycliff Publishing Company, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Robert Cormier. Harcover 4to. Signed by author and also by Robert Cormier, illustrator, who has incorporated a sketch of a fly into his signature.- $59
- $59
Adventures in Tibet; Including the Diary of Miss Annie R. Taylor’s remarkable journey from Ta-Chien-Lu through the heart of the “Forbidden Land.
Carey, William New York, 1901 New York: Barker & Taylor Company, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo. Frontispiece, 285pp. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Yellow cloth with pictorial binding, front panel and spine in cornflower blue and black. Clean and unmarked with a tight binding. Light soiling to cover.- $95
- $95
A Letter to her Majesty the British Queen
Sutherland, Th. Jefferson Albany, 1841 Albany: Printed by C. Van Benthuysen, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. New York imprint concerning the Canadian Rebellion, noted for it's index of captive patriots imprisoned at Van Dieman's Land. 168pp in gilt titled brown cloth binding, areas of fade, lightly foxed endpapers showing dampstain. Otherwise neat, tidy.- $1,250
- $1,250
A History of the City of Red Wing Minnesota
Rasmussen, Christian A. Red Wing, Minnesota, 1934 Red Wing, Minnesota : Red Wing Advertising Co, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo [viii] 296pp + 16 plates. Blue cloth with dark blue lettering end red design. Previous owner's name to front free end paper otherwise clean throughout. Tight binding. Some wear to cover with some rubbing to spine.- $125
- $125
Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language
Eells, Rev. M. Portland, 1889 Portland: David Steel, 1889. Second Edition. Wraps. Very good. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Small 12mo. soft cover in pink wraps printed in black. 40pp. Contained within are 20 hymns and the Lord's Prayer in the native language with the English translation on the opposite page. A little sun fading to spine otherwise near fine with a tight binding. From the introductory note on page 3, "In the second edition a hymn has been added in each of the Skokomish, Nisqually and Clallam Languages, and also a medley in the four languages."- $75
- $75
View of the Life, Travels, and Philanthropic labours of the Late John Howard, Esquire, LL.D. F.R.S.
Aikin, John Boston, 1794 Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring for J. White, S. Hall et al., 1794. First Edition. Full leather. Good. 12mo. [viii] pp 9-178. Leatherbound hardcover with pages tanned, cover shows moderate wear, with split but intact front hinge, ink notations to front boards. John Howard was an early prison reformer and philanthropist who traveled extensively in Europe visiting and reporting on prisons and penal institutions.- $95
- $95
The Horse in Health And Disease; or, Suggestions on His Natural and General History, Varieties, Conformation, Paces, Action, Age, Soundness, Stabling, Condition, Training and Shoeing With a Digest on Veterinary Practice.
Winter, James W. London, 1846 London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans., 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarter bound brown leather over marbled boards. 8vo. Frontispiece [viii] pp 376 with nine b/w plates and one color plate. The author, James W. Winter was a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and of the Association Litteraire D'Egypt and late Veterinary Surgeon to Mehmet Ali and Ibrahim Pasha.Overall good condition with some wear to the boards and light moisture marks to the plates. Two page corners professionally repaired. back free endpaper excised.- $500
- $500
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Bradbury, Ray New York, 1962 New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/fair. Stated 1st printing. Mustard colored boards with black lettering. Red top stain. Book in very good condition. Dust jacket shows heavy wear to edges with some closed tears. Original $4.95 price present.- $300
- $300
Twentieth Anniversary Greeting: Ice and Refrigerating Machines (Frick Company Engineers): A Trade Catalog
Waynsboro, 1902 Waynsboro: Frick, 1902. Wraps. Very good. Tall 8vo. 9" by 6 1/8" Red wraps with black lettering and logo to front. 177pp. An in depth catalog of ice making and refrigeration machinery profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings and diagrams. Undated, however the Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives state; "The new works in Waynesboro were modern and efficient, enough to warrant a feature article in Scientific American in 1881. The following year, the company built its first refrigeration machine, and a whole new direction of production opened up." seemingly indicating 1902 as the Twentieth Anniversary. Clean with a tight binding and light wear to cover.- $60
- $60
The Slave States of America
Two Volumes. Octavo. [xvi] 587pp with 4 engraved plates, [xii] 584pp with 4 engraved plates. Both volumes beautifully rebound in green half calf with Morocco and gilt spine labels over original marbled boards. All edges marbled. James Silk Buckingham spent four years in the United States, and in 1839 travelled across the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia and Alabama to observe at first hand the inhumane treatment of slaves in a system that showed "reckless indifference to human life". This two-volume work documents Buckingham's findings and argues that the USA should follow Britain's example in abolishing slavery. Buckingham describes the use of slaves in industries as diverse as gold mining, cotton manufacturing, railways, canals, and agriculture. He highlights the economic, social and political implications of a change to free labor, and also relations between the slaves and their employers. Howes B923.
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God
Signed on half title page by John Farleigh (illustrator) and dated 1933. Hard cover. Octavo. 75 pages. Illustrated boards and decorative end papers designed and engraved by John Farleigh. Engraved title page and nineteen further illustrations by Farleigh throughout the text. Edge wear and some chipping to outer hinges. Binding and text block tight. The "Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God" caused controversy when released due to the religious, sexual and racial themes within the writing and John Farleigh's complementary (and risqué) wood engravings commissioned by Shaw for the book.
Casa Manana
First edition, limited to 300 copies. Hardcover. Quarto. unpaginated. Blue cloth over bevel edged boards with gilt title to front cover and spine. Decorative end papers. SHelf wear to edges of cover. Contains illustrations of many of Spratling's designs and fourteen plates of different Mexican artifacts from the Morrow collection.
Dissertatio Medica, Inauguralis, de Leucorrhoea
Modern boards with paper title label to front. Small octavo. [iv] 32pp. A doctoral thesis in Latin submitted to William Robertson, principal at the University of Edinburgh by John Simpson. Inscribed by author " Dr. McIlwaine / With best Comp. / from his friend and / fellow Candidate" Very good. An early dissertation on women's reproductive health.
The Closed Door
First Edition. Number 49 of 50 copies on handmade paper. Hardcover. Octavo. [ix] 129pp and 16 plates. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Spine darkened and end papers tanned and with some foxing throughout. A long introduction by May Sinclair. A collection of poems by the author in French with parallel translations in English by F.S. Flint and sixteen b/w illustrations by the author who has also provided numerous large b/w tailpieces.
The Spell of The Turf
Hard cover, Red cloth over boards with gilt titles and race horse design. Octavo. 286 pages with b/w photographs throughout.Top edge with red topstain. Book plate of Eleanor and James Bodrero to front fixed end paper. Some shelf wear to cover with fading to spine. James Spalding Pompeo Bodrero was an artist, illustrator and animator of whom one Disney colleague said "had the extraordinary ability to draw anything at all," but was especially known for his horse subjects. There he worked on Dumbo the elephant, created the ostrich who danced in "Fantasia" and José Carioca, the parrot amongst others.
Mirth, Music, and Memory
Hard cover. Small octavo. Textured, patterned paper over boards. 160 pages. Gift inscription from author on front free end paper to Josephine Abercrombie reads "To charming / Josephine Abercrombie / May you open this little book with / anticipation and close it with / satisfaction. / Sincerely, / Mrs. Frederick Nussbaum. / September 5, 1941, / at The Broadmoor, / Colorado Springs. A collection of amusing stories and anecdotes regarding contemporary (classical) musicians. Josephine Avalona Abercrombie (January 15, 1926 – January 5, 2022) was a prominentAmericahorsewoman businesswoman, boxing promoter, philanthropist, and founder of The Lexington School in Lexington, Kentucky.
New Year’s In Sokolniki
Stapled wraps. Quarto. Twelve pages including three full page b/w illustrations by N. Zhukov. Translated from the Russian by Fainna Solasko. Very good. A publication of the Soviet Children's Library For Tiny Tots which tells a story of V.I. Lenin visiting an orphanage outside of Moscow and delivering presents and good cheer. Propaganda in the form of a thinly veiled retelling of the Santa Claus folk tale.
Three Wonderlands of the American West
Stated first impression. Hard cover. Tall octavo. [xii] 180pp. with sixteen reproductions in color from original paintings by Thomas Moran, N.A. and thirty two duogravures from photographs. Also maps of the Yellowstone, Yosemite and Grand Canyon regions. Light green cloth with dark green and gilt stamped design to front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Near fine with only a touch of wear to extremities.
The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock). Four Volumes
Philip Arnold Heseltine, known by the pseudonym Peter Warlock, was a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which reflects Heseltine's interest in occult practices, was used for all his published musical works…Through his critical writings, published under his own name, Heseltine made a pioneering contribution to the scholarship of early music. Trevor Hold was an English composer, poet and author, best known for his song cycles, many of them setting his own poetry.
The Biography of a Grizzly
Seton-Thompson, Ernest New York, 1900 Stated First Impression April 14, 1900. Hard cover in publisher's cloth with design in yellow and black to both covers. Light shelf wear to cover and spine slightly darkened otherwise clean and unmarked. This book is dedicated to the memory of the days spent at the Palette Ranch on the Graybull, where from hunter, miner, personal experience, and the host himself, I gathered many chapters of the History of Wahb.