Mr. Facey Romford’s Hounds
John Leech and Hablot K. Browne. vi, [2], 392 (last blank) pages. 9 x 6 inches. Hand-coloured frontispiece plus 23 hand-coloured plates. Publisher's maroon boards with decorations in blind and gilt. Minor bubbling to the cloth on front cover. Spine sunned, top edges dusted. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A nice copy. Cloth.
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The Urth of the New Sun
First Edition. [8], 372 pages. 8vo. Black boards with pictorial dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Rear dust jacket panel with some shallow abrasions not affecting the boards. Bright and clean internally. Boards. The true first, preceding the Tor edition. Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1988. Hartmann’s Practika : A Manual for Making Sundials and Astrolabes with the Compass and Rule, Written from 1518 to 1528 by Georg Hartmann
First English Language Edition. 312 pages. 13 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches. Publisher's green cloth with leather spine label. Spine slanted, a little light dusting to the cloth, otherwise an excellent copy. This title was issued in three different editions - (library, standard, and deluxe). This is a copy of the standard edition (the library edition is smaller, the deluxe edition larger [as here] with a 1/4 goatskin binding). Cloth. "Georg Hartmann lived from 1489 to 1564. As a young man he studied both mathematics and theology, becoming a Lutheran churchman. For over forty years he designed and constructed the astrolabes, armillary spheres, sundials, globes and quadrants that are now the pride of some of the world's most prestigious museums. Hartmann must have felt the need to record exactly how he designed this instruments, for in the summers of 1518 and 1526-1528 he scribbled down in Low German a rough draft (illustrated with even rougher sketches) of his mathematical techniques. No publisher ever considered it, for to refine this raw material into a logical and understandable treatise would necessitate enormous effort and dedication. Hartmann is therefore truly fortunate that, after nearly five centuries, John Lamprey has undertaken this task (including a translation into English) as a labor of love. The work took him six years, but the result - concisely entitled Hartmann's Practika - is a credit to both author and editor/translator. Now we can discover at first hand how this master craftsman laid out his beautiful instruments. Lamprey has rearranged and edited Hartmann's draft into seven chapters ("books") according to the type of instrument described. Book 1 - Block Sundial Book 2 - Diptych Dial Book 3 - Shepard's Dial Book 4 - Lines of Declination Book 5 - Hemispherium and Chalice Dial Book 6 - Nuremberg Portable Dial Book 7 - Designing the Astrolabe Book review courtesy of Allan Mills, 2003" (from the publisher's catalog). Christmas in Song, Sketch, and Story; Nearly Three Hundred Christmas Songs, Hymns, and Carols, With Selections From Beecher, Wallace, Auerbach, Abbott, Warren and Dickens
320 pages. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Publisher's red cloth gilt. A sound copy, with some sunning, fading, and scuffing to the boards. Clean internally with light browning to page edges. Cloth. Remarkably scarce in commerce, with only three copies for sale as of this writing. Broder Logic Trainer Model 100 Self-Pace Manual [MANUAL ONLY]
First Edition. 84 pages including wrappers. Comb bound. Light blue printed wrappers. 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (oblong small 8vo). Light fading to covers. The instruction manual ONLY - does NOT include the trainer. Eight dollars fifty cent cover price. Comb. An instruction manual for the Broder Logic Trainer. US Patent 3975836. The trainer was a switch based unit that allowed the user to learn "logic" interactively. With many examples and diagrams. MULTIPLE COPIES AVAILABLE. Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes and NURSERY SONGS. Set to Music by J.W. Elliott
[4], 110, [2 (last blank)] pages. 9 3/8 x 6 1/2 inches. Chromolithographed illustration on upper board with gilt mustard colored cloth spine. Front illustration is duplicated on the lower board. (Both show Mother Goose in a shawl playing piano with music on the piano stand). Previous owner inscription "Frederica A. Yermi. Monday Jan. 1st, 1900" on front flyleaf. Base of contents page ([4]) notes "* Words by M. L. Elliott". Nine of the songs are so starred indicating their author is M. L. Elliott. Overall light wear, much better condition than found on children's books of this era. Boards. We see no ovbious method of narrowing down the date of publication beyond the inscription on the front flyleaf. The American Antiquarian Society holds several variations of this title with different covers and layout. Our example includes the text "In the arrangement of the musical portion of the volume, especial care has been taken by Mr. Elliott to keep the songs strictly within the capacity of children's execution, and the compass of children's voices. . Among the old favorites a few new aspirants to popularity will be found; but it is hoped that their presence will be considered an additional attraction."--preface, p. [3]" It also has a printed '4' in the lower inner gutter on page (49) and a printed '6' in the lower gutter of page (81), both in a much larger typeface than the song words. Die Quarzlampe, ihre Entwicklung und ihr heutiger Stand . mit 47 Textabbildungen
First Edition. VIII, 84, [4 (ads)] pages. 8vo. Publisher's printed blue wrappers. Paper spine reinforced with old linen tape. With the accession stamp and embossed stamp of the NELA RESEARCH LABORATORY of the National Lamp Works of General Electric Co (received May 9, 1916). Wraps. Title, roughly translated, is "The quartz lamp, its development and its current status" The NELA laboratory was founded in 1908 as the physical laboratory of the National Electric Lamp Association. The name was changed in 1913 to the [as here] NELA RESEARCH LABORATORY when the National Electric Lamp Association became the National Lamp Works of General Electric Co. In 1914 the laboratory branched out from pure research into some applied sciences and was headed by M. Luckiesh. (Science, 12 Aug 1920 Vol 52, Issue 1337 p. 150) A nice association with a laboratory which no doubt found this item of great use at the time. IMPORTANT TO ALL! Bound for the Happy Lands! Low Rates to Arkansas and Missouri via Saint Louis over the popular St. Louis, Iron Mountain, & Southern R’y. The shortest and quickest route to points in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas
20 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches. Printed broadside on tan paper. Small stain to the lower left corner, small marginal chip at the upper right hand corner. This example has a faint oval purple stamp over the three railroads from one Henry H. Hannah, Land Agent, Swan Creek, Ohio. "TEXAS AND ARKANSAS | Guides, Land Circulars." with the rest indistinct. A second partial stamp in the lower margin with "Henry H. Hannah, Land Agent, Swan Creek, Ohio" A land advertising broadside with central vignette of an aerial perspective map showing Texas, Akransas, Missouri and St. Louis. The railways are promoting "a large grant of lands from the United States Government, embracing all varieties of soil and timber adapted to Farming, Fruit Growing and Grazing purposes. The railroad passes through the middle of the grant, from end to end, most conveniently. Six navigable streams traverse this land grant.The Company sells at low prices on liberal terms, giving the man of small means a chance to buy, improve and pay for his land from the products of the soil." (from a paragraph towards the bottom of the broadside). OCLC locates six copies, at Yale, SMU, Michigan, U Missouri, UT Arlington, and Truman State. [Broadside] Church covenant of Danville Free-Will Baptist Church
Approx 14 x 8 1/2 inches. Letterpress broadside on light grey/blue paper. Folded, minor wear and browning overall. Other than this copy, we have handled one other, and could only locate one institutional example at the New Hampshire Historical Society. [Realia, Printing block] Collection of Hoosier Poems Indiana Homespun
7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. A printing block for a collection of poetry. Marked #119 in red pen on one edge and #119 Cover for Hoosier Homespun on another edge. A small amount of corrosion on one side, no doubt printable as is. Laverne Brown Price wrote a few items that are found in OCLC, but not this title. No doubt printed locally in very small quantities, this may be the only evidence this work was ever printed. [Sporting Circular] Mauser Sporting Rifles
11 x 8 1/4 inches. Folded paper with large tear (no loss of meaning) and several crease tears. Browned, lightly smell of garage and (gun?) oil. The large tear has been partly archivally reinforced with document repair tape. A circular, no doubt used for mailing, notifying the recipient that Schoverling, Daly & Gales has a "limited quantity" of Mauser Sporting Rifles available. Noting basic specifications and a trade price of thirty-two and a half dollars each (addl for leather straps and cartridges). "Charles Daly was born in New York City on October 12, 1839. Around 1875 in New York City, Charles Daly and August Schoverling began importing firearms into the United States, primarily from the city of Suhl in what was then Prussia. Manufacturers for Daly at that time included Heym, Shiller, H. A. Lindner, Sauer, J&W Tolley of England, Newman (of Belgium) and Lefever Arms. In 1887 Schoverling and Daly were joined by a third partner named Joseph Gales, and the company began doing business as Schoverling, Daly, and Gales, before settling simply on the name Charles Daly. The original Charles Daly died suddenly in 1899, but the business continued with his son, Charles Howard Daly, taking his place until 1919 when Henry Modell purchased the partnership. The new owners continued importing firearms and marketing them with the Charles Daly name until the late 1920s when the company was sold to the Walzer family, which owned Sloan's Sporting Goods in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The Walzers established a branch of Sloan's in New York City known as Charles Daly & Company. Manufacturers from all over the world produced Daly guns for the Walzers, including Beretta, Bernadelli, and Miroku." (Wikipedia) We've dated this circa 1915 as the paper appears to be of that period. The Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cornell and other institutions have material from this firm in the teens as well as the late 19th century. Mailing circulars tend to be scarcer than catalogs as most were discarded upon receipt.![[photograph] The moon](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/31838395068.jpg)
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[unknown photographer] 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (mat board). Image is 10 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches. Photograph image is mounted to mat. Surface of photograph is glossy, and rubbed overall. Mat board with overall wear and light soiling. This image we purchased with a large collection of material deaccessioned from Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. They do have a telescope on campus, but we there is no indication on the image or mount that this image was taken through that instrument. A nice decorative original photograph of the moon, perfect for framing.- $55
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The Case for Mars III : Strategies for Exploration – Technical. Proceedings of the third Case for Mars Conference held July 18-22, 1987, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Stoker, Carol. (editor); [American Astronomical Society] First Edition. xvi, 630 pages. Printed light blue paper wrappers. 9 1/2 x 7 inches. Minor soiling to the page edges, a nice bright copy. Wraps. Volume 75 Science and Technology Series, A Supplement to Advances in Astronautical Sciences.- $33
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Case for Mars IV: Considerations for Sending Humans: The International Exploration of Mars–Consideration for Sending Humans : Proceedings of the fourth Case for Mars Conference held June 4-8, 1990, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Meyers, Thomas R. (editor); [American Astronomical Society] First Edition. xxvi, 476 pages. Printed light blue paper wrappers. 9 1/2 x 7 inches. Minor soiling to the page edges, a nice bright copy. Wraps. Volume 90 Science and Technology Series, A Supplement to Advances in Astronautical Sciences.- $72
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[Catalog of diving equipment including Aqua-lung, books, war surplus helmets, etc]
M&E Marine Supply Co 11 leaves, stapled, reproduced. Varying paper colors, quality. Folded for mailing. Creasing, soiling. First leaf loose. Staplebound. A catalog targetted at the amateur diver / treasure hunter with books (shallow water diving' diving cutting welding) surplus WWII merch like helmets, etc.- $33
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Case for Mars II: Proceedings of the Second Case for Mars Conference Held July 10-14, 1984, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309
McKay, Christopher P. (editor); [American Astronomical Society] second printing. xiv, 716 pages. Printed light blue paper wrappers. 9 1/2 x 7 inches. Minor soiling to the page edges, a nice bright copy. Wraps. Volume 62 Science and Technology Series, A Supplement to Advances in Astronautical Sciences.- $39
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Manual of safe practices in Commercial Diving Operations [plus] ephemera
Association of Diving Contractors First Edition. vi, 24 pages. Blue printed wrappers, stapled at spine. Three hole punched, presumably as issued. Worn at the punched holes. Wraps. The "initial edition of this Manual, and it is anticipated that it wil be periodically revised as dictated by the needs . " Laid in is a typed page in several revisions noting Article XXIV -- General Rules that appear focused on safe diving practices.- $39
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The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe [Volume I only] with new foreword nd supplementary chapter
Ostrom, John Ward (editor); [Poe, Edgar Allan] xxviii, 306 pages. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth with black and gilt spine titling. A new copy noting some excess glue on the rear board from the manufacturing process This is Volume I ONLY. Cloth. This edition reprints the original 1948 Harvard University Press edition, with additions. "The supplement of the 1966 edition included new material as well as combining material published in American Literature, XXIV (November 1952), pp. 358-366 and American Literature, XXIX (March 1957), pp. 79-86." This is volume I only. "The most comprehensive printed collection of letters written by Poe is the 2-volume set of The Collected Letters of Edgar Allan Poe (third edition) originally edited by John Ward Ostrom, and revised, expanded and corrected by Burton R. Pollin and Jeffrey A. Savoye, published by Gordian Press in October 2008." (see our separate listings for this set). (quote are from eapoe org, the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore, describing the best scholarly edition available).- $39
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