Category: History

The Gettysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Distributed by Dawson's Book Shop : 1963

Seller ID: TEA521-001

Condition: Very Good

(Los Angeles, CA: Bela Blau, Distributed by Dawson's Book Shop, 1963. Miniature Book. 1 11/16 x 1 5/16 inches. (22) pp. Half-title, frontispiece portrait Abraham Lincoln, all printed within a gilt-ruled border; text clean, unmarked, paper a bit toned. Gilt-stamped red leather; binding square and tight. TEA521-001. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 1,000 numbered copies, this is number 831, handset, printed, and bound by Bela Blau. Published on the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, "an iconic call for nationalism, republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy." Wikipe...
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A Saga. The Pony Express

By: Anonymous

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New Port Richey, FL, Clearview Press : 1998

Seller ID: KGK523-003

Binding: Tan cloth over boards illustrated and titled in br

Condition: Fine

New Port Richey, FL: The Clearview Press, 1998. Miniature Book. 3 x 2 1/16 inches. [iv], 38, [4] pp. The text is printed in black and brown inks, the brown used for a variety of illustrations and ornaments that appear throughout the text, frontispiece is a 4-cent postage stamp with Pony Express theme issued in 1960; text clean, unmarked. Tan cloth over boards illustrated and titled in brown ink, decorative end-papers; binding square and tight. KGK523-003. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 195 copies, this copy is out of sequence. "The Pony Express was an American express mail service that used relays o...
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A Miniature History of Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo

By: Bernard L Fontana (1931-2019)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Pasadena, CA, The Castle Press : 1997

Seller ID: KGK523-002

Binding: Gilt-stamped red cloth, marbled end-papers

Condition: Fine

Pasadena, CA: (The Castle Press), 1997. Miniature Book. 3 x 2 1/2 inches. [vi], 14, [4] pp. Half-title, color frontispiece, red fleuron graces the title page, red typographic ornaments in the text, 2 illustrations (1 black-and-white, 1 color); text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped red cloth, marbled end-papers; binding square and tight. SIGNED by George Kinney on the colophon. KGK523-002. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies, presented by Bernard L. Fontana, George Kinney and Tony Kroll. Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo was founded in 1720 and is named for Saint Joseph and the Marqués de Sa...
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La Vida y La Obra de Altimarano

By: Carlos Gonzales Pena

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Dawson's Book Shop : 1964

Seller ID: RGKK819-042

Binding: Gilt stamped red leather, marbled end-papers

Condition: Very Good

Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1964.

Miniature Book. 1 7/8 x 1 1/2 inches. [vi], (33) pp. Text in Spanish, 1 illustration; text clean, unmarked. Gilt stamped red leather, marbled end-papers; binding square and tight. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. RGKK819-042. Very Good.

LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies. Spanish-language text, printed and bound in Mexico, on the life and works of Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834-1893), Mexican liberal writer, journalist, teacher, and politician.

REFERENCE: Bradbury, 20th-Century U.S. Miniature Books, No. 2299.
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La Vida y La Obra de Altimarano

By: Carlos Gonzales Pena

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Dawson's Book Shop : 1964

Seller ID: RGKK819-043

Binding: Gilt-stamped black leather, marbled end-papers

Condition: Very Good

Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1964. Miniature Book. 1 7/8 x 1 1/2 inches. [vi], (33) pp. Text in Spanish, 1 illustration; text clean, unmarked, paper toned. Gilt stamped black leather, marbled end-papers; binding square and tight. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. RGKK819-043. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies. Text in Spanish, printed and bound in Mexico, on the life and works of Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834-1893), Mexican liberal writer, journalist, teacher, and politician. REFERENCE: Bradbury, 20th-Century U.S. Miniature Books, No. 2299....
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Yo-semite Falls. California

By: Currier & Ives

Price: $2,000.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Currier & Ives : circa 1870

Seller ID: KD123-042

Condition: Very Good

New York, NY: Currier & Ives, No Date. Hand-colored lithograph broadside. Sheet measures 11 7/8 x 16 inches. Images measures 8 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. The image with some light toning; the larger sheet has toning, and the extremities with brittleness and chipping, toning to the blank verso, with pencil notations. KD123-042. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. This is one of 6 Yosemite images produced by Currier and Ives from 1860 to 1875. It shows tall mountains in the background, with a river flowing from the middle distance to the foreground. 2 deer graze in the left foreground. "Currier and Ives was a N...
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Galleria Dantesca Microscopica

By: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Milan, Italy, Ulrico Hoepli : 1880

Seller ID: SA1019-030

Binding: Full tan morocco, elaborately gilt

Condition: Good

Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1880. Miniature Book. 2 1/8 x 1 5/8 inches. Unpaginated. [74] pp. Half-title, title page printed in red and black inks, 30 original photographic images mounted on plates with tissue guards, decorative initials, tailpieces, index; text unmarked, title page repaired with cellophane tape, pages toned, some leaves with small marginal chips, text and tissue guard torn at images 15 and 16, ms. notation on half-title. Full tan morocco, elaborately gilt, raised bands, tan leather spine label titled in blind, red leather onlays within a medallion in the center panel of both the fr...
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26 Brief Lectures on the History of Printing

By: David E Kaser (1924-2017)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Spartanburg, SC, Kitemaug Press : 1974

Seller ID: 7818-001

Binding: Gray cloth over boards, printed paper wrap-around

Condition: Very Good

Spartanburg, SC: Kitemaug Press, 1974. Oblong Miniature Book. 1 5/8 x 2 13/16 inches. Unpaginated. [36] pp. Half-title, occasional ornaments in the text; text clean, unmarked, paper lightly toned. Gray cloth over boards, printed paper wrap-around label covers front and rear covers and spine, decorated end-papers; binding square and tight, label toned. SCARCE. 7818-001. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of "about" 175 copies were printed on the Pearl and bound by Frank J. Anderson. The contents of this book first appeared in the Wilson Library Bulletin, copyright 1956 and are reprinted here with perm...
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Fishes in the Wabash

By: David Thomas (1776-1859)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Bloomington, IN, Brown Trout Press : 2001

Seller ID: KGK523-001

Binding: Blue wraps with a wave pattern printed in silver,

Condition: Fine

Bloomington, IN: Brown Trout Press, (2001). Miniature Book. 3 x 2 1/4 inches. Unpaginated. [18] pp. Endpapers decorated with lovely images of 4 species of game fish, title page printed in blue ink including a wave-pattern that is used as headpieces and tailpieces throughout the text; text clean, unmarked. Blue wraps with the wave pattern printed in silver, stitched; binding square and tight. SIGNED by Paul Brown on the colophon. KGK523-001. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 101 numbered copies, this is number 4. The text of this miniature book "is an extract from David Thomas's Travels Through the West...
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Some Letters Concerning D. H. Lawrence, From Mabel Dodge Luhan, Dorothy Brett, and Frieda Lawrence to Eliot Fay

By: Dorothy Eugenie Brett (1883-1977), Frieda Lawrence (1879-1956), and Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Fallbrook, CA, Weather Bird Press : 1978

Seller ID: 782-241-001

Binding: Red cloth over flexible boards, printed paper fron

Condition: Very Good

Fallbrook, CA: The Weather Bird Press, 1978. Pamphlet. 8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches. [iv], 12, [4] pp. Half title, frontispiece portrait of Lawrence in red, short biography of Eliot Fay at the end of the text; text clean, unmarked. Red cloth over flexible boards, printed paper front cover label; binding square and tight, small bump on lower corner of text block, small bump at head of rear board. 782-241-001. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 200 copies. These letters belonged to Eliot Fay (1902-1954), was a professor of Romance languages at Cornell University. In preparation to write his book about D. H. ...
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Grandeza de Luis Cabrera

By: Enrique Ramirez y Ramirez (1915-1980)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Mexico City, Mexico, Libreria Anticuaria "Mexico en Libros" G. M. Echaniz : 1964

Seller ID: CGSZ118-025

Binding: Full beige leather decorated in gilt

Condition: Very Good

Mexico: Libreria Anticuaria "Mexico en Libros" G. M. Echaniz, 1964. Miniature Book. 2 x 1 1/2 inches. [viii], 47, [iii], (17) pp. Illustration after title page, pagination restarts after page 47, text in Spanish; text clean, unmarked. Full beige leather, decorative gilt border on front cover and spine, decorative border blind-stamped on back cover, marbled end-papers; binding square and tight, gilt lightly rubbed on spine. Previous owner's signature on rear end-pages with date and where the book was purchased. CGSZ118-025. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies specially printed for Dawson'...
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[Howard Hughes sitting in the cockpit of the second FX-11 prototype, propellers spinning]

By: Ernest Knee (1907-1982), photographer, Howard Hughes (1905-1976), subject, XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, [Hughes Aircraft Corporation] : 1946?

Seller ID: KD123-044

Condition: Fine

No Place: No Publisher, [April 4, 1947]. Silver Gelatin print on Kodak paper. 11 x 14 inches. Howard Hughes sitting in the cockpit of the FX-11 prototype. KD123-044. Fine. The XF-11 was a prototype military reconnaissance aircraft designed and flown by Howard Hughes (1905-1976), and built by Hughes Aircraft for the Unites State Army Air Forces. 100 F-11s were ordered in 1943 but the program was delayed beyond the end of World War II, rendering the aircraft surplus. The production contract was canceled, and only two prototypes and a static test mockup were completed. The first XF-11 flight took...
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The Royal Letter Patent of Privileges to the Heirs of Cromberger, July 6, 1542

By: Gabriel Saldivar y Silva

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Mexico City, Mexico, Libreria Anticuaria "Mexico en Libros" G. M. Echaniz : 1964

Seller ID: DRR420-002

Binding: Gilt- and blind-stamped full tan leather, marbled

Condition: Very Good

Mexico City: (Libreria Anticuaria "Mexico en Libros" G. M. Echaniz), 1964. Miniature Book. 1 15/16 x 1 1/2 inches. [iv], 52, [4] pp. 15 plates of examples of the presswork of the Heirs of Cromberger; text clean, unmarked, edges of the first half of the text block toned. Gilt- and blind-stamped full tan leather, marbled end-papers; binding square and tight. DRR420-002. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 100 copies printed by Gabriel Saldivar y Silva. Juan Cromberger was a Spanish printer who established the first printing press in America. This volume contains several miniature facsimiles of pages f...
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A Tale of the Old West

By: H N Ferguson

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Skokie, IL, Black Cat Press : 1980

Seller ID: KGK523-004

Binding: Gilt-stamped brown morocco, marbled end-papers

Condition: Good

Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, (1980). Miniature Book. 1 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches. Unpaginated. [50] pp. Half-title, title page printed in black and brown inks with horses in harness vignette, 2 half-tone illustrations printed in brown ink; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped brown morocco, marbled end-papers; binding square and tight, inner hinge broken near colophon. INITIALED by Norman Forgue on the colophon. KGK523-004. Good. LIMITED EDITION of 249 copies, design and typography by Norman W. Forgue, bound by Bela Blau. The half-title contains the following sub-title: "with a little-known footnote to...
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Image for "An Italian Paperchase: The Decorated Papers of Flavia Farina Cini, Pia Vitali, and Eleonora der Conti Gallo," In: Matrix, Number 5, Winter 1985

"An Italian Paperchase: The Decorated Papers of Flavia Farina Cini, Pia Vitali, and Eleonora der Conti Gallo," In: Matrix, Number 5, Winter 1985

By: Hans Peter Schmoller (1916-1985)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Manor Farm, Andoversford, Glouchestershire, The Whittington Press : 1985

Seller ID: PD123-003

Binding: Red stiff paper wrappers, printed dust-jacket

Condition: Very Good

WITH: DREYFUS, John Gustave (1918-2002). "The Curwen Press Collection in Cambridge University Library," pp. 23-33. Manor Farm, Andoversford, Glouchestershire: The Whittington Press, 1985. 4to. 11 1/4 x 8 inches. [vi], (164) pp. Schmoller's article "is mainly about three Italian women, two of whom were active in the early part of our century, and in whose wake we reach the present." It contains a series of black-and-white photographs of papers under discussion, illustrations in red, and six paper samples tipped-in. John Dreyfus's article has 4 patterned paper samples designed for the Curwen Pre...
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The Mad 2265 Mile Dash of the Scott Special

By: Harry I Miller

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Skokie, IL, Black Cat Press : 1980

Seller ID: KGK523-005

Binding: Gilt-stamped maroon morocco, marbled end-papers

Condition: Fine

Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, [1980]. Miniature Book. 1 13/16 x 1 6/16 inches. Unpaginated. [70] pp. Title page printed in red and black with a small locomotive vignette, frontispiece of locomotive, 1 small train car vignette headpiece, double-page map of the route of the Scott Special; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped maroon morocco, marbled end-papers; binding square and tight. INITIALED by Norman Forgue on the colophon. KGK523-005. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 249 copies, design and typography by Norman W. Forgue, bound by Bela Blau. "The Scott Special, also known as the Coyote Special, the De...
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Two Essays on the Decretum of Gratian. Together with an Original Liaf Printed on Vellum by Peter Schoeffer at Mainz in 1472

By: Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt (1903-1992) ade Charles McCurry (1943-1980)

Price: $2,750.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA and San Francisco, CA, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge; Bernard Rosenthal : 1971

Seller ID: BRW423-001

Binding: Vellum spine, marbled paper sides, vellum tips, ve

Condition: Very Good

Los Angeles, CA: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge; San Francisco, CA: Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc., 1971. Folio. 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches. Unpaginated. [18] pp. Half-title, leaf with flaps and tissue guard holds the vellum leaf, text and title page printed in red and black inks with a red Peter Schoeffer printer's device on title page, facsimile of the colophon of the 1472 edition of the Decretum, Plantin Press printer's device on colophon; text un-marked with minor finger soil in the outer margins of a couple of pages. Vellum spine, marbled paper side, vellum tips, vellum spine label titled in gilt, comes in...
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Dunlap and Claypoole: Printers to George Washington and the American Congress

By: Herbert Kerkow

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Milwaukee, WI, The ABCDarium of Clifford L. Helbert : 1988

Seller ID: IY915-087

Binding: Quarter black cloth, gray decorative paper over bo

Condition: Fine

Milwaukee, WI: The ABCDarium of Clifford L. Helbert, 1988. Not Quite A Miniature Book. 3 1/8 x 2 1/2 inches. [iv], (20) pp. Half-title, frontispiece, black-and-white portrait of David Claypoole; text clean, unmarked. Quarter black cloth, gray decorative paper over boards, printed paper front cover label, spine titled in gilt, original clear plastic dust-jacket with the number of the edition (61) on a yellow sticker on the front panel of the dust-jacket, decorative end-papers; binding square and tight. IY915-087. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 200 numbered copies, this is number 61. This article fir...
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Renno's Raiders

By: James Lamar Weygand (1919-2003)

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Nappanee, IN, Maestro Books : 1966

Seller ID: GKK220-030

Binding: Pictorial orange paper over boards

Condition: Very Good

Nappanee, IN: (Printed by James Lamar Weygand for Maestro Books), 1966.Miniature Book. 1 3/4 x 2 1/2 inches. (25) pp. Frontispiece, title page, color illustration, colophon; text clean, unmarked. Pictorial orange paper over boards; binding square and tight. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. GKK220-030. Very Good.LIMITED EDITION of 100 copies, printed from handset type by James Lamar Weygand for Maestro Books. In 1866, the Reno gang conducted the world's first train robbery in Seymore, Indiana. This little volume includes two excerpts from contemporary newspaper reports of the ev...
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El Alisal: Where History Lingers

By: Jane Apostol (1911-2016)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Historical Society of Southern California : 1994

Seller ID: 782-341-018

ISBN-13: 9780914421122

Binding: Gilt-stamped green cloth, slip case

Condition: Fine

Los Angeles, CA: Historical Society of Southern California, (1994). 8vo. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches. (126) pp. Half-title, title page printed in turquoise and black inks, title-page vignette, 51 illustrations, bibliography, index; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped green cloth, slip case; binding square and tight. SIGNED by Apostle and Ritchie on the colophon. 782-341-018. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies of the special edition, hardcover in slip case, and SIGNED by the author and the designer. Foreword by Thomas Andrews. Chapters include "Charles Fletcher Lummis," "El Alisal," The Lummis Home Ga...
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