Condition: Good

Interesting Scripture Stories

By: Anonymous

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New Haven, CT, Sidney's Press, S. Babcock : 1833

Edition: SECOND EDITION

Seller ID: SKU523-001

Binding: Original printed wrappers, stitched

Condition: Good

New Haven, CT: Sidney's Press, S. Babcock, 1833. Miniature Chapbook. 2 7/8 x 1 7/8 inches. 8 pp. Zebra vignette on title page, 4 engraved illustrations; text unmarked, paper toned, water-staining to outer margins does affect text, insect damage works in from rear wrapper mostly confined to the margins but does affect 3 lines of text on page 4 (just a few letters affected). Original printed wrappers, stitched, with wood 3 engravings on the outside of the wraps (insides blank). Ownership signature inside front cover [illegible]. SKU523-001. Good. SECOND EDITION of this very SCARCE miniature chap...
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Considerations of Some Recent Social Theories

By: Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908)

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, Little, Brown, and Co. : 1853

Edition: FIRST EDITION

Inscription: From Charles Eliot Norton to "My Dear Mr. Dwight."

Seller ID: DB722-006

Binding: Brown cloth, printed paper spine label

Condition: Good

Boston Brahmin Critiques the Revolutions of 1848With and Autograph Note, Signed, by the AuthorBoston, MA: Little, Brown, and Co., 1853. 8vo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches. [viii], 158 pp. Text clean, unmarked. Brown cloth, printed paper spine label, added mylar dust-jacket; binding square and tight, shelf wear, corners showing, spine ends chipped. Ownership rubber stamp of Eugene Bechtold, Los Angeles, CA on the tail of the rear pastedown. Autograph note, signed from Norton to "My Dear Mr. Dwight." DB722-006. Good. FIRST EDITION. This is Charles Eliot Norton's first book, published anonymously. With an...
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Galleria Dantesca Microscopica

By: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Milan, Italy, Ulrico Hoepli : 1880

Edition: SECOND EDITION OF THE FIRST MINIATURE BOOK TO CONTAIN PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES

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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Ode Sung at San Francisco, October 29, 1850, At the Celebration on Hearing of the Admission of California into the Union as a State

By: Elizabeth Maria Bonney Wills (d. 1892)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, The Press of Muir Dawson : 1947

Edition: FIRST EDITION, thus

Seller ID: BMR423-001

Binding: Printed wrappers, stitched

Condition: Good

[Los Angeles, CA]: The Press of Muir Dawson, 1947. 4to. 9 3/8 x 8 inches. Unpaginated. [8] pp. Foreword by Glen Dawson; text clean, unmarked. Printed wrappers, stitched; binding square and tight, wrappers with a variety of wear, like a bumped top corner, but still a nice exemplar of a scarce item. Pencil notation in the gutter at the last page of the text block reads: "1948 gift of the printer." SCARCE. BMR423-001. Good. FIRST EDITION, thus. Sung to the tune Star Spangled Banner. This poem was printed contemporarily as a broadside in San Francisco a couple of times. Foreword by Glen Dawson pro...
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Bridal Veil Falls

By: George Fiske (1835-1918)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Yosemite Valley, CA, George Fiske : 1885 or later?

Seller ID: KD123-048

Condition: Good

[Yosemite Valley, CA]: George Fiske, No Date [but later than 1885?]. Large format silver albumen print, 13 1/2 x 10 inches mounted on stiff board measuring 17 x 14 inches. Signed by Fiske in the negative, numbered 1014; photograph faded. Mount is toned and chipped especially at the extremities, pencil notations and rubber stamps on the verso. KD123-048. Good. Fiske numbered his photographs of Yosemite in two series: Winter Views and Summer Views. His advertisement in the Sentinel of Yosemite newspaper from 1885 only goes up to 743, so this cataloger is making a leap and is guessing that this S...
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Three Brothers

By: George Fiske (1835-1918)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Yosemite Valley, CA, George Fiske : 1885?

Seller ID: KD123-047

Condition: Good

[Yosemite Valley, CA]: George Fiske, No Date [but later than 1885?]. Large format silver albumen print, 10 x 13 1/2 inches mounted on stiff board measuring 17 x 14 inches. Signed by Fiske in the negative in the lower right-hand corner and number 918 in the lower left corner; photograph faded. Mount is toned, soiled, and chipped especially at the extremities, pencil notations and rubber stamps on the verso. KD123-047. Good. Fiske numbered his photographs of Yosemite in two series: Winter Views and Summer Views. His advertisement in the Sentinel of Yosemite newspaper from 1885 only goes up to 74...
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El Capitan

By: George Fiske (1835-1918), photographer

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Yosemite Valley, CA, George Fiske : No Date

Seller ID: KD123-046

Condition: Good

[Yosemite Valley, CA]: George Fiske, No Date. Large format silver gelatin print, 13 1/2 x 10 inches mounted on stiff board measuring 17 x 14 inches. Signed by Fiske in the negative; photograph faded. Mount is toned and chipped especially at the extremities, pencil notations and rubber stamps on the verso. KD123-046. Good. George Fiske was an American landscape photographer. Fiske worked for San Francisco photographers Charles L. Weed (1824-1903), Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916), and Thomas Houseworth (1828-1915). After a spell when Fiske and his wife Myra lived in Yosemite Valley (1879-1881), ...
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A Tale of the Old West

By: H N Ferguson

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Skokie, IL, Black Cat Press : 1980

Edition: LIMITED EDITION of 249 copies

Inscription: INITIALED by Norman Forgue on the colophon

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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The Song of Songs, Which is Solomon's

By: Solomon (circa 990 BCE - circa 931 BCE)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL, Black Cat Press : 1961

Edition: LIMITED EDITION of 350 copies

Seller ID: RGKK819-143

Binding: Gilt-stamped white leather over boards, marbled en

Condition: Good

Chicago: Black Cat Press, [1961]. Miniature Book. 2 1/2 x 2 inches. (37) pp. Half title with text printed on a red field, title page printed in red and black with gilt illustration; text clean, unmarked, pages toned. Gilt-stamped white leather over boards, marbled end pages, French-fold pages; binding square and tight, covers spotted and toned. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. RGKK819-143. Good. LIMITED EDITION of 350 copies. Design and typography by Norman W. Forgue, bound by the Monastery Hill Bindery in Chicago, Illinois. Forgue was one of the six renaissance miniature book...
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The Law and Custom of Slavery in British India In a Series of Letters to Thomas Fowell Buxton, Esq

By: William Adam (1796-1881)

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, Weeks, Jordan, & Company : 1840

Edition: FIRST EDITION

Seller ID: DB722-007

Binding: Brown Cloth

Condition: Good

Boston: Weeks, Jordan, & Company, 1840. 12mo in 6s. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. 279, [1 blank] pp. Foxed, as is typical. Publisher's brown textured cloth, brown leather spine label titled in gilt; binding square and tight, label rubbed and illegible. Bookplate of Frank J. Novak. DB722-007. Good. FIRST EDITION, an English edition appeared later that year (London, Smith, Elder and Co.). Adam's book on slavery in India was part of the international anti-slavery agitation of the first half of the nineteenth century. Like a serial novel, it is takes the form of a series of letters addressed to Thomas Fow...
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