[np: nd. @1810-1820?]. Caption title [as issued]. 8pp, stitched. Light wear, untrimmed, small hole affects a couple of letters. Good+. With the contemporary ownership signature of Wm. B. Stilson. Descriptions of the major constellations, imprint unknown, but certainly the United States. This rare pamphlet leads with Orion, followed by the..... More
Washington: [1950]. Original printed wrappers. x, 456 pp. Photo illustrations, graphs, and charts. Light shelf wear, Very Good. The Civil Defense Office "commends this publication as a source of scientific information for technical personnel engaged in civil defense planning activities. Its detailed description of the physical phenomena associated with atomic..... More
[Pennsylvania? 1832]. 11, [1 blank] pp Wrapper remnants Two diagrams, one table Caption-title Scattered foxing Good+ Not in OCLC, Sabin, AI, Eberstadt, or Decker. More
[Philadelphia? 1834?]. 12pp. Disbound. Minor foxing. Very Good. More
[Philadelphia? 1835?]. 7, [1 blank] pp. Four diagrams. Caption-title, disbound. Light scattered foxing. Very Good. AI 31050 [2]. Not in OCLC, Sabin, Eberstadt, or Decker. More
Philadelphia? 1835]. 8pp One diagram, five tables Caption-title Disbound Scattered foxing Good+ AI 30151 [1] Not in OCLC, Sabin, Eberstadt, or Decker. More
[Philadelphia? 1835?]. 13, [3 blank] pp Disbound without wrappers Light scattered foxing Good+ AI 30152 [4]. More
[Philadelphia? 1835?]. 3, [1 blank] pp Caption-title, disbound without wrappers Scattered foxing Good+. More
[Philadelphia? 1836?]. 5, [3 blank] pp Caption-title, disbound Light scattered foxing Good+. More
[Philadelphia? 1836?]. 4pp Caption-title, disbound Minor foxing Very Good AI 30155 [2] OCLC 40279936 [1] Not in Sabin, Eberstadt, or Decker. More
New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co., Printers, 1852. Cover title. Large folding map, approx. 36" x 107", folded to 6" x 8.5". Bound in printed green paper-covered boards with black cloth spine [boards lightly rubbed and spotted], accession label on spine. The map has hand-colored routes and locations. Map..... More
New-York: J Winchester [, 1859]. iv, [5]-111, [1] pp Original printed wrappers [moderate wear, front wrap detached], stitched Pencil signature at head of front wrap "B Shertleff, MD, 2 Beacon" Minor foxing, small ink notation on last page, else clean Printed letter inserted after the title page, addressed to "Shertleff..... More
Cincinnati: Published by Alexander Flash. Looker & Ramsay, Printers, 1838. [2], 76 pp, with frontis illustration of the safety device "Proposed by Dr. Locke," a "New Spring Manometer." Bookplate of Cincinnati native Charles Theodore Greve on blank portion of the title page's verso. Bound in modern paper over boards, Very..... More
Bristol: Printed at the Mirror Office by John Taylor, [1838]. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Spine shorn, wrappers loosening. Except as noted, Very Good. Long folding map. [4], vi, [Tipped in slip regarding tons of coal on board], 65, [1 blank], [tipped in errata slip] pp. The SS Great Western was..... More
Madrid: En la Imprenta de Blas Román, donde se hallará, 1778. 4" x 6". [6], 448 pp, with the half title. Volume 9 of a 12 volume set. Bound in contemporary vellum [light wear]. Wormed on last 12 leaves [loss of a few letters from each page], else Very Good..... More
New York: E. and E. Hosford, 1817. 127, [1 blank] pp, with the half title. Sketch of Fitch's Steam Boat. Bound in modern wrappers. Half title lightly foxed, Very Good. Colden was Robert Fulton's biographer and chief ally in defending his monopoly, granted by New York State, to navigate the..... More
Boston: Sleeper & Rogers, 1848. Stitched in original printed wrappers. 63, [1] pp. Light fox, light wrapper wear. Very Good. "All ships should be furnished with properly adjusted conductors, fixed in their places, independently of the officers and crew." Forbes encourages the introduction of "the conductors in question into this..... More
[n.p. 1778]. 5-1/2" x 8-1/4". Mounted to 8-1/2" x 11" buff paper backing with two tape tabs on verso. Right edge reinforced with archival tape on blank verso. Very Good The scarce first edition of Haid's mezzotint portrait of Franklin. Haid made two portraits of Franklin using the same captions..... More
New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co., Printers, 1853. 94pp. Stitched in original printed green wrappers [rear wrapper present but detached. Mild scattered spotting, Very Good. Gifford argued for Morse. His opponent was Salmon P. Chase, the anti-slavery politician who became Lincoln's Treasury Secretary and Taney's successor as Chief Justice..... More
Philadelphia: Printed for the Author by Hugh Maxwell, 1804. 26pp. Disbound with scattered foxing, Good+. This was Griffiths' inaugural dissertation for his degree of doctor of medicine. The title identifies him as "one of the physicians of the Philadelphia Alms-House, and honorary member of the Philadelphia Medical Society." Dr. G...... More
[Nashua? 1866]. 24pp, stitched. Original printed title wrappers [as issued] with sketch of a scene at Hall's factory. Near Fine. Hall began his business in Nashua in the early 1860's. He claimed to have gotten his secret formula from a poor Italian sailor. He was an imaginative advertiser, selling trade..... More
Albany: David W. Barnes and W.S. Hevenor, 1853. Stitched in original printed blue wrappers. Frontis illustrations of murderer and murderee. [7], [1 blank], 176 pp. Light wrapper wear, Very Good. "Hendrickson, twenty years old and a wastrel, poisoned his nineteen-year-old wife in the first case of aconite poisoning in America..... More
[Boston: 1873]. Original printed wrappers, stitched. 60, [1], [3 blanks] pp. Front wrapper spotted and detached [but present]; some light spotting to lower blank margins of first several leaves. Good+. The Massachusetts Medical Society preferred charges against Bushnell, Fuller, and six other physician members of the Society for "Conduct unbecoming..... More
New York: D. Van Nostrand. London: Trubner & Co., 1863. 61, [3 blanks] pp. Disbound a bit roughly, else Very Good. Captain Hunt, of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, writes from New Haven in January 1863. This is a nutty article explaining "the scientific bases upon which our nationality..... More
New York: Waldheimer & Zenn, Printers & Stationers, [c. 1870s]. Broadside, 9-1/2" x 12." A variety of type fonts and sizes. Housed in a wood frame. Very Good. William Phare and Thomas Thorp were partners at 146 Fulton Street, New York. They called their business the "Headquarters" of the "Mechanics'..... More