New York: American Art Association, 1921. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., several title-page illustrations. No prices realized. With an appreciation of Trumbull by Annie E. Trumbull and a long introduction to the collection. Auction catalogue of 1133 items "comprising a notable collection of books, tracts and broadsides of Connecticut and..... More

New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 118p, no ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 540 lots: books and manuscripts chiefly of the 18th-20th centuries from America, Britain, and Europe. Lots 154-171 are "beautiful books printed at the Doves Press." Can be sent outside..... More

New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 2 parts, complete: 132, 121p, a few line ills. Unused bid sheets bound in. Auction catalogues of over 1100 lots: "first editions and autograph letters and manuscripts," including Washington's signed copy of Jeffries on two aeronautical voyages, and an "apparently..... More

New York: Anderson Galleries, 1928. First edition. Soft cover. 34p, a few line ills. Laid in: Anderson Galleries sale catalogue 2233 offering the "Manuscript Horae together with the only perfect copy in America of Nicolaus de Lyra's 'Postillae super Bibliam' [Strassburg, ca. 1472], the property of Professor Paul Soubeiran de..... More

Utrecht: Antiquariaat Forum, 1998. First edition. Soft cover. 197p, many ills., many in color. Bookseller's large handsome catalogue of 752 manuscripts, books, and globes relating to travels, voyages, discoveries, atlases, natural history, architecture and gardens, navigation and related fields. Fully indexed. More

New York: Argosy Book Stores, n.d. [1949]. First edition. Soft cover. 38p, no ills. Dated from penciled acquisition date, "July -49-." Addressed to Massachusetts historian H. Leavitt Horton; the pencil marks and notes within are presumably his. Lists 420 items, including "[Maxim] Karolik material" as noted on the cover. Can..... More

Leipzig; London; New York: Karl Baedeker; T. Fisher Unwin; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. 12th rev. ed. Soft cover. 518p, 86 maps and plans, 2 panoramas, most in color and all very good. Limp cloth (a few light stains). Ink name of a Mrs. Reynolds, New York. An early issue of..... More

London: Routledge, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 654p,many tables, + many ills. Over 20 essays by specialists on 17th- and 18th-century material culture in Britain, Europe, and America. Their interpretations help shape "a new historical landscape based on the consumption of goods and services." The parts are: Problems, Methods and Concepts;..... More

London: Cassell & Co., n.d. [1880s]. No stated edition. Soft cover. 48p, many large line ills., 1 mounted color plate. Bound in at the rear: "A Classified Catalogue of Cassell & Company's Publications" (8 pages). Ca. 9 1/2 x 13 inches. Cassell & Co. was the preeminent Victorian-era publisher of..... More

Paris: Rodolphe Chamonal, 1997. First edition. Soft cover. 68p, many ills., some in color. In French. Handsome antiquarian bookseller's catalogue offering over 400 books on games and pastimes, plus some children's books. Includes entertainment and performing arts, gymnastics and boxing, fireworks, billiards, playing cards, chess, hunting, mountaineering, bullfighting, golf, etc...... More

Compiled in Rockland, MA: Unpublished album, 1920-28. Album. The album is 11 x 12 ½ inches.  143 pages, filled with about 450 journal entries and souvenirs.  The items are all glued to the pages or tipped into the binding.  Several postcards(?) have been removed.  The gutter of the album is..... More

Paris: L'Art & Les Artistes, 1915. First edition. Soft cover. 76p, many photos and paintings. Laid in: subscription sheet plus a reproduction of an unpublished woodcut by Pierre Gusman. A special issue of the journal L'Art & Les Artistes documenting the devastation of Vise, Liege, Louvain, Ypres, and many other..... More

London: [Author], August 1984, June 1985 (2nd rev. ed.). Variously subtitled "In Quest of the Perfect Book" and "The Only Guide That's Been There."  Variously paged (ca. 200-256p), a few line ills. and ads. . The first two volumes of this quirky, entertaining guide which gave awards to "the best bookshop..... More