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 / Anderson Galleries, 1935. First edition. Soft cover. 112p, a few plates of title pages. Unpriced. Unused bid sheet laid in. Auction catalogue of 458 lots, held on Feb. 28-March 1, 1935. Includes Dickinson's Poems: Third Series (1896) in jacket, a 15th-century Burgundian illuminated manuscript..... More
New York: American Art Association / Anderson Galleries, 1937. First edition. Soft cover. 93p, 1 plate (ALs by Gen. W.T. Sherman relating to the fall of Atlanta). Unpriced. Unused bid sheet laid in. Auction catalogue of 427 lots, held May 18-19, 1937. A little of everything. Can be sent outside..... More
New York: American Art Association / Anderson Galleries, 1935. First edition. Soft cover. 119p, no ills. Unpriced. Unused bid sheet laid in. Auction catalogue of 605 lots, held February 7-8, 1935. Includes many Grolier Club publications, many Whitman first editions, more than 50 Doves Press books (most with original receipts)..... 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 / Anderson Galleries, 1937. First edition. Soft cover. 192p, a few ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. No prices realized. Auction catalogue (583 lots). Also includes G.B. Shaw, H.G. Wells, and O. Henry first editions, and ca. 40 "colored panoramas, peep shows and jigsaw puzzles"..... More
New York: American Art Association / Anderson Galleries, 1930. First edition. Soft cover. Parts One and Two, totaling 267p, several plates. Unpriced. Unused bid sheets laid in. Two auction catalogues of 1388 lots, held January 17 and 30, 1930. With almost 100 Cruikshank drawings, proofs, books, etc. 2 items, sold..... More
![Item #31020 Sales 4221 and 4242: The Library of Abel Cary Thomas [cover title]. American Art...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31020.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1658836776)
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 Auction Co., 1906. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 73p (706 lots), no ills. The auction was held on February 15, 1906. Lightly creased; light cover wear. Contains 137 lots of bookplates with short identifications, 145 lots of Washingtoniana, 83 lots on the War of 1812, and 24..... More
![Item #32056 Catalogue 24; New Series One, Two, and Three [4 catalogues total]. Ann Creed, firm](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32056.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1714430648)
London and Kenilworth, UK: Ann Creed, n.d. [1993; 1995-1996]. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated, most listing over 200 books, periodicals, and related material. New Series Three is unillustrated. Catalogue 24 (253 detailed entries) is titled "Typography: The Word and the Image Are One. Printed and Graphic Design..... More
![Item #30485 [Two 1930s French Billheads for Nestle Chocolates]. Anonymous designer](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30485.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633024523)
Paris: J. Simon (printer), n.d. [ca. 1933]. No stated edition. Two unbound sheets. Two unused French billheads for Nestle chocolates. One is headed by a bucolic illustration of a milkmaid and dairy cow, printed in red and green. Its verso promotes the health advantages of sugar in the diet of..... 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; Paris: Baedeker; Paul Ollendorff, 1902. Third edition. Hardcover (limp cloth). The last edition of La Russie. xlix, 476p, 19 maps (most folding), 32 plans, all in color. Split to rear joint mended; ca. 2-inch tear to rear folding map, suitable for mending. Else very good and crisp, with no..... More
![Item #30155 Austria; Togethep [sic] with Budapest, Prague, Karlsbad, Marienbad. Karl Baedeker](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30155.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1620217668)
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
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1865, 1875, 1882, 1898. Various editions. Hardcover. Each variously paged (from 480p to over 1100p), no ills. Occasional toning from material laid in. The 1865 edition is rebound in old half leather and marbled boards; the others are all in their original cloth bindings. (1) ..... More
![Item #25738 Cygnea Cantio: Swan Song [no. 2 of 50, signed]. Tracey Bush](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25738.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1615215867)
N.p. [England]: Tracey Bush, 1999. Bush, Tracey. Limited edition. One folded sheet. Artist book consisting of one stiff leaf of tan paper, folded in thirds, within blue cloth covers with ties. Very faint ghost of an old small label on back cover, which could easily be removed. Folded, 6 x...... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press for The Newberry Library and The Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 157p, 74 large color maps. A monumental presentation of beautiful detailed maps showing the American colonies, cities, the Spanish borderlands, Indian settlements, economic and cultural activity, political activity..... More
London: Cassell & Co., n.d. [1880s]. No stated edition. Large 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). Cassell & Co. was the preeminent Victorian-era English publisher of illustrated books and periodicals..... More
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1996. First edition. Soft cover. 262p, over 120 ills., some in color. Jacket soiled, wrinkled. Catalogue accompanying a major exhibition, which sought "to explore the anatomists' curiosity about the structures and functions of the body, and the artists' equally passionate search for ways to represent..... More
![Item #32379 [Two Papers on Prussian Blue]: Recherches Chimiques sur la Teinture AND Premiere Note...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32379.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724704688)
Paris: Institut de France, 1837 and n.d. [1850s]. First edition. Disbound. The first paper was read to the Academie de Sciences de l'Institut de France on August 7, 1837, and published as its Sixieme Memoire in vol. 19. Pp. [491]-551, a few tables. The second paper was published as an..... More
New York: Christie's, Manson & Woods, 1977. First edition. Soft cover. 128p + many plates, some in color. Estimated prices laid in; occasional prices noted in ink. Auction catalogue of 216 lots. Items 183-216 are fine bindings, chiefly the once-lost Riviere bindings executed for exhibition in Leipzig in 1914. Can..... More
San Francisco: Daily Student Tours, 1961. No stated edition. Soft cover. 22p, a few ills. Light age wear and soil; overall very good. Pamphlet for Europe-bound college students. Tips on planning ahead, passport and visa, health documents and shots, foreign monies, your traveling wardrobe, packing, cameras and film, mail, shopping..... More
![Item #31957 La Belgique heroique et martyre [World War I]. Armand Dayot](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31957.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1710195662)
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
Chicago: Chicago and North Western Railway [and] Union Pacific Railroad, 1950. No stated edition. Soft cover. 64p, many maps, line ills., and photos, many in color. Ca. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Brochure offering 10 "escorted all-expense tours to Western wonderlands" by rail and bus. The tours, ranging from..... More
Austin, TX: Dorothy Sloan, 1993. First edition. Soft cover. N.p. (3551 items), a few ills., some in color. An impressive and meticulous catalogue of thousands of books, manuscripts, letters, ephemera, periodical contributions, and other material collected by Dobie's cousin Dudley R. Dobie Sr. With introductory texts by Al Lowman, Dudley..... More
