New York: American Art Association, 1915. First edition. Soft cover. Auction catalogue, May 7, 1915.  483 lots, several plates.  Covers age-smudged. Chiefly 19th-century works, with some early books and rarities, such as 16th-18th-century manuscripts and Fr. Colonel's 1620 grammar of the Maya language of Yucatan.  The original edition.  No prices..... 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

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

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

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

Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Over 60 pp., no ills. Covers darkened, stained. Front endpapers foxed. Binding is sound. Ca. 5 x 7 inches. Glossary of hundreds of words, arranged by category: tactics, weapons, fire, terrain and roads, map reading, billeting, staff duties, services, field engineering, ranks..... More