Cambridge: 1899. 8vo.  240 x 145 mm., [9 ½ x 5 ½ inches].  xvii, 205 pp.  Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of  the portraits of “Six Great Authors.”  Original boards, cloth spine, paper label on upper board’ covers soiled and a bit stained; sound and good copy. Useful bio-bibliography of..... More

Boston: Press of E. L. Balch, 1867. 8vo.  190 x 130 mm., [7 ½ x 5 ¼ inches].  7 pp. Stitched as issued.  Some staining to the wrappers, signs of folding, stitching loose but holding, otherwise a good copy. Rare music publisher’s catalogue, listing retail, teachers, and wholesale prices.  The..... More

Boston: [ca. 1855]. Broadside printed on blue paper.  330 x 205 mm., [13 x 8 inches].  Printed in two columns on light blue paper. Numerous horizontal folds, some with separations in margin, otherwise about very good. John Raynolds, the publisher (with Joel Nourse) of The New England Farmer conceived a...... More

(Glastonbury, CT.): 1816-1833. Square 8vo.  195 x 160 mm., [7 ¾ x 6 ¼ inches].  300 manuscript pages in ink written in a legible hand, including an index on the front free endpaper. Bound in contemporary leather backed marbled paper boards and tips; binding showing some wear marbled paper, edges..... More

Philadelphia: 1824-25. Manuscript Account Book and Diary dated Philadelphia May 12, 1824.  No 3 South 6th [and] Lanningburgh, March 2, 1825. 8vo.  220 x 1450 mm., [8 ¾ x 5 ½ inches].  About 70 pp. of text.  Bound in reverse calf; spine worn and rubbed but holding together.   William Whale name..... More

New York: Goupil & Co., 1854. Image size 550 x 758 mm., (21 7/8 x 29 7/8 inches).  Printed on wove paper.  Margins and legend removed; some restoration to the sky in the upper left, and old paper repair to central right otherwise a strong and highly detailed image. One..... More

Keene, New Hampshire, 1870-1885. Folio.  330 x 210 mm., [13 x 8 ½ inches].  77 pp. of ruled paper  Bound in contemporary calf backed boards over marble paper; leather joints and edges worn, with loss of pieces of spine; embossed stamp and bookplate of W.H. Spalter & Co., Bookseller &..... More

Venizia: Marchio Sessa, 1534. Beautiful and elegant edition of the Manuale d’Amore (Love Handbook) written by Leon Battista Alberti, which discusses how Renaissance women are loved and feared by the men in their lives and households.  Originally published as two works in Padua in 1471 under the common titles of..... More

(Rome): ca. 1744. 4to.  280 x 200 mm., (11 x 8 inches).  [2] ff. title & introduction, [11] pp. index, 176 ff.  Manuscript letters in secretarial hand, on ruled paper.  Bound in contemporary red calf, with the coat-of-arms of the Riviera family in gilt on upper board.  Very good copy. ..... More

Boston: C. F. Libbie & Co., 1905. 8vo.  240 x 155 mm., [9 ½ x 6 inches].  [ii], 125 pp.  Frontispiece portrait of Poole.  Original printed wrappers; wrappers a bit discolored from age; otherwise a very good copy. This copy with a presentation bookplate inside the back wrapper pasted-in by..... More

Boston: Charles F. Libbie, Co., 1887. 8vo.  240 x 155 mm., [9 ½ x 6 inches].  73 pp. 1367 lots.  Original printed wrappers; chipped at corners and spine; edges a bit fragile. Miscellaneous library of John Lowell, Boston philanthropist and scholar who traveled to India as a young man and..... More

New York: Bangs & Company, 1885. 8vo.  240 x 150 mm., [9 ½ x 6 inches].  201 pp.  2057 lots plus 20 lots of instruments.  Original coated paper printed wrappers; spine chipped with 2-inch piece missing from top of spine and chip at bottom; edges of paper stock a bit..... More

Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1871. 8vo.  225 x 150 mm., [8 ¾ x 6 inches].  vii, 444 pp.  3434 lots. Early 20tgh century green linen cloth, original wrappers bound-in.  Ownership stamp of the Rev. J. B. Troy and the library stamp of Charles College, Cantonsville, Md. on the..... More