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January SALE! All books in Anthropology, Automotive, Aviation, Education, Equestrian, Games & Hobbies, Gardening, Geography, Humor, Hunting & Fishing, Journalism, Medicine, Nature, Political Science, Psychology, Railroads, Science & Technology, Sports, and Women's Studies sections priced at $125 and under are 50% off for the month of January.
This sale excludes artists' books, private press, lots, books on William Morris & the Pre-Raphaelites, items sold on consignment, and newly acquired items.
Many prints & manscripts including framed items are also on sale for 30% off.
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Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1917. Hardcover. Includes photographic illustrations of schools and students, maps, charts, and architectural drawings. Sections include: financhial support of Negro education, present needs, public school facilities, Southern welfare and schools for Negroes, teacher preperation, rural education, industrial education, ownership and control (white church boards maintaining schools for negros vs. negro church boards maintaining schools), religious organizations, buildings and grounds, history of Negro education in the U.S., statistics of Negro schools, a break down (by state) of Negro schools with various statistics. Ex-library with call numbers and stickers to spines and pockets to rear endpapers. Bound in black cloth boards with gilt titles to spines. Wear and fraying to spine ends and edges of boards. Bumping to corners. Minor browning to margins of interior, but clean and bright overall. Volume I is 423 pages; Volume II is 724 pages. AFAMER/070820. Very Good. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949. Hardcover. Ex-library from the Long Island Historical Society with certificate to interior front cover "Pendleton Fund." Originally a red paper covered pamphlet, this copy has been inserted into a library cover, which is heavy brown paper stock with brown cloth spine. Paper title label to front cover. Library tape secures the original wrappers within. Library stamp to title page and last page of text. The list is broken up by subject area. 22 pages. EDU/040319. Very Good. More
Baltimore: 1961. Leatherette Boards. 8vo. Dark green leatherette boards with gilt title to spine and front board. Minor scuffing to boards. Pristine interior with bright text. Tight binding. 87 pp. BALT/011205. Very Good Plus. More
Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1918. Hardcover. with 16 textfiguren und einer tafel. Very good in cream paper wrappers black title to spine and front cover. Front cover has a private library stamp. Minor wear to edges of wrappers, a few spots of soiling to front cover, and previous ownr signature to title page (Henry W Popp), else clean. 448 pages. German Literature. GEL1/11140. Very Good. More
1812. A leaf from The History of the Abbey Church or St. Peter's Westminster: Its Antiques and Monuments, by Rudolph Ackermann. In 1795 Ackermann set up a lithographic press and opened a business in copper lithographs. Ackermann was a creative and efficient publisher, who brought innovative techniques to the commercial production of color plate books as well as an uncompromising attention to detail which ensured uniform high quality. Print method is Engraving-Aquatint on India paper, measuring 343 x 278 mm. or approximately 13 1/2 x 11 inches. Archivally matted. #48642. Very Good. More
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Item #27245
1812. A leaf from The History of the Abbey Church or St. Peter's Westminster: Its Antiques and Monuments, by Rudolph Ackermann. In 1795 Ackermann set up a lithographic press and opened a business in copper lithographs. Ackermann was a creative and efficient publisher, who brought innovative techniques to the commercial production of color plate books as well as an uncompromising attention to detail which ensured uniform high quality. Print method is Engraving-Aquatint on India paper, measuring 343 x 278 mm. or approximately 13 1/2 x 11 inches. Archivally matted. #48672. Very Good. More
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Frederick Fell Inc., 1946. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo. Very good in brick red cloth with gilt title to front baorda nd gilt and black title to spine. Slight bumping to spine ends. Author's inscription to front free end page. Light browning to end pages. Pages yellowed. Illustrations throughout. 336 pages. Humor. HUM1/5250. Very Good. More
Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1927. Hardcover. A portfolio of photogravures documenting the work of taxidermist and sculptor, Carl E. Akeley. Includes 48 plates of Akeley, his taxidermied animals, and bronze animal sculptures. Also with a one page essay about Akeley by Wilfred H. Osgood, curator of Zoology. All plates are present. Housed in a grey paper folder, inserted into a grey paper covered slipcase titled in black on the spine and front panels. Wear to the case including chipping to the edges and corners. Browning to the edges of the case. Slight browning to margins of plates, else in fine condition. Includes contents page. Plates are about 9 x 12 inches. NAT/011320. Very Good. More
Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1860. Hardcover. Nicely rebound in mint modern black cloth boards with gilt title on spine. Original pages are very good, with light foxing and browning throughout. Text is clear and bright. Binding is tight. 260 pages. Anthropology. ANTH/9102. Very Good. More
London: Ian Allan, 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in blue cloth covered boards with silver title to spine. Pristine interior with photographic illustrations throughout. Red, white, and black illustrated price clipped dust jacket with black title to red spine. Minor yellowing to white parts of dust jacket. 249 pages. Railroads. RAI1/3112. Fine / Very Good. More
New York: J. Fitzgerald and Company, 1882. Hardcover. SCARCE. Very good softcover rebound in red cloth backed brown paper covered boards. The textblock has become separated from the boards. Minor damp staining to top edge of end pages. A good reading copy. Nature. NAT109051. Very Good. More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, (1974). Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth boards with silver title to spine and embossed illustration of animals to front board. Interior is very clean with many color illustrations. Tight binding. Red dust jacket with white spine panel and black title to spine. 207 pages. NAT/012105. Near Fine / Very Good. More
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ISBN: 0870441299
New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1940. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good+ in green cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine Slight yellowing to edges of pages. Else is clean and bright. 583 pages. Nature. NAT109291. Very Good+. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1979). Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo. Very good + in Very good white dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Minor browning to edges and spine panel of dust jacket. Minor rubbing to rear panel of dust jacket. Author's inscription to front free end page reads "For Anita and Ernest with Respect and Affection, Barbara Gallatin Anderson." Else is clean and bright. Ms. Anderson is an internationally known specialist on the life cycle. 240 pages. Health. HEA110081. Very Good+ / Very Good. More
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Item #9369
ISBN: 0070017603
New York: Darien House, (1972). Hardcover. 4to. Near fine in very good white illustrated dust jacket with black title to front panel and faded light brown title to spine. Pristine interior filled with black and white photographic illustrations. 272 pages. Film. FIL210231. Near Fine / Very Good. More
Milano: Fabbri, 1968. Paperback. Three seperate side stapled sections, each with a full color cover depicting photographic images of animals including pages 521 - 580. Text in Italian. Each section includes full color photographs and black and white line drawings. They cover marsupials, monotremes, and birds. Occasional pen annotations and minor dampstaining to bottom edge of one issue. Clean overall. An amusing periodical just for the illustrations (even if you don't read Italian). NAT/082517. Very Good. More
n.p. Hardcover. Good condition. This book has been re-backed using red cloth along the spine and the original boards. The boards are heavily rubbed and frayed along edges. Both hinges are cracked. It is lacking the title page. Several pages are loose, but present. There are tears and chips to several pages. Some foxing and smudges to interior. This is a good reading copy. Includes many color maps and many black and white illustrations. AME/3083. Good. More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1909. Hardcover. Subjects of bulletins include: building of a run-down cotton plantation, conservation of natural resources, silver fox farming, deer farming in US, forage crops fro hogs in Kansas and Oklahoma, Nuts and their uses as food, cotton wilt, harmful and beneficial mammals of the arid interior, game laws for 1908, cropping systems for New England dairy farms, Macadam roads, alfalfa, Declaration for governors for conservation of natural resources, the basket willow, cultivation of tobacco in Kentucky, the boll-weevil problem, some common disinfectants, computation of rations for farm animals by the use of Energy values, repair of farm equiptment, bacteria of milk, dairy industry in south, dehorning of cattle, and experiment stations XLVII - XLIX. Bound in three quarter red leather over red cloth boards with gilt title "Farmers' Bulletins" to spine. The name "Lynden Evans" is printed in gilt on the foot of the spine. Lynden Evans (1828 - 1926) was a teacher, lawyer, and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. Full marbled edges and marbled endpapers. Rear endpaper is present but detached. Minor wear to edges and hinges of boards. Clean interior withillustrations. An attractive book. Each bulletin has its own pagination. SCI/022219. Very Good. More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1910. Hardcover. Subjects of bulletins include: Tuberculosis test of cattle, Nevada mouse plague of 1907 - 8, Experiment Station Work L, Onion culture, Successful Poultry and Dairy Farm, Peanuts, Poultry Management in Maine, Forestry, Canning Vegetables in the Home, Experiment Station LI, Meadow Fescue, Market Hay Value, Use of Milk as Food, Profitable Cotton Farm, Farm Management in Northern Potato-Growing Sections, Experiment Station Work LII, Lightning, Eradication of Bindweed, How to destroy rats, Replanning a Farm for Profit, Drainage of Irrigated Lands, Soy Beans, Irrigation of Alalfa, Experiment Station Work LIII, and Care of Food in the Home. Bound in three quarter red leather over red cloth boards with gilt title "Farmers' Bulletins" to spine. The name "Lynden Evans" is printed in gilt on the foot of the spine. Lynden Evans (1828 - 1926) was a teacher, lawyer, and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. Full marbled edges and marbled endpapers. Front endpaper is present but detached and rear endpaper is no longer present. Minor wear to edges and hinges of boards. Clean interior with occasional pencil markings. An attractive book. Each bulletin has its own pagination. SCI/022219. Very Good. More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1910. Hardcover. Subjects of bulletins include: Game laws for 1909, harmfulness of headache mixtures, exterminating Texas-fever tick, Hog cholera, loco-weed disease, adulteration of forage-plant seeds, experiement station work LIV, LV, LVI, How to destroy English sparrows, boys' and girls agricultural clubs, potato culture on irrigated farms in west, preservation of farm timbers, bread and butter making, pheasant raising, economical use of meat in home, irrigation of sugar beets, habit-forming agents, use of windmillls in irrigation in semiarid west, sixty-day adn Kherson oats, the muskrat, bees, commercial fertilizers, irrigation of grain, and more profitable corn planting methods. Bound in three quarter red leather over red cloth boards with gilt title "Farmers' Bulletins" to spine. The name "Lynden Evans" is printed in gilt on the foot of the spine. Lynden Evans (1828 - 1926) was a teacher, lawyer, and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. Full marbled edges and marbled endpapers. Front endpaper is present but detached. Minor wear to edges and hinges of boards. Clean interior withillustrations. An attractive book. Each bulletin has its own pagination. SCI/022219. Very Good. More
South Bend: Regnery/Gateway, 1979. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./297 pp. Political Science. POL11152. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More
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Item #11751
ISBN: 0895266865
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in very good+ grey dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Spine faded to light green. Index, 269 pages. Women's Studies. WOM/8022. Fine / Very Good+. More
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Item #1698
ISBN: 0812280334
Philadelphia: 1870. This well-known lithograph is from the work Birds of America by John James Audubon, which has been printed in many editions. This print is from the 7th printing conducted by Audubon and Roe Lockwood in 1870-1871. Lockwood’s involvement has led this edition to commonly be known as the Lockwood edition. Other than the colored backgrounds, which were added to the post-first editions, the main images on these prints are, for the most part, identical to those of the First edition and feature hand coloring. J.T. Bowen was lithographer for the work, which was published in Philadelphia. These are some of the best examples of hand-colored work in America and are highly collectible. They are on fine heavy stock paper measuring 6 7/8 x 10 ½ inches. Double matted in wood frame. #43659. Fine. More
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1870. This well-known lithograph is from the work Birds of America by John James Audubon, which has been printed in many editions. This print is from the 7th printing conducted by Audubon and Roe Lockwood in 1870-1871. Lockwood’s involvement has led this edition to commonly be known as the Lockwood edition. Other than the colored backgrounds, which were added to the post-first editions, the main images on these prints are, for the most part, identical to those of the First edition and feature hand coloring. J.T. Bowen was lithographer for the work, which was published in Philadelphia. These are some of the best examples of hand-colored work in America and are highly collectible. They are on fine heavy stock paper measuring 6 7/8 x 10 ½ inches. Double matted in wood frame. #43662. Fine. More
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. LIMITED EDITION. Hardcover. SIGNED BUT THE EDITOR. 4to. 1 of 3025 copies. Beige cloth boards with black and gilt title to spine and front board. Browing to top portion of front board. Pristine interior with tight binding. Includes several illustrations. Glassine dust jacket with several large open tears and wear to edges. Housed in a good black paper slipcase with minor wear. 327 pages. NAT/070305. Very Good in Good dj. More