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Philadelphia: [1801]. America Looks to the Future: An Unusual Early American Perpetual Calendar. The Explanation running arount the outer border of the lower portion of the Calendar details its use: "Intersect the Column of the Month by the circle in which the Year stands & the Day you there find..... Read More about Calendar for the Nineteenth Century
Price: $1,500
Boston: Edes and Gill, 1761. First edition. An early work of American astronomy, being John Winthrop's account of his journey to Newfoundland and observations on the transit of Venus. The Transit of Venus in 1761 and 1769, not visible through much of Europe, afforded the American colonies their first real..... Read More about Relation of a Voyage from Boston to Newfoundland, for the Observation of the Transit of Venus,...
Price: $2,500
Charleston, SC: A.E. Miller, [1859]. Antebellum South Carolina almanac, with manuscript annotations listing recipes for various illnessess, but also listings of plantings including pear trees. Read More about Miller’s Planters’ & Merchants’ Almanac, For the Year of our Lord 1860
Price: $300
Providence: Bennett Wheeler, [1786]. Includes an account of Herschel's discovery of Uranus. Read More about The North-American Calendar: Or, the Rhode-Island Almanack For the Year of our Lord Christ, 1787
Price: $200
Providence: John Carter, [1784]. Erroneously attributed by Evans to Benjamin West. The actual calculator appears to be Nathan Daboll. The frequent identity or similarity of the astronomical and horological notes on the calendar pages with those in The New England almanack and gentlemen and ladies diary for 1785 (New London)..... Read More about The New-England Almanack, Or Lady’s and Gentleman’s Diary, For the Year of our Lord Christ...
Price: $300
Newburyport: John Mycall, [1781]. Scarce almanac from the period just following the American Revolution. George, a former student of astronomy at Haverhill issued New England almanacs in various Massachusetts towns between 1776 and 1787. Includes the following maxim: "Books are useful monitors, or dangerous guides: Read to improve your mind..... Read More about An Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1782
Price: $300
Boston: R. and S. Draper [et. al.], [1764]. The compilation of this issue was begun by the elder Nathaniel Ames (1708-1764) and completed by his son Nathaniel. Cf. New England Historical and Genealogical Record, v. 16 (1862), p. 255-257. See also the preface by the younger Ames, whose "Elegy on..... Read More about An Astronomical Diary: Or, Almanack for the Year of our Lord Christ, 1765
Price: $250
Boston: Printed and Sold by R. and S.Draper ; Edes & Gill, and Green & Russell, in Queen-Street; and T. & J. Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill. [i.e., Printed by Timothy Green] Sold also by the booksellers, [1763]. The preface by Ames includes a notice lauding the..... Read More about An Astronomical Diary: Or, Almanack for the Year of our Lord Christ, 1764
Price: $300
London: The Bombay Natural History Society, 1908. First Edition, one of 1200 copies. Read More about The Indian Ducks and Their Allies
Price: $300
Bombay: Bennett, Coleman & Co, 1906. First Edition. Read More about The Royal Tour in India. A Record of the Tour of T. R. H. The Prince and Princess of Wales in...
Price: $200
Medina, N.Y: Maher Bros, 1905. Read More about 1905 Maher Bros Upholstered Furniture
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New York: The Current Literature Publishing Co, 1909. Medallion Edition. Read More about Works of
Price: $300
New York: T.W. Strong, 98 Nassau St, 1859. First Edition. Read More about Morphy's Games of Chess and Frère's Problem Tournament
Price: $750
Bingham, Maine: The Bingham Press, 1934. First edition, No. 141, numbered on front panel of jacket and on flyleaf. The author's first book introducing his most famous character in 12 fishing stories set on the Upper Kennebec, Somerset County, Maine, two first published here, the other 10 published earlier in..... Read More about Dud Dean Yarns
Price: $750
Bingham, Maine: Arthur R. Macdougall, Jr, [1939]. First edition. Copy No. 304, so numbered by the author on the flyleaf. Inscribed to Col. Sheldon, with 2 TLSs. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, “for Col. H. P. Sheldon, delightful writer in my day, Arthur R Macdougall, Jr., May 10..... Read More about The Sun Stood Still and Other Dud Dean Stories. Introduction by Ray P. Holland
Price: $750
[Santee, So. Carolina: 1934]. First edition. Limited edition, no. A-11 [of an unknown edition]. Read More about Early History of the Santee Club
Price: $750
Oxford: University Press, 1900. One of 150 copies. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on ffep by Hart to William Barr. Read More about Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press, Oxford, 1693-1794
Price: $400
London: Editions Poetry, [1942]. Sutherland, Graham. First edition (3rd Impression) with Advance Reviewer's slip stating impression. Read More about Poems 1937-1942
Price: $200
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New York: Privately Printed, 1937. First Edition, one of 300 copies. Inscribed on ffep "To Louis V. Ledoux with memories from Mabel La Farge December 1937." Artist and architect nephew and the namesake of a J.P. Morgan partner, a famous collector of Cezanne and an architect. Read More about Egisto Fabbri [Jr.] 1866-1933. With a Memoir by Mabel La Farge
Price: $500
London: Peter Davies, [Janurary, 1930]. First trade edition. Published the previous year in an issue of just 525 copies as "The Middle Parts of Fortune." A great novel aboiut WW I by an Australian living in England. Read More about Her Private We by Private 19022
Price: $250
New York and Bremen Maine: Red Angel Press, 1974. #17 of 152 copies, all on Arches and Sekishu paper, signed by the artist and publisher, Ronald Keller. Read More about The Birds of Killingworth
Price: $200
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1984]. One of 250 copies signed. Read More about The War of the End of the World. Translated by Helen R. Lane
Price: $225
