[Washington: H. Peters], 1887. Folio (30.5cm.); ribbon-bound engraved self-wrappers, wax-sealed and accomplished in manuscript; [8]ll. of photo-engraved plans printed on versos only, followed by [3]pp. text printed in double columns on rectos only. Previous mail folds, extremities a bit chipped and toned, ribbons slightly frayed, else Very Good, internally clean.....

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York, PA: 1932. Small octavo (17cm.); black cloth, upper cover "Diary" lettered in gilt; 206pp., filled to completion. Cloth a bit dusty, the youthful owner's faint pencil ownership initials on upper cover and in ink on textblock fore-edge. Still, given its heavy use, Very Good and sound. Gift inscription from.....

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Waterbury, Connecticut? 1943. Three original drawings (45x30.5cm) using pencil and red, blue, and black ink on stiff paper stock; all signed and dated by Virginia L. Stowell, 1943. Stock a bit unevenly toned and lightly soiled, small loss to bottom left-hand corner of two images not approaching text or image;.....

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Cambridge: John Owen, 1842. First Edition. Octavo (25cm.); publisher's black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [4],459pp. Cloth a bit rubbed, spine crown pulled, rear endpaper quite browned, stock extremities foxed, else Very Good or better. Oft-reprinted monograph by the noted entomologist and botanist. SABIN 30524. Provenance: Contemporary engraved armorial ownership bookplate of Boston.....

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New York: 1834-1835. Sixty-nine manuscript receipts issued by local businesses to the owners of the coppered packet ship "Splendid" while docked in New York City from November, 1834, to June, 1835. Each leaf folded approximately 21x4cm. and bundled into two ribbon-tied packets marked in manuscript "6th vo[yag]e Splendid to Liverpool".....

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Montauban: Victor Bertuot [...] A Roc-Amadour au Magasin de Marie, [1862]. First Edition. 8vo; pp. [2], ix, [1], 89; sepia-tinted frontispiece, 8 plates, 3 tinted; additional text illustrations throughout; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine in six compartments, black gilt-lettered morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. Extremities and spine bands rubbed, leather.....

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Paris: Éditions de la Sirène, 1920. First Trade Edition. Square quarto (24.5cm.); publisher's pink pictorial wrappers; [76]pp.; eight color plates. External wrapper extremities toned to tan, stock uniformly toned browned and rather brittle due to inferior paper stock; still, Very Good, the contents fine and illustrations bright. Collection of eight.....

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Neuchatel: Delachaux & Hiestlé, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 200 "exemplaire de luxe," of which this is no. 181, small 8vo, pp. 207; 2-toned decorative vignettes printed in yellow and black throughout, decorative endpapers; original white pictorial cloth printed in yellow and black, edges a bit toned, else a......

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Praha: Nakladatelství Vyšehrad, [1944]. First Edition. Slim quarto (23cm.); publisher's cream color-illustrated wrappers, French flaps; [40]pp.; color illus. throughout. Wrapper extremities slightly rubbed and rather toned, light soil, else Very Good, internally fine. Czech poet Václav Ren 's interpretation in verse of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel,".....

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Monte Carlo: Éditions du Livre, ca. 1948. First edition thus limited to 3150 copies of which this is no. 1484 of 3000 copies printed on "vélin sans bois," 8 volumes, 8vo; illustrations by the author and others; uniformly bound in original cream wrappers printed in red and black, glassine dust.....

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London: St. Thomas' Hospital, ca. 1918. Original necklace of twenty-one hand-made wallpaper beads, each approx. 4cm. in length, interspersed with colored glass beads. Wallpaper beads a bit browned, else a fine piece of vernacular jewelry. Slightly later manuscript card attached to necklace stating "Necklace made of wall paper by a......

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New York: American Bible Society, 1852. 105th Edition. 12mo (17.75cm.); publisher's black elaborately blind-embossed morocco, gilt-lettered spine; 591,[5],184pp. Boards rather rubbed at extremities, foxing throughout, else Near Very Good and sound. Bible and "book of ages" of the Captain Charles (1811-1873) and Janet (1809-1896) Cook[e] family. Family Record leaves at.....

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