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The Historical Collection of the Insurance Company of North America. (1792-1967)

McCosker, M.J. · 1967

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Philadelphia, Insurance Company of North America, 1967. First edition thus. Cloth. 213 pp. Illus. with color & b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Copy of the bookseller John Howell. A very good+ copy, owner's bookplate on front pastedown. No dust jacket.

Biographical Sources for the United States

Kline, Jane, ed · 1961

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Washington [D.C.], Library of Congress, 1961. First edition. Cloth. 58 pp. Sm. 4to. Focusses on sources for living Americans circa 1961, with most items published between 1945 and 1960. A very good exlib reference copy, stamps, accession label.

The Boston Tea Party. Catalyst for Revolution. An Exhibition Commemorating the 200th Anniversary

Kleeb, Arlene Phillips · 1973

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

[Ann Arbor], William L. Clements Library, Univ. of Michigan, 1973. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. 32 pp. Illus. with 2 b/w reproductions. 8vo. Bulletin 80. One of 1,500 copies. A near fine copy.

Report of the Forty-Fifth National Foreign Trade Convention. New York, N.Y. November 17,18, & 19 1958

National Foreign Trade Council · 1959

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, National Foreign Trade Council, 1959. First edition. Cloth. 476 pp. 8vo. A very good copy with a sunned spine. No dust jacket.

Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History. [Two Volumes]

Chambers, Robert, ed · 1847

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Boston, Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1847. First American edition. Cloth. 672 pp.; 717 pp. Illus. with b/w engravings. Sm. 4to. Mixed bindings: Vol. I, boards detached, spine worn and scuffed, backstrip separated at head; good- only. Vol. II, front board sunned along top edge, ...

Lives of the Presidents of the United States of America, from Washington to the Present Time. Containing a Narrative of the Most Interesting Events in the Career of Each President; Thus Constituting a Graphic History of the United States

Abbott, John S.C. (John Stevens Cabot) · 1868

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Boston, B.B. Russell & Co. 1868. Second printing. Cloth. 480 pp. Illus. with 7 steel engravings with tissue guards. 8vo. First published a year earlier in 1867. Rebacked in modern brown cloth, some soiling on boards, front hinge starting, light scattered foxing, faint dampstai...

Report of the Forty-Eighth National Foreign Trade Convention. New York, N.Y. October 30, 31 & November 1, 1961

National Foreign Trade Council · 1961

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, National Foreign Trade Council, 1961. First edition. Cloth. 458 pp. 8vo. Copy of Albert J. Parreño, with his name stamped in gilt on front board: Parreño served on the panel on Foreign Investments. A very good clean crisp copy, light foxing on the top edge.

An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography. Being a Catalogue of Books, Relating to the History, Antiquities, Languages, Customs, Religion, Wars, Literature, and Origin of the American Indians, in the Library of Thomas W. Field

Field, Thomas · 1991

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

New Haven, William Reese, 1991. Reprint. Cloth. 430 pp. 8vo. William S. Reese, intro. With bibliographical and historical notes, and synopses of the contents of some of the works least known. New introduction by William Reese. First published in 1873 it is still exceeding valu...

R.R. Bowker, Militant Liberal

Fleming, E. McClung · 1952

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Norman, Univ. Oklahoma Press, 1952. First edition. Cloth. 395 pp. Illus. with 48 b/w photos and drawings. 8vo. A very good copy with gift inscription from Publisher's Weekly to Maury Bromsen, scholar and book seller, on free front endpaper, in a very good edgeworn dust jacket.

Bibliography of the State of Maine. Compiled in the Bangor Public Library, Bangor, Maine

Bangor Public Library. Ranlett, L. Felix., ed · 1962

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

Boston, G.K. Hall, 1962. First edition. Cloth. v, 803 pp. Folio. Alphabetized facsimiles of card catalogs, 21 to each page. A near fine copy. No dust jacket.

Footprints of Assurance

Bulau, Alwin E. · 1953

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Macmillan, 1953. First edition. Cloth. 319 pp. Illus. with 8 color plates & 1,796 b/w photos. 4to. A very good copy in a good torn dust jacket. Binding tight.

Les Scandinaves En Amerique" [from] Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada

Gagnon, Alphonse · 1890

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

[Ottawa], [Societe royale du Canada], 1890. First edition. Cloth. [39-66] pp. 4to. Inscribed by the author to French anthropologist Armand de Quatrefages. Offprint. Text in French. Section title: Memoires S.R. Canada, Section I, 1890. A very good copy with owner's bookplate on...

The Beginnings of Washington As Described in Books, Maps and Views

Phillips, P. Lee · 1917

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Washington [D.C.], Published for the author, 1917. First edition. Cloth. 78 pp. Illus. with 24 b/w photos, drawings, and maps, some folding. 4to. Dampstain throughout along inner margin and top edge, not affecting text or illustrations, a good copy.

Wiens Buchdrucker-Geschichte 1482-1882. Herausgegeben Von Den Buchdruckern Wiens. [Two Volumes]

Mayer, Anton · 1887

$350.00 (€317.54 | £264.88 | ¥55,897)

Wien, Comites zur Feier der Vierhundertj, einfuhrung der buchdruckerkunst in Wien, in commission bei W. Frick, 1887. First edition. Later quarter cloth over paper covered boards. xvi, 404 pp.; viii, 427 pp. Plates. Illus. with 25 color & b/w plates, 203 in-text drawings, engra...

A Catalogue of Books Relating to the Discovery and Early History of North and South America Forming a Part of the Library of E.D. Church. Compiled and Annotated by George Watson Cole. Volume IV: 1677-1752

Church, Elihu Dwight. Cole, George Watson · 1907

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.40 | ¥79,853)

New York, Dodd, Mead, 1907. First edition. Unbound original quires, untrimmed. [1499-1999] pp. in 35 quires. Sm. 4to. Limited to 150 numbered copies. This copy out of series. One of the most important references for early Americana. Blank wrappers soiled, some slight darkening...

A Catalogue of Books Relating to the Discovery and Early History of North and South America Forming a Part of the Library of E.D. Church. Compiled and Annotated by George Watson Cole. Volume I: 1482-1590

Church, Elihu Dwight. Cole, George Watson · 1907

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.40 | ¥79,853)

New York, Dodd, Mead, 1907. First edition. Unbound original quires, untrimmed. 478 pp. in 31 quires. Sm. 4to. Limited to 150 numbered copies. This copy out of series. One of the most important references for early Americana. Blank wrappers soiled, some slight darkening of the ...

The First 350 Years of the Harvard University Library. Description of an Exhibition

Carpenter, Kenneth E. · 1986

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1986. First edition. Cloth. xii, 216 pp. Illus. with color & b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Gift letter from the library laid-in loose. A fine copy. No dust jacket as issued.

The Bibliographer: A Journal of Bibliography and Rare Book News. January Through May, 1902. Part I of Volume I.

Ford, Paul Leicester, ed · 1902

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

New York, Dodd, Mead, 1902. First edition. Three quarter morocco over marbled boards with original wrappers bound in. Illus. with b/w drawings and engravings. 8vo. The first five issues of this fine turn-of-the-century scholarly publication on books. Front board detached, some...

English Literary Manuscripts in the Boston Public Library: A Checklist

Boston Public Library · 1966

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Boston, Boston Public Library, 1966. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. 25 pp. 8vo. A very good copy with light soiling on the wrappers.

Incunabula in American Libraries. A Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections

Goff, Frederick R., ed · 1964

$200.00 (€181.45 | £151.36 | ¥31,941)

New York, Bibliographical Society of America, 1964. First edition. Cloth. lxiii, 798 pp. Sm. 4to. Inscribed by the author to the book dealer and Latin American scholar Maury Bromsen on the occasion of Goff's lecture at the Bromsen lecture series at the Boston Public Library, 1...