London. Collins. No date. Circa 1890. Fifteenth Thousand. 8 chromolithograph plates, 200 pages, index, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, decorative green cloth. Covers worn, slight foxing throughout, few stains, ink inscription on front pastedown, one plate fully detached with paper loss at edges; overall good condition. Margaret Black founded... More
Washington, D.C. National Radio Institute. 1929. Collection of 22 booklets (one duplicate) published by the National Radio Institute (1929) of Washington D.C. offering "a complete course in practical radio." Booklets, 8 ½ x 5 ¾ inches, average 29 pages each and comprise a broken run from "Book 1" to "Lesson... More
Paris. Exposition de Paris. 1937. Number 14. Brochure, 8 ½ x 4 inches opening to a three-panel map of Paris 8 ½ x 12 inches with text promoting the Exposition and images of major architectural features of the city. Signed at bottom right Blondel la Rougery. Front cover design by Villemot Beuisseud. More
1914. Black and white illustrated advertisement for the 1914 Harley-Davidson motorcycle, sheet 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches, removed from a 1914 Sunset Magazine. Very good condition. Black and white image of "The Harley-Davison With Starter $210.00" with the Harley-Davidson Step-Starter "a simple, effective, efficient starter, built right into the... More
1915. Black and white advertisement for Indian Motocycles, sheet 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches, removed from a 1915 Sunset Magazine. Very good condition. The advertisement features the "1915 Indian Big Twin. One Speed $225, Two Speed $260, Three Speed $275" and lists the Nine Pre-eminent Innovations" for the year. More
New York. Street & Smith. 04- 1917. Volume VI. No. 2. Illustrated throughout in black and white, pages numbered 182-302 with additional unnumbered pages at front and rear, 10 x 7 3/4 inches, color pictorial wrappers. Wear and creasing to wrappers, several tears to front cover repaired with older tape... More
Cincinnati, Ohio. Swormstedt & Poe. 1854. Bound volume containing 12 issues (with two engravings per issue) of the Ladies' Repository for 1854. All engraved plates in good clean condition. The volume's ¾ leather binding is scuffed but strong, with contents in good clean condition. Label on verso of front cover... More
Leipzig. Karl Baedeker. 1899. Second Revised Edition. Guidebook, reinforced cloth binding, 6 ¼ x 4 ¼ inches, 577 pages. Light bump to free edge of front cover. Front free endpaper loose. Overall very good clean condition. Book provides copious information for travelers with focus given to a history of the... More
London. Robert Jennings. 1828. A self-identified "Pocket" Atlas, 6 3/4 x 5 ½ inches, featuring 71 exquisitely hand-colored and highly detailed maps, almost all in very good clean condition. Those of antiquity, identified as "Classical," are 26 in number while 45 maps reflect contemporary cartography. Most maps measure approximately 6... More
Chicago. The Overland Publishing Company. 1879- 1880. 272 pages, illustrated throughout in black and white, textured cloth binding 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. The volume is illustrated with 18 folded double-page views of Western scenery, one of which is fully detached. Light wear to spine extremities, several pages at... More
New York. D. Appleton & Co., 1899. Commodious guide book with 31 two/three color and black and white folding maps, (1-12)+xvi+620+(15-48) pages of contents (illustrations, maps), main text, in addition to extensive advertising; leather-covered boards approximately 7 x 4 ½ inches. Two useful listings are provided; one identifying 16 "Area"... More
London. Vernor and Hood, et al. 1801. 3rd Edition. Volume 8 ¼ x 5 inches, half-leather binding, unpaginated, but fully two inches thick. Entries alphabetized from AAK (rivers) to ZYTOMIERZ (a town). Title page calls for fourteen folding maps; all are present. The map of the world preceding the title... More
Eliott, Harry [Charles Edmond Hermet] (illus).
No Place of Publication. No publisher. No date. Ca. 1950? Lithograph with pochoir handcolor, image 13 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches on sheet 15 x 10 inches; the paper is a thick stock. Image appears to have been framed at one time with light... More
Eliott, Harry [Charles Edmond Hermet] (illus).
No Place of Publication. No publisher. No date. Ca. 1950? Two lithographs with what appears to be pochoir handcolor, 6 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches on sheet 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches. Tiny tear at lower edge of one sheet well outside the... More
Doré, Gustave (illus).
02-22- 1873. Supplement to February 22, 1873 Harper's Weekly magazine, pp. 161-168, sheet 16 x 11 inches, illustrated with black and white wood engravings. Horizontal fold, light waterstain at centre of right edge, good condition. Of particular interest is the front page illustration by Dore showing an opium smoking den. More
Spy et al (illus).
London. Vanity Fair, January to June 1884. Bound volume of individual issues of the magazine from January to June 1884, 15 ¾ x 10 ½ inches; 382 pages. Twenty-six color lithographic images by various artists (including SPY) on sheets 15 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Spine... More
Washington, D.C. Department of the Interior, Census Office. 1894. First Edition. Massive study from the Department of the Interior, 11 3/4 X 9 1/2 inches, vi+683 pp. including Index at rear, cloth-covered boards (hardbound). Document features 25 maps (three large folding maps in color ("Reservations in U.S."; "Linguistic Stocks"; "Indian... More
![Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine. Volume XXIV and Volume XXV. January through December 1845. [including Dream-Land]. AMERICAN LITERATURE & SOCIETY, Edgar Allan Poe.](/pictures/thumb/55186.jpg?v=1543268203)
Philadelphia. George R. Graham. 1844. TWO VOLUMES BOUND IN ONE. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white engravings (including mezzotints) such as two fashion plates with hand-color, two fashion plates uncolored, one color design, one color plate of a peacock. Color marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, iv+296+iv+295pp, 10 1/4... More
Paris. Librairie Theodore Morgand. 1869. Twenty six lithographic plates including six color lithograph, six two-color and fourteen black and white), 276+62pp+plates, 12 1/2 x 10 inches, marbled endpapers, cloth-covered boards with red leather spine. Rubbing to covers, light spotting to fore edge. Plates five and six have a bump to... More
Harding, J.D.; C. Cattermole, S. Prout, W. Muller, J. Holland et al (illus).
London. Chapman and Hall. 1848. Two leather bound volumes, 72 black and white plates (lithotints) with tissue guards, in text black and white wood engravings, 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches, elaborate embossed gilt decorative leather bound... More
Greville, R.K. (illus).
London. W. Curtis. 1817-1828. TWO ENGRAVINGS with original handcolor, each on a sheet 18 1/2 x 11 inches. Wove paper. Light indentations from paper clips and small spots of tape residue (not visible from the front) at one edge; short tear at the upper edge of the... More
![[GROUP OF FOUR BOTANICAL ENGRAVINGS] Arum maculatum Lin. Cinchona condaminea Humb.et Bonpl. Convolvulus scammonia Lin. Githago segetum Desf. ARUM / CINCHONA / SCAMMONY / CORNCOCKLE, QUININE.](/pictures/thumb/55182.jpg?v=1543268197)
No Place of Publication. Circa 1850s. Four intaglio engravings with original handcolor, images approximately 6 1/2 x 5 inches on sheets approximately 11 x 7 1/2 inches (one trimmed to 6 3/4 inches wide). Very small tears and chipping to edges of three sheets and creasing to two sheets, outside... More
Greville, R.K. (illus).
London. W. Curtis. -1828. Engraving with original handcolor on sheet 18 1/4 x 11 inches. With accompanying text sheet. Paper clip indentation and two spots of tape residue at the upper edge (this scarcely visible); clean and bright image. Finely detailed and delicately colored image (showing the... More
![[GROUP OF SIX] Digitalis purpurea Lin. Cyclamen europaeum lin. Aloe vulgaris Lamk. Amygdalus communis L. Arnica montana L. Colchicum autumnale Lin. FOXGLOVE / ALOE / ALMOND / CROCUS.](/pictures/thumb/55180.jpg?v=1543268195)
No Place of Publication. Circa 1850s. Intaglio engravings with original handcolor, images approximately 6 1/2 x 5 inches on sheets 11 x 7 1/2 inches. Very small tears and chipping to edges of some sheets and light foxing to several, mostly outside image area. Overall very good condition. The six... More
![Humulus Lupulus Lin. [Hop Plant]. HOPS.](/pictures/thumb/55179.jpg?v=1543268194)
No Place of Publication. No publisher. Circa 1850s. Intaglio engraving with original handcolor, 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches on sheet 11 x 7 3/8 inches. Tiny chip to lower right corner of sheet; very good condition. Figure 93 from an unknown mid 19th century herbal publication. This original antique... More
