1 1/4 inch x 1 inch, faux leather binding with 8 gilt edged card leaves and endpapers, imprinted on the verso/recto with a gold oval medallion. Within the medallion on verso of the 8 leaves and endpapers is pasted an albumen photograph from a work of art depicting an intimate..... More
![Item #50786 WILSON READY-TO-WEAR [with] MADE-TO-MEASURE BASEBALL UNIFORMS, SEASON 1931. BASEBALL,...](https://cahanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50786.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1682527576)
New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Wilson-Western Sporting Goods Company, 1930. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. The wrappers are illustrated with Rogers Hornsby in batting stance on the front cover. There are some marginal tears and general wear and soiling, especially to the Made -To-Measure catalogue; else in very good condition..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1846. Fourth ed. 2 volumes. 12mo., [vol. I] xxiii, 528 pp.; [vol. II] xii, 548 pp.; each with engraved portrait frontispieces. Half calf and marbled boards. The tips are rubbed; light foxing to portraits and title page. A very good copy. A vast survey including information..... More
Newton, Pennsylvania: Bird & Bull Press, 1984. First edition. Quarto. Quarter morocco and marbled paper over boards by Gray Parrot. Plates and facsimiles, with separate portfolio of loose plates. Trace of sunning to book spine and to spine of portfolio, otherwise a very nice copy, near fine, in somewhat sunned..... More
Paris: Librarie Encyclopédie de Roret, 1839. First French edition. 24 mo., 286 pp., 2 folding engraved plates, in seven panels each. Bound with 90 pp. catalogue for ENCYCLOPÉDIE DE RORET dated June 1857. Quarter-morocco with tips and marbled paper over boards; spine with raised bands, gilt title on spine. Moderate..... More
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1980. First edition. 8vo., xiv, 138 pp., Black cloth titled in silver. Ex-library, with a shelf sticker on the spine; otherwise, a fine copy. More
Paris: Bechet Jeune, 1846. First edition. 8vo., [4]. 416, [v]-viii pp. Quarter roan and marbled paper over boards. Lightly rubbed at edges and tips; text shows occasional spotting. A very good copy. Instructions and formulas for the dyeing of textiles with natural dyes. Includes an extensive index... More
(Paris? Imprimerie Nationale? / L'Académie des Sciences, 1875?). Folio, 187 pp., illustrations. Contemporary pastepaper over boards, newly rebacked in morocco with spine label in gilt. Light foxing on first and last few leaves, else very good. An offprint from MÉMOIRES PRÉSENTES PAR DIVERS SAVANTS A L'ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES DE L'INSTITUT..... More
Paris: Libraire Académique Didier et Cie, 1877. Second edition. 8vo., [v], 600 pp., engraved frontispiece, 97 engravings in text, 6 blue toned lithographic plates, and 2 mounted woodburytype photographic plates with tissue guards. Scattered foxing. Contemporary half morroco and marbled paper over boards, spine titled and decorated in gilt; lightly..... More
circa 1890. Deck of 20 illustrated playing cards, 3 5/8 x 2 9/16 inches, hand-colored, with 2 card with printed game instructions. All housed in the original box with color printed label on the lid. A few cards have light soiling or foxing as does the blank paper of the..... More
circa 1863. Original albumen photomontage, 8 1/2 in. x 4 in. [21.6 cm. x 10 cm. ] Tipped to an archival rag mat board with window overmat. Very good. The earliest, and certainly the most infamous of disasters to befall climbers on Mont Blanc was the 1820 expedition of Dr..... More
Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1970. Mackintosh, Graham. First edition. Folio, six broadsheets, 19 x 12 1/2 inches, printed in colors from linoleum blocks. Housed in cloth portfolio with multicolor illustrated paper labels. A slight touch of toning at the upper edge, near fine. The broadsheets illustrate Lear's texts: The Jumblies;..... More
Paris: Lerebours et Secretan, 1846. Third edition. 8vo., [ii], 100, [2] pp., 1 folding plate. [bound with] J.L. [Lerebours, Noël-Marie Paymal]. TRAITÉ DE GALVANOPLASTIE PAR J. L. Paris: N.-P. Lerebours et Secretan, 1845. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo., [iv], 142, [2] pp., 11 engravings in text. [bound with] LE..... More
![Item #26352 LA MÉTHODE GRAPHIQUE DANS LES SCIENCES EXPÉRIMENTALES. [FIRST AND SECOND EDITIONS]....](https://cahanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26352.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1496691336)
Paris: G. Masson, [1878]. First edition. 8vo., xix, 673 pp., errata, 348 illustrations from charts, graphs, and drawings. Publisher's red cloth, titled in black ink on the upper cover and spine. There is faint spotting on the fore edge, a slight smudge to cloth near the lower corner of the..... More
London: Printed for Knight and Lacey, 1825. First edition. Thick 8vo., [viii publisher's adverts], xiv, 795 [1] pp., folding frontispieces, [95] numerous plates (some folding, including diagrams). Contemporary binding of marbled paper over boards, backed in thick green paper with a printed spine label; boards and corner rubbed and chipped..... More
Richmond: West & Johnson, 1863. First edition thus. 12mo., xiii, (i), 14-216 pp., with 12 plates (two folding). There are childish pencil scribbling on the table of contents, and on 3 of the plates. Original binding of pale blue cloth with the original paper label affixed to the upper board..... More
Paris: F. Savy; J. Rothschild, 1862. First edition. Small 8vo., 460 pp., illustrations. Printed paper wrappers. Dampstain to fore edge and lower corners of several leaves; ex-library stamp; scattered light foxing. The wrappers have been expertly repaired and a new spine has been applied, otherwise a very good, unopened copy..... More
Canton, Ohio: J. P. Quinn, [1912]. First edition. 8vo., [vi], 306, [2] pp., b&w illustrations from drawings and photographs. Publisher's green cloth, decorated in gilt on the front cover. Light mottling to the cloth; a near fine copy. More
Paris: L'Auteur, 1855. First edition. 8vo., ii, 312 pp., illustrated with 90 engravings. Printed paper wrappers. A small hole in the rear wrapper has been patched; general light staining, foxing, else very good. Housed in cloth clamshell cox with printed spine label. A detailed review of electroplating techniques, including daguerreotype..... More
London: Printed at the Caxton Press, by Henry Fisher, 1824. Sixth ed. 2 volumes. 8vos., [vol. I] x, 496 pp., frontispiece with tissue guard; [vol. II] vi, 472 pp., frontispiece; illustrated by 108 copperplate engravings, many folding. Publisher's original paper over boards with printed spine labels, spines chipped. A very..... More
London: John Murray, 1847. First edition. 8vo., vii, 492 pp., with 16 pp. of advertisements dated July, 1846. Publisher's cloth decorated in blind and titled in gilt on the spine. Tips slightly curled and rubbed; a clean tear at the rear joint and at the spine crown have been expertly..... More
![Item #54379 LETTER TO BOB [ROBERT SHERRILL]. Gay Talese](https://cahanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/54379.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1682527679)
1973. Typed Letter Signed "Gay." One page 7.25 x 10.5 inches, on his personal letterhead, Oct 9th, 1973, to Bob [Robert Sherrill] friend and editor of the New Journalism at Esquire. Old folds. Very good. Gay Talese writes to Bob Sherrill (1925 - 2007) his editor at Esquire, as well..... More
Paris: G. Masson, [1884]. Fourth edition, entirely revised. 8vo., xi, 321 pp., color frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 3 color plates, 218 illustrations in text. Gilt decorated red morroco spine with textured red cloth, a.e.g. Slightly rubbed at extremities, occasional light foxing, else very good. A manual containing wonderful illustrations..... More
London & New York: George Virtue & Co., 1854. 2 volumes. Thick 4tos. [vol. I] engraved title page and frontis, clx, 832 pp.; [vol. II] engraved title page, iv, 1052 pp. Illustrated with 40 steel engravings and 2475 wood engravings in text. Later binding of cloth with leather spine labels..... More
London: Map Collector's Circle, 1963 - 1969. First edition. 8vo., 52 individual issues. A continuous run from Issue #1 through Issue #52. Original wrappers, a few issues have slightly bruised corners or spines. Very good to fine. More