![THE NEW GAME OF SNIP, SNAP, SNORUM; [Box Title]](/pictures/thumb/51017.jpg?v=1466624048)
circa 1860 - 1870. 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... More
N.p. (France): ca.1890. A set of three jigsaw puzzles, each 11 3/16 x 14 12/16 inches. These wood puzzles have machine cut pieces. The puzzles' images are color half-tone reproductions from paintings. The sides of the puzzles are gold textured paper, and the reverse a plain blue paper. Each has... More
New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Wilson-Western Sporting Goods Company, 1930. First edition. 2 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... More
Paris: Charles Mendel, 1898. First edition. 8vo., 80 pp., 20 illustrations in text. Half morocco and marbled boards, original wrappers bound in, gilt title within raised bands on spine, t.e.g. Lightly rubbed at edges. Very good. Meteorological photography, specifically, of clouds; with a full description of the optics and instruments required. 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
London: Published and sold at the Tunnel Works, Rotherhithe, and by Messers. Harvey and Darton, 55, Gracechurch Street. Printed by the Philanthropic Society, St. George's Fields. 1827. First ed. Oblong 16 mo., 5 3/8 x 3 3/4 inches, (26) pp., 12 plates, steel engravings and lithographs, of which two are... More
Richmond: West & Johnson, 1863. First edition thus. 12mo., xiii, (i), 14-216 pp., with 12 plates (two folding). There are childish pencil scribblings on the table of contents, and on 3 of the plates. Pale blue cloth with the original paper label affixed to the upper board. The paper label... More
Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers, 1998. First edition. Large 8vo., (100) pp., plus 127 full-page color plates. Fine, as new in dust jacket. Selections from Dr. Burns' outstanding collection of 40,000 examples of medically related photograph, from the inception of the medium through its' first one hundred years. Includes extensive notes on each illustration. More
![[CIRCULAR REGARDING SALE OF STOCK]. Fairchild Aviation Corporation.](/pictures/thumb/52112.jpeg?v=1495734857)
New York: Fairchild Aviation Corporation, 1927 ca. 4to., [60] leaves plus interleaves, photo-illustrated. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Stiff paper binder with printed label on upper cover, bound with brads. A few creases and nicks to the binder, with a slight bump to the upper tip of the first... More
circa 1863. Original albumen photomontage, 21.6 x 10 cm. Very good. The earliest, and certainly the most infamous of disasters to befall climbers on Mont Blanc was the 1820 expedition of Dr. Joseph Hamel, a Russian naturalist and Counselor of State to the Czar, climbing after a heavy snowfall against... More
Southampton: Photo-Zincographed by Her Majesty's Command at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, Colonel Sir H. James, Director. 1862. First ed. Folio, (vi), 16 pp.; illustration, text in red and black. The original 4 pp. prospectus has been tipped-in following the text. Decoratively blind-embossed cloth with gilt title and emblem, recased... More
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 foxing on the foredge, a slight smudge to the red cloth near the lower corner of... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. First American edition. 8vo., xv, 323 pp., 200 b&w illustrations, adverts. Publisher's red cloth, embossed with titling and design element on both boards in black ink, and on the spine in black and gold. There is very light fading, and one tiny spot... More
Baltimore: The Theatre Guild, 1995. Stieglitz, Alfred. Original poster for the play staring Stacy Keach and Margot Kidder, 22 x 14 inches, printed in color on heavy stock. Slight bump at one corner, else fine. This "The Great American Romance" initially toured in 1995 with revivals ongoing to this date... More
Oberlin, Ohio: The Artist, 1972. Tacha, Athena. First edition. A single sheet, 5.5 x 14.25 inches, folded to make 5 panels. Text printed verso only. Very good in clear acetate sleeve as issued. Printed on pink glossy paper, not blue; which pretty much tells the story. More
's Gravenhage: Ter Algemeene lands drukkerij, 1833. First edition. 8vo., 61 pp., plus 4 plates (3 folding). Contemporary diced paper over boards, decorated with gilt, a.e.g. Ink owner's stamp on the blank verso to the title page. Lacking a tiny chip from the spine ends. Near fine. The Dutch and... More
(Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publisher, 1994). Witkin, Joel-Peter. First edition. 4to., unpaged, over 100 sepia-toned photo-illustrations. A fine copy in dust jacket. With texts by Joel-Peter Witkin, Eugenia Janis, Stanley Burns, Rainer Maria Rilke, Aaron H. Esman, and James Crump. More
Folio, 343 manuscript pages, all but a few illustrated with a mounted original b&w silver photograph, each approximately 2 3/4 x 4 inches or the reverse. Cloth over boards with a chipped paper label affixed to the upper board. Finger soiling and glue staining, moderate wear to the board tips... More