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City of Washington: A.&G. Way, Printers, 1810. Hardcover. The first USS Alliance of the United States Navy was a 36-gun sailing frigate of the American Revolutionary War. Her first commanding officer was Capt. Pierre [Peter] Landais, a former officer of the French Navy who had come to the New World..... More
London: Charles Wilson (late Norie & Wilson), 1841, 1848, 1843. Hardcover. All three of books are bound into a single volume. The full titles and details of the three books are: 1] Published 1841, no author listed. Second edition. The Art of Making Masts, Yards, Gaffs, Booms, Blocks, and Oars..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap/A.C. McClurg & Co., 1925. First Grosset & Dunlap edition. Hardcover. Mixed edition. The first edition McClurg sheets and title page bound in Grosset & Dunlap orange cloth lettered in black, with Grosset & Dunlap dust jacket. Referenced in Heins, ERB Bibliography AM-2; Zeuschner, ERB Bibliography..... More
Zurich: Diogenes, 1979. Edward Gorey. First Thus. Softcover. Toledano A72. Set of nine quality paperbacks: (in English) The Loathsome Couple; The Nursery Frieze; The Iron Tonic: or A Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley; The Glorious Nosebleed, Fifth Alphabet; The Inanimate Tragedy; The Sopping Thursday; The Pious Infant, Henry Clump. by..... More
London: G.G. & J. Robinson, and J. Mawman [successor to Mr. Dilly], 1800. Hardcover. Complete with all 25 double-page copper-engraved maps, 2 foldout maps, plus Armillary Sphere. Each map is hand-colored in outline. Period marbled boards backed with leather. Maps of the world, Europe and its various countries, Russia in..... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons [1863, 1868, 1875, 1880, 1887], 1863. Hardcover. Volumes II through VII contemporary uniform boundings of brown half calf over marbled boards, five raised bands with design and title printed in gilt within compartments. Top edge in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All map plates present..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company [1915]. First US edition, first printing. Hardcover. A total of 686 pages with errata slip tipped onto the title page of volume I. All color plates and photographic plates, plus the three maps in the rear pocket, are present. Variant binding without the illustrations on the..... More
Boston: B.B. Mussey, 1841. Second edition. Hardcover. The narration of the fantastic adventures of James F. O'Connell. As an adolescent, O'Connell shipped out probably as a cabin boy for Australia and New Zealand, and then shipwrecked on the Caroline Islands. Stranded there for five years, he became heavily tattooed and..... More
London: Lawrence Chapman, 1650. Hardcover. The titles of the three books, or chapters, within this volume are: 1) The Judgements Astronomicall Upon Nativities; 2) The Astronomicall Judgements Upon The Nativities, Containing Particular Considerations; 3) Judgements Astronomicall Upon Nativities , Containing The Directions And Revolutions. Small 4t. (8), 111 pages. Early..... More
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1974. Edward Gorey. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Number 18 of 100 copies signed by Gorey on the colophon. Toledano B59b. A fine and bright copy, issued without a dust jacket, within a fine example of the publisher's slipcase. More
