[GRAM, Hans; HOLDEN, Oliver; and HOLYOKE, Samuel]

The Massachusetts Compiler of Theoretical and Practical Elements of Sacred Vocal Music. Together with a Musical Dictionary. And a Variety of Psalm Tunes, Chorusses, &C. Chiefly Selected from Modern European Publications First American printing of Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Boston, Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T Andrews, 1795. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto (10-3/4" x 8-3/4") in modern 3/4 deep navy blue morocco leather retaining early silk-finished blue boards; [v], vi - xxxvi, [1] - 71, [1 - index] pages. Divided into three parts, the first devoted to certain theories of music, the second giving observations on singing and a dictionary of musical terms, and the third comprising bits of sacred music. Among the 72 compositions present, 6 are composed by Americans and 55 are first American printings, including the popular Christmas carol Hark the Herald Angels Sing. New endpapers but retaining old endpapers as well. Light browning to text. Near Fine The printer Isaiah Thomas was the first to import music types to America in 1784. Before that all music printed in America was printed from engraved plates.

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Book number: 021465

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Early American Imprints, Isaiah Thomas, Music, Sacred Music, Religion, Colonial Americana Americana Early American Imprints Music Religion

Memoir of John Howe Peyton, in Sketches by His Contemporaries, Together with Some of His Public and Private Letters, Etc. , Also a Sketch of Ann M. Peyton

Staunton, VA, A. B. Blackburn & Co. 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth stamped in black; [ii], vi, 3-297 pages. Compiled by the Author of the History of Augusta County. Includes many letters by "one of Virginia's purest men and greatest lawyers." HOWES P-278. Slightly shaken. Very Good .

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Book number: 020599

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Biography, Americana, Virginia, Law Americana Law Southern Americana Virginia

The Nibelungenlied

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Small quarto (7-3/4" x 11-3/4") bound in full black cloth with the title blindstamped on the front cover and goldstamped over red on the spine with lettering in medieval style by Arnold Bank. Translated from the German by Margaret Armour with an introduction by Franz Schoenberner. Printed by Joh. Enschede in Holland from the typographic plans of Jan van Krimpen. With 23 full-page line-and-wash drawings by Edy Legrand hand-colored through stencils in the studio of Walter Fishcer. Copy #1087 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Ill.: Edy Legrand. Small manufacturer's defect to cloth. About Fine in a close to Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 015631

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Illustrated Books, Mythology, Richard Wagner, German Literature, Fine Press, LEC, Limited Editions Club Edy Legrand Signed Illustrated Books Mythology German Literature

[Nursery Specimen Book for North Jersey Nurseries. Millburn, Nj]

Rochester, NY, Stecher Lithographic Co. 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong octavo (9-1/4" x 6-1/4") in black cloth lettered in red. A handsome nursery specimen book with 85 chromolithographs, printed on both sides of the sheet, of trees, flowers, and fruit. Plates bright and clean. Slight looseness of covers. A Near Fine example of an attractive nursery specimen book .

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Book number: 019991

Catalogue: Fruits

Keywords: Chromolithographs, Pomology, Botany, Americana, Illustrated Books, Fruits, Natural History, Gardening Chromolithographs Fruits Natural History Illustrated Books

The Nurseryman's Specimen Book of American Fruits, Flowers, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, & C

[Rochester, NY], Rochester Lithographing Company Successors to D. M. Dewey's, [@1900]. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2") in black leather with a color plate of an apple pasted on the front cover. Illustrated with 71 chromolithographs, printed on rectos only with many finished by hand, of mostly fruit including apples, pears, plums, various berries, grapes, etc. Plates bright and clean with occasional smudge. Slight looseness of covers. Near Fine with lovely plates .

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Book number: 021668

Catalogue: Fruits

Keywords: Chromolithographs, Pomology, Botany, Americana, Illustrated Books, Fruits, Natural History, Gardening Chromolithographs Fruits Natural History Illustrated Books

The Officina Bodoni. The Operation of a Hand-Press During the First Six Years of Its Work

Paris & New York, Editiones Officinae Bodoni. At the Sign of the Pegasus, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-decorated cloth (8-1/2" x 12"); 80, [3] pages. Copy #59 of 500 numbered copies in English printed by the Officina Bodoni on a hand-press on hand-made paper. Includes a bibliography of the press. Illustrated with 13 plates and tipped-in specimen pages as well as 12 full-page woodcuts by Frans Masereel describing How a Book Is Made at the Officina. Attractive book. Ill.: Frans Masereel. Paper splitting to front hinge, covers tight. Near Fine, lacking as usual the dustwrapper .

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Book number: 021543

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Woodcuts, Books on Books, Officina Bodoni, Frans Masereel, Limited, Fine Press Frans Masereel Officina Bodoni Frans Masereel Fine Press Illustrated Books

Photo Album of an Automobile Tour of the West in 1927 by a Group of Women

1927. Softcover. Decorated suede covers (9-1/4" x 6-1/2") with a rawhide tie containing 94 4-1/4" x 3-1/2" original photographs captioned in white ink on the album pages and 6 4" x 6" commercial photographs with captions in the negatives, all documenting an automobile trip out west, starting in or near Indiana. Photographs include stops in Kansas, New Mexico (Native Americans at Santa Domingo and a Zuni Reservation near Gallup), Colorado (Pike's Peak), Arizona (Grand Canyon), California (Yosemite and San Francisco), Oregon, Washington, Idaho (Gold Hunter Mine), Montana (Missoula Auto Camp), many photos of Yellowstone, Wyoming, and South Dakota. A few of the photographs at the end of the album, dated the same summer, are of Chicago and Niagara Falls. A number of the photographs are now loose from the album. The photographers/travelers are a group of 4 or 5 young women in what must have been something of a daring adventure at the time. Two photos show them repairing flats, and several show them with people they meet along the way. Fading to some of the photographs but most are not too bad. Very Good .

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Book number: 020860

Catalogue: Western Americana

Keywords: Western Americana, Automobile Tour, Photograph Album, Illustrated Books, Travel, Yellowstone, Native Americans Western Americana Automobile Tour Photograph Album Native Americans

Photographic Scenery of South Africa

n.p. Sam Alexander, 1880. Second Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9" x 11-1/2") in publisher's gilt-decorated morocco leather, with modern rebacking retaining most of the original spine and tinted lithographic title page with onlaid collotype photographic portrait of Sir Bartle Frere, the book's patron; [x], 56 pages with 50 stiff card leaves containing 100 collotypes mounted as pairs on rectos and versos. The photographer, Robert Harris of Port Elizabeth, captured views of all the major South African cities and towns as well as views in Mozambique, Zanzibar, and Zululand. Among the subjects are diamond fields, people, and landscapes. Images generally clean with some foxing to margins and to tissue guards; hinges reinforced with cloth tape. Binding rubbed and worn but still quite presentable. Very Good .

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Book number: 021510

Catalogue: 19th Century Photography

Keywords: 19th Century Photography, Travel, Africa, South Africa, Illustrated Books, Mozambique Travel 19th Century Photography South Africa Illustrated Books

Picture ABC Book (Linen No. 865)

Chicago, M. A. Donohue & Company, n.d. [early 1900s]. Softcover. Pictorial linen; 8 pages including covers. Front cover, which depicts cats and kittens, and rear cover along with two internal pages in color. Early owner inscription on front cover; both covers soiled. About Very Good .

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Book number: 020600

Catalogue: Children's Literature

Keywords: Children's Literature, Illustrated Books, Cats, ABC Books Children's Literature Illustrated Books ABC Books Cats

(HECHT, Anthony; NEMEROV, Howard; WRIGHT, Charles; et. al.)

Poetry. Sixtieth Anniversary Issue. 1912-1972. First Appearances. Volume 121, Number 1

(Chicago), (Modern Poetry Association), (October 1972). First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps. Contributors also include many of the major poets of the 20th century. A pencil note on the title page indicated that this is Louis Untermeyer's copy though there is no other evidence that it is. This is however SIGNED by Hecht, Nemerov, and Wright at their contributions. Near Fine .

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Book number: 020176

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Modern Poetry, Modern First Editions Signed Modern Poetry Modern First Editions Literature: American

The Quaker Queries: New England Queries in Past and Present Forms

(Boston), Penmaen Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4" handbound with Italian Fabriano over boards at the Stanhope Bindery. The first book of the press. Copy #3 of only 100 numbered copies designed, handset, and printed by Michael McCurdy. In actuality only 91 copies were produced. This copy without the wood-engraved portrait of George Fox. Only subscriber copies contained this engraving. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the publisher McCurdy on the front blank: "26 June 1969/For Mother this day before/starting my great venture/to Europe. With all love to/the best mother there surely is!/Michael. Fine in slipcase .

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Book number: 015728

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Quakers, Americana, Religion, Penmaen Press Limited First Book Wood Engraving Fine Press

Quarto-Millenary. An Illustrated Survey... Of the First 250 Publications of the Limited Editions Club

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1959. First Edition. hardcover. Folio (9" x 12") bound in half black morocco leather and red cloth with a black morocco inset on the front cover of the LEC logo. Illustrated with 200 examples of title pages, text pages, and illustrations reproduced by the same processes used in the original editions by artists such as Arthur Rackham, Thomas Hart Benton, and many more. Printed by the Thistle Press and A. Colish, as well as special printers for many of the inserts. Designed by Robert L. Dothard. Issued unsigned. Of a total edition of 1500 copies, this copy is not numbered (in place of the number is written in ink "Office Copy") and bears the Club's blindstamp stating it is one of 15 presentation copies. Fine in glassine with some tears and a Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 016390

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Leaf Book, Bibliography, Limited Editions Club, Illustrated Books, Reference, Fine Press Limited Editions Club Illustrated Books Bibliography Leaf Books

Quarto-Millenary. An Illustrated Survey... Of the First 250 Publications of the Limited Editions Club

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1959. First Edition. hardcover. Folio (9" x 12") bound in half black morocco leather and red cloth with a black morocco inset on the front cover of the LEC logo. Illustrated with 200 examples of title pages, text pages, and illustrations reproduced by the same processes used in the original editions by artists such as Arthur Rackham, Thomas Hart Benton, and many more. Printed by the Thistle Press and A. Colish, as well as special printers for many of the inserts. Designed by Robert L. Dothard. Copy #201 of 2250, issued unsigned. Slight foxing to first few pages; bookplate on front pastedown; two blank rear endpapers removed; light soiling to red cloth. Very Good in a Near Fine slipcase .

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Book number: 021574

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Leaf Book, Bibliography, Limited Editions Club, Illustrated Books, Reference, Fine Press Limited Editions Club Illustrated Books Bibliography Leaf Books

The Race - Jerome Park N. Y

New York, Thomas Kelly, 1869. First Edition. Print. Scarce hand-colored lithograph (28 x 22 matted and framed to an overall size of 34" x 27"), one of a series of four prints published by Kelly and printed by Wm. C. Robertson of Jerome Park, site of the inaugural Belmont Stakes in 1867. The other three views were FALSE START, SADDLING, and RETURNING TO WEIGH. All are uncommon. The oldest of America's three Triple Crown races, the Belmont Stakes was first run on June 19, 1867, at the Jerome Park race course (named after owner Leonard W. Jerome), an oddly shaped, English-style track in The Bronx that required its runners to negotiate three turns instead of two because of a dip in the middle of the backstretch. A filly, Ruthless, won the first Belmont's $1,850 winner s purse, outlasting DeCourcey by a head. The race has been run annually ever since (the last race at Jerome Park was in 1890), with the exception of 1911 and '12, and the Belmont has established itself as the ultimate test of championship stamina in this country. Small archival linen tape repairs on the reverse used to strengthen the paper where torn at the margins, two tears going into the image slightly; mild dampstain lower right corner, dampstain at left center margin, small circular stain top center, light foxing spread across the left side, scattered soiling. Quite attractive and now nicely matted and framed .

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Book number: 021752

Catalogue: Hand-Colored

Keywords: Hand-Colored, Horse Racing, Belmont, Americana Hand-Colored Horse Racing Belmont Americana