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![Item #410929 A Cruise on the R. M. S. P. "Arcadian" [cover title]. Cruise Ship – DAVEY...](https://riverrunbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/410929.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1740417866)
London: Davey & Hackney, ca 1912. Album containing 39 mounted black and white photographs, the first nine 11 1/4 x 7 inches (or vice versa); the remaining 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches (or vice versa). Each photo is captioned in the lower margin of the print. In a padded.....
New York: The Century Co., 1912. First edition. 8vo. 377 pages. Frontispiece with tissue guard, black and white photographic illustrations. Publisher's decorated beige cloth. Provenance: L. R. Burnett (signature dated 5-20-[19]12 on front free endpaper). An exceedingly scarce history of baseball from the early 20th century. Includes a chapter from.....
Bay City, Michigan: Privately printed, 1914. First edition. Folio (12 x 8.5 inches). 22 leaves, untrimmed with deckle edges preserved. Original gelatin silver print photograph of the interior of Clements's library mounted as frontispiece (4 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches). Sewn in printed wrappers. The scarce privately printed catalogue of.....
Philadelphia: Samuel Akerman, 1803. First American edition. Two parts in one volume, 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches). vii, 70; x, 81 pages. Contemporary sheep. Provenance: With the ownership signature of Daniel De Benneville on title, with his manuscript notes and underlinings throughout, and three leaves of manuscript notes.....
New York: Ogilvy & Mather Inc., 18 August 1978. 11 x 8.5 inches. A sheet of pale grey paper with 28 panels storyboarding the advertisement for the Bowery Savings Bank (Ogilvy & Mather Commercial No. ZBAC 8789). Joe DiMaggio appears in twelve close-ups (and several other distant shots). Each image.....
Cologne: Konstantin Munich, 1636. First edition in Latin. 12mo (5 7/8 x 3 1/4 inches). [12], 291, [12], [1, blank] pages. Approximately 60 woodcuts and diagrams in-text. Modern grey boards. "Besides strictly mathematical problems, there are such marvels as to make a door open from both sides; to construct a......
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. Second edition. 12mo. 21,x, 139 pages. Frontispiece (tissue guard). Publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, housed in custom linen slipcase. Provenance: H. Rider Haggard's copy with his ownership signature on the half-title. A fine association as Haggard and Lang.....
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First edition. 8vo. [iv], 299, [1] pages. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered in blind to the upper board, spine stamped in gilt; lacking dust jacket. A landmark Modernist novel, and the author's first. First serialized in The Egoist, in 1914, it was first published in.....
Leipzig: Velt & Comp. 1859. Volume 2 (of 2) only, 8vo (23 x 15 cm). Engraved frontispiece showing the match in Paris between Anderssen and Morphy. 102 pages, plus one-page index. 19th-century quarter pebbled cloth, marbled boards. Provenance: Dr. Max Lange (1832-1899), Leipzig (inkstamp on title verso, annotations in the.....
London and Bungay: Privately Printed by Richard Clay and Sons, 1888. 8vo (21 x 13.5 cm). With half-title. vi, [2], 284 pages. Folding "Plan of Numumaru Shewing places mentioned in the evidence, Roland Garrett, Authorized Surveyor" (separated along two vertical folds and mended with tissue on verso). Near contemporary half.....
![Item #410891 Southern African Tour [cover title]. SOUTH AFRICA – ANGLO AMERICAN CORPORATION...](https://riverrunbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/410891_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1740156880)
Johannesburg: 1955. 8 x 9.5 inches (203 x 242 mm). Preliminary text leaf: "Visit of British Educationists to Southern Africa, December 28, 1954––January 12, 1955." 48 black-and-white photographic prints mounted back-to-back; interleaved with text leaves, all mounted on guards. Light-brown cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover. Provenance: G. H. G. Harris.....
Paris: Éditions de la Galerie Simon, 1928. First edition, number 20 of 90 copies on verge d’Arches paper from an edition of 102, signed by the author and illustrator. 4to (246 x 192mm). [1-6] 7-18 [19-22] pages, final blank. Illustrated with seven lithographs by Elie Lascaux. Original buff printed wrappers.....
Annapolis: Ann Catherine Green and Son, 1774. First edition. 8vo (8 x 4 3/4 inches). Engraved title by Thomas Sparrow, engraved table. Modern yellow-tan niger. Provenance: James Murray (early signature on title); Mercantile Library, Philadelphia (inkstamps in several margins). The first edition of this important law book, "the first original.....
