Hamburg / Bahrenfeld: Herausgegeben vom cigaretten / Bilderdienst, 1936. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. White fabric spine with pebbled red cloth and stamped titles. 132 pages. Profuse photos. Propaganda album published by a German cigarette company. More
Nova Scotia: Maritime Telegraph & Telephone Company Limited, no date given (1970s or 80s?). Softcover. Beige pictorial stapled wraps; 20 pp.; 17 bw photos. An essay about the life and work of Alexander Graham Bell. More
Mattapoisett, Massachusetts: The Parsonage, 1983. First. Hardbound. Red patterned boards with burgundy cloth spine, [6] 91pp, 25 BW illustrations. A book published specifically in memorium to the life of Andrew Oliver. Several texts by Oliver himself, as well as David McCord, Wendell Garrett, Rodney Armstrong, Frederick S. Allis, Jr, Bryant..... More
Philadelphia: Privately printed, press of Alfred J. Ferris, 1895. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards; Gilt titling at spine; Top edges gilt; Green floral endpapers; 286 pp.; BW frontispiece, 1 bw plate. More
Antuerpiae: Apud Philippum Gallaeum, 1603. Hardcover. Quarto. Quarter bound in black leather with gilt titles, raised bands and marbled boards. Marbled end papers. Full edge gilt. [4] pp., 32 pp. pl., [4] pp. : ill., engraved title page; in-4. More
New York: Demorest's Family Magazine. Hardcover. A burgundy casebound book with gilt text on the spine. Filled with pasted in black-and-white images, as well as short biographies cut from the magazine. More
New York: Demorest's Family Magazine. Hardcover. A burgundy casebound book with gilt text on the spine. Filled with pasted in black-and-white images, as well as short biographies cut from the magazine. More
Rockland, ME: The Colonial Dames of America, 1976. Softbound. Illustrated wraps. 149 pp. Reproduction of an original manuscript diary kept by Harriet Manigault during the years 1813-1816. Reading this provides insights and reveals glimpses of Philadelphia society and life during those years. More
New York: Kende Galleries at Gimbel Brothers, 1947. Softcover. Textured blue wraps with black lettering. 93 pp. with bw frontis and 15 additional bw illus. Catalogue from the public auction held October 17th and 18th 1947; 115 autograph letters and documents, engravings, prints, miniatures, plaques, and an important marble bust..... More
New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1867. Softcover. Tannish wraps. 28 pp. No ills. Text in French. Excerpts from du Pont de Nemours' correspondence. More
Cincinnati, OH: Applegte & Company, 1854. early Printing. Hardcover. Embossed black cloth with gilt title on spine. ffep with image and text, reverse of ffep with portrait of Boone, then title-page, colophon with copyright date of 1847, then pp. v-x, pp. 11-252, followed by two blank sheets (one with ragged..... More
Washington, DC: Bethlehem Chapel, Washington Cathedral, November 16, 1968. Hardcover. Blue cloth. Unpaginated. Bw frontispiece. A memorial service held in the Bethlehem Chapel, given by James Row, Herbert Wechsler, Allen Tate, August Heckscher and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., with a foreword by John Biggs. More
Las Vegas, Nevada: CRG Auction, 2004. Softcover. A dark blue softcover book. Pages: 1-96. Profusely illustrated with a majority color images. More
West Germany: Waldkircher Verlagsgesellschat, 1978. Softcover. One of 350 copies. Octavo. String bound pamphlet. 16 pages : portrait ; 24 cm. Tributes paid by Wolf Von Eckardt and Alan Fern at a gathering of his friends at his home on November 13, 1977. More
San Francico / New York: Greg Martin Auctions, 2003. Softcover. Quarto. Staple bound auction catalogue. Unpaginated. 22 Lots. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929. Hardcover. One of 200 copies. Twelvemo. Hardcover. Maroon paper boards. 14 unnumbered pages : 1 portrait ; 21 cm. Katrina Brandes Ely Tiffany (March 25, 1875 – March 11, 1927) was an American suffragist and philanthropist, from a prominent Philadelphia family. More
London, England: Trubner and Company, 1860. Hardcover. Dark reddish-brown cloth. xxvi, 334 pp. No illus. Also includes extracts from Varnhagen's diarires and letters from Varnhagen and others to Humboldt. This is an authorized translation from the German with explanatory notes and a full index of names. Contains prefaces to the..... More
NY: Samuel Wood & Sons, 1821. Hardcover. Marbeled boards with black cloth over spine. li + 252 pp. More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. Hardcover. Red cloth, 2 vols., gilt-edged pages on top, 427, 451 pp., 15 BW plates. William Barton Rogers (1804-1892) was a scientist and educator who helped to found the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ** This set was once owned by T. Coleman du Pont..... More
New York: Cornish, Lamport, & Co., 1851. Hardcover. A small red book with gilt text on the spine. Gilt design on the cover. Gilted textblocks. 256 pages; illustrated in black-and-white. More
NP: np, 1852, circa. Softbound. No covers, consists of two stitched 16 pp. roups. First page has a 2/3 page woodcut of Scott on a horse, last page has a bowl of soup wood engraving at base, and reference to a larger 532 pp. biography of Scott. Many delightful woodcut..... More
London: Printed and Published by W. Mason, 1814. "Second Edition, with Considerable Additions" Hardcover. Bound into dark olive green cloth with gilt title on spine. 72 pp., one illustration. Date, which is not printed in the book, is derived from the scribed date at the base of the colored-portrait frontis..... More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1864 [1865]. Hardcover. Brown stamped cloth, gilt letters on spine, 203 pp., one BW plate as frontispiece. An early posthumous biography by an uncredited author, although later editions are attributed as being written by David Brainerd Williamson. This is a scarce edition, labeled with..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. 7th edition. Brown cloth covers. 2 Volumes. xviii, 524p; viii, 533p. frontispiece illustrations. Contents are solid, covers are loose, volume 2 has a tear in the spine. More
Chester: Chester County Historical Society, 1955. Softcover. White stapled wraps. 12 pp. No ills. Documentation of speech made on the occasion of the unveiling of a marker at Sullivan's birth place. More
