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Pharmacopoeia officinalis & extemporanea; or, A complete English dispensatory, in four parts. Containing I. The theory of pharmacy, and the several processes therein. II. A description of the officinal simples, with their virtues and preparations, Galenical and chymical. III. The officinal compositions, according to the last alterations of the college: together with some others of uncommon efficacy, taken from the most celebrated authors. IV. Extemporaneous prescriptions, distributed into classes suitable to their intentions in cure. 7th edition.
J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1728. Leather Binding. An attractive copy of the Seventh edition from 1728. Bound in period boards, expertly rebacked in brown polished calf, spine with raised bands and tooling in gilt and blind. Rebacking in fine condition, original boards show wear; text has a handful of..... More
Exploring Our Name: a Psychological Tour Through Names and Natures
Preview Publications, 1938. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A SUPERB AND UNIQUE COPY: This was Reps' last copy of the book, marked up by him for a proposed new edition. It was sent by Reps with proposed revisions (including a new dedication and title change..... More
Republic Puts it in Black and White for 1939-1940. Republic's Year of 'Conquest'
Republic Pictures Corporation, 1939. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Folio - between 12" - 15" Tall. Exceptionallly rare, with no other copies recorded as surviving. This remarkable large-format production was targeted at cinema owners, and trumpets Republic's remarkable lineup of films, serial shorts, and adaptations. Featured are films based on novels..... More
Doisneau-Renault
Ed. Hazan, January 1988. First Edition. Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. One of the scarcest and most interesting works in the Doisneau canon, this work was issued to accompany the exhibit (1988-89) in Paris of his superb work for the French automobile maker Renault. House in a...... More
The Gates: Poems
McGraw-Hill, 1976. First Edition. Trade Paperback. A nice Association Copy, Inscribed by Rukeyser to fellow poet William Matchett on the half title: For Bill Matchett / With thanks; a good day, Seattle / (signed) Muriel Rukeyser; With matchett's signature and date on the first blank page. Just a touch of..... More
Marriage and Morals
Horace Liveright, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author Bertrand Russell at top of title page in his characteristically neat hand. Russell himself credited this profoundly important and controversial work for his receipt of the Nobel Prize: 'When I was called to Stockholm..... More
Michael Sandle: Recent Drawings And Bronzes. May - June 1985
Fischer Fine Art Limited, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Inscribed by the artist to former museum director/curator in the year of the exhibition; also laid in loose is a 1 page TLs thanking her for an article she wrote on Mt. St. Helens that included his drawings; and three b/w 7..... More
Johann Jacob Schmaussens ... Historisches Ius Publicum Des Teutschen Reichs, Oder, Auszug Der Vornehmsten Materien Der Reichs-Historie : Welche Zur Erkennrnuss Der Staats-Verfassung Unsers Teutschen Reichs, Von Den Altesten Zeiten Biss Auf Die Heutige
Verlegts Abram Vandenhoecks seel. Wittwe, 1752. First Edition. Leather Binding. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Uncommon,. Period brown calf over brown speckled boards, spine with raised bands and brown morocco label, edges red (some rubbing). The text is annotated, substantiallly in places, in a neat hand of the period..... More
Seventeen's Springcast80 [Springcast 80]
Seventeen Magazine / Triangle Communications, 1979. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Seventeen's exceptionally rare fashoin forecast for the Junior's market for Spring season, 1980, includes ***70 actual mounted fabric samples***. A near fine copy in the original white plastic comb binding. 38 pages, includes one gate-fold. Distributed to clothing manufacturers and..... More
The Plays of William Shakspeare in Twenty-one Volumes. with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added Notes [21 volumes]
J. Johnson, R. Baldwin, H.L. Gardner, et al. 1803. First Thus. Leather Binding. 21 volumes complete as issued. The first variorum edition, also the largest edition of Shakespeare to date, Attractively bound in full brown period calf, speckled in black and light brown, spines with twin black morocco labels for..... More
Alastor: Or, The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems (The Shelley Society's Publications: Second Series, Number 3)
Reeves and Turner ... And B. Dobell, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Slight wear to head and foot of spine (chipping); slight soiling, rubbing and browning to covers (boards; chiefly to extremities); slight bumping to corners; ex-library rubberstamp on rear free endpaper; slight internal..... More
Sunde & d'Evers Co. Catalog No. C: Marine Hardware, Steamship Supplies, CaNVas Goods
Sunde & d'Evers Co., 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exceptionally scarce maritime trade catalog, issued by this major Seattle maritime supply firm located at Colman Dock on the occasion of its 50th Anniversary. No surviving copies recorded in Worldcat. 468 pages. Original green cloth..... More
The Justices of the Supreme Court; Complete Autographs of the Burger Court from the Watergate Era, 1974
Supreme Court of the United States, 1974. First Edition. Unknown. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Complete set of period autographs of the Supreme Court of the United States during the Watergate era, under Chief Justice Warren Burger. Crisply signed in ink by each Justice next to the photographs on..... More
The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson [12 volumes]
Estes and Lauriat, 1895-1898. First Thus. Hardcover. 12 volumes, complete as issued. Attractively bound in 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands and gilt floral tooling within scrolled compartments, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. An attractive set of the 'Illustrated Cabinet Edition' (minor wear; Volumes I and..... More
Thackeray's Works [30 volumes]
Estes & Lauriat, 1896. First Edition. Unknown. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 30 volumes, complete as issued. Attractively and uniformly bound in 3/4 burgundy morocco over marbled boards by Brentano's, spines with raised bands, and gilt-ruled compartments with tiny gilt floral devices at corners, covers bordered with gilt..... More
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero [The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray] [4 volumes]
Smith, Elder & Co, 1878. First Thus. Leather Binding. 4 volumes, 'Vanity Fair' complete. Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in a lustrous full brown polished calf, spines with raised band, three red morocco labels, elaborate gilt floral tooling within gilt-ruled compartments, and four small red morocco inlays tooled in gilt, covers..... More
Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas
Museum for African Art, January 1993. First Edition. Trade Paperback. A Very Good copy of the First Edition this scarce work in original wraps (spine a bit creased, minor reading wear). More
A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers
Walter Scott Limited, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. An extraordinarily nice copy - essentially in fine condition - in the rare jacket. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, original cream jacket printed in a dark brown (cloth has several spots; jacket has several trifling..... More
The Oregon Territory, its History and Discovery; including an account of the Convention of the Escurial, also, the treaties and negotiations between the United States and Great Britain, held at various times for the settlement of a boundary Line....
D. Appleton & Co., 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" x, [xi, xii, 13], 14-264pp., plus iv, 24 (ads). Original green cloth, blindstamped boards.Lacking spine, some wear and rubbing to the cloth at the corners; light foxing to the text (not too bad), else a Good..... More
Hero And Leander
printed by the Ballantyne Press and sold by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 220 copies printed in Caslon type on Ricketts' Vale Press monogram watermarked paper; with seven wood engravings, plus title page border and decorated initials by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon. Bound..... More
The Ninth Man
Press of the Woolly Whale, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One of an unspecified number of copies printed by George W. Van Vechten, Jr. for friends of the press at Christmas, 1936. Originally published in 1920. 7.75 x 10.5 inches. 79pp., bound in full..... More
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Gay and Hancock Ltd., 1911. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Presentation copy, signed and inscribd by author: 'To Paul Schuster A shilling souvenir of a friendship I value at many guineas. Kate Douglas Wiggin.' Original red cloth stamped in black (slight wear; text browned). More
Meatpaper 1-13/ Fall 2007-Fall 2010
Meatpaper. Wraps. Set of issues 1-13. Meatpaper is a quarterly journal focused on meat culture. Illustrated with color photographs. All copies are Near Fine with minimal shelfwear except for issue 13, which is Very Good with a 3 in. crease on the front panel. Some standout articles include: Meat in..... More